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Christopher Lockett

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Associate professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. 20C American Lit, Science Fiction & Fantasy. Earnest ironist and magical humanist. Blog: https://cjlockett.com/ Substack: https://magichumanism.substack.com/

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The poet muses on mortality.

03.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It sounds like we teach some remarkably similar courses. :-)

28.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gloucester and Bartleby

17.02.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am a single-issue voter and that issue is "Nuremberg Trials for Kristi Noem."

24.01.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

25.01.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 5103 πŸ” 871 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 42

(1) Internet blocking software.
(2) Delete all games/distractions.
(3) Sit in chair. Eventually you get so bored writing is the attractive option.

20.01.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And the fact they won't shut up about their screenplay.

17.01.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly can't be emphasized enough.

15.01.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.

The world's most powerful military merging with the world's most capricious, hallucinatory, and overtly racist and misogynist AI.

What could possibly go wrong?

apnews.com/article/arti...

13.01.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.

05.01.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 7026 πŸ” 1639 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 33
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02.01.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Loved this. Taught it twice now in classes on weird fiction, and it’s a reliable favourite among students too.

02.01.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not since Cecilia hooked up with someone new in the time it took to wash one's face has there been a more inconstant lover than the one described in "Last Christmas."

30.12.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SUPREME EXECUTIVE POWER DERIVES FROM A MANDATE FROM THE MASSES, NOT SOME FARCICAL LETTUCE.

28.12.2025 20:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reflections on Returning to the Personal Web | Stephanie Vee Stephanie Vee's personal website: a repository for writing on many nerdy things.

I returned to the personal web in 2025 after many years spent contributing to algorithmic social media platforms and SEO-focused WordPress blogs. Some thoughts on this, and why the personal web has given me hope for the future of the internet:

stephvee.ca/blog/indiewe...

#blog #blogging #indieweb

28.12.2025 12:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (Official Video)
The Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car (Official Video) YouTube video by TheTragicallyHipVEVO

youtu.be/9-WBZMRFFkU?...

15.12.2025 00:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is an excellent idea, and we should try it out on a grand scale--starting with Elon Musk and Larry Ellison and working down from there.

14.12.2025 11:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't forget the other half of this equation.

07.12.2025 10:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have fed the heart on fantasies
The heart's grown brutal from the fare
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love

07.12.2025 10:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will give FIFTY DOLLARS to the person who convinces MAGA types to do this.

04.12.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

U2
The Pogues
The Cure
Pulp
Barenaked Ladies

04.12.2025 08:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Totally including this in my course syllabi next year.

30.11.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"We're more of the blood, love, and rhetoric crowd. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three, concurrent or consecutive. But we can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory."

30.11.2025 09:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.

27.11.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 1969 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 18

I want a DC-Marvel crossover that's just Simmons as Jameson and Wendell Pierce as Perry White shouting at each other.

28.11.2025 09:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me

04.12.2024 23:45 πŸ‘ 1677 πŸ” 255 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 22

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

19.11.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the fifth of November.

I have this nagging sense that I’m forgetting something, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what.

05.11.2025 15:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

[Exit Clown.]

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