Kevin Egan

@kevingan
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Retired Lit/Writing teacher, Yale/USC. Special interests: folklore and critical theory, especially Benjamin and Habermas. Four bestest-ever kids: M, G, L, & T!
On Twitter, I read a lot and commented a little if I had some clarifying knowledge. But I’m leaving Twitter because I don’t want to contribute to its Muskification in any way. Boycotts are an underused tool in our society, IMO: shouldn’t Blue states boycott Red states (contracts, travel, etc.) to force a more representative Senate?
Kevin EganApr 21, 2025
AJ SadauskasApr 20, 2025
UPDATE: A massive thanks to everyone who helped out with this ☺️

As a result, my little single-user instance has made contact with 11,274 other instances across the Fedi 😲

So no further boosts needed, really appreciate everyone who helped out 😁

ORIGINAL POST: I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp
Kevin EganOct 21, 2024
Hanse MinaOct 14, 2024

DeepState reports that Russians allegedly shot 9 Ukrainian prisoners in the #Kursk Oblast #Russia after stripping them half naked.

https://t.me/DeepStateUA/20494

#Ukraine

✙DeepState✙🇺🇦

⏺У соціальних мережах знову шириться інформація про можливий розстріл росіянами 9 українських військовополонених на Курщині. Такі дії є грубим порушенням Женевської конвенції про поводження з військовополоненими! Вкотре направив листи до ООН та МКЧХ щодо чергового злочину росіян. 🗣Ці дії не мають залишитися безкарними, і ворог повинен понести всю відповідальність. Росія – це країна-терорист, яка порушує всі правила та звичаї війни. Міжнародна спільнота не повинна закривати очі на такі злочини! 📸DeepState 🇺🇦 Facebook | Instagram | Х

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Kevin EganFeb 18, 2024
John GruberFeb 18, 2024
Mozilla should definitely do this. And then when it goes nowhere, everyone will finally agree that PWAs were never a great platform for mobile apps. Right? https://indieweb.social/@whalecoiner/111940727614198057
Charlie (@[email protected])

Hey @[email protected] - right now would be a really good time to create a mobile operating system based on Firefox. Nothing but progressive web apps. You could call it… FirefoxOS? #Apple #pwa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

Indieweb.Social
Kevin EganNov 11, 2023
Aure Free Press Nov 11, 2023
Trophy Russian TOS-1A "Solntsepyok" armed with "Da Vinci Wolves"
#AureFreePress #Ukraine #Russia
Kevin EganMay 30, 2023
Ukraine War Bulletins and NewsMay 30, 2023
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/9576
⛔️🇺🇦Russia attacks Kyiv with drones again, air defense is working #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
Live: Ukraine

🔴Russia attacks Kyiv with drones again, air defense is working @liveukraine_media

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Kevin EganApr 13, 2023
freedom_writersApr 13, 2023

"I believe America is big enough for all of us to succeed, and that is the nation we're building: a nation where no one is left behind."

— @POTUS #FWC https://bit.ly/3KPED0u

Collect all 14!

Kevin EganMar 24, 2023
Philip BumpMar 24, 2023
CAMPAIGN TEAM: ok so this is everything we've got on desantis. dont tweet it all at once
TRUMP: got it
CAMPAIGN TEAM: seriously
TRUMP: no i understand
[ron says one not nice thing]
TRUMP:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/23/trump-desantis-republicans-florida/?itid=ap_philipbump
Trump’s kitchen-sink attack on DeSantis, parsed

The former president offered a sprawling attack on his likely 2024 opponent on Wednesday. Some of it was even accurate.

The Washington Post
Kevin EganMar 13, 2023
Show threadLieschen Müller's fatherMar 13, 2023
On Sunday or on holidays a Russian know of nothing better
than to converse of war and battle calmor,
when in Ukraine not far away, perhaps in a kindergarten,
their soldiers commit crimes in war.
You stand by the window and sip a glass
and see the painted ships glide down the river.
Then in the evening you walk home content
and bless both Peace and peaceful times.
#FaustByGoethe, verse 860-867. Translated, by #PeterSalm
#sarcasm, #Russia, #Ukraine, #war, #Putin, #Putler, #politics
Kevin EganJan 23, 2023
Texas ObserverJan 18, 2023

“An estimated 100,000 people experience it every year. ‘It’ isn’t the fact that you’re sitting next to paintings by a man whose works regularly sell for upward of $50 million. ‘It’ is the quiet, the awe, and the reverie.”

From the January/February issue of our magazine, TXO Fellow Arman Badrei visits this 1971 temple to #art and contemplation on a very special night:

https://www.texasobserver.org/mark-rothko-chapel-houston/

(📸Photos by Arman Badrei)
#culture #Texas #sculpture #Houston #history

Meditations on Life and Death at Houston's Rothko Chapel

Although the abstract painter didn't survive to see it completed, the 1971 temple to art and contemplation is still revealing its magic.

The Texas Observer
Kevin EganJan 8, 2023
markjacobJan 7, 2023
There's no ideological clash in the GOP. It's just a disagreement over strategy. Some are what I call "process fascists" seizing power gradually through gerrymandering, stealing Supreme Court seats, etc. Others are "express-lane fascists" who prefer chaos and violence (Jan. 6).