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
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Isn’t sneaking up on you kind of Leigh’s forte? He consistently ignores contemporary trends, making unfussy masterpieces that knock you dead. There’s a steady confidence in one’s artistic voice that it seems eludes an eager showman like Iñárritu. 000
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
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Following Arnold’s new career as a self-help guru, it seems as if two moments determined his politics : 1) immigrating to the US when a Republican happened to be pres; 2) assisting at the Special Olympics with Sargent Shriver. Seems as if Trump made clear to him which of these was his priority. 010
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Seems true of all professions now: people just want to work as opinionists about what the ostensibly do, and they want to be popular for it. 020
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
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worse. A mere tenth of their personality will do the trick. 080
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 · 12/09/2026The model here is De Gaulle: Vichy is not a French government; it was never a French government; its laws are null and void. Boom. Done. May one day we be so lucky to have a Democratic Party with a shred of his conviction. 0132
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
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We already have the perfect candidate: Mathieu Almaric, who did a fucking hilarious one-scene riff on this guy in Cronenberg’s otherwise dull adaptation of DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. 010
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Why evil? Stephen Miller is evil. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Carrie Fisher don’t really seem to be in the same category. 1191
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
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026That’s being kind. The right believes their final victory will come when we’re either dead or in a concentration camp. 000
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This was even more true when I moved there 14 years ago. Even grocery shopping was virtually impossible on Sunday. Now I’m in Italy and deslite the nominal Catholicism, almost everything is open Sundays. 130
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Was this a thing in Argentine politics before the war or only after? 120
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026And this isn’t even a solid state drive. 020
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Seems as though the more empirically verified a position becomes, the more American institutions develop a conflict avoidance around the issue. Vaccines, climate change, gun violence all cases in point. 020
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 · 04/09/2026After giving a tour for rich Americans in Italy, the elite tour guide took me out for drinks and told me that although his business took a hit, he had stopped accepting billionaire clients because they couldn’t grasp that it was impossible to recreate their Palm Beach mansions in rural Sicily. 0100
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
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Jokes aside, the nuclear bombing of Los Angeles is the single most terrifying scene in movie history, and it’s not even close. Despite that it was the highest grossing film of its year. Worth remembering when we debate Nolan’s decision not to depict the atomic bombing of Japan. 010
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 · 01/09/2026Also don’t sleep on public libraries. I’ve maintained full access for years, in between various institutional affiliations, thanks to the great local library in Portland. 090
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Yes. The thing about viewpoint diversity is that it sucks actually. 130
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 · 01/09/2026This article was an instant classic. The Jobs/Cook dichotomy is the kind of case study you see in Arendt’s Men in Dark Times or Judt’s Burden of Responsibility, in which idiosyncrasies of character end up playing the decisive role determining one’s moral position during a political crisis. 010
Christopher Bakke @christopherbakke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Amazing that the defending western civ racists don’t even have to offer the pretense of promoting knowledge and education. Just full on assault on higher ed and the sciences. Meanwhile we are in the ten billionth “did 2020 go too far” discourse. 080
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
