Michael J. Steudeman

@msteudeman.bsky.social

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rhetoric, education, neurodiversity, dad humor. Author of Absence of National Feeling: Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress (U. Press of Mississippi, 2025).

Paint swatches for “Conservative Gray” and “Privilege Green”
That “Four Freedoms” free speech guy painting by Norman Rockwell
Cover of “Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs,” featuring a handdrawn cartoon of a green goat creature wearing a yellow blanket with earholes
A USA Today article almost completely obscured by advertisements and notifications.
A LEGO beach scene with a boo and a ghost under a spiral umbrella. A LEGO crab walks beside them. In the water a LEGO stingray swims by two LEGO starfishes.
The image is a CAPTCHA for web security. It gives the instruction: "Select the image from the same category as the reference image." It then provides a picture of a spaghetti for the reference. The comparison photos are three pictures of a train, four pictures of cheeseburgers, and two elephants. The images all appear to be AI-generated riffs on enormous cheeseburgers, with some strange background watermark patterns overlaid on each.
Lego minifig of Animal Crossing owl Blathers holding a pair of dangerous insects
Bush standing in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner on an aircraft carrier
John Fetterman, now mustachioed
An example of Spencerian Script handwriting style — an elegant handwriting form with line variation
The U.S. Dept of War web page description on Google: “The Department of War serves as an innovative leader in developing technology to protect all Americans on and off the battlefield.”
Pam Bondi scowling.
Screen capture of Chaos from the game Hades 2. Dialogue reads, “Spawn of Hades, I have no further wishes to communicate with you this often at this length. I likely shall use fewer words with you henceforth, I think.”
A poet sits at a desk, hand over his head, clearly distressed by the conversation on the other side of the room between a bill collector and the poet’s spouse.
It reads: “The horrible secret of adulthood: the bullies, cheaters, tattletales, and sniveling toadies who tormented you in school are now trying to sell you insurance, explaining why a payraise for you is currently impossible, informing you your tax return is being audited, and telling you why your country has just declared war.”
Image of angel restraining the God of War from Raphael’s “Creation of the World” mosaic in the Chigi Chapel
A scene from Bluey. After great effort, Bentley the dog hangs from the playground monkey bars, saying “I’d like to get down now”
Mount Umate on Coruscant