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erobertlee.bsky.social

@erobertlee.bsky.social
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English PhD with work in American Studies and Classical Reception. African American Literature, American 19th/20th Century, Science Fiction, Du Bois.

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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I could genuinely cry looking at this. I have a specific nostalgia for the packard bell 486 we got was in elementary school but also it's simple a relic from a time when we believed this could be wonderful
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
that one glee "I'm going to create an enviroment" meme but it's Akhenaten saying "I am going to create an environment that is so monotheistic"
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
wall relief of Akhenaten worshiping the Aten. white text reads "don't talk to me or my sun ever again"
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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Number one with a bullet
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I have no regrets or shame in so saying. This is me.
Daddy pig, asleep after being left by himself in the sun for even a very short amount of time.
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
[P] quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap
Frozen Embryos from /My So-Called Life/
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Duder McGuy @warofthebees.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Journalists: "Are streamers like Hasan Piker a liability?" Leftists: "The shitlibs are out to smear Hasan Piker! It's an op! IT'S AN OP!" Literally every American who leaves their home more than three times a week:
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Norm MacDonald on weekend update
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
levar burton and kermit the frog in a library and levar has a blank speech bubble below him
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/04/2026
i feel like rodney dangerfield would have a lot to work with these days. "guy sold me one of these self driving cars and it left without me. then he said he'd set me up with a model, turned out to be a computer! then my wife and the computer left me in the car"
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
girl take us with you
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My AI work wife keeps hallucinating incorrect facts, like the idea that we aren’t meant for each other
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 17/03/2026
I basically have a PhD in the history of UT women’s basketball (I’m not kidding even a little) so it was a real thrill to get to write about this particular team just weeks before the 40th anniversary of their championship.
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm ready
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Karl Marx did not spend ten years living in the British Library for the modern Left to negatively polarize itself against the concept of graphs.
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is a wonderful concept and post, but I think we need some ways of distinguishing format from genre. What was so critical about The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity was that they represented a huge shift toward found footage as a technical shift in the genre of horror.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Love seeing accounts here trying to talk knowledgeably about American politics and they’re like “I am a membre of the Demoucratic Party!”
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/03/2026
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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It's no coincidence that perhaps the worst era in discontinued food history lines up perfectly with the exact window in time when "She's So High" by Tal Bachman was popular...really makes you think
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/04/2025
I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 25/02/2026
South Side. 1820 East Carson - Burger King. Yes, that one. Caller says a woman wearing cat ears is threatening to beat up and scratch employees. She has supposedly been kicked out once before.
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I cannot explain properly how much sense this makes to me and how breathtaking I find it.
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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
THEY GOT IT FROM THEIR MAMA!
Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, member of the 1992 us women’s hockey team, mom and co-creator of the Hughes brothers
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Albuquerque" is unironically an incredible song musically and lyrically
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 12/02/2026
"Cognitive decline" should be a term for when your credit card protects you from a Roblox purchase
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Josh Goldstein @joshisimmigration.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Before you're allowed to be a billionaire you should have to fill out a form explaining what you will do with your money. If the answer involves launching some new product or service or getting into politics, they say no. Guy who says "make the worlds biggest popsicle" gets the green light
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
measuring a clown’s funny bone with calipers
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Paige, TheMaverickGirl @themaverickgirl.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
THE spiders???
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
ChatGPT is NOT alive and yet it IS stupid? God’s mysteries confound us all!
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is a keen and valuable insight that interacts well with the Pope noting that algorithmic media is profoundly closed, giving you what the past determines is safe rather than opening up to a possible future. Intellectual friction is good and seducing people into a life without it is harming them
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
nice generalization... it'd be a shame if someone were to point out an edge case
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) is better than actually good media too
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
When I teach Science Fiction, I always insistently start with /Utopia/ because it cannot be stressed enough that the earliest technologies we are studying and most study are governmental, the structures that are invented to organize people larger than a family unit. Du Bois was big on this too
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It's funny that baseball cards and such are accidental flash cards. I don't like star wars much, but I loved the Decipher card game, so I can tell you the species of every alien that was in half a frame in the mos eisley cantina scene or the imperial officers at the death star conference
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/10/2025
This is what you say when it’s obvious that something is real and there’s productivity coming out of it
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/10/2025
Esther ... Number one ....For me... "oh Esther mean" Oh no my brother in Christ spice comes with heat... Write that down
Jackie Tohn
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erobertlee.bsky.social @erobertlee.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
One time the gate next to ours was going to Fort Myers and the guy on the PA was just dripping venom about people not holding their own boarding passes. A dad in the last family to get on told his teenagers "if you're not holding your own boarding pass, you're going to have your ass handed to you"
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 19/06/2023
Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/10/2025
i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/10/2025
A theory - a portion of Platner's relatability isn't that he's working class, it's that he's a downwardly mobile failson in a way that resonates with his online supporters
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