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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 12h

Oh man. Seeing this last night to a nearly full house with live score provided by ten thousand lakes was a peak IU Cinema experience for me. Mephisto is Emil Jannings is F.W. Murnau: the deceitful illusionist, the liar, the one who dazzles & tricks the amazed viewer

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

lol great line (“countless otherwise smart people who publicly accepted the story without question, like baby birds yearning for a worm”)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Wow this (Nobel to Navi Pillay) was *really* triggering for them

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

😳 I really admire Wittgenstein but this was… not a good call

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s always instructive to look back at the first dozen or so Nobel winners in Literature. Who will be the next Eucken or Echegaray?

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They saw/ did things differently in Slate Classic days

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this is a lesbian picnic, sir

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“We need novels that live in an amoral universe” (Ottessa Moshfegh in @bookforum.bsky.social)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Alert for Thackeray fans-- this novel (the Simp, by @roshansethi.bsky.social) is sharp and amusing, and contains a "Vanity Fair" subtext throughout; it's the protagonist's favorite book, and he spends a lot of time brooding over whether he's more of a Becky Sharp or an Amelia Sedley

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“You’re right, NYC. I’ve got to do better. Safety first”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

wow I had no idea about the existence of this world of boutique cat litters that are described like high-end olive oils ("Pea Husk" & ""Paco and Pepper Olive Pit")

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Is this book worth dying for?” 😆

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The left has come up with this weird formula for winning elections: “crafting positions that appeal to voters.” How do they pull this off??!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“But instead of flying out aboard that older jet, Mr. Trump was taken by a food cart that had been fitted to the belly of the plane”- I’m picturing something like this?

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I love that in Scotland one absolutely must designate & specify a *limited* area of the park for bagpipe practice

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Excited for this! I’ve been waiting for an Black Hole adaptation & Jane Schoenbrun is the perfect director for it

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think I could appreciate my own melancholy more if I associated it with flying witches and devilry 🧙

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I love that no one really knows wtf the Picts were doing with these “mysterious stone objects.” Game, toy, talisman, ritual item, art?

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This was so great & funny. Visited the Etches Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, a fossil museum in Dorset based on the lifetime collection of Steve Etches, a fossil hunter, from the local area on the Jurassic Coast. Best exhibit features Etches’ workshop & *Etches himself* working behind glass 😮

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Who will write the thinkpiece about representations of medically-assisted deaths in Zurich (cp Lerner’s Transcription)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Paid my respects at the Max Gate pet cemetery

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This was eerie. The “ghost village“ of Tyneham, Dorset, all of whose occupants were forced to evacuate during World War II (town used for military training)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Faculty member fired for assigning an Ottessa Moshfegh story. Class (with a focus on “unlikable narrators”) sounds great!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

With Sylvia Townsend Warner in Dorchester, Dorset

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Love that “Video Killed the Radio Star” was a riff on JG Ballard

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Football 1, fascism 0 www.equator.org/articles/wor...

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I appreciate this use of the term “argy-bargy” (“The colorful phrase is a variant of the earlier Scots phrase argle-bargle. Both parts of the word playfully combine a modification of "argue" with a nonsense rhyming repetition (a linguistic device known as reduplication)”)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Argentinian football culture is wild ⚽️ (From www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mick Jagger reveals the secret of his deep understanding of the United States- he has been to Cleveland

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ouch! (From that Atlantic article)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Books by one of the Fox announcers, Dr. Joe Machnik. Waiting for the next sequel, “So You Became a Goalkeeper, But Now You Regret It”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Cape Verde has a population of 530,000, about 1/2 that of of Indianapolis or Jacksonville 😮

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Journalism & arts writing is becoming 50% listicle-curation

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This administration expanding its death count

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lily feels a touch of uncharacteristic optimism

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"...and the Knicks’ first such parade since the formation of the earth", lol

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I have a galaxy-brain 🧠, cornplating take on Disclosure Day: Emily Blunt’s alien language allegorizes her childhood stuttering (she is a prominent advocate for the American Institute for Stuttering)

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

John Ruskin in 1860: “Once I could speak joyfully about beautiful things, thinking to be understood;- now I cannot any more; for it seems to me that no one regards them. [M]en, wherever they can reach, destroy all beauty….Every perfect and lovely spot which they can touch, they defile”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ha, would not have predicted a James Beard Award for Jon Bon Jovi! 😲

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I disapprove of the meaningless corporate branding “WiFi.” Please join me in my quest to bring back the simple and more literal “IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’d almost forgotten Anunoby’s Hoosier roots!

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“If I cannot have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan,” T.J Clark, Farewell to an Idea

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Solid choice from M.I.A. on @pitchfork.com Perfect 10 series Always good to see some love for a classic @blondieband.bsky.social album, & I would agree that that is the best one

M.I.A. picks Blondie's *Parallel Lines* as her perfect 10

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I enjoyed the needle drop of the Dils’s 1978 anthem “Class War” in the Lowdown. “I wanna war, between the rich and the poor/ I wanna fight and know what I'm fighting for/ In a class war, class war, class war, class war/ This war, that war, class war, last war”

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

That A.I. is trained on copyrighted material is not a subject of serious debate…. Unless you think Anthropic paid a 1.5 billion settlement to authors & publishers out of sheer generosity

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The owner of Netflix buying and privatizing a formerly public ski resort and installing crystal chandeliers on the slopes for the ultrawealthy skiers really sums up art in our moment ⛷️ @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess...

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Is anything ever ballyhooed just a little bit?

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