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Colin Dickey@colindickey.com |
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Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.
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Psychopomp
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"From the history of haunted houses, to books bound in human skin, to how we talk—or avoid talking completely—about death."
TODAY
7 Haunting Works of Nonfiction by @rachaelconrad.bsky.social
featuring: thread/
psychopomp.com/7-haunting-w...
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Colin Dickey
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He did these movies back to back, how did he not fire his agent and then eat them
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Colin Dickey
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Happy pub day!
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Amelinda Bérubé
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It's here, it's real, it's REALLY A BOOK THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY, my scary, wintry vampire book, creeps onto bookshelves everywhere today! Go sink your teeth into it
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Colin Dickey
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Prison abolition for everyone but Julie Taymor’s enablers
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Adam Serwer
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The “joe biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever” jokes are now literally correct
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Colin Dickey
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Joe Biden has the potential to do the legalest thing now
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Colin Dickey
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If the Supreme Court decides in favor of Trump’s claim that a sitting president has immunity from prosecution, the logical and legal thing for Biden to do would be to simply assassinate him before the election
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Colin Dickey
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This sounds awful for both of you, but more so for you tbh
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Colin Dickey
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Amazing
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Colin Dickey
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Did…did someone ask you for advice regarding this movie…?
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Colin Dickey
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We are watching Julie Taymor’s godforsaken monstrosity “Titus” and lol it was produced by Steve Bannon, yes that Steve Bannon
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Colin Dickey
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🫡
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Colin Dickey
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Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Seriously, no a soul in the entire world: Elizabeth:
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Colin Dickey
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Not sure! We’ll see…
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Colin Dickey
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I don’t know how I missed this comment earlier, but, man, this is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me, and I’m really gratified you liked the piece. Thank you!
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Colin Dickey
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That would be nice! Seems like it could also be a brush fire, but that may just be the Californian in me
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Colin Dickey
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Some sort of massive fire at the edge of JFK, not a super cool feeling tbh
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Colin Dickey
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I was not watching the debates because I was having drinks with good friends like a normal healthy person and then I come here and my TL is all debate deep cut shitposting and I honestly have no idea how it’s actually going
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Joshua J. Friedman
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How did no one tell me that Ayo Edebiri got emotional over the Great Molasses Flood?? (via GBH)
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Colin Dickey
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❤️❤️
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s. e. smith
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Killer @colindickey.com read on @annaleen.bsky.social's Stories Are Weapons and the history of disinformation and psychological warfare. Two great minds in one piece!
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Colin Dickey
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Audrey this is epic, even by your usual epic standards
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Colin Dickey
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Agreed!
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Nap Gusto, Jedi/Scoundrel
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I'll track this down. Their nonfiction writing is some of the most captivating I've read.
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Colin Dickey
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My review of @annaleen.bsky.social’s newest book, Stories Are Weapons, is up at The New Republic—a really fascinating meditation on the world of disinfo that focuses on the dangers and possibilities of storytelling:
newrepublic.com/article/1819...
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Colin Dickey
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None of our guides had either! The captain of the Antigua was over the moon at the sighting! I got only the last little bit on my camera before it went down again (someone else has a really clear and intense photo but hasn’t gotten around to sharing it yet)
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Colin Dickey
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We got a few very close arctic foxes, several piles of walruses and a bowhead whale(!), but I was a bit sad to miss the belugas, that I remember so clearly from my last trip in 2013
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Colin Dickey
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Feeling equal parts ashamed and proud for having goaded @cadaverformosus.bsky.social into watching Hannibal last night (the movie, not the show), a movie so bad it warp speeds past “so bad it’s good” and into “so bad it’s avant-garde absurdist theatre”
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Colin Dickey
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All in all coming back to civilization seems like an error
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Colin Dickey
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It didn’t feel frightening at all! The ice was amazingly solid the entire time. Just beautiful.
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Colin Dickey
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I spent a lot of time walking on glaciers and apparently not dying, which is as surprising to me as it is to you
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Colin Dickey
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Hey Bluesky, here’s the ship I was sailing on over the past few weeks, above the 80th parallel, anchored to an ice floe we spent the day walking around on. Not pictured: the bowhead whale that breached on the other side of the ship less than 20 meters away.
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Colin Dickey
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Ok friends, I’m headed off on a ship to sail around Svalbard for the next two weeks, see you in a few
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Colin Dickey
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The only cemetery in Longyearbyen, mostly from a Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918
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Colin Dickey
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The only cemetery in Longyearbyen, mostly from a Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918
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Colin Dickey
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I’m in Svalbard. I took this photo at midnight.
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Colin Dickey
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Every time I open Instagram, Meta tries to advertise Threads to me in the wildest ways
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Colin Dickey
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Same, bear
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randy r. potts
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this is great; Americans - incl. so many liberals! - have a weird thing where they see college students as children with no actual agency whether it be sexual, intellectual, etc and like, at some point, at some age, we have to let people be adults and respect - and critique - them
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Colin Dickey
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Wacky!
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Linda Holmes
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Leash your dog. Yes, you. Yes, your sweet dog. Leash your dog. Not only because of the harm it could do, but because you have no right to put other people through the stress of not knowing what it will do. EVEN IF you can predict your dog (you can’t), other people shouldn’t have to rely on it.
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Colin Dickey
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What…what do all the knobs do…?
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Colin Dickey
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Thank you for the cat tie-in
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Nick Admussen
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This is exactly my experience. I don't teach about Gaza or Israel (not in my area) but students talk about it to me. I've met anti-encampment/anti-protest students, but the student body overwhelmingly supports Palestine in person and in digital spaces. I'm learning from them on this, not vice versa.
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Colin Dickey
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Why don’t we believe college students about their stated political opinions?
For the Chronicle, I wrote about the long history of the myth of “indoctrination” and how it’s become the main conspiracy narrative surrounding higher Ed and the Gaza protests.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Colin Dickey
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Hang on hang on let’s entertain this “abated by death” exception
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Colin Dickey
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The one thing that I didn’t get published was called “The Museum of Banishment” and maybe someday I’ll return to that. But I’m very much excited to see what comes of this trip….
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Colin Dickey
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And, scurvy:
www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...
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Colin Dickey
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Also from my last Svalbard trip, on fantasies of the Open Polar Sea:
www.thebeliever.net/on-the-open-...
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