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Taking a look around. @
[email protected]
on Mastodon, comms
@sovereign.tech
he/him Berlin, Germany
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Mark Joseph Stern
11 days ago
This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
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Anil Dash
12 days ago
They know we were stripped of our citizenship, had our towns burned down, had our businesses destroyed, our houses of worship desecrated and attacked. And they know who did it 100 years ago & whoâs doing it now.
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Popular Science
16 days ago
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
https://www.popsci.com/science/transgender-children-gender-identity/
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Ida Bae Wells
15 days ago
There is actual racial discrimination occurring and people are suffering but sure, letâs focus on the musings of a bunch of elite white men posting from their elite positions about how they are the primary victims of racial discrimination in this country.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Monkey Sounds, âWhite Powerâ and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Departmentâs civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that âpeople impacted by racial discriminat...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-civil-rights-racial-harassment
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Adrian Daub
15 days ago
Just for shits and giggles, the top five reasons this story is as fake as the executions recorded in Dr. Wolf's dissertation: Number 1: What the fuck is "a dean in the department"? How many deans were in this department? Follow up question: How many of them did it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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Jonathan Cohn
15 days ago
âTheyâre denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records â theyâre denying the authenticity of them. It is something Iâve never encountered.â
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE wonât release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
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Musa Okwonga
21 days ago
Itâs not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We donât have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: thatâs why theyâre called âhuman rightsâ, and not âhuman privilegesâ.
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Gabriel Zucman
22 days ago
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new âeuro-sclerosisâ: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity â and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggeratedđ§”
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jamelle
22 days ago
honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.
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Kevin M. Kruse
27 days ago
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.
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There are a few spots left for the event I'm hosting tmrw in Berlin for
#SovereignTechFellowship
. If you're interested in the work of folks like
@hugovk.dev
@icing.bsky.social
@mklu.bsky.social
, Sarah, Jan and others that maintains our digital infrastructure -> đïž
events.sovereign.tech/fellowship/
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Sovereign Tech Fellowship
Wed, Dec. 3, 2025
https://events.sovereign.tech/fellowship/
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Martin Jordan
about 1 month ago
We got over 60 signups from all parts of German government. Thanks for letting us making this exchange happen,
@nextnetz.bsky.social
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Christopher Whitaker
about 1 month ago
The key to bureaucracy hacking is to reduce friction while STILL addressing the risk the regulations were attempting to address.
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FragDenStaat
about 1 month ago
Schaffst du es, alle Steueroasen zu finden, ohne dass Dir jemand auf die Schliche kommt? Check Deine Skills auf
FragDenStaat.de/Minesweeper
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Steuer-Minesweeper
Finde Deutschlands schönste Steueroasen! Aber lass Dich nicht beim Steuerfahnden erwischen ⊠Das Steuer-Minesweeper basiert auf der gemeinsamen Recherche vom ZDF Magazin Royale und FragDenStaat zu Ste...
https://FragDenStaat.de/Minesweeper
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Martin Jordan
about 1 month ago
A test run for
#publicDesign
jobs â Hereâs an experimental RSS feed for the German
#GovDesign
roles I am posting here and on my little, manually maintained job board*: đ
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* currently listing positions at
@digitalservice.bund.de
,
@sprind-de.bsky.social
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Itâs been a whirlwind getting everything together, but Iâm excited: on 3 Dec in Berlin, come learn about the first year of the Sovereign Tech Fellowshipâand get together with maintainers, the fellows, and public-interest tech folks. Iâd love to see you there!
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Sovereign Tech Agency
about 1 month ago
Who will maintain our digital future? On 3 Dec 2025 in Berlin, weâre hosting an event for the
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My district,
@baxhain.bsky.social
, organized a celebration for local residents who became German citizens. My naturalization was in May & more of an individual, bureaucratic (though nice) process in a government office in Wedding, so it was really nice to mark the milestone in a more festive way.
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Glonzo the Great and Powerful
about 2 months ago
15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960. The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
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Lots has happened since our last
@demsabroad.bsky.social
#Kreuzberg
Kiez meetup! Join your local Americans abroad and friends on Monday 10 Nov 2025 at Yorckschlösschen for community, strategizing, and drinks. RSVP appreciated:
www.democratsabroad.org/324260/kreuz...
#Berlin
#Germany
about 2 months ago
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If you're wondering how to generate your own slogan, this fun site made it possible:
homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...
(check out the design coop called Forge that did the incredible design work for the Mamdani campaign:
forge.coop/
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If someone shares photos in
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folders, is there a way to get a view w/larger previews in the web? I don't have an account, don't see an option to switch view style anywhere. It's unwieldy because looking at each photo is slowâit shows a blurry preview, loads higher-res seconds later.
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Alexander Chee
2 months ago
Shook a few needed laughs and smiles out of my bitter ragged bag of a heart.
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California ballot faxed yesterday; counted today!
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Really looking forward to speaking at
@writethedocs.bsky.social
in Berlin tomorrow! Iâll be sharing how we at
@sovereign.tech
Agency communicate about complex open source technologies in ways that everyone â not just software developers â can understand⊠and WHY we invest time/energy in doing so.
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There are few things as gratifying as a long over-due freezer defrosting. Reaching in and breaking off giant pieces of ice and accumulated frost, I think Iâd need a pressure washer for more fun.
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Assigned Media
2 months ago
24 Oct 2025 -- TIME story on trans ppl escaping discrimination: "Rainbow Railroad which helps LGBTQ+ people escape state violence, received a record number of requests from US...& nearly half of trans adults have relocated or are planning to relocate to another state..."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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From Haven to Exodus: Trans Americans Are Fleeing The U.S.
As restrictions on trans rights mount under the Trump Administration, more transgender Americans are emigrating.
https://time.com/7327131/trans-america-immigrants-trump/
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That's a Thursday night downer: SchwuZ in
#Berlin
has announced that they are officially closing down. They had filed for bankruptcy in August, hoping a buyer or some way could be found to be able to keep one of the oldest queer clubs in Berlin (since 1977!) open.
www.instagram.com/p/DQKTg7fjDNA/
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Login âą Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQKTg7fjDNA/
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Have you ever had work-from-home days where you've been writing emails/chatting/doing so much computer work that your fingers are just tired? Not like a sprain or repetitive stress, just... over the taptaptap. For the record, I am very good at typing, very fast, and can even do it without looking!
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I was just telling someone the other day that itâs surprising/weird that there are no LAP coffee shops near me in
#Bergmannkiez
. It looks like those days are numbered
#kreuzberg
#berlin
3 months ago
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
3 months ago
ooh well done
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Olga Nesterova
3 months ago
#NOKINGS
New York City, NY
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maura quint
3 months ago
Harrisburg, PA â there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago
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Constance Chucholowski
3 months ago
Berlin, see you tomorrow! Saturday October 18th, 2pm, Pariser Platz
#NoKings
@demsabroad.bsky.social
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Gabe OrtĂz
3 months ago
âThereâs been times where I have sat back in my house and really wondered how I was going to feed my family,â said one single mom of three. She warns that thereâs âgoing to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlersâ:
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Costa Samaras
3 months ago
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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Don Moynihan
3 months ago
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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derek guy
3 months ago
i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"
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Chris Geidner
3 months ago
Todayâs capitulation.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Since the first time I had birria (I think it was at the taqueria el oso pop-up in Berlin) I thought it had delicious similarities to Taiwanese or Chinese beef noodle soup. Last night in Santa Cruz I got to eat birria ramen, and a personal Asian-Latino fusion dream came true. Thanks Tacos El Chuy!
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Finding time to write for myself is a perennial struggle. I worry it mean that I'm not taking enough time to think -> some meandering thoughts in my latest post on my personal blog
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Finding time to write for myself is a perennial struggle. I worry it mean that I'm not taking enough time to think -> some meandering thoughts in my latest post on my personal blog
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Iâm sure a Google Maps product manager got promoted for this brilliant feature that sends you (checks notes) identical notifications multiple times an hour after searching for restaurants.
#enshittification
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Amy
3 months ago
Highly recommend listening to this episode. Paraphrasing what stuck with me the most. I listened yesterday. Dissents are important and are not about today. We are writing for a future society. We have a mandate to bear witness.
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Ida Bae Wells
3 months ago
My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope youâll listen to this episode of Cannonball
@nytimes.com
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Since the announcements (and airport website!) are just calling this a âtechnical issueâ of a âservice provider,â want to share that things seem mostly okay at
#BER
#airport
. Long luggage drop-off lines; security slow but not unusually so. HOWEVER, for boarding:
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Anil Dash
3 months ago
This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.
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Gabe OrtĂz
3 months ago
She âsaid that she tried to tell the agents that her baby was due w/in days. 'OK, your baby is going to be born here, but you're from Mexico, right?' they responded. 'I was born here,' LĂłpez Alvarado later told Spanish-language media. 'I was born in Los Angeles; I was born in Hollywood Hospital.'"
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Sumitra Badrinathan
3 months ago
i donât think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
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Hanaaâ Tameez
4 months ago
This story â which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 â is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
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From reckoning to retreat: Journalismâs DEI efforts are in decline
Diversity-related newsroom jobs haven't totally disappeared â but they also haven't stuck.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from-reckoning-to-retreat-newsrooms-dei-efforts-are-in-decline/
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