Das Leben geht weiter? Wie Menschen in Kiew, Kamjanske und Krywyj Rih auf den Krieg in der Ukraine und die Aussichten für Frieden blicken, berichtet ak Redakteur Jan Ole Arps in ak718: www.akweb.de/bewegun... 1/2

Nice extract from SURROUND SOUND in The Observer. Book out now! observer.co.uk/culture/film...

‘Everything is positioned on top of or behind something else, creating a layered density that seems to curve out towards the viewer like a convex mirror.’ Clare Bucknell on the unruly elegance of Rachel Ruysch’s 18th-century still lifes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Map of European countries with R in their name according to Gemini 2.5 Pro

Congratulations, England, on reaching the final of the Women’s Rugby Union World Cup. It was eventually a good game against France, but they will need to step up their game to secure a win against Canada.

‘Asked whether rows within Your Party could benefit the Greens, Polanski told the BBC: "I really like Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, and my door's always open for conversations."’ (BBC) That is code for: we can talk on my terms not on yours.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Vergessene Kulturtechnik (Teil 32): Es ist unüblich barhäuptig das Haus zu verlassen.

Trump-Wilders: I wonder what kind of politician would like to outlaw antifascism.

GRWM for a cultural field trip to Stirling.

Model consent form signed. Outfit chosen. Just need to shave before I go out.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

Moin. Passend zum #CephalopodFriday einen kurzen Rückblick zum #SteampunkAhoi im Historischen #Schiffshebewerk #Henrichenburg. Ich habe mein "Buch #JulesVerne u d Entdeckung d Meeresforschung" vorgestellt, m Bücherstand u a #Hirnkost #Büchern Mit Kuschelkalmar : ) (1)

How about people like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert don’t apologise and move their business to the web and podcasts instead? How about we don’t roll out the red carpet and put out the posh silver and bone china for autocrats?

Perks of working at the Rural College: free potatoes.

RIP Robert Redford

An amazing new article by @sagebrice.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 'Not just gay penguins: on the importance of queer/trans ecologies for critical geography' 🌈🎓

„Leute studieren acht Jahre Geisteswissenschaften und haben noch nie einen Geist gesehen.” www.instagram.com/share/BAkmwz...

First day at work.

"Los millonarios de Silicon Valley tienen propuestas mesiánicas, pero no dejan de ser negocios que benefician solo al 1% de la humanidad" www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Stuart Hall on “Studying the Conjuncture" is so good: “If you don't agree there is a good degree of openness & contingency to every historical conjuncture, you don't believe in politics. You don't believe that anything can be done." youtu.be/bHpht1nNtB0?...

Avec «Allbarone», Baxter Dury, électromagnétique www.liberation.fr/culture/musi...

Spent an hour in the enchanted forest. The mushrooms did not make me faster.

As an aside, why do British people find it funny to mispronounce German? Bonus ball: Why do British publishers not proofread German words and quotes in their publications? That was a grumpy post. I will now proceed to have another cup of tea.

Drove through St Andrews yesterday. It’s a special place. And rather unlikely when you think about it. The local industries are university and golf. They have an M&S food hall and an Aldi these days. By the way, my reason for driving through was a rugby game in Anstruther

It's "great" to see my employer releasing names and information about *alleged* behavior to the Trump admin, without even telling the people who've been accused what it is that they're accused of. Utterly reprehensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If the estimates on both sides are close like this, one would assume that they are close to the real numbers.

Someone‘s academic career is in tatters.

beim Suhrkamp-Merch musste ich gleich komplett zuschlagen

Suhrkamps Gedicht der Woche: Die Leseschnecke liest sehr gern. Sie liest sehr langsam und genau. Sie liest den Himmel und den Stern Sie liest die Blume, liest die Frau. Nur diese Wörter mag sie nicht: Jetzt wird geschlafen! Aus das Licht! Jutta Richter: Leseschneckenlied

28 Tage im Amt?

The Sub-Emperor leads the first steps of the pompa funebris for a hate preacher.

New writing: As a teenager I dreamt of being like this. Gender fiction by Christian Schmacht: mikagratzke.substack.com/p/as-a-teena... www.patreon.com/posts/138575... 🌈🎓

‘This complex picture of unfixed embodiment and changing gendered performances does not fit a mainstream trans narrative of a point-to-point transition. De-transitioning and re-transitioning are a daily practice for the narrator.’

I like it a lot when I drift towards writing. Went to the kitchen and on the way back made a detour to my study. After a while my wife came to check why I had not returned to the living room. There I was typing away oblivious to time and the sunset.

‘This complex picture of unfixed embodiment and changing gendered performances does not fit a mainstream trans narrative of a point-to-point transition. De-transitioning and re-transitioning are a daily practice for the narrator.’

Your AI teacher is ready to see you.

New writing: As a teenager I dreamt of being like this. Gender fiction by Christian Schmacht: mikagratzke.substack.com/p/as-a-teena... www.patreon.com/posts/138575... 🌈🎓

Poland & Qatar: The war machine de-territorialises and re-territorialises. #deleuze

Problemelchproblemchen

Heated car seats are a threat to western civilisation!1!

‘Don't worry, you can outsource all your listening to another bot, who will incorrectly summarize what they heard and email it to your therapist.’

The apples we are keeping this year AKA the apples which weren’t good enough for birds and wasps.

DUNKEL IST DER WELTRAUM, GENOSSEN, SEHR DUNKEL

Slightly diminish a book Das Unwohlsein des jungen Werthers

Schaupflügen: Pflicht und Kür.

Things that jarred with me today (Sunday 7th September 2025) [I am offering no answers. This is only about spidy senses tingling.] mikagratzke.substack.com/p/things-tha... www.patreon.com/posts/138356...

Der kleine Wüterich mag mit den Pfeilen spielen / und tändeln, wie er will: er gewinnet mir nichts ab, / weil gegen seine Pfeil ein Demant* Herz ich hab. Gegen Amor, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, 1633-1694 *Diamant

Frau Bär in Latex. Frau Bär im Fußballtrikot. Frau Bär im Drindl. Ihr springt übers Stöckchen. Und das Bodyshaming könnt ihr euch auch sparen.

Things that jarred with me today (Sunday 7th September 2025) [I am offering no answers. This is only about spidy senses tingling.] mikagratzke.substack.com/p/things-tha... www.patreon.com/posts/138356...