Watched a film on a streaming platform for the first time in a while. When a list of "watch next" buttons flew into the dramatic final shot, I nearly flew out of my skin.
11.12.2025 13:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@arphillips.bsky.social
Assistant professor of English at Ashoka University, read: rogue Germanist in India. Author: "Ecology and German Realism." Literature, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, C19. I cycle, I make beer, I think about books for money.
Watched a film on a streaming platform for the first time in a while. When a list of "watch next" buttons flew into the dramatic final shot, I nearly flew out of my skin.
11.12.2025 13:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The conflation of art and content, and that began when music was a thing we downloaded, and that is why digital music is the original sin of the 21st century.
11.12.2025 05:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
11.12.2025 03:08 β π 746 π 166 π¬ 18 π 23Marco Rubio orders State Department switch from Calibri to Times New Roman.
Garamond be like...
I think in an increasingly general sense we are all prisoners of what people like this canβt imagine, which is a shame, because most of us can imagine otherwise
10.12.2025 01:52 β π 51 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
09.12.2025 14:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0William Rollins's "A Greener Vision of Home: Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement" could get some interesting discussion going. Frank Uekoetter's "Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States" might help the comparative approach.
09.12.2025 13:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic Media Mogul Vows To Defeat Her Most Dreadful Creation
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
08.12.2025 16:00 β π 4732 π 872 π¬ 82 π 69Altbier Zutaten.
Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's.
08.12.2025 10:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Am farbigen Abglanz haben wir das Leben.
08.12.2025 04:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nein! Wollte diesen Sommer wieder dahin pilgern, #TheodorFontane zuliebe. WΓ€re meine erste Gelegenheit seit der WiedererΓΆffnung gewesen. βΉοΈ
06.12.2025 16:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The induction cooker may have been my best purchase of the year.
06.12.2025 13:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cover of "The Origins of Totalitarianism."
Hannah Arendt died 50 years ago #OTD. A good day to finally get smart about her.
04.12.2025 16:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey! Iβm CEO of a company that has just raised $10 billion for an app that takes the hard work out of enjoying music. Did you know, some people waste hours each day listening to βtunesβ. Our AI will listen to it for you and summarise it in a 15 second scream leaving you more time to add value.
04.12.2025 02:16 β π 105 π 32 π¬ 3 π 1When there's road work on University Ave in San Diego, the streetcar tracks that were paved over in the 1950s are sometimes visible. Buses that operate on this segment today are some of the most frequently delayed in the system because of the traffic.
03.12.2025 01:58 β π 35 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Logo for Ashoka University.
Always thought my employer's logo might need to see a proctologist.
02.12.2025 18:36 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0More the lead up to telling people what I do: "Und wie sprichst du so gut Deutsch?"
02.12.2025 03:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Image 1 is of Kevin from Home Alone film walking in front of a work van being driven. Image two is a child in front of a large pick up truck.
Home Alone could've had a very different ending if it was made more recently.
30.11.2025 23:30 β π 745 π 142 π¬ 10 π 3Glad to know this exists! The Trinity Test episode is the single most astonishing hour of television I have ever seen.
30.11.2025 02:14 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Two young kids ride their bikes in a curb-protected bike lane in Toronto. On one side is the traffic lane, on the other is a streetside cafe.
Drivers: I couldnβt see you, it was raining
Drivers: I couldnβt see you, there was frost on my windows
Drivers: I couldnβt see you, it was dark
Drivers: I couldnβt see you, the sun was in my eyes
Also drivers: I never see anyone using that bike lane, letβs rip it out.
"Ecology and German Realism:" In which I stage an ecomarxist rescue operation for a bunch of conservatives, anti-revolutionaries, and Otto von Bismarck fans.
boydellandbrewer.com/book/ecology...
Immer wieder eine KrΓ€nkung, wenn ein GerΓ€t mich duzt.
24.11.2025 11:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#ShittyFuture
24.11.2025 09:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Γbersicht mit KI: Der erste Satz von Christian Krachts Roman Faserland lautet: "It was a dark and stormy night at Fisch-Gosch on Sylt".
24.11.2025 09:01 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Even if this were in any way true, leftist thought is never less dangerous than when it it is presented in an elite university classroom.
23.11.2025 02:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love seeing this go viral among humanities people.
23.11.2025 02:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Me, a college freshman: "I'll sign up for beginning German and see what happens. Maybe I'll take a literature class when and if I get there."
23.11.2025 02:01 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A good chunk of the cash the Trump admin extracted from Cornell is also going to "AI."
21.11.2025 03:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books