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Reality is improbable

@improbable.bsky.social
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Doubtful Guest, scholar, hiker, teacher, rarely up on a soapbox; guest professoring here and there; @fau.de, @grk2806.bsky.social

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Dilemmas of Interdependence - The Social Forms of Personhood” at JFKI Berlin starts tomorrow! Last polish for my slides on AI and affective labor… Grateful to James Dorson (FU) and Samuel Zipp (Brown) for putting this together. www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/faculty/l...
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
As usual not quite sure whether it’s historic or whether DB is sending a replacement-train…
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
And who wouldn’t want a mouse letter (including both the drawing and the mouse mummy) - not sure I can disclose in whose estate that was…
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Poet:innenfest startet Morgen mit tollen Veranstaltungen und Lesungen — freu mich besonders auf Jonas Luescher (but then I might be biased… obwohl wir uns vor mehr als 10 Jahren in Palo Alto nichts davon hätten vorstellen können)
Cover von Jonas Lueschers „Verzauberte Vorbestimmung“, gelb mit einer Ned Ludd Figur
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Poet:innen-Fest … es rückt näher!
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@hesterblum.bsky.social pet-cheer-up you requested on FB (which seems to be overly dominated by cats) so here’s my very good walking companion
Behold: very handsome neighbor’s dog
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Great talk coming up (heads up @grk2806.bsky.social PhDs & colleagues) Link to register: brynmawr-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today‘s find, specifically for @svenjahagenhoff.bsky.social : Is it lgbtqa+, is it lsd??? Fred Ferkel außer #RandundBand
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It‘s a growing market… the „awkwardness“ of our bodily functions unsuited for curated social media lives. though I‘ve never come across the pre-angle (and what happened to lighting a match 😂)
Aesop post-poo drops
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@svenjahagenhoff.bsky.social love it! sounds like Peary‘s diary „the pole at last“ (including placing a flag) 😄 — only took them 28 years, too!
Robert Peary‘s handwriting (log at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center at Bowdoin College)
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Me, getting ready for 2025…
Wolpertinger-Fuchs
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
End-of-semester… Just read a student’s interpretation of the speaking horse in Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death”. I wish they were trolling me. Instead, a creeping fear it might be what they think they remember from Frost’s “Stopping”…
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
The impossibility of a sudden death in our midst. Our thoughts are with his family.
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
I‘m sure someone wrote that about acid washed jeans as well. Classy classic - never wrong.
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Yay, #FallSemester The upside of taking the early train - Morgennebel überm Thüringer Wald.
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
@weirdmedieval.bsky.social moustache bunny and the duck - patron saints of seafaring merchants… (St Nikolai, Stralsund)
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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
“Nerve Food” since 1876 — effective against softening of the brain
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