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Mika
@mikagratzke.bsky.social
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zine maker, poet, rugby player, academic

- einmalige Ehrenurkunde bei den Bundesjugendspielen -

Pic: Mika - white, middle aged & shaven headed in front of grey metal cladding with yellow dots.
Background: daffodils in bloom
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A zine order from Canada.
A pink zine called Re/searching gender euphoria, a green envelope with flower postage stamps, a green pen, three stickers.
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The sound of violence.
Record sleeve with black and white design. Four male musicians with dark suits and sunglasses stand with a large American car. Title: Il suono di violenzia. Band is called The Charles Napiers.
November 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Fun Gus.
A small fungus growing from a tree trunk covered in moss and autumn leaves.
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Looking through a glass onion.
The all white cover of THE BEATLES album
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Cover of ‘Paul’s Boutique’ by The Beastie Boys.
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A #zine order from the USA.
A pale green A5 zine with the title Plan nine with assorted stickers including a handdrawn capybara. Flower-themed UK postage stamps. All on a red felt place mat on a wooden table.
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Welches Problem im Stadtbild, Herr Bundeskanzler?

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Merz erklärte daraufhin unter anderem, dass man nun frühere Versäumnisse in der Migrationspolitik korrigiere und dabei Fortschritte mache. "Wir haben in dieser Bundesregierung die Zahlen August '24/August '25 im Vergleich um 60 Prozent nach unten gebracht." Merz fügte an: "Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem, und deswegen ist der Bundesinnenminister ja auch dabei, jetzt in sehr großem Umfang auch Rückführungen zu ermöglichen und durchzuführen."
October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A zine order from England.
Multicoloured zines and stickers on a wooden desk.
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Sachsen-Anhalt jetzt auch nicht so prickelnd oder?
Umfragewerte als Balkendiagram - Sonntagsfrage. 39% AfD.
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Several large tins of salted and pickled gherkins in a Finnish supermarket.
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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RIP Claudia Cardinale
Black and white image of a young woman with dark eye make up looking solemn.
September 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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President Trump wants to outlaw antifa.
Black and white picture of Marlene Dietrich in uniform amongst US soldiers in combat gear with helmets on.
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Da sind wir etwas ganz großem auf der Spur!
September 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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A view over a cannon towards the landscape. (Stirling Castle, Wallace Monument).
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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First day at work.
Partial view of an office with the door open to a social area. There is flag on the wall which says: ALLEZ LES CHAMPIONS.
September 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Spent an hour in the enchanted forest. The mushrooms did not make me faster.
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Book cover of Peterchens Mondfahrt. Big yellow moon on the top left. Ursa Major as an actual bear on the top right. The entire bottom of the covers shows a bug playing the violin while standing on a leaf.
September 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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The apples we are keeping this year AKA the apples which weren’t good enough for birds and wasps.
Apples drying in the sun on a bath towel. A mug of tea.
September 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Meet *the* Mexican superhero:

Cómo surgió Kalimán, el primer superhéroe mexicano que arrasó en el siglo XX y que regresa en una nueva historieta www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
Vintage comic book cover showing the hero with his white turban and an alien which has a green exposed brain and red glowing eyes.
September 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Notes on the conceptual spaces of trans and non-binary life writing: open.substack.com/pub/mikagrat...
Preciado chooses to speak to the academy from a position of monstrosity ‘from outside the boundaries of gender’ (Stone 2013: 230) which is the inverse of Kafka’s ‘Ein Bericht für eine Akademie’ [A report for an academy] in which an ape named Rotpeter gives an account to a learned audience of his attempts at passing as human so that he can escape incarceration at the zoo.
September 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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In Finland people put announcements in the local paper about significant birthdays.
This includes announcements that they won’t have a celebration (open to the neighbours).
Someone put such an announcement in for their dog Veikko turning one year old.
Newspaper ad in Finnish. Picture of a dog. Text: Veikko the dog is turning one. He won’t celebrate. “En juhli.”
August 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Schweiz: Wenn ein ß vielleicht doch hilfreich wäre.
Shop sign: kalt massschuhe.
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Good morning.
A white older building with a metal frame holding blue letters which say: I’ve forgotten to feed the cat (it’s an art installation I assume).
August 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Grüezi miteinand.
A laminated sign stuck to a wall indicating in German the way to the butchery museum.
August 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The hardship of being in an exceedingly pretty place. Anyone recognise it?
A lake view with fountain on the left and hills and a mountain.
August 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM