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SethRudy

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Literature Professor specializing in #Enlightenment #encyclopedism and the #HistoryOfKnowledge.

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As true today as it was when written. Sing it, Macheath!

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I’ve had a terrible month and I demand you cheer me up with compliments about my scholarship, wit, physical attractiveness, and pleasant aroma.

Or money, you could send money.

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And yet, I cannot unfollow myself.

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Wild to me that democracy will be destroyed simply because technology allowed too many of us to communicate with each other

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How did the eye-roll come to mean what it means? Is it universal or geospecific? How do other cultures express the same sentiment?

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@benjamingeer @KarenStrickholm apparently the eye roll as incredulity is very recent…!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-do-people-roll-their-eyes-psychologist-suggests-theories-for-passiveaggressive-sign-in-teenage-girls-a6881371.html

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Ok an English country house murder mystery but it’s the US House of Representatives and the nominees for speaker keep piling up…

Death on the Aisle?
Murder on the Disoriented Mess?
And Then There Were Democrats?

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My students came perilously close to seeing a glimmer of the real me today.

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The GOP is failing. The blood of Republicans is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten…

video/mp4

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You all were very kind about yesterday’s . Have another!

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Everything is still awful. But I saw a .

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No more coaches in Congress.

And quite a bit fewer of them in academia, while we’re at it.

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Someone in my neighborhood is absolutely playing “so happy together” on a tuba

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It’s the easiest thing in the world to demonize the other and appropriate to oneself a dangerously false and misleading moral certitude.

So I imagine we’ll just keep doing that.

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Ooh I’m Odysseus, I fucked around the Mediterranean with my mates for a decade and got into some scrapes, ooh I’m so epic, dude I took a toddler to the grocery store, Target, and a Michael’s yesterday, so stfu

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Muppet-mode

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Speaker of the House, quick to get kicked out.
Sold his soul to Satan but he got no clout.
Servant of the rich, butler to the Trump,
Hypocrite, a jellyfish, and lifelong chump!
Everybody has ambition—
Everybody seals their fate!
Now hand over the gavel!
Kevin lost the vote and must vacate.

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No document is more ephemeral than the children’s book dust jacket

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Weird that we can love things with teeth this pointy

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My kid bit another kid on the playground today and we’re mortified and upset about it and we’re definitely going to talk to her about how you cannot bite people but honestly I’m starting to feel like it’s not an unreasonable response to a lot of what’s going on so I guess I’ll have to fake it a bit

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Me: tries to do everything right, goes unnoticed and unrewarded

Sitting US Senator: is released on bond

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What governs when English people say "quid" vs. "pounds?"

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@anathema_device @TheSauce ah see this is what I was wondering

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@cshlan @TheSauce @anathema_device I think we all knew it was slang for pounds, but were wondering if there was a general “rule” about when or why you’d switch to the slang.

Is Jonathan Green on here?

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I’m in a Costco for the first time and I am experiencing a lot

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