Dr ShinyGoth
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
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🇺🇸"The BBC removed part of Rutger Bregman's Reith lecture, where he alleged Donald Trump was the most openly corrupt president in US history"
🔇"If the national broadcaster can't air defensible claims, what hope is there for any of our free press to effectively challenge power?"
🔇"If the national broadcaster can't air defensible claims, what hope is there for any of our free press to effectively challenge power?"
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🇺🇸"The BBC removed part of Rutger Bregman's Reith lecture, where he alleged Donald Trump was the most openly corrupt president in US history"
🔇"If the national broadcaster can't air defensible claims, what hope is there for any of our free press to effectively challenge power?"
🔇"If the national broadcaster can't air defensible claims, what hope is there for any of our free press to effectively challenge power?"
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to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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I love the holidays where we all gather around and listen to Geoffrey tell us gay koans.
not unrelatedly viz the culture at that school once i was walking around in studded loafers that were, yeah, maybe a bit too flashy for a seminar on the american west in literature and someone i didn't know stopped me and was like "why are you wearing those?" he was not wearing any shoes at all
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I love the holidays where we all gather around and listen to Geoffrey tell us gay koans.
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of course, there's arendt on the right to have rights: www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...
“The Right to Have Rights” and the Plight of the Stateless
A politics of resentment of international institutions has taken hold in the age of Trump and Putin.
www.newyorker.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
of course, there's arendt on the right to have rights: www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Post pies please
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Post pies please
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WIFE: I learned that the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers...
ME: Because everyone clogs the toilets?
WIFE (eyes narrowing): ... because people dump turkey grease down the sink.
ME: Because everyone clogs the toilets?
WIFE (eyes narrowing): ... because people dump turkey grease down the sink.
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
WIFE: I learned that the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers...
ME: Because everyone clogs the toilets?
WIFE (eyes narrowing): ... because people dump turkey grease down the sink.
ME: Because everyone clogs the toilets?
WIFE (eyes narrowing): ... because people dump turkey grease down the sink.
It should be possible to study sport at a university level as part of human flourishing without undercutting every other human enterprise with terrible funding decisions.
As always, the thing with discourse around huge spending on college sports is that *even if* a specific high profile school is net positive on its sports program, the vast majority of schools are in the red on pumping money into sports boondoggles and it’s a major budgetary problem across the sector
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It should be possible to study sport at a university level as part of human flourishing without undercutting every other human enterprise with terrible funding decisions.
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Udo’s favorite character to play was Dracula in Blood for Dracula.
He spent the entirety of filming Shadow of the Vampire being jealous of Willem Dafoe.
He loved being a vampire in any movie that he could get to be a vampire in. I love his weirdness in every movie he’s in. #FrightClub
He spent the entirety of filming Shadow of the Vampire being jealous of Willem Dafoe.
He loved being a vampire in any movie that he could get to be a vampire in. I love his weirdness in every movie he’s in. #FrightClub
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Udo’s favorite character to play was Dracula in Blood for Dracula.
He spent the entirety of filming Shadow of the Vampire being jealous of Willem Dafoe.
He loved being a vampire in any movie that he could get to be a vampire in. I love his weirdness in every movie he’s in. #FrightClub
He spent the entirety of filming Shadow of the Vampire being jealous of Willem Dafoe.
He loved being a vampire in any movie that he could get to be a vampire in. I love his weirdness in every movie he’s in. #FrightClub
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"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
Texas man faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected pamphlets
A man in Texas faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected zines and pamphlets.
reason.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
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Similar to how abolition speech & press were banned throughout the south before the civil war, based on the claim that those expressions would incite violent insurrections by enslaved people.
"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
Texas man faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected pamphlets
A man in Texas faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected zines and pamphlets.
reason.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Similar to how abolition speech & press were banned throughout the south before the civil war, based on the claim that those expressions would incite violent insurrections by enslaved people.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Warner Music signs deal with AI song generator Suno after settling lawsuit
Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Business live – latest updates
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It's really cool that rainbows turned out to be queer-coded because I can tell you with confidence I was gonna be all-in on "rainbows are pretty i like rainbows" regardless.
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It's really cool that rainbows turned out to be queer-coded because I can tell you with confidence I was gonna be all-in on "rainbows are pretty i like rainbows" regardless.
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'“It is … almost certain that I can no longer publish or produce any new work within the UK while this proscription remains in effect" ... it was possible that her publisher Faber & Faber would be legally prohibited from paying her the royalties she was owed.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
'“It is … almost certain that I can no longer publish or produce any new work within the UK while this proscription remains in effect" ... it was possible that her publisher Faber & Faber would be legally prohibited from paying her the royalties she was owed.' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
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"The CIA has denied the allegations of brutality among the units, saying they were the result of Taliban propaganda...However, USCIS used a Human Rights Watch report decrying the units as a reason to deny US citizenship to an Afghan soldier who had worked alongside American forces"
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"The CIA has denied the allegations of brutality among the units, saying they were the result of Taliban propaganda...However, USCIS used a Human Rights Watch report decrying the units as a reason to deny US citizenship to an Afghan soldier who had worked alongside American forces"
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they will die mad that they've already lost because, crucially and irrevocably, they've already lost
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
they will die mad that they've already lost because, crucially and irrevocably, they've already lost
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March 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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When I saw Arlo Guthrie in concert in 1997, he said the Library of Congress acquired a copy of ALICE’S RESTAURANT during the Nixon administration and that he believes that Nixon listened to “Alice’s Restaurant” exactly one time and that’s what accounts for the missing 18 minutes of the Nixon tapes
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When I saw Arlo Guthrie in concert in 1997, he said the Library of Congress acquired a copy of ALICE’S RESTAURANT during the Nixon administration and that he believes that Nixon listened to “Alice’s Restaurant” exactly one time and that’s what accounts for the missing 18 minutes of the Nixon tapes
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Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
Wait as an art installation this could slap
You'd think you'd at least be able to use the magnets to hang one (1) sheet of paper on your refrigerator but no lol they can't even do that unless your goal vis a vis refrigerator art is for it to slowly slide down the side of the fridge til it falls off in the night every few days
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Wait as an art installation this could slap
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Thanksgiving.
“I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” Lopez Belloza told the Globe from Honduras, recounting her frightening experience. “I’m losing everything.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” Lopez Belloza told the Globe from Honduras, recounting her frightening experience. “I’m losing everything.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Thanksgiving.
“I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” Lopez Belloza told the Globe from Honduras, recounting her frightening experience. “I’m losing everything.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” Lopez Belloza told the Globe from Honduras, recounting her frightening experience. “I’m losing everything.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...