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Markus Decker @markusdecker.bsky.social · 12h

Was die vergangenen Tage lehren: Dass die Linke bei der Union mehr Empörung evoziert als die AfD. Letztere gilt vor allem als Konkurrenz.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 4h

Once again reading the perfect article on Steely Dan www.salon.com/2000/03/14/s...

Steely Dan slid like a malevolent ice cube through the '70s, their complex music and insidious lyrics burning a cold tunnel through the decade's soft, fatty tissues. The antithesis of punk, they were just as necessary:
Both were antidotes to the hormone-driven fatuity into which rock is always threatening to collapse. Against such California emptiness, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker represented the revenge of darkest New York. Hipsters from the metrop, sneeringly urbane wise guys with nasal accents, they set their recondite, pessimistic lyrics -- equal parts
"Mean Streets" and Bob Dylan -- to dazzlingly accomplished, hook-happy, jazz-inflected tunes. From the opening notes of their first hit single, "Do It Again," with its cryptic tale of eternally recurring foolishness accompanied by a typically virtuoso electric sitar solo, it was clear that these guys had something new under their porkpie hats.
That something was technique. It wasn't just about playing well - tons of rockers could do that -- but an obsession with, almost amounting to a fetishizing of, musical sophistication.
This obsession took two different but related forms: drop-dead, lapidary perfectionism in the recording studio and an unprecedented use of the idioms (and players) of jazz, which they seamlessly transformed into kick-ass rock 'n' roll. The jazz influences in their songs range from the superficial, like the quotation from Horace Silver's "Song for My Father" in the bass line intro to "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," to the profound, like the tricky time signatures on "Your Gold Teeth Il" or the harmonically audacious title cut on "Aja," with its thundering tenor solo by former Miles sideman Wayne Shorter

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 7h

Found while flipping through CTA Transit News v. 38 no. 9, 1985 today: the product model for the classic "Mr. Clean" campaign was an employee of the @chicagocta.bsky.social. We've digitized these volumes and you can flip through them yourself in the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/ctat...

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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 8h

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Interning for Matt yglesias sounds like the punishment for ending up in last place in your fantasy football league

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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snellejelle.eurosky.social @snellejelle.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Seit kurzem hat auch die junge urbanen Szene den bothsideism aus der Region für sich entdeckt. Gerade für Journalisten ist er zu einem Essential geworden. Etwas unbeholfen wirkt es noch, wenn mancher versucht dem traditionellen Handwerk einen individuellen frischen Touch zu geben.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Am meisten spass machen mir die ausgefallenen aufträge, da wo man selber nicht drauf kommt. Da erwacht mein kreativer Instinkt, alles gleichzusetzen" so der passionierte mittsechziger.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bothsideism manufaktur

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bezeichnend: Trumps Leute bedrohen nun direkt deutsche Parlamentarier, die sich für ein Verbot der Rechtsextremen einsetzen. Das zeigt: - in wessen Interesse die AfD agiert. - die Rechtsextremen sind offenbar so nervös, dass sie ihre großen Brüder holen. Und wie richtig ein Verbotsverfahren ist.

focus.de

Initiative: AfD-Bekämpfern droht Einreiseverbot in USA – Linke entsetzt

Die US-Kongressabgeordnete Anna Paulina Luna droht Politikern, die sich für ein AfD-Verbot einsetzen, mit Einreiseverbot in die USA. AfD-Gegnern wirft sie Demokratiefeindlichkeit vor.

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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good work by Judd here. Jay Feely can’t protect something for which he clearly has no respect or understanding.

Orangey Snicket
@wooble.geoffreyspear.com
About 80% of the people who think trans women shouldn't be allowed to play sports also believe that cis women shouldn't be allowed to play sports.
7:07 AM • Aug 21, 2026

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Israel hat seit Jahren - lange vor 2023 - gegen FIFA-Regeln verstoßen, weil israelische Klubmannschaften in besetzten Gebieten spielen. Wenn FIFA seinen eigenen Regeln folgte, könnte Israel an keinen Nationalspielen teilnehmen. Den Handschlag verweigern ist wirklich der mindest mögliche Protest

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#307: Wolfgang Nickolay, Maria Snow, Winterberg-Altastenberg (1971-72)

A gabled concrete church on a mountain side (it's the highest church in North Rhine-Westphalia). There is a small forebuilding with large clear glass windows in front of the gabled worship space. Photo by Wilfried Kräling, Winterberg-Siedlinghausen/ Verlag Foto Kräling via Heinrich otten/Knut Stegmann/Michael Huyer (LWL), Kirchenbau nach 1945. Entwicklung und Bestand in Westfalen-Lippe, p. 33.

A gabled church with a wooden ceiling looking toward a raised altar under a clear glass triangle clerestory. There is a row of pews either side of a central aisle, and there are also pews either side of the altar. A large golden cross hangs above the altar. Photo by Rüdiger Maas via Rumabel, https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=13671

A view looking diagonally back from the choir to the entrance of the church, showing the two rows of pews. There's a mezzanine with an organ over the entrance, which is accessed by a spiral staircase. Round concrete columns carry the roof. Photo by Rüdiger Maas via Rumabel, https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=13671

Another exterior view showing that some of the concrete has been painted white and a slate-roofed church tower has been constructed since the original photograph. Photo by Jörg Braukmann via Wikimedia Commons

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎵🎵Come on down to Presque Isle Where you’ll get a Presque Education 🎵🎵

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Up late for travel and once again marveling at the miracle that is “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing”

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel everybody needs a palate cleanser so here is an indisputably great song about Abilene (where the Choosin’ Texas story takes place) youtu.be/wq6FxVxgM0M?...

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Plains - "Abilene" (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by ANTI- Records

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly. Duh. Fucking assholes.

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Tarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Paul McCartney in the shining: woke up got outta bed, hugged a ghoul and bonked me head

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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the 1600s you could write treatises for your friends as a gift. But friends don’t want treatises anymore

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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 27/09/2026

I am going to create architecture that blurs the line between inside and outside and when I do it’s over for you bitches

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 27/09/2026

the inventor of the carport:

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good reminder that we have agency, nothing is inevitable, & we don't have to consent. "...so haben wir festgestellt, dass Zustimmung und Legitimität nach wie vor Aspekte des gesellschaftlichen Lebens sind, für die die Führungsklasse des Silicon Valley noch keine technologische Lösung gefunden hat"

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m in a bad place. Not mentally I’m just in Phoenix

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absolute stunner here in Phoenix

Glass brick 80s PoMo law firm building with gabled rear court

Side view with glass brick bay window and very good purple metal fencing

closer view of another bit of fencing and stepped wall

front entrance, reading “adelayo law firm” in an unfortunate sign over a delicious glass brick entrance

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At some point I need a good design journalist to write a serious book about Neri Oxman

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Danke Frau Reiche - Endlich ein Argument! Wir müssen "Antisemitismus" bekämpfen, weil wir jüdisches Geld brauchen.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was today years old when I learned that Eric Honsbawm taught Reinhart Koselleck in a denazification reeducation program

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Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

„Vorbereitet wird hier eine Schmierkampagne, dessen Ziel nicht einmal die Linke, sondern Grüne und SPD sind, damit diese keine Koalition mit der Linken eingehen.“

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m an alpha male and a believer in traditional values. My primary issue is [checking notes and spelling out loud] f-u-r-r-y p-i-l-o-t-s

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guy who gets the Joker and the Rizzler mixed up

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.com

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

every Albertan pointing to the rat: there he is

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 25/09/2026

hotel intercontinental, hilton head island, south carolina, 1985

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's nothing more surprising than stumbling-upon surviving PoMo Provincial in the wild. bsky.app/profile/road...

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Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Or things like “books.”

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Norman Foster's models for possible Reichstag cupolas, 1993. Photo by Richard Davies, from Julia Walker's "Berlin Contemporary"

26 different models for the Reichstag cupola arrayed on a dark background.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[Jonathan Richman voice] I was dancing in the Covid-conscious lesbian bar

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Swiss signs.

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