Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialUniversity of Illinois News Bureau @news.illinois.edu · 22/09/2026A new exhibit at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library explores the life and career of author Mary Shelley and the context for her novel “Frankenstein.” Read more here: news.illinois.edu/rare-book-an... 044
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialUniversity of Illinois News Bureau @news.illinois.edu · 03/09/2026Dual Credit at the U. of I. is bringing popular general education courses from #Illinois directly to high school students across Illinois — at no cost to those students. Read more here: news.illinois.edu/illinois-ann... 001
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialRob Harvilla @harvilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026delighted to be joined by @ryandombal.bsky.social to discuss whether "the underdog" is "giving bosstones" 3111
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026two former Iliinois athletes, the 133 pound weight class NCAA wrestling champ and the former high school volleyball national player of the year 324618
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialUniversity of Illinois News Bureau @news.illinois.edu · 06/08/2026Faculty members Andrew Belmont and Carla Cáceres have been named as university endowed chairs at #Illinois. Read more here: news.illinois.edu/illinois-ann... 001
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialmeron thee siren 🧜🏽♀️ @meronunfiltered.com · 28/06/2026Fanon: 61246230
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialVinson Cunningham @vinsoncunningham.bsky.social · 03/06/2026i wrote about the Knicks. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comLessons in Fanhood from the KnicksFor the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks are eagerly awaiting the N.B.A. Finals. Vinson Cunningham appreciates the artfulness of the game, but “when the Knicks are on, playing prettily or no... 171
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialEric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026in the hallway leading to the field entrance near the dodgers dugout, there are a bunch of old jon soohoo photos framed on the wall. one of my favorites is of giant human jonathan broxton, holding his tiny baby in the dugout 0254
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialUniversity of Illinois News Bureau @news.illinois.edu · 07/05/2026Daniel Kraus, known for his many horror novels and high-profile collaborations with filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “Angel Down.” He earned a master of library and information sciences from Illinois in 2005. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/04/e...chicagotribune.comEvanston’s prolific horror novelist Daniel Kraus wins Pulitzer for fictionHe found out on Monday, like everyone else. The Pulitzer committee described “Angel Down” as “a breathless novel of World War I, a stylistic tour-de-force that blends such genres as allegory, magical ... 0297
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJohn Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 07/05/2026As is said of faculty politics, social media discourse preferring that 19 and not 21 percent of teams qualify is perhaps so heated because the stakes are so low. 042
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialUniversity of Illinois News Bureau @news.illinois.edu · 05/05/2026🌉Each spring, students gather to watch their peers test model trusses — built with bamboo skewers — as weights are added until they break. Students in Structural Fundamentals learn about forces and the distribution of loads along the truss. More here: news.illinois.edu/designing-bu... 023
thomasbruch.bsky.social @thomasbruch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK seemingly one of the/THE defining Ebertfest screening. It comes up from so many of the festivalgoers in remembrances. Seeing it on that big beautiful Virginia screen with the Kaufman Q&A afterward ... a cinematic memory I'll never forget. 0131
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This one is straight from the heart. I hope you'll read it! www.rogerebert.com/ebertfest/lo...rogerebert.comLove's in Need of Love Today: Reflections on EbertFest, Cinema, and EmpathyReflections on the last year of the festival, and what it means to celebrate Roger and the movies. 1329086
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialWallace @wallace.bsky.social · 29/04/2026[clint eastwood voice] 219629
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJohn Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Illinois tonight would clock in as the new No. 5 for best tournament games of offense "ever." (KenPom ever.) johngasaway.com/2025/03/24/n...johngasaway.comNow updated! Greatest games of tournament offense “ever”Last year at this time I presented the 25 best games of NCAA men’s tournament offense in the KenPom era. Alas, that list is already outdated. This past weekend of 2025 tournament action brought us … 152
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialKate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Wow Jesse Buckley winning on the day of the south side Irish parade 1221
thomasbruch.bsky.social @thomasbruch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The great state of Illinois produces great hoopers with a bonus side of thoughtful union leadership! 010
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJohn Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Few +0.03 conference efficiency margin teams in history have been profiled nationally as frequently as Kansas 2026. 051
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialElizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo. 121112281
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialMichael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 10/12/2025tfw you're absolutely determined to come out ahead in the coroner's report 081
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialMike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I literally cannot make my mind differentiate and will literally use soccer and football interchangeably within the same sentence. Even in situations in which I’m speaking and might also want to reference American football I specify ahead of time I’ll call it the NFL or “American football.” 3163
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 24/11/2025(L-R): shitposting, my deadline, me, my editor 017920
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialTyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 03/11/2025one of my absolute fave Donna / Jerry moments — their 1976 cover of the Stones' "Moonlight Mile" doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1636774...doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com 2254
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialColson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 21/10/2025All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me! 351650269
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialSam Amidon @samamidon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025youtu.beAll Is Well – Sam Amidon and the By the People ChoirYouTube video by Peter Amidon 152
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialSimon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival 200245374601
thomasbruch.bsky.social @thomasbruch.bsky.social · 28/08/2025@bryancurtis.bsky.social @thepressbox.bsky.social A nice compound of "Only in Journalism" words in this one: "fractured polity." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...nytimes.comAs PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit 051
thomasbruch.bsky.social @thomasbruch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This actually sounds like a lyric from The National! 000
thomasbruch.bsky.social @thomasbruch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025An absolute legend and an immense loss for the Ringer. Nothing better than when Claire excavated a topic from my college years that I never knew I needed (Girl Talk and Dayglow next at your new destination, plz??) 020
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Pope Leo XIV is the first pope who has watched Bulls games via ballstreams on a VPN from Vatican City 1345037
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialBrian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025“hey Brian where did you put your tax information from last year?” I don’t see how you can possibly expect me to remember that “hey Brian who did the 76ers trade in 2001 to acquire Dikembe Mu-…” Theo Ratliff and Toni Kukoc 1048049
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJohn Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Illinois has looked mighty for a month now unless the opposing uniforms say Duke or Maryland and then the Illini lose by 90. 0181
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialSleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 03/03/2025James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...npr.orgJames Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has diedHarrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research. 131114360
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12/02/202545-47 is Minnesota's actual record against Illinois at Williams Arena 2231
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 24/01/2025e-readers are just literary devices 602880304
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialJeremy D. Larson @jeremydlarson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025dude last night we arrived at the USPS Regional Destination Facility at like 2:04 a.m. and then at like 5:47 a.m.we departed the USPS Regional Destination Facility and started Moving Through the Network it was crazy 828443
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialThe Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 14/12/2024📸 Jesse Garrabrant (@jdgimages on IG) 1111
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialTyler Parker @tylerparker.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Watching Chris Weinke in the Heisman commercial 0112
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialthot catalog @thotcatalog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024the moral of rudolph isn't about acceptance, it's about how quickly workplace discrimination evaporates when your 'flaw' becomes a marketable asset during q4 9968234
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialMatt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Give me 2004-05 Illinois in seven over 2017-18 Villanova. 5152
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialWill Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/o... 151
Reposted by @thomasbruch.bsky.socialSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 17/11/2024The Southern DL Willie Myles Scoop and score video from WAFB9 in Baton Rouge. Video posted by Kevin Batiste Jr. 29797195
