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Anke Domscheit-Berg

der ( #KI) Rechenzentrumsboom führt in den USA bereits zu häufigeren Black outs und enormen #Energiepreissteigerungen (36% in Virginia). Die gleiche Entwicklung wird das bei uns nehmen, wenn man nicht hart dagegen steuert. Und damit meine ich nicht den geplanten 5 Cent Industrie-Strompreis... ⬇️

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor

The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.

www.utilitydive.com

November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Bürger*innenInitiative A100

@bi-a100.bsky.social

Stadtforscher über neue Mobilität: „Es ist unrealistisch, am Autosystem festzuhalten“ taz.de/Stadtforsche...
#MobilitätswendeJetzt

Stadtforscher: „Es ist unrealistisch, am Autosystem festzuhalten“

Fahrverbote und Tempolimits: Eine französische Organisation hat einen Plan für weniger Autoverkehr enwickelt. Ein Forscher erklärt, wie es gehen soll.

taz.de

November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM

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Frances Ryan

@francesryan.bsky.social

“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.

Misleading and nasty in equal measure.

November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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Chloe/ RAICA

@chloeharris.bsky.social

tomorrow at noon we'll be having a listening party for this album. i'd love to see you there. silverthreads.bandcamp.com/merch/listen... here's some nice bits from philip below.

November 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM

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Queermany Berlin

@queermany.berlin

🟣 Keine* Mehr – gegen jede Gewalt. Gemeinsam. Unteilbar.

Am 25.11 stehen wir in Berlin auf der Straße – für Frauen, Lesben, Inter-, Nichtbinäre, Trans*- & queere Personen.

Wir gedenken derer, die nicht mehr da sind und denen, die ums Überleben kämpfen – und sagen klar: Keine* mehr. #b2511

Gegen Gewalt, Hass,
und Erniedrigung an

Frauen, Lesben, Inter-, Nichtbinäre-,
Trans*-, Agender & Queere Personen.

Demoaufruf für 25.11.25 18 Uhr Protest am Justizministerium an Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse:

25.11 | 18 Uhr | Bundesjustizministerium
Int. Tag gegen Gewalt an FLINTA*s

November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈

@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social

i don't think it's coincidental that transphobia in the uk ramped up massively after the brexit vote in 2016.

it's about destroying the equality act and ties in with glasman and co wanted us to leave the echr.

they're trying to destroy our human rights and trans ppl are a wedge.

November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM

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knipsehiernur

@knipsehiernur.bsky.social

📢 Wie Armut seit 2000 Jahren behandelt wird – und warum sich bis heute NICHTS geändert hat. (Meine Sicht als Armutsbetroffener, mit Quellen) - 🧵

November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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Musa Okwonga

@okwonga.bsky.social

Thread. #Ukraine

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 6d

As I was having a final chat with one of the MFA crew - he was finishing his weeklong shift and would not return before my departure - we talked about the fate of the war. I offered my thoughts that Ukraine could win. He responded, "we have to, or we die." I didn't meet a single person in the...

November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM

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Moabit hilft e.V.

@moabit-hilft.bsky.social

Herbst 2026 - Berlin

#niewiederCDU

November 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM

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Duncan Hothersall

@dhothersall.bsky.social

What the Herald's awarding panel has done here is besmirch every one of these past winners by associating them with a campaign motivated by a moral panic against trans people. And it has stood up and said smears and misinformation are valid campaign tools to be celebrated. I hope they are ashamed.

November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM

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Autonome Geschichte

@radicalpast.bsky.social

21.11.92: Squatter and comrade Silvio Meier was killed by fascists in Berlin. #RestInPower

November 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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die Berliner Volkshochschulen

@vhsberlin.bsky.social

🤗1. Advent in der vhs Neukölln: 30.11., 14–17 Uhr, Karlsgartenstr. 6. 👉Kekse, Weihnachtslieder, Kalligraphie, Tanzkurse, Hüpfburg, Hula-Hoop, Geschenkpapier färben. Kostenlos, entspannt, komm vorbei! Wir freuen uns auf Dich! ❤️
ℹ️ https://sohub.io/whim
@kunterbuntesnk #VHSBerlin #Neukölln #Advent

Text 'Backen, Basteln, Budenzauber' auf unscharfem Hintergrund mit Weihnachtsplätzchen. Grüner und roter Kreis mit 'Eintritt frei' und 'der 1. Advent in der vhs Neukölln'.

Einladung zum 1. Advent mit kostenlosen Schnupperkursen, festlichem Gesang, Weihnachtskekse backen und Hüpfburg. Veranstaltung am Sonntag, 30.11.25, 14-17 Uhr, Karlsgartenstraße 6, 12049 Berlin.

November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM

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Sacha Coward

@sachacoward.bsky.social

It's Trans Day of Remembrance

So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...

www.youtube.com

November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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Chloe/ RAICA

@chloeharris.bsky.social

We're having a listening party on the 27th. You will hear the whole album and I'll be chatting stuff and Jo will be there too. Hope to see you. (also I do realize this is on a holiday-ish for some of us.)

Silver Threads @silver-threads.bsky.social · 8d

Join Raica @chloeharris.bsky.social and me @jo-johnson.bsky.social at a listening party to celebrate the release of ST02 – Chloe's amazing album, "If Not Now, When".

Next Thurs 27th Nov at 8 pm UTC 🪡🌌

RSVP silverthreads.bandcamp.com/merch/listen...

I can't wait for you to hear it in full!

Listening Party for Raica - If Not Now, When (ST02) from Silver Threads

Listening Party from Silver Threads.

silverthreads.bandcamp.com

November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM

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Mohamed Amjahid

@mamjahid.bsky.social

Zum Terroranschlag von Hanau gab es bisher keinen Prozess vor einem deutschen Gericht. Die Familie des ermordeten Hamza Kurtović kämpft seit Jahren für Aufklärung. Jetzt legt sie Verfassungsbeschwerde ein.

Ruf nach Aufklärung: Hanau-Angehörige legen Verfassungsbeschwerde ein

Zum Terroranschlag von Hanau gab es bisher keinen Prozess vor einem deutschen Gericht. Die Familie des ermordeten Hamza Kurtović kämpft seit Jahren für Aufklärung. Jetzt legt sie Verfassungsbeschwerde...

www.tagesschau.de

November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM

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Cornelia Kost

@cornelia-kost.bsky.social

Das Papier „Effects of Gender-Affirming Care“ wurde anonym veröffentlicht, verfolgt jedoch inhaltlich und strategisch dasselbe Ziel wie der britische Cass Review: die medizinische Versorgung von trans Jugendlichen zu delegitimieren und politische Maßnahmen gegen diese Behandlungen zu stützen.
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Unmasked At Last: The 9 Authors of the Trump Administration Report On Pediatric Gender Medicine. So Who Are They?

The authors, all of them skeptics or opponents of pediatric gender medicine, were finally revealed today after HHS published the final, peer-reviewed version of the controversial report on this field.

benryan.substack.com

November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM

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Silver Threads

@silver-threads.bsky.social

Join Raica @chloeharris.bsky.social and me @jo-johnson.bsky.social at a listening party to celebrate the release of ST02 – Chloe's amazing album, "If Not Now, When".

Next Thurs 27th Nov at 8 pm UTC 🪡🌌

RSVP silverthreads.bandcamp.com/merch/listen...

I can't wait for you to hear it in full!

Listening Party for Raica - If Not Now, When (ST02) from Silver Threads

Listening Party from Silver Threads.

silverthreads.bandcamp.com

November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM

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Margarete Stokowski

@margaowski.bsky.social

Es gibt ja in der Philosophie seit langer Zeit eine Diskussion darüber, ob Körper und Geist voneinander getrennte Dinge sind. Wenn man täglich Kopfschmerzen hat, merkt man leider, dass das Gehirn auch nur ein Körperteil ist.

www.apotheken-umschau.de/krankheiten-...

Long-Covid-Kolumne von Margarete Stokowski: Ich frage nicht, wo tut’s denn weh?

Wer hat eigentlich herkömmliche Schmerzskalen erfunden? Kolumnistin Margarete Stokowski leidet an Long Covid und hat Fragen.

www.apotheken-umschau.de

November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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Tanja Bueltmann

@tanjabueltmann.net

Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights

Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.

One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.

It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.

Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.

But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.

The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.

Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.

The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have.

It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.

As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.

It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.

And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.

Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.

But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.

That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine.

Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.

I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.

Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.

For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’

This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.

The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.

But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us.

Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.

And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.

So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.

That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.

And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends.

November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Anya (zornig)

@anyaks.bsky.social

Die maroden Brücken in Berlin könnten DIE Chance sein, den MIV zu reduzieren, und das Tempolimit gleich mit!

Sand im Getriebe Berlin @sigberlin.bsky.social · 10d

Wir haben heute Morgen ein Banner an der maroden Autobahnbrücke an der Mecklenburgischen Straße aufgehängt. Die #A100 kann aktuell auf dieser Brücke nur noch einspurig genutzt werden. Sie reiht sich ein in Dutzende weitere Brücken in ähnlich schlechtem Zustand
#A100NichtMitUns

Foto: Lukas Stratmann

November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Straßenverlauf

@strassenverlauf.bsky.social

Kafka zog am 15.11.1923 in die Grunewaldstr.; hier fand er statt einer ihn verunsichernden Wirtin eine Zentralheizung, elektrisches Licht und einen Garten.
Mit Dora Diamant lebte er in zwei Zimmern, bis sie gedrängt von der inflationsbedingt steigenden Miete im Februar 1924 erneut umziehen mussten.

Gedenktafel, Franz Kafka, Grunewaldstraße 13, Berlin-Steglitz, Deutschland. Aufschrift "DIE GUTEN GEHN IM GLEICHEN SCHRITT
OHNE VON IHNEN ZU WISSEN TANZEN DIE ANDERN UM SIE DIE TÄNZE DER ZEIT. Franz Kafka ". Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

November 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM

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Eichhoernchenliebe

@eichhoernchenliebe.bsky.social

CN Wechseljahre binäre Geschlechtervorstellungen Cisgeschlechtlichkeit

Dieser Thread ist, abgesehen davon, dass alle Menschen, die Eierstöcke haben o hatten, in die #Wechseljahre kommen können, so gut & wichtig!
Die meisten Punkte hätte ich früher nicht gewußt, meine Ärzt*innen z.T. auch nicht!

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RAin Nina Diercks @raindiercks.bsky.social · 15d

So. Wie angekündigt. Hier mein wütender Rant zum Thema #Frauengesundheit ab 35. Genau genommen zu den Themen #Perimenopause #Menopause #Wechseljahre. Und zu der unterirdischen ärztlichen Versorgung. Ja, ja, über die Themen spricht man nicht. Nee, genau das muss sich ändern! Denn wusstet ihr, 1/

November 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM

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Bizim Kiez

@bizimkiez.bsky.social

This 👇🏽

Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de · 13d

Ich wünschte wir würden in eine Gesellschaft leben, in der man nicht nach unten tritt, sondern sich gemeinsam umeinander kümmert, füreinander Sorge trägt — und das nicht nur im kleinsten privaten Kreis.

November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM