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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ancient Chinese judge relying on Tung Tung Tung Sahur to solve his case.

Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pixar’s “Cars”? A deeply Buddhist film in which Lightning McQueen on the long road 66 (eschewing upaya) joins a sangha and leaves samsara by winning the race. The title is a reference to Hinayana (which McQueen follows) and Mahayana.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One thing about starting the PhD is that I feel about as clueless on how things will go and what I will do as I was when I first got accepted to university.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Managed to hold my first classes. I think they went remarkably well.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The pulp-article is close to becoming a reality.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I don't think I have anything witty or deep to go with this one, I just think this is a neat picture of one of the chickens.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I have been accepted to the PhD program I've applied for.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Finally got my degree! Went out to eat the biggest schnitzel and some booze.

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Doro|河文 @faeydoro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

political "science"

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So uh, I kinda forgot to update this account. But rest assure I'm still alive. Working through my summer reading list (pic related).

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

IF I wanted to be honest the entire defence thing was devoid of FUN. They should have allowed me to clevely escape their shitty ploys and actually win in an intellecutal battle, the entire thing was just a token bullshit, let me fucking fight you cowards.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Successful defense. (Got drunk as SHIT off port wine btw actually unbelievable stuff.)

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I think at this point he only preparation I can do is just re-reading both my BA and MA theses. I mean, it’s like a conference presentation’s question section, except the questioners aren’t mean spirited egoists who insists on talking about their own fields at all cost.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Uni finally set my status in the digital system to “Completed subjects” so I no longer have to worry that I forgot to take a class two years ago or something.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Finally put up that little card of the Tatami Galaxy’s cover on the wall. I think it fits nicely. But the next thing I put up 100% has to be Chinese to balance out all the weebery.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/05/2026

"Peaked on Twitter" is the new "Peaked in high school"

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

With freedom on the horizon, I've begun working on my next article. Please look forward to it!

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Biggest complaint seems to be that the bibliography is a bit messy. But otherwise I got commended for writing in an excellent style on a good topic and producing a valuable appendix.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Also got this one. "Anatomy of the Detective Story". I'm not expecting much from it, considering the milieu it was written in, but it could still contain a few interesting bits of information.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

On loan from a friend. Last year I tackled "Liberation from blindness" and it was great fun. Probably the must fun I have had with a Buddhist text. Maybe ever.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Not exactly sure what motivated me but I got Houellebecq’s “Submission”. I have memories of “Whatever” from high school. Wouldn’t necessarily call them fond but I have memories. I remember using it in an essay and thinking I was the hottest shit for referencing French lit in HS.

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Rō Jikai 婁峏海 @lou-erhai.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

全く得難き利益の地位と其れを支配する如き力を得て己れは其れを知りながら行悪の為に又自らを地獄に導く。 Though I have obtained this fortunate existence and the strength to move forward, I knowingly cast myself into hell again through evil actions. (Bodhicaryāvatāra 4.26)

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“The American president? How many cups does he have?”

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Trying to get a copy of a volume I have an article in and they are just telling me they are out of copies already. Yeah, like I’m gonna believe you that you didn’t make enough for each author included in the volume.

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Baron von Schimpfstetten ™️ @mattschimmernd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.

Friedrich Merz guckt in voller Flecktarn-Kampf-Montur aus einem Panzer heraus.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I should lay down the caffeine there is like 10 errors in this post.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The reason why this feels funky to own in Hungarian is because it's like a glimps into this parallel universe where communism ended. You have Xi's signature, a full colour photo and everything. It's exactly like the Lenin volumes I own from the 70s.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Starmer's real genius shined through when Labour tried to challenge his leadership a few months ago and he just told them that if they challenge him he *will* call a general election and then "you are all going to lose your seats". I mean, fuck the guy, but that's fucking genius.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Finally got my hands on volume two of The Governance of China. Tonight, we're letting the Xi talk...

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daily kumeta kouji @dailykumeta.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Joshiraku - ep8

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

But it's probably the only Hungarian pulp-related question I want answered right now, and I'm 100% getting to the bottom of it.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'm reasonably sure that this entire question is answered by Hungarian literary historians in some article or book, but based on the information I have rn I just don't know why Rejtő survived this literary deluge.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I remember a councilor telling me in elementary school that I'm gonna love reading Rejtő when I become a teenager, but I never really did. I mean, he was right that I'm fundamentally unserious in a way, but in the end I fell in love with Karinthy, and not Rejtő.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Honestly he is one of those authors old people who never really got into literature would read and hold up as an example of "Noble pulp". Like yeah, Rejtő is good. But the fact that he was taught in HS seems to signal that his reputation was sort of elevated after 1991.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

But I can't exactly tell why his work was allowed to exist under Kádár's culture policy while other pulp writers were obliterated. Maybe he *is* just better in some way, but I don't exactly see the justification in my mental eye rn.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Regarding the "extinction" of Hungarian pulp fiction between 1942 and 1948, it's interesting how the only author to have survived in the public consciousness is Jenő Rejtő, and I'm kinda getting hazy memories of being forced to read him in HS.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

But I’m definitely going to use it and 1-2 other texts to write a short article on Hungarian crime fiction in the 30s and 40s. Just as a curiosity.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

It kinda feels like this is just an intro text to his multi-volume series titled “A pictoral bibliography of Hungarian pulp fiction”. Which I might try to read but this is such a tangential excursion that I don’t think I will go through like a thousand pages about pulp fiction.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Grób’s book is very good for what it is, but his own admitted subjectivity and quite frankly lowbrow boomer emotionality and contrarianism aimed at owning academia at large does a great disservice to the readability of the book.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

These are so nice. Last time I had someone draw a portrait of me was in high school, and to this day I cherish it, even if I no longer look like that at all.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I think I will definitely expand on this in an article in the coming weeks.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hungarian authors would rather opt to set their stories in England, the US, France, or the colonies of those nations. They would write under an English or a French pseudonym and then maybe bill themselves as mere translators. (Of works that never existed in english or french.)

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The author himself says as much that the genre was and remains something pioneered by "Anglo-saxons" and "to a lesser degree, the French". But there seems to be not even an attempt at creating a Hungarian Sherlock.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Reading about China and Japan, even if they started out writing blatant Sherlock and Lupin copies, they pretty quickly started setting the stories in Tokyo and Shanghai. It seems like, Hungarian authors never really attempted a "Sherlock in Budapest" story in the 30s.

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Jakabfy Károly (康明智) @jakabfik.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Still going through the book about Hungarian detective novels, and I think the most shocking part is how "the detective novel", despite existing for close to 20 years in Hungary, gained no "national character" or "form".

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