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Short updates, microblog notes, and what I’m currently focused on.

Updated April 22, 2026.

  1. Barbarism does not begin with the first shot; it begins where people are reduced to numbers in a statistic, where compassion gives way to bookkeeping and conscience to hollow obedience.

    This line is truly the most important one in Hape Kerkeling's speech marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Because you can feel it. In any kind of bureaucracy.

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    Keynote speech for the commemorative ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration campfrom Hape Kerkeling

    Webseiten der Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora

  2. Watching this video really makes you understand what it means to travel hundreds of thousands of kilometers around the Moon in a spacecraft and then make it back home.

  3. My rating 8/10

    I loved the beginning, Perfidia, and the sensei, but the finale in particular left me with a lot of question marks.

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    One Battle After AnotherIMDb

  4. My rating 9/10

    This is simply a really good film. The ultimate twist alone is that the missile impact is always only 20 minutes away.

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    A House of DynamiteIMDb

  5. My rating 8/10

    With his docu-style, Paul Greengrass made some of my absolute favorite films. This one is okay too, but not as good as the others.

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    The Lost BusIMDb

  6. My rating 9/10

    “There are nine kingdoms, ser.” Made my day.

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    The Morrowfrom A Knight of the Seven KingdomsIMDb

  7. My rating 9/10

    I have rarely wanted someone to take off their helmet less.

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    In the Name of the Motherfrom A Knight of the Seven KingdomsIMDb

  8. My rating 8/10

    Ser Pennytree’s lance 🍆.

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    Hard Salt Beeffrom A Knight of the Seven KingdomsIMDb

  9. My rating 9/10

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    Sevenfrom A Knight of the Seven KingdomsIMDb

  10. My rating 8/10

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    The Hedge Knightfrom A Knight of the Seven KingdomsIMDb