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Yuliya Komska

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writer & German Studies prof w/ a heart in Eastern Europe 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2025: Art & Politics of the High Wire • next: where Curious George came from; future of stained glass in the age of disaster • brooch enthusiast • 🐰,🍄,🪡

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · Jun 19

Magical apparatuses for sale, 1947

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 12h

Very good on the artistic, epistemological, and formal strategies in Glazer's Zone of Interest online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/7...

Proximities of ViolenceThe Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023) takes an unorthodox approach to Holocaust cinema, studying the everyday life of the Commandant of Auschwitz and his family in their home just outside the ...

online.ucpress.edu

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 13h

To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, artist and filmmaker Edward George presents a live performance-lecture: The Strangeness of Warburg.

Free to attend with advance booking: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

23 October, 7 - 8:30pm | Warburg Institute

Artist Talk: Edward George: The Strangeness of Warburg

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warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 1d

Every book is perfect until somebody reads it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! This year, we commemorate the holiday with a selection of works from the MIT Press Reader that honor the rich history, culture, and contributions of Native communities: mitpress.mit.edu/articles-for...

Illustrations of various native plants in greyscale. At the center of the image are two hands sketched cupping a plant.

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

Lol

Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

What do people think about (not) integrating phrases from declension-heavy languages into English sentences? I've noticed I always do it in German, never in Russian/Ukrainian (people stop recognizing the phrase) ... I don't want to ruin the resemblance with the oddly bubbly locis horribilibus

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

Times and interminable book edits converge on me looking up the Ablative plural of locus horribilis

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 1d

Omg just fucking no

DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · 1d

Burger King wanzt sich in Deutschland an lokale Fast-Food-Vorlieben ran und erfindet eine Mischung aus Burger und Döner. Unser Autor hat reingebissen.

Burger King: Mit alles

Burger King wanzt sich in Deutschland an lokale Fast-Food-Vorlieben ran und erfindet eine Mischung aus Burger und Döner. Unser Autor hat reingebissen.

www.zeit.de

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 2d

A bit hard to imagine that I was 16, on my first-ever trip to the west, and staying at this guy's family home. Enough stuff for a crackpot novel www.thetimes.com/uk/article/t...

The Rev John Papworth obituary

For a while in 1997 John Papworth leapfrogged many other deserving candidates to become Britain’s most controversial vicar. Papworth was barred from preaching for declaring that it was not immoral to ...

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Jul 14

Review of What Does It Mean to be Kazakhstani? featured in TLS:

www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

A product of social praxis

Kazakh, Tatar, Russian, Uyghur, Polish, German, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Chechen, Korean, Armenian – this far from exhaustive list gives an inkling of the ethnic

www.the-tls.com

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 4d

Leiden University is hiring:
Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 4d

Now that the trailblazing’s been done, the least Dartmouth and others can do is copy and paste and reject the “compact”. For the umpteenth time, ashamed of working at an institution incapable of a modicum of courageous dissent
links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

Regarding the Compact

links.mit.edu

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.

That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 5d

Congratulations to Terri and Iris!!!
#BannedBooksWeek

www.cbsnews.com/news/wyoming...

Wyoming library director fired amid uproar over books with LGBTQ+ themes wins $700,000 settlement

Terri Lesley was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters.

www.cbsnews.com

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Amy Kazmin @amykazmin.bsky.social · 4d

Italian opera is known for on-stage melodrama: performers belting out impassioned arias + emotionally charged plots. But Venice's prestigious La Fenice theatre is being engulfed by off-stage melodrama too, as the orchestra revolts against a new conductor close to PM Giorgia Meloni. on.ft.com/4h6BTvF

Discord at the Venice opera house

[FREE TO READ] La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party

on.ft.com

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 4d

Nice to know that a peace prize still implies democracy values

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 4d

It's important to focus on who won, not who did not.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 11d

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...