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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 1h

She got the idea after watching Ratatouille

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 2h

He who dies with the most toys wins? But he still dies.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 3h

From my experience as a college teacher, there has never been enough resistance to the technological surveillance of classrooms, and now that spying/control has scaled up.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 3h

Libraries are places where you can borrow physical media, which is a better deal in my book.

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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 7h

When I’m listening to intense music

Blurry image of the creature from the black lagoon with subtitle “intense music”

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Peter Avellino @peterapeel.bsky.social · 4h

Walked by Walter Neff’s apartment in DOUBLE INDEMNITY this morning.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 8h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 5h

Fox designated as henhouse monitor

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 20h

at Marion Robert Morrison airport

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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

General Jack D. Ripper-like posting detected.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Got the double shot, flu and covid: now with more RFK jr tears

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

John Prine: "I can’t jump into a song too quick. Because there’s always the danger of painting yourself into a corner. There’s no tougher corners to get out of than the ones that you paint. Because you can’t change the rules if you made up the rules."

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Race with the Devil (1975) has a helluva ending, but the film delivers in other ways too. Warren Oates plays a classic loser, who, w/his friends, are going down the road, feeling bad: something's up. They've fallen into what looks like a supremely evil trap; like them, we never get all the details.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Loving is an underrated gem, just for that incredible party scene

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Neil Young put out many archival recordings; first two are essential. Live at the Fillmore East captures the era of Crazy Horse w/Danny Whitten, who harmonized with Young as if they were blood brothers. Live at Massey Hall 1971 is a looser, spacier, acoustic version of songs that'd be on Harvest.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the opening scene, we’re thrown into A Woman Under the Influence: what is the critical importance of “no slip ups”? We’ll soon find out.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Elephant Graveyard does a hilarious parody of this band.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd be more concerned about eating a salad at Texas Roadhouse.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just unlocked new archetype: “Kentucky Bourbon Castle Pervert”

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can someone tell me what we pay campus police for?

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They take their job as king maker really seriously.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wonder how family-friendly venues would respond to someone doing one of those really heavy murder ballads.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why does the guitar line in that Langley song remind me of "Two Tickets to Paradise?"

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tomorrow night, my band opens for a record release show by J.H. Patton & The Good Companions - these guys get down in the dirt/in the ditch. At the Stray Cafe (GR MI).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty much anything you could argue against AI in the work of thinking and writing, Saunders says it here. Worth putting on your endless list of readings to try to convince students not to use it. on.substack.com/p/model-beha...

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls episode, we find out that at one time the film was so hard to find that the video store Quentin Tarantino worked at had one VHS copy, and charged a 200 dollar deposit per rental www.unspooledpodcast.com

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About Paul Scheer | Actor, Writer, Director, Podcaster

Unspooled is the film podcast where Paul Scheer and critic Amy Nicholson explore the greatest movies of all time. Deep dives, smart analysis, and new episodes every Thursday.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Claude has a feature called Friend Mode. It helps you pretend like you're not a goddamn loser who needs AI to interact with the outside world.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some of the most ignorant doofuses in the college classes that I taught were engineers

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like how Seymour Moskowitz, in Minnie and Moskowitz (written/directed by John Cassavetes), starts his night out on the town in NYC. First he watches The Maltese Falcon on the big screen, then goes to a dive bar, and orders a beer and a coffee. A fantastic opening for an overlooked early-70s film.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor pitiful me A medieval history prof won't let me be Lord, have mercy on me Woe is me

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Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The difference in UK and US temperament is in the UK we “couldn’t care less” and the Yanks “could care less”. So the UK starts at complete disinterest, but the US has an innate level of enthusiasm that still has the capacity to move downwards. The Aussies, of course, don’t give a fuck.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They really want us to feel bad for them because they got fucked when they sold their souls

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Curious to hear the song live without all of the overdubbed guitars

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For me, the Velvet Underground, Loaded is interesting only for its being the first of two misfires as Lou Reed is starting to get his solo career together. Then he really kicks it into high gear with Transformer.

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John Bruni @johnpbruni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No: it is not at all unfair. Faculty are responsible for helping to create a good learning environment.

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