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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 14h

Even the church that invented the Inquisition is like, "Whoa, this might be a little much for this day and age."

Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 16h

For a tradition that mostly rejects the beliefs and rituals of medieval Christianity, the SBC can sure be medieval at times.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No disrespect to the singers, who were good, but they should've just played Mariah Carey's tracks. #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Missouri, can you ... show me?

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I know anything about the publishing industry, it’s that they’re not hostile to *anything* that makes money. If the “books for men” you prefer aren’t getting published, it’s because they don’t sell. (Of course, books for men are published all the time, so this whole argument is BS anyway.)

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw it, yeah. I'd heard it was playing during football games, but it's the first time I'd seen it. Pure corruption. Senate races in the two states are also running ads during the game -- mainly from Dan Osborn (Nebraska) and Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan), or attack ads against them.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whoever said this might be overestimating the emotional investment of the average copy editor. I’m here to keep you from making a fool of yourself, my man — if you don’t want to listen, it’s not my name on the cover.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Better Call Saul but not Breaking Bad … respect.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not sure they ever even recite a whole poem 😂 Though I will admit, having everyone read one line of Whitman before kicking a soccer ball is a cool idea for gym class.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I saw it as a kid and loved it. Saw it years later as an English professor and thought, wait a minute, he’s not actually teaching them anything about poetry! That part of the textbook about meter and form is kind of important!

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or Tom Wolfe. Good Lord, his politics were regressive, but he was definitely readable.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The dumbass who thinks literary culture is dying because the wrong kind of people are winning the awards? I’ve been reading some version of that racist dumbassery for thirty years now — you can skip it.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I will only vote for people who promise to do it again.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did … a data center write this?

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The contestants are afraid of the category — commercial break and no one has chosen it yet.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I agree with you, but I canceled my subscription all the same.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The technical term is a tight line. It’s a proofreader’s job to catch it (or a typesetter’s job not to put it there in the first place).

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think Giada wants to come back 😄 #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"From The Rookie, Jenna Dewan." Yeah, as if that's what we all know her from, not the dance movie where she played a professional dancer. #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They keep trying to downplay that Jenna Dewan is already a professional dancer (okay, not in ballroom, sure), and then Val weeps when he meets her and calls her an "icon in this space," and gives away the game. 😂 #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now it's clear why they separated the men and women ... if they'd gone together, two men would've been eliminated. The women are significantly better. #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love you, Guillermo, but I’m voting for Ezra. #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“If these cities are so safe, why am I still scared of black teenagers?”

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also relocated the Caribbean Sea for some reason.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Jewish woman, Catherine Bock, was also arrested as part of this group. She appears not to be clergy. The Christian denominations of these leaders are Episcopal (2), Congregational (2), Unitarian, and Methodist. The Episcopal clergy had the blessing of their bishop to participate in the protest.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yeah, why can’t Bruce go back to writing patriotic songs like “Born in the USA”? 😂

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

action scenes from the jump, before they got into the political debates. That said, I think the Cloud City scenes in Empire (“I am altering the deal,” etc.) make up one of the all-time great anti-fascist set pieces in American pop culture.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I rewatched the prequels recently with my kids (for the first time since they were in theaters) and was struck by how explicitly they spell out and nuance the anti-fascist themes of the original trilogy. The problem, esp. with Phantom Menace, is that it’s just too boring. They needed a few solid

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The rules analyst was grasping for an explanation and suggested this, but he clarified later that the refs' clock and the clock on screen were synced.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Correction: ALMOST beat them. I guess the refs decided to rob WMU instead. Oh well, they still have the coolest medieval conference, and the swans, and Bell's, and Bilbo's Pizza. #wmu #icms #kalamazoo

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, medievalists on Bluesky, THAT Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo just beat Michigan at football. #icms #kzooicms

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LOL, between Ricketts and Pillen ads and a godawful defense, Nebraska's not exactly showing its best on national TV this afternoon. (I'm watching in Brooklyn, NY.)

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I remember tracking this movie down in a video store, circa 1997, after hearing this line in Scream: "The police are always off track! If they'd watch Prom Night, they'd save time!" So I watched it. I didn't really figure out what the police were supposed to learn from it, though. 😂

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Podcast allegations,” lol

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Dwight Schrute got into Cornell after all, good for him.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m also thinking of Melville, who was a hugely popular author of sea adventure novels, but then Mardi was critically panned, and then so was everything else he wrote after, which led him to financial ruin. But that “everything else” included Moby-Dick!

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don’t know what everyone else said at the time, but Dostoevsky himself said “ooh, swing and a miss” about The Idiot. That said, Dostoevsky’s “miss” is better than 99% of anyone else’s hits. 😄

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You know where violent crime is actually down, to its lowest point in recorded history? New York City.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You can tell his heart’s not in it because he’s not dropping f-bombs.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My 12-year-old loved it and wants to see it again.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Imagine thinking that whining and guilt are “anachronistic.” Those are two of the great themes in literature from time immemorial.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

No, cowboys don’t always take their hats off inside, especially at a public event like this. Real cowboys do, however, buy their own hats, so when a group of them gets together, you’ll see a variety of colors and styles — not this weird coordinated look.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I count about three guys here who look like actual cowboys. The khakis, sport coat, and tie with a cowboy hat look isn’t working for the rest of them.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

As much as I hate ICE agents and their paymasters, I have even more contempt for judges (like Thanos Kanellakos from this article) who don’t have to go along with these lawless kangaroo schemes, yet do it anyway.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Paradise Lost as fan fiction set in the Bible’s expanded universe … sounds just right.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Fair enough. Though I could watch for a hundred years, and the clock thing still wouldn’t make sense. 😂

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yeah, something doesn’t add up here, and his responses are confusing. It sounds as if he wrote the article first, then looked up sources. (Real scholars do it the other way around.) Then, if that corner-cutting wasn’t enough, he didn’t bother to edit the links to make them look legit.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why wouldn’t you just … check the links?

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