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Nanebe 🇪🇺 @nanebe.bsky.social · 21h

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Tortendiagramm:
Was in der EU problemlos verboten werden kann:
Blau - Gendern (nimmt die Hälfte der Torte ein)
Orange - Veggie-Wurst (andere Hälfte)
grün - verfassungsfeindliche Parteien (kommt im Diagramm nicht vor)

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DennisKBerlin @denniskberlin.bsky.social · 14h

Ich werde seine Musik vermutlich nie mögen, aber als Typ wird mir #Finch immer sympathischer.

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 19h

„Der Nächste ist nicht der, den ich mag. Er ist ein jeder, der mir nahe kommt."

Edith Stein geb. 12. Oktober 1891 - 9. August 1942 gestorben im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau

Ein etwas unscharfes Bild von ihr. Sie trägt helle Kleidung, schaut in die Kamera, hat ein leicht rundliches Gesicht, eine Hand hat sie am Kinn. Die andere Hand hält ein Stück Papier.

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DennisKBerlin @denniskberlin.bsky.social · 14h

Am 6. Januar 2021 war Donald Trump Präsident der USA.

Jo Biden wurde erst 14 Tage später, am 20. Januar 2021 der 46. Präsident der USA.

Aber wen interessieren schon Fakten?

Posting von Donald Trump auf Truth Social
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING! President DJT

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 14h

Ye who bringeth Peace…

Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 14h

Bevor Trump als großer Friedensstifter in den Nahen Osten abhebt, weist er seine Parteifreunde (implizit insbesondere Justizministerin Bondi und FBI-Chef Patel) an, den Rachefeldzug gegen seine Gegner in den USA zu verschärfen.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 16h

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.bsky.social · 1d

Always make sure to read the Letters to the Editor in @lrb.co.uk

Dirty Books:
Barbara Newman, writing about Boccaccio, notes that ‘in modern Italian, the adjective boccaccesco mean “lascivious”’ (LRB, 14 August). She might have added that in the UK, ‘Chaucerian’ means about the same, though with a scatological edge. Meanwhile here in Japan the Decameron has a special following because slang for ‘big’ is deca and for ‘penis’ is Mara, while ron means ‘a treatise’.

Timon Screech, Kyoto

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Suddenly the military is getting paid on the 15th?

It would’ve been easier to call Johnson, but he didn’t.

This validates his fear of the Epstein files.

When robbing the military piggy bank, is a better option than simply having the house pass a standalone bill to fund the military - it’s bad.

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 16h

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 16h

Either a liar or demented—most likely both.

Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 1d

Guess who was "President" on January 6?

I'll tell you cos you don't have 2 brain cells to rub together. Hope the "advanced imagery" was a Brain MRI.

It was YOU, DJT. Pffft 🖕

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Dad In Detroit @dadindetroit.bsky.social · 19h

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Carrie @carebear620.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 20h

Rep. Jason Crow is a former Army Ranger who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the 82nd Airborne Division and the elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 16h

Boomer humour. 😄😂🤣

Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps you are listening to a different drummer.

Comic: 2 animals are talking

1 Whose drummer was Keith Moon?
2 Right.
1 Whose?
2 Yes.
1 What's the name?
2 Watts is the drummer for the Rolling Stones.
1 I don't care about the Rolling Stones. Whose drummer is Keith Moon?
2 You are correct there.
1 Where?
2 Weir was the guitarist for the Grateful Dead.
1 How is he relevant?
2 Howe is the guitarist for a different band.
1 Who?!
2 Yes.
1 The Who?!
2 No. Yes. Who's guitarist is Pete Townshend.
1 I don't know!!
2 Third Base!!

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Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps you are listening to a different drummer.

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 17h

Da heißt es immer, man dürfe nicht mehr alles sagen…

Stefan Niggemeier @niggi.bsky.social · 18h

Manchmal fragt man sich ja, was für Leute eigentlich auf Donald Trumps Propaganda hereinfallen. Nun: der Chefredakteur der „Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung“, Burkhard Ewert. (1/2)

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 18h

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 20h

12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism & became a theologian & a Carmelite nun.

She was murdered in #Auschwitz in August 1942.
Stein was beatified in 1987 and canonized in October 1998.

Black and white portrait of Edith Stein seated with hands clasped, wearing a dark blouse and a wristwatch, looking directly at the camera.

Black and white photo of Edith Stein wearing a traditional Carmelite religious habit, featuring a solemn facial expression.

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 19h

Der Präsident am 6. Januar 2021 hieß… (nicht Joe Biden). Und die FBI-Beamten wurden nach Beginn der Randale zu deren Kontrolle ans Kapitol geschickt, hat Trumps FBI-Chef Kash Patel klargestellt. 🤔

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 19h

Library downsizing trauma?
#books #reading

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 22h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 20h

Had to look it up. Learned sth. new.

Renegade Roo @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social · 1d

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 20h

Great, scary read, considering the real-life background.

Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 1d

Won some swag from friendly local bookshop for having the 6th oldest Penguin in PN. Yay for my 1954 reprint of Mitford's "Pursuit of Love", which I still haven't read yet.

LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social · 20h

Da heißt es immer, Deutsche hätten es nicht so mit absurdem Humor

DennisKBerlin @denniskberlin.bsky.social · 20h

Drüben bei der Welt gab es wieder lecker Lack zum Mittag.

Welt Screenshot
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ISRAEL-GAZA-KONFLIKT
Netanjahus Tragödie
Wenn jemand den Friedensnobelpreis verdient hätte, dann Benjamin Netanyahu.

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