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@snarkhunt.bsky.social

In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away —
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

November 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM

Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

Drop something MIRRORED

I am not really a spiritual person and cannot make up my mind whether I like William Blake's "The Omnipotent" (aka "The Ancient of Days"), and (if I would like it) which versions (the original one or the mirrored one) of this painting I might like. So I combined both of them into one image.

November 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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Rüdiger Singer

@rudysinger.bsky.social

Apparently, the best criticism of technology comes from comic dogs.

"The Duplex" gag strip by Glenn McCoy. Dog Fang, holding a cup of coffee, asks bachelor Eno who sits at his laptop:
- 'sup?
- ENO: My computer wants me to prove I'm not a robot. Apparently, robots can't figure out which of these photos contain traffic lights.
- FANG (having taken a sip of coffee): Which is why you'll never get me in one of those self-driving cars.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/11/28/csotd-blecch-friday/

November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Claas Gefroi

@claasgefroi.bsky.social

Vielleicht sollten jene, die die Ukraine Diktatur schimpfen, zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass dieses Land inmitten eines aufgezwungenen Krieges noch eine funktionierende Gewaltenteilung mit unabhängigen Ermittlungsbehörden und Gerichten hat, die unerschrocken und ohne Ansehen der Person ihre Arbeit tun.

Selenskyjs Bürochef tritt wegen Korruptionsermittlungen zurück

Andrij Jermak galt als rechte Hand des ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj - jetzt hat er seinen Rücktritt eingereicht. Am Morgen hatten die Antikorruptionsbehörden seine Wohnung durchsuchen lassen.

www.tagesschau.de

November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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Mahendra Singh

@mahendra.bsky.social

#LewisCarroll #HuntingoftheSnark #graphicnovel

Magritte's Menaced Assassin as Victorian tableau with Lewis Carroll playing all the part. From my Hunting of the Snark GN, Melville House. Good Xmas present for kids who are pissed off at the pablum forced down their throats by pop culture. You know who they are.

November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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IneqComps

@ineqcomps.bsky.social

Oeconomia (German)

Downloads:
Niedrig (385MB): rodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/dach/3sat/21...
Mittel (1113MB): rodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/dach/3sat/21...
Hoch (1608MB): rodlzdf-a.akamaihd.net/dach/3sat/21...

(Auch mit mediathekview.de/download/ auf PCs herunterladbar)

www.3sat.de/film/dokumen...

Oeconomia

"Oeconomia" legt episodisch die Spielregeln des Kapitalismus offen: ein Aufklärungsfilm über den Zusammenhang zwischen Wirtschaftswachstum, Verschuldung und Vermögenskonzentration.

www.3sat.de

November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM

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Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

I learned that “unlawful orders” might not exist anymore.

bsky.app/profile/feef...

Feefer @feefer2.bsky.social · 6d

Devil is in details: troops who refuse to carry out orders can expect to be court-martialed under UCMJ for failure to obey a lawful order.

Key distinction is lawful vs. unlawful orders, but that’s a DEFENSE.

Also, Trump v US says a POTUS isn’t bound by law, so “unlawful orders” no longer exist.

November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM

Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=59186

November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM

Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

SPIEGEL 2017-02-04

Republican felon Donald Trump cut off the head of the Statue of Liberty. Alexandr Dugin‘s strategy worked out. Vladimir Putin is the winner.

November 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM

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Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

Trubu Imperator (with apologies to Max Ernst)

October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

Aus der taz vom 22.11.2025
Die digitale Abhängigkeit von US BigTech durchbrechen – jetzt!
von Barbara Junge
online unter:
www.taz.de/!6126518

Digitale Souveränität: Die digitale Abhängigkeit jetzt durchbrechen

Irgendwer muss irgendwo mal anfangen. Mit einer internationalen Allianz, Open Source und klaren Regeln für US-Konzerne könnte sich Europa von BigTech lösen.

www.taz.de

November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM

Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

Aus der taz vom 22.11.2025
Vorbereitet sein auf den Kill Switch
von Svenja Bergt
online unter:
www.taz.de/!6129800

Digitale Abhängigkeit von den USA: Wie Europa sich auf den Kill Switch vorbereitet

Hätte Trump die Macht, unsere digitale Versorgung zu kappen wie Putin die Gasleitungen? Europa will unabhängiger von Google, Microsoft und Co. werden.

www.taz.de

November 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM

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Lewis Carroll

@lewiscarroll.bsky.social

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/lewis-carroll/untitled-9

November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

In 2005, David O'Kane doctored a photo which then depicted Alice Liddell kissing Lewis Carroll. His assemblage combines elements from
※ a photographic portrait (1856) of C.L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) taken by Reginald Southey and
※ C.L. Dodgson's photo (1860) of the three Liddell sisters.

November 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

※ Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
※ Grokipedia: web.archive.org/web/20251117...

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #HenryHoliday
#grokipedia #elonmusk
#Wikipedia

theguardian.com/technology/2... (As for "The Hunting of the Snark", I don't see any disinformation for that lemma yet. 😉)

Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 13d

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

www.theguardian.com

November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM

Götz Kluge

@goetzkluge.bsky.social

«For mine own good, all causes shall give way:
I am in blood stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Strange things I have in my head, that will to hand, which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.»

(shakespeare-navigators.com/macbeth/T34....)

Natalka @natalkakyiv.bsky.social · 14d

“The problem is precisely that weak leaders can ignite conflicts but are unable to resolve them.”

-Russian journalist Aleksey Chadayev

…it’s as if he’s talking about Putin. 😁

November 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM

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The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

Thanks to a reddit comment (www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...) by SagebrushandSeafoam I learned about 'A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' (dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/s...) which shows that the term "snark" already was used in 1585.

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1584-1585

Snark, n.
※ [? Cf. Jam. snark (1882, Ayr.), mod. Eng. snark (once, 1901) to grumble, fret, later Sc. dial. and mod. Eng. snark, snork to snore.]
※ A pejorative term the precise sense of which is unclear. —a1585 Polwart Flyt. 782 (T).
Sillie snark, lene raik, rak ane aik with the hinging

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/snark

November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

«At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’»:
※ snrk.de/Gutenberg/Al....

C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) didn't like voting systems where the winners get all the prizes. He favorized prizes with proportional sizes for all candidates:
※ archive.org/details/TheP....

«[...] ‘What I was going to say,’ said the Dodo in an offended tone, ‘was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.’
‘What is a Caucus-race?’ said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (‘the exact shape doesn’t matter,’ it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no ‘One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out ‘The race is over!’ and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’
This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’
‘But who is to give the prizes?’ quite a chorus of voices asked.
‘Why, she, of course,’ said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, ‘Prizes! Prizes!’ [...]»

Lewis Carroll, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865)
https://snrk.de/Gutenberg/Alices_Adventures_in_Wonderland.htm#prizes

$«[...] The chief desiderata seem to be as follows :— (1) That each Elector should have the same chance of being represented in the House. (Under any system, some Electors must be left unrepresented.) (2) That each Elector, who is represented at all, should be represented by the same fraction of a Member. Or (which is the same thing) that each Member should represent the same number of Electors. Or (which is the same thing) that the number of Electors, needed to secure the return of a Member, should be uniform throughout the Kingdom. (3) That the number of unrepresented Electors should be as small as possible. (4) That the proportions of political parties in the House should be, as nearly as possible, the same as in the whole body of Electors. (5) That the process of voting should be as simple as possible. (6) That the process of counting the votes, and announcing the result, should be as simple as possible. (7) That the waste of votes, caused by more votes being given for a Candidate than are needed for his return, should be as far as possible prevented. (8) That the result of a local Election should depend as much as possible on the wishes of the Electors in that District, and as little as possible on chance. (9) That the Electors in a District should be, as far as possible, uninfluenced by the results of Elections in other Districts. [...]» 'The Principles of Parliamentary Representation' by Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1884 https://archive.org/details/ThePrinciplesOfParliamentaryRepresentation/page/n11/mode/2up$

November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible - Lewis Carroll"

That quote surely is a popular quote in the Internet, but better don't get it tatooed on your skin.

As for original Carroll quotes, there is something better (also for tattoos):

«Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. [...]’
~ Lewis Carroll»

Image source: https://booksbird.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/best-quotes-from-lewis-caroll/

Text source: https://snrk.de/Gutenberg/Through_the_Looking-glass.htm#impossible

November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM

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Robert MJ Thompson

@wh0n0z.bsky.social

Reading Alice in Wonderland reveals keys to human behaviour.
Madness & Virtue –– my what a tug-of-war!

November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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The Hunting of the Snark

@snarkhunt.bsky.social

Reading Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" (snrk.de/snarkhunt) can be helpful too.

https://snrk.de/meme

001 “Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,
002 As he landed his crew with care;
003 Supporting each man on the top of the tide
004 By a finger entwined in his hair.

005 “Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
006 That alone should encourage the crew.
007 Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
008 What I tell you three times is true.”

113 Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
114 A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
115 That frequently happens in tropical climes,
116 When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.”

117 But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
118 And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed,
119 Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East,
120 That the ship would not travel due West!

105 This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
106 That the Captain they trusted so well
107 Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
108 And that was to tingle his bell.

November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Karl McDonald

@karlusss.bsky.social

Joyce Carol Oates scything down well-meaning midwits once again. A true poster.

October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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150 Years of Snark

@snark150.bsky.social

The movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" changed my life a littlelittlelittle bit. On the snake pit which once was Twitter, Joyce Carol Oates followed my (now hibernating) Snark account. But when I didn't agree to her scathing post about that movie, she blocked my account.

Michelle Yeoh (left) and Jamie Lee Curtis (right) in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once).

October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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