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@lauracstruve.com
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Professor of English literature at Wilmington College, lover of Victorian things, mother of two

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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 10/08/2026
They all react like toddlers to basic health efforts—eat more vegetables =>“I’m eating fries made with tallow” get a shot=> “can’t make me!” Use sunscreen =>”no!”
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August as an academic
Tabbycat in tie say he hopes he doesn’t have a lot of meetings… while in the background is a lots of meetings factory
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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 05/07/2026
July 4th — Wilmington, Ohio
Two people and a dog are sitting on a blanket in a park at night, viewing a large, vibrant firework display in the dark sky above. The scene is illuminated by the glow of the fireworks and surrounding park lighting, with a building visible in the background on the left.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I went Outside today and it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. Fuck the Outside. The crowning achievement of civilization was the invention of Inside and every time I go Outside, it insults the sacrifices of my ancestors
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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 13/06/2026
Seems timely to remember "it is plainly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that children should command old men, fools wise men, and that the privileged few should gorge themselves with superfluities, while the starving multitude are in want of the bare necessities of life"--Rousseau
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Lauren @philliesball31.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Thoroughly enjoying the Jaxson Dart hate. My QB would never. Actually, after winning superbowl mvp, my QB1 refused to go to the white house. Sucks to suck!
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to all the women in the academy whose work asks them to parent incompetent colleagues, innumerable students and advisers; to do the service work that is disregarded and undervalued.
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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 02/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... The sound of a thousand English teachers crying out in rage
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Animal Farm Is Not for Kids but They Made It a Kids’ Movie Anyway
There are many more animated children’s films to be made based on dystopian source material.
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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Good Morning, World.
Beaker the Muppet, woth the text "meep meep motherfucker".
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 16/04/2026
Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.
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Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in value
Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 22/03/2026
The future of higher education
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Evergreen
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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kelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 21/02/2026
I hate feeling like I'm handing it to the pope but I do really love his hatred of AI
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 01/02/2026
This a million times forever
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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 30/01/2026
News you can use!!
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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
User @backintimeag: 
The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider
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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 04/12/2025
I'm at the combination
a combination urgent care and taco bell
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear.

As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.”

Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ."

Attached are two images.

Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids”

Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”
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19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 17/11/2025
Kids! They give the worst course evals!
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Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Week thirteen of the semester, every time
youtu.be
Wile E Coyote Falls Off Cliff
YouTube video by Frankie Allen
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/11/2025
I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads 

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Dominos meme
White Sox fan forced to accept Cubs jersey

Assyrian bishops refuse to condemn Nestorius's 431 challenge to the use of the title Theotokos ('Bearer of God'") for Mary.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/10/2025
"One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was" The death toll from this tech is only going to rise
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Restaurant boss saves two people's lives after desperately shouting for them to stop
He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education. 👇 in comments
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2025
“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”
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In Defense Of Mass Censorship
When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I hate it here.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Peterloo Massacre happened #OTD 1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation.
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
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