Christiane
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At the hockey. Sad to report no goals yet and nobody kissed.
December 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
At the hockey. Sad to report no goals yet and nobody kissed.
I often think about the time we sold our old vinyl collection because „everything is on CD anyway“, and the records and record player needed so much more space. Now I wish I still had all of them (most of them).
Vinyl records are popular again, but it's not just audiophiles or nostalgic boomers fueling the resurgence.
Gen Z is playing an outsized role in the revival of vinyl sales, which have grown on average by 18% annually in the past five years.
https://cnn.it/4q2ceaK
Gen Z is playing an outsized role in the revival of vinyl sales, which have grown on average by 18% annually in the past five years.
https://cnn.it/4q2ceaK
December 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I often think about the time we sold our old vinyl collection because „everything is on CD anyway“, and the records and record player needed so much more space. Now I wish I still had all of them (most of them).
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Can someone please inform the tech giants that no one wants an AI-assisted experience on every single app, but everyone NEEDS drinking water and a habitable planet. 🙏
December 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Can someone please inform the tech giants that no one wants an AI-assisted experience on every single app, but everyone NEEDS drinking water and a habitable planet. 🙏
In town today an emergency service was collecting donations for their S&R dog team. With the dogs present of course. Lots of people stopped to chat and pet. Guy with an enormously chunky bulldog came, looked at the sleek emergency dogs and said to his dog: search and rescue, just look at them.
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In town today an emergency service was collecting donations for their S&R dog team. With the dogs present of course. Lots of people stopped to chat and pet. Guy with an enormously chunky bulldog came, looked at the sleek emergency dogs and said to his dog: search and rescue, just look at them.
Happy Tuna Melt day for everyone who celebrates.
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Happy Tuna Melt day for everyone who celebrates.
HBO max ist starting in Germany in January. If they don’t show Heated Rivalry then, I will go feral!
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
HBO max ist starting in Germany in January. If they don’t show Heated Rivalry then, I will go feral!
Waiting for Spotify to drop Wrapped so that I can finally cancel my subscription and move to Qobuz.
November 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Waiting for Spotify to drop Wrapped so that I can finally cancel my subscription and move to Qobuz.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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A thoroughly entertaining Bronze Final comes to a close with the Black Ferns running out 42-26 winners over France.
A spirited fight back from the French, but New Zealand just to strong in the end.
#RWC2025 #WomensRugby
A spirited fight back from the French, but New Zealand just to strong in the end.
#RWC2025 #WomensRugby
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A thoroughly entertaining Bronze Final comes to a close with the Black Ferns running out 42-26 winners over France.
A spirited fight back from the French, but New Zealand just to strong in the end.
#RWC2025 #WomensRugby
A spirited fight back from the French, but New Zealand just to strong in the end.
#RWC2025 #WomensRugby
Rugby World Cup Final! Yay!
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September 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Rugby World Cup Final! Yay!
🇫🇷 🇳🇿 🏴 🇨🇦
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Just finished this book and love it so much 😍 My favourite of the year!
My latest book An Academic Affair is now out in the UK! This is the first of my books to get a proper print release there (exciting!). I hope you enjoy reading about my totally-only-getting-married-on-paper rival academics as much as I did writing them. www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/An-Aca...
September 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Just finished this book and love it so much 😍 My favourite of the year!
Go Rugby! Very excited for the Women‘s Rugby World Cup!
August 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Go Rugby! Very excited for the Women‘s Rugby World Cup!
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Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
July 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
This tragedy must end now.
Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt
Carrying around real books instead of a Kobo or other e-reader has one advantage: much nicer „I am reading at the beach“-pictures.
July 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Carrying around real books instead of a Kobo or other e-reader has one advantage: much nicer „I am reading at the beach“-pictures.
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Oslo, so far, seems like what would happen if you designed a city entirely for competent introverts. As an incompetent introvert, it is both lovely and a trifle daunting.
June 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Oslo, so far, seems like what would happen if you designed a city entirely for competent introverts. As an incompetent introvert, it is both lovely and a trifle daunting.
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🧵 36 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese and Hong Kong governments continue their efforts to rewrite history through censorship, including any mention of Tiananmen, and suppression of those who speak out.
To remember, read, and write is resistance.
To remember, read, and write is resistance.
June 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🧵 36 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese and Hong Kong governments continue their efforts to rewrite history through censorship, including any mention of Tiananmen, and suppression of those who speak out.
To remember, read, and write is resistance.
To remember, read, and write is resistance.
A major clue to decide if the author of a book set in the UK is actually British or American (if you don’t know) is the quantity of tea consumed. 40% into the newest KJ Charles book and every single interaction between the MCs starts with them offering, drinking or refusing tea. Rings very true.
May 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A major clue to decide if the author of a book set in the UK is actually British or American (if you don’t know) is the quantity of tea consumed. 40% into the newest KJ Charles book and every single interaction between the MCs starts with them offering, drinking or refusing tea. Rings very true.
I’m utterly convinced that the Hong Kong pics are both fake…
I got 10/10 on this. When it's a matter of directly comparing a real picture to a fake one...the fake ones look fake! Shiny and perfect and glossy.
Less easy when it's not a direct comparison obv, but in general, if it looks too good to be true...
Less easy when it's not a direct comparison obv, but in general, if it looks too good to be true...
Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? » Britannica
Investigate strategies for detecting real versus fake images. Test your students' image evaluation skills with our interactive challenge!
britannicaeducation.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I’m utterly convinced that the Hong Kong pics are both fake…
Meetings before breakfast with overly smug people convinced of their own importance should be prohibited
January 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Meetings before breakfast with overly smug people convinced of their own importance should be prohibited
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Whether you've seen this, or not, it is a thing of real magic.
December 24, 2023 at 6:15 AM
Whether you've seen this, or not, it is a thing of real magic.
I‘m 43% into the new Paladin book and no Gnole has shown up yet. I have complaints.
December 7, 2023 at 9:21 PM
I‘m 43% into the new Paladin book and no Gnole has shown up yet. I have complaints.
I’ve been rereading Kat Latham‘s London Legends series for the Rugby World Cup but it somehow failed to prepare me to understand anything going on in this semifinal.
October 21, 2023 at 8:13 PM
I’ve been rereading Kat Latham‘s London Legends series for the Rugby World Cup but it somehow failed to prepare me to understand anything going on in this semifinal.
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Boosting this, and paging #romancelandia. Y'all can fundraise anything and I'm hoping we can get a few more books, maybe even get up to 100, until our long reading night at the beginning of October.
Thank you all, please share and help out if you can ❤️
Thank you all, please share and help out if you can ❤️
Hey friends, for once I'm cross posting from Twitter to share something I need help with.
As you might know I'm a social worker and just opened a youth center I'm running on my own in the middle of nowhere in Germany.
And I have a wishlist full of books my kids and teens want and should read.
As you might know I'm a social worker and just opened a youth center I'm running on my own in the middle of nowhere in Germany.
And I have a wishlist full of books my kids and teens want and should read.
September 18, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Boosting this, and paging #romancelandia. Y'all can fundraise anything and I'm hoping we can get a few more books, maybe even get up to 100, until our long reading night at the beginning of October.
Thank you all, please share and help out if you can ❤️
Thank you all, please share and help out if you can ❤️
Yesterday I heard an Australian person say the word orangutan and it’s now my favourite word.
September 15, 2023 at 8:58 AM
Yesterday I heard an Australian person say the word orangutan and it’s now my favourite word.