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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 8h

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 2d

Samuel Beckett is one of the funniest writers of the 20th C and if you don’t think so, that reflects a dour, performative seriousness on your part that exhausts everyone around you

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 5d

But Douglas how will people with more money get better treatment then, as is their right granted to them by virtue of being Good, Upright People (having money)

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 9d

“Alright tough guy, just relax.”

CNBC @cnbc.com · 10d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 13d

There was a tweet going around a few months ago that was basically “AnyAustin’s whole thing is that every one of his videos invents a new genre of video and then instantly perfects that genre” and I agree and think you should watch his stuff

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 13d

the last bit about arc lighting vs incandescent lighting in Red Dead 2 is insane youtu.be/mTtMCoJrGxk?...

Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything?

YouTube video by Any Austin

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 15d

Where are we on making leaf blowers illegal? Feel like we gotta get a think-tank on this

KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 16d

Real shanty-heads know that all it takes is a few solid heave-hos and we’ll be back in port before you know it

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16d

remember that one-week period a few years ago when sea shanties were a huge cultural phenomenon?

has any trend burned so bright and then disappeared so quickly?

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 17d

To anyone thinking “isn’t all the stuff in that show already like 40% of your personality?” you are correct and also shut up

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 17d

It’s honestly probably not even that good objectively but I’m about to make House of Guinness about 30% of my personality

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 19d

I’m rereading _All That Is Solid Melts Into Air_ and it’s making both more depressed and more hopeful at the same time, which I suppose is a good enough description as there is of what makes a book great

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 19d

Marshall Berman, 1982:

“… in the literature on modernism, Marx is not recognized in any way at all.”

lol

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 20d

And a lot of the people who think they’re pros (often people who *are* pros) get a little high on their own supply and forget that lots of forms of writing benefit from those structures for pragmatic reasons.

Breaking the rules just for the sake of breaking the rules can make writing worse.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20d

Yes. You've gotta learn how to write with strict structure before you can learn to write without it.

I think a lot of people who become pro writers were precocious bookworms with bookworm parents and don't actually need this the same way average kids do so are maybe blind to this

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20d

I mean, the teachers surely know this. The structural conventions kids learn in high school English are training wheels for people learning how to write. Which most students at that stage need, even though skilled, mature writers almost never write like that.

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · 28d

(quasi)Moon’s haunted

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Sep 14

Details or you’re a coward

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Sep 14

Welp

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Sep 14

I will make it my mission to find a grant to bring that down to <$10 with a student ID

KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

my mom absolutely should not watch The Bear. Or maybe she should, I dunno

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

update

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

mom texts

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Aug 28

me watching any Star Wars property

Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · Aug 28

*christine mcvie voice* show me guys, show me weird little guys

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Aug 25

Every valley is a peak if you shift your perspective

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 24

My suspicion is that rather than the left being worse at hiding or suppressing our humourless dogmatists, what's actually going on is taste makers find leftist humourless dogmatists more irritating because more influential on their emotional and professional lives. So they get complained about more.

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KG @ktgphd.bsky.social · Aug 20

Can I get a hell yeah in the chat

DGC Ontario @ontariodgc.bsky.social · Aug 20

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · Aug 15

I think what’s so hard about trying to make people understand this political moment is that it fundamentally doesn’t make any sense unless you’re extremely online and have been for the better part of a decade

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