Brad Congdon
@brcongdon.bsky.social
Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
He/him
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
He/him
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People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.
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Great news if you're a fan of my stuff in @mcsweeneys.net (and bad news if you're not): I have written a WHOLE BOOK of academic satire! It's available NOW from the good people at @humoristbooks.bsky.social.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Great news if you're a fan of my stuff in @mcsweeneys.net (and bad news if you're not): I have written a WHOLE BOOK of academic satire! It's available NOW from the good people at @humoristbooks.bsky.social.
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My neighbor put a sign in her window asking what my cat’s name was. It was a lovely little bit of human interaction at a time when I really needed it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
My neighbor put a sign in her window asking what my cat’s name was. It was a lovely little bit of human interaction at a time when I really needed it.
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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This broadly tallies with my experience of teaching, and what colleagues have shared, over the last decade or so, though of course there are exceptions
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This broadly tallies with my experience of teaching, and what colleagues have shared, over the last decade or so, though of course there are exceptions
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is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is Microsoft Excel a feminist? Is Gemini a queer ally? Is this graphing calculator my friend
I’m increasingly convinced that, setting aside all other concerns, the thing about genAI is that nobody likes its output.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’m increasingly convinced that, setting aside all other concerns, the thing about genAI is that nobody likes its output.
Listening to a true crime podcast, and the host is like, “important context: it was common for parents to allow their children outside during the 1980s, even unattended. Older children even made their own social plans. It was a different time.”
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Listening to a true crime podcast, and the host is like, “important context: it was common for parents to allow their children outside during the 1980s, even unattended. Older children even made their own social plans. It was a different time.”
New book pickups.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New book pickups.
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Carney's energy minister, who was a colleague of his at Goldman Sachs.
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Carney's energy minister, who was a colleague of his at Goldman Sachs.
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If I were trying to explain Canadian political parties to outsiders, I’d probably say that the Liberals are a party made up entirely of people voted Most Likely to Succeed in their high school yearbook.
May 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If I were trying to explain Canadian political parties to outsiders, I’d probably say that the Liberals are a party made up entirely of people voted Most Likely to Succeed in their high school yearbook.
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Feeling definitive about this one.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Feeling definitive about this one.
“Leading with the Chin is a fascinating examination of the changing representations of twentieth-century masculinity in Esquire, America’s oldest men’s interest magazine.”
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November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Leading with the Chin is a fascinating examination of the changing representations of twentieth-century masculinity in Esquire, America’s oldest men’s interest magazine.”
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
Why aren’t more Hideo Gosha films available on disc? Criterion has a bunch streaming, but even there they’re missing GOYOKIN and TENCHU! #filmsky
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Why aren’t more Hideo Gosha films available on disc? Criterion has a bunch streaming, but even there they’re missing GOYOKIN and TENCHU! #filmsky
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I really enjoyed the first season of Last Samurai Standing, but I got the impression that the show did not think it was as silly as it obviously is.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I really enjoyed the first season of Last Samurai Standing, but I got the impression that the show did not think it was as silly as it obviously is.
I really enjoyed the first season of Last Samurai Standing, but I got the impression that the show did not think it was as silly as it obviously is.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I really enjoyed the first season of Last Samurai Standing, but I got the impression that the show did not think it was as silly as it obviously is.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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There’s a reason there’s audio of Orson Welles complaining during the Findus’ froze peas commercial, but none of him complaining during TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. That reason? Great writing.
August 23, 2024 at 7:09 PM
There’s a reason there’s audio of Orson Welles complaining during the Findus’ froze peas commercial, but none of him complaining during TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. That reason? Great writing.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
I’ve been trying to figure out when I became aware of Udo Kier. And, as a teenager in Canada in the 1990s, I realize that I saw ACE VENTURA, JOHNNY MNEMONIC, and BARB WIRE in theatres. At some point, I must have wondered who this magnificent weirdo was.
We’re crushed to hear the news that the great Udo Kier has passed at the age of 81. As iconic as he was prolific, Kier’s contributions to the genre span nearly 300 screen credits, from BLOOD FOR DRACULA to BACURAU and beyond. Our condolences go out to his friends, family and legions of fans.
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I’ve been trying to figure out when I became aware of Udo Kier. And, as a teenager in Canada in the 1990s, I realize that I saw ACE VENTURA, JOHNNY MNEMONIC, and BARB WIRE in theatres. At some point, I must have wondered who this magnificent weirdo was.
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We’re crushed to hear the news that the great Udo Kier has passed at the age of 81. As iconic as he was prolific, Kier’s contributions to the genre span nearly 300 screen credits, from BLOOD FOR DRACULA to BACURAU and beyond. Our condolences go out to his friends, family and legions of fans.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
We’re crushed to hear the news that the great Udo Kier has passed at the age of 81. As iconic as he was prolific, Kier’s contributions to the genre span nearly 300 screen credits, from BLOOD FOR DRACULA to BACURAU and beyond. Our condolences go out to his friends, family and legions of fans.
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v cool thing to say right after you’e been murdered.
![Benma Hidari: [Ogami Itto has bested him and slashed him across the neck with a sword; blood is starting to flow from the wound, making a certain sound] My neck... my own neck... It sounds like it's wailing. My neck was sliced open diagonally. The cut wails like a cold winter wind. They call it "mogari-bue," - the whistle of a fallen tiger. I've always wished to kill someone, just once, and create such a fine cut and to sing this tune. Now I'm hearing it from my own neck. What a laugh.
[rolls over dead, with blood spurting out from his neck wound onto the sand](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b657bmpyrnxr3ayyxd4ywla3/bafkreif3lsbmd2kni5bqgtkya4auiwxmzhhrlqcdns6nxoztrhzafrmora@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
v cool thing to say right after you’e been murdered.
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Now playing (08:20 PM PST):
"The Grapes of Death" (1978)
By Jean Rollin
Runtime: 91 min.
"The Grapes of Death" (1978)
By Jean Rollin
Runtime: 91 min.
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Now playing (08:20 PM PST):
"The Grapes of Death" (1978)
By Jean Rollin
Runtime: 91 min.
"The Grapes of Death" (1978)
By Jean Rollin
Runtime: 91 min.