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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Noticed the audiobook version of Jon Ronson's new book (I always have to look up if it's Ron Jonson or Jon Ronson) was only about 1300 Yen on Apple Books, while the book (which I'd prefer, to be honest) would cost me about 5500 Yen and weeks of waiting. Guess I'll finally give audiobooks a try then.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

and obsessed with this little cutie by Logan Hone www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Nr...

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Honeycomb

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Neben quasi allen Artikeln hat die Zeit jetzt auch noch ihr woechentliches Mini-Raetsel Eckchen paid-only gemacht. Schade :(

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SgtPep @sgtpepper0106.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

On an 80s school exchange I was asked repeatedly by a pretty French girl what I thought about ‘Napoleon’. I tried to be as positive about his contribution to history, political culture and military strategy as an Englishman could, to no avail. Eventually worked out she was saying ‘Paul Young’.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

finally got one done Keywords > 12 May 2026 I found all 5 words! 🟩🟩🟩🟩 7✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🔥 Play streak EMBARRASSINGLY HIGH NUMBER 🏆 Complete streak 1 keywords.bagpuss.org

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Keywords

Can you discover today's five connected words?

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

during the corona lockdown period at the end of 2020 i was walking around Ueno in Tokyo with a cinema camera & met two guys practicing a ota-gei routine www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_vD...

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

almost forgot that there can be good news too

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Very interesting thread on how S. Korea is possibly altering its relationship with Israel:

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

how i hope and wish and dream that Tokyo does the same

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

pretty damn terrified right now

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

[At a 'math rock' concert] What answer did you get for the first song?

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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Did the translations for Yuriko Takagi's exhibition Threads of Beauty (last ever show at Bunkamura in Shibuya before it'll be demolished) & was invited to last night's preview. Nice spatial design by architect Tsuyoshi Tane, with photos mounted on textile-like canvas sheets and dimly illuminated.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If you like nice things, stories, drawings, or nice people, have a look at Luis' newsletter

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

some nice shots from Hiromi Nakashima's new photobook In Memory of Haru no Taki

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/02/2026

Great analysis from the great @thelincoln.bsky.social, with bonus inclusion of some of the most extravagantly awful writing imaginable.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/02/2026

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Oooh, wow – Valknee's done a track with Chinza Dopeness www.youtube.com/watch?v=16sJ...

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

For those who like audio, & short stories, 3 of mine are repeated this week - mon/tues/wed - they are linked & tx goes A, Andria, B, Boris, C Chiara - on Radio 4 Extra - today, 15.45 I GOT THE DOG www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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BBC Radio 4 - I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire - Episode guide

All episodes of I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

first green bud of the year is out. life continues in 2026.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

victims' names couldn't be more symbolic. fascism kills what's good and beautiful.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Ted Turton, the painter who co-founded the Galway Arts Festival, wrote a lovely memoir about his adventures with the legendary Footsbarn Travelling Theatre. I had the pleasure of copy-editing it, and it's on sale at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social: www.kennys.ie/shop/my-trav... [1/2] tedturtonart.com

Cover of Ted Turton's book "My Travels with Footsbarn Theatre: A Memoir". It features a painting by the author, mostly in attractive pastels of blue, green and yellow-orange. It shows a giant figure in silhouette striding across a landscape. He has a ponytail and a pole, wears a coat and boots, and is smiling. In the foreground is a town, with a cat on a roof looking down on street performers moving across a bridge. Beyond the town is a sea with small boats to the left and mountains to the right, in the distance. The striding figure behind the mountains makes them look tiny. At the top is a quote from Michael D. Higgins, former president of Ireland: "...an evocative reminder that the arts can be a bridge between cultures...in a world that now finds itself divided and in conflict".

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

9 yr old kid I played table tennis with yesterday kept calling me Eddy. He'd misheard my name as Eduardo. Thinking of going with that name in the future.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is AMAZING.

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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

You either love false dichotomies or you don't.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

read a bit in my copy of The Essential June Jordan & was struck by this one in particular, Something Like A Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley. googling i found a long article written by Jordan about the poem, and its subject, Phillis Wheatley, and the poetry she wrote, in the US in the mid 1700s.

Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet
flying full feather in far or near weather
Who fell to a dollar lust coffled like meat
Captured by avarice and hate spit together
Trembling asthmatic alone on the slave block
built by a savagery travelling by carriage
viewed like a species of flaw in the livestock
A child without safety of mother or marriage
Chosen by whimsy but born to surprise
They taught you to read but you learned how to write
Begging the universe into your eyes:
They dressed you in light but you dreamed
with the night.
From Africa singing of justice and grace,
Your early verse sweetens the fame of our Race.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Is there – could there even be – any better single song off a 1980s new wave Roland Barthes concept album? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDr...

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The Lover Speaks - No More "I Love You's" (Official Video)

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

first time i know of that a thing i've done was cited in a footnote

photo of two footnotes, the relevant one saying
"Ango Sakaguchi's 'The War and a Woman' was first published in Shinsei magazine on 1 October 1946. The story was heavily censored, with cuts made by the offices of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers during the occupation of Japan. It was finally published in its original version in The Complete Works of Ango Sakaguchi, vol. 16 (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo Publishing, 2000). This edition, with Sakiko Nomura's images and with the censored sentences highlighted, was translated by Robert Zetzsche and published in 2017 by NM, a publishing project by Nomura herself with the designer Satoshi Machiguchi."

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

dreamt that i played my saxophone differently, like a flute, and that it worked

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Couldn't recall why I'd saved this picture, Image search reminds me it's a photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.

Photograph taken by Tokugawa Yoshinobu (the last Tokugawa shogun) of his cat, Han. It is perhaps Japan's oldest pet cat photo.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Ah hey, Arte uploaded a 2020 concert by Sebastien Tellier to youtube Link timestamped directly to L'Amour et la Violence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=470X...

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Sébastien Tellier - ARTE Concert Festival 2020

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