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I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

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This weekend, I scored 7 goals (and 1 shootout goal) in 4 games in a D-league co-ed charity hockey tournament downstate.

Anyway, where do I put this on my CV?

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a series of pictures of agent scully from the hit television series "the x-files" wearing glasses. each picture gradually has a slightly more serious expression and more dramatic lighting

a series of pictures of agent scully from the hit television series "the x-files" wearing glasses. each picture gradually has a slightly more serious expression and more dramatic lighting

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

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My MA student is writing this very thesis right now

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Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI As universities rush to adopt generative AI–powered tools that claim to enhance teaching, learning and workforce preparation, a growing contingent of academics is questioning where that urgency is com...

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Very grateful for Kathryn Palmer's reporting and the opportunity to speak with her about this topic.

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2027 Call for Proposals - Conference on College Composition and Communication Resources Proposal deadline for the 2027 CCCC Annual Convention is 9:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Full Call for Proposals Criteria and Guidelines General Information Program Format Area Clus...
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*downs shot of Angostura, tries not to grimace*

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you say "bitter" like it's a bad thing

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This is the correct answer. Thank you.

People out here hating on blueberries and grapefruit ... I just can't anymore.

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That Selmer-style guitar ... omg. This rules.

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Olympics announcers sure do love mentioning repeatedly how certain female athletes are also -- *gasp* -- mothers of several children

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Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college:

The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
William Faulkner and Robert Hayden
The Physics of Music
The History of Cinema
19th Century African American Women's Lit

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The English department houses a robust major, multiple minors (including one in film studies), and multiple graduate programs at the MA and MFA levels. The film studies hire will have opportunities to teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Applications are due February 28.

NMU is a wonderful place to work. We have good working conditions, wonderful students, a hella unionized faculty, and a damn-near unbeatable location along the Lake Superior coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I love it here.

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The Northern Michigan University English Department is hiring for a **tenure-track** position in film studies, and yours truly is chairing the hiring committee. Please share widely, and encourage folks to contact me if there are any questions.

jobs.nmu.edu/.../english-....

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jaderemedy β€’ 4h ago
And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

jaderemedy β€’ 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

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β€œWe’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”

β€œWhat does it do?”

β€œWe were hoping you could tell us.”

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The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

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Stick-in-spokes meme

Stick-in-spokes meme

Live footage of me managing to schedule my article-revisions due date on top of all that stuff this week

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Actually, Jeremiah Johnson might be better than clapping

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<3

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a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america ' ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

Just submitted what I hope are final revisions (final significant revisions, anyway) on a piece I've been trying to publish in one form or another for seven years.

#teamrhetoric

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EXACTLY.

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Book II - Chapter 21 : Aristotle's Rhetoric Welcome to the online version of Aristotle's Rhetoric. These hypertext pages are based on the 1954 translation of noted classical scholar W. Rhys Roberts.

Yeah, lol. I should have just linked right to Aristotle:

kairos.technorhetoric.net/stasis/2017/...

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GnōmΔ“ or maxim

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Greed is Destroying the World
Greed is Destroying the World YouTube video by Drew Gooden

Might be the best video essay of 2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Z3...

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It's so frustrating that Drake is associated with the Athena owl, especially since he's literally named after a different bird

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There are strange ways contemporary language about student empowerment is resonant with toxic bootstraps individualism, and what do we do with that? Anyway, there are two chapters about MOOCs that I think set the stage for the business/ideological model of β€œAI.” www.psupress.org/books/titles...

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πŸ₯‚

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