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Eike Pierstorff
@eikepierstorff.bsky.social
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I do not know how to make a cogent argument in 300 characters and don't really like tit-for-tat, so I am not sure what I am doing here. Also I am a lefty who likes dogs and science and home cooked food.
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eikepierstorff.bsky.social
Every 20th of July, Germany honours, as examples of "the better Germany", the guys who literally planted a bomb for the head of state, so opposition to political violence does not have to be absolute but can be measured in degrees of separation to Adolf Hitler. Still, better don't shoot people.
September 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
There is no mystery here. Per conservative ideology, the world is created via an act of will by a person with a penis. Contradicting this by claiming that there are things such as facts or science or objective reality makes you in their eyes automatically a left wing radical.
Screenshot of a NYT article stating that researcher struggle to explain an alleged left wing bias in AI chatbots.
September 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
I am pretty sure my dog's autobiography will be titled "I wanted food and all they gave me was love".
Picture of a mid sized blonde dog staring upwards in expectation of some food that may or may not come.
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
Noem and Trump's actions are a recipe for disaster🚨

Join us in standing up against Noem and Trump in the name of the Katrina Declaration dissenters — add your name to our Statement of Solidarity and Support ⬇️
www.standupforscience.net/katrina-decl...
Graphic highlighting the suspension of FEMA staff who criticized Trump, featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in 'Make America Great Again' hat with 'America' crossed out to say 'Disasters'.
August 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
"The sabotaging of what normally is a consensual procedure is a test-run for prying away ever more members of the center-right from what remains of Angela Merkel’s legacy through US-style culture war."
Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany
Jan-Werner Mueller worries that the governing Christian Democrats is beginning to engage in opportunistic norm-breaking.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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staudner.bsky.social
Bluesky do your magic.
I found this chain on 8.8.25 on the ascent to the Col de la Bonnette in the Alps. A pet name is engraved on the side. Anyone who knows it will get it back.
August 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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letatcestmoi.bsky.social
“We’re beyond waiting and seeing now…”

“We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”

And we are against it.

So we’ll fight Abbott in TX. We’ll fight masked kidnappers, we’ll fight extortion in the WH, and quisling Republicans in Congress.

#MessWithTexas

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'
Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months of authoritarian rule. "We have a consolidating d...
www.msnbc.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
At least someone is happy here.
Picture of a dog rolling in the gras on a summer day.
July 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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jodrellbank.bsky.social
Congratulations to Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the UK's Astronomer Royal – the first woman to hold the position in its 350-year history! 🔭✨

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Astronomy
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
A character in Chesterton's "Flying Inn" was a journalist nicknamed "Higgs However" who owed his name to being so dedicated to "balanced reporting" he put forward that "whatever we may think of the rights and wrongs of the vivisection of pauper children,"
June 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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nicolediekmann.bsky.social
„Mit Berichterstattung gedroht.“

Stark.
May 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
On the state of evidence based medicine: a doctor basically accused me being a junkie for taking medication a colleague of his had prescribed. Still convinced of a scientific approach, but sometimes I understand people who "do their own research" because irl there seems a lot of guesswork anyway.
May 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
In a crazy world, at least I have a lovely dog by my side.
A picture of my dog, a lovely mid sized mutt, as she is standing on a rural train station and waiting with me for the train.
May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
German AfD was designated "gesichert rechtsextremistisch", "assuredly right wing extremist", by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Now parliament or government would have to go to court to have them banned. Not holding my breath here. www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
Presse
Presse
www.verfassungsschutz.de
May 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Dear god let this man cook.
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
Eine Einrichtung, in der meine verstorbene Frau vorübergehend untergebracht war, heuerte offenbar gezielt Pflegerinnen aus dem Ausland an, um ihnen dann erst mitzuteilen, dass sie bis zur Anerkennung nur mit reduziertem Gehalt als Helferinnen arbeiten dürfen. Keine Ahnung, ob das branchenüblich ist.
April 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Confession

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/confes...
April 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
In one of his AMAs, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social suggested Google scholar as one step in a process to ascertain if a person is an expert in their field. How do I weigh popular science books against peer reviewed papers? What if the books meant for laypersons have more citations than the papers? Wdyt?
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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lilymasonphd.bsky.social
Fantastic and necessary piece from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social (deleted earlier post because typo)

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
Here’s the truth: White Americans — white men especially — who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool because of gender and racial discrimination; who have long enjoyed access to neighborhoods and networks, jobs, clubs, and government programs that systematically excluded others; and who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth — have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action in this country.
April 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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diane.dianeduane.com
Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)
"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if the child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."
April 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
I am watching recipes on Youtube and somebody instructed their audience to cook something „on the high end of low medium“ and now I am thoroughly confused.
April 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
I have now been taking #methylphenidate for three months. I don't feel better anymore when I am taking it, I just feel a lot worse when for a day or two I don't. Is that how it is supposed to feel? That would be not so great.
April 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
It's been almost three months now that I last bought at Amazon. This was not even meant as a politicial statement, just an attempt at keeping a budget. Not being exposed to one click buy buttons did save a lot of money. If I compare prices first, I often end up not buying at all. So it does 1/2
April 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
As long as universities continue to have their main role be "ticket to middle class," it'd be insane to expect them to serve classical liberal education functions. It's too late, but I think things would be a lot better if job-prep and preserving the Great Conversation were separate institutions.
April 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
eikepierstorff.bsky.social
I frankly write as therapy (trying to restart a brain fried by trauma) and not for an audience, but if anyone in the US wants a gratituous outside view on Trumps idea of indiscriminate reshoring, here it is.

open.substack.com/pub/eikepier...
April 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM