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Alexander Luckmann

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PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked

Alexander Luckmann

@aluckmann.bsky.social

mustache

November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Patrick Cosmos

@veryimportant.lawyer

I think it should be considered legitimate for an American to have politics to the left of Richard Nixon

November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Alexander Luckmann

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You’re telling me this market is poly?

November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Ian Potter

@ianzpotter.bsky.social

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM

Alexander Luckmann

@aluckmann.bsky.social

If Donald Trump had taken a cab into Manhattan when he was 11 and wandered down to Cooper Square he could have heard John Coltrane’s Five Spot sessions. We truly are still living in the twentieth century

November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM

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alexis simpson

@amutepiggy.bsky.social

i think they should let Ms Rachel design a squid games for Mr Beast specifically

November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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Gene Ha

@geneha.com

ICE has conducted raids a few blocks from my house in Berwyn twice in the last week, kidnapping people each time. I am furious by day, and mourning for my neighbors and nation each night.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Rebecca Colesworthy

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social

It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!

Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social · 1d

We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍

Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!

contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...

2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List

A companion list for lit studies scholars.

contingentmagazine.org

November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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woke mayor

@brianvan.bsky.social

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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Dominique Baker

@bakerdphd.bsky.social

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

lithub.com

November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Alexander Luckmann

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I am at a basketball game in Bonn Germany

November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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Alexander Luckmann

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#168: Gero and Karl Band, St. John the Evangelist, Cologne-Stammheim (1969-70, demolished July 2025)

A church that is basically an A-frame. The façade has one story of brick under a large glas façade with wooden projections and one brick tower. The roof is folded copper that reaches to the ground in between triangular side windows. Photo by Ralf Krob via Moderne Regional, https://www.moderne-regional.de/listing/koeln-stammheim-st-johannes-evangelist/

The interior of the church, showing the deep wood-paneled beams that reach diagonally down to the ground. The altar is in front of a brick rear wall with a narrow stained-glass clerestory band around the triangle. The space is being used as a storage space. Photo by Ralf Krob via Moderne Regional, https://www.moderne-regional.de/listing/koeln-stammheim-st-johannes-evangelist/

A view of the side windows of the interior. Photo by Ralf Krob via Moderne Regional, https://www.moderne-regional.de/listing/koeln-stammheim-st-johannes-evangelist/

A side view of the church showing the folded copper roof. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Simon Kasper

@attribot.bsky.social

Toller Thread zu moderner Kirchenarchitektur!

Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Mar 11

November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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public health guy 🦃

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d

OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM