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Travis Scholl

@travisjscholl

Among other things, a writer of sentences, some with line breaks. Exec @LSSLiving. Teaching @ConcordiaSem. PhD @CWriteAtMizzou. MDiv @YaleDivSchool.

Katılım Nisan 2011
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Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
Haven't posted on this platform for awhile, but wanted to share this bit of creative nonfiction that's now out in the world. I am deeply grateful to the editors of @ANMLY_LIT for giving it the light of day. anmly.org/ap41/travis-sc…
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Aaron Belz
Aaron Belz@belzpoems·
Walking Dad home. He says, “see what they’re doing here, they’re airing out the yards. Soon they’ll be full of fresh air.” 🙄
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UCity Review Editors
UCity Review Editors@UCityReview·
It strikes me that the art I am drawn to is not commerce. It is a gift. It is a transaction free from being a toll at the gate where there are no winners and losers.
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Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
@DerekKrissoff Having worked in academic publishing at the height of the open access debate, I hadn’t connected these dots, but you are spot on. Somebody needs to write about this.
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Derek Krissoff
Derek Krissoff@DerekKrissoff·
Ten years ago an open-access thought leader asked me, incredulously, “Why wouldn’t you want to see an unlimited number of books published?”—and if you want to know why we’re poorly prepared to push back against A.I. slop, this feels like an overlooked part of the story.
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Reads with Ravi
Reads with Ravi@readswithravi·
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
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Aaron Belz
Aaron Belz@belzpoems·
I asked AI to make my teeth a bit whiter in this family photo. So yeah. It split my teeth in two.
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Aaron Belz@belzpoems·
Just had my first Poetry (Chicago) acceptance. Three new poems. This after decades of "Best wishes placing them elsewhere." What? Hwæt!
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Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
@DamonLinker This confirms my suspicion that, on any given issue, whatever maga is against comes with the tagline “…unless Trump does it.”
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Damon Linker
Damon Linker@DamonLinker·
The soul of the American right speaks.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog

I'm as reflexively non-interventionist as anyone can possibly be, but Venezuela appears to be a resounding victory and one of the most brilliant military operations in American history. As an unapologetic American Chauvinist, I want America to rule over this hemisphere and exert its power for the good of our people. If some shitty little tinpot third world dictator is harming our country or interfering with our national interests, we should do exactly what Trump did to Maduro. Why not? "International law" is fake and gay. The only international law is that big and powerful countries get to do what they want. It has been that way since the dawn of civilization. It will always be that way. And we are the most powerful country on the planet. It's about time that we start acting like it.

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matthew staneck
matthew staneck@MattStaneck·
It’s Sufjan Season 🎄 🦄
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Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
@poorerthandead One would have thought classical education would teach someone to not make arguments that are gross oversimplifications, devoid of data or real analysis, masquerading as culture-war hot takes. Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
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Dave Griffith
Dave Griffith@poorerthandead·
A profoundly Manichaean perspective.
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41

95% of the conservative influencers just don’t get it. Every problem in American life is downstream from education. Homeschoolers and classically educated students are shaped to be virtuous young people who love America. But they are only 5%, the other 95% continue to be miseducated (America is the evil empire, the oppression hierarchy, freedom defined as the autonomy to do whatever you feel like, gender fluidity, etc) until we fix this, everything else will be a dumpster fire.

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Jay Winters
Jay Winters@jwinterscom·
Some of you were not formed by late 90s early 2000s punk and ska bamds, and it shows.
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Paul J. Pastor
Paul J. Pastor@pauljpastor·
“Cleave” is such an interesting word in English—it is difficult for me to think of another example of a word that properly means both one thing (to chop apart) and its exact opposite (to join together).
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Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
@whyrobynwhy But they will gladly take your questions about what an ombudsperson does, then go to the appropriate person in the organization to get an answer. And this is how the universe creates black holes.
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The First Robyn of Spring
The First Robyn of Spring@whyrobynwhy·
No one knows what exactly an ombudsperson does, least of all an ombudsperson.
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Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
@belzpoems This is very telling and also, I think, exemplifies how far removed social media, and especially X, has become from its original value proposition.
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Aaron Belz
Aaron Belz@belzpoems·
If you wanna see how X distorts/polarizes conversation, here’s an example. Last night I posted the same thing verbatim to three social channels X, Bluesky, Threads. On X, two “likes.” Everywhere else it took off & still climbing. Colbert is an American hero, and we all know it.
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Aaron Belz@belzpoems

The superstar of the #Emmys is a Catholic Christian talk show host: "I wanted to do a comedy show about love—we ended up doing a show about loss. And that's related to love. Because you only truly know love when you sense how close you are to losing it." –Stephen Colbert

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Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
@belzpoems Write, man, write. Are you thinking you’d go more journalistic or literary with it?
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Travis Scholl
Travis Scholl@travisjscholl·
"Hope is fragile, but hard to kill." ~Andre Agassi, a few minutes ago during the TNT broadcast of the French Open semifinal between Carlos Alcaraz and Lorenzo Musetti
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