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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hell yes, Cranston Public Library! 🤩 Full article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data to come and use our facilities. And I find, increasingly, that librarians have to be advocates for our communities.
Ed Garcia, Cranston, R.I.
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#280: Heinz Dohmen, Stefan Legge, and Barbara Legge-Sulewack, St. Anno (now Serbian Orthodox Church of Holy First Martyrs and Archdeacon Steven), Essen-Stoppenberg, 1976-82

A shingled pyramid with protruding shingle wings. The base is raised and there's what appears to be a shingle moat. A cross is on top of the pyramid. Photo via Pinterest, https://es.pinterest.com/pin/457537643377825216/

A church interior richly decorated with candles for Serbian Orthodox celebration of the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. There's a gold iconostasis in the back of the photo, and a number of small tables (this photo is from the pandemic so people are distanced and wearing masks). Clerestory windows near the top of the pyramid light the wood-walled space, alongside glass doors cut in diamond-shaped openings. Photo via Serbian Orthodox Diocese Düsseldorf and GErmany, https://eparhija-nemacka.com/praznik-silaska-svetoga-duha-na-apostole/

Another view of the church, this time looking back from near the altar and showing worshippers in front of the grand diamond-shaped openings in the wood walls. Photo via Serbian Orthodox Diocese Düsseldorf and GErmany, https://eparhija-nemacka.com/praznik-silaska-svetoga-duha-na-apostole/

A head-on view of the pyramidal church, showing it floating above the ground. Photo by Gregor Theune via https://www.gregortheune.de/work/sakralbauten-der-baujahre-1950-1980-in-der-emscherregion/

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#290: Jürgen Hadenfeldt, City Church Chorweiler (1978; renovated 2024-26)

A 1970s brick complex with copper roof that embraces the edge of wall and roof. The complex is irregular, with a series of volumes building up toward the back. The Protestant church, which we're concerned with, is on the right; behind it, in the far back, is the Catholic church, which will be the next post. Photo by Chris06 via Wikimedia Commons

A worship space with an altar and cross in the corner. The space has a waffle ceiling and chairs arranged loosely, more to the right than to the left. Light enters through narrow vertical windows and there are lots of lights on the ceiling, which is painted dark brown. Photo via Hoffnungsgemeinde Köln, https://www.hoffnungsgemeinde-koeln.de/gemeindeleben/galerie/

A photo of the same interior space after renovation. Everything is painted white - maybe even a bit too white - but it's light and airy and the chairs are nice blond wood. The cross now spans the corner in which it's set. Photo by Christopher Dröge via Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, https://www.ksta.de/koeln/chorweiler/chorweiler-veedel/stadtkirche-chorweiler-feierliche-wiedereroeffnung-am-pariser-platz-1302665

A zoomed-out view of the muncicipal complex with, in the center foreground, the Protestant church, in the right middle ground the Catholic church, and in the background the towers of Chorweiler, one of the largest "new towns" in Germany developed around the Fühlinger Lake in the 1970s after decades of planning. Photo by Chris06 via Wikimedia Commons

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

#291: Günter Sander, St. Mary the Queen, Solingen-Widdert (1956-57)

A church building with an uneven gable. The entrance is on the left side through copper doors set in a stained-glass window wall, while the right side is a white painted wall with only a few small square windows let in. Photo by M. M. via Erzbistum Köln, https://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/kirchengemeinde-solingen-sued/kirchen/kirchen/st-00001._maria_koenigin_solingen_-_widdert_/

A simple church choir with a large reddish stone altar and a very cool bright stained-glass window panel in largely blue with some reds. Photo by M. M. via Erzbistum Köln, https://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/kirchengemeinde-solingen-sued/kirchen/kirchen/st-00001._maria_koenigin_solingen_-_widdert_/

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#303: Heinrich Otto Vogel and Siegfried Knoch with Jürgen Koerber, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church, Cologne-Junkersdorf (1964-65)

A brown-brick church defined largely by its large semi-circular apse, which rise above the slope-roofed side aisles. It's set in a small park with a tent behind. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons

A view from the altar back to a semi-circular nave, with five rows of pews approaching the altar. The wooden ceiling is carried on five thin wooden columns, and in the middle is a large organ. Photo via Bank für Kirche und Diakonie, https://www.kd-onlinespende.de/projekt-details.html?id=2351#projektstand

A view to the stone altar raised a few steps, and the whitewashed wall behind it, with light entering in a slightly oval pattern from clerestory windows. Photo via Forschungsstelle für Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhunderts eV, https://www.glasmalerei-ev-web.de/pages/b7456/b7456.shtml

Another view of the church exterior, showing a white church tower behind and to the left of the church. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#305: Heinrich Loos, Church of the Resurrection, Bad Salzuflen (1964-66)

An ensemble of rectangular buildings with white walls, clerestory windows and pyramidal roofs. On the right, the smaller volue is a congregation center. On the left, the larger one - with a copper roof - is the church. On the far right is a tall, rectangular church tower with a cross cut into a vertically projecting top. Photo by wewoewi via Wikimedia Commons

A church interior taken from the back corner. In the unified worship space, there are two wide rows of chairs separated by a black stone aisle. The white walls are surrounded by strips of stained glass. There is a curved mezzanine and the ceiling is faced in wood. Photo via Stadt Bad Salzuflen, https://www.stadt-bad-salzuflen.de/stadt-und-rathaus/stadtplanung/ev-luth-auferstehungskirche

A wider view of the raised altar, which is in front of a curbed white wall and flanked by bright stained-glass windows. Photo via Zentrum Lichtblicke, https://zentrum-lichtblicke.de/leben-braucht-raeume/

Another ensemble view showing more clearly the church (left), community center (right) and tower (behind). Photo by Günther Seibold via Kirchbau.de, https://www.kirchbau.de/300_datenblatt.php?id=1933&name=keiner

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 10h

Ja, (teilweise) daher die Niederlassung in Rom.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 13h

#312: Heinrich Dölken, Resurrection of Christ, Bonn-Röttgen (1968-71)

A rectangular, flat-roofed brick church with a narrow band of clerestory windows and a heavy fascia above. On the left is just visible a rectangular stone church tower; on the right are auxiliary buildings. Photo via Bestattungshaus Hebenstein & Kentrup, https://abschiednehmen.de/listings/kirche-christi-auferstehung-bonn/

Church interior. Three rows of pews on a stone floor in front of a modest stone altar. The walls of the rectangular space are of red brick, there's a narrow clerestory band and the ceiling is of folded concrete. There's an organ on the far left. Photo via glockenklaenge.de, https://www.glockenklaenge.de/orte/d/bonn_roettgen.html#

A stained-glass window with blue, red, and blue swathes. Window by Franz Pauli, 1971. Photo via Forschungsstelle für Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhunderts e.V., https://www.glasmalerei-ev-web.de/pages/b6789/b6789.shtml

An exterior view showing the church in winter, with its raw stone tower against the church: two rectangular masses, bare and simple. Photo via Forschungsstelle für Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhunderts eV, https://www.glasmalerei-ev-web.de/pages/b6789/b6789.shtml

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 11h

He’s gonna be so mad when we throw out this box

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 12h

vermutlich, aber immer noch verwunderlich! Muss mal zur Ohiodeutschen katholischen Presse forschen!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 13h

Kann mir ein*e Buchhistoriker*in das mal erklären bitte

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 13h

Was für eine Gruppe Niederlassungen

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 13h

Sein Enkel war der geniale Architekt Karl Band de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Band

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Karl Band – Wikipedia

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 13h

Immer noch baff dass das Bandoneon einfach von einem Typen aus Krefeld namens Band erfunden wurde de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinric...

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 13h

#312: Heinrich Dölken, Resurrection of Christ, Bonn-Röttgen (1968-71)

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#311: Fritz Kreidt, Church of Jesus Christ, Duisburg-Buchholz (1962-64; renovated by Kastner Pichler, 2010-18)

On the right, a church building with a roof that comes up to a point at one side and has walls that alternate between (concret?) bricks and glass blocks; in front of it is a low accessory building of dark red brick with a clerestory window. On the left, a tall, rectangular church tower with an open stair up to the fourth story, where the bells are housed in a louvered space. Photo by CaptainEinsicht via Wikimedia Commons

A view of an empty worship space dominated by the mesmerizing pattern of repeating glass and concrete blocks. The ceiling is of wood and gabled. Photo by Kastner Pichler via Evangelische Gemeinde Trinitatis, https://trinitatis-duisburg.ekir.de/inhalt/die-botschaft-der-jesus-christus-kirche/

A view of the worship space toward the altar, which is set in a niche of a brick wall. To the left is an organ, lodged in a mzzanine that has its counterpart on the right. Seating consists of white chairs arrayed either side of a wide central aisle. Photo by Kastner Pichler via Evangelische Gemeinde Trinitatis, https://trinitatis-duisburg.ekir.de/inhalt/die-botschaft-der-jesus-christus-kirche/

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 14h

Didn’t realize RFK Jr’s reach extended to the UK

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

POV: it's the mid-1980s, your lucrative privately held industrial firm is in need of a new exurban HQ building, and you decide to get a little funky with it

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Erica Fischer @enf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are numerous elevators

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With AI use, as with politics and public life in general: bring back shame (as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says)

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dartmouth provost who admitted to using AI in his published work no longer giving a keynote address at an "Ethics and Culture" conference at Notre Dame. This needs to be become the new, widely-publicized standard for anyone found to have tried to pass off AI-generated writing as their own.

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Schnell withdraws from conference at Notre Dame

Santiago Schnell, who previously was set to deliver a keynote speech at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture’s annual fall conference on Friday “has indicated he is regrettably unable to join u...

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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Man Who Shot Liberty Bibberty

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely normal looking hands there Ms. Mayor

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz

Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said,
'Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country."
Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week.
"It is not our proudest product placement," he said. "But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability."

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jaaa! Grüß den Dom und das Bergische Land von mir

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Jane B. Kulow @cvlkulow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#311: Fritz Kreidt, Church of Jesus Christ, Duisburg-Buchholz (1962-64; renovated by Kastner Pichler, 2010-18)

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No idea who made this but from the bottom of my heart: thank you

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#310: Hans Schilling, St. Michael, Lantenbach (1960-62)

A stucco church exterior with a clerestory window separating it from a wooden roof volume. There's a round concrete tower on the left and a taller concrete round church tower on the right. Photo via Kirchen Oberberg Mitten, https://www.oberberg-mitte.de/ueber-uns/unsere-kirchen/st-michael/

The church interior, with a curved choir behind the altar. There is a band of stained-glass clerestory windows, the ceiling is faced in wood. The altar is raised a few steps. Photo by Harald Blondiau from Karl Josef Bollenbeck, ed. Neue Kirchen im Erzbistum Köln 1955-1995

A side view showing the concrete tower and the rounded block of the church. Photo by Harald Blondiau from Karl Josef Bollenbeck, ed. Neue Kirchen im Erzbistum Köln 1955-1995

An exterior photo showing the rounded apse of the church. Photo by Lorenz Teschner/Lo. via Wikimedia Commons

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(former MVVA employee here) MVVA mentioned!

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/10/2026

starting to get a bit annoyed by the idea that the right has an aesthetic or a sense of beauty and the left doesn’t. democratic-run cities are constantly building new public buildings and parks, a lot of them are great, i’ve been writing about them for years

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most big cities have a fabulous park or two or three built in the last 25 years. Here are three of them

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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friendlies, my second book comes out April 2027! Reach out if you are planning your lecture series for the spring/summer! I'd love to come by in person or virtually. Please let your libraries know to get a copy and help me spread the word. 🌈 @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/F/Frag...

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Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lantenbachronchamp

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This really is the fundamental rule of using social media as a professor. Badmouthing your students for likes is a breach of trust. It can get back to them, even on platforms with privacy settings. It’s bullying, it’s bad pedagogy, and it’s generally a shitty thing to do. Don’t do it!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#310: Hans Schilling, St. Michael, Lantenbach (1960-62)

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#309: Martin Koerber, Paul Gerhardt Church, Cologne-Lindenthal (1950-51; renovated by JRL Architekten, 1993-2001)

A light red-painted church located as a traffic island between the two sides of the Gürtel. On the left is a church tower, rectangular with a gabled roof. On the right is a gabled worship space. Photo by Achim Raschka via Wikimedia Commons

A view fown the central aisle, flanked by a row each of white-painted pews, to a slightly raised altar under a green glass cross. There is a row of rectangular, vertical clerestory windows. Photo via JRL Architekten, https://www.jrl-architekten.de/Soziale-und-kirchliche-Bauten/Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche-Lindenthalguertel-Koeln/

A view back to the entrance of the church showing the organ in the mezzanine. This organ has since been replaced. Photo via JRL Architekten, https://www.jrl-architekten.de/Soziale-und-kirchliche-Bauten/Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche-Lindenthalguertel-Koeln/

a view of the church's back side, showing a small entrance building by JRL Architects. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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