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DominicE
@cyclingbs.bsky.social
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Biologist, Teacher, Climate activist born at 344 ppm
#gravelbike #Basel2030 #fcknzs #no$VP
Billionaires should not exist!
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Some examples of how language matters.

Via @sightline.org www.sightline.org/2015/03/31/s...
Chart comparing current language and recommended better language
September 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
cyclingbs.bsky.social
Bike rant #393819
Heute ist ein Boomer in seinem Porsche SUV 2 m vor mir aus seinem Parkplatz gefahren und hat mich beim Rausfahren mit folgenden Worten angeschnauzt: "Das ist hier kein Radweg sondern eine Strasse." Das ist so falsch auf so vielen Ebenen.
Auf Strassen darf man andere überfahren?
September 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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newscientist.com
A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent deaths, while Gaza's health ministry estimates 46,000 for the same period
Independent estimate of Gaza deaths is higher than official figures
www.newscientist.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
cyclingbs.bsky.social
Solche "Sprachunfälle" passieren einfach noch zu oft!

sprachkompass.ch/themen/verke...
May 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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annacavazzini.bsky.social
„Die Mediangehälter von Spitzenmanagern sind weltweit zwischen 2019 und 2024 um 50 Prozent gestiegen – 56-mal so stark wie die Reallöhne von Beschäftigten, die nur um 0,9 Prozent zulegten.“
Wichtige Studie von Oxfam zur wachsenden Ungleichheit:
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...
Oxfam beklagt starken Anstieg von Managergehältern
»Völlig losgekoppelt«: Die Gehälter deutscher Spitzenmanager stiegen laut einer Oxfam-Analyse zuletzt 30-mal so stark wie die Reallöhne aller Beschäftigten. Vorstandsbosse bekamen demnach 2024 satte 4...
www.spiegel.de
May 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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kampfmitkette.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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der-postillon.com
Tief gesunken: Ehemaliger Reality-TV-Star macht jetzt Infomercials für Autos
Tief gesunken: Ehemaliger Reality-TV-Star macht jetzt Infomercials für Autos
Washington (dpo) - Traurig, wie weit es mit ihm gekommen ist: Der einst von Millionen bewunderte Reality-TV-Star und Geschäftsmann Donald Trump steckt
www.der-postillon.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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nataschastrobl.bsky.social
Und genau das sind wir alle, wenn Politiker_innen, Zeitungen und Lobbyist_innen ihre Kulturkämpfe mit dem Nimbus der Ernsthaftigkeit präsentieren.

Wir alle, Sam Seder, wir alle.
Sam Seder ist enttäuscht und seine Seele hat seinen Körper verlassen
March 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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franifio.bsky.social
As Newsom and others capitulate to right wing framing on the issue of trans athletes, let's remember what real messaging, real movements, real leadership looks like. It's saying what needs to be said: trans people are people. youtube.com/shorts/c67pq...
Never capitulate to right-wing framing. We need our own narratives.
YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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ricardalang.bsky.social
„Die Quote schadet ja in aller erster Linie den Frauen selbst.“
February 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy.
clads.ch/en/us-resear...
US research in danger: solidarity with our colleagues The Swiss and international scientific community is observing with consternation and horror the unprecedented and systematic attacks on research in the United States by the new Trump administration. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of scientists have been fired, essential funding brutally cut, and whole swathes of research brought to a standstill by the new regime, which seeks to inflict as much suffering as possible, by accompanying this destruction with vindictive rhetoric and deliberate cruelty. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds biomedical research, abruptly suspended the payment of grants, leaving many colleagues without pay and leading to the dismissal of over 1,000 employees. The National Science Foundation (NSF), for its part, has seen its budgets slashed by over 60%, and vital scientific projects from the study of ecosystems to the prevention of pandemics are now threatened or suspended altogether. Major demographic, epidemiological and climate change databases, used by thousands of researchers for their scientific work, have been taken offline and are now inaccessible. In Switzerland, although these unprecedented events may seem remote, they should not be perceived as an abstract threat. The current global climate bears witness to an upsurge in similar attacks, fuelled by misinformation and a growing desire for political control over scientific production. In the face of this, silence or indifference are tantamount to condoning a worrisome drift towards widespread authoritarian obscurantism. The Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (CLADS) expresses its full and unconditional solidarity with all researchers in the United States affected by this campaign of scientific annihilation and mass layoffs. CLADS fully associates itself with Stand Up for Science Day, organized on March 7 in the United States and around the world to defend academic freedom, and calls for a broad mobilization in support of our American colleagues and free research. We call on all Swiss academic and scientific institutions, as well as our European and international colleagues, to take a clear stand against this unprecedented offensive. It is imperative that our voices, united and firm, recall that without academic freedom, there can be no democracy.
February 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power. (2/2)
February 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“A single unmuffled scooter crossing Paris at night can wake as many as 10,000 people.”

We seriously underestimate the impact of vehicle noise on urban livability and health.

Cities aren’t noisy, engines are.

How #Paris Is Waging a War on Noise Pollution.
Europe’s Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume
To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles.
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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hhumorlos.bsky.social
Können wir bitte noch ein bisschen mehr über Abschiebungen reden bsky.app/profile/chad...
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Feb 17
Trump plans to withdraw troops from the Baltics and parts of Western Europe - a key Putin demand - making former Soviet nations a prime target for Russian attacks, the FT reports.
February 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
Saying "Never Again" "unspeakable evil" one day...

...and, the next day, promoting a party that deems Nazism mere "bird droppings" (Vogelschiss) in the grand scheme of German history.

Of course, far right leaders couldn't care less about hypocrisy. But some who observe it just might. Remind them.
Vance visits Dachau concentration camp ahead of Zelenskyy meeting
Among those in the touring group was Abba Naor, a Holocaust survivor who was held at Dachau
www.voanews.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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volksverpetzer.de
In den vergangenen Tagen gab es Messerangriffe in Bremen, Lübeck, Ratingen, Erfurt, mehrere in Dortmund und in Berlin. Teilweise mit Toten, mit Schusswechsel mit der Polizei. Von keinem hast du wahrscheinlich gehört. In die Trends kommen nur die Einzelfälle mit Schutzsuchenden. Rate mal, warum.
February 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
cyclingbs.bsky.social
Heartbreaking

Where are we headed as humans?

zeteo.com/p/if-you-onl...
If You Only Watch One Thing Today, Please Watch This
An exclusive short film from Zeteo, from inside of Gaza, on the plight of a Palestinian family trying to go back to their home during this ‘ceasefire’.
zeteo.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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jonburkeuk.bsky.social
Everything you've been told about the 'unpopularity' of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods is a lie.
February 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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ismail-kuepeli.de
Man kann es nicht oft genug sagen: diskursive Exklusion ist der erste Schritt, es folgt die materielle Ausgrenzung, Diskriminierung, Marginalisierung, dann (wenn der Prozess nicht gestoppt wird) Entrechtung, Vertreibung, Vernichtung.

Das sind keine Belanglosigkeiten, sorry to say that.
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · Feb 10
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:

• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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fischblog.bsky.social
According to current calculations the Asteroid 2024 YR4 has roughly a Chance of ~2% to hit earth in the year 2032. This would cause a blast roughly equivalent to a megaton-size nuclear warhead. Most of the earth is ocean, but there is a chance it could hit a densely populated area.

However...
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February 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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retoknutti.bsky.social
📺 📻 🗞️ Petition: SRF Wissensjournalismus stärken!

Innovation, KI, Medizin, Klima, Energie... In einer immer komplexeren Welt mit mehr Fakenews ist eine starke SRF Wissenschaftsredaktion unverzichtbar.

Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft unterschreiben und teilen!

openpetition.eu/!sciencejour...
Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! - Online-Petition
Offener Brief aus der Wissenschaft an SRF Sehr geehrte Direktion der SRG, sehr geehrte Geschäftsleitung von SRF, sehr geehrte Medien- und Wissenschaftspolitiker:innen Mit grosser Besorgnis haben wir z...
openpetition.eu
February 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM