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Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝

@wetherbeephd

❄ English prof & WPA, @NorthernMichU ❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film ❄ review ed., @enculturation ❄ aspiring Yooper ❄ union thug ❄ he/him

 Marquette, MI
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Joined August 2010
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My article "Epideictic Priming amid COVID-19: Metonymy under the Microscope" -- which looks at the abstraction of disease through microbiological imagery -- is in this special issue. Jazzed to read the whole thing.
American Society for the History of Rhetoric (@ASHRhetoric) profile pictureAmerican Society for the History of Rhetoric@ASHRhetoric3 Nov 2023
🎉🎉🎉The special issue "Rhetoric in Motu" for the Journal of the History of Rhetoric is out online today! Check out the fantastic work from our contributors via the link below. What are you looking forward to reading? scholarlypublishingcollectiv… #TeamRhetoric
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Jake@313HockeyOct 14
I reached out to Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers for their thoughts on the Detroit Red Wings. Here's what they had to say: octopusthrower.com/what-each…
What each Michigan Senate candidate has to say about the Red Wings

What each Michigan Senate candidate has to say about the Red Wings

Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers both weigh in on the current state of the Detroit Red Wings.

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O’Shea Jackson Jr
@OsheaJacksonJrJun 1
I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.
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toe, lover (that one friend)
@carobungaMar 14
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Matt Dowell@dowellmlMar 9
A rude thing to say perhaps sitting here on sabbatical, but if teaching is one of the things in life that really satisfies a cognitive-social-emotional-collaborative need in life and you’ve done it for 39 straight semesters, there’s a real absence when not doing it.
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ArtButMakeItSports
@ArtButSportsFeb 22
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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Lake Canada 🇨🇦@LakeSuperiorJan 26
Pro ice. Anti ICE.
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Northern Michigan Hockey
@NMUHockey6 Dec 2025
THE STREAK ENDS TODAY! #NMUWildcats | #CCHAHockey | #NCAAHockey
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nba paint
@nba_paint25 Nov 2025
Pistons this season.
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Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.
That silly bourgeois tweet we're all making fun of

ALT That silly bourgeois tweet we're all making fun of

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Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers at @ISHRhetoric 2025
Title slide for "The Human Depths: James Baldwin's Counterimage of Burkean Logology," with images of Kenneth Burke and James Baldwin

ALT Title slide for "The Human Depths: James Baldwin's Counterimage of Burkean Logology," with images of Kenneth Burke and James Baldwin

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Pov: You don't know what "pov" means
The Figen (@TheFigen_) profile pictureThe Figen
@TheFigen_15 Jul 2025
You find yourself in a museum.
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Pov: You're an old windmill in Sweden
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just wrote the phrase "crackling polysyndeton"
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please clap
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My most masculine quality is how much I love little collectible lighthouse figurines
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Typing out "University Press" every time in Chicago style almost physically hurts when I'm used to MLA's merciful shorthand of "UP"
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Nick Offerman
@Nick_Offerman2 Jun 2025
Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride
Michael Flynn Jr (@realmflynnJR) profile pictureMichael Flynn Jr
@realmflynnJR1 Jun 2025
Good morning and Happy Sunday! No quotes today. Just wanted to post how I feel about “pride” month.
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Thanks, Google. No one wants this. (1775 is the correct answer.)
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Student eval comment from this term, lol
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Ryan M. Spaeder
@theaceofspaeder3 May 2025
#Tigers Riley Greene is the first player in MLB history to hit multiple home runs in the 9th inning of a game.
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