Niamh
@niamhberlin.bsky.social
1st-generation Irish 🇮🇪 woman 🙋🏻♀️ in Berlin. Historian, literature graduate 📚,
digital marketer 👩🏻💻, Remainer & 4th-wave Feminist 💪🏻.
She/her for pronouns. 🏳️⚧️
digital marketer 👩🏻💻, Remainer & 4th-wave Feminist 💪🏻.
She/her for pronouns. 🏳️⚧️
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Niamh
@niamhberlin.bsky.social
· Jun 27
#ProductAtHeart conference kicks off with 1st 2 speakers @martycagan.bsky.social & Henrik Kniberg
2 really inspiring talks about founder-style leadership and AI agents.
#Founders #FounderMode #AI #AIAgents
@productatheart.bsky.social
2 really inspiring talks about founder-style leadership and AI agents.
#Founders #FounderMode #AI #AIAgents
@productatheart.bsky.social
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The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 28, 2025
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.
understandingwar.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
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"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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this country is fucked
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
this country is fucked
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Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why Trump Turned to the Sewer
The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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the ceasefire is not holding www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
New Flare-Up of Violence Strains Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
the ceasefire is not holding www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
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The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
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The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...
Ravaged by War: Trying to Survive Gaza’s Present, Hoping for a Future
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...
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Ai and plastics have so much in common
- yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS)
- they are huge sources of pollution
- they are marketed to us as "inevitable"
- once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of
- yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS)
- they are huge sources of pollution
- they are marketed to us as "inevitable"
- once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Ai and plastics have so much in common
- yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS)
- they are huge sources of pollution
- they are marketed to us as "inevitable"
- once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of
- yes, they can be useful in some very specific applications, but they're actually subpar in many cases (breaks/spills BS)
- they are huge sources of pollution
- they are marketed to us as "inevitable"
- once introduced, they're impossible to get rid of
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If you can find this wee gem of a documentary, made 35 years ago, focusing on that in-between time after the Wall fell and before reunification on Oct. 3:
mubi.com/en/ie/films/...
mubi.com/en/ie/films/...
Berlin Prenzlauer Berg: Encounters between 1st of May and 1st of July 1990 (1990) | MUBI
A cinematic ramble through an East Berlin neighbourhood in the weeks before the monetary and economic unification of East and West Germany. A pastiche of everyday scenes and encounters during the “sho...
mubi.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
If you can find this wee gem of a documentary, made 35 years ago, focusing on that in-between time after the Wall fell and before reunification on Oct. 3:
mubi.com/en/ie/films/...
mubi.com/en/ie/films/...
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President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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exactly like the Chinese surveillance state
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
exactly like the Chinese surveillance state
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In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children."
from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children."
from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
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Essential reading
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Essential reading
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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Sharp column here from long time Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz - who went to the US on an early form of the H-1B visa- on why Trump’s fee plan for such visas will backfire www.ft.com/content/9fc8...
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Sharp column here from long time Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz - who went to the US on an early form of the H-1B visa- on why Trump’s fee plan for such visas will backfire www.ft.com/content/9fc8...
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On political violence. With my colleagues George Packer, Adam Serwer and @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
share.google/c0pzhbYXm87b...
share.google/c0pzhbYXm87b...
Jeffrey Goldberg on the Political-Violence Crisis | The Atlantic Festival 2025
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
share.google
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
On political violence. With my colleagues George Packer, Adam Serwer and @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social
share.google/c0pzhbYXm87b...
share.google/c0pzhbYXm87b...
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Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
September 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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On the meeting of Xi, Putin, Kim, Modi, Lukashenko and others
with @fareedzakaria.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/w...
with @fareedzakaria.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/w...
On GPS: Anne Applebaum on the growing ties between autocracies | CNN
Fareed speaks with Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum about this week’s meeting between China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — and the growing ties between autoc...
www.cnn.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
On the meeting of Xi, Putin, Kim, Modi, Lukashenko and others
with @fareedzakaria.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/w...
with @fareedzakaria.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/w...