He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

People do not understand authoritarian consolidation in the media. Read a book about it, like Anne Applebaum’s “Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism” Incompetence paired with loyalty to the leader is not a bug, but a feature. The point isn’t sophistication.

Is there really no live public transport data in an app for Vienna? Wiener linien’s app doesn’t have it. ÖBB scotty has only trains. BUT ÖBB’s desktop live map doesn’t have viennese buses and trams, what gives? Did really no one make this accessible in a mobile app?

Wie ernst es einer Stadt mit „Vorrang fürs Gehen und für Öffis“ ist, ist auch an den Ampelschaltungen zu erkennen. Lange Rotphasen bei Fußgängerampeln am Weg vom Bus zur U-Bahn oder umgekehrt, verlängern auch die gesamte Fahrzeit für Öffi-Fahrgäste. #waszuändernist

It SHOULD happen again. We don't want this kind of creeper surveilance in our lives.

Sometimes I wish for a reporter to ask F1 drivers who reside in Monaco (more than half of the 2025 roster) a simple question: “Do you need to know where the closest food bank is? I assume you pay zero personal income tax because you are in severe financial difficulty”

the other thing I find "funny" about media merger coverage is in addition to NO mention of the well-documented massive harms from pointless media consolidation (creatives, labor, consumers), mainstream journalists don't mention the fact our regulators have been lobotomized by corruption

Fucking finally

Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Stoppard are dead

Is this platform still against wearing giant clown shoes or has it moved more towards acceptance?

When the AI bubble pops it’ll have a direct and major negative impact on a significant percentage of the population of the western world. With maybe two dozen companies and CEOs to blame. Banks and bankers engaged in the subprime mortgage crisis would win a popularity contest compared to them

Is this platform still massively against blockchains or has it moved more towards acceptance?

Every American should have this in their wallet:

Cops killed about the same number of Black people in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020. 2019 was slightly more. There was another jump in 2021, setting a new record. 2022 higher than 2021. New record. 2023 higher than 2022. New record. 2024 higher than 2023. All time high. 2025 is back down to 2016.

„Wieder zu Gast bei Freunden“ - so wie 1936, oder was? Das kann doch unmöglich dein Ernst sein, CDU Berlin.

“Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’ – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/ > They wrote a good headline, and then they faked the scientific process bit.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Last week my wife, our one year old son, and me were in the middle of a pedestrian crossing when a driver of a car changed directions (red line on the map), didn’t look around and almost hit us. I had made a split-second decision and pulled my wife back, otherwise she would have gotten hit.

It’s wild how hard it seems for Austrian journalists to clearly describe road violence. A driver ran over a cyclist and killed her. She didn’t “collide” with a car. The car didn’t move on its own. A driver killed her while she was waiting to turn — high-viz, helmet, lights on.

Sanctions and Ukrainian efforts to blow up oil refineries are working.

i stopped generally using the term “journalist” to describe what reporters & columnists & editors & anchors & correspondents & producers do some time ago… bc some people will call anyone a journalist who claims to be one when they just don’t operate with any of the expected or necessary standards.

The swiss have a long experience in dealing with nazis.

I find the lack of conversation about these border checks, which have become ubiquitous across the EU since 2015, incredibly chilling. At most you get dismissive comments that they are security theater and that they "don't work", and meanwhile new border infrastructure keeps going up.

CHANUR’S BREAKOUT (1991) Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” X 22” An opportunity to paint C.J. Cherryh’s catlike Hani was always welcome. I was fortunate to have done several covers for this popular series, yet for CHANUR’S LEGACY I came up with more new concepts than ever before. 1/5

Ukraine has better processes in place today to prosecute corruption than the US.

Wish I could dream of EU-wide train/local transport timetable tool, also integrated into most map tools with live status info including route changes. Where is the future I've been promised.

I really wish these stupid posts about how "Spotify CEO invested in AI drones to kill" would stop. No, he invested in a drone startup with machine learning, which supplies NATO/Ukraine. I support that.

Ich glaube, wir Männer müssen viel lauter gegen diesen Wahnsinn von Andrew-Tate-Toxizität und Tradwife-Backlash auftreten. Die Fortschritte, die Feministinnen - auch für uns Männer! - erkämpft haben, dürfen wir uns nicht wegnehmen lassen. Was sind das für verrückte Zeiten.

Lieber @derstandard.at , für ein selbsternanntes Qualitätsmedium ist euer Standard bei Berichten über Kollisionen im Straßenverkehr wirklich unterirdisch. Ich verstehe: Zeit & Ressourcen sind knapp. Aber Sprache macht Realität. 🧵1/14

Keine Gratis-Prompts für ChatGPT übrig: oe24 erscheint erst wieder nächste Woche dietagespresse.com/keine-gratis...

Can they nail the coffin down really tight just to make sure he isn't coming back?

I mean, Austrian neutrality is a type of fiction 🤭

As far as I know the non-racist version was that since both the natural and lab origin version is plausible, we should tighten biosecurity standards somewhat given that experts thought they were severely lacking in China among other countries.

Kompromissvorschlag: wir sparen uns die gesundheitschecks weiterhin und dafür wird "fahren ohne körperliche Eignung" so wie " fahren unter Alkoholeinfluss" unter Strafe gestellt und zwar mit dem doppelten Strafmaß einer maximalen Alkoholisierung. 🤷‍♂️ Da muss doch endlich was getan werden.

They changed the color of the Bluesky app icon Thanks, I hate it

We live in an episode of Veep

Further investigation shows that he also does not have an uncle named Sam.

So looking back, at Ruth Bader Ginsburg that mountain of an ego, what a self-absorbed asshole she was.

Oh I‘m sorry, I didn’t see your car there on the footpath. My bottle opener scraped along the length of it entirely accidentally. I guess when there is just too little space, those things happen.

How capitalism really works: politics sets the market frame and enforces it with various tools including consumer protection and anti-trust agencies, and depending on that it's a scale between piss and innovative, desirable products.

Aja shit. Ned vergessen, morgen ist Nationalfeiertag. Da haben die Geschäfte zu! Also heute noch alles einkaufen was brauchts. #servicepost

Zwar die kleinste Änderung auf der gedruckten Titelseite, aber ab morgen sind wir quasi BlueSky-Zeitung und tragen den größten und relevantesten Standard-Communities Rechnung - abseits des Standard-Forums selbst.

George Santos is back on the streets. He's already earning, T.

If anyone would try this on me I would fucking haunt the place for centuries.

We should create a "fake NYT headline contest" about stuff like this. Then secretly enter the real NYT headlines, which would win the fake NYT headline writing contest.

This is the kind of investigation that’ll have to be done for ICE in the future

i used to be a regular at a lesbian bar in DC and usually when i say this alone, people give me weird looks, so let me explain some more: i was invited to go there, and then keep going there, by the lesbians, so that i would be bait for the straight women who also went there. ...let me explain more

There is a reason Karin Kneissl lives in Russia and that’s not because she likes Russia or Putin, it’s because she is a criminal.