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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ja, man muss schon aktiv aufpassen, dass man die Hoffnung nicht verliert o. gar verbittert/zynisch wird. Bei dem Fall vor der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt, wo Teenager fürs Naziplakatabreißen mit Baseballschlägern verdrischt wurden, habe ich mich z. B. darüber gefreut, dass es solche Teenager noch gibt.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Die ganze Situation ist wirklich so widerlich wie sie unglaublich ist.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Vertical Ray of the Sun is top top top top top, five tops out of five.

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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 · 26/09/2026

Ah, makes sense! Looking forward to the book once I'm done with Banquet either way.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thanks for mentioning Engrenages, haven't heard about it before & will give it a watch. The NYT list leaves out a few series that I'd certainly put into a Top 100 list over many of the included entries – Ramy by Ramy Youssef, for example, or the first season of The Terror.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Currently about half-way through Enard's Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild and loving every page of it. Surprised they went with a different translator for Perfecting the Shot, given that Frank Wynne's done such a good job with Banquet.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are also various galleries run by single photographers (Jam, Gallery Kaido, or galleries run by photobook publishers (fugensha). Though I'd say (especially compared with the US) 'normal' gallery space is available for reasonable money, too.

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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 · 02/09/2026

His current one, Ghost in the Cell, is really good, too.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One of the best Brad Pitts and one of the best Javier Bardems!

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i was going to ask which tide is turning but it almost doesn't matter

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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

YouTube video by Logan Hone - Topic

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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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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Das ist doch mal schoen.

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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 · 11/05/2026

Enjoy seeing your photos from Tokyo. Hope you're having a great time here (seems like you do!).

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Bin echt gespannt, wie es dort dann in zwei, drei Jahren aussehen wird. Und wie die Folgen in andere Bundeslaender ausstrahlen werden. Macht schon ein wenig Angst (Teile meiner Familie wohnen in S-A).

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

Whole of the Moon really is an amazing song. Learned about it through Kirin J Callinan's excellent cover. Love both versions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP5U...

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

almost forgot that there can be good news too

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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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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Ah, great to know about this. I love & admire her book Last Samurai.

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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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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's insanely good. Can't believe it happened in the first place.

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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I bought one the moment it's been announced. It's so good, Jean. You'll love it. The built-in speakers are rather poor, though, so just make sure to use it with external speakers/headphones.

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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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Robert @jstckr.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I battled my way through the 30-odd pages of French, fighting against the will to give up, only to find out, upon finishing the book, that there was a translation included at the back. Actually laughed out loud at that point; felt like I'd been pranked by The Mann.

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HATE Mulgrew @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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