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m. r. sauter

@oddletters.bsky.social
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politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - oddletters.com stickers+noise - duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
yo i saw shane play this at Rhizome over the summer and it was *incredible* and i got this great shot after
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
man next go round im coming back as a food scientist they get all the cool toys. its like the large hadron collider but for mushrooms and little bits of cabbage
its a bunch of industrial food freeze dryers! they're very shiny and neat!
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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 · 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 · 21/08/2026
its the xo comp! from star trek!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
its the sad cat on the couch meme you know the one.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
oh you mean this one
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
its chumbawamba's TUBTHUMPER!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
im gonna need new author headshots soon but if im too broke to get good ones done i think these are options on file
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ON IT
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
oh look it me
its bowen yang saying I DONT WANT TO BE FUNNY I WANT TO BE HOT
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
i also found a letter with the address of the house bill casey was staying in in 1976 and i went and looked it up and found this bonkers article in the Post because apparently it was surprise-demolished in 1985 and the neighbors were _big mad about it_
"It was one of the nicest houses I've wrecked in years," said Gilbert Fisher, whose accomplishments include the demolition of some of the city's oldest buildings.About the only advice Wilson could offer in such situations was this: "If you don't want your house demolished, you don't sell it to someone who's going to demolish it."
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
no but also these listed hubs are interesting
Quick facts
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Elevation: 348′
Code: STN
Hub for: Ryanair, FedEx Express, Titan Airways, Transmeridian Air Cargo
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
sure, i'll play this game. Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?
chapter one: constructing your favorite crisis
word count: 11.1k excluding notes

when it was first assembled in 1976, the Task Force did not encounter a self-evident problem, despite the SBA's urgent framing. Rather, the economic and cultural field of the mid 1970s was awash in broad and messy multivalent tensions and catastrophes, some of which had been building for decades while others were more recently minted. business and financial interests--
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
late breaking archival discovery: do you want to learn about the real estate lobby in the 1970s???? me:
its the grumpy I GUESS guy! that guy is me!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
i have spent actually all day trying to finish this book chapter (40 pages! 109 footnotes! almost done!!) but i do in fact have a comment on today's current events
its robin williams in the birdcage and he's saying FUCK THE US SUPREME COURT I DONT GIVE A DAMN WHAT HE THINKS
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
twinsiiiies
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
im looking at the schedule for an investment advisors education seminar from 1978 (like you do) and i know what this means but also this is very funny
its a schedule item that just says "3:00 - 3:15 Coffee and Coke Break"
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
hey @shaneparish.bsky.social i snapped this pic after your set at Rhizome last night. thanks again for the great show, have safe travels and take care!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
why did NONE OF YOU tell me that the Internet Archive has a full on WINAMP EMULATOR with a VISUALIZER and EVERYTHING
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
i guess i dont have to grade now thanks guys
some hackers are holding all of Instructure hostage at the end of term
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
i know this is besides the point but why do her eyes look like the eyes on an Egyptian sarcophagus
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
me looking at student emails
its that one dr manhattan panel: i am tired of earth. these people. i am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
advertise your account with a Simpsons image
its the Old Springfield Library with a sign that says WE HAVE BOOKS ABOUT TV
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
i accidentally watched two episodes from the television show CLEOPATRA 2525 and i feel like im having a stroke this was packaged in the same programming block as HERCULES and XENA and i have _no memory of it at all_
uh well there's a lot going on but gina torres is there and two other women in the most insane "that armor isnt armor" space chick gunslinger bikini outfits and this show makes me feel like ive stepped on a weak spot in spacetime
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
proof of "i go outside sometimes" life (pic by @erie.bsky.social)
its me! outside! wearing my DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT AI I WILL KILL MYSELF shirt which was a big hit at Eastern Market
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
fun fact, i made these weird art pieces using pictures from NASA (one from the JW telescope, one of the surface of mars, and one of a miscellaneous satellite). all of NASA's images are copyright-free and YOU could also make weird art with them!!
its a digitally altered image of the surface of mars and the text says "pathologize everything we are all sick"its a picture of deep space and the text says "i wonder if everyone else is as fucked up as we are"its a digitally altered picture of a satellite superimposed on top of a galactic space dust cloud and the text says "turn around the party is behind you"
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If you see this, post a concert photo you took.
sleigh bells at the 930 Club
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
ah ok im on the wrong continent to look at my bookshelf but here is a ✨recent selection✨ i took a picture of for a pal the other day
YOKO TAWADA

THE BRIDEGROOM WAS A DOG

SHOJI MORIMOTO

rental person who does nothing a memoir

HELEN DEWITT

THE ENGLISH UNDERSTAND WOOL

Emi Yagi

DIARY OF A VOID

CAREN BEILIN / REVENGE OF THE SCAPEGOAT

TOKYO UENO STATION

YU MIRI

THE EMPLOYEES

OLGA RAVN

Banana Yoshimoto

THE HOLE /// HIROKO OYAMADA

kitchen

HYE-YOUNG PYUN

THE HOLE

CHI

The Membranes
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
bowtie terrorist
its tallulah the calico cat who was so bad today the vet gave her formalwear about it
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
heading into the weekend like
its gregor from THE METAMORPHOSIS and he's a bug and he's saying YES FUCK YES HAHAHAHAHAHA FINALLY
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
missed opportunity for Return To Oz
return to oz! mombi's hall of heads! this movie is for children!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
hey girl hey (all my vintages are at home)
it's a pilot vanishing point in grey and chrome
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
anyway here's my watch, its a raketa big zero, i have three of them with different case designs and this is the only one that doesnt currently need service
it's a raketa big zero, which is a vintage soviet watch notable for having a giant zero where the twelve usually is.
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
dr bus im very serious look at my serious face
my serious face bc i am a serious possum sitting on a serious fence post seriously
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
my winter boots are trying to murder me so i am wearing the backup shoes i keep in my office, which are these special edition converses made of tyvek
my sneakers are made of tyvek!!!
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
CATTE
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
me looking at the headlines every day
its a still frame of deep throat from ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN saying "the truth is these are not very bright guys and things got out of hand"
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
extremely tempted to empty this out and use this as an actual trapper keeper this term bc holy shit
its mcsweeney's issue 80 and its a fuCKING LISA FRANK ASS TRAPPER KEEPER
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
it's not subtle!
its bruce springsteen wearing a saucy little bandana and suede booties on the cover for the single of COVER ME. he looks gay af in a better-behaved Shane from the L Word way
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
roberto check
its a soup called roberto! pre parm and kalamata olives
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
i am requesting a rating on my front walk from bluesky dads and dad-coded individuals
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
every time i manage to get something out from a tight corner in which it has been wedged this scene plays in my head
rod, you've got small girlish hands. reach in and fish it out (its about minigolf)
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
i forgot that they have tasha yar's funeral on the windows xp hill
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
gonna displace all my Big Feelings about being forty onto tallulah being the cat equivalent of forty
tallulah the big fluffy calico cat is juST A LITTLE BABY
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
die a twink or live long enough to become your own dirtbag metal boyfriend
its mols wearing a mortician shirt he fished out of a pile on the floor
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
you needed someone to miss you and i do
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
tallulah is perfect she doesnt know anything about venezuela, she just cares about the finches that nested under the airconditioner
tallulah the fluffy calico cat is standing on the arm of bess the antique sofa staring at the finches that live under the airconditioner
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I KNOW WRITERS WHO USE SUBTEXT AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
as an "Up the Wolves" over "This Year" partisan, im in favor of this
my 2026 word is WOLFISH
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