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Michael Beck

@michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social
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Mid-level university functionary. Views are my own.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Me: I think we should have less Nazis Bluesky user: Fewer
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is what life is like.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Senator from South Carolina" is not, historically speaking, a good Sort Of Person to be
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The only incorrect claim you make here is “most” instead of “all”
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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
As a straight man it is my inalienable right to wear shorts so long they might as well be pants
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Pick a Bond villain from pictures you have on your phone
Ladies and gentlemen, direct from the bar, Dean Martin!
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is the truest thing you’ve ever written, Dr Farley.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
How dare you attempt to educate me
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Bob and Carol and Ted and Kermit
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Sweet Jesus what are we even doing here
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Opinion | What if the Valedictorians in America’s Schools Were the Cool Kids?
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
What a bunch of nerds
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Opinion | It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Ack! I didn’t even make that connection until now. But I bet that explains a lot of my error
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One of my favorite writers!
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A ton of overlap between jury duty and riding the bus
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I made the mistake of scheduling myself up through Xmas Eve and ended up meeting with a student on 12/24 who during our meeting got the message telling him he’d been academically dismissed. So…I’ll be scheduling myself differently next year.
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Oh how I envy you terribly right now. I’ve spent half the evening crying because I have to go back tomorrow!
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Kubrick’s best film (laudatory)
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I am supposed to be a 'words' guy, yet I find that I lack the words to fully express the sense of rage and betrayal that I feel, having been raised to believe in the beauty of the United States as an - imperfect - pluralistic republic, to see these quislings try to turn it into a boring ethnostate.
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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 25/12/2025
you there boy, what bullshit is this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/12/2025
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
“I don’t need this course” motherfucker you take your laundry home for your mom to do it. Shut the fuck up.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
wish i could be cool and mysterious but unfortunately i can't shut the fuck up
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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I am never more in my element than when talking about something absolutely nobody cares about.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You never heard of this fucking guy six weeks ago. Six weeks! Just get another Guy!! Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Ladies and gentlemen, direct from the bar, Dean Martin!
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/09/2025
“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Supermajority in the VA House maybe but the entire VA Senate won’t be up for election until 2027
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
we are in the Age of Enlightenment but for absolute dimwits
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It's simple: we monetize crying
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I don’t know why the scientists keep making them!
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel.
Melania Trump has a warning for humanity: “the robots are here”
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
making college free as a means to harness educational polarization
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
*Egbert being our favorite resident on Animal Crossing
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Trump take Egbert
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It’s way down the list of Actual Concerns I Have About America, but I do hate the Kremlinology we engage in about our leaders now. I wish that journalism wasn’t so broken.
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I hate being middle aged so much!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Ed, you’re a goddamned National treasure.
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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
ME, TENTING FINGERS ACROSS TBE TABLE: I am going to build a “Cracker Barrel of the mind” MARC ANDREESSEN: Here is $50,000,000,000
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Michael Beck @michaeljeromebeck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
“I gave my life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot!”
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` all those moments will be lost in time '' .
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` all those moments will be lost in time '' .
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
“The poor, they’re always with us, with their lackluster LinkedIns”
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