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Mark Shea

@markcshea.bsky.social

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Western Mass, college writing and applied linguistics

Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another bullseye, but I feel like they could ask me the bubbler question and the Mary merger question and let me skip the other 58. I also demand the option to select both sub and grinder

A dialect heat map showing that I am definitely from the northeast US

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I really like every Felice Brothers song I hear, but they feel like a guilty pleasure for me. The lyrics are great but I can’t quite shake this vibe

Fred Armisen from SNL Blue Jean Committee skit. Dialogue in caption: People say I’m a gifted lyricist. I don’t know about that, but, uh, tell me what you think

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sure sure but am I supposed to root for Harry Kane, the bounder who tormented Elaine?

The bounder from Seinfeld, a Harry Kane doppelgänger

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Tried on my phone—I was on a laptop the first time. Phone is easier

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

screen shot of a webgame result on color discrimation. I find keys to type all the symbols that make up the name of the measure but I got a .0070.

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Here is Pavitra Sundar, in her essay "Listening with an Accent" on @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social's "For Estefani", identifying curiosity as part of a new way of orienting to linguistic difference. www.ucpress.edu/books/thinki...

The politics of disorientation I have charted in this chapter also sustains wonder about the forms of linguistic gathering, the congregation of sonic and linguistic traces in our tongues. It thrives in “listening out,” Kate Lacey’s descriptor for an open and eager orientation to the world.44 Conceived thus, listening registers a fundamental curiosity about the world. Curiosity turns to embodied practice when one consciously and carefully inhabits positions not (necessarily) one’s own. Straining against textual and aural conventions, “For Estefani Lora” reveals the listening ear as that which creates otherness. In place of such othering, it pronounces a different relationship to difference. It teaches us not to listen for accents, but to listen with an accent.

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Here is ‘curious’ framed as part of a counterstory to toxic masculinity

4 panel meme of kid asking about international men’s day and 3 ginormous bodybuilders typing thoughtful responses. Final panel includes “we’re all curious kids and buff guys”

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Post by pixelatedboat ‘I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing’

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Mark Shea @markcshea.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Confusing or misleading 5-calls info? It says the senate rejected house CR, but the link just takes you to Schumers 3/12 statement—it’s not about a vote that happened

Screenshot from 5-calls saying senate rejects house cr, but it is only based on a statement from dem leadership, not an actual vote

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