☝🏾Heads up! Im Rahmen von #BlackHistoryMonth organisiert von den wunderbaren Menschen bei @isdberlin.bsky.social werden Fabienne Mahwane und ich eine "sneak peek" in meinem neuen Roman geben. Lesung in deutscher Lautsprache, Ort rollstuhlgerecht, Eintritt kostenfrei, offen für alle Weitere Infos ⬇️

Nice shout out for The Red Labyrinth by @mondyboy74.bsky.social in his year's write up at Locus. Lots of cool other books as well.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Auf Artikel in Leitmedien, die einordnen, dass der so genannte Kulturkampf der Woken in Wirklichkeit ein Move der Superreichen-Weltpolitik war, um sich selbst davor zu bewahren, mit moralischem Saustall demnächst auch gegen mögliche neue Gesetze zu verstoßen, muss ich vergeblich warten, richtig?

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me #Archaeology

das kann doch echt nicht euer ernst sein

New on the blog today for #ReadIndies, I've written about some of my favourite books from NYRB Classics. Featuring books by Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Comyns, J. L. Carr and more! @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social #BookSky 💙📚 #TranslationThurs jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/s...

Hungarian Lit month at Winston's Dad - some book recommandations bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/02/07/h...

“As a great man once said it's welfare for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor. Every single right we have as a people wasn't handed to us. We had to fight and take it. Judge a man by how he treats the poor ... Don't forget why Muhammad Ali said ‘l am America.’”

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

If you found Gaelic hard to understand, try some mediaeval English instead: Mirie it iſ while ſumer ilaſt ƿið fugheleſ ſong, oc nu neheð ƿindeſ blaſt and ƿeder ſtrong! Ei, ei! Ƿhat ðiſ nicht iſ long, and ich ƿið ƿel michel wrong, ſoregh and murn and faſt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HXT...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

OK, but the Bari Weiss season of The Newsroom would be their best??

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

"This is what I write about: the way poverty, hopelessness, and unspoken and unprocessed violence corrode a person, and I can’t write about it as it is actively happening to me. This isn’t an untreated, progressing illness; this is my home."

To go along with RJL's upcoming episode on Godzilla and Mothra, may I present...

This is the lesson over and over btw. People really want something they can believe in that they can put into practice.

solidarity to those who fight fascism everywhere

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Wenn Ihr französisch sprecht/versteht, sollt Ihr Euch diesen Beitrag anschauen/anhören - es geht um den Versuch der Einflußnahme von US-Diplomaten auf französische Richter*innen/Gerichtsverfahren (Marine Le Pen).

"A Change Is Gonna Come" (1964) - Sam Cooke 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zD...

I can’t wait to go inside!! (But need a quick coffee before.)

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

Today I got to see a mummified ankylosaur name Zuul and I love him.

The very big rocket that will be taking four humans on a journey that will be the furthest any humans have journeyed from everything on Earth in 54 years - incl. every living being that we know about, will be rolling out in ~12 hours from now. It's slow TV. But with a big rocket. 🚀

POLITE SOCIETY 📽️ debuts on British television on Wednesday night and don't miss it, it's hysterical intheirownleague.com/2023/01/29/p...

this movie is by the absolute genius who made We Are Lady Parts, an actually perfect television program.

Mein nächstes Buch im Sonderangebot: Das eBook von "Meeresdunkel" kostet zur Zeit direkt bei Rowohlt nur 4,99 Euro und wird schon am 1. April 2026 ausgeliefert, zwei Wochen vor dem gedruckten Buch. www.rowohlt.de/buch/till-ra...

Anja Niedringhaus - Die Fotografin und der Krieg Eine ARD-Dokumentation zeigt Leben und Tod der außergewöhnlichen Kriegsfotografin Anja Niedringhaus, die 2014 in Afghanistan erschossen wurde. 🎥 www.ardmediathek.de/video/dokume...

In Thetford haben Archäolog*innen zwei super spektakuläre Funde gemacht: die bisher am weitestgehenden erhaltene Carnyx und eine Standarte in Form eines Eberkopfs. Thetford liegt im Siedlungsgebiet der Iceni, die unter Boudica gegen das Imperium Romanum aufstanden. Zeitlich tät's ungefähr passen.

Ten excellent books on authoritarianism and resistance. A new post from me: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/a...

Nobel Peace Prize 🤝 FIFA Peace Prize

Es sind noch 11 Tage, das Quorum noch nicht erreicht. epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

„I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.“ SPD, Grüne, Linke: Take note.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

"Then Dame Cecilia began to have fits and to prophesy. This infuriated Richenda de Foley, to whom any talk of the end of the world after she had worked so hard and successfully to put the convent on a good footing for the next century seemed rank ingratitude." 😂

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

BOOKS READ IN DECEMBER 2025 (BTW just mute this thread if it annoys you) Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography by Anika Burgess The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones by Charles Neider Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns

Check out RJL'sreading project for #JanuaryinJapan 2026. 31 days of free-to-read short stories or excerpts from novels, encompassing a short history of modern Japanese fiction. I'll post a new short story every day, and you're welcome to read along!

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ikkōsai Yoshimori 光斎芳盛 (Japan, 1830-1884) Diptych: Female #Elephant from Central India (Tenjiku kudari daijōzō no zu), published by Otakuya Takichi, 1861 Yokohama woodblock-printed ōban diptych; ink & color on paper H36.3 x W48.5 cm Harvard Art Museums 2007.214.64.1-2 hvrd.art/o/318776 #JapaneseArt

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Baudelaire for the end of the year

I remain convinced most of my problems can be fixed by the right notebook

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

Tintin magazine, dated December 25, 1947.

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)