Martina Dervis
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Martina Dervis
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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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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Is it milk?
A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Jobgesuch

Ein junger Mann sucht einen Job im Lager, bei dem er Gabelstapler-fahren kann.

Das allerdings ohne Zeitarbeitsfirma, da er mehrfach extrem schlechte Erfahrungen mit diesen gemacht hat.

Wenn ihr eine Firma kennt, die direkt anstellt, immer her mit dem Tipp.

#Berlin
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wieder was gelernt: Kurzzeitpflege und stationäre Verhinderungspflege sind zwar praktisch gesehen so ziemlich dasselbe. Aber in Berlin werden sie aus zwei verschiedenen Töpfen bezahlt, und wenn man auf den einen keinen Anspruch hat, hat man halt Pech gehabt. #PflegendeAngehörige
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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We're witnessing the greatest sustained attack on the human spirit in history. Big Tech seeks to destroy the arts. They're destroying the school system. They want to make us lobotomized people who can't read, write or create. They've turned dystopian fiction into a manual.
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hat hier irgendwer in Berlin Erfahrungen mit Kurzzeitpflegeeinrichtungen, die für Demenzkranke geeignet sind?
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Bartenwale, etwa der Blauwal oder der Buckelwal, können mit ihren tiefdröhnenden Gesängen über tausende Kilometer hinweg kommunizieren. Ein Wal kann also einen anderen Wal hören, der sich in einem ganz anderen Teil der Welt aufhält.
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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From the 1860s, but feels so modern.

[Fidelia Bridges, Garden View, Brooklyn, ca. 1867, Watercolor and gouache, with traces of graphite underdrawing, on tan hot-pressed wove paper, 8 × 5 1/8 in. (20.3 × 13 cm) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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das problem mit der KI-bubble ist, dass wenn sie kollabiert, wird eine unglaubliche menge an data centre infrastruktur herumstehen, die irgendwie benutzt werden muss und die drei bereiche werden sein: militär, überwachung und eugenik
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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This is what the White Rose resistance were executed for
someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES

THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration

Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights?

LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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This man is clearly deranged
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"

"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"

"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Unser Staatssekretär meint ernsthaft, dass Berlin mit den geänderten Plänen für die #Torstraße einen entscheidenden Schritt in die Moderne tut. 🙈

Gruselig.
Auf und an der Torstraße in Berlin-Mitte ist viel los: Autos, Fahrräder, Fußgänger, Gastro - hier kommt alles zusammen. Darüber, wie sich die Straße ab dem nächsten Jahr verändern soll, gibt es Streit - vor allem zwischen Senat und Bezirk.
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Ahja, die Stadt Berlin zwingt Veranstaltende nun, von Leuten, die sie für eine Veranstaltung gebucht haben, Universitätsabschlusszeugnisse als Nachweis für Expertise einzufordern. Wenn das nicht vorgewiesen werden kann, gibts wohl keine Förderung der Stadt Berlin für Kulturveranstaltungen 😶
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Hat zufällig jemand Zugriff auf folgenden Aufsatz und könnte mir mit einem PDF aushelfen:

Der Bauernoberst Matern Feuerbacher, in: Württembergische Jahrbücher für Statistik und Landeskunde 1923/4, S. 81–102; ebd. 1924/5, S. 1–35

Ich freue mich über jede Rückmeldung.
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Gestern politisch unterwegs.
Viele Gespräche.
Und plötzlich war da wieder dieses:

„Wo kommen Sie her?“
Antwort reichte nicht & sie legten nach:
„Nein, wo kommen Sie WIRKLICH her?“

Nach der wievielten Generation in Deutschland lebend wird man das nicht
mehr gefragt?
Wann gehören wir endlich dazu?
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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If you‘re saying „we just need to train it more“ - we can‘t. We‘ve reached the stage of enshittification. The web has been flooded with incestuous data. And that‘s after it crawled all of your work illegally.
October 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I feel like AI exacerbates the problem of people who made bad decisions not bearing the consequences and other people having to bear the consequences, in a way that's far worse than other similar things in my lifetime.
This is why I got so tired about writing about this shit. It was trivial to see well in advance that these products (sorry! “tools”) were going to be bad for work quality and productivity, but nobody in charge listened, shat the bed, and now there won’t be any consequences for them
If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Von rechts wird die gesamte Demokratieförderung infrage gestellt und mit Kleinen Anfragen attackiert. Das bedroht die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft.
Rechtsruck in Deutschland: Feindbild Demokratie
Von rechts wird die gesamte Demokratieförderung infrage gestellt und mit Kleinen Anfragen attackiert. Das bedroht die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft.
taz.de
October 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Further to this - and once again I am doing the basic research that political journalists should have done six months ago - Lam said on the record in Parliament that this *does* apply to pensions/pensioners.
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM