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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New York Times sponsors liberal cope film series about the heroic age of the media: gross The Parallax View on the big screen: take all my money
It's easy to praise @defector.com for its writers and labor model, but put some respect respect on whoever made the photo choice for this Luis Paez-Pumar piece. defector.com/cristiano-ro...
Tell me more about the real threats to safety on American campuses: keffiyehs, trans people, gender studies, research . . .
But do I bet on a happy ending with official gambling partner of MLB, or predict one with the official prediction market partner of MLB? variety.com/2026/digital...
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absolutely gorgeous reflection on Dolly here from Peter Coviello
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.
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.
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Our contributors @post45.bsky.social continue to be all killer no filler. THREE new essays today, something for everyone First, @thathoberekguy.bsky.social on The Blues Brothers and the end of the New Hollywood post45.org/2026/08/the-...
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?"
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Spoiler alert: there are kids named Chastin, Harper, and Crew in the Colleen Hoover novel
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The summer's hottest arm candy is a bag of skin full of money
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
‘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...)
Reposting because this sounds so terrible it makes me want to forgive 70s porno chic all over again. online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...
lol I hate this movie more every day variety.com/2026/film/fe...
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
The latest ridiculous coordinated Republican talking point on the SAVE Act is all about Olive Garden.
I don't think this is complete, but who cares! The show is nuts!