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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 23h

Arguably the Minnesota Gophers are the dark-horse winners of this imbroglio

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They saw/ did things differently in Slate Classic days

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Want to read about me embarrassing myself? The Victorian Studies blog's got you covered! Come for the admission of total incompetence, stay for the open-access full article! 😱🫠😅 iupress.org/connect/blog... @victstudies.bsky.social

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Victorian Studies 68.2: History’s Embarrassments - Indiana University Press

Emma Davenport (Emory University) Read Davenport’s essay, “Gifting Contract: The Persistence of Caribbean Apprenticeship in Wilkie Collins's Armadale,”

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beano #1100, August 17, 1963

Biffo buys the dismembered remains of a tree from a man surrounded by sobbing birds.
BIFFO: I'll buy that timber, sir.
MAN: O.K.
BIRDS: Sob!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I find most NYT Vows columns boring, but I make an exception for those featuring an unexplained breakup that turns out to be due to the male international supermodel member of the couple having been recruited into a millenarian cult

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He Left Her for a Cult, but It Would Be Years Before She Knew It

Hoyt Richards, a male supermodel, disappeared from Donna Flagg’s life for several years. The reason was the subject of a recent HBO Max docuseries.

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Out of Context Biffo the Bear @oocbiffo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beano #2239, June 15, 1985

Biffo is surrounded on all sides by enraged zoo animals.
BIFFO: Eh? What's wrong?

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this is a lesbian picnic, sir

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am super excited for this! -sequel to to the 5+ hour part 1 which is amazing

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dolly to Barbara Walters: “Show business is a moneymaking joke, and I’ve just always liked telling jokes”

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Barbara Walters' memorable interview with Dolly Parton (1978)

YouTube video by ABC News

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This (in @thedriftmag.com) is great- “Ethnic cleansing ordered with a lazy smirk; questions about human rights deflected with a mute shrug. The stultifying quality of the videos doesn’t just reflect the callousness of the politics — it is that callousness, distilled and refined”

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Agit-Slop

The White House’s Numbing Aesthetic

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cp @marlonjames.bsky.social in new NYT profile: “I don’t go to novels to be safe. I go to novels to be titillated, to be scared, to be educated, to be frightened — honestly, to be appalled”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“We need novels that live in an amoral universe” (Ottessa Moshfegh in @bookforum.bsky.social)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well I guess we settled that one

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

T.J. Clark on the Chauvet cave paintings is amazing 🤯

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Alert for Thackeray fans-- this novel (the Simp, by @roshansethi.bsky.social) is sharp and amusing, and contains a "Vanity Fair" subtext throughout; it's the protagonist's favorite book, and he spends a lot of time brooding over whether he's more of a Becky Sharp or an Amelia Sedley

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/08/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Men Overly Bored theonion.com/men-overly-bored

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“You’re right, NYC. I’ve got to do better. Safety first”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

wow I had no idea about the existence of this world of boutique cat litters that are described like high-end olive oils ("Pea Husk" & ""Paco and Pepper Olive Pit")

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Is this book worth dying for?” 😆

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s weird that this passes for common sense, when it actually makes no sense at all. “Perfectly natural that households earning $160,000 would hate the idea of taxing billionaires”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“In neighborhoods where ppl make $150,000 or more, there were cases where the moderate candidates won by 2 to 1. If the progressive left stand for anything, it’s to take on the billionaires, and it makes sense that high-income voters would be hesitant to embrace those candidates.”

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Are The Democratic Socialists Winning or Losing?

Podcast Episode · The Daily · August 13 · 30m

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The left has come up with this weird formula for winning elections: “crafting positions that appeal to voters.” How do they pull this off??!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“But instead of flying out aboard that older jet, Mr. Trump was taken by a food cart that had been fitted to the belly of the plane”- I’m picturing something like this?

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Make yourself a dang k-cedilla

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I love that in Scotland one absolutely must designate & specify a *limited* area of the park for bagpipe practice

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Excited for this! I’ve been waiting for an Black Hole adaptation & Jane Schoenbrun is the perfect director for it

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think I could appreciate my own melancholy more if I associated it with flying witches and devilry 🧙

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love that no one really knows wtf the Picts were doing with these “mysterious stone objects.” Game, toy, talisman, ritual item, art?

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

smoosh, unfussed-over, Fu Manchu mustache, Hanging Lobster Claw, poison dart frog

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This was so great & funny. Visited the Etches Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, a fossil museum in Dorset based on the lifetime collection of Steve Etches, a fossil hunter, from the local area on the Jurassic Coast. Best exhibit features Etches’ workshop & *Etches himself* working behind glass 😮

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Who will write the thinkpiece about representations of medically-assisted deaths in Zurich (cp Lerner’s Transcription)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Paid my respects at the Max Gate pet cemetery

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LWVIndiana @lwvindiana.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Join community members for the Hoosier Hospitality March on Saturday, August 1, from 3:00–6:00 p.m. at Holland Park in Fishers. The event includes a community march and a vigil honoring individuals and families impacted by immigration policies. #LWVIN #democracylivesinthelight

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This was eerie. The “ghost village“ of Tyneham, Dorset, all of whose occupants were forced to evacuate during World War II (town used for military training)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Faculty member fired for assigning an Ottessa Moshfegh story. Class (with a focus on “unlikable narrators”) sounds great!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

With Sylvia Townsend Warner in Dorchester, Dorset

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It definitely needs a NYC run! Brilliant & strange (& horny)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The luck is entirely mine. Just look at this beauty! sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-...

HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY by Lisa L. Moore

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Love that “Video Killed the Radio Star” was a riff on JG Ballard

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"There are some risible lines, and most of them belong to Matt Damon’s Odysseus. ... Damon demands to be tied to the ship’s mast saying, “I wanna hear the sirens’ song,” like a Boston teenager in 1988 cuing up the new Aerosmith album"

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Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

In the latest rendering of the epic, there is plenty to feel guilty about even if you did not mean it.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Football 1, fascism 0 www.equator.org/articles/wor...

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A friend wrote “I saw Glen Branca at Sanders Theater with a whole bunch of guitarists, it was incredible…We didn’t have tickets to the show but they were rehearsing/sound check? during the day (we walked by and heard them) and you could just walk into Sanders and stay as long as you wanted”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I appreciate this use of the term “argy-bargy” (“The colorful phrase is a variant of the earlier Scots phrase argle-bargle. Both parts of the word playfully combine a modification of "argue" with a nonsense rhyming repetition (a linguistic device known as reduplication)”)

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