john mnemonic
@johnmnemonic.bsky.social
Just some schmo, luftmensch, doing mah best. New England by way of the Midwest.
Ken K is the only public figure that, among other things, regularly reminds me that I have heard good things about the movie Nightcrawler starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ken K is the only public figure that, among other things, regularly reminds me that I have heard good things about the movie Nightcrawler starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
Folks can do whatever they want, I already found MY red heifer:
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Folks can do whatever they want, I already found MY red heifer:
Sons and Daughters, by Chaim Grade, translated by Rose Waldman. Part 3, ch. 6:
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Sons and Daughters, by Chaim Grade, translated by Rose Waldman. Part 3, ch. 6:
I, some rando, saw it happen!
It all went down here:
It all went down here:
November 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I, some rando, saw it happen!
It all went down here:
It all went down here:
What’s it like inside your head?
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
What’s it like inside your head?
I am ignorant on this subject but I DO work in a library and happened to have this new book from Cornell U Press on my desk when I saw your post.
It would appear at least these academics would go as far as to kinda say “The Greeks were so freaked out by the Spartans that they had to make a Plato.”
It would appear at least these academics would go as far as to kinda say “The Greeks were so freaked out by the Spartans that they had to make a Plato.”
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I am ignorant on this subject but I DO work in a library and happened to have this new book from Cornell U Press on my desk when I saw your post.
It would appear at least these academics would go as far as to kinda say “The Greeks were so freaked out by the Spartans that they had to make a Plato.”
It would appear at least these academics would go as far as to kinda say “The Greeks were so freaked out by the Spartans that they had to make a Plato.”
So, Library of America just released a new “Ursula K Le Guin’s Book of Cats” which appears to be an immensely lovely collection of Le Guin’s sketches, writings, and even comics about cats!
It also has this photo showing, by age 4, Ursula had decided “this is my haircut, bury me in these bangs!”
It also has this photo showing, by age 4, Ursula had decided “this is my haircut, bury me in these bangs!”
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So, Library of America just released a new “Ursula K Le Guin’s Book of Cats” which appears to be an immensely lovely collection of Le Guin’s sketches, writings, and even comics about cats!
It also has this photo showing, by age 4, Ursula had decided “this is my haircut, bury me in these bangs!”
It also has this photo showing, by age 4, Ursula had decided “this is my haircut, bury me in these bangs!”
You mean like if he wonders out onto Pennsylvania ave followed by Rudy Guliani wearing a hat like this and it is raining?
September 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You mean like if he wonders out onto Pennsylvania ave followed by Rudy Guliani wearing a hat like this and it is raining?
I have cause to do scanning and digitization from time to time at my job.
Couple of years ago I am scanning an old-ish New York Review of Books and came upon the article with the posted image
My searching shows the img in a J Freedland piece from 2105 but I swear the img was from earlier, 05-ish
Couple of years ago I am scanning an old-ish New York Review of Books and came upon the article with the posted image
My searching shows the img in a J Freedland piece from 2105 but I swear the img was from earlier, 05-ish
August 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have cause to do scanning and digitization from time to time at my job.
Couple of years ago I am scanning an old-ish New York Review of Books and came upon the article with the posted image
My searching shows the img in a J Freedland piece from 2105 but I swear the img was from earlier, 05-ish
Couple of years ago I am scanning an old-ish New York Review of Books and came upon the article with the posted image
My searching shows the img in a J Freedland piece from 2105 but I swear the img was from earlier, 05-ish
S. Ansky did Elden Ring. 🖐️
August 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
S. Ansky did Elden Ring. 🖐️
Prayer, meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision
July 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Prayer, meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision
Dude, this is you doing basically just that an hour ago. 🤨
July 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Dude, this is you doing basically just that an hour ago. 🤨
With apologies I will now end this reply thread with maximum millennial energy.
June 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
With apologies I will now end this reply thread with maximum millennial energy.
The “half dozen” people he interviewed…..
I truly don’t doubt that these folks exist but this reads like “My uncle works in the antisemitism department at Nintendo and he says this isn’t antisemitism.”
I truly don’t doubt that these folks exist but this reads like “My uncle works in the antisemitism department at Nintendo and he says this isn’t antisemitism.”
May 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The “half dozen” people he interviewed…..
I truly don’t doubt that these folks exist but this reads like “My uncle works in the antisemitism department at Nintendo and he says this isn’t antisemitism.”
I truly don’t doubt that these folks exist but this reads like “My uncle works in the antisemitism department at Nintendo and he says this isn’t antisemitism.”