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Björn Heile
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Berlin-born and Glasgow-based academic, primarily interested in weird music. Oh, and I'm associate editor of Contemporary Music Review.
Professional profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/bjornheile

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · Nov 14
This is kind of my introductory post. It's great to meet so many people over here again. I'm not a direct refugee from Twitter/X: I have left that years ago but went to Mastodon. That's still great but rather quiet.
As you may know, I'm primarily interested in #music, particularly #modernist.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 3h
I also bake Styrian Lebkuchen every year, for good measure. (Not sure about Japanese seasonal baked products.)

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 21h
Watching King Charles listening to the national anthem and thinking “you’re so vain, I bet you think this song is about you.”

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Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 1d
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 2d
Merry Christmas, one and all!
The glass dome of the Kibble Palace, in the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, in morning sunlight.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 3d
It's almost as if the climate is changing...

'This year is on course to be the UK's hottest since records began. By the end of 2025, the UK's 10 warmest years on record will all have taken place in the last two decades, in measurements going back to the late 1800s.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 3d
I’d run this piece on the death camps but it’s kind of a tired story now and anyway we still haven’t got a sit down with Himmler.

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3lite @3lite.bsky.social · 4d
Das kleinste Säugetier der Welt, die Estruskerspitzmaus, wiegt ausgewachsen 1,8 Gramm.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d
What can you do? It's those fucking ley lines! They always get in the way.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 4d
Happy winter solstice!
Loch Long under dark grey clouds, before dusk.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 5d
On the other hand, it means no PMQs, which is the equivalent of Jaegerbombs for toddlers.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 6d
The need for approval from people who will never accept her as one of their own is almost tragic.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 7d
All of this. And: she is of Nigerian extraction, and it is just a legal technicality that she is not 'an immigrant'. Talking in that way about other cultures is hypocritical, in addition to hateful and ignorant.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 7d
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 8d
They're not mutually exclusive.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 9d
Which makes him the most popular. That, in itself, is an indictment of the system.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10d
Again these people aren't patriots.

They hate our country and are allied to others who hate it too.

Nothing will ever be achieved by seeking to appease them

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 10d
Could it be - hear me out! - that Tesla has been overhyped, and that, maybe, the cars aren't actually that good?
niedermeyer.online e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10d
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Consumer Reports reliability ranking by brand, with Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda taking the top three spots, and Ram, Jeep, and Tesla taking the bottom three spots. Tesla's bottom-ranked score of 31 is less than half of Lexus's 77.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10d
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
Consumer Reports reliability ranking by brand, with Lexus, Toyota, and Mazda taking the top three spots, and Ram, Jeep, and Tesla taking the bottom three spots. Tesla's bottom-ranked score of 31 is less than half of Lexus's 77.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 13d
American students are coming over here in increasing numbers. This was already noticeable under Trump 1; under Trump 2 it seems even bigger.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 13d
I don't see how anyone would put up with that, unless they absolutely have to. I remember, during Trump 1, when I stated that I wouldn't travel to the USA, and people said I shouldn't initiate 'boycots' on my own. But it's not primarily about protest; it's just not wanting to submit to this shit!
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14d
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14d
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 14d
'According to modelling by the National Energy System Operator (NESO), its "holistic transition" scenario would have the lowest cost over the next 25 years, saving £36bn a year – some 1% of GDP – compared to an alternative scenario that slows Net Zero.'
www.carbonbrief.org/net-zero-sce...
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator - Carbon Brief
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to the National Energy System Operator
www.carbonbrief.org

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 15d
This is how it works: Murdoch funds the 'research', then 'reports' it, and then the Beeb feels obliged to broadcast it in the interests of 'balance'.
writesbright.bsky.social Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15d
🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 15d
Franz von Papen wants a word.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 15d
🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 16d
I once tried to resell tickets that I had bought by mistake. It wasn't possible, and I didn't even want to make any profit from it, just reduce my loss.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 16d
Wasn't growth the 'absolute priority' (or words to that effect)? Never mind.

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 16d
If that's true, I wonder whether the reason is the cultural dominance of American accents. We hear them all the time in the UK, while the reverse isn't true to the same extent.
(You should hear American accents on BBC radio drama and the like, though: they're often atrocious!)

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Björn Heile @bjornheile.bsky.social · 19d
But isn't that what's so great? It continues to resonate in your mind. I'm not gonna say 'it's the best part', but it's definitely an important part.