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Jonathan Fine

@jonathanbfine.bsky.social
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this contravenes everything university administrators have told me about what students need from professors today
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
shouldn’t this be the liberty biberty gallery?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
welcome back republic of letters
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
how am i supposed to know when my office hours are? what kind of a trick question is that?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
spiritually hegelian
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
if i had a nickel for every time someone on twitter called me a snobby dickhead who is gatekeeping reading i would have quite a lot of nickels
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this gave me the ick
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my youngest thinks best out of three means whoever wins the third games wins it all
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a local candidate in next week’s primary election followed me on twitter, and I can’t decide whether that has made me more or less likely to vote for him
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my kid is getting better at foosball and i’m not sure how i feel about that
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
so what’s the marxist price to see zizek?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it me
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
taking this back to the eighteenth century to show everyone who said the sorrows of young werther was a suicide manual www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
washingtonpost.com
Column | Books are good for your brain. But fiction has a surprising added benefit.
Reading fiction may strengthen the social skills we use to understand and connect with others.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
a page that’s all footnote. it’s so beautiful
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
when there’s definitely no inside candidate
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
i have absolutely no idea what shenanigans this is referring to
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
how dare the new york times put our local taco place on their list of best mexican restaurants
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hegelio? Kantius?? wtf is this total gibberish
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
made the mistake of telling my kid that i don’t like the nickname johnny
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
AI doesn’t know what Kant looks like
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
this dude owes me money
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
👀 @jcheller.bsky.social
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i love local news
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
still waiting…
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wife: Jonathan. I’m sorry. Herr Doktor Fine.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
the number of impressions one of my tweets has to get in order for someone in my family to say something is seventeen million. that’s good to know.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Points: 'Yes, That's It!'
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
brought my favorite book* to the beach *it cites me
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
who up politicizing they aesthetics?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
who up aestheticizing they politics?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the world cup needs to continue in perpetuity in order to prevent people from talking about wokeness at universities
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
whodathunk i would actually make progress on my work when there weren’t world cup matches to watch every day?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Printed out an article and got a paper cut. I suffer so much for the life of the mind.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
sometimes people decide that i am personally responsible for everything that is wrong in academia, which is obviously true but still kind of annoying
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Brown’s Sidechat right now
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
nothing sexier than a page that’s almost all footnote
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
don’t think three lock screen notifications is enough
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
complaining about corruption in international football is a sign that you don’t know ball
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i will be keeping track of what all the new soccer die hards say when the world series, super bowl, etc come along
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
rhode island, aka little cabo verde
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Heidegger’s Frage nach der Technik is about VAR.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
PPE propaganda
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
got my kid to realize that for parents driving a kid somewhere far away is not just there and back but there and back and there and back again
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
i read a chapter in a monograph that ended with a block quote. what sort of chaos is that?
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m at the lavender farm. I’m at the camel sanctuary. I’m at the combination lavender farm camel sanctuary.
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
since my book is about german intellectuals, watching germany’s world cup matches counts as research
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
i’ve trained my teenager to send me photographs of any piles of free books outside
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
first time i’ve ever seen polygamous on a medical form
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
my mom doesn’t really know what we’re talking about when my brother and i start talking about the world cup in the family chat, but she does seem very happy to see her boys talking with each other
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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
FYI Tȯr: Germany scores one goal Tör: two goals To⃛r: three goals, and so on
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