Eleanor Courtemanche

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Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf

From Marx’s Capital P364 The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value: Chapter 10 The Working Day. From the motley crowd of workers of all callings, ages and sexes, who throng around us more urgently than did the souls of the slain around Ulysses, on whom we see at a glance the signs of over-work, without referring to the Blue Books under their arms, let us select two more figures, whose striking contrast proves that all men are alike in the face of capital - a milliner and a black-smith. In the last week of June 1863, all the London daily papers published a paragraph with the sensational' heading, 'Death from simple over-work'. It dealt with the death of the milliner, Mary Anne Walkley, 20 years old, employed in a highly respectable dressmaking establishment, exploited by a lady with the pleasant name of Elise. The old, often-told story was now revealed once again. 56 These girls work, on an average, 167 hours
Guardian article Q Iu walchers, provadiy mean were wan ve no more sightings of "hot podium guy" today. The chap in charge of moving the podium, Tobias Gough, is actually a sound engineer who first caught the internet's attention in 2019, while setting up the podium for the resignation of Theresa May. The New York Times did a deep dive (yes really) if you're looking for ways to pass the time until Burnham turns up . • Sound engineer Tobias Gough aka 'Podium Guy' setting up the lectern outside No 10 earlier. Photograph: James Veysey/Shutterstock
Postcard from a hotel in Tampa, sitting on top of Daniel Lavery’s novel Women’s Hotel, a gentle paean to the obsolete and forgotten
“Corn sweat” makes the feels-like temperature soar way above the actual temp
Sweet-corn truck at the Urbana farmers market with a kid collecting cash
Paul Sweezy’s Theory of Capitalist Development (1942): I’m hunting for a genealogy of Marxist theories of monopoly
Quote from article about suspected lettuce: The current case counts are likely "the tip of the iceberg," Dr. Moore said, with "many more coming down the road."
Banter between Kevin Kruse and … Nigella Lawson
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AMERICAN SOCIALIST TRIPTYCH The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois Mark W. Van Wienen (U of Michigan P, 2012)
From the 1984 movie
jpetroce 6h Patricia is a liberal woman from Maine with experience in local government. Post from Threads
Luminous hot-pink prairie coneflowers (echinacea), thriving in the heavy clay soil
Rock band playing on the deck of a tavern at the base of a small ski slope, with people drinking beer out of plastic cups
Fireworks finale seen from way too close
Picture of Martha Stewart with an American flag cake the size of a queen bed
Camina Drummer: you want her on your side, if possible
itspkav 2d The energy I'm bringing to Americas 250th birthday Picture of goth characters from Portlandia
< Illinois Storm Community • Post by Caden Richmond - 14h • storm chasers: I don't wanna go back to Illinois! Weather map says: Well that's too damn bad!
Slough of Despond from Pilgrim’s Progress. You will need help to get unstuck
2. Lagrange Points (Zero-G Gravitational Balance) @ While gravity exists everywhere, there are specific spots in space where the gravity of two massive bodies (like the Sun and Earth) perfectly balances out. ® • The Location: These are called Lagrange Points (specifically L1 and L2), located about 930,000 miles from Earth. • How it Works: The gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth effectively cancel each other out, creating a stable "zero energy" zone where a spacecraft can hover with minimal tuel usage.
I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND! From Barton Fink
Will the $300,000,000,000 be delivered on pallets like last time? You're gonna need a bigger pallet
Wiki illustration of the fable about the sour grapes
Painting of the Webbs, leaders of an elitist bureaucratic/socialist Fabian salon around 1900, above a fireplace at the London School of Economics, a school they founded
Famous 2018 tweet by Lastpostivist I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it's both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
Come sit down at the Wankhaus
Poster from the Sonnenalm restaurant atop the Wankberg
Sign from the Mount Wank cable car
In management, soldiering refers to the deliberate practice of employees working intentionally slower than their actual capacity or restricting their output. Coined by Frederick W. Taylor (the father of Scientific Management), it is considered a major source of workplace inefficiency and economic waste. © Vancouver Island U... +4
Pepper plant for sale with sign saying “Hot! Hot! Hot! Carolina Reaper Pepper”
NYT article headline from June 4, 2026 Kennedy Center Tells Staff to Immediately Remove Trump's Name From Documents The center's general counsel also said that a federal judges order meant the president's name must be taken off outdoor and indoor signage by June 12.
Cable car descent from the fog-bound Zugspitze revealing the green Eibsee
Elmo tweets Elmo hopes both teams have fun! QT: You live in NYC you fucking traitor
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Beatrice and Sidney Webb in a library of the university they founded
Unrealized plan for the German Reichstag from 1872
Peter Gay’s “The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism” (1952)
Timeline of reconstruction after the city was firebombed in WW2
The Spiegelzimmer in the Residenz, Würzburg: a glut of pointless luxury expropriated from god knows where
Various artistic postures of weariness expressed on the platform of a delayed DB train from Würzburg to Hamburg
Katey Sagal looking amazing
Katey Sagal playing the wicked doctor/witch Doctorine in One Piece
“Portrait of the Dancer Alexander Sacharoff,” 1909
A tiny German UPS delivery cart that can be pedaled like a bicycle
(STOP Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social As the sixth British PM in a decade is about to resign, we now have Italian politics without the cuisine 10:20 AM • May 12, 2026 & Everybody can reply 85 reposts 15 quotes 405 likes 5 saves 口24 1100 405日》. stefaniabarutta.bsky.s... @stefani... 4h As an Italian I deeply offended by this statement. Since 2016 you have had or about to have 6 PMs, we have had 4. So you are worse than Italians on top of not having: weather, food, sense of style, biodiversity, differences of landscape, art AND YOU ARE NOT IN THE EU! 01 32 V32 曰》…
League of threats: Mail from admin announcing chaos, escaped cow, Shiny Hunters, ICE, finals, and a tornado
Reviews have been removed from this place 151 to 200 reviews (!!!!! 😂) were removed in the past year due to defamation complaints under German law. More about Defamation Removal Notices in Germany
Hannah Arendt, having seen much evil, fending it off with the power of her intellect and a cigarette
Thomas Piketty’s A Brief History of Equality
Another line from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, typed into the Burger King font generator
Surely I can get away with reading this respectable book
Relatively small but perfect Wiener schnitzel with white asparagus and hollandaise sauce
St Michael fighting a writhing evil that keeps returning. There’s no point in arguing with it
正 Center for Global Studies AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN From the Nile to the Han: Nineteenth-Century Korea, Egypt, and the Limits of Orientalism Tuesday, APRIL 28 | 12-1 PM Coble 306 and on Zoom: https://go.cgs.illinois.edu/HyungjiPark_Lecture 4 28 What happens when an American diplomat arrives in Korea expecting the "Orient" - and doesn't find it? Charles Chaille-Long, a veteran of the American Givil War, the Egyptian Army and explorer of the Nile, came to Seoul in the late nineteenth century with a mental map of the *Oriental shaped by his experience in Egypt. Korea didn't fit. This talk traces how Chaille-Long's comparisons between Egypt and Korea expose the limits of Orientalism as a framework for understanding East Asia, and what those limits mean for how we think about early Korean-American diplomatic engagements. (YONSEI UNIVERSITY) Hyungji Park is Professor of English Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, postcolonial studies, and nineteenth-century contact between Britain and Korea. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is developing a project on visual culture in nineteenth-century British-Korean relations.
Stamps on which Phyllis Wheatley appears to be writing “Preface to my second volume”
Still raining in Champaign IL but an eerie orange glow means the sunset is hitting some clouds up there