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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 32m

The “iced coffee” at a job interview discourse is anti-Vietnamese racism & you all know why!

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anti-tipping folks never just hit 0% on the tablet & walk away! They need you to nominate them for a Noble Prize in Economics each time they stand up to Big Barista. They’re rehearsing their acceptance speech with every coffee!

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Martin Luther nailing 95 AI-generated menus onto the Wittenberg church door.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

About to teach Raymond Williams's "Television" alongside one of the most important post-no fault divorce artworks of our time:

PowerPoint screenshot of Pyro from the Simpsons on a date with Luanne van Houten, next to posters from American Gladiator.

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Elliott Fuller @liminalpassenger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very excited to talk with my Alma Ma(s)ter about my favourite topic: Bronze Age harbours! 🌊 🏺. If you’re in the Niagara area please stop by! Thank you to the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America for inviting me!

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Martin Luther nailing 95 AI-generated menus onto the Wittenberg church door.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Cognitohazards” are the funniest idea. Tech people are so disdainful and ignorant of anything creative that they thought of the idea of a scary story and went “fuck! What if this destroys the world!!!l”

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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Listen to what Carney's government is saying. They have to crush workers' rights because it's what makes investors happy. Unions and workers with rights are 'bad for business'

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17/09/2026

New research from Proton finds 87% of top Canadian companies depend on US tech companies. For governments, it’s even worse: 100% of federal, provincial, and territorial governments rely on US companies for email. As Canada turns away from the US, major institutions need to cut that reliance.

100% of Canadian governments and 87% of major Canadian companies depend on US companies for email services.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Neoliberalism Shock Doctrine playbook: An external threat (Trump's threat to annex Canada) Causes a hero to be elected (Carney) Who institutes 1) privatization of public goods (airports etc) 2) corporate tax cuts (Mega-Deduction) and 3) removal of regulations (gutting climate policy)

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Everything’s been off since The Sims stopped using carpools and school buses 👀

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My research is quoted in Dwell mag 🏡🎙️! Ft. bites from me on why video podcasts now look like Y2K bedrooms & man caves"... & what your fave podcast's background might say about the new codes of authenticity, intimacy, and creator economy "professionalization" at home. www.dwell.com/article/favo...

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Your Favorite Podcast Wants to Make You Feel at Home

As more money flows into the medium, professionally designed sets that mimic domestic backdrops have become the go-to ingredient for keeping things candid.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/09/2026

DIY web archiving is way more doable than you think. Trust me, we taught elementary schoolers and retirees as part of SUCHO. Then we made a zine about it! Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.

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DIY Web Archiving | Zine Bakery

Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2, by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gassing up the women's watching cultures week of this course 🚗:

A screenshot of Marge and Ruth on the lam in between posters for Barbie and Thelma and Louise. All the images have women and cars.

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am serious about this. After the violent, epic tragedy of "The Iliad," people wanted a sequel featuring the clever trickster character and Homer decided, "sure, but let's also make it a love story and make it weirdly poignant."

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

dwell.com

Your Favorite Podcast Wants to Make You Feel at Home

As more money flows into the medium, professionally designed sets that mimic domestic backdrops have become the go-to ingredient for keeping things candid.

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Scene from 'The Critic'. Jay Sherman has his arm around someone while a building burns as he Says "and nothing of value was lost"

It was decades before I realised the episode of The Simpsons he was in was a crossover from his own show btw.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s the first week(s) back to university because my newsfeed is all melancholy mirror selfies & medium-ugly buildings.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Facetious takeaway from today's book writing session: all politics now is the It's Always Sunny episode where the Gang barges angrily into group therapy to resolve who is gonna do the dishes.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The new iPhone should be hot to the touch. It should be physically painful to use

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ChatGPT is a technology of austerity.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

retroactive Oscar-worthy performance, zero hyperbole!

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finally, a syllabus you can beat into being more funny! 📺 drive.google.com/file/d/1YXOT...

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finally, a syllabus you can beat into being more funny! 📺 drive.google.com/file/d/1YXOT...

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Who wants the syllabus to my Simpsons-themed Television Studies course?

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

being an academic in North America right now feels like this, except not funny:

Principal Skinner on his knees before a newspaper that reads: “PREZ SEZ:
"SCHOOL IS FOR LOSERS””

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it's 2026 and I am a weekly viewer of InfoWars

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Can’t wait to sip Mountain Dew outta this mug that my co-author printed of our New Media & Society article 🍵 To peer-reviewed brew!

Technicolor mug with article cover printed on it.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

*smiling and sweating* our age of bronze is doing great

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nolan's The Odyssey (2026) is about the consequences of reworking your commute home to avoid further socialization with a coworker.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Robert Pattinson for half this screentime in The Odyssey (2026):

A smiling Moe from the Simpsons standing with others behind a velvet rope under a banner that reads "Rejects."

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Robert Pattinson for half this screentime in The Odyssey (2026):

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This paper landed on a fun panel for 4S Toronto on "Hot Girl Eugenics" 👱‍♀️🤖💅✨ Bringing the historical AI girl Pokemon evolutions with Cate Alexander with "Hot Girls Coming to Time Near You: The Eugenic Teleology of AI-Generated Historical Slop" ...this Canadian Thanksgiving!

description for Hot Girl Eugenics panel on how technoscientifice ideas about beauty create the social body

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Can any my folks in design theory (or other media fields) hypothesize what the hell Kirk might've been going for with this depiction of "dignity"?

Kirk from the Simpsons with a pictionary board of... a potato with a scalene triangle at the corner?

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Can any my folks in design theory (or other media fields) hypothesize what the hell Kirk might've been going for with this depiction of "dignity"?

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anthropic @ our books:

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On Vancouver Island, where the streets are paved with gold (PC Games).

An array of PC games on the sidewalk, including Tomb Raider, Quake, Star Craft, Doom 3, Half Life and so many others!

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

Part of the objective, I think, of constructing AI “agency” as a responsibility-laundry for human decision-making is to create a permission structure for other people, organizations and individuals, to participate in assembling that political project while not feeling personally responsible for it.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For research B-side reasons, here's some iconic Simpsons in bed.

Kirk Van Houten and the big race car bed.

Selma Bouvier in bed with her ashtray, TV remote, and bras on the door handle. and floor.

Troy McClure repairing a ban bag in shell bed, surrounded by an aquarium.

Marge in bed alone, longingly touching the impression left by Homer.

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