Elena Smith-Contreras

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[Elena Smith-Contreras @CocoRobotShow]

@lastpositivist Feuds with Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian and Nicki Minaj were all theomachies against Dionysus

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I command you

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Amazing the dystopias the right wing embraces.

[Meme Right Politics 😽👉🇺🇲 @MemeRtPolitics]

@amandafortini They could have brought in the National Guard to protect the graduation attendees and guests. Fight for your right. Get on @seanhannity show. @AlanDersh what say you???

[Elena Smith-Contreras @CocoRobotShow]

Its too late now, but Bobby Cannavale should have played Lorca, some sort of film about Lorca in New York and then at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. We need a good socialist film rn

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Given how stultifying these tasks are, is it possible male academics are engaging in everyday forms of resistance: foot-dragging, evasion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander and sabotage?

[Phil Baty @Phil_Baty]

Uncovered: women do the vast majority of the internal service jobs - "the academic housework" - while men dodge their community responsibilities to focus on the work that gives them personal career advantages https://t.co/6jrOyeeRnB

[Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage]

Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society
https://t.co/UdD9DLpznD

[Elena Smith-Contreras @CocoRobotShow]

You could also listen to James McMurtry's Choctaw Bingo for a sense of what goes on here.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

This is Whitekanda, an area was created by a race war, white fear, the prospect of an all-Black state, stealing land from indigenous people & one of the greatest real estate scams of all time.

It is also the least racist place in America

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[Elena Smith-Contreras @CocoRobotShow]

@PhilipPullman Thanks! It was worth a try. Thanks for these wonderful books.

[Elena Smith-Contreras @CocoRobotShow]

Question for @PhilipPullman: I will re-listen to the HDM and BOD audiobooks ahead of the final volume in the Book of Dust. It's 77 hours of audio, a 2 month project. So... if I were to start now, do you think the details would be fresh in my by the time Volume 3 comes out? 😊

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@mcmansionhell Your tags have *so* much more zing to them. In the same way that "modern farmhouse" takes a style and makes it inoffensive and thus palatable to everyone, the NYT has removed all the flavor from your style. I'm offended by how little it offends.

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@PhilipPullman And, part 2 of my question, what do you think about reading them in chronological order: that is, read La Belle Savage first, then the three His Dark Materials books, then The Secret Commonwealth, and then Volume 3?

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Did anyone else notice how many blue checks there are in the responses to the various recent academic conferences tweet? So, these academics are all paying 8 bucks a month for this dubious honor? Weird, right?

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@ratbitebaby

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@Nina_Compact Also wonder about the policing of sex binaries from the right, of course, which seems a good example of extremely invasive "institutional control mechanisms" if the sort you object to here, but I am sure I will not find common ground with you on this.

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@Nina_Compact I have a difficult time connecting up your (welcome) advocacy for non-surveiled subcultural spaces (and indeed, a pride parade not sponsored by Northrop Grumman) with other comments welcoming more religion, for instance.

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@amandafortini I am so sorry. That was me.

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Lame! David Byrne, a musician, skirts union rules by using taped performances in his show. https://t.co/Q9hbzVZcJw via @pitchfork

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@ShaneMontane @KUHoopes But the famous green frog tho!

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@itsPaulAi I've found AI image generators to be absolutely horrible with text. Misspelling or inserting letters that are not real letters. I tried asking various image generators to create a graffiti tag of a specific word -- but no luck, just a garbled mess. Any thoughts?

[Elena Smith-Contreras @CocoRobotShow]

@maxdaniellawton I love both of them. Are there any other hates in the same category, I want to go read them! Thx. (Seriously)