Alexander Drechsel
@adrechsel.de
Language nerd, treehugger, web aficionado
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you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...
September 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...
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Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
March 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
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An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
March 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.
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Let’s create a big European welcome center for the best thinkers & innovators with spine & values.
French officials are urging their country's research institutions to consider welcoming scientists abandoning the United States due to President Donald Trump's funding cuts, AFP learned on Sunday.
u.afp.com/SUk3
u.afp.com/SUk3
March 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Let’s create a big European welcome center for the best thinkers & innovators with spine & values.
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Europa hat mehr gegeben als die USA.
Während US-Präsident Trump in der Vergangenheit behauptete, dass die Vereinigten Staaten der Ukraine am meisten unterstützt hätten – und dabei falsche Zahlen präsentierte –, zeigt die Realität ein differenzierteres Bild:
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Während US-Präsident Trump in der Vergangenheit behauptete, dass die Vereinigten Staaten der Ukraine am meisten unterstützt hätten – und dabei falsche Zahlen präsentierte –, zeigt die Realität ein differenzierteres Bild:
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March 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Europa hat mehr gegeben als die USA.
Während US-Präsident Trump in der Vergangenheit behauptete, dass die Vereinigten Staaten der Ukraine am meisten unterstützt hätten – und dabei falsche Zahlen präsentierte –, zeigt die Realität ein differenzierteres Bild:
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Während US-Präsident Trump in der Vergangenheit behauptete, dass die Vereinigten Staaten der Ukraine am meisten unterstützt hätten – und dabei falsche Zahlen präsentierte –, zeigt die Realität ein differenzierteres Bild:
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Today's "woke" is yesterday's "political correctness" is the day-before-that's "try to be polite and treat people decently."
March 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Today's "woke" is yesterday's "political correctness" is the day-before-that's "try to be polite and treat people decently."
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
Golfo del Gringo Loco
Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
daringfireball.net
February 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
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8 December 1955 | The Council of Europe adopts the blue flag with 12 gold stars as its emblem.
30 years later, EU Institutions made it the official European Union flag.
A story of symbolism, religious connotations, suggestions refused and Sandra Kim... 🧵
30 years later, EU Institutions made it the official European Union flag.
A story of symbolism, religious connotations, suggestions refused and Sandra Kim... 🧵
a blue background with a circle of yellow stars
ALT: a blue background with a circle of yellow stars
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2024 at 12:10 PM
8 December 1955 | The Council of Europe adopts the blue flag with 12 gold stars as its emblem.
30 years later, EU Institutions made it the official European Union flag.
A story of symbolism, religious connotations, suggestions refused and Sandra Kim... 🧵
30 years later, EU Institutions made it the official European Union flag.
A story of symbolism, religious connotations, suggestions refused and Sandra Kim... 🧵
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The leaders of 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇳🇱🇩🇰 are holding an emergency meeting in Paris today to respond to the US vice president's Munich provocations and try to reach consensus on how Europe should respond.
The 1st step should be ending the denial about what the US really is, and devise a solution from there.
The 1st step should be ending the denial about what the US really is, and devise a solution from there.
Wake up Europe - America is not your ally
As Macron convenes an emergency leaders summit today to react to Vance's Munich provocations, a new survey finds 78% of Europeans no longer consider the US an ally. Can their leaders get the message?
davekeating.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The leaders of 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇳🇱🇩🇰 are holding an emergency meeting in Paris today to respond to the US vice president's Munich provocations and try to reach consensus on how Europe should respond.
The 1st step should be ending the denial about what the US really is, and devise a solution from there.
The 1st step should be ending the denial about what the US really is, and devise a solution from there.
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These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles
February 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles
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Man braucht nicht mit Aufforderungen wie "Schämt euch!" zu kommen - Moral zählt in diesem politischen System nichts mehr.
Es geht nur über Druck.
Es geht nur über Druck.
February 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Man braucht nicht mit Aufforderungen wie "Schämt euch!" zu kommen - Moral zählt in diesem politischen System nichts mehr.
Es geht nur über Druck.
Es geht nur über Druck.
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Bruxelles suffoque ! Il n'est pas normal que nous devions en arriver là pour encourager les alternatives à la voiture. La lutte contre la pollution de l'air doit se faire sur le long terme, pas en dernière minute. Ca passe, entre autres, par une Zone de Basses-Emissions forte. bx1.be/categories/n...
Qualité de l’air : Bruxelles Environnement active le “seuil d’information et de sensibilisation”
Le seuil d’information et de sensibilisation du plan d’urgence « pic de pollution » en Région bruxelloise, est activé afin d’informer la population de la situation de la qualité de l’air. Si cette sit...
bx1.be
February 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Bruxelles suffoque ! Il n'est pas normal que nous devions en arriver là pour encourager les alternatives à la voiture. La lutte contre la pollution de l'air doit se faire sur le long terme, pas en dernière minute. Ca passe, entre autres, par une Zone de Basses-Emissions forte. bx1.be/categories/n...
Bitte unbedingt weiterreichen! 15 Tipps für eine sinnvolle Nutzung sozialer Medien in diesen verrückten Zeiten.
(Die helfen auch, nicht selber durchzudrehen.)
social-media-manifest.de
Ganz famos, von @martinfehrensen.de / @socialmediawatchblog.de
(Die helfen auch, nicht selber durchzudrehen.)
social-media-manifest.de
Ganz famos, von @martinfehrensen.de / @socialmediawatchblog.de
Social Media Manifest
Ich befinde mich in einem Informationskrieg. Klingt dramatisch, ich weiß. Ist aber so. Ein Großteil dieses Kampfes findet in den sozialen Medien statt. Ich bin dabei in aller Regel nicht nur Beobachte...
social-media-manifest.de
February 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Bitte unbedingt weiterreichen! 15 Tipps für eine sinnvolle Nutzung sozialer Medien in diesen verrückten Zeiten.
(Die helfen auch, nicht selber durchzudrehen.)
social-media-manifest.de
Ganz famos, von @martinfehrensen.de / @socialmediawatchblog.de
(Die helfen auch, nicht selber durchzudrehen.)
social-media-manifest.de
Ganz famos, von @martinfehrensen.de / @socialmediawatchblog.de
"It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like “women” and “trauma,” less than three weeks in, it can’t be good."
https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661
https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661
The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
It's fascism, plain and simple.
gizmodo.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"It’s still not clear what happens on the other side of all this. But when they’re flagging words like “women” and “trauma,” less than three weeks in, it can’t be good."
https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661
https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661
@jonworth.eu www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/1... - the article is annoyingly short of detail. Any idea what's going on?
Brussels-Venice night train launch derailed by border bureaucracy
"This is not the best start to this journey."
www.brusselstimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@jonworth.eu www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/1... - the article is annoyingly short of detail. Any idea what's going on?
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I’m 100% serious about this, in upcoming elections and every election. Vote for someone with integrity, who is very smart and effective, and who Elon Musk doesn’t want to win.
February 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m 100% serious about this, in upcoming elections and every election. Vote for someone with integrity, who is very smart and effective, and who Elon Musk doesn’t want to win.
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Planning to organize a #FrankPattersonDay ride this year, whereby cyclists everwhere go for a ride and make some art along the way. Frank Patterson was an English illustrator known for his drawings of riding and touring through rural England often using nothing but a Gillott 303 nib.
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Planning to organize a #FrankPattersonDay ride this year, whereby cyclists everwhere go for a ride and make some art along the way. Frank Patterson was an English illustrator known for his drawings of riding and touring through rural England often using nothing but a Gillott 303 nib.
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I’m really not crazy about Twitter’s new logo.
January 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I’m really not crazy about Twitter’s new logo.
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I think we can change the world by having protected bike lanes and secure bike parking everywhere.
January 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I think we can change the world by having protected bike lanes and secure bike parking everywhere.