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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 09/10/2026

"Can I help you?" the magic shop proprietor asked. "What swords do you have?" "Only one, today. This is 'Hyvla', the sharpest sword ever made." "Any conditions on it?" "Before sheathing, the blade must be quenched in porridge or it will dull." "That's inconvenient." "I also have this pot..."

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Laélia Véron @laeliaveron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pour les médias qui voudraient solliciter des linguistes sur les polémiques autour de l'orthographe (et pour toute personne qui s'intéresse au sujet): Malo Morvan et Clara Mortamet ont coordonné un numéro de la revue "Glottopol" sur le sujet. En ligne: journals.openedition.org/glottopol/4845

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Revue de sociolinguistique francophone - Journal of Francophone Sociolinguistics

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Devil's Panties @thedevilspanties.com · 04/09/2026

I love my family but I also really wanna run off with my friends and live like bog witches. thedevilspanties.com/archives/17163 store.thedevilspanties.com

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Lydia @lydlyd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@themerl.bsky.social anything in your collection that was taken from a dragon's hoard?

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

komm her, du brot

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#IchBinHanna im Juni 2023: Schlechter als die Ampel kann man 1 Referentenentwurf fürs #WissZeitVG nicht machen! Aktuelle Bundesregierung im Mai 2026: Hold my beer

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Robert Hesselbach @roberthesselbach.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In der AG Digitale Romanistik versuchen wir zu verstehen, wie Romanist:innen mit (digitalen) Forschungsdaten arbeiten und welche Bedarfe sie haben. Daher haben wir eine (sehr kurze) Umfrage dazu entworfen: www.romanistik.de/aktuelles/9053 Wir freuen uns über zahlreiche Teilnehmer:innen! #romanistik

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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

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RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🎉 Der #ArtificialFriday geht in die nächste Runde! In diesem Sommersemester warten 3 spannende Vorträge zu #KI & Linguistik – diesmal zum Thema "KI und Common Ground" in Kooperation mit dem SFB1718 Common Ground. ➡️ Infos & Anmeldung: artificial-friday.de @ninakalwa.bsky.social

Das Bild zeigt das Ankündigungsplakat für den Artificial Friday im Sommersemester 2026. Die Überschrift lautet: "Artificial Friday. KI und Common Ground. Linguistische Perspektiven auf Künstliche Intelligenz". Darunter sind die Termine, Vortragenden und ihre Vortragstitel aufgelistet: "22. Mai 2026, 14-16 Uhr. Gesa Linnemann (Münster): Common Ground mit LLM? – Die Macht von Vorstellungen und Zuschreibungen in quasisozialen Beziehungen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz; Wolf-Andreas Liebert (Koblenz): Künstliche Intimität. Die digitale Kolonisierung des Innenlebens durch empathische Chatbots. 19. Juni 2026, 14-16 Uhr. Maria Pawelec (Tübingen): Die doppelte Erosion: Deepfakes zwischen epistemischer Verunsicherung und sozialer Entgrenzung. Detlef Sack (Wuppertal): Künstliche Intelligenz und Bürgerräte. 10. Juli 2026, 14-16 Uhr: Sarah Brommer (Bremen): Zwischen Aushandlung und Algorithmus: Schreiben mit KI und die Veränderung von Common Ground. Florina Zülli (Zürich): Between I and AI – die (Sprach-) Identität der Machina Sapiens: Doing Human by Doing Empathy. Am unteren Plakatrand steht: Online Kolloquium. Anmeldung an nina.kalwa@kit.edu; artificial-friday.de.

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New #FAccT2026 paper with Su Lin Blodgett and @ninamarkl.bsky.social on the ideological work performed by discourses that sell the capabilities of generative AI products tisjune.github.io/papers/facct...

Title: "A natural language interface for everyday life": The social and political functions of AI capabilities discourses
Authors: Justine Zhang (University of Michigan), Su Lin Blodgett (Mila), Nina Markl (University of Essex)
Abstract: We interpret and historically contextualize AI capabilities discourses: spectacular narratives that ostensibly lay out the capabilities and use cases of the latest generative AI models in marketing and scientific communications. We complement existing work scrutinizing these discourses as components of a wider phenomenon of “AI hype”—which tends to focus on “debunking” them—by exploring how they rationalize wider social projects. Via an analysis of marketing materials produced by companies like OpenAI, we trace how AI capabilities discourses extend longer-running capitalist discourses, which construct aspects of self and social life as segmentable “skills” with economic value, and which responsibilize people for their survival in precarious economic conditions. We then show how AI capabilities discourses build on top of this ideological scaffolding. We suggest that these discourses have power because they reiterate hegemonic ideas about society and personhood that are entwined with material conditions. As such, contesting the power of the AI industry necessitates more capacious forms of political action, beyond interventions aiming to merely correct narratives.

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Deutscher Romanistikverband @romanistikverband.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ankündigung📢 Das FJR 2027 mit dem Rahmenthema "Scheitern als Chance - Romanistische Perspektiven auf Überwindung und Neubeginn" wird vom 17.-19.03. an der Uni Münster stattfinden 📅 Mehr Infos zum CfP werden bald auf den üblichen Kanälen veröffentlicht - restez branchés! #romanistik #fjr #mittelbau

Poster zur Ankündigung des Forum Junge Romanistik in Münster mit einem jeweils Foto des Orga-Teams und der Uni, den Logos der Uni Münster und des Romanischen Seminars sowie Titel und Datum der Veranstaltung.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

ich will keine Artikel mehr über KI, ich will keine Debate-Me-Posts, ich will kein Blabla über "digitale Autonomie" und Chancen und Risiken, ich will keine Critical AI Studies und Research Statements und Roundtables, ich will mit dem ganz öden Scheiß nichts zu tun haben, lassts mich in Ruhe damit ☠️

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 14/02/2026

Roses are red Violets are grue In Ancient Egyptian, Pashto, and Zulu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

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Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

with sound on 😀

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/01/2026

There may be snow on the ground but today we are closer to the sun than any other day! Here in the northern hemisphere it may be cold and dark, but remember, light and warmth are always closer than they appear

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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Aujourd'hui c'est le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère Nord. Les journées vont commencer à rallonger! Le soleil ne se lève à l'Est (centre de l'image avec Nord à gauche, Sud a droite) que lors des équinoxes. La position du lever change un peu tous les jours! (©Z. Al-Abbadi)

Position du lever du soleil en fonction des saisons

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Christiana Ellis @christianaellis.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Gets dark early this time of year, so I bought Rocket a light up collar. But you see, he’s very floofy.

A welsh corgi stands in the dark with a light-up collar buried in his neck floof

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DieChefin @diechefin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Das, was Nico sagt!

Via Insta @rnd; Foto von Nico Semsrott.
„Mein größter Wunsch ist, ein schönes Leben zu haben, und wenn Faschisten regieren, habe ich kein schönes Leben. Ich glaube, dass ein Leben in Frieden, Freiheit und Demokratie so viel schöner ist als win Leben, in dem eine sehr kleine Gruppe mit Gewalt diktiert, wie andere zu leben haben.“

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

English speaker? Ten minutes to spare? Help a BA student collect some data! Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/ thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!

a photograph of 4 otters all cuddled up together on a large flat rock

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Daniela Schreiter @fuchskind.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Sorry, Eloquenz ist gerade aus. #NichtMeinKanzler

Comic Illustration: ein großes Graffiti wurde gerade an eine Wand gesprüht: In roten Buchstaben auf weißem Grund steht dort: Ich als Tochter finde Merz kacke! Ein Fuchs mit einer Spraydose steht daneben und sieht wütend aus. Auf seinem Fell sieht überall rote Farbspritzer.

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

PostDoc position (re-)available in Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground" (3.5y) at @unituebingen.bsky.social in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ... Apply, share, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Deutscher Romanistikverband @romanistikverband.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Call for Papers für das Forum Junge Romanistik 2026 in Tübingen verlängert! 📆📝 Du möchtest dich mit anderen jungen Romanist*innen vernetzen, deine aktuelle Forschung vorstellen und Tagungserfahrung sammeln? (1/2)

Ankündigungsplakat für das 41. Forum Junge Romanistik, das vom 25.-27-03.2026 unter dem Rahmenthema "Kontinua: Polaritäten, Grenzen, Übergänge, Verschmelzungen" in Tübingen stattfinden wird. Verlängerung des Calls for Papers bis zum 05.11.2025 und Foto von der Neckarfront.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

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Sarah Lorenz @buchischnubbel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Neuer Monat! Perfekt unseren Heute schlafen wir hier-Kalender für 2026 zu bestellen! Das ist das Oktober-Bild!! Mit dem Code schnurrtober ist der Versand heute kostenlos!!! leamelcher.de/products/wan...

Gemaltes Bild. Schaufenster einer Buchhandlung namens Lesekessel Bücher und Gruseliges. Im Fenster sind Gespenster und vor der Tür Laub und Kürbisse!

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hannahsansbruit @hannahsansbruit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wenn ihr denk, ihr habt Probleme, dann habt ihr noch nie versucht, die Diskussion um den Status von Verbalperiphrasen kurz, prägnant und dennoch umfassend auf ca 1 Seite zusammenzufassen.😭 Was hat mich nur geritten?😭

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Désirée Kleineberg @dupetitmont.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I will be staying at KU Leuven as a guest reseacher in Nov./Dec. 2025 (4 weeks) and I'm momentarily searching for an affordable housing. Happy to share the kitchen, but not the bathroom 😅 Any suggestions, tips...? (University guest house is already fully booked for that period) Thanks!

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Toke Hoffmeister @tokehoff.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Derzeit führe ich eine Studie zum Thema „Metapragmatik der Höflichkeitsanrede im Hochschulkontext“ durch und ich würde mich freuen, wenn ihr alle teilnehmen sowie die Umfrage verteilen würdet: www.umfragen.uni-kiel.de/336968?lang=de Lieben Dank!

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground". 🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground 🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science 📅 Deadline: July 14 tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p Please share! @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Schlimme Helena @schlimmehelena.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Deutschland wird heute kollektiv Siesta machen, um gegen die versäumte Klimapolitik zu demonstrieren. Dann steht das Land mittags plötzlich für 3 Stunden still. Und wovon träumt Ihr so montags morgens?

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Deutscher Romanistikverband @romanistikverband.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

⏰Am nächsten Donnerstag, den 03.07.2025, 18 Uhr findet das nächste DRV-Mittelbautreffen zum Thema “Verbands- und Gremienarbeit” via Zoom statt. (1/3) #romanistik #drv #wissenschaft #nachwuchs

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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...

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LINGUIST List 36.1935 Support: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics: MA / MSc, University of Tübingen

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We're hiring a postdoc! ~3.5 years @ E13 TV-L 100% probabilistic pragmatics + cognitive psychology + formal epistemology + experimental methods (with human participants) Does this sound like you, or anyone you know? Send them our way! tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis" www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/ Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/06/2025

This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Universal did not permit, authorize, or license Midjourney to copy or use any of Universal's copyrighted works in connection with any version of its Image Service or to otherwise exploit Universal's works at any time. You acknowledged as much in a September 16, 2022 Forbes interview in which you confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright holders' consent to use or exploit their works:
Did you seek consent from living artists or work still under copyright?
No. There isn't really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they're coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that's not a thing; there's not a registry. There's no way to find a picture on the Internet, and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it.
See Rob Salkowitz. Midiourney Founder David Holz

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Verena Minow @verenaminow.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Bär: „Kann ich Exzellenz aus Harvard haben?“ Deutsche Akademiker*innen aller Statusgruppen: „NEIN, DORO, WIR HAM NOCH EXZELLENZ ZUHAUSE!“

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Bentelicious Art @benteliciousart.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Wir machen heute auf sommerlich süß okay?

Digitale Illustration eines kleinen süßen Babykrokodils. Es trägt einen altmodischen weiß rot gestreiften Badeanzug und eine kleine gelbe Kappe mit Nackensonnenschutz. Unter einem Arm hält es einen bunten Wasserball, unter dem anderen eine Tasche mit Handtuch und Netz, um kleine Schätze im Wasser zu finden.

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Lydia @lydlyd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Whoop whoop, das wird so cool!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Großartiges Thema, super Projekte, fantastische Menschen 🤩

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Kleines Morgengedicht

WILLIAM MEREDITH

POEM ABOUT MORNING

Whether it's sunny or not, it's sure To be enormously complex: Trees or streets outdoors, indoors whoever you share, And yourself, thirsty, hungry, washing, An attitude toward sex. No wonder half of you wants to stay With your head dark and wishing Rather than take it all on again-Weren't you duped yesterday? Things are not orderly here, no matter what they say.

But the clock goes off, if you have a dog, It wags, if you get up now, you'll be less Late. Life is some kind of loathsome hag Who is forever threatening to turn beautiful. Now she gives you a quick toothpaste kiss And puts a glass of cold cranberry juice, Like a big fake garnet, in your hand. Cranberry juice! You're lucky, on the whole, But there is a great deal about it you don't understand.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

duolingo recently declared they are now an AI-first company. well, here at The Museum of English Rural Life, we pride ourselves in being EI-first. EI EI O

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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WHO @who.int · 24/04/2025

It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute. A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives. #VaccinesWork bit.ly/wiw2025

Every 10 seconds vaccination saves a life.
Immunization for all is Humanly Possible

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Barbara Bohr @nachrichtenlos.eurosky.social · 23/04/2025

It's Sant Jordi so I have selected a painting with somebody reading a book in a garden setting. It's Henri Matisse's Woman Reading in a Garden from 1902-1903 (oil on panel), held in a private collection. Feliç Sant Jordi 🌹! #gardenlove #gardenpainting #DíaDelLibro

a brown-haired woman is reading a book in a garden setting. It seems to be a warm day since she wears a sleeve-less shirt.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Bücher zu gewinnen! Anlässlich der 2. Auflage meines Buches "Wut und Wertung. Warum wir über Geschmack streiten" verlost der S.Fischer Verlag zwei Exemplare. Mitmachen kann jeder, der den Post teilt. (bis 25.4. 17:00)

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