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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 1h

The unapologetic pursuit of what now

David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This reminded me of the old Brian Morton piece "How Not to Write for Dissent," which was a tongue-in-cheek study of "Strategies of Subversion: Discourse, Desire, and The Other in ‘Gilligan’s Island."

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"You fucked up, you trusted us. Now do it again"

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

O'Donnell so happy to have walked on the WH press banquet red carpet that Trump pissed on, now she's happy to eat the shit that Hegseth and Bari have plated up

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This would actually have been a great opportunity for Moran to introduce his child to the sense of wonder that can come from opening an atlas and letting one's eyes and mind roam over the maps

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Everyone is dumping -- justly -- on this op-ed for its justification of exploitative hierarchies. But let's not forget the red-baiting and bashing unions as anti-Israel that the author has sandwiched in there

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I don't know about this Pet Shop Boys reboot

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The beat goes on, and the beat goes on

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just remembered hanging out with Chet in a River Hall dorm room at Columbia c. 1980 and him introducing me to this artist and album

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her. ... The result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting."

Sophie Cunningham has been in the league eight years. She’ll be 30 later this month, five and a half years older than Clark, and for the large majority of those years, she’s been a serviceable, unremarkable player who is a top-notch three-point shooter. She wasn’t even who the marketers picked to sell sex to the boys – the role of the glammed-up, blonde beauty baller belonged to 6ft 4in Cameron Brink. Cunningham needed the culture war to get on the map, needing it as much as it needed her, and all it took was a silly finger-point and being in opposition to someone Black. To the aggrieved whites, standing up to someone Black meant standing up for them. Add transphobia to her portfolio, and the result is a star, the latest participant in an old game no more complicated than checkers but far less interesting.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I will never not bring this back to Jonathan Haidt, who in 2018 used the Scalia argument about Black students in premier law schools to justify not diversifying Stuyvesant (and not risking his precious kids' slots)

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Whatever you think of DSA, you should know this about Chait

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Great closing paragraph to this review of the greatest work of rightwing art since John McNaughton's Trump Wept www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Citizen Vigilante perhaps wants to be Michael Winner’s Death Wish or Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry or even Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. But these were films with, variously, measures of passion, style, wit, purpose, vision and competent production values. They employed actors who knew how to do the job of acting. And crucially, they were about America, not this wokester-piñata of Europe. If Boll and Musk want to make and promote make a film about an establishment stitch-up, then why not a hard-hitting film about the relationship of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? Meanwhile it’s time for Hammer to return to the trade he followed before this: selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

To be fair, this is where he's leading:

I’ve come to realize that my value as a professor is not that I know facts about the Chinese political system; it’s that I can organize and humanize those facts. I can model enthusiasm for a subject and humility about what I don’t know. I can get something wrong. I can provide a note of praise or perspective when it’s needed.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Name your fav non-DC or Marvel comic book movie

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Zitron nails it www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I posted earlier today about his approach to words with four syllables. Sadly, his approach to words with only one syllable is even stupider.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Get in loser, we're going to the Problem Solvers Caucus meeting.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. This from Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant, who notes that the future George IV "was self-absorbed, obese, and derided by his own constituents for his ignorance of domestic policy matters and his excessively lavish tastes" (not cheap gold plate and Big Macs)

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Be sure to include a piece of protein

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Fortunately, I can now set unknown callers to go directly to voicemail. Because this is fucking crazy

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

All you ever need to know about Van Jones, in one photograph

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Still has all the makings of a winner

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I actually don't give a fck what's in the article itself. The Chronicle is a rag that cannot resist the AI hype framing about omnipotence and inevitabilty. Higher ed journalism deserves better.

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

How do you say Talk to the hand in German

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

No it must be true he heard it from a reliable source

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David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Opening up a blank doc, an idea in mind, ready to write, and this stops me dead in my tracks, throws off my thought process, and makes me forget what I was about to do. Fuck off, Google.

Blank Google doc, with buttons for "Generate document" and "Help me write" at the top

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