Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026dropped out of Ulysses book club before the first meeting 010
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just read an essay I wrote the first semester of grad school and I really should have been expelled. 000
Reposted by Tom SojkaRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Children leaving the theater crying after “The John Keats Multiverse” 1104
Reposted by Tom SojkaAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...defector.comHumanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | DefectorFor many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ... 824173
Reposted by Tom SojkaDr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Such a wide array of London-y goodness… if I do say so myself 😉 194
Reposted by Tom SojkaPaul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives. 13608257
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Have like three writing deadlines, so obviously decided to make jam today. 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026they’re calling it the summer we’re all reading to the lighthouse 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m ready for the pills from My Year of Rest and Relaxation. 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It was a queer sultry summer, the summer I was finishing my book, and I didn't know why I kept buying vintage Wedgwood china on eBay. 060
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Every restaurant should legally required to serve hot dogs on the Fourth of July. 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Finished my annual re-read of To the Lighthouse and found a new passage to be quietly devastated by. 010
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 26/06/2026At that weird point of editing my book manuscript and finding it to be actually pretty good—a strange feeling. 120
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 17/06/2026rip to a real one (photo from a 2017 grad school seminar i took very seriously) 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Had the pleasure of chatting with Benjamin Siegel on his new book, Markets of Pain for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.newbooksnetwork.comBenjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers" (Oxford UP, 2026) - New Books Network 011
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I'm glad we're all being normal about ramps this spring. 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026You can have three margaritas after submitting grades, it's not illegal. 000
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I read Our Mutual Friend last December and it altered my brain chemistry 010
Reposted by Tom SojkaClaire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...history.ac.ukProtecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHRProtecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR 010080
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Had the pleasure of chairing this wonderful panel this morning at @batw.bsky.social — who didn’t love some beer, liquor, opium, and narcotics first thing in the morning? 020
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Happy to report I’ve joined the Editorial Board of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social and will be serving as the Book Reviews Editor (post-1800), so please reach out with pitches! 021
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 15/04/2026truly my i’ve had 2.5 drinks maybe i will kind of purchase 010
Reposted by Tom Sojkahaunted ghoulfriend👻🍬 @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 15/04/2026you either die quirked up and goated with the sauce or you live long enough to become a chopped unc 227449
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Sometimes Amtrak will be delayed because the weather is too nice. 000