David Jekel
@davidjekel.myatproto.social
Mathematics poastdoc from US at University of Copenhagen. Personal account/opinions. Posts often about current events, sometimes math & education. Leftist, anti-war, anti-colonialism, food & housing for all.
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"No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land
Remember that this is what the European Parliament, including the Fine Gael MEP’s, voted for. Horrible. Just horrible.
Remember that this is what the European Parliament, including the Fine Gael MEP’s, voted for. Horrible. Just horrible.
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
"No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land
Remember that this is what the European Parliament, including the Fine Gael MEP’s, voted for. Horrible. Just horrible.
Remember that this is what the European Parliament, including the Fine Gael MEP’s, voted for. Horrible. Just horrible.
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Song of the Morning Drive
El General ft. Anika - “Rica y Apretadita”
El General ft. Anika - “Rica y Apretadita”
May 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Song of the Morning Drive
El General ft. Anika - “Rica y Apretadita”
El General ft. Anika - “Rica y Apretadita”
This is why I can't watch TV news. The conformity jumps out into your face. Everyone is playing *the same person*. Real people are much more unique.
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
This is why I can't watch TV news. The conformity jumps out into your face. Everyone is playing *the same person*. Real people are much more unique.
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Canadian mining company Aris Mining, which intends to advance a gold mining project on the Páramo de Santurbán, is accused in Colombia of #greenwashing for attempting to clean up its image with a UN "water champion" award that was not awarded to them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptx...
FAO retiró premio "campeones del agua" a iniciativa apoyada por Aris Mining | Noticias UNO
YouTube video by NoticiasUnoColombia
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Canadian mining company Aris Mining, which intends to advance a gold mining project on the Páramo de Santurbán, is accused in Colombia of #greenwashing for attempting to clean up its image with a UN "water champion" award that was not awarded to them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptx...
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NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:34 PM
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
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NEW: Galvion, a Montreal-based military hardware company, is supplying ballistic helmets to ICE as part of a US$15.5-million deal between the agency and a U.S. reseller.
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/galvion...
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/galvion...
Montreal's Galvion, through U.S. reseller, supplied US$15.5M of ballistic helmets to ICE - The Logic
The helmets, which are designed in Montreal, have featured prominently in recent immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis and Illinois
thelogic.co
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
NEW: Galvion, a Montreal-based military hardware company, is supplying ballistic helmets to ICE as part of a US$15.5-million deal between the agency and a U.S. reseller.
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/galvion...
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/galvion...
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We need to go haul more water tonight, our tap water isn't drinkable. 💕💸
Can anyone help with $20 for gas for the week? Low again, out of funds and still waiting on my next paycheck, still gotta get kids to school and me to work.
Paypal: paypal.me/xodanix3?cou...
CA & Venmo: doublerainbowomg
💕💸
Paypal: paypal.me/xodanix3?cou...
CA & Venmo: doublerainbowomg
💕💸
Pay danielle miller using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/xodanix3 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
We need to go haul more water tonight, our tap water isn't drinkable. 💕💸
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atproto accounts are portable.
your post and likes history is too.
deletem.app connects to your custom or BlueSky hosted PDS and lets you delete posts and likes by time range, keywords and other smart filters.
your post and likes history is too.
deletem.app connects to your custom or BlueSky hosted PDS and lets you delete posts and likes by time range, keywords and other smart filters.
Deletem
Clean up your digital footprint on Bluesky - delete old posts by date range with smart filtering and safe testing
deletem.app
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
atproto accounts are portable.
your post and likes history is too.
deletem.app connects to your custom or BlueSky hosted PDS and lets you delete posts and likes by time range, keywords and other smart filters.
your post and likes history is too.
deletem.app connects to your custom or BlueSky hosted PDS and lets you delete posts and likes by time range, keywords and other smart filters.
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Little 1-hr Resplendent Quetzal portrait sketch, off @kulindadromeus.bsky.social 's dinosaur prompt list #DrawDinosDaily (link to list in reply)
Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Little 1-hr Resplendent Quetzal portrait sketch, off @kulindadromeus.bsky.social 's dinosaur prompt list #DrawDinosDaily (link to list in reply)
Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!
🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
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Sudan:
RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in the central of the country Sudan, says Sudan Doctors Network:
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in the central of the country Sudan, says Sudan Doctors Network:
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in central Sudan, says doctors group
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people, says Sudan Doctors Network
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Sudan:
RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in the central of the country Sudan, says Sudan Doctors Network:
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in the central of the country Sudan, says Sudan Doctors Network:
Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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#MicroscopeMonday Cross-section of a Kalanchoe marnieriana leaf, with what appears to be emerging but dormant foliar embryo (a dome) near the top.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
February 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
#MicroscopeMonday Cross-section of a Kalanchoe marnieriana leaf, with what appears to be emerging but dormant foliar embryo (a dome) near the top.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a facultative cloning plant, which normally does not produce plantlets but do produce plantlets when leaves are detached.
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Our friend the Hispaniolan Armored Toad was first described in 2018 and is only known from a single location in the Dominican Republic! Their skin is very rough and bumpy, and they have prominent armored ridges on their head, giving them their name! (photo by Judá Isaí Martínez Uribe)
February 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Our friend the Hispaniolan Armored Toad was first described in 2018 and is only known from a single location in the Dominican Republic! Their skin is very rough and bumpy, and they have prominent armored ridges on their head, giving them their name! (photo by Judá Isaí Martínez Uribe)
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Israeli Security Cabinet Approves New Rules to Tighten Control Over Occupied West Bank
Israeli Security Cabinet Approves New Rules to Tighten Control Over Occupied West Bank
Israel’s security cabinet has approved new rules to tighten Israeli control over the occupied West Bank. The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land in the occupied West Bank, and g...
www.democracynow.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Israeli Security Cabinet Approves New Rules to Tighten Control Over Occupied West Bank
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Israel has partially reopened the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, but it has allowed only dozens of people to enter Egypt for medical care. Some 20,000 Palestinians require urgent medical evacuation from the destroyed enclave.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/gaza_update
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/gaza_update
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Israel has partially reopened the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, but it has allowed only dozens of people to enter Egypt for medical care. Some 20,000 Palestinians require urgent medical evacuation from the destroyed enclave.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/gaza_update
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/gaza_update
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Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Notice the framing of sex trafficking victims as “consensual sex workers” and the simultaneous framing of consensual sex workers as “sex trafficking victims”
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As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.
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Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
February 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.
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i know i ask for a lot, but please see it this way:
if i can consistently follow the treatment plan and get the proper rest & support from my doctors, i can beat this thing and somehow return to my normal life & make a living again.
that's all i'm hoping for. to have a normal life again.
if i can consistently follow the treatment plan and get the proper rest & support from my doctors, i can beat this thing and somehow return to my normal life & make a living again.
that's all i'm hoping for. to have a normal life again.
as you know, i'm behind on so much & can only pay bills depending on how much i receive in the form of mutual aid
if you click on my ko-fi goal, there's a list of immediate needs that i need to cover & there's also a list of the medical debt that needs to be cleared ASAP.
ko-fi.com/rebekamash/g...
if you click on my ko-fi goal, there's a list of immediate needs that i need to cover & there's also a list of the medical debt that needs to be cleared ASAP.
ko-fi.com/rebekamash/g...
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
i know i ask for a lot, but please see it this way:
if i can consistently follow the treatment plan and get the proper rest & support from my doctors, i can beat this thing and somehow return to my normal life & make a living again.
that's all i'm hoping for. to have a normal life again.
if i can consistently follow the treatment plan and get the proper rest & support from my doctors, i can beat this thing and somehow return to my normal life & make a living again.
that's all i'm hoping for. to have a normal life again.
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HUGE WIN FOR THE PEOPLE. 🫡
Rep. @crow.house.gov (#4 on our list) and Sen. @hickenlooper.senate.gov (#5) will each donate tens of thousands of $$$ to immigrant rights groups to offset the respective $59,700 and $51,507 campaign money they’ve received from current+former Palantir employees.
Rep. @crow.house.gov (#4 on our list) and Sen. @hickenlooper.senate.gov (#5) will each donate tens of thousands of $$$ to immigrant rights groups to offset the respective $59,700 and $51,507 campaign money they’ve received from current+former Palantir employees.
Jason Crow, John Hickenlooper will each donate to immigrant rights groups to offset donations linked to Palantir
Jason Crow, John Hickenlooper will each donate to immigrant rights groups to offset donations linked to Palantir
Jason Crow and John Hickenlooper's donation announcements came after inquiries from The Colorado Sun last week and as criticism of Denver-based Palantir grows
coloradosun.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
HUGE WIN FOR THE PEOPLE. 🫡
Rep. @crow.house.gov (#4 on our list) and Sen. @hickenlooper.senate.gov (#5) will each donate tens of thousands of $$$ to immigrant rights groups to offset the respective $59,700 and $51,507 campaign money they’ve received from current+former Palantir employees.
Rep. @crow.house.gov (#4 on our list) and Sen. @hickenlooper.senate.gov (#5) will each donate tens of thousands of $$$ to immigrant rights groups to offset the respective $59,700 and $51,507 campaign money they’ve received from current+former Palantir employees.
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Israeli media claims Indonesian troops will be deployed to Gaza by end of February
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Israeli media claims Indonesian troops will be deployed to Gaza by end of February
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*sigh* guess it’s time to cancel nitro because this is a terrible move on discord’s part and I can at least protest with my money
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
*sigh* guess it’s time to cancel nitro because this is a terrible move on discord’s part and I can at least protest with my money
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I don't want to speak for everyone in Mpls but my sense is that most of us don't have the time or care to critique local acts of solidarity for being "performative" bc we know that everyone's (a) doing their best in shitty times and (b) working to help on several different levels, not all visible
February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I don't want to speak for everyone in Mpls but my sense is that most of us don't have the time or care to critique local acts of solidarity for being "performative" bc we know that everyone's (a) doing their best in shitty times and (b) working to help on several different levels, not all visible
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Heres some additional funds that need constant help:
COJEHA project is on the ground help being distributed in Haiti. To help with food, education, infastructure, etc
www.gofundme.com/f/cojeha-pro...
COJEHA project is on the ground help being distributed in Haiti. To help with food, education, infastructure, etc
www.gofundme.com/f/cojeha-pro...
Donate to Help Empower Haiti's Youth - Brighter Sustainable Future, organized by Erika Damas
Below is a French Translation // Vous trouverez ci-dessous une tr… Erika Damas needs your support for Help Empower Haiti's Youth - Brighter Sustainable Future
www.gofundme.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Heres some additional funds that need constant help:
COJEHA project is on the ground help being distributed in Haiti. To help with food, education, infastructure, etc
www.gofundme.com/f/cojeha-pro...
COJEHA project is on the ground help being distributed in Haiti. To help with food, education, infastructure, etc
www.gofundme.com/f/cojeha-pro...
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Khartoum Kitchen is helping feed the ppl of Sudan as they endure the war. www.gofundme.com/f/fight-hung...
Donate to Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal, organized by Mustafa Ibrahim
The War in Sudan has created the World’s largest Humanitarian cris… Mustafa Ibrahim needs your support for Fight Hunger in Sudan: The Khartoum Kitchen appeal
www.gofundme.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Khartoum Kitchen is helping feed the ppl of Sudan as they endure the war. www.gofundme.com/f/fight-hung...
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In Kopenhagen gibt es die Vorschrift, dass alle wichtigen Radwege bei Schneefall bis spätestens 08:00 Uhr morgens geräumt sein müssen, damit die Menschen sicher mit dem Fahrrad zur Arbeit fahren können. So sieht dass dann aus❤️😀
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 AM
In Kopenhagen gibt es die Vorschrift, dass alle wichtigen Radwege bei Schneefall bis spätestens 08:00 Uhr morgens geräumt sein müssen, damit die Menschen sicher mit dem Fahrrad zur Arbeit fahren können. So sieht dass dann aus❤️😀