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Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

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Things I’m into: All things IT (also professionally), social and environmental justice/volunteering/activism, cooking, baking, eating, music (listening, singing, string instruments), fantasy books, audio-books, PC gaming, parenting, Germany, Seattle WA

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Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Finally, retirement here I come ...

Facebook Internet Tracking Settlement Administrator has sent you $4.01 USD on PayPal.

November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

What a place

November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Via @gamefiend.bsky.social 's old tweet :)

Goes well with
“The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.”
― Richard Needham

“Quick note: your brutal honesty? Ain’t nobody asking for that. Where is your clever honesty? Your compassionate honesty? Your insightful honesty? Uplifting? Poetic? Empowering? Take your brutal honesty and go sit in the back with all the devil’s advocates.”

November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

I imagine his response, but can't be bothered to go on that website and actually look ;)

Fake truth social post:

This VERY BIASED court
is trying force my hand!
I will not BACK DOWN
until every one of those
ILLEGAL ORPHANS has
been STARVED!
It is all the extremist and
radical democrats fault
that I decided to withhold
the money reserved for
SNAP benefits!

Thank your for your
attention in that matter
DJT

October 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Assuming DJT is fuming he can't use the government shutdown as an excuse to withhold snap reserves.

@Tim_Walz

BREAKING: A court has ordered the America First
president to feed the hungry.

2:52 PM · Oct 31, 2025

October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

#cascadianow

MEMORANDUM OF REAFFIRMATION
BETWEEN THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, AND THE STATE OF OREGON
RENEWING AND STRENGTHENING THE CASCADIA INNOVATION CORRIDOR

October 31, 2025 at 3:52 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

And you know what else has changed since the 70s? Almost every major economic indicator - it's such a dumb comparison without mentioning any of this...

www.epi.org/publication/...

Graph: The minimum wage would be over $18 had it risen along with productivity
Real value of the federal minimum wage compared with its value had it grown at the rate of productivity and average hourly wages, 1968–2014

October 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Let's accelerate with the speed of a falcon
Let's be brave like a wolf.
Let's trample with the hooves of mighty horses.
Let's press the tamga with the wisdom of Genghis Khan.

(A tamga is a traditional tribal or clan mark used by nomadic peoples in Eurasia for branding livestock and as a seal.)

Lyrics of Wolf Totem by The HU

Шонхорын хурдаар хурцлан давшъя
Чонын зоригоор асан дүрэлзье
Тэнхээт морьдын туурайгаар нүргэе
Тамгат Чингисийн ухаанаар даръя
Xy xy xy xy
Xү хү хү хү

October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

So, you like #bats?

jgmartinez-fonseca.smugmug.com/Bat-Photogra...

Portraits of bats from the neotropics, Madagascar, Malaysia, and the United States by José G. Martínez-Fonseca, a Nicaraguan biologist and currently a postdoc at the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University.

October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Worth it :)

win98 [Running] - Oracle VirtualBox
Last Chance to See ...

Thanks to astounding advances
in twig technology we arrived in
canoes, then boats and finally
aeroplanes, and once again
started to compete for use of the
same habitat, only this time with
fire and machetes and
domesticated animals, with
asphalt and concrete. The
lemurs are once again fighting
for survival.

October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Seriously? YouTube won't let me queue up the next video without paying for premium?

#Enshittification

YouTube screenshot with a P for premium next to the play next in queue

October 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

sock it to them!

SOURCERY

Rincewind thought about this and then, with an air of finality, started to take off his last sock.
"No half-bricks," he said, to no one in particular. "Have to use sand."
"You're going to attack them with a sockful of sand?"
"No. I'm going to run away from them. The sockful Of sand is for when they follow."

October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

FOUR MORE SWAMPS!

(I doubt it's ai generated)

President Trump rally transcript generated from a bot after having it read over 1000 hours of Trump rally transcripts.

**TRUMP RALLY**



INT. BIG ARBY'S IN SOUTH WYOMKLAHOMA



PRESIDENT TRUMP forces himself on a podium.



**PRESIDENT TRUMP**

I just had a phone call with the economy. Jobs poured out of the phone. Great jobs. Tall jobs. Steve Jobs. All at Kinko's.



The crowd cheers. It is full of real Americans (man with hard hat, man with harder hat, gun that is alive).



PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D)

The United States is doing so good. Other countries are on fire. All the people on fire. Hot fire too. Not us. Our flag is so beautiful.



PRESIDENT TRUMP salutes a flag that says: **ARBY'S FOOD IS FINE TO EAT.** The crowd howls. They love this flag of America.



PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D)

I signed a bill. No more swamp. Swamp gone. Swamp is in Mexico now. It's on fire. Great deal for us.



The crowd chants: **FOUR MORE SWAMPS! FOUR MORE SWAMPS!**



PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D)

Foreign powers cheat us! Canada steals our milk. China steals our milk. We only had one glass of milk left! Obama drank it. Not fair.



The crowd boos. They wanted that milk.



PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D)

But like President Ronald Rogaine, I will bring back the milk!



The crowd roars. They still want that milk.



PRESIDENT TRUMP (CON'TD)

A wall of milk. No criminals get through. Democrats want criminals to have the milk. No way. Milk come from coal. We'll dig it up.



All of the words are mispronounced. The crowd cheers. They hate pronunciations. They love milk. They start digging.

October 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

the new Pod 3 includes enhanced technology and an improved user experience with the following enhancements:

A new quad-core CPU to increase the Pod’s computing power

A powerful new quad-core CPU significantly increases computing power in Pod 3 that allows for double the amount of sensors for tracking key biometrics such as heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, sleep stages, and more. With a more robust hardware system, the Pod can now locally process more complex data and algorithms, critical for biometrics tracking during sleep. Additionally, the new hardware allows for future deep-learning-powered features to be pushed to users via frequent cloud updates.

Invisible Sensing design featuring twice the number of sensors and 4000x greater resolution in sleep and health tracking

Pod 3 includes a new Invisible Sensing design of its sensor pack to maximize comfort while providing more accurate measurements with double the amount of sensors and 4000x greater sensor resolution. Building on the previous generation’s excellent biometric accuracy ³, Pod 3’s dual sensors enable a further 20% improvement in heart rate variability accuracy, as well as a maximum error of heart rate of less than 1 beat per minute compared to clinical reference.

Dual-band Wi-Fi chip with 5GHz compatibility for a wider connectivity range

A new, dual-band Wi-Fi chip in the Hub extends compatibility from 2.4GHz networks to 5GHz networks, as well as improves support for mesh networks. This update increases connection speed and Wi-Fi stability, allowing the Pod to find the best balance between long-range and high bandwidth connectivity, regardless of the layout of the user’s home.

We look forward to seeing Pod 3 improve lives through optimal sleep. We thank our Eight Sleep members, team, and investors for their continued support.

October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Beauty!

A woman holding a cat with the text: I love when my cat switches from do not disturb to vibrate.

October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

LOL

Another account was claiming the picture from the last No Kings march was from today. When I asked her why she quickly deleted her post.

October 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

#OrphanCrushingMachine

Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

October 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

👏

Political strategist Crystal Fincher, who's spent years organizing with and for underrepresented voters, starts with the basic truth this city keeps forgetting: "When we say 'the Black community' in Seattle, it's not the same community it was 10, 20, 30 years ago." Displacement dispersed families across South King County. Migration diversified our Blackness. "We're more diasporic than we've ever been," she said. "So a barrier is just being seen for who we are — not a monolith, not tokenized endorsements." She's weary of campaigns that put a Black face on a platform and call the work done. "Leaning too heavily on representation, on tokenization … to act like there is a Black face, therefore Black people are taken care of — it's just not reality."

Fincher's frustration isn't performative; it's practical. Policy in this city, she says, is routinely crafted as if Black people are a special-interest silo: Talk "Black issues," and folks jump straight to criminal justice and social services, ignoring how we're on the front lines of climate harm, economic shocks, and educational inequity. "All issues are our issues," she told me. Solve for us, and you tend to solve for everyone. We're the canaries who warn the whole mine.

Fincher argues that "best case" policy is a step, not a panacea. That means listening after the electoral victory; it means naming the harms your policy will cause and mitigating them, instead of pretending costless progress exists. It also means refusing the political habit of having us on speed dial when convenient (say, on increased surveillance in our neighborhoods) but losing our number when things go awry. "They always want our voice, but they don't want to protect our bodies," she said. Accountability, in other words, is not a one-time photo op. It's a practice.

October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Card became a member of the U.S. Democratic Party in 1976 and has on multiple occasions referred to himself as a Moynihan or Blue Dog Democrat, as recently as 2020.[158][205][206]: 0:58:09 Card supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008,[207] and then Newt Gingrich in 2012.[208] In 2016, he followed the "hold your nose, vote Trump" hashtag and voted accordingly.[206]: 1:01:10 According to Salon, Card's views are close to neoconservative,[199] and Card has described himself as a moral conservative.[209][158] Card was a vocal supporter of the U.S.'s War on Terror.[210][211] In a 2020 interview with Ben Shapiro, Card stated that he was not a conservative because he has beliefs that do not align with typical conservative platforms, including desiring liberal immigration laws, gun control, and abolishing the death penalty.[206]: 0:58:49 In 2000, Card said he "believe[d] [that] government has a strong role to protect us from capitalism".[212]

Homosexuality
Card has publicly declared his support of laws against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage.

October 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

4500 year old statue that looks like it was made yesterday 😮

#sam

Female figure, ca. 2500 B.C.

Marble

Greek, Cyclades, Early Bronze Age

Norman and Amelia Davis Classical

October 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM

Marco

@madeingermany.bsky.social

Note how they couldn't include any of the actual info in the screenshot which would have exposed the whole thing for the victim virtue signaling it is...