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Jared Gardner
@guttergeek.bsky.social
Secretary of the university senate at Ohio State; professor of American lit, film, pop culture, media history, comics, ā€˜n stuff. Hobbies include music, photography, plants, blood draws, pondering where the academic humanities went wrong
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Around 55 you alternate theatrical sighs and ā€œgoddammitā€s in between the throat clearing. Kinda psyched to see what 75 brings to the mix

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Now I gotta figure out how to find all the cool kids šŸ¤”

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I am so uncool I did not know this was a thing the cool kids were doing šŸ˜ž

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Because then no one can realize how utterly bonkers my sentences are

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My dad cheated on my mom when i was born, so I can confirm that it is hard not to cheat at ā€œthis timeā€ if you are an infantile sack of solipsism. For those of us who are not in fact man-babies wracked with jealousy that their wife is breastfeeding their baby, this is not, in fact, a thing.

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Dads always are funny, says a dad.

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This is everything

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Butā€¦ who made you wear these {shudder} hard pants ?? Should I report this to someone? It really should be illegal (This šŸ‘‡ is what I picture when I think ā€œhard pantsā€)

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I mean, he did, in the sense that he invented a moveable type press that did not exist in Europe previously. But of course he did not invent the first printing press OR moveable type by a long shot. Certainly in print history folks know this, I hope šŸ˜³

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I keep thinking someone will make a Bluesky feed for academic humanities folks to bond in collective misery and gallows humor, but I guess everyone is too depressed. I should figure it out because I have LOTS of gallows humor to get us started

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Jared Gardner
@guttergeek.bsky.social
Secretary of the university senate at Ohio State; professor of American lit, film, pop culture, media history, comics, ā€˜n stuff. Hobbies include music, photography, plants, blood draws, pondering where the academic humanities went wrong
316 followers255 following724 posts