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Tony Pennino

@beatnikprof.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Literature at Stevens Institute of Technology, which means I’ve taught everything from Spaceships to Shakespeare. I wrote a book on 1980s British subversive theatre. Am writing one on James Baldwin. Fulbright Scholar. Playwright.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 12h
And I used to think Josh Hawley was the dumbest senator from Missouri.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt: Did you not filibuster in this very chamber against the building of a dam in your state on behalf of The Boy Rangers? Jack Smith: Aren’t you referring to the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.” ― Harold Pinter 🎭
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m a research fellow at my college. #AcademicSky
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Superman: Kneel Before Zod!
Alt: Superman: Kneel Before Zod!
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This week in teaching. #AcademicSky
DVDs and a book
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“…nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands.” - e.e. cummings
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” Gustave Flaubert
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Welp, I have an ISBN number and a publication date (November). 🍾 #AcademicSky
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only 7 episodes left of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. 😞
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Leah Bobeah @leahleahbobeah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Black Cats Know What’s What” @gregstonesart.bsky.social GregStones.com #RiseUp #BlackCat #ArtSky #Art
Black Cats Know What’s Up

“Fuck Trump” sign being held by a black cat floating in the sky via a green balloon. GregStones.com
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy birthday, Leonard Cohen.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week in teaching. #AcademicSky
Books and DVDs
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say The gods themselves do weep!” #ShakespeareSunday
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“It's the only light we've got in all this darkness” ― James Baldwin
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The end of art is peace.” ― Seamus Heaney
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welp my manuscript has been moved to the production department. 💃🕺 #AcademicSky
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This week in teaching. #AcademicSky
DVDs of Metropolis and Buck and the Preacher.
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Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Got this at a poster sale today. I 100% endorse this froggo 💜
A3 poster with a purple background. In the middle is a plump smiling cartoon frog, with its front legs on a ouija board. Above is the text "Fuck ChatGPT. I'm asking ghosts"
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.” ― Michael Chabon
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was in Manhattan on 9/11. It was bad. But many people had it a lot, lot worse. And that’s all I’ll say on the subject.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” ― Allen Ginsberg
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast." - Quentin Crisp
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country." - Bruce Springsteen
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended.” - James Baldwin
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Went to The Rocky Horror Show tonight to commemorate the passing of Tim Curry, and there was a memorial to him. 🎭
Memorial for Tim Curry with candles
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ― Gloria Steinem
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.” ― Gregory Corso
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“To remember, to hear and remember, is to stop and walk on again to a livelier, surer measure. It is dangerous to remember the past only for its own sake, dangerous to deliver a message you did not get.” ― Wendell Berry (Rest in Peace)
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
First day of classes. #AcademicSky
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Commuters Prison
Alt: Commuters Prisoner
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🎶 August, die she must The autumn winds blow chilly and cold September, I remember A love once new has now grown old 🎶
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One of my go-tos when I need some serenity. #FilmSky
The dvd of Perfect Days
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.” ― Gary Snyder
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.” Tolkien
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.” ― Jack Kerouac
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.” ― Marcel Proust
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mark Carney is the leader of The Free World.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s Lake Ontario…and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.” ― Virginia Woolf
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
““I've been my own man. Ain't nothing richer than that” ― Sam Shepard
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
To be honest, I would put Stephen Miller on the decoy plane too.
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Resist much, obey little.” ― Walt Whitman
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why does he need a ballroom when he has a catering cart?
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Stay safe everyone
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“They're in love. Fuck the war.” ― Thomas Pynchon
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
On this date 1974
NY Times on this day in 1974: Nixon resigns
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So the Senate committee voted to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt.
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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
Alt: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.” Jack Kerouac
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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.” ― Milan Kundera
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