Alexander Luckmann
@aluckmann.bsky.social
PhD candidate, German & US modern architecture @ UCSB | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
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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
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Launching tomahawks supposedly to “protect” African Christians, while banning their entry into the US (expanded travel ban from “s-hole” countries; excepting white S Africans of course) and causing pain and death to hundreds of thousands (thoughtless cuts to USAid and other int’l funding).
December 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Launching tomahawks supposedly to “protect” African Christians, while banning their entry into the US (expanded travel ban from “s-hole” countries; excepting white S Africans of course) and causing pain and death to hundreds of thousands (thoughtless cuts to USAid and other int’l funding).
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The 2020s have sucked so much
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The 2020s have sucked so much
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Love this control joint
December 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Love this control joint
A little off topic but extra points for being self-inflicted
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A little off topic but extra points for being self-inflicted
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There is, for all intents and purposes, no academic freedom anymore for anyone teaching at a red state public university.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There is, for all intents and purposes, no academic freedom anymore for anyone teaching at a red state public university.
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Jordan Peterson watches Muppet Christmas Carol
December 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Jordan Peterson watches Muppet Christmas Carol
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A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
buff.ly/kI4ynxe
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Zu Weihnachten wünsche ich mir, dass ihr @54books.bsky.social reinfolgt.
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Zu Weihnachten wünsche ich mir, dass ihr @54books.bsky.social reinfolgt.
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Church St. Dominic, arch.: Władysław Pieńkowski, b.: 1983-1994
December 30, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Church St. Dominic, arch.: Władysław Pieńkowski, b.: 1983-1994
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Frohe Weihnacht den Menschen, die heute Nacht auf der Straße überlebt haben.
December 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Frohe Weihnacht den Menschen, die heute Nacht auf der Straße überlebt haben.
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“Die einzigen, die sich nach 1945 für die Überlebenden einsetzten, waren selbst ehemals Verfolgte.” Ausgezeichneter Beitrag von Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
In the second contribution to our series on the Rise & Fall of the BRD, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum writes about what the treatment of surviving victims of National Socialism in postwar Germany can teach us about memory culture today.
thediasporist.de/de/klebstoff...
thediasporist.de/de/klebstoff...
Klebstoff und Erinnerung – the Diasporist
Wie die überlebenden Opfer des Nationalsozialismus eine Herausforderung für die deutsche Erinnerungskultur darstellen
thediasporist.de
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“Die einzigen, die sich nach 1945 für die Überlebenden einsetzten, waren selbst ehemals Verfolgte.” Ausgezeichneter Beitrag von Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
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Ohhh yes!! Utterly gorgeous!!
Thankyou, @c20society.bsky.social and a jolly merry xmas to you too! <3
Thankyou, @c20society.bsky.social and a jolly merry xmas to you too! <3
December 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Ohhh yes!! Utterly gorgeous!!
Thankyou, @c20society.bsky.social and a jolly merry xmas to you too! <3
Thankyou, @c20society.bsky.social and a jolly merry xmas to you too! <3
“Die einzigen, die sich nach 1945 für die Überlebenden einsetzten, waren selbst ehemals Verfolgte.” Ausgezeichneter Beitrag von Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
In the second contribution to our series on the Rise & Fall of the BRD, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum writes about what the treatment of surviving victims of National Socialism in postwar Germany can teach us about memory culture today.
thediasporist.de/de/klebstoff...
thediasporist.de/de/klebstoff...
Klebstoff und Erinnerung – the Diasporist
Wie die überlebenden Opfer des Nationalsozialismus eine Herausforderung für die deutsche Erinnerungskultur darstellen
thediasporist.de
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“Die einzigen, die sich nach 1945 für die Überlebenden einsetzten, waren selbst ehemals Verfolgte.” Ausgezeichneter Beitrag von Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
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“Antisemitism and racism served, in my view, as the glue that made the transition to democracy easier for Germans, precisely because they did not have to really question their values or their national self-perception, let alone alter them.” thediasporist.de/memory-and-g...
Memory and Glue – the Diasporist
How the surviving victims of national socialism pose a challenge to memory culture
thediasporist.de
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Antisemitism and racism served, in my view, as the glue that made the transition to democracy easier for Germans, precisely because they did not have to really question their values or their national self-perception, let alone alter them.” thediasporist.de/memory-and-g...
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Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!
December 24, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!
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Wir können unser Büro zwischen den Jahren nicht schließen, weil wir damit rechnen müssen, dass negative Asylbescheide mit sehr kurzen Fristen zugestellt werden und Frauen in gefährliche Situationen durch ihre Partner kommen. Deutsche Weihnacht eben.
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Wir können unser Büro zwischen den Jahren nicht schließen, weil wir damit rechnen müssen, dass negative Asylbescheide mit sehr kurzen Fristen zugestellt werden und Frauen in gefährliche Situationen durch ihre Partner kommen. Deutsche Weihnacht eben.
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If you're killing random Jews at a festival in a Australia in the name of anti-zionism, that *is* an attack on Jewish people as a group, because you've decided that Jews and Zionism are synonymous and killing the one is a blow against the other.
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you're killing random Jews at a festival in a Australia in the name of anti-zionism, that *is* an attack on Jewish people as a group, because you've decided that Jews and Zionism are synonymous and killing the one is a blow against the other.
Men used to write military history, now they write social history, art history, or anything else
December 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Men used to write military history, now they write social history, art history, or anything else
Incredible thread 👇
It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Incredible thread 👇
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Happy #sketchpadvent. Now for the last and biggest: engineers Pell Frischmann’s early 70s proposals for a cross channel bridge, linked by a massive sea-platform city for oil tankers and container ships, with an airport, helipad and homes for workers. Jingle! x
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Happy #sketchpadvent. Now for the last and biggest: engineers Pell Frischmann’s early 70s proposals for a cross channel bridge, linked by a massive sea-platform city for oil tankers and container ships, with an airport, helipad and homes for workers. Jingle! x
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Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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