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Brian Kenna

@drbrianish.bsky.social
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Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 13h
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tracking the Ring
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h
HE LOVED RIDING ON HIS MOM’s BACK ACROSS THE RIVER 😭
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh the faculty lounge? Where the aloof, lazy profs are planning how to spend their millions on indoctrinating your kid? Is that the same lounge where we've been collecting water in a trash can for months because they haven't fixed the pipe
The drop ceiling has a black
Garbage bag hanging down from it, with a hose leading to a yellow trash can
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
White Sox and Astros both having a bullpen game for Game 1
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He's just the best.
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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah see that’s the problem you tried to see the movie without purchasing the Day One Ultimate Edition, you can’t expect it to have all the movie in it
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know you don't have to do their marketing for them, right?
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the average lifespan of outdoor cats is 3 to 5 years. indoor cats regularly live to 10, if not 20 years. imagine personally shaving off 3/4 of your cat's life because you're too stubborn and lazy to take proper care of an animal you're responsible for
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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Luso @mrluso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Character idea, a basset hound who hunts vampires
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok let's not do that, then.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Page One in Milwaukee: @mcbridetd.bsky.social
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Adventurism Time @flow.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
2026 is entirely too "on the nose", but 'a big ugly barge blocking your view of the ocean with an AI view of an artificial ocean' has to be the poster child.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Absolutely deranged, failed-state shit that 30% of the country is still onboard.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
stand up for trans people: it is the right thing to do and it just will not hurt you, not now, not in this environment and maybe folks can start to relearn that trans people are pretty fucking cool, actually
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Instructors are constantly being pressured to “accept” AI as a benevolent technology. The weight of anxiety and depression among academic staff right now—particularly in the humanities—is overwhelming. I’ve never seen so many colleagues in mental crisis as I do now. All for profit.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@Very__Regular

george lucas, 1975 (in tunisia, severely dehydrated, over budget) sure, yeah. put the little blue guy in the background. is alec still in his trailer

guy who gets mad for money on youtube, 2024: and now disney made Deebo Threebo green. that's how little respect they have for you
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If there's one game I ever played and thought "This needs to be longer" it's Baldur's Gate 3.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, well, if my bosses say not to bring my union rep I guess I won't.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Arron Automata @arrontk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Man can you imagine what would have happened if Ed Sheeran *had* been complicit?
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I realize they're consummate and inveterate liars, but this one struck me as a guy who has no fucking idea what anything costs just naming a price that sounded reasonable and/or likely to him. Real-life "It's just one banana, Michael."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
ah working class is when you are a contractor pulling six figures from a business that earns seven, professional is when you pull $40K doing office work
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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They call it “going viral” because you die a little inside from it.
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 🧠 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/06/14/memory-hole
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But what if I told you it was *very very easy to do*? They don't even have to leave the office!
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fun fact: The reason universities accept as many foreign students as they do is because the federal government gutted university funding back in the 80s and foreign students pay full tuition.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's been clear all season that one of these was in his future, but I thought he'd at least wait until next year.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am once again begging companies to just hire me because I could have told you all of this stuff for a modest salary without ten years of misadventure and expensive studies.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m glad they’re losing viewers. no one wants to pay for skilled workers or to keep them around up front and then are surprised when they make no money from their audience
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
Actual technology with deep, generous purpose remains extremely cool and good. I miss feeling good about machines and computers
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's fine, he can't read.
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Miles O'Brien says
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today’s Baseball Name is Pretzels Getzian
Pretzels Getzien
Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right • Throws: Right 5-10, 172lb (178cm, 78kg)
Born: February 14, 1864 in Germany
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Brian Kenna @drbrianish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When you're not brown.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Within an hour or two of the attacks I’d seen a couple of guys up by Columbia screaming “why did you do this” at a man because he was wearing a turban Within a week or two I heard a prof was demanding we “bomb them back to the Stone Age” Self-serving myths didn’t help then and they won’t help now
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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Magic trick
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SkyCladBrent @brent.zone · 11/09/2026
This is fucking killing me
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/09/2026
[A three-panel comic showing a long row of urinals. In the first panel, a man stands at the far left urinal. An arrow points to his head.]
John Stewart

[In the second panel, a second man walks into the room. An arrow points to his head.]
Hal Jordan

[In the third panel, the second man stands at the urinal immediately next to the first man. Below the comic is a promotional poster.]

AARON PIERRE
EMMY AWARD WINNER
KYLE CHANDLER

[Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler (from the Green Lantern franchise) stand against a dark green background featuring a faint Green Lantern logo.]
DC STUDIOS
LANTERNS
SUNDAY
9PM
HBO max
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map--
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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