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Alexander Luckmann

@aluckmann.bsky.social

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PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine With jazz and conversation From the foot of Mount Belzoni

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2h

The lion does not concern himself with debates over Taylor Swift

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 3h

Pleasure reading thread 2025 #21: Christoph Poschenrieder, “Der unsichtbare Roman”

Funny and dark comedy about an author who gets hired by the German army to write a book blaming World War I on the freemasons. Highly recommend

cover of Christoph Poschenrieder, “Der unsichtbare Roman,” showing a young man in shirt and jacket holding a book. The connection to the novel leaves something to be desired

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 3h

Huge shout to Walter Becker for writing a song called "Hat Too Flat" that is, in fact, about a hat being too flat

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Hat Too Flat

YouTube video by Walter Becker - Topic

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 6h

*was whatever

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 6h

What if I told you all reading is performative

the “always has been” meme of an astronaut pointing a gun at another astronaut. the one is saying “all reading is performative” and the other one says “always has been”

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

this makes it less fun

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

This happened to my buddy Eric

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 22d

The LA Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker with the caption “chinese”

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 22d

Estevao from chelsea with an informational banner that says “speaks fluent portuguese” which isn’t real surprising given he’s Brazilian

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

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smol bean language machine @mightycw.bsky.social · 1d

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

hellll yeah now we’re talkin

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Ricardo BIMfill @lilboolean.bsky.social · 14d

???

Goal headline reads: “Berhalter describes emotional
USMNT debut as 'indescribable'”

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

beautiful new sports graphic alert cc @aluckmann.bsky.social

A graphic from NBA.com and Bleacher Report of Victor Wembanyama in his Spurs jersey, noting that he is 7'5" and noting that "Wemby Has Grown 2 Inches" with an exploding-head emoji

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

beautiful new sports graphic alert cc @aluckmann.bsky.social

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased with today’s fit

selfie of me wearing a gray t-shirt, red chamois overshirt, navy cords, black belt

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

Folks I found bizarro world Nigel Farage

A wikipedia page about footballer Neil Farrugia

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

Too late for a nap or coffee, too early for bed

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

“the technofeudal text, a piece of writing which exists as digital information stored in a networked cloud architecture & therefore has a kind of magnetic, even parasitical relationship to its readers, where information about them is affixed to it, accruing value”

The Technofeudal Text

Literacy Is Our Commons, Technolords Wish To Enclose It

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoyed this piece on Pynchon by @devintoshea.bsky.social which phrases a point @mattseybold.bsky.social makes - “Print is a Rent Strike” - in another way

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I've been thinking a lot about how, now, thanks to our phones and screens, every waking hour of the day is subject to capital extraction through data, which is collected and bundled, and sold without you or I even knowing we labored. Reading a physical book breaks from that, and I sometimes feel physical relief in my head when I detach from the monitor; putting eyes on text that doesn't move, read a line, close the book, take a breath, stare out into the sky, open the book back up, notice something, then notice something about the room I'm in, or the park bench. Sometimes the relief of this feels like someone cracked open my skull and poured cool water on the hot machine; other times I'm too scattered and frightened about the future to do anything but sit beside the book while I scroll.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

Guy who was a freshman on my college tennis team the year after I graduated just posted “after a 5-year chapter at my job…”

a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

Now listening

cover of Blues in the Night by Sonny Clark with Paul Chambers and Wes Landers - a piano with the white keys red at an angle

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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