Mika
@mikagratzke.bsky.social
zine maker, poet, rugby player, academic
- einmalige Ehrenurkunde bei den Bundesjugendspielen -
Pic: Mika - white, middle aged & shaven headed in front of grey metal cladding with yellow dots.
Background: daffodils in bloom
- einmalige Ehrenurkunde bei den Bundesjugendspielen -
Pic: Mika - white, middle aged & shaven headed in front of grey metal cladding with yellow dots.
Background: daffodils in bloom
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November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
Running Man (2025) is an inconsequential film. Another example of fake anti-corporate messaging from Hollywood.
Not bad as such but it did not engage me. Not even the bits with zines.
Not bad as such but it did not engage me. Not even the bits with zines.
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Running Man (2025) is an inconsequential film. Another example of fake anti-corporate messaging from Hollywood.
Not bad as such but it did not engage me. Not even the bits with zines.
Not bad as such but it did not engage me. Not even the bits with zines.
A film that takes place where you’re from.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A film that takes place where you’re from.
Zines & Poetry for sale. drunkinmypants.etsy.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Zines & Poetry for sale. drunkinmypants.etsy.com
'Even treatments for precocious puberty, which use the very same puberty blockers, have limited long-term data on psychosocial outcomes. In all these cases, the safety profile is considered acceptable, and no one demands high-certainty mental health evidence for their use.'
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
'Even treatments for precocious puberty, which use the very same puberty blockers, have limited long-term data on psychosocial outcomes. In all these cases, the safety profile is considered acceptable, and no one demands high-certainty mental health evidence for their use.'
JOBS at Scotland's Rural College: Head of Student Recruitment and Head of Marketing. If you want to chat about working for SRUC you know where to find me. :-)
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
JOBS at Scotland's Rural College: Head of Student Recruitment and Head of Marketing. If you want to chat about working for SRUC you know where to find me. :-)
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Dass die US-Regierung der Ukraine Kapitulationbedingungen mit russischen maximal Forderungen aufzwingen wollen und nebenbei die NATO komplett in Frage stellen, markiert das endgültige Ende der pax americana und den diplomatischen Sieg einer imperialistischen Regionalmacht über die Supermacht USA.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Dass die US-Regierung der Ukraine Kapitulationbedingungen mit russischen maximal Forderungen aufzwingen wollen und nebenbei die NATO komplett in Frage stellen, markiert das endgültige Ende der pax americana und den diplomatischen Sieg einer imperialistischen Regionalmacht über die Supermacht USA.
Well. The USA are no arbiter anymore.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Well. The USA are no arbiter anymore.
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Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
www.bl.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
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Poor Nigel Farage.
Just when he wants to pretend Reform is patriotic, his colleague & party member Nathan Gill is convicted of taking bribes to be a Russian shill.
Now яeform will always be the treasonous Putin Party.
So please don’t share these photos far & wide, he would REALLY hate that.
Just when he wants to pretend Reform is patriotic, his colleague & party member Nathan Gill is convicted of taking bribes to be a Russian shill.
Now яeform will always be the treasonous Putin Party.
So please don’t share these photos far & wide, he would REALLY hate that.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Poor Nigel Farage.
Just when he wants to pretend Reform is patriotic, his colleague & party member Nathan Gill is convicted of taking bribes to be a Russian shill.
Now яeform will always be the treasonous Putin Party.
So please don’t share these photos far & wide, he would REALLY hate that.
Just when he wants to pretend Reform is patriotic, his colleague & party member Nathan Gill is convicted of taking bribes to be a Russian shill.
Now яeform will always be the treasonous Putin Party.
So please don’t share these photos far & wide, he would REALLY hate that.
If you came to my office which fidget toy would you choose: squid, sheep or ball?
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you came to my office which fidget toy would you choose: squid, sheep or ball?
‘But I’m picking it up!’ is not enough if you let your dog shit in my front garden.
An opinion formed this morning just before seven.
An opinion formed this morning just before seven.
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
‘But I’m picking it up!’ is not enough if you let your dog shit in my front garden.
An opinion formed this morning just before seven.
An opinion formed this morning just before seven.
Yeah. That’s not going to go well:
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yeah. That’s not going to go well:
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance www.bbc.com/news/article...
The EVIL CLOWN CIRCUS goes from town to town proclaiming they bring
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
The next morning the bombing, the starvation and the dying of preventable diseases carry on.
Governance as NOMADIC WAR MACHINE <Deleuze>
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
The next morning the bombing, the starvation and the dying of preventable diseases carry on.
Governance as NOMADIC WAR MACHINE <Deleuze>
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The EVIL CLOWN CIRCUS goes from town to town proclaiming they bring
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
The next morning the bombing, the starvation and the dying of preventable diseases carry on.
Governance as NOMADIC WAR MACHINE <Deleuze>
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
The next morning the bombing, the starvation and the dying of preventable diseases carry on.
Governance as NOMADIC WAR MACHINE <Deleuze>
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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"Tutkija kehottaa Suomen valtiota selvittämään tarkemmin, miten viranomaiset ovat hankkineet kolttasaamelaisilta tunnustuksia vuoden 1939 vakoilutapauksessa."
yle.fi/a/74-20194515
yle.fi/a/74-20194515
Moskun kostoretki ja Petsamon vakoilujuttu nousevat esiin uudessa kolttasaamelaisia koskevassa selvityksessä
Tutkija kehottaa Suomen valtiota selvittämään tarkemmin, miten viranomaiset ovat hankkineet kolttasaamelaisilta tunnustuksia vuoden 1939 vakoilutapauksessa.
yle.fi
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Tutkija kehottaa Suomen valtiota selvittämään tarkemmin, miten viranomaiset ovat hankkineet kolttasaamelaisilta tunnustuksia vuoden 1939 vakoilutapauksessa."
yle.fi/a/74-20194515
yle.fi/a/74-20194515
Mein Kusäng kommt so mit Schislawäng umme Ecke, Buddel Beer inner Hand un ruft:
Keine Fiesematenten, sonst packe ich dich am Schlawittchen!
Keine Fiesematenten, sonst packe ich dich am Schlawittchen!
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Mein Kusäng kommt so mit Schislawäng umme Ecke, Buddel Beer inner Hand un ruft:
Keine Fiesematenten, sonst packe ich dich am Schlawittchen!
Keine Fiesematenten, sonst packe ich dich am Schlawittchen!
What good is a forecast of snow when you get absolutely no snow?
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What good is a forecast of snow when you get absolutely no snow?
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I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
It does not taste of nothing but it tastes of not much at all and can be customised with cacao powder or vanilla extract or both.
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It does not taste of nothing but it tastes of not much at all and can be customised with cacao powder or vanilla extract or both.
Yes. The creeping feeling that the AI bubble will burst before anyone’s life has been revolutionised.
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yes. The creeping feeling that the AI bubble will burst before anyone’s life has been revolutionised.