Little Moldova shows the big countries how it's done. #ShareGoodNewsToo

While I'm going on about German politics — Immediately after the federal elections, the AfD leader tried to blur the lines between her party and the CDU, basically saying they were AfD-lite. And Merz stands for a lot of things I'm not going to like, but his counter was instant, and definite. 1/

The AfD continued its losing streak today in Germany's most populous states. In all three cities where the party had reached the runoff for mayor, it lost in a big way. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, and in Hagen 72-28. More please!

The AfD keeps losing in Germany's eastern states, pass it on.

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Well done, and keep doing! What if we built a better world, and it was beautiful and awesome?

For all you werewolves out there.

Happy Petrov Day! Optional musical accompaniment to this post: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oldb...

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Winning!

The AfD keeps losing municipal elections in Germany's eastern states. #ShareGoodNewsToo

Dude.

Putting the bully in bully pulpit.

"Fascinating."

Man, Wilhoit's Law is getting one hell of a workout these days.

🎶 We don't talk about Jeffrey

Today in "Somebody Asked a Germanist"

Berlin moment.

Happy Mettwoch everybody!

Boom, there it is.

www.reddit.com/r/ImageComic... Come hang!!!

SEE?

Scorching indeed.

Sales of electric vehicles are up a bunch in Europe. #ShareGoodNewsToo In a measure of how toxic Elon Musk has become in this market of 450 million people, while total sales grew by nearly 40% Tesla's sales are down by 38%.

Berlin moment.

This good to keep in mind: the aim is not to convince, it's to confuse.

Today in, "Wait, what??" (Also, the explanation here www.sciencenews.org/article/cent... , which was linked from the Science article, was clearer to me.)

oooh, neat! (Also: "My God, it's full of streams")

Age verification: Programs on punch cards. FORTRAN.

Ok, this is legit hilarious.

No science fiction book written by a woman between 1980 and 1991 is among the 75 best in the field's history. 1/

Is there a better working definition out there?

Yes, please.

AfD lost twice in local elections today. Pass it on.

The Meh Wall of China

Far be it from me, an internet rando who has been out of both publishing and academia for a Long Time Now, to tell people what to do — but a company getting £75,000,000 for articles they did not write, did not check, and did not edit brings the words "Fuck you, pay me" rather quickly to mind. 1/

More red flags than a May Day parade in Peking!

The commander in Saving Private Ryan was, what, an English teacher? And Sgt. York (WWI, obvsly) first sought conscientious objector status on the grounds that his Christian denomination forbade violence.

Kinda bummed to discover (however belatedly) that Yoon Ha Lee left bluesky. I sure enjoyed his low-key engagement, and occasional brief exchanges about Baton Rouge were really neat. Ah well.

Narrator: This screenshot was taken on September 2, 2025.

Dude. Duuuuude. HOW AWESOME IS THIS??

This one goes to eleven.

This is the way.

Cold-cocked a codger in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Wrong answers only.

Look at that gorgeous galaxy! Light in this picture left its sources about the time the first bees appeared among life on earth.

Here comes the sun #ShareGoodNewsToo

Today in "Ask a Germanist..."

Quote with your favorite books you're read so far this year. #Booksky They Were Found Wanting by Miklós Bánffy The Incandescent by Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher @tkingfisher.com

"a quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing"