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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 2d

What I’d like is an app called Fall Poops that helps you find dogshit on a leafy lawn.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been thinking lately that everyone implicitly expects that there’s some kind of umpire who calls it for us. Like it would be front page of every paper and we’d get the day off work.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 3d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 3d

As a non-British person watching Taskmaster, I find myself struggling to distinguish between regional accent and speech impediment.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 6d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sure it stretches back forever, but this kind of thinking, that being opposed to war is some kind of flight of fancy of the youth really ramped up during Vietnam, not very long after the concept of teenagers as a culture class was invented.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5d

Some kind of pathological compulsion to convince yourself that anyone who is upset about watching people being slaughtered every day for years is a hipster from Brooklyn, the stereotype from like 20 years ago.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 6d

Movies definitely give you the impression that when the end of the world comes you’ll get the day off work.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 6d

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS understood what COVID would later demonstrate to be true: that is the apocalypse begins, most of us will just carry on and keep doing our day jobs.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 6d

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS understood what COVID would later demonstrate to be true: that is the apocalypse begins, most of us will just carry on and keep doing our day jobs.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 6d

God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 6d

in the past 2 months, I have seen--in person--two different people looking at their phones run straight into a utility pole.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 6d

I watched the preview and was like “I know her!!”

Very exciting! I don’t think I’ve heard of any of these films.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 6d

God, complaining about AI is like 80% of my personality now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7d

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 7d

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19 Feature Films Including Award-Winning Documentary, Plus New 168-Page Book & 21+ Combined Hours of Bonus Features

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 8d

I’m teaching In a Lonely Place in crime and detective fiction, and while obviously the name that gets attention is Dix Steele (lol), many other names are hard to reckon with. What is “Brub” short for? Why is Dix’s doomed female love named Brucie?

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 8d

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is far from perfect, but I’m not sure how many great PG horror movies there are.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 8d

I’m teaching In a Lonely Place in crime and detective fiction, and while obviously the name that gets attention is Dix Steele (lol), many other names are hard to reckon with. What is “Brub” short for? Why is Dix’s doomed female love named Brucie?

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 8d

Starting to think online assessment is untenable in the age of LLMs.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 8d

If you ask ChatGPT to provide a works cited entry for a poem that you’ve uploaded or copied and pasted, it will provide a Poetry Foundation link to nowhere.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 9d

Sensodyne commercials have the least convincing dentists I’ve ever seen.

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 9d

Also that low budget 2000s films looked uniquely shitty. I assume it’s the digital cameras they were using.

Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 13d

You know the Criterion Channel’s 2000s horror collection is not convincing me that the 2000s were a great decade for horror.

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 9d

Woody Haut's Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood (2002) probably remains the definitive work on the miserable lives of the American noirists

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Brad Coffin ⚰️ @brcongdon.bsky.social · 10d

Sinners, right?

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