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Taking a look around. @
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@sovereign.tech
he/him Berlin, Germany
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Travis Mason-Bushman
about 21 hours 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
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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
8 days 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!
13 days ago
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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
17 days 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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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
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#kreuzberg
#berlin
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
22 days ago
ooh well done
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Olga Nesterova
22 days ago
#NOKINGS
New York City, NY
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maura quint
22 days 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
24 days ago
Berlin, see you tomorrow! Saturday October 18th, 2pm, Pariser Platz
#NoKings
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Gabe OrtĂz
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
powen.net/not-writing-...
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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
powen.net/not-writing-...
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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
about 2 months ago
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Amy
about 2 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
about 2 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:
about 2 months ago
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Anil Dash
about 2 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
about 2 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
about 2 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
about 2 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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Cristian Farias
2 months ago
The New Yorker asked me âhow badâ todayâs Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
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Gabe OrtĂz
2 months ago
Good morning. Immigrants are
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Alon (they/them)
2 months ago
1. The elevator accessibility situation in Germany is steadily improving, but problems remain, especially with the Berlin S-Bahn. Some links to news stories from the last month or so. đ§”
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Mike McCarthy
3 months ago
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Sarah has a suggestion
2 months ago
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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Made it to Amsterdam where itâs a beautiful Sunday evening: many thanks to the train deities for looking out for me⊠and the view from the upper floor. A brief idyllic moment before the excitement of
#OSSummit
revs up. Say hi and donât miss my sessions on Tuesday đ
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Sovereign Tech Agency
3 months ago
We're at
#OSSEU
next week! Look for Powen Shiah, Mirko Swillus, Tara Tarakiyee, & Paloma Oliveira in Amsterdam đłđ±Â Here is what weâre up to: Panel âSecuring Europeâs Open Source Infrastructure: A Technical Case for an EU-wide Sovereign Tech Fundâ đ Tue, August 26 â° 11:00 đ D203 (Elicium Levek 2)
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Deborah Cole
3 months ago
When a TikTok influencer mocked the makeup of Turkish German women, the ensuing debate reopened old wounds between the homeland and the diaspora
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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âProxy warâ â Turkish TikTok makeup row exposes tensions with German diaspora
When an influencer mocked the makeup of Turkish German women, the ensuing debate reopened old wounds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/proxy-war-turkish-tiktok-makeup-row-exposes-tensions-with-german-diaspora
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Victor Ray
3 months ago
I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.
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parker higgins
3 months ago
man it's so perfect that the shutdown date is at the end of sept. bookending Eternal September, 9/93-9/25
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access
Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/aol-will-finally-end-1991-dial-up-internet-service-thats-older-than-smartphones/
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Weâre having another
#Kreuzberg
Kiez pub night w/@demsabroad in
#Berlin
tonight at SĂŒdblock (at Kottbusser Tor) starting from 7pm. Looks like perfect weather for an evening get-together outdoors:
www.democratsabroad.org/adonisabuyen...
RSVP not required but appreciated!
#americansabroad
#demsabroad
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Spotted earlier today in
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#Kreuzberg
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Gillian Branstetter
3 months ago
If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK
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derek guy
3 months ago
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
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Philip Bump
3 months ago
World War II pro-American propaganda.
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jamelle
3 months ago
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE8.OH90.szLEEZzJk0bE&smid=url-share
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Katharin Tai æŽæșçł
3 months ago
Excellent (as always) explainer from
@reveleth.com
on the depressing return of sex testing in athletics. If you're interested in this topic and haven't yet, definitely listen to their podcast "Tested", which dives into this topic super deeply from the science, historical & human angles!
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Sam Cole
3 months ago
when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day
www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
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The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.
https://www.404media.co/steam-itchio-collective-shout-nsfw-games-campaign/
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