#OtD 2 Jan 1873 Dutch Marxist astronomer, Anton Pannekoek, was born. His writing on workers' councils and their ability to overcome the limits of unions and parties made him a key theorist of council communism. We've made his work available in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Die Antwort des Gemeindepräsidenten von #CransMontana auf die Frage nach den Brandschutzprüfungen in der Bar "Le Constellation" ist... speziell.

uh holy SHIT?

Amazing. This is statistics 101: the Martingale strategy (doubling down bets after a loss) works beautifully until a string of losses produces a catastrophic wipeout. It's true in casinos, betting on sports, investing, everywhere. This is known.

Habe mich beim Schreiben gerade vertippt, aus "Fraunhofer" wurde "Funhofer", und you're welcome, Kolleg*innen von @fraunhofer.bsky.social - damit hat euer neues, hippes Öffentlichkeitsarbeitskonzept jetzt einen aussagekräftigen Namen! #wisskomm

Klimaschutz-Gegner:innen machen nur 8 Prozent der Bevölkerung aus.

„I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.“ SPD, Grüne, Linke: Take note.

Lesenswerter Text über das finanzstarke Netzwerk, das uns alle in den Abgrund schubsen will.

Die drei von der Tankstelle 🤭 https://puntarella.party/@NamibDesertBot/115825627013573009

Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Unsere Jahresauswertung zur Stromerzeugung 2025 ist fertig und kann hier heruntergeladen werden: www.energy-charts.info/downloads/St...

Abgebrannter Kältebus in Berlin: Deutsche Bahn Stiftung spendet 70.000 Euro an die Berliner Stadtmission zur Finanzierung eines neuen Fahrzeugs. www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/I...

Willkommen 2026! Wir wünschen euch alles Gute und natürlich ganz viel klaren Himmel im neuen Jahr!

kommt ihr nie drauf, was u.a. funktioniert hat /s

bye 2025👋

⏰ 12 HOURS TO GO 👀 When the new year begins, so does #PublicDomainDay2026. At 12:00 a.m. ET, iconic books, films, and music move into the public domain—and we’ll be sharing highlights #here all night long. 🔔 Set your reminder ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

Understanding what makes alcohol so potent can help people avoid getting drunker than they mean to or suffering a painful hangover the day after

“That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports” is a hell of an admission

It's absolutely true this is horrifying. It's also true that the NEED to spend this $$ (beyond whatever incentive arises from graft ProPublica already described) arises from the way ICE goons have become toxic. Plus now we can attack the waste fraud and abuse.

Once again Messier 81, but this time covering a wider field including Messier 82. Telescope: Seestar S50 (mosaic mode) Siril scripts by @naztronomy.com and VeraLux. The gallery was produced by the Galaxy Annotations script. Location: Heidelberg, Germany Unfortunately, drizzling kept failing.

This is a super-huge issue in news writing, which almost always gets flagged as AI. News stories are formulaic by design and often have the same cadence and language.

Wie lang will sich Deutschland diese verlogene Politikerin noch leisten? Umstrittenes Gutachten zur Energiewende: Neue Hinweise auf Einflussnahme des Wirtschaftsministeriums taz.de/Umstrittenes...

Uiiiii. Good move, ACM. Kudos.

Observations to fill at least the worst gaps are ongoing. Even though the Moon is really a pain in the, um Orion by now. 🧪🔭⚛️

they are evil

For sale: government. Hardly used.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

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#WomenInStem 🧪

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

I didn't end up doing a lot of longer-form writing this year (due to the newsletter and my nn/g work) but I'm still quite proud of this piece of satire — mostly because reading comprehension is dead and people either say "you are right! this is good!" or "how can you believe such a thing?"

Lick updates: We got a crane up there Friday and the winds dropped enough by Saturday to get the shutter off the roof.

Einen Ehrenplatz im Kunst-Meme-Kanon sei ihr sicher! bbc.com/news/article...

Holzspäne vom Wahren Kreuz waren gestern.

Weiß tatsächlich nicht, ob es da nach den zeitungsgewordenen Rants der letzten Jahre noch viel an Vertrauen in Seriösität und Marke zu zu zerstören gibt, aber: im Prinzip ja.

Wenn du ordentlichen Journalismus machst, ist deine politische Meinung übrigens ziemlich egal, weil's im Journalismus nicht um deine verdammte Meinung geht, sondern um sauberes Handwerk. Nein, deine Privatmeinung ist kein Journalismus, auch wenn du es "Debatte" oder "Kommentar" nennst.

30 December 1913 | A Pole, Ryszard Czajor, was born. In #Auschwitz from 25 June 1940 No. 1194 He perished in the camp on 14 June 1942. ---- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

Der unbedingten Empfehlung kann ich mich nur anschließen. Dieser Band und der Vorgängerband zur Weimarer Republik sind Geschenke für geduldige, leidenschaftliche Leserinnen und Leser www.zeit.de/2025/51/schr...

30 December 1906 | Dutch Jewish woman, Dina Sarphtie-Cohen, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in March 1944. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Here's today's version of my work-in-progress Orion mosaic. Cloudy skies tonight, so no upcoming additions. Keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow night. And as you can see, I produced another gap, darn :-/ 🧪🔭⚛️

It is fascinating to me that people think that folks who mask need to explain it to... Anyone. Like, do you want people to give you the murder board explanation of our chronic illness? Talk about our parent or kid with cancer? It couldn't be less of your business.

From Annelia Anderson @astroannelia.bsky.social : Today’s paper argues that a little red dot with a massive Balmer break could be a black hole star. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/29/b...

Solar+batteries is just going to win. Solar is comparatively cheap. It's the easiest for power companies to deploy (~1 year vs. 5-10 years for conventional power plants). It's inexpensive to maintain. It's environmentally beneficial. And it can add value to farms by providing shade. It's a winner