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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Clean Room and Wonder Woman. Also, as a fan of Jessica Jones, I put Variants pretty high on my personal list.

Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“You can be anything you want. But not that.” That’s the entire message being espoused by these assholes. Be what they think you should be. Or else.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Seriously, the idea that AI might feel pain probably would appeal to a certain segment of the population. Especially among the tech bros.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Please can’t you just grow a goddamn spine?

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Please stop soft pedaling this crap. You have nothing to lose now; it’s time to be the independent voice of truth you should have been along.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If you want to study sci-fi as a literary genre, academically, sure. There’s a long list of people to read in that case, and many of them aren’t just white men. If you just want someone to enjoy stories, never tell them what they “must” read. Guaranteed to kill a potential fan’s enthusiasm.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The fact that you can't tell the difference in what you did speaks volumes.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

About dumbassed criticism, yes. If you wanted to engage with the topic, you would have politely asked the expert with decades of experience how she handles the dichotomy of loving characters and putting them at risk. She has thoughts on that subject. You, however, just wanted to score points.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

You know a lot about writing successful award-winning comics, do you?

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just look at the current crop of willfully ignorant morons who have been placed in positions of power in our government, making decisions about matters they simply are not equipped to comprehend. Government by C- students. I wonder what the Greek term for that would be?

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

By the way, if you ever wonder why those of us still pitifully trying to educate people despair when see people who just want to coast through school, show no intellectual curiosity, or are proud of not reading?

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

You appear to be both a bad historian and a poor writer. What a waste of an education.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Might as well use the transmission line as a space elevator, as long as we're dreaming. No problems with such a thing as far as anyone can see.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Don’t worry, it’s okay to be wrong about things sometimes.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I literally tell my students that I don't read the evaluation comments. They are given a critical reflection assignment at the end of the semester and I ask them to put any real feedback they have for me there, because in that exercise they're primed to be thoughtful.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Okay. James Gunn's understanding of Superman is *my* understanding of Superman.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Barack Obama should have appointed Garland even without Senate approval; ignore McConnell’s bullshit and just do the necessary work. Biden should have expanded the court. Both of them, and the various party leaders who they listened to, did not take the threat to our country seriously enough.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

*Concentration camp. Get better editors.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Story dated December 2024.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

After all, they don’t believe that the future is real. It doesn’t matter to them, because they can’t immediately experience it for good or ill, so it must not be real. And if the consequences will happen outside their lifetimes, they simply don’t matter.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

They don’t believe in anything. They’ve never believed in anything. Therefore, they think belief is a scam, that principles and rules of ethics are just levers to give one a temporary advantage. They will say anything to get that advantage themselves without caring about the future.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I suddenly hear Rorschach in my head: “Good Joke. Everybody laugh.”

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My great-grandparents on my mom’s side took boats from Germany and England, tried and failed to start a business in DC, traveled west until their money ran out in Kansas, and started dirt farming. My great-grandmother could barely speak English.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

My great-grandfather on my dad’s side came here the right way: he ran away from being conscripted into the Canadian Army during WWI, snuck across the border down to Nebraska, lied about his name and country of origin, had a couple kids, and then ran away again during the Great Depression.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

*Puts down copy of Phonogram and places it on the bottom of the "to read" pile in protest.*

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I teach college freshmen media literacy. I used to recommend NPR news as reliable and generally unbiased. Looks like I'll have to stop doing that. What a disappointment you have become.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Germ Theory isn’t “widely accepted,” it has been proven. Repeatedly. Use your words more thoughtfully.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Now do Cuomo's policies, you partisan hacks.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Some times it’s really easy to explain why I stopped being a journalist. But why in the hell can’t the actual journalists just do their jobs? Just try to report the facts, don’t gloss them over or sugarcoat them. How hard is that to figure out?

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

They are strangely competent when it comes to breaking other people's stuff. It's just that then you're on Moya and have to deal with all the other dren.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A truly magnanimous gesture would be to teach the rest of us how to destroy the Gmail AI "feature." Because I've personally lost hours myself trying (and failing) to remove AI from my search results.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I wanted you to know. Alexander Skarsgard is not at all who I pictured Murderbot as, and his voice at the beginning of the show is not at all what I hear in my head when reading your stories. But it was brilliant. Funny, sharp-witted, thoughtful in the right places. Great adaptation.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I missed this derp wolf.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I’ve always been skeptical about the writer/actor adage that “no one believes they’re the villain of their own story.” I think the world today shows us that several people are not only comfortable with the idea of being villains, they delight in it.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I didn’t realize there were baby mill motels. What a world we live in. (Do we think Miller actually believes in his paranoid delusions or does he know he’s spouting lies?)

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Last day of lecture, once again. This time two students said they wanted to visit next year, one asked about writing a story over the summer, and several who were putting in earbuds and staring at their phones while I was giving my final thoughts. As is usual for the end of semester.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

My sibling in Bluesky, I’ve been a teacher for 13 years now. That sad fact is scrimshawed in my very bones by now.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

No, it’s because our incentives aren’t to reward learning, it’s to jump through hoops in order to get higher-paid jobs. If we put more effort in explaining the benefits of learning how to think, how to more deeply understand and appreciate the world, then we can work on other problems.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Essay writing is still the best way to determine cognitive understanding. The problem is when people are so resistant to that concept that they’ll spend billions of dollars to find ways to cheat rather than just, you know, applying critical thought and writing down their own ideas.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A few years ago I finally tracked down the final few chapters in that story. It has its flaws, but what a stylish and often wise look at our heroic myths. Plus some of the moments when Kevin really cuts loose are great fun.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I'm not sure that's axiomatically true, because of how interconnected things are. But it wouldn't hurt if there was more balance in who has the power.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It's not inaccurate to say that other countries are taking advantage of our failings and using them to exacerbate the damage we are causing ourselves.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

But at least the AI image generator knows that T*ump would be a Sith.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s really my favorite thing to teach. I don’t care if they’re writing stories well, yet. I’m just happy to see them fan the flames of a fire they thought had burned out.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The engineering guy who claims to not have a creative bone in his body is writing a manga script about a Sword God who has to learn that his own pride is stopping him from defeating the Demon that keeps killing him during his resurrection cycle.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Yet they always surprise themselves, and make me smile, because they all discover they have something to say. The girl who looks unimpressed with every other lesson decides to bleed ink in a story about her depression slowly consuming her entire life.

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Isaac @isaacwbell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My last writing project in my English class is a creative one: tell the class a story. It throws these college students for a loop, because they have had creativity hammered out of them throughout K-12, especially high school. So many students act uncomfortable with the very idea.

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