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I think the president should have more people standing behind him when he's sitting at his desk and free associating for the cameras based on whichever key words he happens to hear over the squealing of his pig's heart
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Tom McAllister
Профиль VivelyAuthor of 5 books, most recently the essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. New novel REVEAL! forthcoming in Spring '28 Former Book Fight podcast co-host. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey. Tom.mcallister.ws
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If you live in Philadelphia, I'm teaching a free class (with free stickers!!) on how to score a baseball game at Val's Lesbian bar next tuesday! Please come!
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Mrs. Met has been traded to the Dodgers for one night in an Indecent Proposal type scenario.
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it’s genuinely funny that academics have this view of their disciplines which mostly constitute sitting in chairs talking as like YOURE IN THE JUNGLE BABY meanwhile in construction where fistfights occasionally break out nobody thinks about this shit
Anjali DayalI don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!
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#AcademicSky should know that today's story on the many professors who sued their universities after being disciplined or fired for personal speech was primarily inspired by this post www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Tom McAllisterremember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket
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Hello and reminder that the free @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter has a new, original, newsletter-only essay on pop culture obsessions every month, like this most recent essay by SF Layzell about Peppermint Patty (so great). You can sign up here: www.barrelhousemag.com/contact-barr...
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as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden
Hemant MehtaEvangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
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Have a story in the new issue of Indiana Review, my first published short fiction since 2020. I feel like this is a good one, in some ways the first "real" short story I've ever written. If you'd like to read it you can order here indianareview.iu.edu