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David B Hobbs

@deebeehobbs.bsky.social

Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár

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I just want Wagner Moura to win Best Actor, is that too much to ask

06.03.2026 19:17 — 👍 74    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 1

this is what it’s like teaching a large lecture class right now

06.03.2026 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the dissonance between his visage and all the frisky lil buttons on his Spurs hat

05.03.2026 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

noooooooo

05.03.2026 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AYYYYYYYYY

05.03.2026 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

surely VAR will go our way at some point…

05.03.2026 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

of course! I leaned pretty heavily on @manshel.bsky.social ’s book for that unit, which worked nicely!

05.03.2026 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was surprised by how much my first years enjoyed Robinson’s Gilead, which teaches well on this front! Could also imagine teaching one or two from Sonnet L’Abbé’s Sonnet’s Shakespeare early on

05.03.2026 16:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

05.03.2026 04:01 — 👍 4220    🔁 2113    💬 63    📌 77

is The Thomas Crown Affair (1999, dir. John McTiernan) considered “copaganda”

01.03.2026 05:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
 

Fredric Jameson's name has not emerged in the Epstein Files.
www.justice.gov/epstein

04.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I agree! I knew that it was a bit of a punchline before I saw the movie but it really worked for me

27.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

gotta be the Parkway Motel in beautiful Wawa Ontario:
parkwaymotel.com

23.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

he could fix me

21.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the audible audiobook of Greg Grandin’s “America, América” ends with a preview of ”Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone”

21.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

reminded of the Dean I was TA’ing for who told me “NYU is a very profitable hospital that is obliged for tax reasons to offer college classes”

20.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
my tiny dog, framemogging me

my tiny dog, framemogging me

framemogged by tiny dog who wants a walk

20.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
20.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 320    🔁 164    💬 4    📌 2

Calgary

20.02.2026 05:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the head & sub is “Conservatives Want Colleges to Speak, Too:
Critics of institutional neutrality might get more than they bargained for“ and yes it does also favorably cite an essay in The Free Press and another by Tyler Austin Harper

19.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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leave it to our Chronicle of Higher Ed to quote Les Wexner without contextualizing info — was Prince Andrew not available to weigh in?

19.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

19.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 4028    🔁 649    💬 215    📌 217

oh dear lol

19.02.2026 06:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

exciting! looking forward to the piece

19.02.2026 05:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

…which, to be clear, was cool and good!

19.02.2026 05:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it’s the least of it, but…obviously our system is failing too if we’re allowing That Shirt to be sold and worn

19.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

probably people know this but as a long-time NYU prof, Doctorow was often at the forefront of protesting the school’s expansion into Greenwich Village, including financing some legal battles to prevent it from acquiring additional properties

19.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you need to MOGG (Meditate On Great Genres of literature)

18.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 2099    🔁 177    💬 12    📌 5
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I find this so fucking sad actually

it's from a great article by @bildoperationen.bsky.social

journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...

17.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 169    🔁 58    💬 6    📌 12