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Michael D. Dwyer

@michaelddwyer.bsky.social

film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com

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Admin want to be able to swoop in and take over the credentialing function of a course at will, undermining the power of faculty to strike.

05.08.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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05.08.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

After making a joke that *barely* implied that he found her attractive, lol

05.08.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You shouldn't talk to strangers like that.

04.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't talk to strangers like that.

04.08.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jim Acosta is obviously disgusting for this, but on the plus side it did make me remember this classic Conan bit www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4E...

04.08.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

these parents deserve all the compassion in the world and the political problem of gun violence merits real action. Distributing this video on Substack and YouTube is absolutely deranged behavior.

04.08.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no thank you!!

04.08.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are points in this piece where we are asked to sympathize with the grieving person who feels that their writing skills are inadequate or the pain too great to craft an obituary. YES. THAT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ALIVE. YOU FEEL HELPLESS AND BAD SOMETIMES. YOU CAN'T BOT YOUR WAY OUT OF THAT.

03.08.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the notion that we should make our grief "more efficient" is so revolting and inhuman i can't even express my contempt for it

03.08.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My country, America, yearns for freedom

03.08.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2779    πŸ” 461    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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Phenomenal tifo by the @greenmountainbhoys.bsky.social and the @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social faithful for the USL League Two Final at Virtue Field.

cc @sanders.senate.gov

03.08.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 514    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 35
[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, β€œtoday I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, β€œtoday I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

02.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 14387    πŸ” 4491    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 304

Get in losers, we’re evading punitive and exploitative surveillance and data capture of ourselves and our students by disabling lecture recordings, taking our classes completely off LMS, and assigning textbook and hard copy readings only.

02.08.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6
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Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

02.08.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12267    πŸ” 2040    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 54
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ICE and allies hit Ambridge with β€˜most intense’ roundup yet seen in Pittsburgh region Beaver County law enforcement partnered with federal immigration agents in the β€œmost intense” roundup to date. Two bystanders were also arrested.

This is where I am from-- for better (the people) and for worse (the cops). www.publicsource.org/beaver-count...

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learning how to understand yr desires and yr convictions (then how to reconcile them with one another), learning how to trust and how to be trustworthy...it's difficult & painful & not getting easier. And our culture's more interested in exploiting these young people than it is in helping them grow.

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In my own particular experience I have found what many young people are searching for, whether they know it or not, is less "how to be a man/woman" or "how to get laid" but rather "how to be a grown-up." this is distinct from the career/consumerist/moral instruction that they are bombarded with.

01.08.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

he definitely deserves the money he makes and always has. it's not his fault the union refuses to pay better goalscorers what they deserve

01.08.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

watched that shortly before attending my hs class reunion and it fucked me up a little, ngl

01.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

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You know it's special when Bretos hits a Letterman / James Herriot combo

01.08.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

extremely chelsea-coded

31.07.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt Teaser for Michael D. Dwyer's TINSEL AND RUST (Oxford University Press, 2025). Order the book here! Edit by Aldi Martinez.

My book comes out in 6 weeks. I am actively fighting my discomfort w/ self-promotion because a) I am proud of the work & b) if I don't let people know about it nobody else will. Here's a cool video edit my student made! I'll post the latest discount codes for pre-orders below. vimeo.com/1103015090

31.07.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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that shirt should be in regular rotation no matter what!!!

thank you!

31.07.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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