Dutchess1970
@dutchess1970.bsky.social
Lazy artist, with a love for snowboarding and mountain biking. Utterly horrified by our current human world. In order to change the world we have to change humans. What we value, how we value it, how we speak, how we think. From Chimp to Bonobo.
Pinned
More than ten years ago, I started my "Hannah Arendt" drawings series in my artwork. I lamented that the (Western) world needed thinkers like her desperately but did not have them.
Today, I stand corrected.
Reading Eva von Redecker's "Revolution for life"
OF COURSE it would be a German voice...
Today, I stand corrected.
Reading Eva von Redecker's "Revolution for life"
OF COURSE it would be a German voice...
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February 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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Und noch ein äusserst wichtiger - und erschreckender - republik-Artikel zur Schweizer medien-Misere:
Markus Somm und sein Trumpistisches Umfeld könnten bald die SRG kontrollieren!
www.republik.ch/2026/02/02/v...
Markus Somm und sein Trumpistisches Umfeld könnten bald die SRG kontrollieren!
www.republik.ch/2026/02/02/v...
Verwaltungsrat des «Nebelspalters» berät SRG bei Auswahl der TV-und-Radio-Chefin
Die SRG zieht ein umstrittenes Beratungsunternehmen bei.
www.republik.ch
February 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Und noch ein äusserst wichtiger - und erschreckender - republik-Artikel zur Schweizer medien-Misere:
Markus Somm und sein Trumpistisches Umfeld könnten bald die SRG kontrollieren!
www.republik.ch/2026/02/02/v...
Markus Somm und sein Trumpistisches Umfeld könnten bald die SRG kontrollieren!
www.republik.ch/2026/02/02/v...
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“Worry, don’t panic” is a good mindset
His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it
www.theunpopulist.net
February 13, 2026 at 10:25 PM
“Worry, don’t panic” is a good mindset
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Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.
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Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines.
So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming:
www.science.org/content/arti...
So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained
“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people
www.science.org
February 12, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines.
So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming:
www.science.org/content/arti...
So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming:
www.science.org/content/arti...
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This is more funny than the author knows because ”to be out and biking” is a Swedish idiom meaning that you’ve totally misunderstood something.
Apart from the catchy headline, many very good points in the text by Stephen M. Walt. Worth your while.
Apart from the catchy headline, many very good points in the text by Stephen M. Walt. Worth your while.
NATO’s Leader Is Totally Lost
What does Mark Rutte think he’s doing?
foreignpolicy.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This is more funny than the author knows because ”to be out and biking” is a Swedish idiom meaning that you’ve totally misunderstood something.
Apart from the catchy headline, many very good points in the text by Stephen M. Walt. Worth your while.
Apart from the catchy headline, many very good points in the text by Stephen M. Walt. Worth your while.
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Reupping, da immer wieder aktuell:
Der Rechtsruck der letzten gut 2 Jahre hat weniger mit dem Wählerwillen zu tun als mit einem von den Oligarchen mit allen Mitteln geführten Propagandakrieg, der den öffentlichen Diskurs steuert mit dem Ziel, den Faschismus zu stärken, um demokratische Klimaschutz- und Sozialpolitik zu verhindern.
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Reupping, da immer wieder aktuell:
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Economics has failed the climate crisis: this complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
#climatecrisis
Interview by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
#climatecrisis
Interview by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a plan to fix that
Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Economics has failed the climate crisis: this complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
#climatecrisis
Interview by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- @doynefarmer.bsky.social says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world
#climatecrisis
Interview by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨🚨The revelation of the #epstein files is an invaluable source of taking down corrupt powerful public figures linked to the convicted paedophile. Latest head to roll seems to be former SG og @coe.int Thorbjørn Jagland whose immunity has been lifted. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/coun...
www.politico.eu/article/coun...
Europe’s top human rights body lifts former Norwegian PM’s immunity after Epstein links
The probe into Thorbjørn Jagland is roiling Oslo, which has faced numerous embarrassing disclosures in the new files.
www.politico.eu
February 12, 2026 at 7:34 AM
🚨🚨The revelation of the #epstein files is an invaluable source of taking down corrupt powerful public figures linked to the convicted paedophile. Latest head to roll seems to be former SG og @coe.int Thorbjørn Jagland whose immunity has been lifted. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/coun...
www.politico.eu/article/coun...
Here we go...
West Virginia’s Republican chief election official denied DOJ’s demand for full access to the state’s voter roll, rejecting what he described as an unlawful attempt to seize the sensitive personal data of individual voters by the Trump administration. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘DOJ doesn’t have authority to run a state’s elections’: West Virginia’s GOP election chief pushes back on voter roll grab
“State law is clear: voter lists are available in a redacted format from my office, but I'll not be turning over any West Virginian's protected information,” Secretary of State Kris Warner said in a s...
www.democracydocket.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Here we go...
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For example: if 84% of people already agree that scientific research aimed at advancing knowledge is usually a worthwhile investment over time...
Why are you so sure that the real problem is that people "just don't know enough about why research matters"
www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
Why are you so sure that the real problem is that people "just don't know enough about why research matters"
www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
February 7, 2026 at 2:26 AM
For example: if 84% of people already agree that scientific research aimed at advancing knowledge is usually a worthwhile investment over time...
Why are you so sure that the real problem is that people "just don't know enough about why research matters"
www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
Why are you so sure that the real problem is that people "just don't know enough about why research matters"
www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...
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Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Striking from Marquette poll:
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.
That's data given to me. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
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Russian losses per 08/02/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff
+1040 men
+1 tank
+1 ACV
+8 artillery
+468 UAVs
+24 cruise missiles
+1040 men
+1 tank
+1 ACV
+8 artillery
+468 UAVs
+24 cruise missiles
February 8, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Russian losses per 08/02/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff
+1040 men
+1 tank
+1 ACV
+8 artillery
+468 UAVs
+24 cruise missiles
+1040 men
+1 tank
+1 ACV
+8 artillery
+468 UAVs
+24 cruise missiles
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For the contents check out the title and abstracts in the online version link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages
This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women writers and women's wider engagement in literary culture from 500-1500.
link.springer.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:31 PM
For the contents check out the title and abstracts in the online version link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Wage suppression so 5 billionaires can keep paying each other instead.
February 7, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Wage suppression so 5 billionaires can keep paying each other instead.
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To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.
Breaking the Silencing Machine
In many ways this society has moved toward a democracy of voices, as people who for their race or gender were shut out of systems of power and possibility – out of jury duty, professions, institutions...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.
It is payable through taxes. Taxes on the wealthy, on assets, and getting the money back that the wealthy keep out of the economy in taxhavens. Make datamining a cost that the software company pays out to the individual generating the data. Combine it with complementary local currenbcies.
Two Canadian economists say UBI is unavoidable.
"Assuming that [AI] will wreak havoc on opportunities for people to support themselves through full-time employment, the right to income will need to be divorced from returns to wage labour to avoid immiserating those without adequate capital."
"Assuming that [AI] will wreak havoc on opportunities for people to support themselves through full-time employment, the right to income will need to be divorced from returns to wage labour to avoid immiserating those without adequate capital."
February 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
It is payable through taxes. Taxes on the wealthy, on assets, and getting the money back that the wealthy keep out of the economy in taxhavens. Make datamining a cost that the software company pays out to the individual generating the data. Combine it with complementary local currenbcies.
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My German is rather rusty (4 years of high school German over a decade ago) but I spoke to @ardenthistorian.bsky.social awhile ago about the use of fascist imagery and aesthetics in online subcultures/government social media accounts. If your German is better than mine, give it a listen!
Es geht um faschistische Bildsprache in Online-Räumen, Computerspiel-Bezüge (darunter Halo, Elder Scrolls und HOI IV - the Fire Rises), die in der medialen Analyse oft unerkannt bleiben. Mit Einschätzungen von @bildoperationen.bsky.social, Hampton Stall und @mikesenters.bsky.social
USAUpdate 259: Digitaler Faschismus - US-Regierungsaccounts posten White Nationalist und Nazi-Inhalte | Annika Brockschmidt
Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon
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February 6, 2026 at 6:56 AM
My German is rather rusty (4 years of high school German over a decade ago) but I spoke to @ardenthistorian.bsky.social awhile ago about the use of fascist imagery and aesthetics in online subcultures/government social media accounts. If your German is better than mine, give it a listen!
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Shell plans up to £4.6mn pay rise for chief executive.
Most people will not earn that in a lifetime.
Real wage cuts for workers but no curbs on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks, profiteering.
No workplace democracy: Workers have no say in how wealth is shared.
archive.ph/d1CWZ
Most people will not earn that in a lifetime.
Real wage cuts for workers but no curbs on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks, profiteering.
No workplace democracy: Workers have no say in how wealth is shared.
archive.ph/d1CWZ
Shell plans up to £4.6mn pay rise for chief executive Wael Sawan
UK oil major has consulted shareholders on boosting maximum long-term share awards to £13.8mn a year
www.ft.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Shell plans up to £4.6mn pay rise for chief executive.
Most people will not earn that in a lifetime.
Real wage cuts for workers but no curbs on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks, profiteering.
No workplace democracy: Workers have no say in how wealth is shared.
archive.ph/d1CWZ
Most people will not earn that in a lifetime.
Real wage cuts for workers but no curbs on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks, profiteering.
No workplace democracy: Workers have no say in how wealth is shared.
archive.ph/d1CWZ
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Es ist ja auch spannend wer nicht in den Epstein-Files ist.
Drag Queens, trans Personen und Bernie Sanders z.b.
Drag Queens, trans Personen und Bernie Sanders z.b.
February 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Es ist ja auch spannend wer nicht in den Epstein-Files ist.
Drag Queens, trans Personen und Bernie Sanders z.b.
Drag Queens, trans Personen und Bernie Sanders z.b.
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My newsletter is a year old today, and 77 essays in. www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM
My newsletter is a year old today, and 77 essays in. www.meditationsinanemergency.com
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As a historian of those movements, let me just say: SO FUCKING MUCH.
The successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
February 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
As a historian of those movements, let me just say: SO FUCKING MUCH.
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And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good...
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good...
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.
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
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 10:40 PM
And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good...
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Renee Good...
Their claim was self defense, sir
Just don’t believe your eyes
It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.
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Just the most astonishing, zeitgeisty piece on animal ‘tyrants’ by @chrisbaraniuk.com for our BBC Earth team:
“In some cases, circumstances can lead to the removal of aggressive leaders. And some animal societies that work together appear able to evade despotism.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
“In some cases, circumstances can lead to the removal of aggressive leaders. And some animal societies that work together appear able to evade despotism.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
What animals can teach us about overcoming tyranny
Some animal societies are ruled by despots with an iron fist, while others seem naturally egalitarian – and they all have lessons for us.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Just the most astonishing, zeitgeisty piece on animal ‘tyrants’ by @chrisbaraniuk.com for our BBC Earth team:
“In some cases, circumstances can lead to the removal of aggressive leaders. And some animal societies that work together appear able to evade despotism.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
“In some cases, circumstances can lead to the removal of aggressive leaders. And some animal societies that work together appear able to evade despotism.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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REVEALED: Peter Thiel’s Palantir have over £630m in UK Government contracts. They’re laced through major projects with the NHS, the Home Office, and the Ministry of Defence: including our nuclear weapons program.
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mc00.bsky.social and myself for @thenerve.news
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mc00.bsky.social and myself for @thenerve.news
January 27, 2026 at 7:56 PM
REVEALED: Peter Thiel’s Palantir have over £630m in UK Government contracts. They’re laced through major projects with the NHS, the Home Office, and the Ministry of Defence: including our nuclear weapons program.
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mc00.bsky.social and myself for @thenerve.news
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @mc00.bsky.social and myself for @thenerve.news