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@pwinslow.bsky.social

New Englander in Niedersachsen | sworn translator | vereidigter Übersetzer für die englische Sprache/Hamburg | #KarlKraus | #LudwigWittgenstein

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Vance looks like a well-disguised Agent Mulder in an Apprentice-style X-Files reboot, who just sneaked into a Syndicate meeting, can't believe his luck, and is now breaking the fourth wall.

19.02.2026 02:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive

08.02.2026 04:40 — 👍 939    🔁 149    💬 8    📌 5

omg bill gates slipped his wife antibiotics after he got an std from a russian hooker also is his foundation offering a fellowship

31.01.2026 05:35 — 👍 49    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
A book cover with text "Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings, Edited and translated by Anna Ezekiel, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy." Cover includes a black and white portrait of a young woman (Günderrode) from the waist up, looking to the right, and a strange homunculus shown faintly in the background.

A book cover with text "Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings, Edited and translated by Anna Ezekiel, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy." Cover includes a black and white portrait of a young woman (Günderrode) from the waist up, looking to the right, and a strange homunculus shown faintly in the background.

Available now as part of the Oxford New Histories of Philosophy Series, my translations of & introductions to philosophical work by German Romantic writer Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806): "Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings"

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

27.01.2026 04:11 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Perfect response from Peterson here.

Objecting to Plato's teachings with citations of system rules is so fucking unimaginative. At least Plato's contemporaries had the temerity to object to his teachings with farts and featherless chickens.

09.01.2026 03:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Clark's Piranesi, hands down best book I read this year.

The audiobook version is also excellent!

www.amazon.de/Piranesi-SHO...

31.12.2025 16:21 — 👍 37    🔁 0    💬 9    📌 0
Ray Monk: Preparing for the Second Coming: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Vienna 1925-1929
YouTube video by Wittgenstein Initiative Ray Monk: Preparing for the Second Coming: Ludwig Wittgenstein in Vienna 1925-1929

Here's the talk I gave in Vienna last month as part of the Wittgenstein Week, held in the very splendid Palais Schönborn.

youtu.be/Cgl5cgoInNs?...

26.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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My latest publication - in the new issue of Sarum Chronicle - is something of a departure!

08.12.2025 09:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

"Es tun mir viele Sachen weh, die den anderen nur leid tun."*

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

* Aus dem Gedächtnis, vielleicht lautet das auch etwas anders.

08.12.2025 11:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Handschriftlicher Text: 'Schusseligkeit ist der rote Faden, der sich durch mein Leben zieht.' Darunter ein blauer, wellenförmiger Strich mit dem Zusatz '(Habe leider meinen roten Stift verloren.)'

Handschriftlicher Text: 'Schusseligkeit ist der rote Faden, der sich durch mein Leben zieht.' Darunter ein blauer, wellenförmiger Strich mit dem Zusatz '(Habe leider meinen roten Stift verloren.)'

Holt euch dieses Farbexplosion für eure Wand! Hier könnt ihr eine von 20 handgezeichneten Reproduktionen erwerben: buff.ly/GwpmMDN

19.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 398    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 0

I mean, who does the tour guide think they're talking to, amirite?

19.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

18.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 3293    🔁 572    💬 93    📌 81

When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.

18.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 844    🔁 91    💬 25    📌 6

I don't know. My general rule is: if it's Vienna, it's art. Sure, I'm biased. 😃

19.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Das sind die wichtigsten Sachbücher des Herbstes Eva Illouz, Ulrich Raulff, Annekathrin Kohout, Heike Behrend oder Hanns Zischler: Unsere Sachbuchbeilage zur Frankfurter Buchmesse versammelt 14 Rezensionen bemerkenswerter Titel. Die Übersicht.

just wow - meine kraus-biographie gehört für die @faznet.bsky.social zu den wichtigsten sachbüchern des herbstes. 🍂🍁🍐 ich freu mich so, dass ich gelesen und verstanden werd!

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

18.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 147    🔁 22    💬 6    📌 0
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Das neue #KarlKraus Buch von @kathiprager.bsky.social wurde in der @faznet.bsky.social besprochen!

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

10.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 39    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
„Ein Spiel, gesinnungslos wie die Liebe.“ Das Leben des Satirikers Karl Kraus | 08.10.2025 | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus

Ich freu mich so, dass das Buch über #KarlKraus von @kathiprager.bsky.social erschienen ist. Am 8.10. gibt es in Wien eine Buchpräsentation: 18.30 Uhr, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus und online: www.wienbibliothek.at/besuchen-ent...

02.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

I know it sounds mad but if you had regular exposure to trees and sunlight and started reading again for pleasure, it would heal you.

06.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 478    🔁 91    💬 15    📌 7

Sloan is a surprisingly good writer. There's a Googler, a bookstore clerk, likeable weirdos, a secret society, good old-fashioned sleuthing, and more. A really fun read.

07.05.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

07.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 10202    🔁 2353    💬 116    📌 115

Completely off topic, with apologies, but I just finished the audio book of Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. And it strikes me as the sort of book you might enjoy. Have you read it?

07.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

02.05.2025 20:39 — 👍 51083    🔁 12373    💬 2242    📌 1295

If fact-transmission is what the humanities have become, that's a huge humanities failure. I was educated at liberal arts colleges in the humanities. And fact-transmission was 1 of aspect of my education. Another was learning to think critically: logic, exegesis, foreign lang., history of ideas, &c.

27.04.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I get daddy-daughter night regularly. Nothing beats'em.

25.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Habe gerade darüber nachgedacht, was genau Spar- Gelernte sind.

Spargelernte.

Aaah

24.04.2025 17:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Who has ever used a spell checker on a date, to lie? Maybe Woody Allen to prove he really does know how to spell Connecticut.

22.04.2025 08:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trotzdem

22.04.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wieso erfahre ich erst heute, dass @katjaberlin.bsky.social bei Bluesky ist?

Einfach klasse!

22.04.2025 04:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reviewer 2 wants revisions 😀

18.04.2025 07:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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