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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
subita.bsky.social
I could cry thinking of the SPD, that great 150 year old party, that never quit the fight against the nazis when everyone else did, lose their working class voter base to a fucking nazi party, by simply forgetting why they exist.
February 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
This is possibly the best Trump/Harris election analysis I've seen.
November 7, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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mpoessel.de Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · Nov 6
Hat schon jemand den Witz gemacht wo sich zwei Historiker*innen treffen, man fragt nach dem Spezialgebiet, der/die eine antwortet "6. November 2024", direkte Rückfrage dann "Vormittag oder Nachmittag?"
November 7, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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number10cat.bsky.social
Today is the 958th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings; or as I prefer to call it "Brentry"
October 14, 2024 at 6:53 PM
subita.bsky.social
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars - defector.com/neither-elon...
September 12, 2024 at 5:51 AM