Franka Welz
@frawel.bsky.social
Journalist, currently based in Madrid. Wannabe surfer. Fault in the system. Holding on to that sweet Brexit grudge since 2016 and counting.
Posting in 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧occasionally 🇪🇸 & 🇵🇹 (it’s not bragging, if it’s true).
Posting in 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧occasionally 🇪🇸 & 🇵🇹 (it’s not bragging, if it’s true).
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Every so often I get a slap to the head that reminds me how meaningless & petty our academic concerns are - we act like it’s all so important but one day we will all be dust, not even a footnote in someone’s dissertation. Take care of your art and your soul and your loved ones, that’s all.
May 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Every so often I get a slap to the head that reminds me how meaningless & petty our academic concerns are - we act like it’s all so important but one day we will all be dust, not even a footnote in someone’s dissertation. Take care of your art and your soul and your loved ones, that’s all.
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Love the replies to this that are saying things like “this is getting traction because the right and centrists want to attack the Greens”. No. It’s getting traction because it is, above all, funny. It’s funny that someone in their 30s would have this as their business!
This appears to be right, the full Sun piece on Polanski’s hypnotherapy is basically advertising his services in a wholly positive light. He suggests it was a hatchet job which he naively fell for but the copy doesn’t suggest that at all.
Impressed by the number of Zack Polanski-defending blokes today who have confidently told me that the hypnoboobs piece was a sting or stitch-up by The Sun, and misrepresented him. Have you read the piece? It’s not a sting. It’s a puff piece for his then business www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/798...
May 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Love the replies to this that are saying things like “this is getting traction because the right and centrists want to attack the Greens”. No. It’s getting traction because it is, above all, funny. It’s funny that someone in their 30s would have this as their business!
Bitch, please. NOW you feel the need to take a stance? Too little too late, I’m afraid.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”
“Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”
Opinion | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Bitch, please. NOW you feel the need to take a stance? Too little too late, I’m afraid.
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
This. I’m getting there too. Slowly, but steadily.
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This. I’m getting there too. Slowly, but steadily.
I just can’t with this s toxic blend of ignorance and stupidity of it all. NOTHING works like this. And who knows wherever the place in this world for the none brain dead among us may be. I haven’t spotted it yet.
Byron Donalds implied the pain from Trump’s tariffs are necessary and compared them to working out at the gym
May 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I just can’t with this s toxic blend of ignorance and stupidity of it all. NOTHING works like this. And who knows wherever the place in this world for the none brain dead among us may be. I haven’t spotted it yet.
As someone with an entire bouquet of roots and several places I like to call home (and not because of riches or privilege, but simply because life happened), I really don’t know what to make of this emerging world order, nor where my place in it may be. And whatever happened to sanity in politics?
May 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As someone with an entire bouquet of roots and several places I like to call home (and not because of riches or privilege, but simply because life happened), I really don’t know what to make of this emerging world order, nor where my place in it may be. And whatever happened to sanity in politics?
Nicht journalistisch, rein emotional: Für diejenigen unter uns, die Jahre damit verbracht haben, die Produkte des A-Level-Systems studierfähig zu machen, in die Sozialversicherungssysteme eingezahlt und Familie dort haben, wird es mit jedem Tag bitterer. Aber you do you, UK.
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Nicht journalistisch, rein emotional: Für diejenigen unter uns, die Jahre damit verbracht haben, die Produkte des A-Level-Systems studierfähig zu machen, in die Sozialversicherungssysteme eingezahlt und Familie dort haben, wird es mit jedem Tag bitterer. Aber you do you, UK.
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Ich kenne gerade eine Menge Menschen, die es, unabhängig von ihrer politischen Haltung, extrem umtreibt, dass es in Deutschland kaum regnet.
Aber ich schätze, das meint Klingbeil nicht.
Aber ich schätze, das meint Klingbeil nicht.
„Wir haben vergessen, was die normalen Menschen umtreibt.“ Schlimmer als Spahn und Linnemann.
May 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Ich kenne gerade eine Menge Menschen, die es, unabhängig von ihrer politischen Haltung, extrem umtreibt, dass es in Deutschland kaum regnet.
Aber ich schätze, das meint Klingbeil nicht.
Aber ich schätze, das meint Klingbeil nicht.
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Am Ende gehen die Afghanen morgen irgendwo anders über die Grenze. Aber die Bundesregierung hat das Signal gesendet, dass man sich nicht an EU-Recht halten muss. Jedenfalls nicht bis die Gerichte entschieden haben. In der Migrationspolitik legt Merz einen dezidiert antieuropäischen Start hin.
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Am Ende gehen die Afghanen morgen irgendwo anders über die Grenze. Aber die Bundesregierung hat das Signal gesendet, dass man sich nicht an EU-Recht halten muss. Jedenfalls nicht bis die Gerichte entschieden haben. In der Migrationspolitik legt Merz einen dezidiert antieuropäischen Start hin.
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Nach dem Dublin-Verfahren wäre Griechenland zuständig. Deutschland bringt aber (aus nicht genau erklärten Gründen) nach Luxemburg (?) zurück, wendet das Verfahren nicht an — obwohl man es gerade in jahrelangen Geas-Verhandlungen im Kern bestätigt, neu austariert hat.
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nach dem Dublin-Verfahren wäre Griechenland zuständig. Deutschland bringt aber (aus nicht genau erklärten Gründen) nach Luxemburg (?) zurück, wendet das Verfahren nicht an — obwohl man es gerade in jahrelangen Geas-Verhandlungen im Kern bestätigt, neu austariert hat.
Mir ist nicht ganz klar, wo sie wohnen. Das Küken ist ja offensichtlich noch nicht flügge.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Mir ist nicht ganz klar, wo sie wohnen. Das Küken ist ja offensichtlich noch nicht flügge.
Wie gesagt, alle potentiell Betroffenen sind so vorbereitet wie möglich.
May 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wie gesagt, alle potentiell Betroffenen sind so vorbereitet wie möglich.
Der ist wie die Fußball WM 2030, breit aufgestellt. 😊
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Der ist wie die Fußball WM 2030, breit aufgestellt. 😊
Cristóbal López Romero. In Rabat (Marokko).
May 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Cristóbal López Romero. In Rabat (Marokko).
Wer jetzt nicht Papst-Relevantes pusht, ist doof.
May 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Wer jetzt nicht Papst-Relevantes pusht, ist doof.
Die waren gestern schon da. Mein Highlight der Veranstaltung.
May 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Die waren gestern schon da. Mein Highlight der Veranstaltung.
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After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
Gut geführtes Interview, finde ich. Danke dafür!
May 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Gut geführtes Interview, finde ich. Danke dafür!
Quatsch. Besingte ist großartig.
May 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Quatsch. Besingte ist großartig.
“besingte” gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut.
May 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“besingte” gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut.