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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s by that band with the rocking song that goes E-A-E-B

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel seen and I don’t like it

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Next time someone asks me why I’m an Anarchist I’m sending them this

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s Avant Garde poetry week in Intro to Lit and I’m giddy at the prospect of sharing these texts with my unsuspecting students

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My friend got the first page of my chapter about Fraggle Rock signed by Wembley Fraggle and I am frankly a little emotional about it

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s copshit. The Cory Doctorow point is also a good one. It’s a tool that breaks solidarity. It puts teachers on the side of tech companies against their students.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 02/09/2026

Yeah, join a union. Get yourself better pay and benefits. Also, get yourself protection from your "bespoke mentor"... you know, just in case. I had great mentors. I also knew people who didn't, and had little recourse. Join a union.

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Manfluencers and the manosphere are a threat to the continued existence of the species

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

so many of these 'fads' are clearly evidence of a kink someone doesn't want to admit they have one day I'll figure out how to patent my evidently rare "just talk to women, literally have a conversation instead of listening to influencers for the love of god" technique and make billions

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

there will be many ways to celebrate dolly parton and the one I want to point out is that she was a friend of Miss Piggy

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly proudly, to the end of her days, described her style as "trashy" and that's just one reason i will love her forever

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I hate it when I agree with Doug Ford, just feels wrong

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Spent an hour and a half writing a piano lead a track I am working on. Didn’t fit so in the bin it went… additional by subtraction

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Spiteful Matt @realmfresh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Person who has seen 100 movies: The best movie ever made is Citizen Kane Person who has seen 1000 movies: The best movie ever made is 8 1/2 Person who has seen 10,000 movies: The best movie ever made is Crank 2: High Voltage

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026

How to win at most all things:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026

New in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."

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DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew

It's the stuff of East Germany.

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

academia.edu’s insistence on telling you on when someone reads your work should really take into consideration the high rates of anxiety among academics. Oh, a scholar and poet whose work I admire and almost certainly quoted at length read my juvenilia? I will certainly be normal about this

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is really solid and important journalism, but I don’t know how many more of these stories I can read. It feels like anything you write - or have ever written - as an author is now just being churned through as “content” or “training data” to make a couple of rich dudes even richer.

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The text is never complete and the product of study often reveals as much about the critic as it does about the text. This is often the hardest lesson for students to learn

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is a very good thread.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Since we are doing this discourse again: I probably talked to more undergraduates about grad school in the humanities than most people, as it’s part of my job as an advisor. My message: people do all kinds of shit in their 20s, and going to grad school aint the worst if you’re funded for it.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Fritz Lang didn't build a seventy-foot-long mechanical dragon, operated from the inside by ten puppeteers, breathing out actual fire via a built-in skull flamethrower, in Die Nibelungen (1924) so you could rock up and tell me "AI is inevitable".

Beautifully detailed working drawings of the articulation inside the 70 foot dragon puppet

A shot of the dragon puppet in operation on set, it towers over the performers

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sseJ @jessmakesthings.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i can basically guarantee you your local community college is both cheaper and more interesting than you think (possibly even more so than your private or state schools) and they often have this kind of thing

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Rebecca Thompson 🦋 @rebalynn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Smiths ##MusicSky

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The joke to tell your wife on the way home from The Odyssey

A reddit post from r/shittymoviedetails titled "In the Odyssey(2026) Lupita Nyong'o was cast to play Helen of Troy, who according to the source material was the most beautiful woman in the world.
While very attractive, she was miscast because the most beautiful woman in the world is actually my wife" and it has a picture of her in the film.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My summer vacation finally starts at the end of the work day after a month and a half being the only one working in my part of the College. I’ve written so many reports, filled out so many forms, it’s time to embrace freedom

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I read Salinger and liked it well enough when I was 17. The world was changed since then (so did I). No one needs to read Salinger

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

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open mike eagle @mike-eagle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

AI event flyers are ruining my life cause I didn't know I had so many friends with bad taste

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week's post is about how the Red Scare is a big enough tent for all of us. With an explainer about socialism vs anarchism vs communism, complete with a diagram. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-red-scar...

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A Red Scare Big Enough For All of Us

or: you don't even have to be a red to scare the fascists

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026

and also, isn't white supremacy such a profound intellectual error that you should immediately question the basic capacities of anyone who indulges it?

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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 16/07/2026

I didn't want to write about AI or have an AI policy for EPOCH because I thought it went without saying...that was naive of me, I think. Click through to read my blog post on the subject, if you like.

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Ryan J Cox @drryanjcox.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One thing I love about studying poetry is when you end up excitedly reading 4 books at the same time, take notes, and composing your own poems at the same time. Anyways read Hugo Ball

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It's in our DNA. Cardboard cats 😹😻 #cats #box #besttoyever

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