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Mike Lensi
@clinamina.bsky.social
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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Posted without (much) comment.
One book 📚
One film 🎥
One album💿
One show 📺
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
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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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
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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“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.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Man the capstan! Blood and thunder!
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Four higonokami, traditional Japanese folding knives.
#knives #higonokami #Japan
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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these two sentences would be verboten DEI if you read them as as referring to any other demographic
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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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.
December 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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herring gull.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I live for bad taxidermy. This striking fella I encountered at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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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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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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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
"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."
This is so so good
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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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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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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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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