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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

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · May 24

Pocket money prices for world-class writing.

[INVESTIEREN SIE IN DADA]

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Drun...

Pink, orange and green zines. Titles: I am half a pantomime horse. Plan Nine B Movie Poetry. Re/searching gender euphoria.

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 9h

Ich hatte mal Eichhörnchen im Dach (die großen aus Amerika). Das war ein unglaublicher Radau.

Die Lösung ist leider der Kammerjäger.

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 9h

None of his works in my local library.

Marcel @sibaerisch.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai. A frequently great, sometimes excellent novelist who is absolutely deserving of the award. His most recent translated novel isn't his best but that's par for the course for Nobel winners. In his best writing he deals with fears and terrors embedded in history

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 11h

Spending the reading, writing or editing skills I have spent a lifetime building with blood, sweat, and tears on ChatGPT-generated verbiage that is not properly marked as such truly is the Sisyphean punishment we humanists of late capitalism deserve. After all, we failed at preventing this disaster.

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 17h

Auf, auf zum Kampf, zum Kampf!
Zum Kampf sind wir geboren!
Auf, auf zum Kampf, zum Kampf!
Zum Kampf sind wir bereit!

Dem Doktor Habeck haben wir’s geschworen. Der Frau Baerbock reichen wir die Hand.

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 17h

Musst du bloß eine Glühlampe reinlegen.

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 17h

Hui. Ein großer Checker.

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 18h

Sie haben aber wenig Gespür für Humor!

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Sébastien 🇫🇷 < Liz 🇬🇧

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Trump dice que no conoce a Bad Bunny y que le parece "absolutamente ridículo" que actúe en el Super Bowl www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Trump dice que no conoce a Bad Bunny y que le parece "absolutamente ridículo" que actúe en el Super Bowl - BBC News Mundo

El mandatario estadounidense se sumó a comentarios de activistas conservadores que cuestionaron la actuación del músico puertorriqueño en la próxima final del torneo de fútbol americano.

www.bbc.com

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 1d

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1d

Historism, Annales School, Cultural History

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Niina Siivikko @nsiivikko.bsky.social · 1d

Kivoja tiedotusasioita, osa 2: Turun yliopisto järjestää kurssin "Johdatus saamen kieleen, kulttuuriin ja historiaan" yhteistyössä Utsjoen saamelaislukion kanssa ❤️ opas.peppi.utu.fi/fi/opintojak...

opas.peppi.utu.fi

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

- Ich hätte gerne 300g Philosophie.

- Geschnitten oder im Stück?

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 26

The Verwurstung of books.

In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth experimented with the materiality of books - and made, among other "literature sausages", Hegel's complete work to 20 sausages using traditional sausage recipes, replacing the sausage's meat with book paper.

#skystorians #bookhistory

Dieter Roth's "literature sausages" in an exhibition: Hegel's complete work looking like 20 sausages.

4 of Dieter Roth's "literature sausages"

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Lacht die Löwin mit uns? Text-Bild-Schere?

Die Reklame @die-reklame.de · 1d

Mannheimer Morgen 17. Juli 1958

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

It is important to keep in mind that currently the Trump administration is weak. They only try to look tough.

They are a schoolyard bully who throws their weight around until a teacher grabs them by the ear and marches them to the headmasters office.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Thüringen stand für mich ein Leben lang nur für Bratwurst.
Jetzt aber auch für eine Koalition der Bestürzten.

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Hamburgers aren’t made from ham either. Get a grip!

Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

www.theguardian.com

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Haha. If they reproduce my results, they’re plagiarising.

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

I try to shield from graphic footage, as I know it is likely to affect me deeply.

Just saw ICE agents shooting a pastor in the head with a pepper ball. From a roof. Well outside any physical danger for the agents.

Yes, ‘less than lethal’.
Yes, a disgrace.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Waren das schwarzweiße Bilder?

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Oldenburg in Holstein hat so 10000 Einwohner*innen und Oldenburg in Oldenburg ungefähr 180000. Da gewinnt die Masse.

Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

Blau ist die Uniform des mittleren Managements. Sehr blau ist für extrovertierte Chef*innen.

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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 1d

One is wearing sneakers. That’s poor cosplay.

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