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(It Was a Graveyard Josh)

@shmeppy.bsky.social

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Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies. Interloping but proud Portlander. Dog and donkey lover, foe of AI, Douglas Sirk acolyte, blunderer of pawns, despairing Broncos fan. The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 17d

*banjo strumming in background* Dear Mother, I write from my bunker in Beaverton, my supply of almond milk running low. Who knows when this affair will be over, but for love of country, please send a new beanie when you can. 27th September 2025

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 10h

I’m so glad that it’s already April and the school year is already over, phew, it’s been a long one.

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 10h

🎵 Put on your Sunday clothes 🎵

Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 11h

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 14h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 13h

just knowing there are college graduates getting paid less than minimum wage to sort through all the dirty texts to help train the ChatGPT sexbots

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 16h

the meme's a dank and epic treat
but none I think do there reskeet

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 16h

no unhinged burrito takes allowed here. Burritos are a perfect food. disagree = instant block

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 17h

how do you think Edmond felt!

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Monte Cristo x 2

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Ok switching up the vibes. Everyone recommend a book you like. Or a sandwich or something

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged literary opinion: imagination is the the living power and prime agent of all human perception

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

There are two types of people in the world…

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged literary opinion, my skeets are immortal

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged!

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged literary opinion, about suffering the old masters were sometimes wrong #sorrynotsorry

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Best one so far

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Michael Jackson deemed it necessary to inform us that he didn’t believe in the occult

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged literary opinion, Pure Moods imagines a world where time drifts slowly

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

Unhinged literary opinion: there is not a monster at the end of the book

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

i'll tell you what's unhinged... the deal I can get you on this used Honda Civic

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

🎵 most of all we want the crust
help me eat the crust 🎶

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

my unhinged literary opinion is that I like pie better than cake (and I am literary so it counts)

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

You will be required to have your camera on and off at the same time

(It Was a Graveyard Josh) @shmeppy.bsky.social · 1d

My quantum MOOC webinar is going to be so data centered!

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Professors, the Chronicle will be emailing you soon about how "Quantum Reshapes Pedagogy" (pres. by Northrop Grumman)

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

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Signed, sealed, delivered: Why NASA is sending poetry to space

NASA is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter with poetry on board—the latest in NASA’s history of sending cultural objects into space.

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