Ich bin es so Leid. Böllerverbot jetzt 🦊.

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One hundred years of THE NEW YORKER are now online. A big thank you to Klaus Radke @kradke.bsky.social for the information! 💙

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Wishing everyone a very happy Holy Eve and a merry Christmas on both sides of the ocean !

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With all rights! (As brandy was out of the question, obviously.)

We made a mistake by calling the output of AI ‘slop’. In academia it is now looking much more like toxic pollution, on the verge of laying waste to previously fertile plains. Suing for royalties is only a small part of the battle.

His sense of architecture might suffer, but his temporal placements are impeccable.

True. And who would have thought one might use them as a blueprint.

A nice shot, that.

Wusstest Du, dass ich das Zusammenleben mit 2/3 ALLER als schwierig empfinde? Was mir dabei sch*egal ist: -) Religion -) Herkunft -) persönliche sexuelle Vorlieben -) Körperempfinden -) Familienstand -) Hautpigmentierung -) Abschluss, Hauptfach oder Forschungsschwerpunkt -) Job uva. #integratethat

Reminds me of my every day.

Österreichs Abschied von ernsthaftem Klimaschutz ist nun auch schon zu messen: steiermark.orf.at/stories/3334...

Exactly! Now, what was I about, just now..

Hat ja super funktioniert mit der Neutralität. Russische Propaganda: „Once again, we will have to liberate Vienna. Well, perhaps the Austrians will reconsider.“ www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Years ago I was at a horse race track and a bookie was offering odds on the race as if the favourite wasn’t in it: if the favourite won the race the second placed horse would be the winner. Perhaps this is how we have to think of the world now. As if America doesn’t exist.

Tschüß Malte. Und.... Bon Voyage! 🖤 youtu.be/OntgdM84SDQ?...

Will be interesting to see how many of the people complaining about the cost of Erasmus are also equally (actually 24 times more) upset about the triple lock on pensions, which costs about £12bn a year more than earnings indexing...

A good question, Ron...

To lighten up the atmosphere... (I grew up with the books. I still smile, when I pass the nook where they are stored, well handled over decades, on the shelf downstairs)

Um, Yeah. Time to crack open the breakfast bottle, it seems.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

There´s one of todays worlds pressing problems solved!

Time names Artificial Intelligence it's Person of the Year.... Mostly because it couldn't find any actual Intelligence anywhere...

Well, it seems I might not go back to the US´sylvan shores anytime soon. Should have kept my trap shut about the reigning idiocy. Or I just use an X account. Should be easy to buy. www.federalregister.gov/d/2025-22461...

Andrej Babis ist siebentreichste Tscheche, sein Vermögen wird 3,5 Milliarden US Dollar geschätzt. Oder, wie Kickl es nennt: Jemand, der sich "gegen alle Widerstände des Establishments durchsetzt"

Yeah... banning books has a long tradition. Not one that really needs warming up. Or heating up for that matter. Bradbury is just around the corner, it seems.

Ohhhh yes... The immediate threat might be abating, but the consequences will be with us all for decades to come. Once introduced, measures have a tendency to be permanent, people in power breed of their own kind, etc. etc.

To say nothing at all of "In Austria"

The New World Order. A few billion in Trump Meme coins Promise of a Moscow Trump Tower A little property deal for Barron Russian assets unfrozen Alaska returned to Russia The Art of the Deal. Crack open the Temperance Champagne!

Weiter auf X zu posten ist wie Leserbriefe an den "Völkischen Beobachter" zu schicken und zu hoffen, dass diese dort was verändern. Gut gemeint, aber hochgradig naiv.

Could we "Europeans" please at least have a stance on this? More nationalism is definitely not the way, but what do I know...

Rebell

Yes mate. Nothing like kow-towing to the wet dreams of the Far Right so a multi/millionaire can sell some vodka. Turns out David Brent really was the prick we all thought he was before that one redemptive moment at the end of the Christmas Special.

Very good read on how David Ellison is turning Paramount/Skydance into a safe haven for men accused of sexual abuse as he prepares to pump out movies aimed at TrumpWorld.

If you love movies and watching them in cinemas, this is disastrous news. Whatever Netflix says, this will erode a long tradition and have massive repercussions across the entire entertainment landscape.

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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (Good thing, today, one can always throw Orwell around and usually it fits)

Ja, so kann man es auch sagen.

Bitte aufmerken!!!

Das ist so furchtbar. Und tatsächlich ein Beleg für ein faschistisches Mindset ... #BannedBooks

Was ganz grossem auf der Spur!!!

Not everybody is the same level of general stupid. Let´s see who listens. And one could erase the "this" from "this transformation".

Entrepreneurs, please do attempt to get rich! No worries, it´s ok! What is NOT okay is doing so on account of people you ACTUALLY NEED to work for you. Stop this stupidity.

Ein Mord wird in Liebe umgedeutet. Und dazu ein herzerwärmendes Weihnachtsbild. Hier werden männliche Gewaltexzesse normalisiert: Männer sind so. Man zeigt Liebe und dann stirbt halt jemand, dumm gelaufen. Diese verdammte Gewaltkultur tötet Frauen. Und, ganz wichtig: ist auch für Männer entsetzlich.

Please, could someone please listen to the man. You don´t have to actually like him to see sense. (I don´t and, the one time we met in person, had a very cold exchange, but he has quite something to say)

Always know your customers!

Editors are especially bound to keep out of the newspapers anything which: (…) tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly, the common will of the German people, the German defense ability, culture, or economy, (...) J. Goebbels, 1933