Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11hCornell is spending so much money on crisis PR right now when all the president needs to do is change the narrative by running his car into another pro-Palestinian protester. 140
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Literally never for one second been interested in finding my biological parents [record scratch, Steely Dan "Peg" chorus] . . . it could be who now? 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tell me more about the real threats to safety on American campuses: keffiyehs, trans people, gender studies, research . . .newrepublic.comTrump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape InvestigationThe Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools. 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026maybe #1 on my list of best TV shows that fewer than 430 remember 011
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Maybe this is how we finally get Harry Styles' Eros from Eternals post-credit sequence . . . 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Now Edwin Diaz is up for the Dodgers. It's like Daisy Chain Fields for relievers I wouldn't trust in the postseason. 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dodgers bullpen game giving the Treinen ick and then Roki comes out with his jai alai glove and (almost) all is forgiven 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Trauma, an address, some possessions: maybe correlation is causation here. 060
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If he cast Defoe and Pattinson as Romeo and Juliet would that count? 120
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026good to be conservative, but c'mon, 194 AI slop Rush Hour sequels are going to earn $30-40 trillion easily 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026if I'm appointed to the advisory board overseeing how you spend this $37, I'm going to give you some very, very stern but totally non-binding guidance about blowing it on fascism 120
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 22/09/2026OTOH there are definitely universities that would fund a Executive Vice Provost for Faculty Dating Complaints before a new hire in a humanities department 140
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026TBF Kings might be the only team so fucked that even private equity can't hurt them 040
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I hereby nominate you as next president of Harvard. Actually, no, make that the United States. 110
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I haven’t changed anything on my TV so just wondering if all colors pop like this in Australia or if Netflix is streaming this game on vintage Kodachrome 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Viewpoint diversity is going to hit STEM harder than we think 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026resisting any "liberal" moves after the election (both in the fall and in '28) will be presented as maintaining the "institutional neutrality" that university presidents created by their thirsty capitulation 060
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Would say Gaines is contemporary version of Jane Russell but at least Jane Russell was in a couple legit great movies 120
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“Disgruntled Lesbian” t-shirts at WNBA games about to be so hot 150
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Fishing with John, but every episode is about some weird shit Ezra Pound knew www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 110
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026clearly the answer is to hire even fewer humanities faculty 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Pablo Torre finds out that Steve Ballmer is just 3 (or 10+) Kroenke's in a trench count 110
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Facing a demographic cliff and tight budgets, colleges and universities will need more administrators than ever before." 071
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026But do I bet on a happy ending with official gambling partner of MLB, or predict one with the official prediction market partner of MLB? variety.com/2026/digital...variety.comChicago Cubs Sets Rom-Com Series ‘Nine Innings to Love’The Chicago Cubs are entering scripted content with 'Nine Innings to Love,' a rom-com series which is set to debut on TikTok. 140
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A lot of deans and provosts are now "Vice Presidents" too 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Zone of Interest 2 is going to need a lot more viewpoint diversity. 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ICE needs to know if any green card applicants are hiding behind your rear distal molar 030
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ministry for the Future scene where intrepid scientists geoengineer urine glaciers 041
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ford and Google are basically just Sally Bowles without the sexy hat 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026as little Monday gift to myself I'm going to imagine that this is really a picture of Stephen Pinker 010
Reposted by Mark GobleBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviellodefector.comDolly, Josephine, And Me | DefectorLike all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ... 515430
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Amazing to see Silo as aspirational real-estate flex 02005
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Giants doubleheader means a chance to watch a version of Andy Warhol's "Empire" if the Empire State Building was shit baseball. 030
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026going to have to reconsider my priors re: object-oriented-ontology because the tarmac and the car are definitely the most life-like entities here 030
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026but if I put a silvery object near a dumb AI would it think it was a sign of respect? 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Just saw the IG reel for this and their sexual chemistry is even more Lynchian—Ray Palmer flirting with Log Lady 150
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 28/08/2026wanted to snark that Matrix 2 did it better but I don't think it did 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I know a lot of you are going to want to play the hypocrisy card but lots of fancy Harvard faculty would gladly defend the free speech rights of a gutter racist at West Point too. 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026wait getting your posts confused is this guy starting for Giants today? 110
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Somewhere else on campus there’s an AI-designed Hell door that’s covered with knobs 020
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026would super subscribe to watch some NYT writers run into walls--could be as big as Wordle 010
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Singin in the Rain Man with a Movie Camera Barry Lyndon La Cienega The Apartment 170
Reposted by Mark GobleDevin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Essential reading. Many things to say, one of which is that @theatlantic.com and @chronicle.com might consider doing some very basic fact-checking in future before gleefully and self-servingly packaging unsubstantiated, bad, and in fact harmful takes by TAH as searing truth-telling. 06923
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Dropping this during syllabus season is dope. Thanks Marvel! I'm teaching a big C19-C20 survey and didn't realize I could just tell everybody to read Chaucer through Douglass before the first class. 000
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026now at least that Beatles cast photo isn't the most cursed photo of white dudes I'll see today 120
Reposted by Mark GobleJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Our contributors @post45.bsky.social continue to be all killer no filler. THREE new essays today, something for everyone First, @thathoberekguy.bsky.social on The Blues Brothers and the end of the New Hollywood post45.org/2026/08/the-...post45.orgThe Blues Brothers, Tammy Wynette, and the Long Denouement of the 1960s – Post45Andrew Hoberek 182
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026And Tyler Austin Harper will probably be a free speech fellow at Vanderbilt or something any minute now 010