this right here

been thinking about it a lot and realized the most powerful reaction to the whole correspondents dinner is "don't care" not in a "this is good" way. just "someone tried to kill the president? eh, we've got other shit going on"

Written in the aftermath of the first Trump assassination attempt: "I think it's all going to be a bit too much to take if we're also to be blamed by the bullies who made this world for us, when they suddenly take some shrapnel, too." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

I would rather not live in a world of easy violence, but whenever anything inevitably happens to one of these thoughts and prayers motherfuckers I'll save my grief for people who didn't actively choose this reality for us.

The people who force us to live in a violent country really thought they wouldn't have to live in a violent country along with us. They thought other people would do the dying for them. When one of them catches one of the strays they put in the air to catch us, what are we supposed to do but shrug.

"It's normal to have a couple of pints at lunch..." No, it actually isn't. That hasn't been socially acceptable in *decades*. I'd never have dreamed of doing it while I was in the mainstream workforce and I don't know anyone else who would either.

Lol no it isn't normal to stink of alcohol at work. You only think it is if you're a member of the media/banking/political class, who as a rule have a lot of boozy lunches in London bars and restaurants that other people pay for.

The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2

Yay infrastructure! 🧰 @marvins.bsky.social cial and @janabernhard.bsky.social present a first usecase between @medem.bsky.social l AmCAT instance and @iriscc.bsky.social sky.social climate reporting dataset. at #COMPTEXT2026

Mit der Theorie im Kopf, könnte es sein, dass die sich bald fragen, ob es auch Teil von Orbán‘s genialem Plan war, dass er später wegen Korruption ins Gefängnis geht, um alles glaubwürdiger erscheinen zu lassen 🤣

Wenn ihr euch fragt wie die drüben auf Twitter mit der Abwahl Orbáns Umgehen - richtig gut. Wir sind jetzt zwischen der Negieren- und Verhandeln-Phase.

Im Innenministerium ist gerade eine Bombe geplatzt: Gerhard Karner zeigt eine ÖVP-Personalvertreterin an, weil sie die Daten von 36.000 Cops geleaked hat. Sie wurde von der Disziplinarbehörde verurteilt - aber die Staatsanwaltschaft wurde bis heute nicht informiert. www.falter.at/zeitung/2026...

One of the greatest headlines ever made

Terrific www.wsj.com/business/air...

it's a veritable who's who of people who can go fuck themselves

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

running to the Nazi website to complain that people were being mean to you for hitting the red carpet at Nazi Prom

How dare Hannah Spencer suggest that it might not be the best idea for MPs to be stinking of booze while they’re meant to be doing their jobs.

(Not a historian, obv.) I used to think it was silly that the main story of Star Wars played out over only a couple of generations, but I've since realised that almost nothing we build actually survives beyond living memory in any practical way.

This does seem like very poor judgment for a company whose entire customer base is people who write and draw by hand.

I made a short film! It’s called ‘DUCKS’ (Music and Sound by the incredible Megalithic Sound, everything else by me) youtu.be/L8vZbIeAdAw?... #animation #ducks #shortfilm #independentfilm #3d #cgi

Timeline cleanse!

friend: just skim & tell me if it's ready to submit me:

This is why your local voice and your local vote matters: today more than ever.

Ich hab das jetzt gelesen. Und ja es ist so schlimm, wie der Titel vermuten lässt. Muss halt jedes Medium selber wissen, wen es gut bezahlte Texte schreiben lässt.

Given, as it appears, that most of them will not be built anyway, we may be ok.

In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

[trying to figure out if my friend’s new boyfriend is on the spectrum] is he… you know… a friend of the metropolitan transportation authority

Donald Trump steht ganz, ganz, ganz, ganz schlecht da. Ganz schlecht.

It really is substantially more likely that some guy wanted to shoot some people (or one man in particular) than that the government staged a false flag attack. Running towards conspiracy thinking is naive and you should be embarrassed. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

No clip has ever captured the essence of born again Christians quite like this

The thing is, you can't really separate genAI from its power consumption (and hence environmental effects) because the whole technology is a piece of processing sleight of hand.

Luckily, this isn't quite true - 1977 to 2003 is 26 years. But it *is* true of the following songs: Atomic, Funkytown, Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Upside Down, Ladies' Night, Fame, Going Underground, Xanadu, Ashes to Ashes, and Super Trouper.

How to serve an iceberg lettuce

"So werden Männer zu Opfern gemacht. Niemand hat das besser erkannt, als die Kronen Zeitung, die, stets an der Seite der wahrhaft Belästigten, besorgt fragte: "Wie leben Sie mit diesem Alptraum?"" Der Text ist wirklich köstlich

ORF-Moderator @stefanlenglinger.bsky.social hat die ORF-Krise ziemlich großartig eingeordnet. Es ist eine Krise des Managements und der parteipolitischen Kontrollorgane. Keine der journalistischen Arbeit. Respekt! youtube.com/watch?v=X9zN...

Damit das nicht ganz untergeht: die EU hat die Sanktionen gegen russische Medien ausgeweitet (oder zumindest versucht, sie etwas effektiver zu machen): sie gelten nicht mehr nur für die ausdrücklich gelisteten, sondern auch für "vergleichbare Organisationen". Im Blog: blog.lehofer.at/2026/04/sank...

Das Wohnhaus in der Weiglgasse 4 (15. Bezirk) mit den charakteristischen runden Fenstern und Auskragungen wurde in den 1980er-Jahren errichtet. Geplant wurde es von Johann Georg Gsteu (1927-2013), von dem u.a. Pläne für Kirchen, U-Bahn-Stationen und Gemeindebauten stammen. Foto: 2026

Der Bau des Dachausbaus in der Johnstraße 1-3 (14. Bezirk) geht voran. Das 1911 errichtete Gebäude erhält somit zwei neue Stockwerke. Foto: März 2026

In Meidling - Hermann-Glück-Weg 1 - wurde 2022 ein Pflegeheim der ÖJAB fertiggestellt, das mit freundlicher Architektur überzeugt: 214 Wohn- und Pflegeplätze, Café im Erdgeschoß, Sockel mit Klinkerfassade, stellenweise Glasfassade, viele Balkone mit vertikaler Begrünung. Planung: b18 Architekten

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

Der Datenschutz wird in Österreich echt sehr großzügig ausgelegt.

I get that a soldier betting money (or being able to bet money) on the outcome of their own mission is self-evidently reprehensible, but I can't help thinking of it in terms of sports. Like, athletes betting on their own games is bad because they're able to influence the results.

There's a kind of reflexive assumption in leftist spaces that Britain took the Falklands from Argentina, and also that Argentina itself isn't a colonial state because something something Latin America, but it basically is just two nations fighting over some rocks neither has any inherent claim to.

This Friday, 24 April 2026, meet CCL at #LangeNachtderForschung @univie.ac.at main building: 📍C04: How do social issues compete for public attention? 📍H01: What changes when we listen to literature? 📍E03: How do political emotions shape climate communication? Find us 👇

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Bei vielen Diskussionen am Rande mitbekommen: Obwohl @kaltenbrunnera.bsky.social gerade eine sehr wichtige Studie zur Journalismusförderung-NEU präsentiert hat, scheint bei vielen weiterhin der Beißreflex gegen den ORF im Fokus zu bleiben. Die Branche tut sich damit keinen Gefallen.

📢 Open data is not enough if it cannot be found, understood, linked, and reused. That is why MEDem welcomes the @dfg.de call to strengthen resilient research data infrastructures, especially for Democracy Research hat depends on linking diverse data across countries and time. 🔗 shorturl.at/VLdLC