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Erik Eklund

@eklundsays.bsky.social

3x award-winning Nabokov specialist literature and theology at Northwest research fellow, Russian stuff at Northwestern author, AND THEN NOTHING (2026) great at parking “The dumbest smart person I’ve ever met” —my beloved wife

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Who do I know in Philly?

16.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did Mark Driscoll write the last line?

16.02.2026 04:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To quote The Big Lebowski in the direction of PCA theobros on Calvin: “You’re not wrong; you’re just an asshole.”

14.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Calvin is as great as the PCA says he is, but for very non-PCA reasons.

14.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

This is so incredibly dumb but there’s some family drama I can never share with anyone that just makes this so damn funny to me, a research fellow affiliated with one of these schools 😈

14.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And bruv it runs so deep too though. The writer in an interview compared himself to Kinbote, Villeneuve to Shade, and started pointing out all these allusions he may or may not have forced into the film.

14.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That and all the Pale Fire

14.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I was the shadow of waxwing slain etc etc etc

14.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You’re the fucking Gallup poll. What the fuck are they going to do to you? There’s nothing that calls your own integrity into question quite like licking boot.

11.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fucking weak ass motherfuckers

11.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man is standing in front of a crowd with his arms outstretched and a sign that says fine behind him . ALT: a man is standing in front of a crowd with his arms outstretched and a sign that says fine behind him .

How long O Lord

11.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One reason TED talks became so incredibly popular was that their house intellectual style papers over thoughtfulness of the kind serious humanities research requires, allowing people who would rather not think hard to feel that they sound profound.

07.02.2026 13:57 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Close reading close reading close reading. And explaining to them that I can only grade what is written, not what I think they may have meant by what is written.

05.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Though, I should add, in my most recent article, I took myself to task in a footnote. But the reviewers don’t know it’s me yet. But if this gets published, it’ll legit be: “hey, look how wrong I was. Just completely stupid of me. And here’s the page where I now believe I was completely wrong.”

05.02.2026 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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snoop dogg is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying i wanna thank me for believing in me ALT: snoop dogg is giving a speech in front of a microphone and saying i wanna thank me for believing in me
05.02.2026 00:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Quiet about the things Jesus is loud about. Loud about the things he was quiet about.

05.02.2026 00:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People are inconsistent and imperfect, we salvage glimmers of joy where we find them.

03.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Dear god please

01.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This’ll be fun.
Jazz Band
Corporate Finance
Microeconomic Development
Business Policy, Ethics, and Strategy Planning
Employment Law

31.01.2026 01:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I burst out laughing on slide 3.

30.01.2026 03:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How many times do I have to say that Jorge Luis Borges is the true author of Q?

29.01.2026 21:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

“and you shall slaughter the ram, and shall take its blood and dash it against all sides of the altar”

26.01.2026 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

“and you shall slaughter the ram, and shall take its blood and dash it against all sides of the altar”

26.01.2026 02:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Drown in the abyss that is the success that only God in his infinite wisdom grants to Super Bowl winners yes I agree 😂

26.01.2026 02:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You live in Portland. Get your mind right. You have one allegiance. 😂

26.01.2026 02:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lucas let me vent 😂 it’s a penalty that happened this game that did not result in a reversal equivalent to first from fourth. But also I am all for taunting with reasonable penalties. Bad sportsmanship is part of sportsmanship.

26.01.2026 02:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes! But! It’s so dumb. Bad sportsmanship is *part of sports*. You can grab someone by the face guard and lose no yards, but god forbid you taunt the guys on the bench, who aren’t even part of the play?!

26.01.2026 02:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

World Cup 2022. Argentina and The Netherlands fucking brawled. Then the game resumed where the ball fell. Because soccer is a sport, not a game of grievances.

26.01.2026 02:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In no other sport does mouthing off get you a reversal like that. It literally makes no sense.

26.01.2026 02:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don’t watch football often but my god that you can award first down from fourth and twelve because the other team was mean is proof that football is a sport for little bitch republicans.

26.01.2026 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

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