Mark Goble

Mark Goble

@goblemark.bsky.social

Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan. Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.

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Literally never for one second been interested in finding my biological parents [record scratch, Steely Dan "Peg" chorus] . . . it could be who now?

I know a lot of you are going to want to play the hypocrisy card but lots of fancy Harvard faculty would gladly defend the free speech rights of a gutter racist at West Point too.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

Woke 2.0 hasn't and may never happen but the Atlantic, etc. knows it already went too far and is taking pitches for personal essays about how much it annoyed you

Preach: "Every day, scientists are allowed to publish sentences like, 'Many assume there is a close connection between human history and culture (Donaldson 2019),' and yet English departments are the problem?"

defector.comHumanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | DefectorFor many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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When every golf course south of the Mason-Dixon Line has one of these at the entrance we’ll know that woke has gone far enough. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Boston 🎞️#filmphotography

When every golf course south of the Mason-Dixon Line has one of these at the entrance we’ll know that woke has gone far enough. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Boston 🎞️#filmphotography

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I won’t know until reading if this is really her “finest,” but it’s already her most “this could be a math rock album title” novel

The summer's hottest arm candy is a bag of skin full of money

Ann Monster Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social

For your consideration: “If you live in the celebrity bubble, party after party, with the same people—the same 25 people—life gets really boring,” said Kevin O’Leary, the businessman and “Shark Tank” panelist. “When you end up with a private-equity guy, your life gets far more interesting.”

Somebody better make a “Battle of Algiers” but for fucking

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ director Will Gluck says they cut out “so much nudity” from the film because he thinks audiences dislike sex on screen. “Whenever people now see nudity or very adult situations in a big theater, they get uncomfortable.” (Source: variety.com/2026/film/fe...)

I know I should wait for the Odyssey in the historically accurate format Homer intended: as AI slop on my phone. But the Grand Lake theater will have to do.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. TBF there is a lot on this that sounds like nirvana+soundgarden+pearl jam+alice in chains

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this is why you never saw Philip and Elizabeth Jennings from the Americans or any of The Agency characters eat at Olive Garden--sure their legends have fooled multiple governments, but Jenna your server is a much tougher proposition

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The latest ridiculous coordinated Republican talking point on the SAVE Act is all about Olive Garden.

Rooting for The Odyssey so we can get Odyssey 2: Suitors War, then two-part Odyssey: Endgame that sets up Aeneid franchise. In between, an Iliad series on Peacock, a standalone Cyclops origin (Jason Statham as "One Eye," obvs), dark rom com "Penelope" (Succession meets Love Island) . . .

after epic World Cup matches I just may be too exhausted to see if Giants can split this series with the Rockies and maintain their small lead in race to avoid worst record in NL

There's going to be lots of mean gossip about Graham's personal life but emember he had a found family who loved him: bookers for Sunday morning news shows