Manuel
@manuelniederl.bsky.social
He/Him
Based in London, enjoy Games, Comedy, Theatre, Museums and all types of culture + into crafts
Based in London, enjoy Games, Comedy, Theatre, Museums and all types of culture + into crafts
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hi, I’m Alex goldman. I used to host a podcast called Reply All that some people liked. For the past year I have been making a show called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. We now have 25 episodes (50 if you count premium episodes). You might enjoy it! Listen if you liked reply all
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
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BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
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This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
This isn’t “balance”.
Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!
Stop it!
9/9
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
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This does say a lot about how much time our politicians are spending on Twitter, and I don’t think it’s a great sign of where Britain’s elite is.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter
September 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This does say a lot about how much time our politicians are spending on Twitter, and I don’t think it’s a great sign of where Britain’s elite is.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
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This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x
Tapping the sign
September 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x
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July 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?
July 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?
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NYT is in on it. That's why they banged on about Claudine Gay for days but won't cover this. It's a fundamentally racist and transphobic institution.
(Not criticizing the author of this thread. Just stating what I believe to be a fact.)
(Not criticizing the author of this thread. Just stating what I believe to be a fact.)
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
NYT is in on it. That's why they banged on about Claudine Gay for days but won't cover this. It's a fundamentally racist and transphobic institution.
(Not criticizing the author of this thread. Just stating what I believe to be a fact.)
(Not criticizing the author of this thread. Just stating what I believe to be a fact.)
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SeunKuti, also at Glastonbury making incredible points here
to fee the world, we EUROPEANS WESTERNERS THE WHITES need to free ourselves from NAZIS / Right wing extremism, from fascism, from imperialism!!!!!!!!!!
to fee the world, we EUROPEANS WESTERNERS THE WHITES need to free ourselves from NAZIS / Right wing extremism, from fascism, from imperialism!!!!!!!!!!
June 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
SeunKuti, also at Glastonbury making incredible points here
to fee the world, we EUROPEANS WESTERNERS THE WHITES need to free ourselves from NAZIS / Right wing extremism, from fascism, from imperialism!!!!!!!!!!
to fee the world, we EUROPEANS WESTERNERS THE WHITES need to free ourselves from NAZIS / Right wing extremism, from fascism, from imperialism!!!!!!!!!!
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Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
DriveThruRPG delisted a tabletop game about revolutions over “hateful” politics
Rebel Scum's censorship reveals the limits of Roll20's apolitical guidelines.
www.rascal.news
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup
June 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup
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Historians and political scientists spend decades trying to determine the influence of money in politics and Musk just tweets out "I bought the election"
Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.
June 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Historians and political scientists spend decades trying to determine the influence of money in politics and Musk just tweets out "I bought the election"
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Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him
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The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
June 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
May 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
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at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard
Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star.
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
May 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard
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1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review.
Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal.
This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal.
This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Landmark Report Finds Major Flaws in the Cass Review
“These issues significantly undermine the validity of the Cass Review’s recommendations, such that the Review fails to fulfil its aims as commissioned and should not be used as the basis for policy.”
www.erininthemorning.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review.
Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal.
This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal.
This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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I'm super excited to announce a lil collab with @izzyfreak.bsky.social, with all proceeds from sales of these hand-stamped patches and buttons going to Mermaids UK. Sales run thru 5/31. Shares appreciated! #shopofmd
4" x 5" patches: ko-fi.com/s/52894c1c92
1.5" buttons: ko-fi.com/s/7e3e92b94b
4" x 5" patches: ko-fi.com/s/52894c1c92
1.5" buttons: ko-fi.com/s/7e3e92b94b
May 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm super excited to announce a lil collab with @izzyfreak.bsky.social, with all proceeds from sales of these hand-stamped patches and buttons going to Mermaids UK. Sales run thru 5/31. Shares appreciated! #shopofmd
4" x 5" patches: ko-fi.com/s/52894c1c92
1.5" buttons: ko-fi.com/s/7e3e92b94b
4" x 5" patches: ko-fi.com/s/52894c1c92
1.5" buttons: ko-fi.com/s/7e3e92b94b