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VIM! IT IS NOT A HINGED OPINION THREAD.

i have lots of impeccable opinions but that was not the assignment.

(also, all of my opinions are peccable.)

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

when my friends post on the unhinged opinions thread: oh what an interesting foible!

when strangers post on the unhinged opinion thread: YOU BUMBLING FOOL! YOU NINCOMPOOP! YOU MONSTER!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

you can reply to any sincere compliment by saying “it has pockets!!” and doing a little dance

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

color!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 2d

the request wasn't for hinged literary opinions.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 2d

i think we can give up on the short story as a failed experiment.

it makes theoretical sense--long poems are good and so are short poems--but it just doesn't work in practice.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Thoreau you would've loved zillow

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price. I walked over each farmer’s premises, tasted his wild apples, discoursed on husbandry with him, took his farm at his price, at any price, mortgaging it to him in my mind; even put a higher price on it,—took everything but a deed of it,—took his word for his deed, for I dearly love to talk,—cultivated it, and him too to some extent, I trust, and withdrew when I had enjoyed it long enough, leaving him to carry it on. This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends. Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 2d

it me

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

Most diagnoses of “academia” (and many subfields) are actually just English PhDs yelling at each other about stuff in English departments

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 2d

i remember there being turmoil because one student worked on "tact" and another on "touch" (in different periods!) and that was TOO CLOSE

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I distinctly remember the pressure to "work on" a noun.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 4d

fucks sake

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 5d

Reading request! If you could recommend one text that explored the history of an idea/concept in a riveting and surprising way what would it be? Please re-skeet if you can. I know this is a niche ask.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 5d

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

aaup-texas.org

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