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Ian Janssen
@ianfjanssen.bsky.social
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- Delaware, but Iowa born - Dad to the best son - Archivist - Fishing/art/literature/poetry/music/hiking - Aspirational motorcyclist - Incompetent agnostic/socialist/sober - Has a cat named Toolbox "God has no other hands than ours." - Dorothee Soelle
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · Nov 16
This is my second go with Bluesky, I deleted my first account a year ago or so.

I’m not super interested in big accounts with thousands+ of followers, with a few exceptions.

I’m more interested in the little accounts like my own. People just living their lives and expressing that as best they can.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 6h
Next book read. Utterly dark and nightmarish. Clever, but not something I would recommend lightly.
Book, Time’s Arrow, by Martin Amis
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 12h
1) I was unfamiliar with this 1919 footage, and it is quite something.

2) I wonder about preservation of knowledge about the destruction of Gaza. The world found it all to easy to ignore the plight of the Palestinians during this conflict, will the witness to its demise be preserved as it should?
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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 13h
1/2. I watched 'En dirigeable sur les champs de bataille' (1919) for the first time a few years ago. These are just short extracts from the 72 min film, recording the destruction across northern France that took place during WW1. The horror of watching it is overwhelming.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
Toolbox is a very pampered cat.
Black and white tuxedo cat sandwiched between a gray blanket and a brown blanket, looking very content.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
Late 1970s souvenir relic of West German capitalism, a study.

Empty and key long gone.
A toy bank decorated with a little dog wearing a hat amidst many flowers. Text on bank reads “Wenn’s um Geld geht.”
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
It’s an interesting article, but that is a gorgeous and unique photo at the beginning/on the cover.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.
www.bbc.com
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
It is, glad you like it.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
Mozart … (arranged a bit)

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Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major, K. 482 (Arr. for Piano, String Quartet & Double Bass by Ignaz Lachner): II. Andante
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
Something quiet and contemplative for those like me feeling unwell tonight.

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Les jardins de ziryab
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
Everything is utterly beautiful about this video.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d
A song from the Nixon era speaking truth to the Trump era (capping possibly the greatest album ever):

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Stevie Wonder - He's Misstra Know It All (1974)
YouTube video by Musikladen
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
Espresso and drizzly rain on my porch, pretty relaxing.
Selfie of middle aged man wearing glasses and a plaid flannel shirt, sitting on a porch and drinking from an espresso cup, blue.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
Putting the lazy in Caturday.
Toolbox the tuxedo cat snuggling in a beige blanket and yawning.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
What are reading and/or listening to this weekend?
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
Starting the Saturday morning with an interesting duo.
CD of Florence Price, Symphonies 1 and 4, performed by Fort Smith Symphony under John Jeter Book, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe Silva
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
Starting the Saturday morning with an interesting duo.
CD of Florence Price, Symphonies 1 and 4, performed by Fort Smith Symphony under John Jeter Book, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe Silva
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
There's an essay in there somewhere ...
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
I think that my initial reaction is just gratitude for reading these texts of such beautiful humanity.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 2d
Two books recently finished, both intriguing and rewarding.

Maybe a strange duo and wildly different in style, they share adept description of liminal landscapes and material cultures, both written by women though in very different times, both possess gentle but incisive insight into human life.
Two books, The Summer Book by Tove Jansson and Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
“Antiso” for antisocial sounds straight out of 1984.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
Obligatory:

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The HU - Sad But True (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The HU
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
Slow afternoon, heard tell of The HU in these parts, had to spread the gospel:

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
THE HU!!!!!!!!!
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
Ate some hummus and pita for lunch, but realized what I craved was falafel, like the falafel sandwiches I used to get on the street in Jordan many years ago.

So, recommend me your selection for best falafel mix … ?
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
"Send a messenger for a good time ..."
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
Working from home, my it's-Friday-but-it's-not-yet-five face.
Selfie of middle-aged man wearing glasses and a plaid flannel shirt, resting his head forlornly in his hands with a tall bookshelf behind him.
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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 3d
It’s an interesting article, but you know that archivist was muttering beneath her breath when the photographer was all “Let’s spread this disks out in an unorganized fashion to symbolize chaos and the unknown …”

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
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