Robert Rotifer
@robertrotifer.bsky.social
Still the same one I was over there and there and there. (It’s not my bike!)
Posting mainly from Canterbury.
Posting mainly from Canterbury.
I wrote this about 2025 as my year of being through with social media (AND YES, I SEE THE IRONY).
Also contains links to all of this year's @fm4.orf.at columns.
In German.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3051...
Also contains links to all of this year's @fm4.orf.at columns.
In German.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3051...
Link in den Kommentaren - fm4.ORF.at
Eine Rundschau durch meine Kolumnen im vergangenen Jahr. Und warum meinesgleichen (männlich, mittleren Alters) in sozialen Medien die gefährlichste Kohorte von allen ist.
fm4.orf.at
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I wrote this about 2025 as my year of being through with social media (AND YES, I SEE THE IRONY).
Also contains links to all of this year's @fm4.orf.at columns.
In German.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3051...
Also contains links to all of this year's @fm4.orf.at columns.
In German.
fm4.orf.at/stories/3051...
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT is the last of the year and was a NIGHTMARE to make as I realised just how much I wasn't going to be able to fit into this 2nd part of my annual round-up.
Playlist is here:
www.instagram.com/p/DS3DZJBDK1...
Playlist is here:
www.instagram.com/p/DS3DZJBDK1...
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December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat from 22:00 CET/9pm GMT is the last of the year and was a NIGHTMARE to make as I realised just how much I wasn't going to be able to fit into this 2nd part of my annual round-up.
Playlist is here:
www.instagram.com/p/DS3DZJBDK1...
Playlist is here:
www.instagram.com/p/DS3DZJBDK1...
German-language listeners, it’s December 24, so naturally you’re thinking of Lemmy on what would have been his 80th birthday. I’ve contributed 2 features to this 2hr special, one on the early Sam Gopal, Hawkwkind etc. days, and one about his penchant for Nazi shit. Enjoy
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
ORF-Radio
Das digitale Radioangebot des ORF. Alle öffentlich rechtlichen Radiosender Österreichs auf einer Plattform. Live und 7 Tage lang im Stream on Demand.
oe1.orf.at
December 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
German-language listeners, it’s December 24, so naturally you’re thinking of Lemmy on what would have been his 80th birthday. I’ve contributed 2 features to this 2hr special, one on the early Sam Gopal, Hawkwkind etc. days, and one about his penchant for Nazi shit. Enjoy
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
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Kicking off my #freshingredients radio show with The Frankfurt Kitchen by @robertrotifer.bsky.social. Brilliant song. And true story: not long after I met my wife I woke her mumbling in my sleep about Grete Schütte-Lihotzky (who designed the first fitted kithen). Listener, she (still) married me.
The Frankfurt Kitchen, by Rotifer
from the album Coach Number 12 of 11
robertrotifer.bandcamp.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Kicking off my #freshingredients radio show with The Frankfurt Kitchen by @robertrotifer.bsky.social. Brilliant song. And true story: not long after I met my wife I woke her mumbling in my sleep about Grete Schütte-Lihotzky (who designed the first fitted kithen). Listener, she (still) married me.
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I feel like there's a word for a legal system that explicitly has different rules for different ethnic groups: www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
ANALYSIS | Israel could be bringing back the death penalty — but only for Palestinians | CBC News
While any debate over imposing the death penalty is bound to be emotional and contentious, Israel’s proposal to impose lethal punishment only on Palestinians makes new legislation before the Knesset e...
www.cbc.ca
December 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I feel like there's a word for a legal system that explicitly has different rules for different ethnic groups: www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
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It may well be worse now than in the past, but this is extremely typical. I’ve had clients detained by ICE, and it’s like they fall into a black hole. Getting in touch with people in state or federal prison, or even county jail, is easier by an order of magnitude.
They are disappearing people. Listen to this. Nightmare. (And the longer they stay the more money core civic makes)
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It may well be worse now than in the past, but this is extremely typical. I’ve had clients detained by ICE, and it’s like they fall into a black hole. Getting in touch with people in state or federal prison, or even county jail, is easier by an order of magnitude.
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fucking NO.
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
fucking NO.
A propos of something: Where there are occupied territories, there are occupiers and the occupied. If a reporter is not allowed say this in their report, they will run out of language (even if that language is German).
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A propos of something: Where there are occupied territories, there are occupiers and the occupied. If a reporter is not allowed say this in their report, they will run out of language (even if that language is German).
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Diederichsen, genial über das deutsche Feuilleton: "Das Problem sind weniger verhindernde Akte von Zensur (...), sondern eine Mischung von Labelling, Rhetorik-Checklisten, heruntergekommener Ideologiekritik & juristisch gedachter Bedeutungsfixierung."
Im Garten Feuilleton – the Diasporist
Das Geländer der Schöngeistigen in der neuen deutschen Polit-Matrix
thediasporist.de
December 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Diederichsen, genial über das deutsche Feuilleton: "Das Problem sind weniger verhindernde Akte von Zensur (...), sondern eine Mischung von Labelling, Rhetorik-Checklisten, heruntergekommener Ideologiekritik & juristisch gedachter Bedeutungsfixierung."
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That is certainly one way of looking at it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
That is certainly one way of looking at it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
More about this, Picture Post founder/editor Stefan Lorant and the photographers involved in creating an atmosphere of popular antifascism in wartime UK in Owen Hatherley’s The Alienation Effect which btw is that perfect Xmas book for your smart friend you couldn’t think of.
"Their First Day in England". Picture Post, 17. Dezember 1938.
#Kindertransport #Kindertransporte #Exil #Exile @robertrotifer.bsky.social
#Kindertransport #Kindertransporte #Exil #Exile @robertrotifer.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
More about this, Picture Post founder/editor Stefan Lorant and the photographers involved in creating an atmosphere of popular antifascism in wartime UK in Owen Hatherley’s The Alienation Effect which btw is that perfect Xmas book for your smart friend you couldn’t think of.
Start of a series in @thediasporist.bsky.social on the Zürich conference “The Rise and Fall of the BRD” the other week:
thediasporist.de/wie-denn-auch/
thediasporist.de/wie-denn-auch/
Wie denn auch?! – the Diasporist
Introducing a series of texts from the Zürich conference on the rise and fall of the BRD.
thediasporist.de
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Start of a series in @thediasporist.bsky.social on the Zürich conference “The Rise and Fall of the BRD” the other week:
thediasporist.de/wie-denn-auch/
thediasporist.de/wie-denn-auch/
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I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.
December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, starting at 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT is part one of my annual round-up.
As ever, in no particular order except what sounded good and what fit in with what I wanted say.
Playlist here:
www.instagram.com/p/DSTCzCkDOs...
As ever, in no particular order except what sounded good and what fit in with what I wanted say.
Playlist here:
www.instagram.com/p/DSTCzCkDOs...
Robert Rotifer on Instagram: "Tonight’s radio FM4 Heartbeat, from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT is the first of two end-of-year review shows. As ever, in no particular order except what sounded good and what fi...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Tonight’s @fm4.orf.at Heartbeat, starting at 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT is part one of my annual round-up.
As ever, in no particular order except what sounded good and what fit in with what I wanted say.
Playlist here:
www.instagram.com/p/DSTCzCkDOs...
As ever, in no particular order except what sounded good and what fit in with what I wanted say.
Playlist here:
www.instagram.com/p/DSTCzCkDOs...
Trust Peter Perrett to write a suitably angry but complex song about the trouble with being Jewish in the current situation. Will have this over Primal Scream’s light show any day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXg...
Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation) (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trust Peter Perrett to write a suitably angry but complex song about the trouble with being Jewish in the current situation. Will have this over Primal Scream’s light show any day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdXg...
A fair summary, v much unlike most others. And a WTF moment when I recognised myself in one of the illustrations…
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A fair summary, v much unlike most others. And a WTF moment when I recognised myself in one of the illustrations…
Listeners to the German language: Heute lief im Ö1 Radiokolleg der letzte Teil meiner Serie "Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder - Live is Life und L'amour toujours - Tanz aus der Euphorie hinein in den Faschismus", ft. Ewald Pfleger, @unddieregel.bsky.social, nachhörbar hier:
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder (3) | DO | 11 12 2025 | 9:45
"Live is Life" und "L'amour toujours" - Tanz aus der Euphorie hinein in den Faschismus
oe1.orf.at
December 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Listeners to the German language: Heute lief im Ö1 Radiokolleg der letzte Teil meiner Serie "Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder - Live is Life und L'amour toujours - Tanz aus der Euphorie hinein in den Faschismus", ft. Ewald Pfleger, @unddieregel.bsky.social, nachhörbar hier:
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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Kurzer Grind zur VÖ der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung "Angriff auf den Westen"
Ich gehe mal die Abstracts einzeln durch, weil das ist die neue Grammatik.
Ich gehe mal die Abstracts einzeln durch, weil das ist die neue Grammatik.
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Kurzer Grind zur VÖ der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung "Angriff auf den Westen"
Ich gehe mal die Abstracts einzeln durch, weil das ist die neue Grammatik.
Ich gehe mal die Abstracts einzeln durch, weil das ist die neue Grammatik.
For listeners to German: Heute lief Folge 1 meiner dreiteiligen Ö1 Radiokollegserie über Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder, morgen und übermorgen mehr davon um die selbe Zeit (9:45).
Mit Zitaten von @unddieregel.bsky.social, @jennizylka.bsky.social und Michael Behrendt
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Mit Zitaten von @unddieregel.bsky.social, @jennizylka.bsky.social und Michael Behrendt
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder (1) | DI | 09 12 2025 | 9:45
KI-Tränen für Charlie - die neue Ära des Tribute Hijack
oe1.orf.at
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For listeners to German: Heute lief Folge 1 meiner dreiteiligen Ö1 Radiokollegserie über Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder, morgen und übermorgen mehr davon um die selbe Zeit (9:45).
Mit Zitaten von @unddieregel.bsky.social, @jennizylka.bsky.social und Michael Behrendt
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Mit Zitaten von @unddieregel.bsky.social, @jennizylka.bsky.social und Michael Behrendt
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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Ich bin zutiefst getroffen von der unerwarteten Kritik an unserem Symposium „Aufstieg und Fall der BRD“. Es wäre mir nie in den Sinn gekommen, dass mittelmäßige deutsche Feuilleton-Bros sich über unseren Abschied vom mittelmäßigen deutschen Feuilleton empören
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Ich bin zutiefst getroffen von der unerwarteten Kritik an unserem Symposium „Aufstieg und Fall der BRD“. Es wäre mir nie in den Sinn gekommen, dass mittelmäßige deutsche Feuilleton-Bros sich über unseren Abschied vom mittelmäßigen deutschen Feuilleton empören
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Sunder is being very polite. More bluntly, the Home Office is lying.
The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes
December 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Sunder is being very polite. More bluntly, the Home Office is lying.
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On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
Fantastic panel at Der Grosse Kanton, Kunsthaus Zürich about the decline of the German feuilleton and where the bodies are buried @pbahners.bsky.social, E Menasse, Diedrich Diederichsen, @karimkhani.bsky.social @emilydische.bsky.social @yossibartal.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Fantastic panel at Der Grosse Kanton, Kunsthaus Zürich about the decline of the German feuilleton and where the bodies are buried @pbahners.bsky.social, E Menasse, Diedrich Diederichsen, @karimkhani.bsky.social @emilydische.bsky.social @yossibartal.bsky.social