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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 21m

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 22m

Kennelijk is die hardwerkende Nederlanders alleen iemand die minstens twee keer modaal verdient; niet iemand die hard werkt voor een lager loon

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 56m

Dat vind je opvallend? Dit land is erdoor geobsedeerd, aangezwengeld door diezelfde media, want het levert clicks en kijkcijfers op. Dat is de trieste werkelijkheid

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 3h

Hoe zou je het omschrijven dan? Want de hele pui was open, daarom zagen ze Timmermans zitten en liepen ze naar binnen

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 3h

Dát is waar je over valt?

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 6h

Wonderful thread 🧵

James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 7h

For thousands of years we’ve been building with trabeated stone. For thousands of years it’s been chewed at, chased to abstraction. Repeatedly exhumed and revived, even after Roman concrete, even after Gothic vaults, after Rundbogenstil and Candela’s shells. Keeps coming back from the dead.

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ruins of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion. Doric columns carrying stone lintels against a blue sky; photo mine

15 Clerkenwell Close, London, by Groupwork Architects, @amintaha. building with gridded exoskeleton of stone columns and lintels, variously saw-cut or quarry-faced; photo mine

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 1d

Quick 🧵 about false joints in stone arches:

Arches, in one sense, are just an answer to the limits of the material: how to bridge large spans with small stones. And when the spans are small or the stones large then you don’t really need to arch. They become a formal device, an aesthetic scheme.

James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 3d

Benjamin Brown House, Forfar, ON, ca. 1849

yer typical late-Georgian vernacular, distinguished by the mushroom-cap lintels masquerading as semi-elliptical arches, notional voussoirs incised

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Duomo #Siena #Italy

Beautiful in the floodlight.

A view over the rooftops to the floodlight Duomo with its black & white striped stonework

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 13h

You’re very welcome ;-)

Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 13h

Ik vind het CDA niet per se minder zorgelijk als ik Bontenbal zo hoor (vooral inzake onderwijsplannen)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 14h

Vooral schrikbarend dat dat linkerrijtje kennelijk een meerderheid heeft in de Tweede Kamer

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Ach jee

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Dr. Héctor Linares @hectorlinares.bsky.social · 1d

I recently finished reading Mayu Fujikawa’s new exceptional book for an upcoming review. She expertly analyzes a wide variety of visual and material sources to reconstruct and decode the diverse representations of Japanese embassies in premodern Europe.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, I used the automatic translation button and it translated it as every day (and just now as Kathimerini)

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Siiii ❤️

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Proost!

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Also an amazing historian!

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a newspaper, but a magazine that’s published every two weeks

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

This was brilliant…!

Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Will go see Otto e Mezzo (1963) later this afternoon at the cinema. So excited…!

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Briljant! Wat een fantastische film!!

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Hij gaat de komende weken op meer plekken draaien, dus ik zou het gewoon even in de gaten houden. Moet tot mijn schaamte bekennen dat ik deze nog niet had gezien.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

En het is ook in de echt verbonden zijn. Ugh, maar als je zoiets op een spandoek zet dan verbazen die taalfouten me ook niet meer.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘The characteristic flavour of Muriel Spark’s writing was that of a Catholic ironist, for whom the terrible and the laughable are all but impossible to disentangle, and all might be viewed (or might not be) from the perspective of eternity.’

Colin Burrow: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Colin Burrow · World-Beating Buster-Upper: Muriel Spark’s Wickedness

The characteristic flavour of Spark’s writing was that of a Catholic ironist, for whom the terrible and the laughable...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Always make sure to read the Letters to the Editor in @lrb.co.uk

Dirty Books:
Barbara Newman, writing about Boccaccio, notes that ‘in modern Italian, the adjective boccaccesco mean “lascivious”’ (LRB, 14 August). She might have added that in the UK, ‘Chaucerian’ means about the same, though with a scatological edge. Meanwhile here in Japan the Decameron has a special following because slang for ‘big’ is deca and for ‘penis’ is Mara, while ron means ‘a treatise’.

Timon Screech, Kyoto

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