Ian
@brocktoon.bsky.social
Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication.
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"911, what's your emergency?"
In an absolute diamond-cutter accent, just horrible stuff on every vowel: "They're throwin' hoagies at Patullo's home over in Moorestown!"
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
In an absolute diamond-cutter accent, just horrible stuff on every vowel: "They're throwin' hoagies at Patullo's home over in Moorestown!"
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Eagles OC's house gets egged after loss to Bears
The New Jersey home of Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo was vandalized with eggs early Saturday morning, following the team's loss to the Bears, police said.
www.espn.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"911, what's your emergency?"
In an absolute diamond-cutter accent, just horrible stuff on every vowel: "They're throwin' hoagies at Patullo's home over in Moorestown!"
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
In an absolute diamond-cutter accent, just horrible stuff on every vowel: "They're throwin' hoagies at Patullo's home over in Moorestown!"
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
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In NC, there are often 0 appointments available at the DMV - to the point where people trade availability in the local mom’s Facebook group.
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In NC, there are often 0 appointments available at the DMV - to the point where people trade availability in the local mom’s Facebook group.
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I think we're gonna learn how badly we fucked up regulating this stuff when the next 10 years turn into streamers and smart tv manufacturers both trying to extort each other for bridge tolls, a version of cable carriage fees on steroids
The streaming giant quietly removed the feature that lets you control content on your TV screen using a mobile device. The company says the feature was not widely used. www.wired.com/story/netfli...
Netflix Won't Let You Cast Shows From Your Phone to Your TV Anymore
The streaming giant quietly removed the feature that lets you control content on your TV screen using a mobile device. The company says the feature was not widely used.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I think we're gonna learn how badly we fucked up regulating this stuff when the next 10 years turn into streamers and smart tv manufacturers both trying to extort each other for bridge tolls, a version of cable carriage fees on steroids
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_well, try and imagine this today, a university without investments..._
[Jameson in 2003 in an aside in lecture six of his seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory]
[Jameson in 2003 in an aside in lecture six of his seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory]
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
_well, try and imagine this today, a university without investments..._
[Jameson in 2003 in an aside in lecture six of his seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory]
[Jameson in 2003 in an aside in lecture six of his seminar on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory]
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
Made a 90s rave playlist for someone unfamiliar with the form. She just texted me in a tizzy because she's up to Halcyon
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Made a 90s rave playlist for someone unfamiliar with the form. She just texted me in a tizzy because she's up to Halcyon
I always hoot and holler when anyone talks about the Republicus letter because this country has just been libertarians with weird pseudonyms driving the discourse.
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I always hoot and holler when anyone talks about the Republicus letter because this country has just been libertarians with weird pseudonyms driving the discourse.
All he does is score goals
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
All he does is score goals
I hate every single one of these Chelsea players, per usual
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hate every single one of these Chelsea players, per usual
>:D
Someone's getting sent off in this game and it could be from either team
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
>:D
Someone's getting sent off in this game and it could be from either team
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Someone's getting sent off in this game and it could be from either team
What's this I'm hearing about Tottenham?
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What's this I'm hearing about Tottenham?
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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When I was young, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was my master class in playwriting - wordplay, wit, structure. I saw Arcadia three times in a row, just trying to figure out HOW he did that. He was utterly singular, RIP Tom Stoppard, there will never be another www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
When I was young, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was my master class in playwriting - wordplay, wit, structure. I saw Arcadia three times in a row, just trying to figure out HOW he did that. He was utterly singular, RIP Tom Stoppard, there will never be another www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
The kid is fighting with my father over who gets to eat the turkey neck
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The kid is fighting with my father over who gets to eat the turkey neck
That first episode of the new Stranger Things season was pretty dire
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That first episode of the new Stranger Things season was pretty dire
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I canceled my subscription to @washingtonpost.com months ago
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I canceled my subscription to @washingtonpost.com months ago
We got the bright idea to put hard sauce on mince pies and let me tell you that's a journey.
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We got the bright idea to put hard sauce on mince pies and let me tell you that's a journey.
The best holiday is nearly here
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The best holiday is nearly here
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
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This stupendous achievement will go up online with zero fanfare but I have to read 15 articles a week about how some chud thinks he reinvented hieroglyphics via conversation with ChatGPT
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This stupendous achievement will go up online with zero fanfare but I have to read 15 articles a week about how some chud thinks he reinvented hieroglyphics via conversation with ChatGPT
I 40 looks shockingly clear for the Thanksgiving drive. Almost too clear...
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I 40 looks shockingly clear for the Thanksgiving drive. Almost too clear...