Joschka Meier
@josserme.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & communal resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
Äuä iu
corn husker
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Äuä iu
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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writing a journal article
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
writing a journal article
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
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The issue with all these takes is "controversial" usually means "something historians settled 25 years ago"
I wish Douthat had followed up and asked Andrews what "areas of inquiry" have been "ruled out of bounds in history" because they are "too controversial" and lead historians away from "truth seeking."
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The issue with all these takes is "controversial" usually means "something historians settled 25 years ago"
Hab mir Europa Universalis 5 angeschaut und war positiv überrascht von vielen neuen Nuancen & Details zu Geschichte, rekrutierte einen General und das Ganze gab dem den Namen...Fritzli Franz von Bern.
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hab mir Europa Universalis 5 angeschaut und war positiv überrascht von vielen neuen Nuancen & Details zu Geschichte, rekrutierte einen General und das Ganze gab dem den Namen...Fritzli Franz von Bern.
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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![image of andrew cuomo at his nyc mayoral election watch party with disco elysium ui text overlay that reads:
Suggestion [Challenging: Failure] - You thought you did everything right. You had the money, the power, and the fame. Where did it all go wrong? Why couldn't those sniveling little city dwellers see that you were meant to lead them? You're now a twice certified loser from a family of winners. Your father's name is on a bridge. Your name is next to a Wikipedia entry that says "sexual harassment allegations."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqh433fdh2bqhvt455e3tg67/bafkreibvgcmgeluhegcun73wdfsve7nzg3djqxf5cnpxz6t54i7jsf5uby@jpeg)
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count
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Auf Stephen Colberts Frage, warum er in der Öffentlichkeit eine Maske trage, antwortete Tom Hanks:
„Ich hatte schon genug Covid in meinem Leben, das brauche ich nicht noch einmal. Ich trage sie aus gesundheitlichen Gründen.“
Mehr Prominente sollten sich so äußern.
„Ich hatte schon genug Covid in meinem Leben, das brauche ich nicht noch einmal. Ich trage sie aus gesundheitlichen Gründen.“
Mehr Prominente sollten sich so äußern.
When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”
More celebrities need to speak out like this.
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Auf Stephen Colberts Frage, warum er in der Öffentlichkeit eine Maske trage, antwortete Tom Hanks:
„Ich hatte schon genug Covid in meinem Leben, das brauche ich nicht noch einmal. Ich trage sie aus gesundheitlichen Gründen.“
Mehr Prominente sollten sich so äußern.
„Ich hatte schon genug Covid in meinem Leben, das brauche ich nicht noch einmal. Ich trage sie aus gesundheitlichen Gründen.“
Mehr Prominente sollten sich so äußern.
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EILMELDUNG
wahlen gewinnt man mit deutlichen pro-trans positionen
Ich hoffe irgendwer hört das
wahlen gewinnt man mit deutlichen pro-trans positionen
Ich hoffe irgendwer hört das
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
EILMELDUNG
wahlen gewinnt man mit deutlichen pro-trans positionen
Ich hoffe irgendwer hört das
wahlen gewinnt man mit deutlichen pro-trans positionen
Ich hoffe irgendwer hört das
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
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A+ job of vetting your Peace Prize winner, Nobel Committee.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado insists that Maduro rigged the 2020 US elections against Donald Trump (and many other elections in the region)
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A+ job of vetting your Peace Prize winner, Nobel Committee.
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If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
November 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again
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This makes me absolutely incandescent
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This makes me absolutely incandescent
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Harris-Walz ran exactly the sort of economics and “kitchen-table issues” campaign these voices recommend, adamantly avoiding identity politics.
Biden-Harris was a working-and-middle-class-economics-focused administration.
“Ah, but in 2020, Democrats said…”
Yes, that was the election they won.
Biden-Harris was a working-and-middle-class-economics-focused administration.
“Ah, but in 2020, Democrats said…”
Yes, that was the election they won.
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Harris-Walz ran exactly the sort of economics and “kitchen-table issues” campaign these voices recommend, adamantly avoiding identity politics.
Biden-Harris was a working-and-middle-class-economics-focused administration.
“Ah, but in 2020, Democrats said…”
Yes, that was the election they won.
Biden-Harris was a working-and-middle-class-economics-focused administration.
“Ah, but in 2020, Democrats said…”
Yes, that was the election they won.
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Saint Jerome busting out their terrain for Warhammer night at the games club.
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Saint Jerome busting out their terrain for Warhammer night at the games club.