Those three downed jets run around $90 million each. It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

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I am on a train! (and apparently that's the only time when I write much on here) So let's do another travel thread: Today I started in extremely warm sunny weather. 21°C in February in Germany is anomalous. I was briefly concerned I'd get sunburn while I waited for the train.

Fun visualisation! I love that I hover between 'German research institutions' and 'german-speaking progressive intellectuals' even so I rarely write in German.

5.2. 1916 [...] Beim Morgengrauen hatte sich am Drahtverhau unserer Komp.Stellung ein französischer Überläufer eingefunden, welcher mit einem großen weißen Tuch winkte und rief „Nicht schießen“. Kamerad Heyne von der Kompagnie ging hinaus, verband ihm die Augen und führte ihn zum Hauptmann.[...]

Thank you for this thread. I was a recent immigrant to the UK when the referendum happened. It was unsettling and disorienting, and certainly reduced my will to integrate. I had come as a graduate student on a UK scholarship. So not paying taxes and getting UK government money, but not on benefits.

Today's 6th Brexit Anniversary for these observing. It's been pivotal to my life. I am the demographic Farage used to fearmonger, a poorly integrated East European immigrant on benefits. After the election, my family, and other migrants, faced increased xenophobia and uncertainty. But I prevailed. 🧵

I am ready for some weekend wood-working. The first step consists of a fair amount of sanding and people around me in the community workshop are using routers, and circular saws. So double personal protective equipment for me.

23.01.1916 "[...] Es zeigt eine vollkommen unpatriotische Verachtung der für unser liebes Vaterland nötigen wirtschaftlichen Sparsamkeit, die das gute deutsche Herz mit Zorn erfüllen muß." kurts1662tage.de/2026/01/23/s...

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

This sounds like it could be illegal in German labour law. I am not a lawyer but I suspect my workers council would go ballistic over this. Anybody know if this is also being rolled out in Europe?

This is one for all the #WomeninSTEM. If you are happy to, could you share some of the more awkward and unusual questions you have been asked? The ones your male colleagues would never be asked. I'm running an event @helmholtz.de with the awesome Michelle Browne for #IDWAGIS

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

Conservatively estimated 32 millon hectares of land is used for producing 1,400 TWh of biofuel per year. If that land instead was covered* by solar panels, it would surpass the *total* current electricity production worldwide 🤯. *: Not that it should, just for comparison.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Barbara Metz, Bundesgeschäftsführerin #DUH: „Rückzug von #Vonovia bestätigt, dass (...) Widerstand gegen #Balkonkraftwerke rechtlich und sachlich nicht haltbar (...) Wir fordern alle großen #Vermieter auf, ihre Blockadehaltung aufzugeben und ihre internen Vorgaben an Recht und Realität anzupassen" 👏

This was impressive to witness in person. The room was packed, the talk was interesting combining the insights the hacker had gained from infiltrating the site and the extra research the journalists had carried out. In the last few minutes: Surprise! The websites, and accounts are gone!

I love winter hikes! Went up to 1000m for today's delightful hike. It was a great hike with amazing company, beautiful landscapes, and heaps of snow.

4. Januar 1916 [...] Unser Ltnt. Preßprich ist zum Gasschutzoffizier ernannt worden, das heißt ihm liegt es ob alle Verteidigungsmittel für die Abwehr feindl. Gasangriffe in Ordnung zu halten, in genügender Menge zu beschaffen...

Auch Kurt ist im neuen Jahr angekommen. Das Jahr 1916 geht für ihn an der Westfront ruhig los und das Projekt Kurts1662Tage läuft weiter. Immer genau 110 Jahre nachdem sie geschrieben wurden sind die Tagebucheinträge online auf Kurts1662Tage.de. Schau mal rein!

To close out 2025, we at @inbedwiththeright wanted to take a moment to thank all our listeners and to look back on a super fun and busy year. Between the main feed and the Patreon (please subscribe to our Patreon!), we will have put out a full 68 episodes in 2025 by the time the 31st rolls around!

Welcome in 2026! I hope you are having a pleasant start to the new year. I started by making breakfast and listening to the final episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Project 1933 series. A striking series going through 1933 month by month and tracing how the Nazis established their power.

It's a train day! Today I will travel the length of Germany after attending #39C3 in Hamburg the last couple of days.

I am on a train and will be for many hours. Ask me anything!

Our chair @simoneherpich.bsky.social & @pv-physicist.bsky.social gave an english talk at the #39c3 about empowering journey through the #energytransition. Not only about @ewsschoenau.bsky.social the Electricity Rebells from #Schönau deep in the #Blackforrest, #heatpumps large enough...

Loving the light installations at #39C3

auf dem #39C3 wurde gerade eine Dating-Netzwerk der internationalen Hradcore-Nazis live gelöscht. Von einer Hackerin im Rosa-Ranger-Anzug. Meine Hochachtung 🎩

One week left to apply for a postdoc position in my research group. Want to research perovskite based optoelectronic devices? Check out this opportunity: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

#39c3: Our chair @simoneherpich.bsky.social & @pv-physicist.bsky.social will present 20:10 at "Ground": "Recharge your batteries with us - an empowering journey through the energy transition" about wind turbines, electricity rebells, heat pumps and solar! fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...

Good morning! Who is ready for day 2 of #39C3?

#39C3 is very very shiny

WiFi Access Point at #39C3 is buffering.....

In undergrad, I was a theatre kid. Did three productions and saw nearly every one of the 12 each year at the uni theatre (often worked the door/etc). I nearly picked it as a career. Nothing (NOTHING) compares to the heart-filling joy of just clicking with a cast/crew during/at the end of a run.

Me and my oversized prop are on the train to Hamburg and ready for #39C3 See you there!

The Christmas lunch assembly line is in full swing. Only authorised personnel is allowed in the kitchen.

Got a phone stand for Christmas that I am immediately putting to good use.

.... nachdem der Regen ausgesetzt hatte, wurden im Schützengraben Weihnachtslieder in die schwarze, stille Nacht hinein gesungen. Dies war der feierlichste Augenblick des Kriegsweihnachtens 1915. [...] Am Tage wütete rechts von uns nach Blamont -Leintrey zu ein heftiges Artilleriefeuer. ....

Hattet ihr auch Ölsardinen im Weihnachtspaket?

After a little sidequest in a room full of vending machines, I am now actually on the train and heading North. It is a tad foggy.

I am way early at the train station and am entertaining myself with a visit to the vending machine room. It is elaborate!

I wonder if our audience at #39C3 will be as attentive as today's rehearsal audience 🤔 @simoneherpich.bsky.social

Selbst an der Front im 1. Weltkrieg naht Weihnachten

“The report concludes that the cumulative result of sexual harassment in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine is significant damage to research integrity and a costly loss of talent in these fields.” www.nationalacademies.org/projects/PGA...

17. Dezember 1915 Vizewachtmeister Keiler, von der Ers. Abtlg. 28 erhält das Eis. Kreuz I. Klasse. Er hat einen franz. Maschinengewehrstand mit Dynamit gesprengt [...]. Er hat es redlich verdient. Er soll der Wirt vom Pfaffenstein in der sächs. Schweiz sein. kurts1662tage.de/2025/12/17/f...

Frisch gebackene Pflastersteine!

14. Dezember 1915 [...] Von der 2. Komp. ist ein Pferd der Feldküche gestorben . Die armen Tiere haben es jetzt bei dem Tauwetter auf den schlammigen bergigen Waldwegen furchtbar schwer. Sie fahren die schweren Feldküchen täglich 3 mal in die Stellung und zurück. ...

The taste of my childhood Christmas concentrated in one package

I first learnt about Germany's hunger for horribly inefficent and polluting lignite in 2018 was when the church of St Lambertus, Erkelenz-Immerath (medieval site, but Neo-Romanesque build of 1888-91) was demolished, along with the entire village to make way for expansion of Garzweiler open pit mine.

I have written long threads about two coal power plants in Germany. Jänschwalde (in the East) and Neurath (in the West). Why did I do that? To highlight the impacts fossil fuel power plants have. #1 bsky.app/profile/pv-p... #2 bsky.app/profile/pv-p...

Let's think about fossil fuel power plants for a moment. For example Neurath power plant in the west of Germany. In 2019 it was the second biggest single emitter of CO2 in the whole European Union as well as the 102nd one world wide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurath...