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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok y'all,I need to stop freaking scrolling, I have the new Emily St. John Mandel ebook from the library.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We'll be highlighting all the generous SIGDOC conference sponsors over the next few weeks. Today, a shout-out to Auburn University's Department of English, Master of Technical and Professional Communication (MTPC) Program! See the attached flyer for more about this program:

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our students are interested in doing a symposium on music & resistance in America's pasts & presents. My familiarity is with the folks who wrote on labor songs, but most of them have moved on. Who would you recommend my students consider as participants? Who is working in this space? 🗃️

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have only edited Wikipedia maybe a dozen times, but I always find it super satisfying. This has mostly been correcting citations in entries about American drama and popular performance. And one class where we wrote a plot summary for Chain-Gang All-Stars. Fixed a Fred Thompson citation yesterday.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know NYC was so excited when the Knicks won the championship, and I know that sports stars are generally not great at hosting #snl. But Jalen Brunson is bad.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wrote another blog post on Hippodrome-adjacent topics. This one's for all my Nashvillains and people whose Roman Empire is the Columbian Exposition. Fred Thompson was such a world's fair guy! www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2...

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Fred Thompson at the Tennesee Centennial — Sunny Stalter-Pace

I’m taking a break from the book chapters (4 down, 17 to go!) in order to write a conference paper on Thompson and Dundy’s involvement with world’s fairs. Fred Thompson was a true exposition fiend. He...

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do love that I've reviewed enough on net galley that publicists email me about new stuff that I didn't even know about. Hey do you want to read the new Emma Cline? Then it's nominated for the Booker. Just now found out Leslie Jamison has a novel about the Minotaur.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow I'm glad we didn't see Toy Story 5 in the movie theater. That was some smug, saccharine, nostalgic inanity.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jennifer is an idiot.

Moderator. Kristen Soltis Anderson: Jennifer, you said "same-sex bathrooms." Tell me more about why that comes to you.

Jennifer, 50, Republican, white, stay-at-home parent: That's what he wants to do in schools. I'm totally against that.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an Auburn professor, I feel obligated to share this.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Organizers and higher ed advocates, any guidelines on writing public comments for maximum impact? I definitely got some inspiration from @matthewcort.land already.

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victoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

is anyone on my skyline a power chair user? i'm sitting here sobbing trying to go back and forth between the DME company and medicare and i'm really struggling. could use advice if youre open to a quick phone chat.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fred Thompson's pall bearers included George M. Cohan, Sam Harris, the doctor that ran the incubator show for premature babies, and the guy who write the play of Brewster's Millions. A showman to the very end.

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Academic peeps: reply with any institution who has a shared governance model that you like. Pacific and Willamette are merging (not an acquisition) and I am on a combined committee charged with designing a shared governance model for the new University. (pls repost) #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky 🗃️

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"a clash of cultures: the pleasing prospect against the bonds of sympathy, of solidarity." -- Alan Trachtenberg at the end of The Incorporation of America talking about the World's Columbian Exposition and the alternate vision offered by Eugene Debs, but it definitely speaks to now. Stuff or people?

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Spot-billed toucanet 33-37 cm member of the toucan family humid canopies of the Atlantic Forest in South America. Travel canopy in flocks searching for fruit and insects They maintain contact with their group through a variety of loud calls, which help them stay together in dense forest foliage

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ok, what do you love to do that you're not very good at? Tap and karaoke for me. (An engagement bait question perhaps, but also a good reminder to perfectionists after long days)

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Marking the series finale of Adventure Time. Watched it beginning to end with my husband and my kid. What a sweet, special show.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I really wish more Dems would go meta on this and ask whose interests it serves that candidates for the United States Senate are being asked about how they would micromanage the eligibility rules for local youth sports leagues.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rereading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and annotating some of the more obscure parts of the digital copy we're reading as a class. Sad that a lot of them are "this joke is based on an ethnic stereotype that you probably haven't heard of at this point."

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Onion special issue and Get Your War On by David Rees are the two things in immediate post-9/11 culture that kept me sane. I was in central NJ, going into the city all the time. www.mnftiu.cc/category/gyw...

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war81 | www.mnftiu.cc

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

To the people who are worried about the doc recuperating or softening Elizabeth Holmes's image: I have faith that Nathan Fielder will do something far weirder.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm finishing up my elephants and horses chapter, and one of my PhD students has a just-needs-surface-edits version of her dissertation prospectus. Wishing you all the same finishing, completion, wrapping-up energy.

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is a helpful skill for everybody! if you're reading humanities research: - read the intro - read the conclusion - identify the author's argument, what evidence they're using to support it, and why they think it matters - skim headers and topic sentences it's a word find, not a novel

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey, is this picture interesting-weird or exploitive-weird? And does it look like the skull is on the same plane as the elephants? Those early 20c newspaper reproductions of photographs always look fake to me.

A black and white newspaper photograph of three elephants standing outside, with a white skull at their feet. The caption reads "Topsy's Skull Exhumed at Luna Park."

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have work to do but UMass is even giving us punt p0rn

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Except for the last year of my phd coursework when we were unranked and beat Kentucky

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Post-first grownup tap class euphoria!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 03/09/2026

If you know me you know I don’t do signing lines. So it says something that I made an exception for Ms. Steinem the 2nd time I heard her speak in 2014 (the 1st I was an undergrad sitting on a stone windowsill “working” the event ) But I want to tell you about this 2nd photo: something GS saw at AU.

Darcy Corbitt is hugged and congratulated by Em Friedman

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Bad news for publisher HarperCollins: The book-buying subset of MrBeast fans appears to be vanishingly small. Two people close to the project say The Most Dangerous Games is on track to be a historic bomb…”

$Semafor: Good news for the subset of MrBeast fans who love to read mystery novels: The YouTube giant's collaboration with James Patterson is out Tuesday, accompanied by a flurry of marketing on MrBeast channels. Read My Book, You Could Win $1,000,000, promises one short. Bad news for publisher HarperCollins: The book-buying subset of MrBeast fans appears to be vanishingly small. Two people close to the project say The Most Dangerous Games is on track to be a historic bomb, with preorders numbering in the four digits as of last week, a tiny fraction of what the publisher will need to justify Patterson's and YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson's hefty fees. It was at a limp #20 on Amazon's new releases list by Sunday. Publishers chasing digital audiences is a tale perhaps as old as time, but this one will go down as a demonstration of that strategy's limits.$

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Man I love the freaking Waste Land. Seriously, what a kickass poem. I can't wait to talk about it with my grad class on Thursday.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Having a salad for lunch for the first time in forever, will let you all know how it goes.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

4, the two he mentions +Markiplier and the guy who's in the T-Mobile commercials. But I think this must be for a certain generation, right, because there are so few video game streamers.

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Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ugh, I think my problem is I feel like anyone who's going to read this chapter will know about Topsy getting electrocuted at Luna Park so it feels like I shouldn't have to go through that part of the story, even though it's pretty freaking important.

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