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Alexander Otte
@aotte.bsky.social
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Life, water, climate; social, human & historical stuff.
Work for UNESCO.
All views expressed or shared here are strictly personal. Photos posted are mine, unless stated otherwise (or screengrabs).
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shashj.bsky.social
"The most disturbing possibility is that the president is creating a militia which answers only to himself ... Abroad, from El Salvador to the Philippines, would-be despots often turn the army and the police against their people in the name of keeping order." www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
www.economist.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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fotovorschlag.de
'Einmal ordentlich Kitsch bitte' #FotoVorschlag
January 29, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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johnshirley2024.bsky.social
Yes you know it and I know it but this article from a week ago is still on the money.
Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline
Over 2 million documents are under DoJ review despite ‘legal obligation’ from Epstein Files Transparency Act
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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aarnegranlund.bsky.social
”Our model suggests that including permafrost thaw and fire-related carbon emissions reduces the remaining allowable carbon budgets from 2025 by 25 % ± 12 % for avoiding 1.5 °C and 17 % ± 7 % for avoiding 2.0 °C, relative to simulations without these processes.”

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Permafrost and wildfire carbon emissions indicate need for additional action to keep Paris Agreement temperature goals within reach - Communications Earth & Environment
Including permafrost and wildfire carbon emissions reduces the remaining allowable carbon budget for keeping the global average temperature increase below 1.5 degrees by 25%, according to Earth system...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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50shadesofgelb.bsky.social
Ausstellung im Landesarchiv Berlin
landesarchiv-berlin.de/widerstand-v...
Widerstand – Verfolgung – Deportation. Frauen aus Frankreich im KZ Ravensbrück, 1942–1945 – Landesarchiv Berlin
landesarchiv-berlin.de
January 28, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
„Die Frau ist vollberechtigte Staatsbürgerin. Überlegen Sie, was das heißt."
Marie Juchacz (SPD) gründete 1919 die „Arbeiterwohlfahrt", deren erste Vorsitzende sie war. Nachdem Frauen das passive Wahlrecht erhalten hatten, hielt sie als erste Frau am 19. Februar 1919 eine Rede in einem deutschen

Sie trägt ein gemustertes Kleid mit einer Brosche und einem weißen Kragen. Sie hat ein glattes, altersloses Gesicht, die Haare hat sie nach hinten gekämmt und sie schaut sehr ernst aus.
January 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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climameter.bsky.social
Climate change increased snowfall and freezing rain during the January 2026 North American storm
🔗 www.climameter.org/20260124-25-...
comparable winter storms now occur in a warmer, moister atmosphere, leading to ~20% higher precipitation. Cold extremes are rarer, but snowfall impacts are stronger.
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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kriegundfreitag.bsky.social
Ich habe eine KI befragt, warum die CEOs großer KI-Firmen eigentlich so achselzuckend über den möglichen Verlust unzähliger Jobs sprechen, ohne ihre Aussagen irgendwie abzumildern. Das war die Antwort:
Zusammenfassend: Das „Abmildern“ von Aussagen ist ein Werkzeug der Diplomatie. Diplomatie betreibt man aber nur mit Akteuren, die man als ernsthafte Gegenüber oder potenzielle Bedrohung wahrnimmt. Das achselzuckende Reden über Jobverluste ist ein Zeichen dafür, dass die Tech-Elite die politische Kraft der arbeitenden Bevölkerung bereits als weitgehend neutralisiert betrachtet.
January 28, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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bergfee.bsky.social
#FCKAFD Verbot jetzt

@spdfraktion.de
@gruene.de
@die-linke.de
January 28, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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joachimschlosser.de
'Das tägliche Brot' #FotoVorschlag
ein Laib Brot liegt ungebacken in einem Topf und wird gerade eingeschnitten.
January 28, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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kaumzuglauben.bsky.social
'Das tägliches Brot' #FotoVorschlag
Frisch gebackenes Brot am Fenster. Eines ist angeschnitten, Butter und Kaffee im Hintergrund.
January 28, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."
January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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volksverpetzer.de
"Die heimliche Angst der moralisch Verkommenen ist, dass Tugendhaftigkeit eigentlich weit verbreitet ist und dass sie diejenigen sind, die allein dastehen."
January 28, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
„Eine Kindheit ohne Bücher wäre keine Kindheit.
Es wäre, als ob man aus dem verzauberten Land ausgesperrt wäre, aus dem man sich die seltsamsten aller Freuden holen könnte."
Guten Morgen mit Astrid Lindgren, die am 28. Januar 2002 gestorben ist


Ein kleiner Junge sitzt mit bloßen Füßen draußen und liest ein Buch
January 28, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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netzpolitik.org
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.

netzpolitik.org/2026/phishin...
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...
netzpolitik.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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fotovorschlag.de
'Das tägliches Brot' #FotoVorschlag
January 28, 2026 at 7:00 AM
aotte.bsky.social
Important read and call to action.

«The rehabilitation of authoritarian rhetoric and the minimization of white supremacist violence as a national security priority do not occur in isolation; they reflect the steady erosion of moral, legal, and institutional safeguards designed to prevent atrocity.»
Statement on the Normalization of Nazism in the U.S Government
January 25, 2025 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is deeply concerned by a dangerous and accelerating pattern within the United States government in which rhetoric and ...
www.lemkininstitute.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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minnaluft.bsky.social
"Die internationalen Politiken des Präsidenten und seine Unterstützung von ICE machen es mir unmöglich, diese Handlungen zu ignorieren. Wenn Sie so empfinden wie ich, empfehle ich dringend, Amazon nicht zu nutzen", schrieb Young.

Großartig ❤️
Reaktion auf Donald Trumps Politik: Neil Young entfernt seine Musik von Amazon und schenkt sein Werk allen Grönländern
Weil Jeff Bezos ein Unterstützer von Donald Trump ist, stoppt Neil Young den Verkauf seiner Musik über Amazon. Wer auf Grönland wohnt, bekommt den kompletten Katalog des Musikers hingegen künftig umso...
www.spiegel.de
January 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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marfro.bsky.social
Zum Holocaustgedenktag möchte ich an die hervorragende Rede von @afelia.bsky.social erinnern.
January 27, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Most ppl are educated in school about the Shoah - when 6m Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. There were also hundreds of thousands of Roma & tens of thousands* of Queer ppl. Each group, was chosen to be erased from Europe forever. Despite the slogan ‘never forget’, the… [1]
gcnmag.bsky.social Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 2d
27th January: Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 gay men were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and 98 of them were sent to Auschwitz. #OnThisDay #Queerstory 👉 buff.ly/8dPDaRg
January 27, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Your reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
January 27, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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keicoconuttree.bsky.social
The Epstein files must be worse than we could even imagine.
January 27, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
„Ihr seid nicht für das verantwortlich, was geschah. Aber dass es nicht wieder geschieht, dafür schon."
Max Mannheimer
Holocaust-Überlebender

Auf dem Foto ist das schon alt, hat ein faltiges Gesicht und weiße, leicht abstehende Haare.
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM