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Shawn Gilmore

@gipperfish.bsky.social

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Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · Apr 25

Now's a great time to check out my piece from a few weeks ago, considering how resistance and revolution are imagined in MachineGames' Wolfenstein reboots, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social:
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“We’re organizing for a revolution in America”: Remaking Resistance in Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) — The Vault of Culture

In this feature, Shawn Gilmore argues that MachineGames’ soft reboot entries in the Wolfenstein franchise, set in a world overrun by Nazi machines of war, increasingly humble (both physically and em...

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the Lone Futurist @thelonefuturist.bsky.social · Aug 4

New carcinization just dropped.

"Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds" share.google/z99scfM74clo...

Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age, study finds

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ta...

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 4h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Sebastián Píriz @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social · 6h

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 7h

Tough question, my man, but I’ll give it a whirl (🧵)

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 7h

Awesome work, @nsousanis.bsky.social!

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 14h

Today's installment in my 31-day essay series on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN is about the illusion of middle class domestic calm in Haddonfield, how Tommy Doyle sees through it, and how Laurie Strode gets swept up in it just as the knife's about to come down.

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Tracing The Shape 12: The Boogeyman Is Outside

There's a moment just before Annie Brackett is murdered inside her car at the Wallace house that speaks to a certain thematic undercurrent running throughout Halloween. Annie, clad only in a men's dre...

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 8h

But with fascism

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Reuben Willmott @reubs.bsky.social · Oct 30

Four ads from the Previews catalogue for Topps adaptation of the Coppola Dracula movie

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 8h

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Slangword Scott @slangwordscott.bsky.social · 10h

Jack Kirby @skirball.bsky.social This was a wall. Kirby's stuff looks great blown up.

Jack Kirby Street Code splash blown up to wall size.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 17h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 11h

Definitely can’t be good for you to consume that era’s pigments and such… 😉

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ri-ndex.bsky.social @ri-ndex.bsky.social · 14h

I’m above politics, that’s why I’m appearing on Fox News this morning.

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Chirs @aesungaia.neocities.org · 2d

LAZINESS IS VIRTUOUS AND I'M NOT JOKING

Drawing of Myrrh relaxing in a hammock, wearing a bikini and star-shaped shades, declaring 'You are morally obligated to slack off!!!'

A very large, bold caption reads: 'Don't be productive! Capitalism robbed you of your life. Steal it back!!!'

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 12h

Just avoid the temptation to eat it! youtu.be/G8_ch6wsWjs?...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17h

When a default argumentative position is rejecting field consensus but field consensus has not been pursued and generally hasn’t existed with an clarity since the 60s, then the arguments take on the affect of a cafeteria food fight

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17h

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 13h

Hey Bluesky, could you help me spread the word about my Patreon? Signing on as a patron is probably the best way to help keep me afloat as a fabric artist, writer and human being. My goal for the weekend is to get one new patron.

www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

fabric art, weird little guys, puppets

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 13h

A peacemaker, eh? bsky.app/profile/gipp...

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 14h

Well, who am I to argue wtih Tomazooma?!

Tomazooma in Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four #80 (Marvel, Nov 1980)

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 15h

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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