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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2h
So they are not even doing nothing (which would be good in their case!), they actively contribute to nothing being done by relativizing the crimes (here it's even genocide denial) or even defaming those who try to educate people or organize peaceful protests.
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2h
... without doing anything about it at all because in their view nothing needs to be done, it's bad, they admit, but not THAT bad after all in their opinion (and the victims had it coming and the usual dehumanizing undertones).
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2h
... then they cry crocodile tears about the "suffering in Gaza" as if nothing could be done, as if this was a natural desaster. These people are paramount to keep those on the fence on the fence and to create an atmosphere in which one can discuss genocidal violence for months ...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 2h
Doing nothing is one thing (and I like the quote!) but I was thinking about people here who acknowledge the fact that crimes are being committed but go on to explain at length why it's really horrible but "it's not genocide yet" or why it must be done in principle albeit not to this degree, and ...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 3h
One could add a 3rd group, those who say "Yes, this is bad, I abhor it, but ...".
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 3h
«When modern societies engage in extreme violence, they rely on two types of people: those who beat, torture and kill at close quarters, and those who plan, organize and order the killing at a safe distance from the actual gore of it all.»
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like “us”. But modern genocide is the product of … the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty.” www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 5h
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856–1925, born in Florence, died in London) Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field, 1885 (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
Painting of a wheat field with haystacks and reapers resting in the grass next to their sickles. The background is structured by a line of tall dark trees in front of a pastel blue sky.
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 8h
This feature is missing terribly today! I'm sure we all have a couple of candidates in mind in our own countries ...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 21h
... those short books, a whole world, an atmosphere I found interesting. I'd only read Max Porter's "Grief.." so I have much to discover on this list.
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 21h
I'd also add Carr's "Month in the Country" and those shorter texts by G. Tomasi di Lampedusa ("The professor and the siren..") I recently read. It's impressive how much "content" can be in ...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 23h
I've assembled a small collection of talks or podcast episodes I really liked by way of a "quote-thread" if that's the right word. Here I add Holger Gzella on Aramaic, this is fascinating (I haven't read anything by him or on Aramaic yet).
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3. Holger Gzella on Aramaic
In this interview we learn about the Semitic language called Aramaic, the language of government in the Achaemenid empire: what do we know about this language, which texts use it, how was it written, ...
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Check out my new podcast series, "Pages of History," in which I speak to leading experts on topics in cross-cultural philology! The first batch of episodes deals with philology as a science, the Cain and Abel narrative, and the ancient language Aramaic. pagesofhistorypodcast.net #podcast
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Me too! I'd like to copy-paste this post here because "getting out of a rut"-literature is an important genre to me. And one of the posts that quote this one suggest "A Month in the Country", too:
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How do you like it? Thanks for sharing it! (I just misundestood your post thinking it made YOU start to write but you were touching the key of HER typewriter ...)
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Vases made of stone were often used/found in funerary contexts, this seems to be no exception, snippet from p. 71 (Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art): ("Source" with traces of my elaborate seach request: books.google.de/books?id=5Uq...)
Snippet of a book I posted because it confirms the vase in the oiginal post might have been funeray art: "Alabaster vases have been found in tombs from the Late Cypiot II-III period and may have been impotet from Egypt and Syria. (...)"
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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fascinated & moved by viral footage of Parisian lycéens singing Charles Aznavour's "Emmenez-moi." Classic chanson of their grandparents' era—a hit in '68, no less—about working-class drudgery/dreams of escape, whose implicit politics these kids are making them explicit, in real time, in the street
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May @majla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A dictionary in #albanian, seven brief leasons in physics and naturally rereading #annecarson
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
«This vase is made of a stone not found in Cyprus, although the bil-bil shape is a native type. It may have been carved in imported stone by Cypriot artists, or made in Egypt or Syria where terracotta Base Ring Ware jugs were exported in great numbers and copied in stone.» Photo, quote:
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Perfection: Cypriot Alabaster jug ca. 1450–1200 BCE (Late Cypriot II)
Photo of an alabaster vase with a round, sphere-like body and a long slim neck. Both parts are connected by a handle that swings up from the body and holds the neck in an elegant way.
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Last week while you were away I mentioned how I felt about This is your brain on music, by Daniel Levitin, once I finished it. Musicians and avid listeners may enjoy, others less so.
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the Doom that Came to mikemolloy Nath @mikemolloy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
About 3/4 thru Lonesome Dove, though probably another week or 2 to go, it is long Interlibrary Loan just delivered Coleridge's Notebooks, Not yet started on that. Would rather own a copy since I guess it's more book to browse than to plow thru, but $$$
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Mark Hamilton @gmarkham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without it by Philip Ball (heavy on Western music theory). And What's Left of the Night, a novel by Ersi Sotiropopulos.
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"A Month in the Country" by J.L. Carr, a wonderful little book. I agree with posters on this site who recommend it for getting out of a reading rut. I might know it thanks to a post by @seventydys.bsky.social .
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I've been reading "A Month in the Country" by J.L. Carr and I loved it! Barely anything happens and there are phrases in wonderful prose that sound simple or banal at first sight but made me think or brought order to inner chaos. 📚 Many interesting replies to the quoted post, as always:
Book cover of J.L. Carr's "A Month in The Country"
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This was lovely to watch and the result has such a pleasant form!
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/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am just realizing now that Fuat Sezgin's monumental Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums was translated into English by Joep Lameer in 2023 and it's now available online if you have institutional access referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/s...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm reading "A month in the country" now, I love it! Thank you fo sharing those quotes and snippets!
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Everyone who uncritically repeats "hospitals used for military purposes become legitimate targets" has a role to play in this epidemic of attacks against healthcare facilities in war! A) The law is more demanding than that! B) Without concrete evidence for "use" attacks are presumptively illegal.
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Humanities know what’s going on (Also, see, @sarahebond.bsky.social’s article in 🧵)
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
«The difficulty is that these changes aren’t uniform. In some patients the impact of covid-19 is dramatic; in others it’s invisible. Iwasaki and her team have found persistent immune system changes in people who have recovered from covid-19, even without any symptoms.»
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
...the health and economic implications of such a conclusion.»
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
«Jeimy thinks that people who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean. “Nobody wants to be the one that says, ‘Yes, covid-19 causes disability’ [beyond long covid],” she says, alluding to ...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
«A 2025 study published in the Lancet tracked more than 830 000 US veterans and found that even non-admitted patients who tested positive for covid-19 had higher rates of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in the year that followed.»
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
«This concept of immune “reset” after infections isn’t new. A hallmark of this phenomenon is the reactivation of dormant viruses, which re-emerge while the immune system is in a weakened state. Reactivation of viruses [...] has been commonly observed after covid-19.»
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
«SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells [...], leaving people vulnerable to pathogens they were previously immune to.»
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the Myth of "immunity debt": «Jeimy says that many infants and toddlers admitted to hospital with rare infections since 2022 weren’t yet born when pandemic restrictions were in place, and they therefore couldn’t be experiencing immunity debt. They were, however, likely exposed to SARS-CoV-2.»
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
«A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis.»
bmj.com
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
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petipaw @petipaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For the #baroquemusic fans out there – this lively, unexpectedly humorous novel by musician Federico Maria Sardelli tells the wild story of how countless works by #Vivaldi vanished after his death & were rediscovered in the 1920’s. #ReadingVenice
L’affare Vivaldi and a cup of coffee
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I forgot to add the link to Alan Jacobs's post under which (in the comments) the last quote can be found, here it is:
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Sayers Week! (postponed) — ayjay
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
... than the USA or the UK. Or they outsource to freelancers whom they pay at the lowest possible rate. This can sometimes work out okay — people in India aren't less literate than people in the USA — but when cost savings are reliably given higher priority than accuracy, accuracy will suffer. "
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you don't work in publishing and enjoy reading about its dirty corners, read on: (Again Alan Jacobs, in the comments to another blog post of his) "Yes, and furthermore, academic presses & journals tend to outsource more and more editorial work to companies based in countries with lower wages...
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"So I am done with this book. I am not going to promote it, talk about it, deal with it in any way. As far as I am concerned I never wrote it.", writes Alan Jacobs on his blog regarding his latest experiences with Oxford University Press.
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The Last Word on ... all this — ayjay
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anita Brookner’s scholarly, sharply observant commentaries on paintings by Delacroix, Ingres, Rigaud, Vigée Le Brun, David and Cézanne. On BBC iplayer for the next four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Anita Brookner on Art: 100 Great Paintings
Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on some of the finest works by the world’s greatest painters in a compilation of her contributions to the 1981 BBC series 100 Great Paintings.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
OpenAI are parasitic scum. As Wikimedia says; “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” These are DDOS attacks by a corporation's software doing exactly what it was designed to do. Why are we not seeing criminal charges?
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I didn't know this but it's no surprise. I often wonder how we would have fared without those 50 years of Prussian "Kaiserreich" and in particular without the character named above, a futile thought, I know.
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Danke fürs Teilen!
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
International readers might be interested to learn that the intra-German political discourse largely ignores this and instead pretends a leftist party in Berlin is the central problem.
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