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maxel tov!

@max3000.bsky.social
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he/him. invert, tf@g, jew

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my son loves China Miéville 🥹 he's just like me, his biological father
my tuxedo cat investigating my copy of big fat brand new China Miéville novel The Rouse
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've taught intro to world religions sooooo many times but never this well! the pedagogical skills I've learned from doing my TESOL certificate are high-key transferable 😅
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We're All Going to the World's Fair I Saw the TV Glow Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
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Sin 🌹 @gothgirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm a gold star transexual. I've never listened to a Weezer album.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's here!!! 🥲🥲🥲🙏🙏🙏🤩🤩🤩
Zoetrope 12" of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" ft. imagery from its iconic music video
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
so glad the august institute where I got my PhD is taking money out of its (negative) budget to pay big-brained Bret here to spout his garbage at whoever is fool enough to show up to his talk
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nina @burnacademia.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
as far as I'm concerned, the only resident evil is a spectre haunting Europe
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
unforch I have been negatively polarized into supporting the covid-cautious lesbian bar after learning that they were covered on jesse singal's podcast Any foe of singal's is a friend of mine
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
guy yelled "FAGGOT" at me from his car and I wasn't even acting that faggoty
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My emotional stability (the aall) supported by two bollards whkxh say a little treat and a second treat
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
something's different about the student body this year but I can't quite put my finger on it
A deer walking on the foot path on a university campus
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
extremely happy and blessed to report that I managed to smash that order button during the brief period in which the special Record Store Day Peter Gabriel 12" was in stock on his own label's website 🥲🥲🥲
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
not my dumb ass seeing this crossword clue and being like "I mean I guess Phil Collins was a lil ginger back in the day but was he particularly outdoorsy?" 😅
Red-haired outdoorsman in Genesis
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the one real advantage of adjunct hell is that I have like 6 or 7 university email logins, a couple of which are from extremely prestigious institutions, so I have pretty extensive online journal article access
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Skinamarink monster ...wait is skinamarink monster a Q???
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT this with your home river The Water of Leith
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
got four jobs again this semester lads 😩 anyone want to give me a single full-time job with benefits?
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
just finished reading this novel about trans people in 30s and 40s Germany I cried sooooo much 😅
The Lilac People by Milo Todd
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
well, that's not good
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Because I made a really awesome syllabus for my Queer Religions class this semester and I'm sooo excited to teach it 🤩
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
every few months I think "hm maybe I shall have a nice time listening to the Operation Mincemeat cast recording, which will NOT make me bawl this time" and I am ALWAYS wrong
meme of the guy reaching happily for the yellow ball, here labeled "Operation Mincemeat cast recording," while in the second panel he is being grabbed by a pink monster, here labeled "Dear Bill"
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Équipe Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
per Hegel’s journals during the period between Phenomenology of Spirit and Science of Logic (likely dated sometime between 1810-1812, although there is not universal scholarly consensus), there are only four robots who are ethically permitted - in a strict ontological capacity - to create art
Crow, Gypsy, Tom Servo (not pictured for obvious reasons: Cambot)
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...
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Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker
Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
citrus polos!!!!!!
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We Talked Every Day

It's been a year. It rained a bit, I think,
Though maybe it just felt as though it should.
I watched the coffin rise, felt my heart sink,
Thought: that's my friend, lying in that wood.

A eulogy's a dreadful thing. Fine words,
God knows, a few of them from my own pen,
Barraged the ground like lifeless baby birds:
He was – he was – he was ... count to ten.

The hole across the world has jagged teeth.
Some days it's in the corner of my eye;
Some days it gnaws my heart through from beneath.
It never isn't there. Ragged sigh.

My mouth floods, the taste burnt.
You were there, until you weren't.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Religion is something people *do*; it's not pure idealism/belief/abstraction
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
he is Literate
my sweet tuxedo cat with a copy of Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade translated by Rose Waldman
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My thoughts on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 💖
Can the filmmaker have an orgasm?

The cinematic auteur is in some ways the sovereign subject par excellence, master of the whole world she puts onscreen: she writes, she directs, she has final cut (if she's lucky). She makes deliberate choices – especially when she knows her franchise lore and her film theory – and commands a whole cast and crew to realize her vision. La petite mort, by contrast, is the paradigmatic undoing of the subject, the moment where you lose control. You can script and choreograph every moment, but you can't transcend unless you let go.

And yet, and yet... We all know that every apparent opposition is in fact a deeply entangled pair. We all know that horror, regardless of the high theory with which we analyze it, derives much of its power from what it reveals beyond/below its creator's conscious intent. Like sexuality, horror swims in a dark lake of polymorphous perversity, and we ultimately cannot control what rises from the depths to grasp us. Perhaps we can recognize and name it as previous generations could not – our horror protagonists can be openly, textually queer – but then what do we do? When you know what makes your heart pound and your spine tingle, when you're so well-read you could (and maybe did) write a thesis on it: what then? How do you learn to surrender some of your hard-won selfhood?The answer is, of course, with the guidance of older queers, who have been there and done that; who know that you can't always only be the queer monster, that you have to also be the queer final girl, that just as slashers send their viewers oscillating between identification with the monster and the victim (thanks, Carol J. Clover!), so too must we all oscillate between seeing from our own perspective and seeing ourselves as others see us. That's life, and that's sex – especially in the digital age, when we have all been forming our selves in a strange feedback loop with the shimmering images on our screens for our whole existence. We're All Going to the World's Fair explored the strange loop of adolescence and the internet; I Saw the TV Glow, that of gender and TV; now, with <Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun turns to sexuality and horror, cementing their place as our foremost metatheorist of queer media.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
18 years ago today my dad purchased the entire stock of a door-to-door fish salesman a very merry fishmas to all! 🐠🐟🐠🐟
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
happened to my cis brothers at puberty, but mine's always been curly
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Last night I saw a fellow homosexual whose shirt said "if books could kill" on the back and I thought oh cool @ifbookspod.bsky.social merch but then he turned around and it was a Goosebumps shirt
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
completely real question i had to answer for the hospital im getting top surgery at
a surgery form. the question being asked is "what are your pronouns?" the only answers are yes or no.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bandcamp Friday report! I bought: L'Rain – fata morgana [pre-order] (experimental pop?) Neptunian Maximalism – Nāgabhūtaṃ (raga metal) Celestial Power – Celestial Power (experimental metal) Fallen Sun – Alchemical Eclipse (noise/industrial) Elucid – Revelator (avant-garde hip-hop)
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
going to a 2am screening of the odyssey lmfao im scared
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My Letterboxd recent activity: Obsession, I Want Your Sex, The French Dispatch, Titanic
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
i finished reading a rly good novel and now I have to lie on my fainting couch about it for a while
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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 04/08/2026
i,m transgrbderizing you. with my Mind
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
no cheating post your lock screen
my lock screen, ft. my sweet back and white cat looking soulful
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I tried to make an XTC album tier chart but I couldn't rank my beloved children so instead I made them a clock face 💖
A clock face with the numbers replaced by the covers of each of XTC's 12 studio albums. Fossil Fuel, the singles collection, is in the center.
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I love XTC soooo much 😭 what an incredible band
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 18/07/2026
Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Today is the 127th anniversary of the onset of the new york paper boys' strike!
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
the Creature busted out this pose right when I had to leave for work this morning 😭
a tuxedo cat looking unbearably cute
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
on this date 30 years ago my family moved from small-town Alabama to Nairobi, Kenya
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Douglas Seltzer
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
if epic the musical had come out when I was in high school I would've been either (1) completely obsessed or (2) driven by the power of sheer scorn to write my own, superior musical based on ancient epic poetry, and I genuinely don't know which one it would've been
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/07/2026
"I just talked to my good friend Mitch McConnell..." -Lindsay Graham in hell
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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
RIP Bonnie Tyler. Thank you for making this song famous so me and my friends could make our cool weird art with it at Barbershop Harmony Society international convention last week youtube.com/watch?v=B8Hg...
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Gotham Chorus - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler cover)
YouTube video by Barbershop Harmony Society
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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