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Jay Shelat

@jshelat1.bsky.social

PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own. https://www.jayshelat.com

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Leg day at the gym and the first thing I did was ram my shin into one of the machines

09.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bugonia is a goofy movie

09.03.2026 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this for you

08.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shit like this just goes to show, despite being painful for those in violently excludes, how stupid racism is

07.03.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

Gays and Girls movie night at my house! My friends are over to watch ATONEMENT, one of my favorite film adaptations. Everyone is watching enrapturedβ€”with pizza and wine.

07.03.2026 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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REMINDER! The deadline to submit a panel/roundtable/seminar proposal is MARCH 13!!

You can do it here: asap17.exordo.com

06.03.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg yesss! The Asha Bhosle song??!?

06.03.2026 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is only fun if it’s Oscar Isaac AS Frankenstein

06.03.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WHY AM I AWAKE

06.03.2026 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧡 1/5

06.03.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1537    πŸ” 879    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 131

That yet another dumbass is running an inherently racist department is so alarming that we can’t help but laugh

05.03.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago on the verge of spring πŸ“Έ #photography

28.02.2026 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Lauren Groff collection is out! I’m a huge Groff girly

05.03.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know! It’s what I get for getting it second hand. Is the show any good? It seems pretty faithful to the novel

04.03.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy shit this book is incredible. As i finished it, a single tear fell down my cheek.

04.03.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Heinous, racist drivel. This is what forever war is meant to be. We saw this same β€œshock and awe” playbook in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere after 9/11. β€œHomeland security,” whether abroad or domestically, comes at the expense of non-white bodies.

04.03.2026 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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02.03.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 623    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7
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Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...

Friends! Would you or somebody you know want to review our @uminnpress.bsky.social edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @asapartsnow.bsky.social? If so, please head on the journal's site (asapjournal.com/submit/) and pitch your review!

Also, please repost! Thank you!

02.03.2026 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Also Khamenei’s killing isn’t the end of anything. He was 86. Iran is run by a government. If anything this strengthens & preserves his legacy as fighting Israel to the death.

Imperialism is NEVER the path to anyone’s freedom. That’s the point.

01.03.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 255    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Maura is so so so so so dumb. This season of the Traitors was excellent

27.02.2026 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe are not challenged to love the monster … or presented Heathcliff as the wretched, aging tormenter who Lockwood meets in Brontë’s frame narrative. We cannot transgress, in other words, if loving the monster – no longer monstrous in action or in form – is already a given.”

26.02.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

God, if someone made me a mixtape I’d fall in love

26.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If AI is an all-encompassing movement to rationalise and dehumanise life, and poetry necessarily asserts the human and the beyond-rational, then poetry is the only viable response to the philosophical implications of AI

Obviously I would say this because I'm a poet, but y'know... this is our moment

26.02.2026 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

This is just so utterly devastating. Robert Jr’s openness about his addiction struggles marked such a shift in RHOSLCβ€”it was one of the most raw moments in the franchise’s history. And it was so inspiring to see Mary support him in the way he needed.

25.02.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can i come

25.02.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything about AI would be a lot less frustrating if the people peddling it weren’t so fucking stupid

25.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Me @ Sebastian

25.02.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s really hard to want to ride trains/support public transit in America when they’re just awfully supported by the government

25.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pictures I took on a lil day trip up to Milwaukee Sunday πŸ“Έ #photography

24.02.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not this same but another Dude Bro has been sitting at the same machine texting for 17:34 minutes!

24.02.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0