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Kyle Stedman

@kstedman.bsky.social
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English professor at Rockford University // sound & music // creative nonfiction // IP & remix & fair use // family & local history // weirdly deep dives into learning // coauthor of Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects (Broadview).

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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh be quiet, I'm not tearing up because it's the end of a long week and I'm exhausted, it's because the orchestral suite of Princess Leia's Theme is actually *that* beautiful.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/09/2026
I have misus’d the King’s press damnably.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ME: I'm enjoying responding to these student drafts! As long as I can keep focusing, these next few hours will be great! ALSO ME: I should record a YouTube video of each song from R.E.M.'s Monster, using just a single instrument for each song, different each time. Which instrument for which song?
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: -the scary dinosaur special recorded on the tape right after a Garfield special so I had to rush up and turn it off quickly -a monster I imagined walked slowly by my window at 10:48 each evening to see if I was asleep -bees
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you've ever read or listened to any of Bad Ideas about Writing, check this out! An easier easier way to access each chapter, for you and for your students and for the uncle at the Thanksgiving table who still doesn't get it.
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why can't evangelicals be normal about women?
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's a 3-day weekend which means I hope to think about nothing except Star Trek, Party of Five, Gene Wolfe novels, and trimming trees for many many hours.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I don't remember who said, long ago, that college students today look like they're on the cover of an 80s French textbook, but I think about that A LOT. (WHICH I MEAN AS A COMPLIMENT, STUDENTS ARE SO COOL.)
Cover of a book called Nouveaux Coplains. 4 young people on the front wearing a blend of clothes: maroon sweater and black skirt and black tights with cream sweatshirt hanging over the shoulders; tie-dyed sweatshirt with headphones and black pants, etc.
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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The most vulnerable essay I’ve ever written. What if you get a @nytimes.com (!!!) review for yr debut novel, but Janet Maslin uses Rate My Professor to deduce you’re an ugly loser? If you’re me, you let it haunt & haunt you. 🙏 to @exactingclam.bsky.social. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-22...
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Unusually Credible and Precise | Exacting Clam
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That moment where it's getting darker and darker outside as rain approaches and you're SO PROUD of yourself for choosing to listen to your X-Files soundtrack CDs, just 100% the right choice.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have no idea how it actually went down, but I love Jerry Goldsmith's insistence on using his own Star Trek themes in later movies. JERRY [scoring STV]: Yes, I know 2, 3, & 4 didn't use that music. Yes, I'm still bringing it back. [scoring First Contact]: [exact same conversation]
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New CCCC email (co-signed by @donniejsackey.bsky.social) says that the conference is on, with a promise that they're not making money on this. To me, Donnie's signature is enough for me to decide to go. I'm looking forward to the ideas & community, but also the collective grief and frustration.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you had told me in high school, "There's evidence that throughout the 1920s, people felt that 1900 and even the 1890s were not really that long ago," I would have scoffed. BUT Y'ALL I'M WORKING ON THE SPRING __-<**2027**>-__ COURSE SCHEDULE AND 1999 WAS JUST THE OTHER DAY
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
[apparates into your timeline] please note: there are zero (0.0) writing studies researchers involved in this [disappears in a puff of smoke]
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Another?? We can't take this.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Soundarboretum
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Look, I know the ragtime soundtrack to The Sting is the most-likely album to appear in a thrift store vinyl rack, but that doesn't make it a bad album. Best track: youtu.be/pLT_EXnVHjg?...
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Little Girl (The Sting/Soundtrack Version)
YouTube video by Marvin Hamlisch - Topic
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
try 9pm
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Is there a reason why so many CD liner notes write entire paragraphs in all caps? And is that a real trend or just something I feel like is a trend? And is it a sign of designers just being rushed and not caring about readability, or is there a real, purposeful design choice here?
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dang, when your music CD had computer extras on it, you KNEW it was going to be good.
Back cover of CD showing a Star Trek Borg ship with the Enterprise E zooming over it. Text describes an enhanced CD and its system requirements.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've been thinking lately that I'd like to know Mahler's symphonies better, so I'm going to start a massive, never-ending thread of what I discover. Feel free to mute it. I'm not a musicologist or anything, and I doubt I have the time to go THAT deep. Still, it sounds fun, so let's do it.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So maybe you've seen the new open-access book in my field called Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, edited by Christopher Basgier, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, Mandy Olejnik, Miranda Rodak, and @shyamsharma.bsky.social. I'm podcasting it.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Editing a podcast episode where I'm reading someone else's work, and I just discovered I said "exasperated" instead of "exacerbated," and yes I'm going to fix it but sheesh I really don't want to.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
After 6 seasons of Lost and 5 (so far) of Party of Five, there's probably no actor I've yelled at for making the wrong fictional decisions on screen more than Matthew Fox.
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Matthew Fox as Jack Sheppard Cries in Lost
ALT: Matthew Fox as Jack Sheppard Cries in Lost
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I really really really really need Google Drive to stop telling me that I can get deeper insights into my files.
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ruby says we’re not trying to win, we’re trying to make sure all the hippos get fed
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
air guitar electronica freewriting home video memory-hole is it supposed to be this easy
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
[googling] geordi's visor but prescription
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Still from Rogue One. An imperial commander asks Mads Mikkelson

"Bluesky? Really? A man of your talents?"


He responds: "its a simple life."
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I just can't.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I hate moments of uncertainty before change. (Yes, this is a #cccc post.) I want to start mourning: sharing photos and stories from my 16 years of in-person conferences. But the actual info we have right now is so sparse that another part of me wants to wait and make sure I fully understand 1st. Ugh
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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."
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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23
Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
YESTERDAY I submitted an essay in response to my Documentarian role at #4c26 . . . and today, with the devastating news of #cccc being dissolved as an organization, I'm glad I submitted it before I had heard the news. Don't think I could have held all those emotions in my head at once while revising
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Devastating news this morning for our field. This piece I wrote sums up what CCCC meant to me: wacclearinghouse.org/repository/e...
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We Are All Gray Now - WAC
By Jennifer Grouling Tags: Time Passing, Friendship, Food, Community, Mentorship, Caucus, Place We are all gray now, I realize. Some of the men I went to grad school with have shortcuts that hide it. ...
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Patti Poblete @voleuseck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So, uh, academic folks who have been a part of CCCC for a while, folks on Facebook have shared the news that NCTE has decided to dissolve our org. Like, wtf.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
A picture of a box styled like a little free library but with blockbuster movies
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Please don't ask me why I'm ripping all my CDs to FLAC while working from home this summer, just believe me that it feels so so important.
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Handwriting would be easier if my brain didn't accidentally jam words together when a word starts with the same letter that ended the previous word. Like, I was trying to write, "Do most recipes share...." and ended up writing "recipesh" before I could stop it. This must be normal/researched?
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
guy who four months ago wanted to annihilate an entire civilization: it wouldn’t be fair if they couldn’t have bombs
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Warrior Cook Zerbraxi @zerbraxi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Reminder that rainwave.cc is the best online video game radio ever. The OCRemix section specifically never stops being awesome.
rainwave.cc
Rainwave
Listen, rate, and request your favourite video game music!
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026
Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly! 1/🧵
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#TeamRhetoric, I am putting together a Cs roundtable about the experiences of "Pandemic PhDs" in our field. Here's my CFP -- I am officially inviting paper proposals! If you would, please circulate it to scholars who might be interested in participating. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CCCC 2027 Panel CFP
CFP: “Pandemic PhDs and the Possible Futures of Rhetoric & Writing” Please consider submitting a proposal to a Cs roundtable about experiences of “pandemic PhDs” in rhetoric & writing studies. I hope...
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Kyle Stedman @kstedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
ME (should be grading): What if I made a playlist of major pieces of classical music written in 1926, 100 years ago? [reads Wikipedia] But could I add music from 1826? [more Wikipedia] Is there...is there a "Music in 1726" page too? [yes, mwah ha, gobble] "Music in 1626"? omg yes [burp]
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Good goddamn I love space. Taken by the Artemis II crew.
The earth, lit up brightly and in high definition, with aurorae near both poles.
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