Rachel Griffin
@rachelgriffin.bsky.social
researching EU social media regulation @ sciences po law school | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle
an idea ahead of its time
(at the arts et métiers exhibition Flops?! « Certains flops se révèlent finalement des tops ! »)
(at the arts et métiers exhibition Flops?! « Certains flops se révèlent finalement des tops ! »)
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
an idea ahead of its time
(at the arts et métiers exhibition Flops?! « Certains flops se révèlent finalement des tops ! »)
(at the arts et métiers exhibition Flops?! « Certains flops se révèlent finalement des tops ! »)
Ok so "this increase in renewable energy could meet nearly all the world’s growing appetite for electricity"...so part will still be increasing fossil fuels...before we even get to non-electricity energy use...and this is the "inevitable" energy "transition"?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Ok so "this increase in renewable energy could meet nearly all the world’s growing appetite for electricity"...so part will still be increasing fossil fuels...before we even get to non-electricity energy use...and this is the "inevitable" energy "transition"?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
nice interests and passions you have there...would be a shame if it would turn out they're all just a thinly veiled bid for wealth and status...
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
nice interests and passions you have there...would be a shame if it would turn out they're all just a thinly veiled bid for wealth and status...
egregious consent manufacturing bothsidesism from @theguardian.com
'some experts say' extrajudicial killings? so are some other credible people saying that they were judicially ordered? do some other legal experts say that if someone is a 'known drug trafficker' they can be murdered at will?
'some experts say' extrajudicial killings? so are some other credible people saying that they were judicially ordered? do some other legal experts say that if someone is a 'known drug trafficker' they can be murdered at will?
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
egregious consent manufacturing bothsidesism from @theguardian.com
'some experts say' extrajudicial killings? so are some other credible people saying that they were judicially ordered? do some other legal experts say that if someone is a 'known drug trafficker' they can be murdered at will?
'some experts say' extrajudicial killings? so are some other credible people saying that they were judicially ordered? do some other legal experts say that if someone is a 'known drug trafficker' they can be murdered at will?
just normal germany things
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
just normal germany things
to quote el hotzo
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
to quote el hotzo
on the occasion of my seeing zamrock legends WITCH live in Berlin ft. their original lead singer from the 70s crowdsurfing, inviting people up on stage and snacking on various fruits while singing, I am once again asking if any jacobin subscribers can send me this article jacobin.com/2025/06/heav...
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
on the occasion of my seeing zamrock legends WITCH live in Berlin ft. their original lead singer from the 70s crowdsurfing, inviting people up on stage and snacking on various fruits while singing, I am once again asking if any jacobin subscribers can send me this article jacobin.com/2025/06/heav...
[kendall roy on meth voice] I am considering getting into bourdieu
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
[kendall roy on meth voice] I am considering getting into bourdieu
meanwhile most governments and powerful economic institutions are taking the position that it'll be fine to carry on greenlighting new fossil fueld projects while we blow past 1.5C because we'll figure it out later
![The vital question is where these thresholds are. Sadly, the news is not good for the overshoot-and-return plan. The latest science indicates that “the crucial zone between 1.5°C and 2°C is populated by [tipping points] the crossing of which would have effects that might not be possible to wind back on a timescale meaningful to humans”. The Greenland ice sheet, which would contribute seven metres of sea-level rise, could enter a death spiral at 1.6°C. The tipping point for the West Antarctic sheet, which would add another five metres, is thought to be somewhere between 1 and 1.5°C—meaning we may already have passed it. That doesn’t mean five metres of sea rise is imminent: the process of collapse may take decades or even centuries after the tipping point has been crossed. But the crucial point is that, however slowly it plays out, the process is effectively unstoppable, even if we do eventually reduce the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere and return average temperatures to below the threshold.
Then there’s the permafrost: expected to thaw abruptly at around 1.5°C. The Amazon rainforest: expected to tip into “a spiral of dieback driving [it] into the alternative state of a dry scrubland” at, you guessed it, 1.5°C. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—a system that should be of particular concern to those of us living in Britain, since, were it to collapse, it could make outdoor farming all but impossible in these isles—is thought to have a tipping point somewhere between 1.4 and 2.2°C.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uwhz67q3nqhiouedj6bmi5zz/bafkreibcrthl45y64cvnbwtfeyly64mjkal5clwqn27ja42vtbl7eeydua@jpeg)
September 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
meanwhile most governments and powerful economic institutions are taking the position that it'll be fine to carry on greenlighting new fossil fueld projects while we blow past 1.5C because we'll figure it out later
cool cool cool cool no doubt
August 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
cool cool cool cool no doubt
A very moving vigil for Anas al Sharif, his @aljazeera.com colleagues and all the murdered journalists in Gaza ♥️🍉 Two Berlin-based journalists read the names of all the Gazan journalists killed in the last two years, which took the best part of half an hour
August 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A very moving vigil for Anas al Sharif, his @aljazeera.com colleagues and all the murdered journalists in Gaza ♥️🍉 Two Berlin-based journalists read the names of all the Gazan journalists killed in the last two years, which took the best part of half an hour
trying to locate a meme I vaguely remember and it dries up an appreciable fraction of a river to give me this bullshit fml
August 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
trying to locate a meme I vaguely remember and it dries up an appreciable fraction of a river to give me this bullshit fml
average berlin bike lane
August 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
average berlin bike lane
German media's genocidal propaganda reaches new heights, I thought I'd seen it all but genuinely couldn't believe what I was reading here (English below)
August 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
German media's genocidal propaganda reaches new heights, I thought I'd seen it all but genuinely couldn't believe what I was reading here (English below)
very cool to get the physical copy of this book I contributed to! thanks @jamesgarratt.bsky.social for the invitation 😊 my chapter on how public & private censorship interact in the context of algorithmic content moderation is available in preprint form here: sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04325979v1
August 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
very cool to get the physical copy of this book I contributed to! thanks @jamesgarratt.bsky.social for the invitation 😊 my chapter on how public & private censorship interact in the context of algorithmic content moderation is available in preprint form here: sciencespo.hal.science/hal-04325979v1
I just saw hundreds of riot cops charging into the crowd to arrest people at a protest against this in central Berlin
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I just saw hundreds of riot cops charging into the crowd to arrest people at a protest against this in central Berlin
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
maybe my favourite part of my thesis
July 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
maybe my favourite part of my thesis
average german train journey
June 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
average german train journey
made the quinoa from david lynch cooks quinoa. it was ok
June 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
made the quinoa from david lynch cooks quinoa. it was ok
![For now, at least, that sense of diplomatic momentum that might halt the war in Gaza has gone. Even governments that have become more openly critical of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza will be reluctant to press for its end while missiles from Tehran are killing people in Tel Aviv.
“Its regrettable that these attacks come at a time when there were interesting developments [on Palestine and the war in Gaza],” said one western diplomat.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uwhz67q3nqhiouedj6bmi5zz/bafkreignhzytw6b6ejxblms4ibp7fpncqtuxh6so7lscexmpiyg2x2ovme@jpeg)
June 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@ berlin town hall now, demanding the liberation of the madleen and an end to the blockade
meanwhile germany is not just supporting israel financially + militarily and arresting jewish antizionist activists but just officially twinned berlin with tel aviv and had israel's foreign minister to visit
meanwhile germany is not just supporting israel financially + militarily and arresting jewish antizionist activists but just officially twinned berlin with tel aviv and had israel's foreign minister to visit
June 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
@ berlin town hall now, demanding the liberation of the madleen and an end to the blockade
meanwhile germany is not just supporting israel financially + militarily and arresting jewish antizionist activists but just officially twinned berlin with tel aviv and had israel's foreign minister to visit
meanwhile germany is not just supporting israel financially + militarily and arresting jewish antizionist activists but just officially twinned berlin with tel aviv and had israel's foreign minister to visit
hat jemand verdrängungsgesellschaft gesagt?
May 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
hat jemand verdrängungsgesellschaft gesagt?
Oranienplatz, Berlin
May 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oranienplatz, Berlin