Renewables and the energy revolution are here to stay, all over the globe. The only question is who will lead, invent, and make the most money out of it. Smart technology of the future needs smart politics today, and China, if it can outplay the others, will happily use it as a power tool, soon.

A glimmer of humanity in the morning, before all illusions are beaten down by the lawless realities of the day. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Unfortunate fact: evening flights are smellier than morning flights.

More than 12.000 traffic jams amounting to 20.000 km in combined length were counted just in Bavaria just this year just during the 6 weeks of summer holidays. German trains are terribly unreliable, but motorists tend to forget how long and often they are actually stuck on the road. #perceptionBias

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations independent commission concluded in a report published today.

Two notoriously speech-controlling administrations are haggling over one of the most influential tools for distorting narrative and facts. What could go wrong.

Time to say goodbye if you didn't have the guts, yet. All good arguments to be on X are gone. Be brave, the sky is not going to fall. No need to feed a hate spewing white supremacist and demagogue, not even passively with a user counting towards ad revenue. #sinkX

There is nothing to gain from debates where one side is bound by common sense and facts, and the other can make up alternative feeling-facts, move the goal post, contradict themselves with pride, ignore science, use any unfair technique just to deceive the audience. We should have learned by now.

When, how, why does political violence rise and spread? What's next? A great (long-ish) read with clues not just for the US but also for other democracies slipping. www.politico.eu/article/10-p...

And then the goal post will move another bit further. Trump sanctioning Russia hard, is not going to happen. Europe has to find its own way of crippling Russia's war machine. Stop buying stuff from Russia would be a good start, though.

Most outlets I saw were way too lenient in letting the far-right shape the narrative after Kirks murder, in order to "bring down the temperature". It is an imperative for journalists to point out the disgusting, demeaning, extremist world view Kirk held and tried to spread. #noPosterBoy

The cult theme has been exploited extensively not just in religion but also in politics and economics, and personal relationships. Spot the signs. youtu.be/klYjLMJ4z3E?...

If it was possible to find common ground with extremists in a debate, then they weren't extremists. Their world view is not built on conceding or compromising or even considering a liberal idea. They want to demonstrate absolute superiority, humiliate, conquer, and destroy. No matter what it takes.

I tend to ride on the rough side in traffic and on trail. Today, for the first time in over 30 years I fell from my bicycle - in an empty car park. Confused, Magic Mary doesn't easily lose grip. Then I spotted a small sheet of paper. Must have gone over it with the front wheel. Limping off in shame.

Followed an "authentic Chinese food" recommendation at Google reviews. We travel very differently, my friend.

The label "political violence" should not only apply when a politician is the victim. Political violence is also violent law enforcement and violent speech by politicians, violent imgration hunts. An extreme show of force, driving a wedge into society is political violence. True, should stop.

Claiming, the present system is "misused" for economic migration. Trump's own family history is full of economic migrants going to the US. From his ancestors to his wife. Trump administration plans push at UN to restrict global asylum rights - www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Interesting to watch extremist Christians, nationalist right-wing, and pretty much all of the GOP, to frame the image of Kirk after his assassination. Seriously, anything less than immediate sainthood would be a let-down - the most glorious of all saints. The biggest best faithiest.

In the good old days, people used to die at age 50, 40, 30. I would be happy to see all the backward looking traditionalists around the globe follow suit. #noCherryPicking

I guess we can stop pretending that the current UN security architecture is of any use for upholding the global rules. Failed here and there and 100 times before. The security council is just a place where old men meet and eat cookies while pointing fingers.

The government should force carmakers to use their expertise to sell next-gen buses and trains and e-bikes and e-scooters - or help them develop another new way of sustainable transport, including for remote places and the last mile. Cars with a different engine: how little imagination, how boring.

Probably nobody can even imagine what Europe's role will look like, and how get there. I can't. This is not a tectonic shift, it's the explosion of a supernova. But it will be the way forward, to the detriment of the US and with all risks and potentials ahead for the EU. Hope we will play it well.

don’t let the pictures of xi jinping flanked by vladimir putin and kim jong un fool you: he’s not leading a new global order anytime soon. but he certainly sees a leadership void and is ready to exploit it.

If not even scienctists can provide objectivity, we should not demand it from journalists. We, as all others, should neither strive for nor pretend to provide objectivity. We have to know our bias, be transparent about it, and try to be as fair as possible in research and reporting. #noSimpleTruth

Future humans will look back with disgust at our still barbaric animal eating pleasures. On the menu today: slow-cooked rabbit, stuffed calamari, pulled (shredded) pork, minced meat patty. #foodiesOfDeath #killingForPleasure

The Immigrant Scare will receive the same perception in history as the Red Scare: a politically exploited hysteria. Unfortunately, the suffering for people swept up in the moment is real and irreversible.

I have learned to love brutally dense places, where use of space is negotiated in the moment, where cultures and norms change by the meter, where the eye is challenged with more questions than answers, where individualism and community are two sides of a coin, where "in flux" is a feature not a bug.

How could better public transport and pedestrian, cycling friendly infrastructure possibly fall victim to a culture war? Ugh, I hate moving healthier, I hate less traffic casualties, I hate greener cities with cooling trees. I hate hearing birds chirp. I hate less stress. #conservativePolitics

While the current US politics are a logical continuation of cherishing individualism, I still hope that the self-defeating sentiment turns out to be a blip in the long running US experiment, a pendulum swing to the extreme in the pursuit of finding its path towards being a worthy sort-of-democracy.

Funny headline. Good morning BBC, there is no more international law in that sense. The leaders of the world have failed to protect and enforce it. Now international law is a lot of black ink on white paper, nothing more.

Guess, we can now officially move on from discussing the wording to actually stopping the genocide. Israel is commiting genocide in Gaza. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The current US administration has skillfully accelerated the US demise on the international stage. But don't think that it's all China now. Countries like India will turn away as fast as they came running, as soon as monopolar China tightens the screws. It will. www.politico.eu/article/chin...

For a split second I had red Israel. It is politically easy to hit a foe, true spine you show when standing up against an ally, friend gone rogue.

Surprise surprise. Who could have known that Trump would deploy his standard negotiations playbook: extort concessions with the prospect of dropping outrageous demands - and then breaking the rules pushing for just those demands after successful extortion. But how could we know.

Whenever a thread pops up about freezing assets and other punishments of dissenting/opposition voices to the Georgian (country) power grab regime ... I now find myself double-checking that it's not actually a story from the US. #highwayToTotalitarianism

This is the real cost of Trump. Cannot be measured in numbers, won't be felt immediately, but very costly over time. While the bully wants to be respected all others turn away with rolling eyes. Huge strategic mistake. Welcome to the 21st century, USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Again. And again. And what lesson is Israel learning? Just do it again. I am sick of diplomatically worded rebukes from the international community. The law of war has now changed, human rights have now changed. Civilians are dying as a consequence of blind loyalties to an out of control friend.

Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in #Gaza. The amount of water available for Palestinians is incredibly insufficient. This is unacceptable: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

With U.S. Custom and Border Protection agents searching phones at record pace, learn how to prepare your devices in anticipation of international travel.

Trump's FBI searching the home of John Bolton is a huge story, but it shouldn't rank higher than an Israel-made famine in Gaza. Don't think the major outlets are getting this right. BBC, Reuters, nyt - and others choosing an entirely different story. Don't normalize the death of humanity.

Guess it's time to rearrange priorities, have some more eyes on the one side and leave the US single-eyed for the time being. Let them taste their own medicine. #halfBlind

Israel has learned from the failure of the global community to stop Putin's land grab, so they are going for their own expansion. Then China might draw its own conclusions, others as well. Not enforcing international law timely, comes at a cost. Lots of suffering ahead. #ageOfWars

It's serious, should be treated accordingly by the global community. I mean action, with bite, something tangible we can believe in. Not statements and warm words. www.bbc.com/news/article...

No need to read between the lines anymore. It's all laid out in public. If not two states, how would a plan look like? An Israeli form of apartheid or "voluntary" and forced cleansing. Israel's Smotrich announces settlement plan to 'bury' idea of Palestinian state - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Tiptoeing around the fire hoping the fire would give up voluntarily.

After a day of Nazi history touring in Nuremberg (rallying grounds, Memoriam Nuremberg Trials), I am shocked to realize how close rhetoric and actions of far-right and increasingly mainstream societies is to the run-up to Hitler and the Nazis manifesting their totalitarian terror regime. #eyesOpen

Former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon among 550 security officials to sign letter calling for end to war www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

I would complain less about Deutsche Bahn (DB) if they wouldn't charge me f-ing a lot for their broken train service. Soon DB will hand out a list of malfunctions with each train, like a restaurant allergen list. Today issues A, F, G, K, V. Not sure whether the alphabet has enough letters, though.

Confused

The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.