Civilization ends where MAGA begins

"All we can really hope for, however, is that the applause in the room was polite and not a sign of sincere relief. For if it is, Europe is even more full of suckers than it has seen over the past years." phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/rubio-call...

Die Grundsanierung der Stabi West erfolgt übrigens nach einer Planung, die das Gebäude auch zur »Rückseite« hin öffnen wird, die früher an der Sektorengrenze lehnte (Link unten). Dies war wohl bauzeitlich bereits angedacht, anscheinend hielt man Mitte der 60er die Mauer durchaus noch für temporär.

#Interpol has been turned into a weapon of repression: Leaked internal documents show how its tools are systematically abused by autocratic states to persecute political opponents across borders. #StopTransnationalRepression now. More at BBC & Disclose 1/7

Post a banger that's not in English An absolute classic about Elon Musk not getting into Berghain. youtu.be/VytLIqlLxek?...

Als Freund und Verteidiger des ÖRR sehe ich Normalisierung so weit die Talksofas reichen. Der ÖRR wird nicht gleichgeschaltet werden müssen, er tut dies selbst. Oder mit den Worten Hannah Arendts: Das persönliche Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten, sondern was unsere Freunde taten.

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Coming back from China I landed early Saturday morning in Zurich and had to take the train to Basel. Saturday morning means, the train is full of military. Had guys from the same unit where I served 15 years ago next to me. Listening to their conversations was quite a trip down memory lane.

I feel like there's no way you could describe the tendrils of the Epstein files (let alone the files themselves) to someone a couple of decades ago without sounding like a fully gone conspiracy theorist. It's just wild how much weird stuff in recent history is connected by the files.

Why the hell were so many people so comfortable talking about pedo parties with their Gmail accounts?

KI kann manchmal treffende Bilder generieren.

I mean this was pre-Snowden, but yet, the audacity to put something like that in writing tells you quite a bit about the threat perception (or lack thereof). Staggering, really.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

New preprint 🥳 The city of Leipzig conducts large-scale surveys of adolescents. In 2023, the gender gap in life satisfaction has significantly widened, with girls declining more steeply than boys. What's up with that?> (work with @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social)

Wir arbeiten derzeit an der Publikation basiert auf einer Bachelorarbeit: Ziel der Arbeit war es eine qualitative Evaluation von KIs im Mathestudium zu erstellen. Ergebnis: etwa 80% der Punkte im Schnitt. Dieses Semester hab ich einen Pilotversuch gemacht mit Präsenzkorrekturen statt Abgaben.

With the Olympics i Italy coming up I want to remind everyone of this EPIC picture. I aged about 10 years during that game. Ye' SUI-CAN 2:0.

Speaking of bard: Monday I premiered my new outreach talk explaining dynamical reference frames with ice hockey.

Can you be a class bastard? A Wizard-Bard?

Guilty as charged.

Ich weiss ne Uni die ich von meiner Liste streiche. 😂 Die Aussage ist aber halt auch n klassischer Texanischer Scharfschütze. Nah wenn jemand gegangen ist, dann kann man easy sagen "ja die/den wollten wir halt nicht halten". Was passiert wenn jemand den sie halten will Reformen fordert zum bleiben?

Aus, aus, AUUUS das Semester ist aus. 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Indeed. I'm getting very bored of the 'Europe couldn't possibly' argument and associated internalised helplessness. There is no reason why Europe could not handily deter and defend ourselves against Russia if we put our minds to it.

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

New results from DES, the Dark Energy Survey. (Not to be confused with DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [which I always confuse].) No evidence here that the dark energy density is evolving with time. telescoper.blog/2026/01/22/d...

Things you don't expect to read on a maths exam paper: "Explain why he has stabbed himself in the stomach" I love this question more every time I see it.

"Who is we?“ As we wait for events in Davos to unfold, a thread about a question posed to me in London a few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, and why I am thinking about it today, on a day of severe crisis for the Western Alliance. 🧵

A bit of discussion about this detached bogie being a cause rather than an outcome of the Adamuz crash. It's essentially impossible for a bogie to be released from a moving train without that train already having been derailed.

Eine Plattform, die sexualisierte Bilder von Kindern (!) publiziert, kann nicht ein Instrument der offiziellen Kommunikation der Schweiz sein. Das müsste doch völlig unbestritten sein, oder?

Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).

Das ist ein Preisniveau, wo jeder weitere Cent Putin richtig weh tut - weil das Zeug zwar noch Devisen bringt, aber nur unter Verlust produziert werden kann Er kann zwar weiter Drohnen in China kaufen, aber die Wirtschaft geht weiter in die Knie

What cracked today, was the European delusion that "Trump won't be that bad".

Die einzige Antwort welche die EU auf die neo-imper. US Bedrohung gegen die territoriale Souveränität des Kgr Dänemark haben kann, wäre ein beherztes „Fuck You“. Deutschlands Problem und damit das der EU: Trumps Spaltpilzpolitik trifft auf den überforderten und in seiner Gestrigkeít verfangenen Merz

I know it's not the Hunger Games but BOY are Greenland winning the social media war.. youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?...

Spoiler alert: die grosse Mehrheit der Menschen ist langweilig, und deshalb funktioniert unsere Gesellschaft überhaupt.

Wir sind am Punkt wo man nicht weiss, ob das die offensichtliche Postillon Satire ist, oder ob der Postillon plötzlich investigativ tätig ist.

Die meisten Politiker, Journalisten, Beamte, aber auch Bürger haben so tief verinnerlicht, dass Konflikte durch beidseitiges Entgegenkommen und Verständnis beigelegt werden, dass sie nicht verstehen, dass das nicht immer und nicht bei allen gilt.

Wir sind nicht mehr weit vom Lebensraum im Osten.

Here we go: To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. 1/

Not to mention that the... dislike... for the US is by now in many European places more than just skin deep. I wonder when we start seeing reports from US Tourists in Europe getting harassed over their government (as in frequently enough that it is picked up in reporting).

Sending the third application to the same university within two years... wondering whether I should change my cover letter to "well I reckon you know me by now, if this doesn't convince you that I want the job, nothing will. peace out."😅

The single most important thing democrats can do right now is to keep talking about the Epstein files (they might as well be called Trump files by now as much as his name appears to be all over it).

Every bit of focus Europeans put into defending Greenland from foreign aggression is time and energy they're not using to defend Ukraine from foreign aggression. Doesn't mean that's the cause of US threats, but it's an effect either way.

Was wir hatten, was wir haben

Eskalierende Proteste im ganzen Land: Iran bittet USA um 10.000 ICE-Beamte www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/iran...

Russia's full scale war against Ukraine, which Moscow started on 24th February of 2022, lasts now exactly as long as the German-Soviet war in WW2, exactly 1,418 days.

Not gonna lie, I am having some huge disappointments.... i actually believed that most of the "the left have gone to far" liberals truely meant it... turns out they were just hedging their bets. I find these subjects more despicable than true believers.

Free Iran!

Inzwischen ist es soweit, dass mir am Ende der 1. Zeile dieses Tweets des 🇨🇦 Premiers nicht klar war, dass es um den Iran geht, und nicht etwa um die USA