Shawn Gilmore

Shawn Gilmore

@gipperfish.bsky.social

Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of @vaultofculture.bsky.social, Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.

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Shawn Gilmore
@gipperfish.bsky.social

Happy to have a new long-form essay on the politics of adaptation in the Amazon Prime version of The Boys, focusing on the show's version of Stormfront and the increasing specificity of its critique of the Trump era, over at @vaultofculture.bsky.social! www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...

vaultofculture.com“They just don’t like the word Nazi, that’s all”: The Politics of Adapting Politics in the Age(s) of Trump in The Boys — The Vault of CultureIn this feature, Shawn Gilmore explores the unsubtle nature of Amazon Prime’s adaptation of The Boys (2019-26), which shifts the crass satire of The Boys comics (2006-12) forward to critique Donal...

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Austin Wintory
@awintory.bsky.social

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

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Dave Karpf
@davekarpf.bsky.social

Replying to @davekarpf.bsky.social

(I swear this isn’t going to be a hype thread for my own book. But, also, here’s the preorder link): bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...

bookshop.orgVaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the PresentFor thirty years, techno-optimists have promised dramatic technological innovation as long as we--the public, journalists, regulators, and policymakers--keep out of the way. The results have been grea...

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Dalehan
@dalehan.bsky.social

Draw Whatever #Inktober 2026 Day 23: Usagi Yojimbo A sketch I had prepared beforehand because I wouldn't have time for drawing for two days.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Shawn Gilmore
@gipperfish.bsky.social
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social

Roose does a very nice job signaling in the second paragraph what sort of book this will be. He decided to write it the night after partying with ketamine-snorting effective accelerationists. He isn’t e/acc himself, but he hangs with that crowd and accepts their premises as newsworthy,

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

yup.

thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

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Tomb Heintjes
@hogansalley.bsky.social

In "Peanuts," Linus first mentioned the Great Pumpkin on October 26, 1959, creating what would go on to become an indelible cultural icon. Here’s that strip, followed by the rest of that week’s dailies:

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Abigail Nussbaum
@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social

It never ceases to amaze me that the tech industry's explicit argument for AI uptake is "we have built a tool for people who are stupid, lazy, and kind of shitty at being human".

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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John Q. Public
@publius24.bsky.social

At a certain point, the law either has teeth or the rule of law has completely collapsed. If the president of the United States is actively undermining democratic elections at multiple polling sites, you don’t need to wait for a federal court to adjudicate that several months after the fact.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

newyorker.comThe State Officials Defending the Midterms from the PresidentDonald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way.
Shawn Gilmore
@gipperfish.bsky.social

Well, here's a first (for me): AI slop making its way into a comics-analysis assignment. Students have to include a page from one of our comics. Fascinating, and I presume it occurred by providing the original comics page (left) and directions re: the analysis to pop out (right). #comicsteaching

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Ben Railton
@americanstudier.bsky.social

Replying to @americanstudier.bsky.social

+ & I really enjoyed @gipperfish.bsky.social's @vaultofculture.bsky.social essay on The Boys & the politics of adapting politics in the age of Trump. + www.vaultofculture.com/vault/featur...

vaultofculture.com“They just don’t like the word Nazi, that’s all”: The Politics of Adapting Politics in the Age(s) of Trump in The Boys — The Vault of CultureIn this feature, Shawn Gilmore explores the unsubtle nature of Amazon Prime’s adaptation of The Boys (2019-26), which shifts the crass satire of The Boys comics (2006-12) forward to critique Donal...