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Martina Dervis
@martinader.bsky.social
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Ex-Londoner in Berlin. Translates and edits (art & culture, history, botany). Eats, cooks and spends most of her free time looking for a flat with a decent-sized kitchen and room for some books. Loves cats and museums. #dementia care
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davidjbradley.bsky.social
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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verbrecherverlag.bsky.social
Stadtwissend: „Text im Raum. Berlingeschichte verortet" von Stefanie Endlich hg. v. Aktiven Museum.
Mehr: www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/text-im...
Das Buch, auf gelbem Grund liegend
February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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delafina777.bsky.social
Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
cheriepriest.com High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 6d
Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
cheriepriest.com High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 6d
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
A cheerful thought for a Sunday night: We're already 29% of the way through February; by the end of the month the UK will have an hour and forty minutes more daylight each day than it did at the start. Spring is coming x
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February 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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echobit.de
That’s what I call political intimidation.
Two-panel graphic comparing ICE activity and 2024 U.S. election results. The top panel shows a heatmap of the United States with red hotspots indicating areas of high ICE activity. The bottom panel displays a U.S. electoral map with states colored red and blue to represent election outcomes.
February 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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privatechand.bsky.social
By my count in the last five years we have seen four sex trafficking rings involving the elite of entertainment and media, academia, finance, and politics with no discernible effects on our system and without us making it central to political analysis. Instead, pundits told us #metoo went too far.
February 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
bylinetimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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tillraether.bsky.social
Das Jobcenter verpflichtet Menschen zu Integrationskursen, ihre Anträge werden aber auf Druck von Minister Dobrindt nicht bearbeitet und die Kurs gestrichen. Die Folge: Sanktionen vom Jobcenter und von der Ausländerbehörde.

Regierungspolitik als Schikane und Psychoterror.
www.fr.de/politik/inte...
Integrationskurse auf der Kippe – Volkshochschulen schlagen Alarm und beklagen Antragsstopp beim Bund
Das Bundesamt bearbeitet offenbar keine Anträge für Integrationskurse mehr. Die Träger wurden nicht informiert und fürchten dramatische Folgen.
www.fr.de
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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skiles.blue
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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hhesterm.bsky.social
The British identity debate shows just how diverse a country the uk is - here a native Russian denies the Britishness of a Tory. For the Tories, the daughter of two Nigerian parents vouches to be staunchly on the right. /1
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d
Konstantin Kisin claims that these exchanges are "not a debate about whether Rishi Sunak is English or British"

Nelson: "Rishi Sunak is English?"
Kisin: "He’s a brown Hindu, how can he be English?”

Alexander: You said “he’s a brown Hindu, how is he english?
Kisin: That's not what I said."
January 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
This is new to me. We knew that Epstein was working with Kremlin official Belyakov to circumvent sanctions post Crimea, but his eagerness to help Putin beat the West predates that

“Reinventing the financial system”
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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stralau.bsky.social
Eis in Berlin: der Bürgermeister ordnet per Twitter Streusalzeinsatz auf Gehwegen an, die BSR zeigt ihm höflich den Mittelfinger und sagt, daß das nicht sinnvoll ist. Am Montag, dem Streiktag, werden Straßenbahnen fahren, damit die Leitungen nicht wieder vereisen, aber keine Fahrgäste mitnehmen.
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
British response to the film about Melania Trump: If they were screening it for free at the bottom of my garden I'd shut the curtains.
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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seemannsmission.org
Any seafarers or others from maritime world out here?
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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guerillagirl.bsky.social
berlin so: good luck motherfuckers
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January 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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ligerlillie.bsky.social
🚨 Looking for folks to interview!

I know this is a long shot, but if you’re an archaeologist/historian who has done work in relation to the Tube, Crossrail, or Eurostar, I’d love to interview you for a nonfiction comic I’m working on right now!

#Archaeology 🏺 🚇 #Comicsky #London
January 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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laserbrille.bsky.social
Echte Geschichte:
In Großbritannien wurde für die Vorpremiere des #MelaniaFilm exakt 1 Ticket verkauft. Es war der Softwareentwickler, der kontrollieren musste, ob mit dem System alles in Ordnung war, nachdem es den ganzen Tag über 0 Ticketverkäufe gab.
January 28, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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florianaigner.at
Ein Schusswechsel ist, wenn 2 Seiten aufeinander schießen. Das war nicht der Fall. Nicht einmal Trumps Agenten haben das behauptet. Sorry, aber solche Fehler dürfen Medienprofis nicht passieren. Europa hat keinen Grund, sich in den US-Autoritarismus mitziehen zu lassen. Das hier ist Medienversagen.
Screenshot der Tagesschau-Webseite. Überschrift: "Kerstin Klein, ARD Washington, zum erneuten tödlichen Schusswechsel in Minneapolis"
January 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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claudiasalowski.bsky.social
Altersarmut damit zu bekämpfen, mit der Streichung des Teilzeitanspruchs die oft einzige Möglichkeit neben Kinderbetreuung oder Pflege Angehöriger zu nehmen, überhaupt in Beschäftigung zu sein, ist wahrlich ne Spitzenidee! 🤦🏽‍♀️
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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melissagiragrant.com
it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law
January 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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chris-hhh.bsky.social
this message to minneapolis from comedian zach woods is profane and also wonderful
January 22, 2026 at 10:46 PM
martinader.bsky.social
Ist es in Berlin normal, dass man wochen- oder monatelang auf einen Arztbrief warten muss, auch wenn man ihn dringend für die Anmeldung für einen Pflegeheimplatz braucht?
January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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algesiologe.bsky.social
1/x
#Rant
Also EIGENTLICH sind wir ja ein Sozialstaat, in dem EIGENTLICH niemand durch's Raster fallen muss, wenn er nicht will. Dass das eben doch geht, hat mir der heutige Tag (mal wieder) gezeigt.
Patientin, die ich schon lange kenne, kommt zu mir mit dem Wunsch, ein Opioid von einer anderen
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
for this book project I need to find at least one person who knows Greek and/or is a romance language linguist to make sure I am not totally lying about all of these words. how do I get to linguistic editor craigslist or whatever
January 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM