profchander

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there’s this episode where beavis and butthead are watching a video with words in it and butthead goes “if i wanted to read i’d, like, go to school”

i don’t play a ton but i loved how in spider-man you basically just start swinging around the city

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whatever happened to beginning in medias res — developers need to read the aeneid

how come all the video games that are highly rated it takes like 20 minutes of watching before you actually do anything fun

she’s a film theorist — she’s talking about those like riefenstahl who represent the beauty of their ideal state rather than the ugliness they want to eradicate

Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...

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(that’s rey chow in “ethics after idealism” — the point is that fascists are motivated by a kind of beauty qua purity rather than fear of the other or some irreconcilable internal conflict)

“[t]he most important sentiment involved in fascism is not a negative but a positive one: rather than hatefulness and destructiveness, fascism is about love and idealism.
Most of all it is a search for an idealized self-image through a heartfelt surrender to something higher and more beautiful.”

#OtD 3 Feb 1964 was one of the biggest civil rights protests when over 450,000 NYC students, mainly African-American and Puerto Rican, boycotted school over de facto segregation, organized by activist Bayard Rustin. NYC schools remain highly segregated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1017...

counts!

moving from my blumenbach chapter to my kant chapter means moving from a guy that like 6 scholars care about to a guy that like 6 million scholars care about -- so much 2ndary criticism

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campbell was one of the most popular poets of the day, read widely outside england and ireland as well! him and burns

yes

paineful

annotations help but yeah it’s a hard one!

i’m going be very cringe in class this morning

it’s vicious

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the city that always sweeps

definitely not my thing — i rarely give up after 3 episodes but…

i like a lot of them too — and different strokes etc — the only one i’ve liked since voyager is lower decks so i’m probably overly picky

gah i hate it so much!!

pitch meeting: ok so it’s star trek but it’s also revenge of the nerds!

ghost of gene roddenberry: oh fuck no

i’m not not considering juxtaposing “guess who’s back” and canto i

byron basically like “we need a little controversy cuz it feels so empty without me”

Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows?— Perhaps some virtuous blushes;-let them go- To you l envy neither fruit nor boughs-And for the fame you would engross below, The field is universal, and allows Scope to all such as feel the inherent glow: Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe, will try 'Gainst you the question with posterity.

not to be that poetry professor but this part of byron’s don juan reads like that eminem line where he lists the best rappers (reggie jay z 2pac biggie et al)

the great thing about social media is you’ll wake up with some random thought in your head, share it, and then forget about it until you check your notifications later