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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, here's my screening list for my honours/MA-level seminar called "Hollywood's Great Depression"

Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Show me the cover of an album that, to you, is so good, so perfect, you can’t even believe it was made by mortal humans on earth. (I am leaning into the "can't believe humans made this" part of the prompt) (Also the OP's choice is a gorgeous AF album)

Cover of My Bloody Valentine's *Loveless*

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know the point of lists like there are to goad people into debating the rankings and exclusions, so I should refuse to take the bait, but... where is *The Righteous Gemstones*?

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love it when insert shots of newspapers tell huge hunks of story that would be too expensive/complicated to film. Also when they narrate the emergence of the multitude, decades before Virno or Hardt and Negri. [from *Wild Boys of the Road* (William Wellman, 1933)]

Newspaper insert shot from *Wild Boys of the Road* (William Wellman, 1933)

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am re-watching Capra's *American Madness* (1932) to prep for a seminar, and is there another long take like this in all of 1930s Hollywood?

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"maybe they have a point" is a pathway only to more state violence

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm going to try and be as polite as possible about this: this isn't a purity test, this is a "will you defend a minority group when the government is working hard to murder them" question, and acting like it's a wedge issue rather than the entire game is a failure of empathy and historical vision.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Finally got a chance to watch Maren Ade's brilliant *Everyone Else*, and jesus, there just isn't another filmmaker like her. Her characters are breathtakingly alive, doing things that completely surprise you yet make total sense on reflection.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just taught my first class of the academic year, and I don't know why I was nervous beforehand: it's just like riding a bike! In that I sweat a ton and feel completely exhausted afterwards.

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Invert @invert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Really, if you want to stir shit up and know what you’re doing, the move would be to call it Lake Quebec

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I am no fan of Carney (who largely governs as a centre-right neoliberal), but jesus f*cking christ it is not the job of the Canadian PM to stop the US from shooting itself in the dick.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009) [Note: I know this outs me as a cliché--sad indie dad--and I don't care]

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Post45 CFP Alert: Super excited to announce this special issue, edited by Michelle N. Huang and Carlos Alonso Nugent. If you've ever thought that our periodization (or ASAP's!) needed fixing, now is your chance. submissions.post45.org/journal/CFP/...

submissions.post45.org

Why45? (or Why68?) | Post45 Journal Submissions

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don’t begrudge them moving on to other things, but I am going to miss this podcast immensely.

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is turning into a "Don't Make Me Tap the Sign" post for me, but... Hüsker Dü, in the space of just 15 months, released -- Zen Arcade (July 1984) (also, a double album!) -- New Day Rising (January 1985) -- Flip Your Wig (September 1985)

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

One of the great things about 80s Hollywood movies is that many of them have a scene where one character eats sushi and another character loses their mind--"holy shit, what is that, dude? Is that even food?"--and the viewer is supposed to agree with the guy losing his shit.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Boy with the Arab Strap is better than If You’re Feeling Sinister.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I know I'm late to this show, but I have been catching up on Legends, and damn the needle drops are just impeccable.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My college-aged daughter was having trouble assembling a piece of IKEA furniture, and I was able to diagnose where she had put one piece in backwards, which meant I had to partially disassemble it and then put it back together correctly, and is there any greater pleasure for a middle-aged dad?

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Mary Harron’s American Psycho. By a country mile.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Great piece by the always great @rtraister.bsky.social, especially this part nymag.com/intelligence...

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Worth keeping in mind that Haaland looks like a giant on a football pitch, but at 6'5", he is almost a foot shorter than Victor Wembanyama. Haaland is actually the same height as Dylan Harper.

Dylan Harper (6'5") next to Victor Wembanyama (7'4")

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I cannot help but imagine a staffer trying—and failing—to explain the Streisand effect in the meeting before these subpoenas were issued.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The most reliable thing in the world is that if you hear two stories about a guy behaving physically abusively toward women, there are five more you haven’t heard yet. People have patterns.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is well worth reading all the way through.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You've collectivized your last animal

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

SCANDINAVIANS
No people on earth, probably excel the Scandinavians, and scarcely any equal them, unless it may be the Swiss mountaineers, in attachment to their native country. The Scandinavian emigrant
brings with him to this country, not only his love of home, but his attachments to customs and habits of his old home. So
strong is this passion that it is hard for him to assimilate to the customs of his new home, and to conform to the ideas of American citizenship, but he remains in his adopted land, a foreigner, in all that pertains to his modes, manners, habits,
likes and dislikes.

This peculiar habit of our Scandinavian fellow citizens, and this strong, over-mastering attachment to their native land, has not been generally known and appreciated by our own citizens, "to the manor born."
It will take several generations to wear away this foster land attachment, and to assimilate the Scandinavian emigrant, and
absorb him into the language, habits, customs and true idea of a homogeneous American citizenship.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

As someone of both Swedish and Norwegian heritage, I think I am allowed to say that Norway's big star striker gives me the heebee-jeebies.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Mr. Messi said he would score the goals himself.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am such a soccer/football casual--and have been mainly avoiding this year's Cup--that I did not know Messi was still playing for the Argentinian team until tonight. I figured he had aged out. It appears he has not. Holy shit.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

100%. Just pure Hunger Games shit.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Happy for the Knicks, but fuck you James Dolan. Just fuck right off.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Especially Brunson crying, a guy who looks like the sergeant in every WWII movie who knows that they don't have enough men or enough ammo, but they have to try to take that hill anyway. It's like watching that guy have a good cry.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

microdosing When It Happens

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The livestream numbers for the Tr*mp name removal clearly indicate that there is a surprisingly large audience for slow cinema.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Okay, I just started watching the live stream of the removal of Tr*mp's name, and we are watching some reporter being filmed while preparing to go on air, and it is like something from a Don DeLillo novel.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Remember when, if you wanted to watch a TV show, you had a pocket-sized weekly magazine in your house that told you what channel it was on? Signed, someone who will never get back 10 minutes spent trying to find Questlove's Earth, Wind and Fire documentary on various Canadian streaming services.

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As a matter of pure basketball, I am rooting for the Spurs, but it is increasingly clear that, with their ability to absorb & then reverse Tr*mp's bad vibes, the Knicks are representatives of the world-spirit & the Spurs are unfortunate bystanders in the dialectical unfolding of historical necessity

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Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I am rooting for the Spurs, but man, the Knicks are playing out of their minds. Basketball is great.

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