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I genuinely feel like my family doesn't appreciate the hilarious videos and memes I send in the family instagram group chat. I send bangers basically all day and no one recognizes my labor!

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Homer Simpson: It's Not Fair, I Tells Ya!

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This whole weekend and this morning I’ve been groaning about a faculty meeting on Wednesday. Turns out we don’t have one!

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Homer Simpson's Whoo-Hoo Phone Call

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re bored this Saturday morning, read the final paragraph of Chapter 44 of MOBY DICK. It’s incredible

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The AC is still blasting in the humanities building so I pulled out my office Snuggie during office hours and comfortably read a few chapters of Moby Dick

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The start of fall has been really popping off 📸 #photography

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For weeks now, I’ve been seeing this guy at the gym who looks SO familiar to me. Every time I see him, I think “he looks like someone I know and it’s on the tip of my tongue…” Dear reader, I realized today that this guy looks exactly like Edgar Allen Poe.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Students are loving MOBY DICK and we’re having such stimulating convos! I leave class so inspired. Today’s discussion of “Cetology” and chapters 36-40 was so enriching. Lots of great points about form and genre and Marx and morality and queerness! I’ve successfully made students into whale lovers!

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Unusual Whales: Raining Money

ALT: Unusual Whales: Raining Money

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It should just be reality tv shows tbh! Some of y’all are just too afraid to realize you might really enjoy the Real Housewives and Vanderpump Rules!!!!! Jen Shah’s arrest episode of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is the greatest moment in 21st century television!

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Jen Shah Real Housewives

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please please please read this truly wild ride of an article. Here it is without a paywall. archive.is/39AeV

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m sorry but some of the writing in THE PITT is legit laughably bad

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my students said today in class, “You know, Dr Shelat, I fucking hated poetry before this class but you’ve taught me so much that I’m starting to love it.”🥹🥹🥹

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I need people who complain about the Cetology chapter of MOBY DICK to get it together. It’s not that bad! Interesting facts! Compares whales to book sizes!

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and i are giving a talk with @bacls.bsky.social this Friday, September 18 at 9am EST / 2pm BST. I’d love for you to come! You can register for free here: luma.com/pujm2k86

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Born from the fields of prairie 📸 #phtography

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Been enjoying my compositions and colors lately #photography

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Audible DRACULA commercial in the middle of the Emmys was kinda weird

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

God, putting on pajamas after a long day of teaching is one of the best feelings ever

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Makes sense since he’s using Bush’s Iraq playbook. From the second they fell, the Towers were used as a scapegoat for amplified imperial warfare. America was an empire before 9/11; the attacks just gave the nation an excuse to do whatever it wanted—both abroad and domestically.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not only am I in a service committee meeting on campus at 3pm ON A FRIDAY, but also the meeting room smells like garlic

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEXT WEEK’S FACULTY MEETING GOT CANCELLED LET’S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOO

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tomorrow is 9/11, a day of remembrance and the most racist day on the internet.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We aren’t even a full three weeks into the semester and admin is already asking for what we’re teaching in the spring 😩

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The problem here isn’t just that this probably never happened, but it’s also that he’s so fucking selfish that 9/11 itself becomes about him.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The domestic frontier of the war on terror has been constructed to make this kind of Islamophobic bigotry ubiquitous. The architects & practitioners of the war are the real domestic terrorists. See Something, Say Something is just as alive and well as it was after 9/11.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

every time I read another racist saying Mamdani shouldn’t attend the 9/11 ceremony, I think about this story his mom, Mira Nair, told me about the racism he and his grandfather experienced in the weeks after the attacks.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I could teach a whole class on ANDOR; it would be the perfect target text for a literary theory class. The Mon Mothma dance scene is perfect!

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Mon Mothma's Energetic Dance in Andor

ALT: Mon Mothma's Energetic Dance in Andor

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The STEM prof at my college who uses AI to write letters of recommendation, rubrics, syllabi, lesson plans, and assignment sheets is absolutely crashing out right now bc he’s being forced to remember what he was hired for

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

All grad students who presented a talk at ASAP/16 are eligible. Submissions due September 15, 2026. The author must be a member of ASAP & the winner will be announced at ASAP/17 in Madison, WI, October 15-17, 2026 and receive a cash prize. Please send submissions to Maia Gil’Adi’ at mgiladi1@jh.edu.

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nothing pisses me off more than when STEM faculty don’t realize what happens or don’t care to know what happens in Humanities classes/departments

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

MEETING ENDED IN ELEVEN MINUTES

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In the last minute when giving the lecture in my war on terror senior capstone, I stepped backwards from the lectern and tripped over a chair

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This was always the point. Fucking cruel.

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The blood moon rises once again… 📸 #photography

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Writing about ANDOR for a wonderful collection from Manchester UP edited by Sam Thomas and @keeblearin.bsky.social. Im rewatching the whole series and am quickly realizing that it’s one of the best shows of the 21st century. It’s so so so good

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Welcome to the Rebellion with Cassian Andor

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Vilette Bleak House Light in August And so many more! I love that there’s always something more to read

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My colleague wasn't willing to wait until a new kiln fit in the budget, so he built one from scratch with reclaimed materials. This is professoring.

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Brendon @beholdbybrendon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You should sign up for my newsletter 🙂‍↕️ beholdbybrendon.substack.com/p/bare-it-all

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Bare It All

male nudity in art, the erotics of portraiture

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Done with Canvas! Ready for the Fall semester! I’m teaching Methods in Literary Studies, Comics, a single text course on MOBY DICK, and a senior seminar on the global war on terror. I’ve been on sabbatical since the end of November so I’m ready to be back in the classroom!

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