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English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/

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Fully agree!!!!

07.03.2026 03:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From NYT “Israel into the venture. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, perhaps offered the closest thing to the truth. "The president had a feeling," she told reporters on Wednesday, "that Iran was going to strike the United States."

From NYT “Israel into the venture. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, perhaps offered the closest thing to the truth. "The president had a feeling," she told reporters on Wednesday, "that Iran was going to strike the United States."

This is so disgusting and it is up to us to see that the entire Republican Party pays for it

07.03.2026 02:59 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

And then you did that at least!

07.03.2026 02:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You see how it works? Just throw yourself at an unambiguously good, but not important (globally), thing.

07.03.2026 02:30 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think I do so much volunteer work for my kid’s swim team because I truly believe the world is ending.

07.03.2026 02:29 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 14903 🔁 4739 💬 410 📌 289

It’s like riding a pony!

05.03.2026 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I went to Boston College. Can confirm.

05.03.2026 21:12 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Somebody get an iced coffee for this trolley.

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am in the green line in Boston and it really is slower than walking. It’s almost like walking BACKWARDS.

05.03.2026 21:03 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 1

The DHS advertising campaign business- she said Trump authorized it, he denied even knowing about it. Has nothing to do with ICE.

05.03.2026 19:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

05.03.2026 19:17 👍 12359 🔁 1578 💬 513 📌 887
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Politicians are there to help the people of their country. As you can see, that is not happening. So…..this is what you have instead. You must stop him. Now.

04.03.2026 22:33 👍 1604 🔁 742 💬 85 📌 36

Specially trained for Bluesky by being frequently right in ways that aren’t very helpful

05.03.2026 04:00 👍 54 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

Boston harbor a crackpot tonight!

05.03.2026 14:02 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

He came for Dunkin and that is now his problem

05.03.2026 16:14 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him ALT: a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him
05.03.2026 14:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All of you in my phone are Chewbacca

05.03.2026 13:41 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have so much to conquer at work today my desk feels like the cockpit of the millennium falcon. That is how nerdy it gets over here.

05.03.2026 13:41 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Tweets about people asking Grok which president told the most lies.

Tweets about people asking Grok which president told the most lies.

Bahahaha. 😁😏

#DJT #DJ6T #FDJ6T #PantsOnFireDJ6T

04.03.2026 20:48 👍 13483 🔁 3449 💬 378 📌 200

I mean okay but he is just going to pardon everybody

05.03.2026 01:28 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Screen shot of NYT image that says 59% of Americans oppose the war in Iran

Screen shot of NYT image that says 59% of Americans oppose the war in Iran

We hate the illegal war. This is not our war. It is the war of a tyrant and a political party that swears allegiance only to him, not the constitution, not to this nation or its people.

05.03.2026 00:59 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

04.03.2026 13:08 👍 8354 🔁 1717 💬 153 📌 75

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

04.03.2026 13:47 👍 5458 🔁 1103 💬 210 📌 42

He says this after he killed one hundred children this week. The perpetrators of this needless insane horrible war must be held accountable

04.03.2026 17:49 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I will THROW you into the lava pit with the robots!! Not even kidding!

04.03.2026 17:26 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you do your lit review with LLM I will meet you out back after school.

04.03.2026 17:25 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

04.03.2026 13:16 👍 30499 🔁 5842 💬 1861 📌 715
Screenshot of the exchange: 

“If anyone actually believes that, that's terrifying.”

Me: “I'm sorry but lots of people believe it, and they are not necessarily wrong. Writing is not just personal expression.
Most writing in the world is functional, workaday, conmoditized. People are paid to do it or are coerced (school). You can't be an observer of what writing is and not accept that.”

Screenshot of the exchange: “If anyone actually believes that, that's terrifying.” Me: “I'm sorry but lots of people believe it, and they are not necessarily wrong. Writing is not just personal expression. Most writing in the world is functional, workaday, conmoditized. People are paid to do it or are coerced (school). You can't be an observer of what writing is and not accept that.”

In another thread, I suggested/asserted that LLMs are deeply compatible with the general economy of writing. I received the well-meaning response anonymized below, and I am reposting my reply.

04.03.2026 15:55 👍 47 🔁 3 💬 8 📌 3

Once again being too smart on this question Matt!!!

04.03.2026 16:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0