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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 9h

Fun fact: DB has already cancelled our first train… #adventuremode

Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 7d

In case you missed yesterday’s shitshow - Ronny Chieng is summing it up for you.
(Though the audience reactions of the show kinda drown out the silence in the room #crickets)
youtu.be/hlS5um3WJqg?...

Hegseth Lectures "Fat Generals" and Trump Threatens War Against U.S. Cities | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Samuel Durso @samueldurso.bsky.social · 8d

Maj Gen Paul D Eaton: "Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do, and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes.”

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 8d

It’s so terrible. And I can’t look away. And then to watch Pete, having ordered himself an audience, spin such utter stupidity — it’d be pathetic if it weren’t so dangerous…. Does he really think he will have a base with the military like that???

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 8d

No more “stupid rules of engagement.” Okey-dokey, Pete. sure that’s a great idea.

Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 9d

Ugh, and here I was hoping -even before the bubble bursts - I’d be walking the streets looking for cool vintage clothing… #leftbehind 😆

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 11d

podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t... great ep on NewYorker’s Political Scene with @hardymerriman.bsky.social discussing civil resistance and acts of non-cooperation (and why they might work better than we perceive right now)

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure

Podcast-Folge · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 27.09.2025 · 44 Min.

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 19d

Wouldn’t be in that job if not for major compartmentalization skills. (Somewhat disturbingly confessed to a friend that I could probably sleep with a corpse in the room, if it were clear that nothing could be done about it until the next morning 🙈)

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 19d

Was is eigentlich aus der FB-gruppe “Kann dieser seelenlose Ziegelstein mehr FB-Freunde haben als HC Strache”? Frage für eine Freundin, don’t sue me.

Verbrecher Verlag @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social · 19d

Wie Die Presse schreibt, haben wir den Prozess um das Buch „Widerstand hat keine Form…" von Milo Rau gegen H. C. Strache verloren.
Raus Buch darf so. nicht mehr verbreitet werden. Eine Neuausgabe kann aber bereits vorbestellt werden.
Buch: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/widerst...

Falscher SS-Vorwurf gegen Strache: Verbrecher Verlag verurteilt

Der Berliner Verlag wurde wegen übler Nachrede gegenüber ehemaligem FPÖ-Vizekanzler Heinz-Christian Strache zu einer Geldstrafe in Höhe von 1.500 Euro verurteilt.

www.diepresse.com

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 21d

While the rest of us can’t even afford to live long even if we could

Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 21d

Also - somebody tell them to check their guest’s luggage before they leave… cleptocrats might grab a few shiny baubles from the palace 😂

Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 21d

I’ll always remember “All is lost.” Stupidly marketed via old man-and-the-sea-pathos. But a truly remarkable film. One single actor, very little spoken lines, no heroism… but one of my favorite films

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 22d

Transtifa. It’d be funny if it weren’t so terrifying

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 22d

… and I can never get over how they pronounce antifa. What do they think it means?

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 22d

Should we call them journalists? (And he’s suing the @nytimes.com now).

Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 26d

“thoughts n prayers”

Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · 28d

What happens to teaching under such circumstances? Suspiciously eying your class for that one student recording you…
With the non-tenured among us depending so much more on university leadership discovering their spines

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28d

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Sep 1

Really useful work

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Denn wenn die Episode mit Sydney Sweeney eins zeigt, dann dass die links-autoritäre Empörungskultur, die Menschen angeblich nach rechts treibt, nicht tatsächlich existieren muss, damit Rechte vor ihr warnen können”

Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · Sep 1

"All das geschieht unter maßgeblicher Mithilfe etablierter Medien, deren Kolumnistenklasse lustvoll nach rechts blinkt, um einer vermeintlichen linksliberalen Hegemonie vor den Karren zu fahren."

www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Jeanswerbung mit Sydney Sweeney: Der woke Backlash, den es nie gab

Rechte erfinden linke Empörung über eine Jeanswerbung und machen damit mobil – und die Medien spielen mit. Die Episode erklärt, wie rechte Politik heute funktioniert.

www.zeit.de

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Sep 1

Zur perfiden Unsichtbarkeit von Ungleichheit…
und: “umso ungleicher eine Gesellschaft ist, desto schwerer ist die Mobilisierung der Ärmsten”

Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Beim Deutschlandfunk durfte ich 10 Minuten über unsere neue Studie zur oft ausbleibenden Reaktion von Parteien auf hohe ökonomische Ungleichheit sprechen. Und darüber, warum das ein Problem für Demokratie ist. Die (APSR) Studie deckt 12 Länder 1970-2020 ab

www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/stud...

Wahlprogramme ignorieren Ungleichheit

www.deutschlandfunknova.de

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Aug 28

Poet:innenfest startet Morgen mit tollen Veranstaltungen und Lesungen — freu mich besonders auf Jonas Luescher (but then I might be biased… obwohl wir uns vor mehr als 10 Jahren in Palo Alto nichts davon hätten vorstellen können)

Cover von Jonas Lueschers „Verzauberte Vorbestimmung“, gelb mit einer Ned Ludd Figur

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Aug 20

(auf Insta, deswegen per screenshot)

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Aug 20

Poet:innen-Fest … es rückt näher!

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jul 26

The groypers running the White House's social media accounts have posted yet another piece of fascist Trump AI slopaganda which I won't reproduce here in full. However, the Gladiator-esque backdrop of US soldiers in desert camouflage holding back the pseudo-Roman crowd is quite fascinating
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Detail of an AI generated image, showing what looks like US soldiers in desert camouflage alongside with an antique Roman mob and maybe some gladiators? It's a mess …

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Reality is improbable @improbable.bsky.social · Jul 22

register & visit Erlangen for a great conference (not just for c19 nerds) and a series of great talks including by my dear EconoCrit colleagues Joanna Rostek and @natalieroxburgh.bsky.social

GRK 2806 »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit« @grk2806.bsky.social · Jul 22

Still open til July 25!! - registration for Negotiations of Value in the Romantic Age, coorganized by our associated Anglophone Studies colleague Gerold Sedlmayr www.ger25.fau.de

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Konferenz der Gesellschaft für englische Romantik zu Werten in der Romantik, in Erlangen.

www.ger25.fau.de