To the US women ice hockey team: I take my hat off to your win and to the way you dealt with the Trump administration trying to use you to improve their ratings (which are the LOWEST in history, you've never seen anything like it). To the US men's ice hockey team: What were you thinking??????????

How can US ice-hockey players parading a deceased teammate's jersey be a 'beautiful gesture' and a Ukrainian skeleton rider wearing a helmet with uncommented pictures of dead teammates a 'political statement'? Did the politicisation of the helmet happen in the heads of the IOC who disqualified him?

Very powerful thread.

So happy that First Felon pleaser Infantilino may be excluded from the IOC for being and wearing a First Felon supporting hat at the Board of Peace meeting.

"The Supreme Court has been swayed by foreign interests." (Trump on tariffs decision) 🤔

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

„Die Zitrone ist ziemlich ausgequetscht“ – Merz lehnt höheren Spitzensteuersatz ab Derweil die pralle Zitrone:

My hometown Halberstadt has its very own Olympic Champion now! Bravo, Georg Fleischhauer of the two-man bob team with Johannes Lochner! So proud. #MiCo2026

I hope Jeff Bezos thinks the money he sunk on the leaden duck that is the Melania documentary (our French/American friends call it 'Rich housewives') was worth it, given how he single-handedly sinks an institution of respected journalism to please... whom?

“OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT receives 1 million prompts per week for local news and acknowledged that journalism is foundational infrastructure for AI systems.” Smart move culling WaPo journalists, Bezos.

I cancelled my WaPo subscription. You're welcome, Bezos.

If the UK Parliament goes on to investigate the Peter Mandelson connection through Global Counsel with the UK government contract going in direct award to Palantir, could the result change the UK government's view of AI in general or even topple the UK government? www.theregister.com/2026/01/28/m...

There is only one Boss, and his name is not Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Mark Rutte’s encouragement to NATO allies talking about less US involvement to ‘dream on’ is decidedly unhelpful, especially given that his ‘daddy’ had quite clearly told him and the European allies to take care of their own defence. 👎

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Glad to read this morning that Greg Bovino is not only leaving Minnesota but has been kicked out of his post altogether: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Cowardly street execution of an ICU nurse and protester by masked and heavily armed ICE agents in the former 'beacon of democracy', the once-upon-a-time 'land of the free and the home of the brave'. 🤬

Dear Apple: after the tone-deaf participation of Tim Cooke at Melania Trump's documentary launch while Ales Pretti, an ICU nurse, was executed in Minneapolis, I pledge to change my two MacBook Pros, one iPad, one iMac and two iPhones for non-American products as quickly as I can afford to.

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...

We have a new category in mental health: the mentally insane. Thank you, DJT. #POTUS #pressbriefing

Slashed pharma prices by up to "400%". Again. As I said: madman's ramblings. #POTUS #pressbrief

OMG! Trump's one-year-in-office press conference is the ramblings of a madman!!!

@lequipedusoir.bsky.social How about the disallowed goal for Senegal only three minutes before the penalty for another fake foul?

"Greenland is critical not only to our national security, but to the national security of the entire world.” A Yale law graduate said this. I thank him for giving me one moment of hilarity during this most worrying start to any year of my time on Earth.

In-depth take by @scottlucas.bsky.social with the @ceoretort.com on the kidnapping of Maduro and US plans to 'run' the country, establishing interesting links between global reactions to this to other ongoing geopolitical issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLo7...

While Trump accuses the EU of censorship (X), new rules for visa-waiver country tourists include handing over mobile phone numbers and social media activity for the last 5 years and emails used for the last 10 years. eu.usatoday.com/story/travel...

You’re almost correct. Not the pandemic, but the virus itself. It causes 🧠 (and other organ) damage. theconversation.com/mounting-res...

It may sound stupid but to those who want their writing to be attributed to them and not AI, use pen and paper. Assuming that if you just wanted to copy AI slop, you wouldn't bother to sit down and copy it in long-hand. 🤭

This girl behind me on the train snorts noisily the whole time. Clearly hasn’t been taught basic manners. Nobody else does it but nobody else complains. Is it acceptable to do this now?

'Neither democracy nor republic is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, a document that nevertheless expresses clearly that governments should be established “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”' www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/demo...

For an interesting recent take on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and the weird South African executive orders by #FirstFellon (like offering asylum to white rich South Africans), here a French documentary (you might need a VPN): www.france.tv/france-5/la-...

Robert Badinter's entrance into the Pantheon tonight. Advocate for the abolition of the death penalty who succeeded in getting it officially abolished. I like how the French came up with a way to 'canonise' their most deserving citizens in a secular way.

Ich mag gar nicht daran denken, was passiert, wenn meine Eltern Hilfe brauchen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/er...

I'm stumped at migrants being 'forced to volunteer in their communities', as I heard it put today on the radio, to qualify for indefinite leave to remain under Labour plans. Does anyone else cringe at the clash of mutually exclusive concepts being expressed here? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

How does Rachel Reeves' idea to get young people into a job, even if they have to be forced to accept one, square with the ILO centenary declaration on securing 'full, productive and freely chosen employment'? UK is a signatory. ILO: www.ilo.org/sites/defaul... Labour: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

Question: is it okay for a news speaker to say the suspect of Charlie Kirk's assassination has been 'caught' when everything we heard on the preceding programme maintained that the suspect gave himself up? That's how misinformation starts. #mindthelanguage

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Maybe the message of withdrawing from Eurovision isn't clear but we should also look at the message of simply nodding Isreal along, no matter what happens there. That is a message, too, and one I don't support.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Summer read 2025 Well, the summer is pretty much over, so it's really a bit late for recommendations but the world is somewhat upside down, anyway, when one takes a book like this on holidays to read because otherwise there is just not the time to read more than a few lines a day before falling…

www.propublica.org/article/wate... But, but, but... the tech-broligarchy needs water for their data centres!

I cannot add much to this. From a bourgeois nationalist turned democrat to a girl from East Germany, we share this opinion. #Lübeck #ThomasMann

La tapisserie de Bayeux date de la fin du XIᵉ siècle. Elle est donc âgée de près d’un millénaire. Sa conservation, malgré les nombreuses vicissitudes qu’elle a traversées, relève du miracle. C’est l’une des œuvres majeures de l’histoire de l’humanité, que nous devons préserver. chng.it/hJsXGXyByW

Quiet summer evening on a rooftop in Paris. #iphonography

“He (Farage) started saying I (Raskin) was the most pig-headed person he had ever seen.” I find this somewhat hard to believe as my impression is that Farage is vain enough to look into a mirror several times every day. 🤭 www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/nige...

France will establish formal diplomatic relations with Palestine, President Emmanuel Macron said today.

Why are governments all over the world falling over themselves to let US tech companies spy on the people who electing them and whom they are supposed to work for??? A petition against the German government contracting Palantir surveillance software for the police. aktion.campact.de/s/Palantir/lc

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Summer rain.

I took two pictures of the same dandelion at Gladstone Park in NW London in 2009 that I chanced upon today and put them together as an exercise in depth of field.

Friday evening before the thunderstorm. Drifting into the weekend... I wish you all a nice one.