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Posts by Mike Spry

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A Wedding Weekend, No Spouse Required

This @nytimes.com article made me dumber. I feel like these people are why the apocalypse is nigh.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/s...

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April Fools. I meant the second rockwall.

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Colleges should be mandated to pay adjunct faculty a living wage before they build their third rockwall.

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Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning after a stretch of not sharing feels

Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026
Game of Thrones, Adjunct Ghost Study, and more...

"...MACCLV have released a ten-year study concluding that adjunct professors may, in fact, be ghosts..."

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#adjunct #highered #gameofthrones #ghosts

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Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning after a stretch of not sharing feels

Sunday Feeld Notes 29.03.2026
Game of Thrones, Adjunct Ghost Study, and more...

"...MACCLV have released a ten-year study concluding that adjunct professors may, in fact, be ghosts..."

open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

#adjunct #highered #gameofthrones #ghosts

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Deep Local | Ep. 5: Freak Duck Season
Deep Local | Ep. 5: Freak Duck Season YouTube video by Deep Local

The Deep Local series of shorts from @rattysnake.bsky.social is getting the exact kind of awesomeweird I'm into.

Check out the latest: youtu.be/2iifHOlyCDw?...

#ducks #baddies #shortfilm

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Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students.

They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

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See y'all at 12:10 in 307. Adjuncts and Allies.

#awp26

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#AWP26 is here. Join the @awpwriter.org's Adjunct Writers Caucus

Thu Mar 5 | 12:10–1:25pm | Room 307

Scribner editor Emily Polson + union organizer Farallon Broughton on the real challenges facing contingent faculty in the literary world. 📚✊

MORE INFO: shorturl.at/0oqAq

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#AWP26 is here. Join the @awpwriter.org's Adjunct Writers Caucus

Thu Mar 5 | 12:10–1:25pm | Room 307

Scribner editor Emily Polson + union organizer Farallon Broughton on the real challenges facing contingent faculty in the literary world. 📚✊

MORE INFO: shorturl.at/0oqAq

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Is this a PR piece? You kinda missed the story of this being an attempt to undo the mess of Patel/Trump. Did CAA write it?

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Most adjuncts go 5 to 7 weeks at the beginning of the semester, every semester, before their first paycheck.

My further concern was the first article's complete absence of contingent labor in a conversation about labor.

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Maybe you could mention adjunctification, as @drkevinrmcclure.com seems to have ignored it.

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The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

I’m too sad to write any Sunday Feeld Notes today because hockey broke my heart. If it broke yours, maybe read this instead to remind us that the beauty of sports exists outside of the spotlight.

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The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

The Ethos of Eephus

Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country.

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The Ethos of Eephus The Meaning of Games That End

The Ethos of Eephus

Eephus sees sport not as a cultural commodity, but a community engagement, and the simplicity of its framing [...] finds the beauty in the relationship baseball has not just to its participants and onlookers, but the landscape of the country.

open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

2 months ago 3 2 0 0
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We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive a review of Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" for BOA Editions.

NEW REVIEW......"We’re Out Here: The Poet and How to Survive"
----a Review and Love Letter about (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) Chen Chen's 2022 "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency"

tinyurl.com/yaf2v7kk

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#poetry #booksky #substack #writingcommunity #poemsky #writing #reviews

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Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday of jingoism and Ozempic ads

Super Bowl Sunday Feeld Notes 8.2.26

I’m going to make chili and cheer for a tie. Wouldn’t we all just rather watch Kid Rock and Bad Bunny in a celebrity boxing match?

My Super Bowl column/self-indictment: open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

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Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show

Honestly, f*ck all these people. F*ck these colleges. F*ck the institutions and communities that were complicit in this division of class and the perpetuation of evil.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

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f e e l i n g s

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Sunday Feeld Notes 01.01.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning in the time of feelings

Sunday Feeld Notes 01.02.2026

So many feelings this week: Loving @thedollop.bsky.social, Sophie Turner and Steal, not SNL, not the weather, and not the Super Bowl. Plus, last week's and this week's essays.

open.substack.com/pub/mikespry...

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ICYMI: I wrote about GenX, hauntology, Stranger Things, and futures lost.

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Shoutout my friend the Poet Emily Siegenthaler for helping keep twenty twenty-somethings alive for a month in Tokyo.

#mamiya #film #photography #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatfilmphotography #colorphoto #tokyo #japan

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ICYMI: I wrote about GenX, hauntology, Stranger Things, and futures lost.

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Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation

"Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation"

New essay on #StrangerThings, hauntology, and the quiet disappearance of expectation.

mikespry.substack.com/p/haunted-by...

#GenX #Hauntology #PLUR1BUS

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Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation

"Haunted by Futures Promised: Stranger Things, PLUR1BUS, and the ghost of expectation"

New essay on #StrangerThings, hauntology, and the quiet disappearance of expectation.

mikespry.substack.com/p/haunted-by...

#GenX #Hauntology #PLUR1BUS

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power

#35mmfilm #35mm #35mmphotography #leica #leicam6 #film #photography #filmphotography

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A New Hero: A Review of 'Designated Stranger' by Gion Davis Distance, Strangeness, and Intimacy in Gion Davis’ debut collection “Designated Stranger” for Third Hand Books

Happy #pubday to @gion.bsky.social! His debut collection 'Designated Stranger' for @thirdhandbooks.bsky.social

Read the first piece in my new series of reviews of poetry collections from independent presses. ----> tinyurl.com/bdhx6aux

#poemsky #WritingCommunity #booksky #5amwritersclub #substack

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Sunday Feeld Notes 18.01.2026 Things I’m feeling on a Sunday morning in chaos

Sunday Feeld Notes: prediction markets, Netflix doom,+ why everything feels like satire.

🧠 Prediction markets=existential threat
🎬 Netflix & #TheRip
🐴 Ponies is low-key kinda great
🎥 Deep Local & Poems by Sean Bates = cultural sherpas

mikespry.substack.com/p/sunday-fee...

#NECo #MediaCriticism

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Dabls Mbad African bead Museum Detroit, MI

#mamiya7 #film #photography #filmphotography #mediumformatfilm #mediumformatphotography #colorphoto

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