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Tobias Wilson-Bates

@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

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Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · May 26

Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!

William Morris giving you leaves and flowers like a boss!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

An old lady? A dog?! Someone from Belgium?!?

Pick your poison. INSTANT CLASSIC!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Becoming a world renowned writer is simple

Step 1: something mysterious happens, probably a crime

Step 2: a character you would *not* expect to be good at solving mysteries is on the case

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

I think my level of commitment is somewhere between “would walk up very long stairs” and “eat something made out of bugs so long as it doesn’t actively look like bugs when I eat it”

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Anything entering the comfy cavity where I keep my eyeball has crossed a rubicon for me

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Bad enough to make you question calculus

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

You could tell me that I would be remembered as the greatest mind in history and rewarded with fame and wealth and I STILL would not stick aforementioned instrument into my eye

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3h

Nightmare fuel

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t care how many times I encounter the fact, it will never fully be accepted by my brain that Isaac Newton stuck a bodkin needle into his eye as part of his experiments on optics

Newton looking like he’s just made up his mind to put a needle in his eye

A bodkin needle. The kind I would never ever put in my eye no matter what

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4h

Crushed and bitter that I would choose Faulkner 😭😭😭

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4h

Middlemarch

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 7h

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 7h

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

Look, I don’t care what kind of life it’s led before I met it. All that matters to me is that it’s olive oil.

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 9h

i've long said calling olive oil 'extra virgin' is bullying

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

Look, I don’t care what kind of life it’s led before I met it. All that matters to me is that it’s olive oil.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

Look, I don’t care what kind of life it’s led before I met it. All that matters to me is that it’s olive oil.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 9h

It takes a loooooooong time to get up and moving as a story and almost every character is unlikeable which is sort of the joke of the book 😅 Tom Pinch is great though, and Pecksniff is an all time great punchline character

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 10h

important caveat:

Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 11h

1000% in agreement with all of this, but am also a bit nervous that the (very necessary) pushback against fads, hype, & fluff will morph into folks romanticizing the “good ol’ days” and/or lionizing ineffective, even harmful forms of “RETVRN Pedagogy” under the cover of being anti-edtech.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10h

Parents who had kids during a specific period will occasionally be suddenly haunted by a ghostly refrain: “Issa turn the wheel, TURN THE WHEEL, ISSA!”

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15h

This is truly grotesque. Teachers should not be using this stuff. If a school was pushing it on teachers who work with kids I care about, I'd make a big effing stink until they stopped. We have to not give into this.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

Revolutionary

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11h

More clothes should be named after the bodily reaction you have to wearing that piece of clothing. It can’t just be “sweat pants”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12h

I thought this was a great read

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12h

I imagine they will suddenly remember LA

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12h

Always for the briefest of moments scan the phrase as the “cannon wars”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12h

100%. I don’t we’ve arrived here for lack of people trying to find new paradigms to act as a center of gravity. Falcons and falconers etc