Kathrin
@puzzledpeaces.bsky.social
Rude AF hobbit, opinions on all the things, probably won't bite (too sleepy).
Typos in English, German, and Gibberish. she/her
Typos in English, German, and Gibberish. she/her
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Kathrin
@puzzledpeaces.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Being nice to people, not assuming bad faith, not picking fights, not quote dunking, just generally less aggro.
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YES YES YES YES. This is a pet peeve of mine and the fastest way to make me stop reading/playing.
Don't punish your readers for paying attention, or they'll stop doing that.
Don't punish your readers for paying attention, or they'll stop doing that.
I'm always confused when writers change the plot because a reader figured out what was coming. Surely that's good? Surely that means the breadcrumbs have been laid out appropriately?
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
YES YES YES YES. This is a pet peeve of mine and the fastest way to make me stop reading/playing.
Don't punish your readers for paying attention, or they'll stop doing that.
Don't punish your readers for paying attention, or they'll stop doing that.
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I'm always confused when writers change the plot because a reader figured out what was coming. Surely that's good? Surely that means the breadcrumbs have been laid out appropriately?
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I'm always confused when writers change the plot because a reader figured out what was coming. Surely that's good? Surely that means the breadcrumbs have been laid out appropriately?
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Brutal: Die georgische Polizei hat Wasserwerfern im letzten Jahr Bromobenzyl Cyanide (Camite) zugesetzt, ein Giftstoff, der im 1. Weltkrieg eingesetzt wurde. Er ist 10x stärker als CS-Tränengas, Nebenwirkungen dauern bis zu 30 Tage. #GeorgiaProtests
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.
www.bbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Brutal: Die georgische Polizei hat Wasserwerfern im letzten Jahr Bromobenzyl Cyanide (Camite) zugesetzt, ein Giftstoff, der im 1. Weltkrieg eingesetzt wurde. Er ist 10x stärker als CS-Tränengas, Nebenwirkungen dauern bis zu 30 Tage. #GeorgiaProtests
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Es ist so wichtig, dass das berichtet wird!
„Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy“ - schreibt @wired.com
Denn bei den wichtigsten Tech-Regeln ist die EU-Kommission derzeit auffällig zurückhaltend oder rudert sogar zurück
Siehe:
„Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy“ - schreibt @wired.com
Denn bei den wichtigsten Tech-Regeln ist die EU-Kommission derzeit auffällig zurückhaltend oder rudert sogar zurück
Siehe:
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Es ist so wichtig, dass das berichtet wird!
„Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy“ - schreibt @wired.com
Denn bei den wichtigsten Tech-Regeln ist die EU-Kommission derzeit auffällig zurückhaltend oder rudert sogar zurück
Siehe:
„Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy“ - schreibt @wired.com
Denn bei den wichtigsten Tech-Regeln ist die EU-Kommission derzeit auffällig zurückhaltend oder rudert sogar zurück
Siehe:
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Ein Satz, der noch nie über die Lippen eines Kanzlers oder einer Kanzlerin gekommen ist: "Ich störe mich an Neonazis im #Stadtbild. Ich störe mich an der Rückkehr der Hitlerscheitel, den Uniformen, den Hakenkreuzen und Sig-Runen auf Stromkästen und Häuserwänden."
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Ein Satz, der noch nie über die Lippen eines Kanzlers oder einer Kanzlerin gekommen ist: "Ich störe mich an Neonazis im #Stadtbild. Ich störe mich an der Rückkehr der Hitlerscheitel, den Uniformen, den Hakenkreuzen und Sig-Runen auf Stromkästen und Häuserwänden."
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Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.
We would all be healthier.
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
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I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
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A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
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Das Pfandsystem für Dosen und Flaschen hat Armut in Österreich noch viel sichtbarer und deutlicher gemacht. Ein wohnungsloser Pensionist, der täglich sammeln muss, würde sich, wenn er könnte, als Mahlzeit überbackene Schinkenfleckerl gönnen. Ist das nicht beschämend für unser Land? #amschauplatz
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Das Pfandsystem für Dosen und Flaschen hat Armut in Österreich noch viel sichtbarer und deutlicher gemacht. Ein wohnungsloser Pensionist, der täglich sammeln muss, würde sich, wenn er könnte, als Mahlzeit überbackene Schinkenfleckerl gönnen. Ist das nicht beschämend für unser Land? #amschauplatz
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If the student had done the assignment, if they'd cited sources, if they'd engaged with the prompt, it would have been fine, even if their worldview and that of their professor diverged.
They decided to throw a tantrum, and go to the media, to punish their professor for existing.
They decided to throw a tantrum, and go to the media, to punish their professor for existing.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
If the student had done the assignment, if they'd cited sources, if they'd engaged with the prompt, it would have been fine, even if their worldview and that of their professor diverged.
They decided to throw a tantrum, and go to the media, to punish their professor for existing.
They decided to throw a tantrum, and go to the media, to punish their professor for existing.
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Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
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COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
COMING SOON: AI + Guy™
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Why Europe has to act fast:
1. The more funding Europe gives Ukraine, the earlier the war can end with a Ukrainian victory.
2. Faster funding means less total cost.
3. It also means far less Ukrainian losses.
4. Which also cuts the reconstruction costs.
5. & safeguards democracy.
1. The more funding Europe gives Ukraine, the earlier the war can end with a Ukrainian victory.
2. Faster funding means less total cost.
3. It also means far less Ukrainian losses.
4. Which also cuts the reconstruction costs.
5. & safeguards democracy.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Why Europe has to act fast:
1. The more funding Europe gives Ukraine, the earlier the war can end with a Ukrainian victory.
2. Faster funding means less total cost.
3. It also means far less Ukrainian losses.
4. Which also cuts the reconstruction costs.
5. & safeguards democracy.
1. The more funding Europe gives Ukraine, the earlier the war can end with a Ukrainian victory.
2. Faster funding means less total cost.
3. It also means far less Ukrainian losses.
4. Which also cuts the reconstruction costs.
5. & safeguards democracy.
*instructor is apparently a trans person
*student's mom retweets calls to purge all trans people from teaching roles
(just to add context that seems to be getting lost in the pathetic academic standards of it all)
*student's mom retweets calls to purge all trans people from teaching roles
(just to add context that seems to be getting lost in the pathetic academic standards of it all)
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
*instructor is apparently a trans person
*student's mom retweets calls to purge all trans people from teaching roles
(just to add context that seems to be getting lost in the pathetic academic standards of it all)
*student's mom retweets calls to purge all trans people from teaching roles
(just to add context that seems to be getting lost in the pathetic academic standards of it all)
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Seit 5 Tagen läuft die internationale 16-tägige Kampagne gegen Gewalt an Frauen und wir hatten in dieser Zeit allein in Österreich einen Vater der seine Tochter niedergestochen hat, einen Ex-Freund der seine Freundin ermordet hat, und einen Mann der eine Frau aus dem Fenster stoßen wollte.
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Seit 5 Tagen läuft die internationale 16-tägige Kampagne gegen Gewalt an Frauen und wir hatten in dieser Zeit allein in Österreich einen Vater der seine Tochter niedergestochen hat, einen Ex-Freund der seine Freundin ermordet hat, und einen Mann der eine Frau aus dem Fenster stoßen wollte.
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Wenn Selenskyj davon spricht, den Krieg "würdig" zu beenden, dann ist das nicht "sprachlich bemerkenswert" oder ein Hinweis auf mögliche Konzessionen, sondern bezieht er sich auf die Maidanbewegung 2013/14, die die Ukrainer auch als "Revolution der Würde" bezeichnen
Gerne geschehen, #dasGespräch
Gerne geschehen, #dasGespräch
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wenn Selenskyj davon spricht, den Krieg "würdig" zu beenden, dann ist das nicht "sprachlich bemerkenswert" oder ein Hinweis auf mögliche Konzessionen, sondern bezieht er sich auf die Maidanbewegung 2013/14, die die Ukrainer auch als "Revolution der Würde" bezeichnen
Gerne geschehen, #dasGespräch
Gerne geschehen, #dasGespräch
Does he think the place where the treaty was signed is the place that dictates the rules? Or does he think his audience does?
“I don’t think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is” – Marco Rubio doesn’t even know and/or care about the most basic principle of international law: don’t use force unless you’re under attack. The US isn’t. Not by Venezuela, not by “narcoterrorists”. All this is BS.
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Does he think the place where the treaty was signed is the place that dictates the rules? Or does he think his audience does?
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Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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Geschlechtersensible Erziehung, „Ich mag das nicht, hör auf“, Konsens, ü Gefühle reden, Gefühlstagebuch, Selbstbewusstsein-WS, Reflexionsrunden usw usf - das sind alle Elemente e aktuellen KiGA-/Schulpädagogik. Alles um Burschen gut zu erziehen. Alles wird von der (extremen) Rechten massiv bekämpft.
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Geschlechtersensible Erziehung, „Ich mag das nicht, hör auf“, Konsens, ü Gefühle reden, Gefühlstagebuch, Selbstbewusstsein-WS, Reflexionsrunden usw usf - das sind alle Elemente e aktuellen KiGA-/Schulpädagogik. Alles um Burschen gut zu erziehen. Alles wird von der (extremen) Rechten massiv bekämpft.
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Wie kommt es eigentlich, dass easy bei den Sozialtranfers gekürzt wird, aber es nicht mal ansatzweise eine Diskussion über Reichen- oder Erbschaftssteuer gibt?
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Wie kommt es eigentlich, dass easy bei den Sozialtranfers gekürzt wird, aber es nicht mal ansatzweise eine Diskussion über Reichen- oder Erbschaftssteuer gibt?
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Cindy Speich im Interview: Influencerin »Die Bauleitung« trotzt dem Hass der Männer: Cindy Speich teilt Handwerkscontent auf Instagram, und viele Männer regt das auf. Online wie offline erlebt die 30-Jährige täglich Beleidigungen. Ihre spöttische Art, damit umzugehen, schadet ihrem Erfolg nicht –…
Cindy Speich im Interview: Influencerin »Die Bauleitung« trotzt dem Hass der Männer
Cindy Speich teilt Handwerkscontent auf Instagram, und viele Männer regt das auf. Online wie offline erlebt die 30-Jährige täglich Beleidigungen. Ihre spöttische Art, damit umzugehen, schadet ihrem Erfolg nicht – im Gegenteil.
www.spiegel.de
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Cindy Speich im Interview: Influencerin »Die Bauleitung« trotzt dem Hass der Männer: Cindy Speich teilt Handwerkscontent auf Instagram, und viele Männer regt das auf. Online wie offline erlebt die 30-Jährige täglich Beleidigungen. Ihre spöttische Art, damit umzugehen, schadet ihrem Erfolg nicht –…
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A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.
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fifteen seconds of bubbling cheese ASMR
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
fifteen seconds of bubbling cheese ASMR
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