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🏳️‍🌈(He)📺 Broadcast historian focusing on marginalized histories/media policy, TV Lamp collector, Media Studies Prof. 👵 Golden Girls book coming soon! University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 🌈

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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really love my university, a lot, even! But my gifts for tenure and promotion were two pens that don't work (see example scribbles). So, I bought myself a vintage Telly Award and had a $7 dollar name plate added because, dammit, tenure and promotion took me 40 years to accomplish!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Byron Allen finally told a joke
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Not JD with the covered drink ... 💀 #sotu
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Trump used to be very against Redacting Trump. Now's a great time to reread my piece on editing reruns (and use it in your classes this spring!). www.flowjournal.org/2020/02/synd...
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I just searched Ariana "Girl in the Bubble" on TikTok and these were the results that popped up. 😟
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
How to ensure no one wants to buy your farmers market product (zoom in)
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Enjoying a mini-cheesecake beside #LakeMichigan for #NationalCheesecakeDay while working on a guest lecture based on our new book #THEGOLDENGIRLS: #TALESFROMTHELANAI. It's now up for preorder (use RUP30 for 30% off!). Coming to audio book, too! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-golden-g...
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Y'all, I successfully got my concert tickets!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
As seen on TVTIME
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#TheGoldenGirls progress flag felt fitting for #HandsOff given how social security, medicare, women's health, prescriptions, mental health, LGBTQ+ rights, scientific research, education, retirement savings, independent living, and even immigration status are all fundamentally insecure right now.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Somehow only just now putting together that this is the same person. Love that he's the Venn diagram overlap of two amazing shows. #severance #somebodysomewhere
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I want to read your thoughts on the #Severance finale
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is my city right now. So glad for the regulations and conservation efforts that helped the lower 48 go from only 800 individual bald eagles when I was born to now hundreds of thousands.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I thought this video and this audio belonged together. #idreamofjeannie
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@robertking.bsky.social whose idea was Memo 618? Is that whole storyline a glimpse into the future?
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Milchick was inspired by Rose Nylund. I love it! #severance
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
New Matlock, doing uncover work in a retirement community, learns the resident ex-philosophy professor might not have strong legs, but he's still good in bed. "He's a generous lover. You just don't want him prattling on about Nietzsche or you'll never get Foucault'd."
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
America in 2025 #whitelotus
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Gayle King is going to space, so what felt like THE MORNING SHOW jumping the shark when Reece Witherspoon goes to space was really just a prescient depiction of reality, except Bezos is no Jon Hamm. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
Reece Witherspoon defying gravity.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
An eagle-eyed Tiktoker caught my concept of ✨retextuality✨ in action when they noticed the version of A DIFFERENT WORLD streaming on Netflix had been edited using AI. Here's an article I wrote about retextuality in Bewitched -> read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscu...
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The WhiteHouse.gov privacy policy says to use this contact form with questions. But they seem to have deleted that page.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#Nickelodeon gave me one of my first original superstitions as a kid, and I almost never remember to say #rabbitrabbit, but I managed to today, y'all. Join me with your birthday cakes and eyelashes and 11:11s. @aoc.bsky.social says we gotta do everything we can at this point.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Eliminating "TQIA+" from the travel advisory page instead of just removing the whole page is clearly a Divide and Conquer strategy. It's JD Vance's supposed "normal gays" comment, so buffonish it feels like something a CAPTAIN PLANET rat villain would do.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Here's some vitamin c for your sickly newsfeeds
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
LoLing at this post from "2we3th3art" on TikTok
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
She's not that innocent.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
His speech was not only insanely divisive, it was also insanely long.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Taylor marked himself safe from a political stunt.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This is the last full #Tiktok I saw before my app bugged out (you can see when I tried to save). And that's just the kind of app TikTok was. #tiktokban
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It's gone, and as I kept telling folks, VPN doesn't work.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I got the notification! #tiktokban
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
My colleagues and I recreated a classic 90s #viennetta commercial, the caviar of ice creams! #uwlax
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Someone call Jesse Eisenberg, because I want a Social Network sequel about this 🤡. Wow, put a necklace on that emoji and it's a spitting image!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Unfortunately, I have passed as straight a few times in new encounters with vile men who I've humored in conversation rather than outing myself in order to keep my peace. This is what that looks like.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I was so lucky to see the California home in 2016 (and shoot this video) before it was painted white and surrounded by a privacy fence and hedge by new owners. Disney razed the Florida façade years ago.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The best way to tell is the palm tree behind the house. In Florida, it's just above the middle of the house by the chimney, but in California, if you are looking at the house it's to the right and way taller! See if you can tell the difference in these two shots!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The Florida façade was built at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, which helped tourism by being featured on a studio backlot tour. The facade first appears, I believe, in S03E15 feat. Barbara Thorndyke. In that episode, the daytime shots are California while the nighttime are Florida.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The God Warrior Marguerite Perrin just did me a proper TikTok shout out. I still have her episode on VHS. #tradingspouses #darksidedstuff
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A TikTok trend is looking up old Google street view images to see if pets or people have been frozen in time. This one about #charmed is the most perfect so far.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
In astronomy, these orbs are called "Odd Radio Circles," mysterious radio wave emissions observed off in distant galaxies with unknown origins and no visible counterparts, and I stg that definition also works for all those adorable, odd circles of radio historians who I love off in distant archives.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Just raced the Ugly Sweater 5k. Please don't be ALF-ended by my #Melmac stylings; I'm ALF-ul at running! As an ALF-terthought, though I didn't win the race, in the best sweater cat-egory, it was an ALF-timate showdown! #alf Haaa! I kill me!
6 people appear before a backdrop that says The Ugly Christmas Sweater run, hosted by the Lq Crosse Rotary club. From left to right is Elsa, snow queen from Frozen, Elf from the movie Elf, the Grinch, a man dressed in an Alf Christmas sweater, a woman in an ugly Christmas sweater with Christmas llamas around a tree, and a woman in a red sweater with a Christmas tree and gifts. They are getting ready to run a race.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Radio historians, Target is now selling these vintage-looking radios with AM/FM/Blutooth. The nostalgia for old tech in Target products is usually reserved for cheap plastic Christmas and Halloween decor, so these are interesting!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Quote post this with a comment violation or strike you got from a social media company for a really strange reason. Here's one I got for a comment about Allan Lichtman.
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Isn't part of the appeal of a #StarsHollow that it's Walmartless? #gilmoregirls
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Cream cheese smothered with pepper jelly is an app I always made in Georgia. It remains a winner!
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tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Fire, tbh 🔥 #nomnom
Hand holding a bag of Boom Chicka Pop popcorn that is flavored like Swiss Miss hot chocolate. The bag says Swiss Miss drizzled kettle corn.
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