Mela Eckenfels
@felicea.bsky.social
Author. Nerdy, dorky geekgirl.
Geschichte, Politik, Autismus, Rollenspiele.
Auch auf @mela@zusammenkunft.net
#ProjektMaster #SzenenEinerEhe
About: https://mar.mela.de/about
Bluesky-Ressourcen: https://mar.mela.de/bluesky-res
Geschichte, Politik, Autismus, Rollenspiele.
Auch auf @mela@zusammenkunft.net
#ProjektMaster #SzenenEinerEhe
About: https://mar.mela.de/about
Bluesky-Ressourcen: https://mar.mela.de/bluesky-res
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Mela Eckenfels
@felicea.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Public Health Information Resources | Notion
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mar.mela.de
I've compiled a list with public health information resources outside the US. Please signal boost:
mar.mela.de/cdcgagorder
mar.mela.de/cdcgagorder
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I got to write about a cool medieval shipwreck in my latest for @arstechnica.com 🧪
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
arstechnica.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Fascinating historical analysis finds that higher local circulation of a popular witch-hunting manual increased a city's likelihood of holding its first witch trial by about 30%. An early, quantifiable example of the harmful impact of fake news!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ideational diffusion and the great witch hunt in Central Europe - Theory and Society
The great upsurge of witch trials in early modern Europe remains a historical puzzle. Popularly known as the “witch craze”, this eruption of persecution is puzzling because belief in witchcraft had ex...
link.springer.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Fascinating historical analysis finds that higher local circulation of a popular witch-hunting manual increased a city's likelihood of holding its first witch trial by about 30%. An early, quantifiable example of the harmful impact of fake news!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Erinnert mich an den Klassiker von @astrokatie.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Erinnert mich an den Klassiker von @astrokatie.com
Irgendwie der Soundtrack dieser Tage:
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
1/2
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
1/2
January 16, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Irgendwie der Soundtrack dieser Tage:
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
1/2
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
1/2
The Chief Science Officer discovers the OPS, her childhood best-friend, has kept a lot of personal stuff from her over the last years, and realizes it's because she, the OPS, had been in trouble:
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
1/2
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
1/2
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The Chief Science Officer discovers the OPS, her childhood best-friend, has kept a lot of personal stuff from her over the last years, and realizes it's because she, the OPS, had been in trouble:
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
1/2
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
1/2
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Seit 10 Jahren wird über darüber gejammert, dass ein vager woker Zeitgeist die Meinungsfreiheit bedroht. Nun wird ein realer Polizeistaat aufgebaut und es herrscht peinlich berührte Ratlosigkeit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Seit 10 Jahren wird über darüber gejammert, dass ein vager woker Zeitgeist die Meinungsfreiheit bedroht. Nun wird ein realer Polizeistaat aufgebaut und es herrscht peinlich berührte Ratlosigkeit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
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In diesem Video: Einiges über den von unser GWUP verehrten US-amerikanischen Skeptiker Michael Shermer, der sich mehrfach zu dem Mord an Renee Good geäußert hat wie faschistoider Bot.
The Trump Administration is desperately trying to get you to believe a Big, Obvious Lie about ICE murdering Renee Good & they're using bots & grifters to imitate support. Meanwhile, we're seeing the power of REAL communities coming together to protect one another youtu.be/dnVo6FkG94U
The Fascists are Lying about ICE Murdering an Innocent Woman
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
In diesem Video: Einiges über den von unser GWUP verehrten US-amerikanischen Skeptiker Michael Shermer, der sich mehrfach zu dem Mord an Renee Good geäußert hat wie faschistoider Bot.
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The wellness industry also ties in with fascist aesthetics.
Fit, able-bodied (white) people.
Ironically, the America Big Wellness is helping to create is more likely to shorten lifespans as vaccine access and health insurance are stripped away and polluters deregulated.
It’s really a death cult.
Fit, able-bodied (white) people.
Ironically, the America Big Wellness is helping to create is more likely to shorten lifespans as vaccine access and health insurance are stripped away and polluters deregulated.
It’s really a death cult.
January 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
The wellness industry also ties in with fascist aesthetics.
Fit, able-bodied (white) people.
Ironically, the America Big Wellness is helping to create is more likely to shorten lifespans as vaccine access and health insurance are stripped away and polluters deregulated.
It’s really a death cult.
Fit, able-bodied (white) people.
Ironically, the America Big Wellness is helping to create is more likely to shorten lifespans as vaccine access and health insurance are stripped away and polluters deregulated.
It’s really a death cult.
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This industry has been essential to the rise of American fascism. It helped rewrite the history of COVID after Biden’s election and it’s fully enmeshed itself in MAGA with Kennedy’s MAHA movement.
Its promise of hackable health fits neatly into the eugenicist worldview. Call it a modern iteration.
Its promise of hackable health fits neatly into the eugenicist worldview. Call it a modern iteration.
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
This industry has been essential to the rise of American fascism. It helped rewrite the history of COVID after Biden’s election and it’s fully enmeshed itself in MAGA with Kennedy’s MAHA movement.
Its promise of hackable health fits neatly into the eugenicist worldview. Call it a modern iteration.
Its promise of hackable health fits neatly into the eugenicist worldview. Call it a modern iteration.
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Was für ein verachtenswerter Mensch der US-Krankheitsminister doch ist.
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Was für ein verachtenswerter Mensch der US-Krankheitsminister doch ist.
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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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Liebe #pnpde Creator*innen und Designer*innen! Wir bringen sehr bald ein neues Shadowdark / 5e Abenteuer raus. Wenn ihr das PDF haben möchtet, schreibt mir gerne hier drunter (:
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Liebe #pnpde Creator*innen und Designer*innen! Wir bringen sehr bald ein neues Shadowdark / 5e Abenteuer raus. Wenn ihr das PDF haben möchtet, schreibt mir gerne hier drunter (:
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On 8 January, Kristie Noem chose the slogan 'One of ours, all of yours'. This slogan references the fascist sentiment of collective reprisal for the killing of a regime member. A well-known example of Nazi collective punishment was the SS massacre in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 AM
On 8 January, Kristie Noem chose the slogan 'One of ours, all of yours'. This slogan references the fascist sentiment of collective reprisal for the killing of a regime member. A well-known example of Nazi collective punishment was the SS massacre in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
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Die Sprache und die Tat der Kollektivbestrafung ist keine neue Eskalationsstufe.
Sie ist gängige Praxis von Staaten, wenn es um nicht-weißes Leben geht.
Wer erstmals hier Empörung spürt und verbalisiert, weil es um weiße Bürger geht, sagt viel über sich und wenig über historische Kontinuitäten.
Sie ist gängige Praxis von Staaten, wenn es um nicht-weißes Leben geht.
Wer erstmals hier Empörung spürt und verbalisiert, weil es um weiße Bürger geht, sagt viel über sich und wenig über historische Kontinuitäten.
On 8 January, Kristie Noem chose the slogan 'One of ours, all of yours'. This slogan references the fascist sentiment of collective reprisal for the killing of a regime member. A well-known example of Nazi collective punishment was the SS massacre in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Die Sprache und die Tat der Kollektivbestrafung ist keine neue Eskalationsstufe.
Sie ist gängige Praxis von Staaten, wenn es um nicht-weißes Leben geht.
Wer erstmals hier Empörung spürt und verbalisiert, weil es um weiße Bürger geht, sagt viel über sich und wenig über historische Kontinuitäten.
Sie ist gängige Praxis von Staaten, wenn es um nicht-weißes Leben geht.
Wer erstmals hier Empörung spürt und verbalisiert, weil es um weiße Bürger geht, sagt viel über sich und wenig über historische Kontinuitäten.
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The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.
January 13, 2026 at 3:13 AM
The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.
Fuuuu ... Seit über einem Jahrzehnt habe ich einen Entwurf für eine Kurzgeschichte zu genau diesen Thema rumfliegen, aber jetzt ist mir die TAZ zuvorgekommen.
Die Wahrheit: Rummsen zum Schein
Die Versicherungsbranche arbeitet aus Kostengründen neuerdings mit stunterfahrenen Unfallverursachern.
taz.de
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Fuuuu ... Seit über einem Jahrzehnt habe ich einen Entwurf für eine Kurzgeschichte zu genau diesen Thema rumfliegen, aber jetzt ist mir die TAZ zuvorgekommen.
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Vielleicht könnt ihr mir helfen, ich verzweifle langsam bei der Suche:
Möchte VOR ORT IN HAMBURG IM LADEN (nicht online) PVC-Integralschaumplatten auf Maß für mein zukünftiges Terrarium (ca. 120x60x150) kaufen, aber scheinbar gibt es da nichts für Privatpersonen. Hat jemand Anlaufstellen parat?
Möchte VOR ORT IN HAMBURG IM LADEN (nicht online) PVC-Integralschaumplatten auf Maß für mein zukünftiges Terrarium (ca. 120x60x150) kaufen, aber scheinbar gibt es da nichts für Privatpersonen. Hat jemand Anlaufstellen parat?
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Vielleicht könnt ihr mir helfen, ich verzweifle langsam bei der Suche:
Möchte VOR ORT IN HAMBURG IM LADEN (nicht online) PVC-Integralschaumplatten auf Maß für mein zukünftiges Terrarium (ca. 120x60x150) kaufen, aber scheinbar gibt es da nichts für Privatpersonen. Hat jemand Anlaufstellen parat?
Möchte VOR ORT IN HAMBURG IM LADEN (nicht online) PVC-Integralschaumplatten auf Maß für mein zukünftiges Terrarium (ca. 120x60x150) kaufen, aber scheinbar gibt es da nichts für Privatpersonen. Hat jemand Anlaufstellen parat?
It would be an interesting question how much of what’s currently happening boils down to old men begrudging younger generations being raised by kinder (woke) fathers.
It’s why we have to suffer a bad dad as President. Trump, Vance, and Musk have all shared how deeply unloved by their fathers they were.
America would rather have an abusive father whose own vices allow us to indulge our base impulses rather than a “Momala” who aspired for something more.
America would rather have an abusive father whose own vices allow us to indulge our base impulses rather than a “Momala” who aspired for something more.
January 12, 2026 at 10:20 AM
It would be an interesting question how much of what’s currently happening boils down to old men begrudging younger generations being raised by kinder (woke) fathers.
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//I need a VtM fan or fans with a decent amount of knowledge about the surviving antediluvians to help me with a project I'm currently putting together in my head. It involves a secret Technocracy prison/holding facility in Antarctica and the hidden agenda behind it. #vtm #worldofdarkness
January 12, 2026 at 7:42 AM
//I need a VtM fan or fans with a decent amount of knowledge about the surviving antediluvians to help me with a project I'm currently putting together in my head. It involves a secret Technocracy prison/holding facility in Antarctica and the hidden agenda behind it. #vtm #worldofdarkness
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Lesson 2 of my online course is now available! Learn to fact-check like a pro, identify manipulation techniques, and master critical ignoring skills.
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/class-2-ho...
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/class-2-ho...
Class 2: How to Fact-Check and Practice Critical Ignoring in the Age of AI
Media literacy is the second pillar of literacy, and here we learn how to read laterally, identify digital manipulation, and strategically ignore bad-faith actors.
matthewfacciani.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Lesson 2 of my online course is now available! Learn to fact-check like a pro, identify manipulation techniques, and master critical ignoring skills.
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/class-2-ho...
matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/class-2-ho...
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That was always that saddest part of his patriarchal dismissiveness—he missed out on how cool and amazing people on this planet have been with their engineering, ingenuity, and creativity for millennia.
January 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
That was always that saddest part of his patriarchal dismissiveness—he missed out on how cool and amazing people on this planet have been with their engineering, ingenuity, and creativity for millennia.
Ein neuer Murderbot-Band ist angekündigt und erscheint im Mai. THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Ein neuer Murderbot-Band ist …
torpublishinggroup.c...
#PlatformDecay
torpublishinggroup.c...
#PlatformDecay
January 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Ein neuer Murderbot-Band ist angekündigt und erscheint im Mai. THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Ein neuer Murderbot-Band ist …
torpublishinggroup.c...
#PlatformDecay
torpublishinggroup.c...
#PlatformDecay
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Ganz okaye Zurückweisung von Frau Warken der Drohungen des US-amerikanischen Eugenik-Ministers, aber die Stringenz, mit den US-Minister der CDSU-geführten BuReg drohen, zeigt m.E., dass die Bierdeckelfritz & Crew für Fallobst & das schwächste
www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/ministerium/...
www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/ministerium/...
Warken: Einlassungen des US-amerikanischen Gesundheitsministers entbehren jeglicher Grundlage
Die Aussagen des US-amerikanischen Gesundheitsministers, dass es in Deutschland politisch motivierte Verfahren gegen Ärzte und Patienten gebe, weist Nina Warken entschieden zurück.
www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de
January 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Ganz okaye Zurückweisung von Frau Warken der Drohungen des US-amerikanischen Eugenik-Ministers, aber die Stringenz, mit den US-Minister der CDSU-geführten BuReg drohen, zeigt m.E., dass die Bierdeckelfritz & Crew für Fallobst & das schwächste
www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/ministerium/...
www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/ministerium/...
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Der Dezember war zudem der tödlichste Monat in der Geschichte der ICE-Haft, sechs Menschen starben in diesem Monat.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Der Dezember war zudem der tödlichste Monat in der Geschichte der ICE-Haft, sechs Menschen starben in diesem Monat.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...