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Mike Lensi
@clinamina.bsky.social
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I love the natural world and philosophies thereof. Lege feliciter.

Permanent obsessions:
* animal tracks
* philosophy of mind / perception
* Japanese history / culture
* world history
* cats
* your mom

Temporary obsessions:
* shogi
* knives
* your dad
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Mike Lensi @clinamina.bsky.social · Jan 27
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One book 📚
One film 🎥
One album💿
One show 📺
Cover of the book "Beyond Concepts" by Ruth Millikan. Poster for the movie "Kaze Tachinu" aka "The Wind Rises" by Studio Ghibli. Alternative album cover for (2010-era) Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Poster for Shōgun, 2024 TV series.
clinamina.bsky.social
This one’s for my fellow plane otakus. The aircraft of Jiro’s dreams, the inverted gull-wing prototype of the A5M Claude, aka Mitsubishi Experiment-9 Single-Seat Fighter (九試単座戦闘機). From Studio Ghibli’s most underrated film “The Wind Rises”.

#オタク #飛行機オタク #スタジオジブリ #ジブリ #風立ちぬ #WW2 #堀越二郎
1/48 scale model of the WW2-era Mitsubishi Type-9 prototype, on fake grass with a little tree and an autumn-leaves background for maximum ambiance. Still frames from the Studio Ghibli animated movie The Wind Rises. Top view of scale model airplane, in progress. 1/48 scale model airplane - Mitsubishi Type-9 prototype - in front of some ukiyo-e reprints.
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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aaronrosspowell.com
RIP to one of the best to ever do it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname "Monkey Christ".
www.bbc.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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originalsp.in
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids. Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
Four higonokami, traditional Japanese folding knives.
#knives #higonokami #Japan
Four traditional Japanese folding knives in open position.
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
www.quantamagazine.org/how-renormal...

#physics #renormalization #scale_autonomy #ontology #PhilosophyOfPhysics
A quote from the article. "Renormalization captures nature's tendency to sort itself into essentially independent worlds."
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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qjurecic.bsky.social
these two sentences would be verboten DEI if you read them as as referring to any other demographic
kleinman.bsky.social Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 15d
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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gaijinmommy.bsky.social
Have y’all ever tried to point your camera out the window of a moving train, put it in panorama mode, then laugh demonically as your phone begs you to slow down? This is fever dream Shinjuku, which actually looks a whole lot like regular Shinjuku. Now.
fever dream Shinjuku, which actually looks a whole lot like regular Shinjuku. A yellow ginkgo tree. Shinjuku lights and stuff, apparently distorted but who has any sense of orientation anymore
December 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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ronmac11.bsky.social
herring gull.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
Gull flying directly overhead with strong sunlight from one side.
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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emilyherring.bsky.social
I live for bad taxidermy. This striking fella I encountered at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin
Really badly taxidermied feline of some description It's all in the eyes. They are so far apart. And the whole thing really. Disaster but so bad it circles back to greatness
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
bbc.com/news/videos/...

#SlavaUkraine #SlavaUkraini
Interpreter breaks down in tears during Ukrainian boy's testimony
Roman Oleksiv,11, was injured in a Russian missile strike on a hospital that also killed his mother
bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever.
www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-the-...
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
in general shape the noble Sperm Whale’s head may be compared to a Roman war-chariot
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
moye.bsky.social Todd Moye @moye.bsky.social · Dec 1
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · Dec 1
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
The ability to localise a sound in a vertical plane is often attributed to the analysis of the sound at each ear. In fact, the sound waves arriving at the ears are rebounded from structures such as the shoulders or pinnae, and these rebounds interfere with the sound...
www.cochlea.eu/en/sound/psy...
Localisation
Authors: Antoine Lorenzi Contributors: Anthony Gentil, Sam Irving Binaural and monaural hearing As hearing is primarily processed by a pair of organs (the two ears), a distinction is made between...
www.cochlea.eu
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
"A peace that ignores the fate of people under tyranny is merely the preface to their continued suffering.

You may be tempted to believe that 'ending the war' is synonymous with 'creating peace.' It is not... it cannot strengthen [the aggressor's] hand while weakening the victim’s."
kairyssdal.bsky.social Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Nov 26
This is so so good
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Nov 26
If Carl von Clausewitz were to advise Secretary Rubio on peace in Ukraine, he might say something like this: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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rutgerbregman.com
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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aeon.co
It can appear absurd to speak of friendship with animals, let alone trees. But is it so strange? Empedocles argued that our circle of belonging doesn’t stop with humans. Animals, plants, even trees are our kin, and so treating them well isn’t optional, but a moral obligation
Should we act morally towards trees? Empedocles says yes | Aeon Essays
Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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mondomascots.bsky.social
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
clinamina.bsky.social
My running list of under-the-radar, face-melting guitar solos:

First up, Penarth St by RWJ

youtube.com/clip/UgkxPc1...

#guitarsolo #facemelter #shred #rock
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November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM