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Woke 2.0 hasn't and may never happen but the Atlantic, etc. knows it already went too far and is taking pitches for personal essays about how much it annoyed you

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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

Preach: "Every day, scientists are allowed to publish sentences like, 'Many assume there is a close connection between human history and culture (Donaldson 2019),' and yet English departments are the problem?"

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For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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When every golf course south of the Mason-Dixon Line has one of these at the entrance we’ll know that woke has gone far enough. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Boston 🎞️#filmphotography

Park ranger in front of Shaw Memorial showing civil war officer on horseback and marching Black soldiers

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Spoiler alert: there are kids named Chastin, Harper, and Crew in the Colleen Hoover novel

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Verity | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I won’t know until reading if this is really her “finest,” but it’s already her most “this could be a math rock album title” novel

Patricia Highsmith paperback with black and orange cover for novel called the Tremor of Forgery with blurb from Graham Greene calling it her finest novel

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I won’t know until reading if this is really her “finest,” but it’s already her most “this could be a math rock album title” novel

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The summer's hottest arm candy is a bag of skin full of money

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Somebody better make a “Battle of Algiers” but for fucking

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

broke: Odyssey ride at Universal Studios bespoke: "Calypso" resort wear collection

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I know I should wait for the Odyssey in the historically accurate format Homer intended: as AI slop on my phone. But the Grand Lake theater will have to do.

The curtain and stage of a movie palace, the Grand Lake theater in Oakland, CA.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. TBF there is a lot on this that sounds like nirvana+soundgarden+pearl jam+alice in chains

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

this is why you never saw Philip and Elizabeth Jennings from the Americans or any of The Agency characters eat at Olive Garden--sure their legends have fooled multiple governments, but Jenna your server is a much tougher proposition

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Was just catching up after another #sfgiants loss: those crowds in Madrid are going absolutely nuts over Mariners getting back to .500

Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Fascism obviously, he’s also just so fucking dead inside

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Rooting for The Odyssey so we can get Odyssey 2: Suitors War, then two-part Odyssey: Endgame that sets up Aeneid franchise. In between, an Iliad series on Peacock, a standalone Cyclops origin (Jason Statham as "One Eye," obvs), dark rom com "Penelope" (Succession meets Love Island) . . .

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

England had sound strategy just needed 14 more center backs

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

If by "it" you mean "crushing sense of humiliation and regret," then it is very much coming home.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

That McConnell proof of life picture is pretty baller way to reboot the Taken movies.

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Giant will have to win this one the hard way: going into the 9th with a lead.

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after epic World Cup matches I just may be too exhausted to see if Giants can split this series with the Rockies and maintain their small lead in race to avoid worst record in NL

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There's going to be lots of mean gossip about Graham's personal life but emember he had a found family who loved him: bookers for Sunday morning news shows

One tragedy of the closet is that Graham doesn’t have anyone who loved him who can publicly pretend he’s still alive to preserve some ghoulish power

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just for fun, somebody tell Trump that if he calls FIFA again, the US can get back in this thing

Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Dune 3 trailer hits even harder if you read it as an allegory for all the carnage Timmy C was willing to do for the Marty Supreme Oscar campaign.

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This match has been a snore but it's given me lots of time to wishcast my Hannibal reboot starring the Swiss coach

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At least US still dominates Belgium in major sports like cyclocross

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Remember it looked bleak after Game 3 when Trump fucked the Knicks. US still has two more chances to close Belgium out right?

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Now that we're losers again, which US players will Trump have ICE take into custody after the final whistle?

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Back to my regularly scheduled baseball season…

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Would be objectively hilarious for ref to show Balogun a red card in the first minute

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Maybe Platner can regain control of the narrative by saying he really is a Nazi

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not that it helps Flo Balogun, but the fact that slow motion increases "perceived intent" in viewers has been established by psychologists studying its use in jury trials. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... It's in there somewhere with all the Peckinpah . . . cup.columbia.edu/book/downtim...

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Downtime | Columbia University Press

Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or oth... | CUP

Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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Downtime | Columbia University Press

Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence, dream sequences, and flashbacks or oth... | CUP