Thomas Hübner
thomashuebner.bsky.social
Thomas Hübner
@thomashuebner.bsky.social
Former Twitter/X user. Occasionally blogging about books and other stuff at www.mytwostotinki.com
The thing that tyrants are most afraid of - that people laugh at them...
June 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Marco Rubio: "The world is safer and more stable today than it was 24 hours ago".

A quote from yesterday. It hasn't aged very well.
June 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump is probably the only one who is surprised by this attack.
Iran fires ballistic missiles at US military bases in Qatar.

Explosions seen over Doha.

The US deployed THAAD systems in Qatar in anticipation of Iranian attacks.
June 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Karl Kraus
June 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Sofia, when she was still tiny
June 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Sofia, a year ago (the day after I brought her home)
June 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A year ago, I picked this deserted tiny calico kitten up from a road in Montenegro. Her name is Sofia! ❤️ - I'm a cat dad of two now, because a few months later, a second rescue cat (Iliria) followed.
June 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"Die Bösen werden geschlachtet, die Welt wird gut."
June 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Is the world a safer place now after the bombing of the nuclear facilities in Iran by the US?

I guess you know the answer to that question.
June 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Reposted by Thomas Hübner
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reposted by Thomas Hübner
‘History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.’

Seamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
April 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Obviously another one of the daily attacks in Ruzzia's hybrid war in Germany.
Tear gas attack at Hamburg's Miniatur Wunderland injures 46 – DW – 04/13/2025
More than 1,000 visitors to the Miniatur Wunderland tourist attraction, which is home to what is believed to be the world's largest model railway, had to be evacuated. It was unclear who was behind th...
p.dw.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Another war crime by the man that is so admired by Trump and many in his administration.
Russia launched ballistic missiles at central Sumy.
Warheads were packed with shrapnel — likely the same kind used in Kryvyi Rih — designed to kill everything within 100+ meters.

24 people are dead.

In the video, a mother holds her bloodied daughter.
The girl keeps saying, "It hit me."
April 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Tsagkarada, Pelion

A short break from the madness of this world.
April 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The penguins will be very sad, but that'll teach them!😂
Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica
Australian prime minister surprised after remote external territories – including islands home to penguins – targeted by US president
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Free speech is of course still existing in the US - as long as it is not to voice a critical opinion against Trump and his ilk. In that case, you may lose your job, get blacklisted, get arrested, made disappeared and put in a torture prison in a foreign country maybe for life without due process.
April 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The average tariff on US goods exported to the EU is about 1%, and not 39%. Trump is lying, as usual. And no tariffs on Russia, which doesn't come as a surprise. Why would he raise tariffs on his closest ally?
April 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Europe's goal must be to cut off US companies from this market as soon as possible and to become self-sufficient. That will take some time, but it has to be done. Actions and words of the Trump gang made it very clear that the US is hostile to Europe.
April 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fun Fact: The Atlantic, the magazine and publisher that uncovered the Signal group chat scandal, is owned by a billionaire - Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs.

Contrary to Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos & Co., she didn't kiss the ring of the dictator and is committed to uphold democracy.
March 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reposted by Thomas Hübner
And these are the people that are supposed to keep the US and their citizens safe. The level of incompetence is mindboggling.
March 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I hope there is a special place in hell for those doing this to the children, and for their enablers in Russia and the White House.
Russian forces forcibly relocated Ukrainian children to Crimean camps under false rehabilitation claims.
Children faced language suppression, psychological manipulation & were told their parents abandoned them.
Total number of kids still in these camps remains unknown.

#BringUkrainianKidsBack
March 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Just received an email from Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), informing me that my inheritance fund (10.8 million USD) payment is approved and that I will receive the money now.

I had no idea of this inheritance, but send the money anyway! 🤣

🤣
March 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
That's nothing new. Especially the Obama administration was hugely increasing the number of drone killings of alleged terrorists. So what governments of some countries do nowadays is to just kill everyone within a certain radius of the target and call such a result "excellent". Just think about it!
March 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I'll be sharing some books from my shelves here in the future - your reactions and feedback are welcome.
March 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM