Reposted by Christopher BakkeDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.nytimes.comPrinceton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message. 141269284
Reposted by Christopher BakkeMicah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?! 412883566
Reposted by Christopher BakkeBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh 571937334
Reposted by Christopher BakkeJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How embarrassing 😳 3232999
Reposted by Christopher BakkeHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10135023787
Reposted by Christopher Bakkelastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this? 591762234
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A naturalized Mexican-American woman from Texas told me that she had no choice but to vote for Trump because he would protect children from liberals forcing them to transition. Hope she’s proud. 010
Reposted by Christopher BakkeEmelia @thisismissem.social · 29/09/2026Probably because watching them die is the point. That's the level of cruelty towards other human beings on display here. 0218
Reposted by Christopher BakkeDr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punches a young fascist who tried to confront him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. (22 September 1962) Also my mum's birthday. We like Pasolini. 216544
Reposted by Christopher BakkeRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Cool how every major election is now like Kittens 50.1 %, Satan 49.9% 216625
Reposted by Christopher BakkeJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A lot of us hardly knew Charlie Kirk even existed, before he died. 1039088
Reposted by Christopher BakkeRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire. 191330294
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The lovely thing about this is that you can replace “AI” with so many other fun words like “nuclear weapons” or “fossil fuels” and feel yourself going mad in real time. 001
Reposted by Christopher BakkePrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?" 132224556
Reposted by Christopher BakkeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The precise month of Tim Walz's visit to China was dissected to death as well. The media can do it when they want to, which is to say, when it's a Democrat. 201324227
Reposted by Christopher BakkeAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy. 592602829
Reposted by Christopher BakkeMicah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026weird how christopher nolan making a quality movie with basically every famous actor in hollywood was extremely successful and the culture war couldn’t touch it oh well, nobody could have seen this coming, see you at our next round of faux pearl-clutching about Woke 161261128
Reposted by Christopher BakkeSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 23/02/2026Mamdani angers certain journalists and their bosses because he's a well-educated child of privilege like they are, but he's the way he is and they're the way they are and it shames them and they can't deal with it. It's not hard to figure out 9879147
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is the purest distillation of the one and only thing that the Republican Party offers Americans: the freedom to engage in the most degenerate, heinous behavior while gleefully taking pleasure in the suffering you cause others. 000
Reposted by Christopher BakkeRick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This year I called Gloria Steinem's "A Bunny's Tale" a "masterpiece heralding the coming of a 1960s New Journalism, in fact one of the greatest literary accomplishments in the history of journalism, prophetic, politically engaged writing." Rest in power. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/perpetual-...rickperlstein.substack.comPerpetual Three Dot ColumnWeirdness edition. 15311
Reposted by Christopher BakkeEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem 10385241964
Reposted by Christopher BakkeDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.nytimes.comU.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate TargetCarbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns. 481807579
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Love hosting American friends at my place in Rome, where they can discover the beauty of Bernini and the novelty of a conservative government that *isn’t* wedded to a policy of mid-meal shitting and vomiting. 000
Reposted by Christopher Bakkepixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Tiny Tim was no angel 723884405
Reposted by Christopher Bakke🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 01/09/2026the thing about every major figure in this administration is that every single one of them is an irredeemable piece of shit and the thing about the next democratic congress and next democratic presidency is that they absolutely must treat these pieces of shit with all of the respect they have earned 252463352
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It is so, so typical of art brain that multiple brilliant PhDs at the world’s leading museum thought this would be a good idea. 000
Reposted by Christopher BakkeToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar who has two Doctorates (Medicine from Columbia and a PhD in Public Health from Oxford) who was a 16 year old high school student in suburban Detroit when 9/11 happened, and I'm curious what possible logic is behind this post other than abject racism. 39848245
Reposted by Christopher BakkeJordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026our distaste for AI slop is important because it's a spontaneous aesthetic judgment that these machines and their creators do not share our values. it is an important first step to realizing that when it comes to ethical and political decisions they're equally deficient. 5539
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026David is correct. Trump II has disabused me forever of my faith that an awakening would come, that reason and morality would prevail. We are going be asked to coddle Republicans’ violent prejudices and anti-factual beliefs for the rest of our lives. 000
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 31/08/202620 years on, major regret not going deep on gender studies as an undergrad. 000
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And to think that we have two more years of this shit and generations of after effects. Brace ourselves for indignities never dreamt of. 000
Reposted by Christopher BakkeNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hoover didn’t cause the Great Depression. He was president when it hit and didn’t know how to fight it. Bush didn’t cause the financial crisis. He was president when it hit, did some things to fight it. Trump directly caused economic problems with tariffs, corruption, and war. And it’ll get worse. 17843175
Reposted by Christopher BakkeTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass 4561221506
Reposted by Christopher BakkeMicah @rincewind.run · 23/08/2026if responding to racists with “fuck you, you should be excluded from polite society” means I do not support academic freedom then I guess I don’t support academic freedom 342542396
Reposted by Christopher BakkeAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is my favorite type of AI whinging because it does require admitting you’re a talentless piece of shit up front 171176161
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Researching American college museums for work: in every region of the US they are run by women & PoC and their collections are not Eurocentric. Elite art & culture *is* now women and people of culture. This whole DEI freak out is a pitiful act of denial bound to fail. 000
Reposted by Christopher BakkeWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It's so embarrassing to be an American right now 481224229
Reposted by Christopher BakkePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026At any point in the last decade a journalist could have followed up with a "what the fuck do you mean by that" And they don't, not a single "what the fuck are you talking about" followup in over a goddamn decade of this. 162460573
Reposted by Christopher Bakke🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026On behalf of the two/thirds of America who are hating all this shit, our apologies and understanding for why our apologies don't really mean shit now. 414818
Reposted by Christopher BakkeRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The stories abound. Women being raped by men posing as ICE agents. Women being raped while in ICE detention. I cannot say this often enough: Abolishing ICE is sexual assault prevention. dot-connecting.ghost.io/sexual-assau...dot-connecting.ghost.ioSexual assault and ICERape is a tool of war, including Trump’s war on immigrants. 9354184
Reposted by Christopher BakkeMark Histed @markhisted.org · 09/08/2026Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this? 661821432
Reposted by Christopher BakkeThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026There’s tradeoffs in every situation, so while we may be getting worse than the status quo ante re: the strait of Hormuz, and have undermined US readiness and capacity across the globe, at least we’re also getting a nuclear armed Iran. 619328
Reposted by Christopher Bakkepriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026me on a date 293745561
Reposted by Christopher BakkeAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law 553095518
Reposted by Christopher BakkeAnarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“Patti, love your work but we need to talk about your version of ‘Gloria.’” 2255681
