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Ian Janssen

@ianfjanssen.bsky.social

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- Delaware, but Iowa born - Dad to the best son - Archivist - Fishing/art/literature/poetry/music/hiking - Aspirational motorcyclist - Incompetent agnostic/socialist/sober - Has a cat named Toolbox "God has no other hands than ours." - Dorothee Soelle

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · Nov 16

This is my second go with Bluesky, I deleted my first account a year ago or so.

I’m not super interested in big accounts with thousands+ of followers, with a few exceptions.

I’m more interested in the little accounts like my own. People just living their lives and expressing that as best they can.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 9h

Listening to Prokofiev and others by Hahn.

Album cover for Hilary Hahn playing Chausson, Prokofiev, and Rautavaara, album entitled Paris.

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 15h

There are those who may argue that we never had it, and they would be wrong. There is a definite, palpable shift, and it tilts toward collapse.

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 15h

Between AI slop, the negative sides of social media, rampant anti-intellectualism, the embrace of pseudo-science, broad attacks on schools, universities, and museums, the already endemic toxicity and vapidity of American culture through great portions of its history, cataclysm is summoned.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 15h

Americans fantasize about apocalypse, but I think that they fail to appreciate that we already are experiencing an apocalypse of the mind, of the thinking life.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

How in the fuck is that short guy carrying his weapon?!?! He’s almost dragging it on the ground!

And yes, send these dweebs home.

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention the absolute garbage quality of new construction in the last several decades. Paying much more for much less, even if it is bigger and looks less humble.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Delta Farce

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

And I say that as one who benefited from it.

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

Everything I’ve seen in my lifetime indicates it should fall and be replaced.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

Peanut butter on celery (really not that weird, but treated as such by those younger)

Mettwurst and teewurst (skeeves out many Americans, mmm buttermeat)

Blood sausage (again, Americans)

Beef heart (sautéed, maybe with fava beans and a nice Chianti …)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d

Toolbox exists and she is perfect. A little feisty, too. She bids you well in these horrid times.

Photo of Toolbox the tuxedo cat sitting very alertly on a sofa arm.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 3d

People will bend over backwards to endow computers with humanity while denying the humanity within each other.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Songs to close out the weekend 5:

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You Still Believe In Me - Mono

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Songs to close out the weekend 4:

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When I Stop Dreaming - 2003 Remaster

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Songs to close out the weekend 3:

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Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Songs to close out the weekend 2:

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Hasten Down the Wind

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Songs to close out the weekend 1:

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Dreaming My Dreams With You

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

OMG

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday is for DRUGS

Photo of Toolbox the tuxedo cat rolling on catnip on a carpeted floor

Same photo, different cat rolling position

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d

An absolutely gorgeous album for an absolutely gorgeous morning. Listen and set a mood for the day.

Album cover for Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 4d

Ha! That’s quite funny!

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 4d

Great hike on the Batona Trail in Wharton State Forest, New Jersey. Much damage from the fires this summer, but many trees survived and much new growth down below. Really interesting to hike in the pine barrens.

Pine barren forest, with some charred trees.

Clearing in the pine barren forest. Trail running through it.

Light purple aster flowers beside a sandy trail.

Trail through new growth pine trees, like a miniature Christmas tree forest.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 4d

Photobombing a trail sign.

Trail sign for the Batona Trail, with directions and mileage to Lebanon State Forest and Batsto Historic Site. And my head.

Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 4d

Only in South Jersey will you find a man selling pork and broccoli rabe sandwiches out of a rusty van in … a state forest (Wharton State Forest at Batsto).

Getting a very late start at hiking part of the Batona Trail for the day. Good thing I brought my headlamp!

White van with a sign for J Gee’s Catering on it. Placard sign advertising roast pork and broccoli rabe sandwiches for sale and an American flag.

Map brochure for the Batona Trail and a portable audio player and earbud headphones.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 5d

One last one, because it is beautiful and complicated:

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Sonata No. 4 for Solo Violin in E Minor, Op. 27/4: III. Finale. Presto ma non troppo

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