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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 12h

Arrived safely in Hamburg to start my sabbatical the border agent did NOT like that when he asked how many months I plan on staying, I replied "I would like to have sechs"

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kacey fucking Musgraves in KC. She puts on a hell of a show

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

got arrested at the minor league baseball game for dabbing during the 6-7 Cam 😫

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🤔 why he didn't title this bad boy We Goethe Get Out of This Place 🤔

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The national WWI museum & memorial in KC just concluded its The Beautiful Game (at war) exhibition. Moving, and haunting, just like the permanent exhibits. It even downplayed the "Christmas truce" game to tell a fuller story of those who played, communed, and suffered during the war.

The Loos football, kicked by Irish troops across no man's land

Propaganda poster "play the greater game on the field of honour"

Wolverhampton shirt from the early 1900s

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today, I begin at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute as an academic candidate in training. I'm excited to be a student all over again, and to travel the royal road to the unconscious

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

instead of producing The Muppet Show, these morons are asking The Muppets: How? 🤔 #muchtoconsider

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

forgive me father, for i have contended that one concept "saliently abuts" another in this essay

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

yup. when they call for the "elimination of transgender*ism* from public life," it's a distinction without a difference. the endgame is to make it legally and culturally impossible to avoid discrimination. someone ask sophie cunningham at what age a ban on trans athletes should take effect

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'd love to buy this guy a beer 🫡

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

college soccer announcers treat viewers like they're watching their first match ever, while college volleyball announcers treat viewers like they're former professional volleyball players

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friends don't appreciate my art

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Let's repack that" (me when a graduate student says something off-putting)

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Talked a lot about the problem of knowledge, knowing, and to be known with my analyst, and only après-coup did I recognize what I was wearing

Bologna FC shirt with "Saputo" on the chest

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

tour guide at the Vatican got so mad at me for asking if we could visit the other fifteen chapels

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026

Welcome to Bluesky.

Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Missouri's Center for Behavioral Medicine is using Spinoza as a "mindfulness guy", gotta love it

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"the Spirit is a bohne" (if Hegel were thinking about thos Beans)

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

in solidarity with Leo Messi, i too have decided to announce my retirement from international football

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(When David Byrne realizes what's happening in his experimental condition) This must be the placebo

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

you guys hear about the teenager who polishes the floors of Dracula's castle? she's buffing the vampire's lair

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Really enjoying Engley's "Seriality," but I told him he missed a great opportunity to call his chapter on television "Tubi, Continued"

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Canada rightly clocked the US' poison pill on trade as jeopardizing its right to self-determination. Readers of Project 2025 knew this was always in the works: Peter Navarro endorsed Sean Duffy's "United States Reciprocal Trade Act" bill as a tool for executive control over the economy.

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Seriality is the shape of material and psychic life." Bold opening sentence from Ryan Engley, excited to dive into this bad boy!

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tivoli under the stars, featuring one of the greatest noirs

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've been out of the loop all summer. Why has there been so much chatter about Christopher Nolan’s philosophical attempt to resolve the problem of evil?

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the "respectful hands behind your back" move at art museums is too mainstream. so i hit 'em with the next level: address a work from various distances--one close, one further away--pause, chuckle knowingly, and walk away. foolproof

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In later writings, Freud acknowledged that some really strict patients can only offer store credit of the repressed

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Got kicked out of so many churches in Rome for too loudly pronouncing "baroque" like "barbecue" 😫

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother"

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Because we destroy illusions we are accused of endangering ideals"--Freud, 1910 badass

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Why did my hotel slippers just give away the ending of the Titanomachy 😫😫😫

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i love this metaphor in one of Freud's 1909 Clark University lectures: "People are in general not candid over sexual matters. They do not show their sexuality freely, but to conceal it they wear a heavy overcoat woven of a tissue of lies, as though the weather were bad in the world of sexuality...

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One year ago today, I went in for surgery to donate my liver to a stranger. At the time, I knew there were multiple recipients who would be helped by my donation, but only afterward did I discover I started a 7-pair living donation chain, the first of its kind in the US.

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Me when I walk into a contemporary art exhibit and read the artist was inspired by After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux

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Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons

Alt: Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Visiting Napoli, the city that has my heart, and celebrating with the club that shares a birthday with me. Tonight, the ultras party, tomorrow the club's official festa. Forza! 🩵

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Freud, in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life: "As a result of the anatomical integrity of my neuromuscular apparatus...I cannot therefore recall any object in my house that I have ever broken" Also Freud: spends the next 4 pages writing about things he's broken

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026