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Paul Evanby
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Bespoke nonsense. Author of DE SCRYPTURIST and EEN RIVIER VAN GODEN (Meulenhoff Boekerij).
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Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)
Terence Stamp as Bernadette Bassenger giving a measured look in ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Anyone in the market for an ex-cathedral gargoyle? Slightly worn; expectorative functions in full health.
#DomTower #Utrecht #ForSale
A stone gargoyle is lying on a pallet in a yard, waiting for a buyer. People are milling about in the background. Several pallets in a yard behind a garden centre, loaded with architectural elements extracted from a cathedral tower during its restoration. The tower in question. The gargoyles are visible just below the top of the lantern. (original image by Massimo Catarinella, Wikipedia)
October 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Hard to find by now, but my first (collaborative) collection from 1995 is still atrociously queer.
Book cover: SYSTEMS OF ROMANCE by Paul Evenblij & Paul Harland.
October 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Peak Italian.
Photo of part of the monumental façade of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Top left, a banner containing the words “RIPUDIAMO! A sostegno di una Palestina libera e autodeterminata”, under a European, an Italian, and a Florentine flag. Lower right: a statue of a nude man (copy of Michelangelo’s David) is guarding the entrance to the building.
September 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Ouch
Book cover. Dutch translation of Ballard’s DE KRISTALLEN AARDE in the white M-sf paperback design typical of the period. A clay-like human figure is sitting on a curved surface covered with shards of coloured glass, against a backdrop of painted tree-like shapes.
August 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The AI Con. Interesting, deeply researched. Everything that’s problematic about the current “AI” hype: ethics, exploitation, corporate greed, climate effects etc. Plus possible solutions.
Book cover: THE AI CON by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. ‘How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want’
June 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Lyonesse, by Jack Vance
Book cover: THE COMPLETE LYONESSE - JACK VANCE
June 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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No menu bar.
Block of ‘tahoe’ (aka tofu), a soy product, shrink-wrapped in plastic.
June 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Amsterdam
Book cover. AMPLITUDES: STORIES OF QUEER AND TRANS FUTURITY
May 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Just finished:
Book cover: BETWEEN TWO RIVERS (Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History) by Moudhy Al-Rashid.
May 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Kronos, Utrecht, 5/02025
A string quartet in action on a concert stage. The 4 musicians are dressed in bright colours, and have a variety of sound generating devices in addition to their string instruments. Everything is miked, everyone is wired.
May 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Movie title screen. A dramatically lit mansion under a night sky of moonlit clouds. Lettering: THE GHASTLY ORDEAL OF TIMOTHY CAVENDISH. Presented in VISIONORAMA 3x4x3D Close-up of an elderly gentleman with thinning white hair in a wood-panelled, old-fashioned interior. He wears spectacles and is looking intensely at something off-screen.
May 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Éa in aquarelle. No flashy comic this, nor frantic manga. I like adaptations where much is left to the imagination of the audience. This is one, and the best one of Earthsea I’ve seen so far.
Book cover. Ursula K. Le Guin. Adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA: A GRAPHIC NOVEL
April 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Yes I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity.
Three Lego figurines in plastic pods on a concert stage: a bass player, a lead guitarist, a lead singer. Two of the pods are open, the third is shut, with the distressed bass player inside.
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Post a warning.

Achtung, Kunst!
A table viewed through a window bearing the text RESTAURIERUNG/CONSERVATION. Part of an abstract painting is visible, lying on the table, a colour composition by Piet Mondrian. Next to the painting, a red card with black lettering thoughtfully warns us of the danger we’re in.
March 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.
Henry Rollins in Johnny Mnemonic.
March 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Nine nice-looking books I own, for #WorldBookDay.
Please reply with some nice-looking books you own.
Nine books in three rows. Top row, by Mervyn Peake: TITUS GROAN, GORMENGHAST, and TITUS ALONE. Middle row: Dutch SF anthologies GANYMEDES 1, 2, and 3. Bottom row, by E.R. Eddison: THE WORM OUROBOROS, A FISH DINNER IN MEMISON, and MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES.
March 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money.
Album cover. TIMEWIND by Klaus Schulze. Painting of a surreal landscape by Urs Amann.
February 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Saw this in 2022 when it was on display at the Drents Museum (yes, *that* museum). Remarkable artifact.
Museum display case containing an ancient disc-shaped metal artifact.
February 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
Two paintings by Mondrian, from his early abstract period.
February 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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no cheating. your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.

what therapy though?
Kate & Paddy Bush
January 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Book cover: a faun playing a wind instrument looking like a double aulos dances on the top of a pillar. Above it, the author’s name, SUSANNA CLARKE. Below it, the title: PIRANESI.
January 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Drop something black and white.
Black and white photo of a man, a woman, and a girl, dressed in mid-20th century style, cheerfully throwing plastic utensils into the air: cups, plates, cutlery, trays etc. A large rubbish bin is standing next to them, overflowing with one-time use plastic household objects.
January 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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"You will be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Cocktail bar interior. Mood lighting. Three bottles of whisky and three glasses are standing on the counter, ready to be sampled.
December 24, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.
White woman with dark hair, looking tough on the bridge of an interstellar cargo ship. She’s wearing a light shirt and dark green coveralls. This One Ring bullshit has no chance in hell of getting past her. Sigourney Weaver as lieutenant Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979).
December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM