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innes @innes.bsky.social · 6h

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2h

Manifesting this for you

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5h

Never recovering from “Here is the house.”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5h

Making my way through ‘The Victorian City’ right now and it really is pretty splendid in its audacious understatement 😅

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5h

Say what you will about Dickens, but he had some absolute all-time first lines

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5h

I totally get the epic appeal to the muses. I, too, would like to begin all my writing with “I am definitely not capable of this task unless a god decides to throw me a bone”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 5h

Impossible how good some authors are at writing first lines.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

New cartoon about a secret agent cat who finds itself in dangerous traps each episode, always counting down to the moment when hydrocyanic acid might be released into the room. Every episode ends on a cliffhanger.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

NUSH

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I always feel a deep sadness at the end of a long book or especially a very good series. I’m saying goodbye to the version of my own experience encountering myself in that world. It’s a beautiful way to realize your own life as beautiful and sad and full of meaning.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

New cartoon about a secret agent cat who finds itself in dangerous traps each episode, always counting down to the moment when hydrocyanic acid might be released into the room. Every episode ends on a cliffhanger.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Same.

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Will Canoe-Sick, but in a spooky way @willcanoesick.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes, yes! All I can add is that this, for me, is a sacred experience

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

As a literature professor I take it as my duty to set up these jokes whenever possible for the students and then do this look when they hit that part of the reading

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve gotten into reading long history books the last couple of years and it’s precisely that feeling, though sometimes a little confusing because the book sometimes ends at the present but it feels like you don’t really exist in the present at the end of history

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

That’s far too kind 😅🙏🙏

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

My feeling too when Wilkie Collins does a big reveal that the secret of the plot is doing drugs

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

A+ content here

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Poe: I'm gonna invent a gentleman detective
Doyle: ooo
Poe: He's gonna be so emotionally unavailable! But also: Troubled
Doyle: yessss
Poe: His adventures will be narrated by an awestruck pal
Doyle: hnnnggg
Poe: And he's gonna solve so many MONKEY RELATED CRIMES
Doyle: OMG YES MONKEYCRIMES

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

If GOP is indeed steadfast in destroying the College Board, the progressive agenda is to make sure nothing replaces it. The College Board is an EdTech tapeworm inside K-16 gobbling away from both ends. I’m pretty sure its GOP critics just wish they owned the tapeworm.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

the college board's not a progressive organization

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 1d

I've proctored dozens of AP and SAT tests at my school and never earned a single dime for any of it.

They profit off an army of teachers providing them free labor.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I think the very end of LotR is the best allegory ever written for what it feels like to finish a great series and then need to say goodbye to the world of the book

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes three or four!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

The slight feeling of guilt when you pick up a new book 😅

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️❤️

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