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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 5h

if you will be in Toronto for 4S next week, i will also be in Toronto for 4S next week! hit me up so we can hang out! this also applies to people who are in toronto for other reasons, such as "living there"

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 20h

UMD really hits above its weight for constantly showing up in the weirdest fucking places

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

one of the sophomores in my honors seminar has a younger sibling who is really into noise and i got her to ask them what artists they liked. they said "im not into noise anymore, now im into ✨screamviolence✨"

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the entire agent querying process makes me want to just print up a hundred copies of my Sad Gay Novel and sell them out of the trunk of the car i dont have for five bucks a pop

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its time for QUICHE and reading DEBORD

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok i have finished typing for the day and i feel _quite_ stupid now but i did figure out that that same typewriter in 1976 typed two different documents at the same government agency which i promise is a thing that actually matters

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what if i construct my next book project around the theme of "books i already own"

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i got the updated pfizer covid shot yesterday and it is a ✨doozy✨, please make plans to be flat accordingly

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

things i know a lot about now that i had absolutely no intention of knowing anything about when i started this book: -pensions -mid century typesetting typewriters -federal depository libraries -wait times at the Government Printing Office in 1975

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when do we all just acknowledge that jensen huang's leather jacket thing is obviously a fetish

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

im so mad none of you told me about PING PONG THE ANIMATION before now

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

... ... ... OH, you dont mean in *that* way.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i love you all and all your faces but it is so NICE to just have a day where i can STAY HOME and PUT WORDS IN ORDER and NOT HAVE TO LOOK AT ANYONE'S FACE FOR A WHOLE DAY.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the degree to which tallulah the giant calico cat doesn't want me typing about the state of the federal depository library system in the mid-1970s right now is *so much*

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i didnt want to know about these people's sex lives fifteen fucking years ago when i was in the bay area and i still dont! you cant make me! i dont consent to this!!

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i have quite enough of my own unhinged diagrams i do not need a new one thank you all for respecting my boundaries

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

guys is it time to rewatch the classic 2012 joseph gordon levitt does cardio bike messenger street battle vehicle PREMIUM RUSH i think it might beeee

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you dont have to be nice to *or* vote for people who want you and or your friends and or your children to be dead.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"wait, we're a dude now? we can lift HOW MUCH??"

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

say sike. SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW SAY IT

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

hey academic pals, tenure packet request: if you've assigned any of my work in your classes, can you let me know and maybe boop me a syllabus if you have it handy?

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

my one overwhelming impulse i have not caved to yet is: getting banned from the r/whatisthisrock subreddit by replying LICK IT to every post

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i play music for the undergrads during thursday studio time, what if i played Disintegration Loops today

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

writing : counts on fingers : several weird novels and teaching myself jazz guitar

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i spent a summer after i dropped out of high school working for my bestie's parents' museum exhibit installation company. mostly i heatsealed bird shot into plastic bags and then sewed those into slightly bigged fabric bags

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

hi! im mols, im a writer and professor outside of washington dc. i like the moment the feedback hits fully two thirds of the way through Lucy Dacus's "Night Shift" would you like to introduce yourself with a small song moment you like?

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

apparently this is by an economist who works at an "institute of higher learning that does not accept students or award degrees" so i dont give a single flying fuck what he thinks about teaching

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

someone posted about a doom/sludge record they were listening to last night and i was too high to click on it. just searching for "sludge" now puts me in an *odd* part of bluesky, so if it was you can you just tell me what the record was

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the is cool but the way the avis all naruto-run at you like the kids in WEAPONS is rather unsettling

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

extremely psyched to find out that when a journal editor told me my article was coming out in "Winter 2027" he actually meant the 2026 part of 2027

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

guys the freshmen's handwriting is *so tiny*

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

my undergrad TAs were like WHY DO THE FRESHMEN JUST STARE LIKE THAT so it turns out everyone hates the gen z state even gen z

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

first day of class let's goooooooo

its a music player interface showing Andrew W.K.'s GET WET album and playing "Party Hard"

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

someone should invent a college freshman who knows how to use sidewalks

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A man moves to Europe for a job but the offer is withdrawn at the last minute.

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

GUYS!GUYS!GUYS!GUYS!GUYS!!! I GOT A NIELSEN SURVEY IN THE MAIL!! AND IT HAD TWO DOLLARS IN IT!!!!

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

learning to read music is so much fun

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i dont care what the professor of bitcoin thinks about the english department, actually

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a bunch of Catholic University kids just got on the metro and i need Chicago Pope to publish an encyclical about why you shouldnt tuck your polo shirt into your jeans

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

im just never logging on again, this sucks

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i found a cape gooseberry in the cuff of my "not leaving the house today" pants

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

i made a paper coursepack for my undergraduate seminar and every grown-up ive shown it to has been fucking psyched

FALL 2026
HDCC208Z
MISAPPROPRIATION STUDIO:
OFFICR FORMS/DEFAULTS/CONSTRAINTS/AFFORDANCES/BEING UNREASONABLE

PROF M.R. SAUTER

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

do NOT ask me how many CAPE GOOSEBERRIES are UNDER THE FRIDGE i DONT KNOW

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i love history. i love doing history with documents. paper fucking rules.

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