Peter Pansen

Why are you all still on this rotten platform?

@sleafordmods Thanks so much for a wonderful show! Haven't had so much fun in a while! Also to @poziband, who were absolutely brilliant as well. Can't wait to dig into their discography.

Mad fuckers. Thank you Munich. Always. ❤️

@georgrestle @CDU Den modus operandi der Trumpisten - ständig ekelhaft zu provozieren und jede Kritik daran aufmerksamkeitswirksam als cancel culture abzutun - haben jetzt auch unsere Populisten als Strategie für sich entdeckt. Wir wissen wohin das führt.

Ein CDU-Vorsitzender, der Kritik an seinen menschenfeindlichen Falschbehauptungen als „Schnappatmung“ abtut. Wie weit geht die @CDU (und ihre Wähler) da mit?

@Palomar_qfwfq Now it did work, thank you very much!

@Palomar_qfwfq Can't DM you, but if you have a spare, may I have one? (Since twitter is being x'd, I'd like to expatriate myself to wherever the eleven other Calvino-, Kafka-, & Van Goghians go.)

@electricalWSOP Made it for my own convenience, but might as well share: music.youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Did 20 songs, tried not to include any I worked on but made an exception for Nina.

@outhwaitegeorge The cause is Ozymandian

Over the Bones of the Dead

@philipcball Not sure what to call this (maybe - ignoring the functional harmony of the choral - E^b9 over C), but what happens after 0:17 is magic: youtube.com/watch?v=5hFwik…

@randow Schon beängstigend, wie einfach Bild & Co. ein neues Feindbild etablieren können, und wie bereitwillig die breite Gesellschaft UND der Rechtsstaat es übernehmen.

Passt nicht allen, was ich da geschrieben habe zeit.de/gesellschaft/2…

@TimothyDSnyder Can you update us on the Shahed Hunter from the United24 fundraising campaign? Is it already in operation?

In its latest attack, Russia was trying to destroy Ukrainian air-defense systems, which save the lives of Ukrainians. My piece from "Thinking about...": "Missiles over Kyiv" open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/m…

@electricalWSOP So beautiful that you still hear all four guitarists individual techniques even though they share patterns between them. Bill Orcutt is the patron saint of everything I love about the electric guitar.

This rules. Simultaneously evokes Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca and Ricky Wilson. youtu.be/Tu_PRf1tyjI

@electricalWSOP Solesman (1969) - cinéma vérité - directed by brothers Adi & Rudolf Dassler.

A movie about marketing shoes. Kill me.

@verschwndn Yeah, there are a few scans in the critical edition (the white books), and some high-quality scans of some letters and notes containing doodles and drawings in the Die Zeichnungen book. Also in a few of Wagenbach's collections of images. Here's one from Das Urteil.

@mugrantel do any of these books contain scanned images of the original text?

A photograph of my ongoing Franz Kafka collection from which I daily search and find hopeful quotes that I then share with you.❤🌞

@AmschelKavka I do. German is my native tongue, so I only ever look at (English & Italian) translations when I'm specifically interested in the translator's interpretation of the text, which can be very enlightening. (You probably already know this example: theguardian.com/books/booksblo…)

@mugrantel Nice! Do you only read him in German?

@AmschelKavka Happy New Year to the wonderful person who runs this account! You are single-handedly changing the definition of the word "kafkaesque" and it's long long-overdue.

I wish you a Happy New Year with particular earnestness and ask you not to stay up late working. Franz Kafka, 1908.

@raycokes @whydontyoutube I think they meant "semi" as in semi-truck as in big-rig-legendary.

@whydontyoutube Semi-legendary? 😉

The pre-Christmas episode of MTV's semi-legendary pan-European live show Most Wanted today in 1993 with Ray Cokes, a man who some say walked so Chris Evans could run, introducing the continent to Mr Blobby. youtube.com/watch?v=SSbDQ4…

@philipcball "They got caught in the trap of their own ingenuity (/ clever original ideas)." - Hannah Arendt about German intellectuals in the 1930s. It isn't intelligence that immunizes against self-deception, but the corrective principles of science, e.g. falsifiability, predictive power.

@philipcball Not only is it an outstanding piece of literature, but it also shares some of your books subjects and characters. If you do someday find the time, it'd be lovely to read your thoughts about it.

@philipcball I'm currently reading Beyond Weird (fantastic!) as an intermediary between Cormac McCarthy's new novels. Will you be reading them, too? It'd be really interesting to get your perspective (for reasons that would qualify as spoilers).