Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 23hWhy are none of you helping with my campaign to make the phrase "Don't Swayze my clay" a thing. 000
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Shame on the socialist Nobel losers for this VERY BAD decision. INACCURATE. Everyone knows I have the best words. Beautiful words. Nobody has heard of this old lady from Canada, aka, one of the worst countries. Phony. Albertine workout? I'm pretty sure I've done that. I was the best at it. SAD." 021
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I wrote a whole book (LOOK AT THE BUNNY) about the modern tendency to wave a Trojan Horse through the gates when the gift-givers have amusingly written "Beware, Trojan Horse" on the wooden animal's flank. Higher Ed's enthusiastic adoption of AI is a perfect example of this irony-clad naivety. 092
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026According to the theory of sublimation, all human culture and civilization is just an elaborate, mass form of edging. 000
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I first posted this seven years ago. And now here we are. 141
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026redundant phrase of the day: "cruel optimism" 020
Reposted by Dominic PettmanToscha 🍂 @poemless.bsky.social · 29/09/2026AI's only relatably human characteristic is "became stupid after reading the internet." 0153
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"I one time thought I was asexual for two years, and it turns out that I had just gotten a weird haircut." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDk...youtube.comLara Ricote | Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism) | (Full Comedy Special)YouTube video by Lara Ricote 000
Reposted by Dominic PettmanThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things 471432196
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A band that only plays Spanish language versions of songs by The Ramones. Of course, they would be called The Ramons. 161
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What was the final nail in the coffin? Maybe when we started using "sunset" as a verb. 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The reason why NYC bagels have extra flavor and texture. 000
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“In any case,” said Gabriel, “in twenty years, there won’t be any more teachers: they’ll be replaced by the cinema, the telly, electronics, things like that.” (Raymond Queneau, Zazie in the Metro, 1959) 130
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I propose a new class simply called, "Reading." Students show up to class with a book selected from a long list of approved options. Then we all sit together in silence, and read for 100 minutes each session. 160
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I finally saw - and rather enjoyed - THE INVITE. I wonder if its working title was WHO'S AFRAID OF ESTHER PEREL. 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Surprisingly, I can only see one academic article so far that uses "From Melville to Mieville" . . . 120
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Pretty sure a passing ambulance just wolf-whistled at me. 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.instagram.com/reels/DddX5C... Delighted to wake up to this description of my book GHOSTING as "hyper stimulante."instagram.comBrut. on Instagram: "Pourquoi on ghoste ? Tentative d'explication... Cette vidéo est extraite d’une discussion de 45 minutes entre @aymeric_goetschy et @blancheleridon, dont le nouveau livre "Nos ina...3,323 likes, 166 comments - brutofficiel on September 18, 2026: "Pourquoi on ghoste ? Tentative d'explication... Cette vidéo est extraite d’une discussion de 45 minutes entre @aymeric_goetschy et @bl... 030
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026An updated version of THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF, in which the wolf *really is there* - every time the boy claims to see it - but people become tired of his warnings anyway. (And so the wolf ends up eating everyone.) {And yes - this is about climate change} 170
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Soon enough we'll all have digital epitaphs: ones that refresh every few minutes, with AI summaries and featured "highlights" of our networked traces. 030
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm sure all teachers can relate to this hyperbolic moment in EM Forster's short story: THE MACHINE STOPS "After an unsuccessful lecture, she would sometimes ask for Euthanasia herself. But the death-rate was not permitted to exceed the birth-rate, and the Machine had hitherto refused it to her." 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Aussie Rules Football fans. Do you prefer the Bunning's Warehouse Build-Up or the Harvey Norman replay? 001
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The oil is treacherous because it reflects the sky. The oil is trying to disguise itself as water.” Has Herzog ever Herzog'd more Herzogishly than this? 141
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"I'm a visionary artist, I guess." - Nicolas Winding Refn 110
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Little did we know, back in the 80s, that the revenge of the nerds would be so long, so sustained, so all-pervasive, so invasive, so repressive, and so downright apocalyptic. 030
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The publishers added a little unauthorized flourish on the back cover of the Korean version of SAD PLANETS. Apparently this says: "Why do I keep crying? Seriously, why?" 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Surprised and saddened to hear that at least a couple of students complained about my decision to have 100 minutes of silence in class last week, in honor of the passing of Dolly Parton 020
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Father don’t forgive them, for these f**kers know exactly what they’re doing.” 061
Reposted by Dominic PettmanInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this 26818899
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Freud: “What does a woman want?” Women: “Yo, I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want . . . I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah.” 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026lrb.co.ukAnne Carson · On RosalíaWe require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No... 001
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“Atlas Chugged: On the Influence of Ayn Rand in Frat-house Culture” 010
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New issue of SOCIAL RESEARCH, on "disrupting death." muse.jhu.edu/issue/57550 010
