Owe Jessen
@owejessen.de
Risk manager; R dilettante; Ceterum censeo: Poe's law is more relevant today than ever. Trying not to feed the trolls.
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Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order
My understanding is that, at the height of the "drone war on terror" that when the military officer thought the legality of a particular strike was legally dubious, they'd have a CIA guy actually "pull the trigger". I wonder if that is happening in our current "War on Fishing Boats"?
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order
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You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
I follower a few defense experts.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
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"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
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Ach guck, in Spanien geht das problemlos.
"José Luis Ábalos muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in U-Haft. Dem Ex-Minister drohen bis zu 24 Jahre Haft – es geht um Maskenkäufe während der Corona-Pandemie."
#SpahnUntersuchungsausschuss
"José Luis Ábalos muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in U-Haft. Dem Ex-Minister drohen bis zu 24 Jahre Haft – es geht um Maskenkäufe während der Corona-Pandemie."
#SpahnUntersuchungsausschuss
Spanien: Oberster Gerichtshof ordnet Untersuchungshaft gegen Ex-Verkehrsminister an
José Luis Ábalos muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in U-Haft. Dem Ex-Minister drohen bis zu 24 Jahre Haft – es geht um Maskenkäufe während der Corona-Pandemie.
www.n-tv.de
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ach guck, in Spanien geht das problemlos.
"José Luis Ábalos muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in U-Haft. Dem Ex-Minister drohen bis zu 24 Jahre Haft – es geht um Maskenkäufe während der Corona-Pandemie."
#SpahnUntersuchungsausschuss
"José Luis Ábalos muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in U-Haft. Dem Ex-Minister drohen bis zu 24 Jahre Haft – es geht um Maskenkäufe während der Corona-Pandemie."
#SpahnUntersuchungsausschuss
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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Der Artikel erzählt, wie die #Impfung gegen Smallpox (Pocken) mit dem Impfstoff aus Cowpox (Kuhpocken) nicht nur Leben rettete, sondern sofort massiven Widerstand hervorrief.
Eine der damaligen Ängste war, dass Frauen durch Impfen Kühe gebären könnten.
www.openculture.com/2021/11/how-...
Eine der damaligen Ängste war, dass Frauen durch Impfen Kühe gebären könnten.
www.openculture.com/2021/11/how-...
How the World’s First Anti-Vax Movement Started with the First Vaccine for Smallpox in 1796, and Spread Fears of People Getting Turned into Half-Cow Babies
A cartoon from a December 1894 anti-vaccination publication (Courtesy of The Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
For well over a century people have queued up to g...
www.openculture.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Der Artikel erzählt, wie die #Impfung gegen Smallpox (Pocken) mit dem Impfstoff aus Cowpox (Kuhpocken) nicht nur Leben rettete, sondern sofort massiven Widerstand hervorrief.
Eine der damaligen Ängste war, dass Frauen durch Impfen Kühe gebären könnten.
www.openculture.com/2021/11/how-...
Eine der damaligen Ängste war, dass Frauen durch Impfen Kühe gebären könnten.
www.openculture.com/2021/11/how-...
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The 🇩🇰Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) & Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles has signed a framework agreement of up to 1,000 HX & TG trucks. The initial order is for 100 trucks for the 1st (heavy infantry) Brigade. The Army has 215 MAN SX45 8x8 og MAN HX77 8x8
November 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The 🇩🇰Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) & Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles has signed a framework agreement of up to 1,000 HX & TG trucks. The initial order is for 100 trucks for the 1st (heavy infantry) Brigade. The Army has 215 MAN SX45 8x8 og MAN HX77 8x8
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German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
German academia: great place to work? You should think twice before giving it a try: Permanent positions are very rare, most scholars have to drop out after some precarious years. @dianakwon.bsky.social has written a great piece about this for @nature.com and also talked to yours truly. #IchBinHanna
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I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I don’t think this is a “politicians have got dumber” issue for the most part. If you look at the *actual CVs* of previous cohorts of MPs, their background is not radically different when you account for, you know, the fact the economy is different! It is primarily a media and ecosystem issue.
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It’s the family in the middle, who included their horse that tugged on my working class heart strings …..
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s the family in the middle, who included their horse that tugged on my working class heart strings …..
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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It's possible that the CIA is working with Venezuelans like this in Venezuela right now.
Gift link.
Gift link.
The National Guard shooting suspect was in one of the CIA’s ‘Zero Units’
The man charged with shooting two National Guard members in D.C. is an Afghan national who came to the United States in September 2021 and worked with the CIA.
wapo.st
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's possible that the CIA is working with Venezuelans like this in Venezuela right now.
Gift link.
Gift link.
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This is still the America most Americans want.
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is still the America most Americans want.
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Sometimes, when I feel like linguistically confusing my fellow German citizens, I explain to them that not only does my wife's or my daughter's name have a different ending (Bartkowski vs Bartkowska); as a family, we are Bartkowscy, but the women on their own are Bartkowskie🤡
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sometimes, when I feel like linguistically confusing my fellow German citizens, I explain to them that not only does my wife's or my daughter's name have a different ending (Bartkowski vs Bartkowska); as a family, we are Bartkowscy, but the women on their own are Bartkowskie🤡
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My Thanksgiving to-do list vs. my friend’s. Outcome was the same—we both fed a bunch of people. But whoo-doggy did we use different tactics (and, okay, his probably tasted better)😆
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM
My Thanksgiving to-do list vs. my friend’s. Outcome was the same—we both fed a bunch of people. But whoo-doggy did we use different tactics (and, okay, his probably tasted better)😆
Der Ballsaal soll 0,8 Hektar groß werden.
My favorite part of this story is that the architect finds himself in the position that so many people who make a deal with Trump find themselves in….
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Der Ballsaal soll 0,8 Hektar groß werden.
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My favorite part of this story is that the architect finds himself in the position that so many people who make a deal with Trump find themselves in….
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My favorite part of this story is that the architect finds himself in the position that so many people who make a deal with Trump find themselves in….
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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"Nur etwa 76 Meter über dem Boden: Sieben deutsche Regionen sind künftig für das Training von Zielanflügen in Kampfjets freigegeben."
Oder wir die Fachleute sagen: REMMBREMM
Oder wir die Fachleute sagen: REMMBREMM
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"Nur etwa 76 Meter über dem Boden: Sieben deutsche Regionen sind künftig für das Training von Zielanflügen in Kampfjets freigegeben."
Oder wir die Fachleute sagen: REMMBREMM
Oder wir die Fachleute sagen: REMMBREMM
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Am Black Friday jetzt 100% auf alle Fußgänger und Radfahrende!
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Am Black Friday jetzt 100% auf alle Fußgänger und Radfahrende!