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Tobias Merkendorf

@tmkdf.bsky.social

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Parenting and Pedaling Rugby and IP laws Washing and Warmachines Cold war temperate climate kid Giggling Cardbox Master of pillow forts Calculated mediocrity Somewhere on the fringes of the lowlands and industrial wastes of the Ruhr.

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 7h

Muss.

(My favourite answer to how you are? Muss. Meaning one must carry on or what can you do.)

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 8h

As a German this sounds familiar*…

*results may vary by region.

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 9h

Well… a) you are probably well aware of it anyway and b) I don’t want to stoke your inner anglophobe: what region of the world was a prime destination for English knights wet crusading dreams? Starts with P…

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 9h

Da war es um die Preussen durch die „Preussen“ schon geschehen.

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 9h

bsky.app/profile/dov....

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10h

German use of the word "Prussia" is a 770 year old copyright violation and nothing more

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Huly @huly.bsky.social · 9h

Gegenstandpunkt: Preußen-Disneyville ist einfach nur anders provinzial und andere Städte in Deutschland können auch international sein.

Patrice G. Poutrus🔻aka Icke @poutrusicke.bsky.social · 10h

Es gibt viel an #Berlin rumzumeckern, aber dass es sich so anfühlt "als gehöre es kaum noch zu #Deutschland", das schätze ich an der deutschen #Metropole sehr, wie auch an jeder anderen Weltstadt. Der Rest ist reaktionärer #Provinzialismus der bereits vor 100 Jahren zum Ende der Republik beitrug...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 9h

Er ist Sohn, und was bist du?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 10h

Cologne on a Saturday… crowded.

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 11h

Ärztin auf der Couch wirft Biotin in’ Raum für die Nägel.

Die ist aber mit Online-Rucksackkauf abgelenkt.

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 11h

Anekdotische Evidenz beste.

Aber im Zweifelsfall erhöhst du damit einfach deine Proteinaufnahme.

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 11h

Gummibärchen?

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Patrick Heinemann @patrickheinemann.bsky.social · 12h

Alles okay, @faznet.bsky.social?

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 15h

OpenAI's 1.2 GW Abilene, TX data center is powered by a 200 MW electrical substation and a second-tier gas turbine generator because there's no power plant, and other crazy bubble notes from Ed Zitron.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbles-impossible-promises/

Don’t worry, you don’t need to look. I’m sure you were just about to, but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200MW of power — a 200MW substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350MWs of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year.

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 17h

Healthy signs of an unhealthy economy.

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RickChasey @rickchasey.bsky.social · 18h

Americans “oH wE dOnT nEeD ESG”

What the fuck do they think the G in ESG stands for?!

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18h

According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 18h

Which is also the case for Danes in Germany btw

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 18h

The Chinese have been saying the quiet bit ("we want to use rare earths as an economic weapon", basically) out loud for many, many years. It just took us all a long time to actually think they were serious.

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 18h

In the same vein, from the same book.

May 2019 as Xi Jinping touted a rare earths processing plant in Jiangxi following Huawei’s addition to the entity list.

People's Daily: "Don't say you were not warned"

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 20h

Solange die keine eigenen Konzepte und Narrative voranbringen wird es nichts…

Kreislauf.

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 20h

Sozialfaschismus oder so…

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 20h

Es ist so „schön“ dass man mittels der Einspeisevergütung das Alter der Anlage schätzen kann…

Tobias Merkendorf @tmkdf.bsky.social · 21h

Pacta sunt servanda! Iudex non calculat!

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 1d

The inability of the US and Europe to build an own supply of rare earth refining - knowing for years it was a huge vulnerability - must be one of the most catastrophic policy failures of the decade.

One reason it‘s hard: the West cannot free trade its way out when China controls the price mechanism

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