dusting off my long-dormant "good charlotte fuckin sucks man"position
Michael D. Dwyer
@michaelddwyer.bsky.social
film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:
geez too hard but top of mind... SUNSET BLVD. M NIGHT OF THE HUNTER BATTLE OF ALGIERS STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Drew Morton@damorton.bsky.social · 5d agoFive favorite black & white movies: The Big Combo Citizen Kane The Innocents Night of the Hunter The Third Man
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
You understand how craven and corrupt you have to be to make UEFA look like the good guys?
George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago*UEFA BOYCOTT TO HAPPEN IF FIFA PROCEEDS WITH SALE PLANS:SOURCE Full reporting here: www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
I think Covid inspires such rage and frantic dissembling because it was a moment when denying social solidarity and the importance of quality government could literally kill you. a lot of conservatives did just that
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
RIP Glen Hansard. my dad brought home a vhs of THE COMMITMENTS when i was a kid, we must have watched it a zillion times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzyS...
"The Commitments" movie 1991 - the first concert scene
YouTube video by Chessforeva Dev
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was out for a run and saw Jim Curtin carrying a bag of balls into a training session for a bunch of middle school kids at the local turf field. dude just loves philadelphia soccer, i cannot believe the union fumbled him
The 'weekly challenge' on eraball.com is a salary cap draft of NBA players from 2000-2020, exempting everyone who's won a ring, playing against teams from the 2010s. Effectively this makes the game "build a team around Luka, Harden, Paul or Embiid to beat the Warriors or Cavs." Woof.
Era Ball - Basketball Sim Across Eras
Draft an all-time NBA roster across every era, pick a coach, and simulate a full season and playoffs.
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Lol fuck off that’s cool as hell
Politico@politico.com · last wk.El-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
The only real profitability of AI has always been that the government artificially subsidizes this politically-connected industry by forcing citizens to subsidize its otherwise very middling-to-poor products; k-12 education is one of the main places for that to happen. www.ft.com/content/e23e...
AI labs begin to muscle in on $6tn education market
Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students
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“There is no ethical use of generative AI. The labour of working creatives has already been steadily devalued over the years, and now it has arrived at a place where it only holds financial merit when fed to the machine.” www.anxietyshark.ca/an-empty-bit...
An empty bit of good.
Let the machine work and drain and sputter and purge, may we dance and clap at what meagre pleasures it can conjure.
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While many US historians and ordinary folks have been fixated on the semiquincentennial this year, the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 may very well be the more significant milestone—at least when it comes to understanding our present national crises. The past quarter-century has been 🗃️ 1/
thus begins my own personal SWANN'S WAY
Matthew Perpetua@fluxblog.bsky.social · 2w agoNew playlist THIS WAS SUMMER 1998, taking you back to the summer when everyone only wanted that thing, that thing, that thiiiiing 👙 Spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/2sw... ☀️ Apple music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🏖️ YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The term 'Rust Belt' has become one of the more salient concepts in American political and cultural life – and yet remains difficult to define. In this reading & resource list, @michaelddwyer.bsky.social offers some key texts as a starting point: www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/rust...
The Rust Belt
Michael D. Dwyer introduces some key texts on the "Rust Belt."
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Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced.
Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 2w agoIn February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
just one more generation bro i promise the next one will be fine. one more generation dude we will never become bad in a way where younger people yell at us i promise
missed the anniversary of this, but yeah, it still goes www.theguardian.com/music/2016/m...
Beyoncé's Lemonade is capitalist money-making at its best
From slavery to the present, black female bodies have been bought and sold. What makes this commodification different in Lemonade is intent – its purpose is to seduce
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This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
Just published: In this new Mediapolis Q&A, Cortland Rankin speaks to Michael Dwyer about his book "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (oxunipress.bsky.social, 2025). www.mediapolisjournal.com/2026/06/the-...
The Mediapolis Q&A: Michael Dwyer’s Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt
Cortland Rankin speaks to Michael Dwyer about his book Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt
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Wonderful of Argentina to pay homage to MLS Cup final in 2016 with this Seattle Sounders impression
