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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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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3h

“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 · 3h

absolutely!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 3h

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

lithub.com/thomas-pynch...

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 · 8h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

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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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, couldn’t agree more!

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 21h

oh there are so many to choose from. “I tell my team every morning how much we have to follow the law.” “I didn’t see it. I was moving around the city, enjoying all aspects of the city” “(after paying a vendor in Spanish) I love this city. It makes me feel like i’m in Paris”

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 21h

I’ll count it

a youtube video called “ancelotti planned for bellingham 20 years ago” with a graphic reading “he wasn’t born” suggesting Denis Bellingham experienced an immaculate conception

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 21h

cc @raxkingisdead.bsky.social who I believe shares my love of Eric Adams Doing Things (that aren’t being mayor)

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 21h

Hell yeah

Eric Adams in front of an Albanian flag wearing what appears to be a double Eagle fez

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 1d

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 1d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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Berit Glanz @beritmiriam.bsky.social · 1d

Diese Autorin kommt heute Abend nach Freiburg und schreibt dort auch in eure Bücher.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone hasn’t seen it here’s a compilation of Eric Adams saying “New York City is the [capital of another country] of America”

youtube.com/shorts/EeEp8...

Eric Adams: "New York City is the ____ of America"

YouTube video by Avery the Cuban-American

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Farron Cousins @farronbalanced.bsky.social · 5d

This is a totally normal headline in America now.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

She’s not wrong as Israel would exterminate them just as Israel exterminates everyone.

It’s the same stupid argument for the past decade. These people think that Queer Palestinians don’t exist, that they’re not also being starved to death and bombed from the skies by that genocidal state.

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HERTA MÜLLER
"In Gaza, the Queers for Palestine would not survive for half an hour."
By Jan Philipp Burgard
Editor-in-Chief WELT Group
As of 04.10.2025 | Reading time: 11 minutes

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

Great idea! Absolutely

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

Oh thank you! This is a great note. I really need to read Meyer

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

The record is by number of rooms, but it’s about 6000 square meters larger than Philly

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

It’s on the wikipedia page
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neues_R..., and has been verified by the German Record Institute (incredible that this is a thing): rekord-institut.org/weltrekord-f...

Neues Rathaus (Leipzig) – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 2d

Eat your heart out Buffalo - apparently this is the largest city hall in the world

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