Caffe Neko
@caffeneko.bsky.social
I spend my time doing gothy things, drawing, reading, & writing. Background in Library studies, Museum studies, Japanese studies, & Art history. https://www.etsy.com/shop/caffecatcreations
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Trump is shutting down the Kennedy Center because artists are boycotting. It also sounds like he's going to physically tear it down. That's what powerful losers do: Anything they can't have, they destroy.
February 1, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Trump is shutting down the Kennedy Center because artists are boycotting. It also sounds like he's going to physically tear it down. That's what powerful losers do: Anything they can't have, they destroy.
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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I’m sure JK Rowling will be offering a clear and immediate explanation for why her team wanted Jeffrey Epstein to be present at the launch of her broadway musical, a full ten years after he was convicted. I imagine she’s outraged about this revelation, doubtless very damaging to a children’s author.
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
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February 1, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I’m sure JK Rowling will be offering a clear and immediate explanation for why her team wanted Jeffrey Epstein to be present at the launch of her broadway musical, a full ten years after he was convicted. I imagine she’s outraged about this revelation, doubtless very damaging to a children’s author.
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Read banned books.
Read books that make you cry.
Read books written by friends.
Read books you don’t quite understand yet.
Read books of ancient magic that transform you into a dark being of the cosmos, capable of such wonderful & terrible things.
Read books that make you cry.
Read books written by friends.
Read books you don’t quite understand yet.
Read books of ancient magic that transform you into a dark being of the cosmos, capable of such wonderful & terrible things.
January 12, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Read banned books.
Read books that make you cry.
Read books written by friends.
Read books you don’t quite understand yet.
Read books of ancient magic that transform you into a dark being of the cosmos, capable of such wonderful & terrible things.
Read books that make you cry.
Read books written by friends.
Read books you don’t quite understand yet.
Read books of ancient magic that transform you into a dark being of the cosmos, capable of such wonderful & terrible things.
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ICE is tear-gassing, kidnapping, and jailing toddlers. It cannot be reformed. Everyone responsible for this must be removed from positions of power and ICE must be abolished.
February 1, 2026 at 4:57 AM
ICE is tear-gassing, kidnapping, and jailing toddlers. It cannot be reformed. Everyone responsible for this must be removed from positions of power and ICE must be abolished.
Truth. I grew up in Berkeley on stories of older peers who had been gassed in nursery school bc they were on campus in the late 60s. We knew the history (& Civil Rights history!) & had no illusions that protests were safe spaces.
This is not to dissuade anyone from objecting, organizing, & protesting, but a reminder no matter how hard you try, you will not do it “right“
Prepare for their violent retaliation against any form of resistance
And document the injustice to change the hearts of those who pretend they are safe
Prepare for their violent retaliation against any form of resistance
And document the injustice to change the hearts of those who pretend they are safe
February 1, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Truth. I grew up in Berkeley on stories of older peers who had been gassed in nursery school bc they were on campus in the late 60s. We knew the history (& Civil Rights history!) & had no illusions that protests were safe spaces.
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No journalist should use biometric locks.
The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM
No journalist should use biometric locks.
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Sometimes the city or your local community college clinic or nursing school will have really cheap titers and vaccines, too.
If you're an adult who was vaccinated, you should get your titers run to make sure you still have immunity. Vaccination can wane and/or you may not have generated a strong immune response. That was ok when we had herd immunity but we're likely about to lose our "measles free" status.
Vaccinate your kids, you friggin nuts.
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Sometimes the city or your local community college clinic or nursing school will have really cheap titers and vaccines, too.
I've been saying this for years. It's because they don't want their 'supply' 'tampered with'.
Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.
February 1, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I've been saying this for years. It's because they don't want their 'supply' 'tampered with'.
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Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.
January 31, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.
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Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
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In his 1935 essay, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,' influential German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin introduced the term “aura' to describe an au...
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January 31, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935)
I took some similar classes at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz in the mid 90s. One was Literary Transhumanism, the other looked at Cyberpunk Cinema, both with a critical lens looking at the present.
Being in University just after clicking over to y2k meant one of the best classes I took was called "The Shape of Cyberspace" that looked at where meat space bleeds into data WAY before the rise of smartphones, broad IP camera adoption, and machine learning assisted object identification...
January 31, 2026 at 11:06 PM
I took some similar classes at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz in the mid 90s. One was Literary Transhumanism, the other looked at Cyberpunk Cinema, both with a critical lens looking at the present.
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A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
A person‘s attractiveness increases by a minimum of 58% when they support their local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library.
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
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Someone just asked “Why waste time reading the book when you can simply watch the movie?” and long story short there comes a time when you must acknowledge that a friendship has run its course.
January 26, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Someone just asked “Why waste time reading the book when you can simply watch the movie?” and long story short there comes a time when you must acknowledge that a friendship has run its course.
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Sometimes, self-care is spending a day exploring bookstores, museums, greenhouses, art galleries, and libraries.
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Sometimes, self-care is spending a day exploring bookstores, museums, greenhouses, art galleries, and libraries.
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Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers to warn the world about Hitler and Nazism, and had been relentless in his verbal attacks on them, so the Nazis ransacked his Berlin apartment (in his absence) immediately in '33
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
![To the occupant of my house on Mahlstrasse in Berlin:
I do not know your name or how you came into possession of my house. I only know that two years ago the police of the Third Reich seized all my property, personal and real, and handed it over to the stock company formed by the Reich for the confiscation of the properties of political adversaries (chairman of the board: Minister Goering). I learned this through a letter from the mortgagees. They explained to me that under the laws of the Third Reich, confiscations of property belonging to political opponents concern themselves only with credit balances. Although my house and my bank deposits, which had also been confiscated, greatly exceeded in value the amount of the mortgage, I would be obliged to continue the payment of interests on the mortgage, as well as my German taxes, from whatever money I might earn abroad. Be that as it may, one thing is certain: you, Mr. X, are occupying my house and I, in the opinion of the German judges, must pay the costs.
How do you like my house, Mr. X? Do you find it pleasant to live in? Did the silver-grey carpeting in the upper rooms suffer while the SA-men were looting? My concierge sought safety in these upper rooms, as, I being in America at the time, the gentlemen had decided to take it out on him. The carpet is very delicate, and red is a strong color, hard to clean out. The rubber tiling in the stairway was also not primarily designed with the boots of SA-men in mind. Should it have suffered too badly, I recommend you contact the Baake company; the flooring is the same as on the staircases of the “Europa” and the “Bremen,”[1] and this is the company which delivered it.
Have you any notion why I had the semi-enclosed roof terrace built? Mrs. Feuchtwanger and I used it for our morning exercise. Would you mind seeing to it that the pipes of the shower don’t freeze?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreidtql7l2iul5yyrgtxuuovnz2rlkdvrjhlh7rj3c46bpz6xlkt32m@jpeg)
![Doesn’t it sometimes seem odd to you that you should be living in my house? Your “Führer” is not generally considered a friend of Jewish literature. Isn’t it, therefore, astounding that he should have such a strong predilection for the Old Testament? I myself have heard him quote with much fervor, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” (by which he may have meant “A confiscation of property for literary criticism”). And now, through you, he has fulfilled a prophecy of the Old Testament—the saying, “Thou shalt dwell in houses thou hast not builded.”
Don’t let my house get into a mess, Mr. X. Building and furnishing it has taken Mrs. Feuchtwanger and myself a lot of effort. Running and maintaining it won’t take a lot of effort. Please take care of it a little. I’m also saying this in your own interest. Your “Führer” has promised that his rule will last a thousand years: thus I’m assuming that you will soon be in the position of negotiating with me concerning the house’s return.
With many good wishes for our house,
Lion Feuchtwanger
P.S. By the way, do you agree that my statement that your “Führer” writes bad German is disproved by the fact that you are sitting in my house?
Notes
[1] The “Europe” and the “Bremen” were luxury ocean liners.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreifgcao76ei76yysmpkdgajuyisquawyr7wcctfnvlxfgqrfoq6d5m@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers to warn the world about Hitler and Nazism, and had been relentless in his verbal attacks on them, so the Nazis ransacked his Berlin apartment (in his absence) immediately in '33
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant
It's GLORIOUS hater content:
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We've known this for SIX YEARS. Don't let anyone try to tell you that this is somehow new information. The best time for your family to wear respirators and stop getting COVID is today. 😷
January 30, 2026 at 3:55 AM
We've known this for SIX YEARS. Don't let anyone try to tell you that this is somehow new information. The best time for your family to wear respirators and stop getting COVID is today. 😷
This song would get stuck in my head as a teen in the '80s. It's so timely right now. youtu.be/ekc_aR5LyAk?...
Erasure - Ship of Fools (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Erasure
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January 31, 2026 at 6:22 AM
This song would get stuck in my head as a teen in the '80s. It's so timely right now. youtu.be/ekc_aR5LyAk?...
All of the above.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
1. fancy sexy vampire
2. disaffected dilettante
3. hermit of the deep woods
4. loveable monster
1. fancy sexy vampire
2. disaffected dilettante
3. hermit of the deep woods
4. loveable monster
January 31, 2026 at 6:17 AM
All of the above.
Wouldn't really mind becoming a spectral moss ghoul of the misty woods at this point. Can I still drink tea and eat croissants?
Remember:
Respect yourself.
Respect others.
Respect the spectral moss ghouls of the misty woods, unless you wish to join their number.
Respect yourself.
Respect others.
Respect the spectral moss ghouls of the misty woods, unless you wish to join their number.
January 31, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Wouldn't really mind becoming a spectral moss ghoul of the misty woods at this point. Can I still drink tea and eat croissants?
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What are you best at?
1. crafting
2. baking
3. wandering
4. pondering
1. crafting
2. baking
3. wandering
4. pondering
January 31, 2026 at 3:02 AM
What are you best at?
1. crafting
2. baking
3. wandering
4. pondering
1. crafting
2. baking
3. wandering
4. pondering
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of croissants.
January 30, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under absolutely no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend drinking tea, reading books, and eating a scandalous amount of croissants.
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Plot Twist:
Epstein is actually WHY trump is President. Many billionaires are on the Epstein Files and did everything they could to get him elected so they would all be safe.
Epstein is actually WHY trump is President. Many billionaires are on the Epstein Files and did everything they could to get him elected so they would all be safe.
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Plot Twist:
Epstein is actually WHY trump is President. Many billionaires are on the Epstein Files and did everything they could to get him elected so they would all be safe.
Epstein is actually WHY trump is President. Many billionaires are on the Epstein Files and did everything they could to get him elected so they would all be safe.
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Further proof that I was always right saying "containment sites" don't work. Been tired of people saying 4chan and kiwifarms need to exist as containment sites to keep those people away from the rest of the internet, not realizing that they're incubation sites, not containment.
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Further proof that I was always right saying "containment sites" don't work. Been tired of people saying 4chan and kiwifarms need to exist as containment sites to keep those people away from the rest of the internet, not realizing that they're incubation sites, not containment.