Walter Hecher
@walterhecher.bsky.social
Austrian diplomat doing diplomatic things.
Pinned
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Vienna airport sure knows its customers 😂
January 26, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Vienna airport sure knows its customers 😂
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch an @petrabayr.bsky.social zur Wahl der neuen Präsidentin der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarates!
Petra Bayr becomes the 36th President of @pace.coe.int and the 5th woman to hold this office since 1949.
Learn more: www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
Learn more: www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an @petrabayr.bsky.social zur Wahl der neuen Präsidentin der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarates!
Interessant: fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
Was Lustenau und Lagos verbindet, zeigt die Doku "Stoff" - fm4.ORF.at
„Stoff – ein Spitzengeschäft“ heißt eine neue Doku, die jetzt ins Kino kommt: Im Zentrum steht der Handel von Textilien aus dem beschaulichen Lustenau in Vorarlberg nach Lagos in Nigeria. Eine ehemali...
fm4.orf.at
January 26, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Interessant: fm4.orf.at/stories/3052...
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In einer besseren Welt würde ein Weltfußballverband nun Kanada und Mexiko ersuchen, auch die Austragung der für die USA geplanten Spiele zu übernehmen und würde das mit der unabdingbaren Geltung der Menschenrechte und der Achtung der Würde der Menschen begründen. Es wäre ein wichtiges Signal.
January 25, 2026 at 10:42 AM
In einer besseren Welt würde ein Weltfußballverband nun Kanada und Mexiko ersuchen, auch die Austragung der für die USA geplanten Spiele zu übernehmen und würde das mit der unabdingbaren Geltung der Menschenrechte und der Achtung der Würde der Menschen begründen. Es wäre ein wichtiges Signal.
The US Arctic expertise is perhaps not that great.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 AM
The US Arctic expertise is perhaps not that great.
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some thoughts on Trump's "Board for Peace" www.ft.com/content/1499...
January 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
some thoughts on Trump's "Board for Peace" www.ft.com/content/1499...
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A Trump quote without his face or voice. It's Trump without Trump. This quote is unedited and 100% accurate. It is from his press conference on January 20, 2026. - The big building with bars on the windows.
January 22, 2026 at 4:17 PM
A Trump quote without his face or voice. It's Trump without Trump. This quote is unedited and 100% accurate. It is from his press conference on January 20, 2026. - The big building with bars on the windows.
Let‘s see what he says in 5 minutes.
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Let‘s see what he says in 5 minutes.
„Nostalgia is not a strategy.“
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 PM
„Nostalgia is not a strategy.“
Schlanke 800 Seiten - this better be good.
January 20, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Schlanke 800 Seiten - this better be good.
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Peculiar - also true
from x/@Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 4h
Somewhat of a random fact: the last time Denmark sold an island to the US was in 1917. That island was Little Saint James, more commonly known today as “Epstein Island.”
from x/@Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 4h
Somewhat of a random fact: the last time Denmark sold an island to the US was in 1917. That island was Little Saint James, more commonly known today as “Epstein Island.”
January 20, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Peculiar - also true
from x/@Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 4h
Somewhat of a random fact: the last time Denmark sold an island to the US was in 1917. That island was Little Saint James, more commonly known today as “Epstein Island.”
from x/@Daractenus @daractenus.bsky.social · 4h
Somewhat of a random fact: the last time Denmark sold an island to the US was in 1917. That island was Little Saint James, more commonly known today as “Epstein Island.”
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A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.
nyti.ms
January 19, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows.
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
“Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”
just checking if FIFA has already joined the Gaza Board of Peace?
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
just checking if FIFA has already joined the Gaza Board of Peace?
Green Day - Bang Bang (Live from the 2016 American Music Awards)
YouTube video by Green Day
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
There’s a whole thread about grok trying to get out of this. 😂
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 17, 2026 at 7:19 AM
There’s a whole thread about grok trying to get out of this. 😂
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Trump joins a not-so-long list of people who have acquired someone else's Nobel medal, including... uh... Joseph Goebbels. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
January 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Trump joins a not-so-long list of people who have acquired someone else's Nobel medal, including... uh... Joseph Goebbels. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
Interessant - WhatsApp ist "kein soziales Medium" (orf.at/stories/3417...) - anscheinend kennt Australien die WhatsApp Kanäle nicht?
Australien: 4,7 Mio. Accounts von Kindern deaktiviert
orf.at
January 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Interessant - WhatsApp ist "kein soziales Medium" (orf.at/stories/3417...) - anscheinend kennt Australien die WhatsApp Kanäle nicht?
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Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis.
University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.
University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.
Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!!
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple
sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients.
These ANO2-specific T cells shar...
www.cell.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Just astonishing good news. We are on the way to end Multiple Sclerosis.
University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.
University research delivers. Always has. Now a cabal in the White House is shattering it.
GOAT.
AGATHA CHRISTIE at her desk in 1950.
She died on this day in 1976 aged 85.
The Guinness Book Of Records lists her as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
She died on this day in 1976 aged 85.
The Guinness Book Of Records lists her as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
January 12, 2026 at 2:24 PM
GOAT.