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Freddy Tran Nager

@professorfreddy.bsky.social

Marketing & Media Professor @USC | Creative Strategy Consultant | Writer | Raging Moderate | Los Angeleno | Cat Herder Site: https://www.AtomicTango.com LinkedIn: https://www.FreddyNager.com USC: https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/freddy-tran-nager

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I'm impressed by [YOUR NAME]. Despite having spent her life being called [YOUR NAME], she has the confidence to contact absolute strangers with completely generic sales cons. My advice to [YOUR NAME] would be to call herself "Kristen" instead. Of course, that's probably not her name.

01.03.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How cool is this?

#languages #linguistics #Ireland #timelinecleanse

28.02.2026 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The offer was too hard to pass up...

28.02.2026 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and glasses is sitting in front of a sign that says tnt on it . ALT: a man in a suit and glasses is sitting in front of a sign that says tnt on it .
27.02.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Former student: "Just a thought after starting... I’m already so tired of hearing agencies say "authentic" "πŸ˜‚

Me: "Ha ha ha. Now you understand my battle."

Former student: "Just a thought after starting... I’m already so tired of hearing agencies say "authentic" "πŸ˜‚ Me: "Ha ha ha. Now you understand my battle."

A former student just started working at a major social media platform, which entails dealing with #marketing agencies. Her first report vindicated my war on "authenticity."

26.02.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

23.02.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1081    πŸ” 402    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 30
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Shot pool today for the first time since before the pandemic. Loved seeing the House of Billiards (in the Valley) packed with young people + hearing songs from the jukebox at least twice as old as they were. Must shoot again soon. (Note: video below not me.)

23.02.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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All hail the Cap'n!!!
(with Crunch Berries, of course)

22.02.2026 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah hail the Cap'n!!!
(with Crunch Berries, of course)

22.02.2026 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I confess, I hadn't heard of #solarpunk until this terrific @clivethompson.bsky.social article. Now I have to figure out how I can join up...

#books #BookSky

21.02.2026 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I did that on the app a while ago, but on the web version I can't find any settings.

21.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
UCLA School Of Law admissions notice, with the user comment "What? UCLA is giving out scholars hips too?"

UCLA School Of Law admissions notice, with the user comment "What? UCLA is giving out scholars hips too?"

I use Google Translate for the Chinese platform Xiaohongshu, and sometimes the translations are a bit off. In this case, it's the word break in the user comment (last line).

Or maybe that's accurate, and UCLA is giving away parts of scholars to entice new students.

#AcademicChatter

21.02.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Consecutive posts in my Instagram feed:
Bernie Sanders promoting the billionaire tax, and an "ultra-exclusive" yacht club. Note that I don't follow either, and couldn't afford the latter.

I think I broke the algorithm.

P.S. Go, Bernie!

21.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Attention all #horror writers seeking a premise:

US Military Reviving 40,000-Year-Old Microbes

21.02.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
quote from Overheard L.A.:

"There should be a name for that weird place in your life where you're just waiting for your moment to hit, you know?"

"There is. It's called Los Angeles."

quote from Overheard L.A.: "There should be a name for that weird place in your life where you're just waiting for your moment to hit, you know?" "There is. It's called Los Angeles."

True.

Source: www.instagram.com/p/DU_GX4vkta... #LosAngeles

20.02.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this quote: "Most founders are too afraid to be disliked. They want to be neutral. That is a recipe for obscurity."

20.02.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
RFK Jr.’s iconic nevernude style

RFK Jr.’s iconic nevernude style

Should I be working on an article? Yes. Am I making RFK Jr. memes instead? Maybe.

20.02.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin

Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but now they think it's a tectonic fault…
(Volcano, to be exact)

Fascinating bit of #China #archaeology and #history.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

19.02.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't there a theory that crime rates are correlated with the population of young men? Given the relatively low number of 20-somethings today, do you think that could be one of many factors?

19.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's an ancillary path: "Is it more appropriate for Facebook or Instagram? Post it anyway."

18.02.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Poetic. I love "The Lights Of L.A. County."

16.02.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG, I was just thinking about Lyle Lovett yesterday. I used to do marketing for his albums.

16.02.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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On this day we commemorate a time when the United States actually had leaders who were presidential.

#PresidentsDay

16.02.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

16.02.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I second that emotion.

15.02.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resistance infrastructure.

15.02.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 954    πŸ” 504    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 18
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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

Scathing indictment of American #capitalism by a conservative economist. Explains why everything from jobs to shopping is getting shittier. We can evict the goons from DC (the sooner the better), but unless we rein back "financialization," the decline will continue.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

14.02.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For a Valentine's Day Caturday...

14.02.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll have to check them out!

13.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I recall listening to a thriller in my car, and just sitting in a parking lot waiting for the killer ending.

On the flipside, I've found myself in the middle of long tedious printed books, and lamenting, "I've got 200 more pages of this?!"

13.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0