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Kent Miller

@kentmiller.bsky.social
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“Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. And I’ll tell you right out that I’m a man who likes talking to a man that likes to talk.” Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
had my thesaurus stolen today. made me not only sad, but very sad.
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I used to report on video games and this sounds exactly like the weapons cache in a Clancy/Bond knockoff, secret code for whichreleased months after release in belated attempt to juice sales into triple digits
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
With Conrad Veidt, Jackie Gleason, Jane Darwell. Definitely one of the freakier entries in the Bogart canon
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Scenes from a recent trip to London; first up, some footage of Frida Kahlo—and Diego Rivera as well—from major Frida exhibition now up at Tate Modern. I've seen numerous self-portraits and photographs of her, but seeing her in moving images feels like a completely different view of her
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thread on the political backdrop of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd’nhead Wilson:
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Re “The Apartment:”Count me unimpressed. Wilder a master of that Shavian bugaboo, the ‘well-made play.’ Hawks — now there’s a master of comedy with edge
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A bad idea like trust funds, Bad Company reunions and smoking areas in back of planes, everyone except direct beneficiaries (Wyoming, W Bush) knows it’s terrible
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Repost @mickydolenz: This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for. ~ Paul Krugman
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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BLM National NEPA Register
The Bureau of Land Management National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Register allows you to review and comment on plans and project documents. Search by office, NEPA number, Project name, year, and ...
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Boy of ‘60s. None of the adults in my life were anything like MadMen adults. None. Hence, find the show unwatchable and only marginally plausible. Wild popularity of its curdled sociology says volumes about our jaundiced times.
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/bloodint... thoughtful
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What VAR tells us about AI
FIFA's semi-automated refereeing system promises neutrality but brims with bias. It's widely despised yet embraced by elites. It is, in other words, a lot like AI.
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Kyoto nocturne
BW photo behind couple walking in Kyoto on Saturday night
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Brilliant microhistorian www.scribd.com/document/230...
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Client Challenge
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Weird fact: the VA law was fine with all marriages except white people could only marry each other. Sole exception allowed them to marry direct descendants of Pocahontas
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is just heartbreaking. Demand better.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Alexander Calder, Chat-mobile (Cat Mobile), 1966 (not to be confused with the Batmobile, which is a totally different thing..!) #caturday
Mobile sculpture shaped like a cat
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Cole Porter not the only witty Hoosier
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Marker’s La Jetée
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood. And video games. And The Atlantic.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There clearly needs to be a ballroom in every school in America.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Here she is at the March on Washington wearing her Resistance medals, incredible flex
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Good & timely book
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A lost book by the Brazilian novelist
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Following independent journalists on here really highlights just how often major news orgs shamelessly lift the work of others. Wondering how they're managing to produce content with all those newsroom layoffs? Wonder no longer!
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/03/2026
If you do something fucked up and a plane is involved, Gillian will find out and tell everyone. Gillian is an aviation journalism boss with sterling ethics. You should definitely leak to her!
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
i do not hesitate. They are bad parents, at best.
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you're in striking distance, come see me speaking at Berkeley in California in the coming weeks! Info here on the #HoPWaG blog (I will add more links as I get them): www.historyofphilosophy.net/going-to-cal... #berkeley #philsky #philosophy
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Going to California | History of Philosophy without any gaps
Like Led Zeppelin once upon a time I am "going to California" where I'll be giving several talks in late March and early April. Mostly at Berkeley:March 17, 5 pm: The Anatomy of Avicenna’s Philosophy:...
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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
While kiddo enjoys the animatronic allosaurus, I admire my favorite feature of the @nhmwien.bsky.social: the statues and landscape paintings that match the theme of the exhibitions. This place was designed and built from the ground up to be a natural history museum. A true rarity.
Allosaurus in foreground, statues holding dinos in the backgroundTrex in the foreground, statue holding bones in the backgroundStatues holding a pterosaur and a plesiosaur (maybe)Mammoth landscape painting
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.
Old photograph of a wave in the ocean.
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Biblical
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Director Oscar Micheaux, 1920
still from Within Our Gates
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
‘It was the new civilian-military act which saved him. He was like a man who had been for a long time in a swamp, in the dark.’ — Faulkner, “Light in August”
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
They don’t make existential underworld thrillers like they used to. Boorman’s color design is fantastic. Big Q here: Was it all a dream, or no?
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Buono arch villain has GOAT origin story: Yale Egyptologist bonked on head at student demo; when he awakes, believes Gotham is ancient Memphis and he’s who else but King Tut
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

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Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Boos greatly underrated comic supporting character in Mario universe, eg Yoshi’s Island, Paper Marios
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Memo to self:Never use this as a pick-up line
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Fugitive largely filmed in NC. What what no His Girl Friday? transposed to NYC but original play pure Chicago newsroom
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Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I had a great time speaking with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about “The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction.” @academic.oup.com newbooksnetwork.com/the-iraq-wars
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Powell/Veidt Blackout AKA Contraband also very good, with evocative London blackout when London really was being blacked out every night
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China. Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving: #everynightapoem
Stories are there, but they float, and only when one begins to listen, ask, and pay attention do they land. In an era governed by the tyranny of speed, stories are always afloat because few actually care about others’ stories, and the excuse is that they don’t have time. We are governed by speed because we allow speed to govern us. The cab driver’s father-in-law’s frostbites, just like nursing assistants’ body aches, are inconsequential for us and this world but are significant for them. They embody not only the pain of their bodies but the pain of this era. Their bodies become where pain clings to so that fewer others will need to experience pain. I’d like to invite my readers to slow down, even just a little bit, and to care for others’ stories, especially the bodily ones.
Ethnography has an unforgiving quality to it because when you see people in the field, you can’t unsee them; when you hear someone’s stories, you can’t unhear them. Ethnography can never be tidy because it’s so close to an ever-messy, changing, and vibrant being that is life. To try to smooth out the ethnography is equivalent to leaving out the “unpretty” people and corners. I slowed down when faced with such “unprettiness” – I dwelled on it. This is my ethnographic responsibility – to not speed up when coming across the unprettiness but to stare right at it long and hard.   

from Yueqi Alex Cheng, "Reinventing Care: Nursing Assistants’ Embodied Resistance Working in Public Hospitals in Changsha, Hunan" for Graduate Liberal Studies at Duke University, December 2025.Two committee members, Anne Whisnant and Eileen Chow, and a third, Ralph Litzinger, off camera, plus the new MA herself, Yueqi Cheng
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Kent Miller @kentmiller.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Left out Funny Face with Fred Astaire as Obi-Wan and Kay Thompson as Han, but still a good list
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