Erin Vanderhoof
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
this is, quite literally, why i decided to major in gender studies and not actual philosophy in a department ruled by analytic philosophers lmao
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · yesterdaycontinental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)
Interrupting my mental health social media break to say that 1) The Odyssey rocked and 2) Emily Wilson might be an expert in Homeric Epic but I am an expert in Epic Stuff for Dumb Guys, and the point of Christopher Nolan movies is that they remove all subtext so all can enjoy the feeling of smart
i'm taking a social media break for ~mental health~ so i won't be around here for a while! let's try to manage these stress levels! i will be checking email occasionally though so if you need to get in touch with me, try me at vanderhoof.e [at] gmail thanks for your attention to this matter!
I always forget that the difference between feeling sad and clinical depression is that it's like your body starts shutting down and doing the barest of effort feels like trudging through sand
are we sure Charley Crockett isn't an NFL wide receiver obliquely tweeting about a salary dispute during training camp stereogum.com/2504853/jack...
if christopher nolan doesn't do a travis scott original song over the credits, i will NEVER forgive him
HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 4w agoTake some Xannies and now I see a nymph [Woah] We gonna build the raft So we can take a trip [It's lit!]
Whenever I’m really sad I feel like a medieval peasant in that I feel closer in time to all the other times I’ve ever felt very sad than I do too like, last week
Omg there’s a review www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Appalachia, London N1: ‘The chicken is like Sunday dinner on performance steroids’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
This is no theme bar, and not remotely a joke: they really are doing proper Appalachian regional cooking on a side road near Old Street
theguardian.com
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 4w agoAre the Americans awake yet? Okay so a restaurant just opened in London called ‘Appalachia’ and this is their ‘June’ menu; discuss
I really think this comes downstream of abandoning newsroom specialization. Like you used to have people whose job it was to write, edit, manage, copy edit, etc. and all of that was destroyed in the traffic era, and now no one knows how to bring it back
Emma Grae@emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 4w agoMarie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.
A lot of STEM professors seemed to weirdly assume LLMs could only be used for english papers....
I hadn’t heard this before. Particularly vile.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: University professors (AAUP) represented by NAACP LDF and Lambda Legal, with Davis Wright Tremaine, file a federal lawsuit challenging censorship at the Texas Tech University System under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is what I've been trying to tell the Christians... if you are having a good time... and your neighbor is having a bad time... you are a bad Christian ... i don't make the rules... but i know the rules
I am Not Doing Great and just had a stress dream that was so insane it ended with me meeting Bruce Springsteen and bursting into tears because I was so stressed out about making a good impression
yes. each time the culture makes a rapid jump to a different medium, most of the earlier work is left behind. people forgot that reading and singing nursery rhymes to children was a mode of cultural transmission. they thought they were the equivalent of background Muzak to soothe a child.
i have my quibbles with this, but the thing about kids not knowing nursery rhymes is totally true and SO WEIRD to experience in person. the kids i taught mother goose stuff too ask me for it every time they see me!!!! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
theatlantic.com
my favorite thing about the church we’re rehearsing in is this gallery of paintings of the apostles where they all look like the Oak Ridge Boys
if i can offer a heterodox-but-informed opinion— youth sports have gotten worse as they have become an even bigger part of the College Admissions circus. This, in turn, has ramped our Toxic Sports Parents problem up to 11.
Christina Henderson@chenderson.bsky.social · 4w agoUntil we address the fact most talented soccer players in the US can’t afford to compete because club and travel teams have snuffed rec/school ball out, this is probably going to keep happening.
Is it possible that the USMNT thought this was going to be an exhibition match at the Great American State Fair rather than the World Cup?
This is about anti-trans bigotry but it really is applicable to so much! Weird fandom brainworms, white supremacy, etc
Q. McLamore@ghawinriver.bsky.social · last mo.The way it works is that what began indeed as a niche online community allowed itself to be subsumed into and amplified by far right mechanisms, which gave them access with which to enact elite persuasion throughout the press, all of which is described in some of the above linked sources.
bieb's justice and styles's house did tentpole male adult contemporary nostalgia routines. see also certain nick jonas and alex warren. abel hits depeche/city pop/new wave. miley on that bonnie tyler. sabrina has dolly/tina (among others!). doja/janet. particulate heartland rock airs from selena...
People should understand that the GOP obsession with communism has basically nothing to do with Mamdani or the DSA and everything to do with the fact that the entire American conservative movement rests on a foundation of rabidly paranoid anticommunism. The John Birch Society just *is* the GOP now.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · last mo.“America will never be a communist country. We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish, stupid and unwise,” Trump said.
i’m all for breaking from tradition in support of my preferred politics, which is why i take seriously the fact that the founders, in all their imperfections, broke radically from tradition to spark the modern democracy
From 2020 to 2023 I wrote a lot about the emotional valence of keeping up with politics and then eventually someone was like "idk Erin if you're struggling with guilt about the impossibility of building a better world, maybe you should just go to church" and that literally changed everything
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last mo.A key to staying sane in trying times is to realize that your ability to create change, even in the best of times, is very limited, but your ability to make yourself feel bad about politics, or anything really, is basically unlimited and making yourself feel bad doesn’t make change more likely
So fun to watch the diaspora show up for the matches too!!! What an incredible thing to experience
Christian Christensen@chrchristensen.bsky.social · last mo.Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.
I’m no soccer expert, just a committed casual but Cabo Verde is playing an incredible game tonight, like everyone is firing on all cylinders
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · last mo.That’s a fantastic goal in any league, in any competition.
This will be on streaming as a special event, there’s no way this will stay private, it was a production with camera crews, I am sure of it
