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Oceans guy. ACLS fellow. Fan of the SF Giants and the G train. Opinions mine. https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/kyle-mcauley/

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This is Jakobi Meyers erasure

21.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

25.06.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 16507    πŸ” 4019    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 666
NYT Best Movies of the 21stC: all Spy Game (2001)

NYT Best Movies of the 21stC: all Spy Game (2001)

Haven’t seen the right answer to the latest NYT puzzle yet so here you go

24.06.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THE MOTHERFUCKING KNICKS

22.05.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5

Update the tomatoes are taller but I have given many away so now everyone gets some light

20.05.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The piece though is more saliently about hatred vs. enjoyment / β€œbec[oming] a hater instead of a lover” and that is a false economy, one that has long been used to stifle criticism. It is not β€œmean” to dislike something. That’s engagement and that’s how culture and taste are made

20.05.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really though as a Jew I find the idea of just liking something/not hating completely alienating. And as an educator I think the retreat from criticism is bad for civil society. Culture needs haters

20.05.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Old shit, gotta get new ones this is New York baby

20.05.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Disinvited from next year’s seder

20.05.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

JC and FJ are great cites bc they connect SF to politics on a level deeper than theme. Still can't see the political significance of the hoverboard, and if anything plummeting T**la sales argue that people really do want the present to be less disappointing

15.05.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A fictional genre, a type of car, and a piece of consumer junk are very clearly not the same kinds of things. They of course could interact in a politically specific way but I am genuinely unsure how you think they do

15.05.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What I’m asking for is for you to break down your original point. Sci-fi, EVs, and hoverboards are all different categories of things. They’re all part of the same cultural field but in a way that’s so diffuse that I genuinely don’t get the political point you want to make

15.05.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No but they have different kinds of cultural significance than the other things you’re talking about

15.05.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah sci-fi can be annoyingly statist (notable exceptions exist) but the hoverboard is not β€œresearch” it was just a fad

15.05.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lol ofc they don’t, that’s marketing. Unsure what that has to do with a β€œshrinking concept of political futurity”

15.05.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You good bro?

15.05.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Grew tomatoes from seed this year and they’re so big now that the very tall plants are blocking the the medium tall plants from the grow lights and as the tallest person in my family I respect this shithead behavior

12.05.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸŒΉ

10.05.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean he probably will sit in a chair by the fire and after much thought have a stunning realization about those closest to him so who’s to say?

10.05.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

An American from the Midwest who moves to Europe? The pope is an Edith Wharton character

10.05.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New pope went to Villanova and the Knicks won last night, Brunson finals MVP has been ordained

08.05.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the only correct take on this piece

07.05.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! It’ll be a bummer not to be there for sure

05.05.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly 100% correct

05.05.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t unfortunately, Madison was too expensive

05.05.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him . Alt: Mad Max: Fury Road β€œthat’s bait” meme
05.05.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I think it’s because we came up during orthodox historicism’s final death grip on literary studies

05.05.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Realistic Imagination is as bracing today as it was in 1981 imo. A pleasure to read about realism as a flexible, imperfect mode rather than as the orthodox historicist hallucination we were told it was

05.05.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is! We have inherited a very doctrinaire idea of realism that needs significant reexamination. Frankenstein and Middlemarch are both realist novels even if they differ significantly at the level of story. George Levine thought this too fwiw

05.05.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does that make it sci-fi? I think it just makes it realism

05.05.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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