Jared W. Aronoff

PhD student in Film Studies @concordia | co-host of the podcast @flumdumpster | Follow me if you care about the thoughts my brain has about stuff

[Jared W. Aronoff @JaredAronoff]

I specialize in tweets that hit the character count exactly, because I am an anxious overachiever with no conception for how to be concise.

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Terrible air quality on @VIA_Rail yesterday. It's 2023. Why has Via failed to update the filtration/ventilation on their trains? This negligence puts Via passengers at risk.

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After moving to Montreal and trying to learn French roughly fifteen years after my last French class, I am becoming convinced that the Ontario French curriculum has been the greatest hindrance to my learning of French.

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Why. Why am I getting news notifications to my phone about the Super Bowl? Why does my cell phone assume that there is even a single fragment of my existence that carries any conceivable unit of interest in who plays golf the goodest?

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@theBrianaMills I created a one-off podcast with @tarqalexandra on this exact topic! https://t.co/BCwhB2qxaF

(tagging her so she can also share her own anecdotes)

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

The eugenic undertone surrounding COVID policy has really shocked me. It has challenged my views of us as a society. Public health policy is now based on survival of the fittest. Those who don’t make it are dismissed as dry kindling. I really thought we were better than that

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@TOPublicHealth why is it that for a month now the COVID-19 tracking numbers in this city have looked like this? If the mitigation policy expects us to fend for ourselves is it really unreasonable to ask for accurate data to make informed decisions during the post-holiday surge?

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I've been hearing for years how basic illness etiquette for colds and flus would evolve "post"-pandemic. Perhaps, now that we're in the middle of a major surge in MULTIPLE transmissible illnesses... perhaps it's time to finally have that conversation and set those boundaries?

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If Twitter is ending, I would like to take this opportunity to remember the single greatest tweet I ever made. I think about this weekly. It got 3 likes.

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Me rolling in to edit my Master's thesis:

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Every morning I wake up and I'm grateful that Glee ended before the era of TikTok. Nobody would have benefitted from that overlap.

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The best thing about #DoctorWho are the episodes that, after thinking about them for more than five minutes, make absolutely no sense.

I'm being completely serious. I can find cohesive narratives anywhere else. Give me more of whatever the hell #ThePowerOfTheDoctor was doing.

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This is a good thread and the podcast it comes from was a refreshing conversation to stumble upon this evening. Framing the sociological production of the end of the pandemic around consent/institutions, more than the biological status of covid, is both interesting and essential.

[Beatrice Adler-Bolton @realLandsEnd]

I’m going to repeat a point I made in this ep & explain what the idea of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic actually means: We have not learned from COVID. The “end” is not a sudden development it’s been happening for years (we first covered it in fall ‘20)👇

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@analoguefutures Though I also remember that the tweet I'm referencing described the photo as going viral on right-wing social media so that might also be a risk factor to consider

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@analoguefutures A few weeks ago I saw a tweet with the photo of a lecture slide from a STEM prof that was like "we're gonna keep wearing masks in this course because this this and this reasons", presumably from the first day of class, but I'm not sure I could find this again if I looked for it.

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I may continue adding to this thread as I watch the series and I also may not. If you think my thoughts on Mad Men are Bad and also Wrong I invite you to say so because that could be interesting.

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Alright it's happening. I've put it off for long enough. I have finally started watching Mad Men. I will use this Twitter thread to chronicle my thoughts because if I am going to be a TV Scholar on this website I should probably start tweeting about television 🧵

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Anyway those are my thoughts after the first two episodes of Mad Men. It's possible that I'm making observations that are new to nobody and it's also possible that as the series develops my thoughts will change.