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Simply Sepp

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Sehr bedenkenswert, was @tinido.bsky.social hier aufgeschrieben hat. 👇🏻

Tini Tarabiscoté*e / Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 2h

Zu Miosga & ÖRR: "(...) dass das an den tatsächlichen Funktionslogiken des Felds aber nicht viel ändert, weil nicht wir, das Publikum, zählt, sondern die Produktion eines Publikums, das sich mit den herrschenden gesellschaftlichen Macht- & Gewaltformen arrangiert bis identifiziert."

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Ein paar ungeordnete Gedanken über Journalismus als ideologische Form

Im Post versuche ich, mir selbst zu erklären, warum es für viele sich als journalistisch verstehende Medien (nicht nur) in Deutschland anscheinend übermenschlicher Anstrengung bedarf, klar zu besch…

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February 7, 2026 at 11:19 AM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

There‘s a leftover e in there in case you need it. 👇🏻

Simply Sepp @zens.bsky.social · 22h

Sometimes I feel so old that I think I will soon be eligible for #FossileFriday

February 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

Sometimes I feel so old that I think I will soon be eligible for #FossileFriday

February 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM

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Mary L Trump

@maryltrump.bsky.social

Every American needs to watch this:

February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

If that is the case one should share it twice

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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February 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM

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Social Media Lab

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"Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology.
She made key contributions to US Cold War science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

www.nature.com

February 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM

Simply Sepp

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Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.

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February 6, 2026 at 9:08 AM

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Spektrum der Wissenschaft

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Bis zu zehn Meter lang kann diese Qualle werden.

Tiefsee: Expedition entdeckt busgroße Qualle

Vor Argentinien fand sich ein artenreiches Kaltwasserriff.

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February 6, 2026 at 8:59 AM

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Oliver von Schnitter🧣❄️🌬️

@therealoliver.bsky.social

The phantom jellyfish (Stygiomedusa gigantea) was captured by chance.

Take a look, you really don't see something like this very often!

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Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

February 6, 2026 at 7:52 AM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

-9 degrees centigrade. A morning walk to the station on my way to work. Mufflons made my day.

February 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM

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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

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So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."
As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA.

Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.

In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe).
This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better.
At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews.

For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.

January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

This! 👇🏻‼️

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 9d

If you have not yet read @adamserwer.bsky.social on Minnesotans' heroics, you are going to feel way better when you do. He went there. He talked to the people doing the work. Then he thought about it and produced something rare. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... [gift link]

February 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

„Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs“
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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February 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM

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404 Media

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The $75-million, Amazon-funded Melania Trump documentary is tanking at the box office, but a 2018 er0tic thriller, 'Melania: Devourer of Men' that depicts the First Lady as a monster is rocketing up Amazon’s sales charts.

That's all thanks to a Reddit-led campaign to derail the documentary.

Erotic Parody 'Melania: Devourer of Men' Sales Surge on Amazon Amid Documentary Flop

A Reddit-led protest is trying to push an eight year old erotic thriller to the top of Amazon’s sales charts.

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January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM

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Alex de Campi

@alexdecampi.bsky.social

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc

like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

quote from Haruki Murakami: “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

“But to hold to such repetition for so long—six months to a year—requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”

January 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

Wenn der Faschismus kommt, wird er nicht sagen, hallo, da bin ich wieder. Sondern es wird heißen, umstrittene Razzien hätten stattgefunden. Es habe tödliche Schüsse gegeben. Den Ordnungskräften habe unerbittlicher Hass entgegengeschlagen.

January 29, 2026 at 3:47 PM

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Jan-Martin Wiarda

@jmwiarda.bsky.social

Ein Bundesland als Versuchslabor

Das durchgesickerte AfD-"Regierungsprogramm" für Sachsen-Anhalt und seine Sprengkraft für Bildung, Forschung und Föderalismus: eine Analyse.

Jetzt lesen im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/01...

January 29, 2026 at 8:35 AM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

Bewegender Text. 👇🏻

Barbara Wimmer @shroombab.bsky.social · 10d

Der letzte Arbeitstag, ohne dass ich es wusste

Ich habe meine Karriere nicht geplant beendet. Sie ist einfach zu Ende gegangen – an einem Tag, an dem ich noch arbeitete, recherchierte, schrieb. Zwei Jahre später habe ich meine Zutrittskarte zurückgegeben. Dieser Text ist mein Abschied von einem…

Der letzte Arbeitstag, ohne dass ich es wusste

Ich habe meine Karriere nicht geplant beendet. Sie ist einfach zu Ende gegangen – an einem Tag, an dem ich noch arbeitete, recherchierte, schrieb. Zwei Jahre später habe ich meine Zutrittskarte zurückgegeben. Dieser Text ist mein Abschied von einem Job, der mehr war als "nur ein Job".

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January 28, 2026 at 8:14 PM

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11d

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

January 27, 2026 at 3:16 AM

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netzpolitik.org

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Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die #Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff funktioniert und wie man sich vor ihm schützen kann.

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Phishing-Angriff: Zahlreiche Journalist:innen im Visier bei Attacke über Signal-Messenger

Mit einem Phishing-Angriff versucht ein bislang unbekannter Akteur offenbar gezielt Zugriff auf die Signal-Konten von Journalist:innen und Aktivist:innen zu bekommen. Wir erklären, wie der Angriff fun...

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January 28, 2026 at 6:58 AM

Simply Sepp

@zens.bsky.social

Artikel-Einstiege from Hell. Beispiel aus dem Online-Angebot der ARD-Tagesschau. Bauchweh? Wegen einer Erschießung? Bauchweh??! Seriously?

Screenshot von folgendem Text: „Immer mehr Abgeordnete und Senatoren der Republikaner im US-Kongress haben wegen der Erschießung von Alex Pretti am Samstag in Minneapolis Bauchschmerzen. Zu groß ist die Kluft zwischen dem, was Handyvideos zeigen - und dem, was Mitglieder der Trump-Regierung über den Tathergang behauptet haben. Das Magazin Politico schreibt: "Die Schießereien von ICE versetzen die Republikaner in Panik.“

January 27, 2026 at 4:47 PM

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Johannes Franzen

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Martenstein, Mario Barth und die Armee der Amazon-Rezensenten

Nichts bringt das Bürgertum so in Wallung wie das befreite Wiehern über geschlechtergerechte Sprache.

Hier habe ich darüber geschrieben.

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