UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Dr. Vaughn Joy
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That Lays Bandwagon ad is sinister as fuck. The premise is "when your team loses, just pick a new one that's winning!"
Girl.
Loyalty is good actually. Being sad is good. Sharing sadness with your community is good.
Trying to convince us otherwise while selling potato chips as Soma is gross.
I'm well aware that it's meant as a lighthearted joke to keep people watching, but in this moment? Right now?
Gross.
We have such a horrendous problem with trying to fix every momentary sadness, discomfort, or pain, and to have a potato chip commercial weigh in? 🤢
Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.
This is the kind of thing we don't hear about when we're told what the public (supposedly) thinks and wants. Fascism depends on keeping people - all people - in a state of fear, and making them feel isolated and helpless. In reality, there are always good people helping each other.
EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT BREAD ROLL
Absolutely seriously I get so much joy from all the posts/ videos of World Cup visitors coming to the US and being embraced, finding wonder, having fun
The US should be that - a light to the world, a community that opens its arms to all
It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thread! Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
