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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 20h

To roughly quote Maja Göpel: People don't seem to grasp the irreversibility of such changes in ecological systems.

Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 20h

We've reached the first tipping point (99% probability even if we'd manage to keep the 1.5 degree target) This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost. Nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend on them.

www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 2d

The majority of the tech industry has no valid vision how to contribute to a liveable future on this planet. Their dystopian fantasies don’t meet human needs. That’s why we’ll keep sliding from one bubble to the next. Everything has to be artificially inflated to hide the abyss of meaninglessness.

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 5d

The land of the sausage salad is discussing if it is allowed to still call a vegetarian sausage 'sausage'. That's all you need to know, how far we've come in our political discussions over here. Germany is a fucking embarrassment of a country.

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 9d

Reading the shocked reactions that Apple and Google removed ICE warning apps from their stores, I think that more should probably read about the role of IBM during the holocaust. Can we please finally get rid of the fairytale of social corporate responsibility in big tech?

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · 13d

If the needle on your moral compass changes direction based on the current political system, your damn moral compass is broken.

To see how quickly the tide changes and people lose their humanity and their values is soul-crushing and enfuriating. So many cowards and/or opportunists.

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · 14d

It’s the last day of our sale! getkirby.com/buy

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Jon Hicks @hicks.design · 21d

Great time to dive in to Kirby! I’m currently building another project in this wonderful CMS.

- 100% control over markup.
- Doesn’t inject any scripts or other bobbins like a certain popular CMS
- Beautifully clean and customisable back end
- Easy to update, backup or move elsewhere.

❤️

Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · 21d

Our licences are still discounted this week: getkirby.com/buy

Get even bigger discounts by buying one of our volume packages! Licences can be bought in stock and activated, or moved to future clients later.

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · 21d

Our licences are still discounted this week: getkirby.com/buy

Get even bigger discounts by buying one of our volume packages! Licences can be bought in stock and activated, or moved to future clients later.

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · 28d

🚀 Kirby 5.1.0 is here:
github.com/getkirby/kir...

Highlights:

🧭 Navigation for the preview view
🔮 Improved Kirby query language
🤹 Batch delete for structures
🔎 Searchable info in multiselect fields
📊 Stats field as companion to the stats section
💫 Imagick thumb driver

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Aug 19

Today is a big (pre-)release day 🚀 Kirby 5.1.0-rc.1 & Kirby 5.0.4 are here:

github.com/getkirby/kir...
github.com/getkirby/kir...

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tante @tante.cc · Jul 30

The Utopia of “AI” is the Dystopia of never being touched by anything.

Friction and not being touched

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 29

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · Jul 28

I keep coming back to The Ocean Cleanup project because it inspires me and gives me hope. They have received their fair share of criticism over the years, but they just keep going and, most importantly, they are actually making a difference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pByU...

How We Plan to Cut Ocean Plastic Pollution by One Third by 2030

YouTube video by The Ocean Cleanup

www.youtube.com

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Jul 22

Mistral shared what look like the most detailed numbers yet for the environmental impact of training a frontier LLM - their Mistral Large 2 used 20,4 ktCO₂e and 281,000 m3 of water

I'd love to see numbers like that provided in context though, hard to evaluate alone simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...

Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI

Mistral have released environmental impact numbers for their largest model, Mistral Large 2, in more detail than I have seen from any of the other large AI labs. The methodology …

simonwillison.net

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · Jul 24

We had this discussion yesterday at a @getkirby.com meetup. When most of the traffic for our docs is coming from AI crawlers nowadays, what's the incentive to write better docs? For the bots who then consume it and still send people back to us because they make up stuff that doesn't exist?

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · Jul 20

This thread is incredible.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)

.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

xcancel.com

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Jul 21

What’s new in Kirby 5? New file previews and the option to add your own. Watch the introduction video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Gi...

All Kirby 5 intro videos can now be found in one playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Gi...

New in Kirby 5: File Previews

YouTube video by Kirby CMS

www.youtube.com

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Jul 18

Upcoming meetups:

📍 Kirby Meetup Garmisch • №1
Mon, July 21, 2025, 18:00 GMT+2
garmisch.dev#anmeldung

📍 Kirby Meetup Mainz • №3
Wed, July 23, 2025, 19:00 GMT+2
www.3st.de/en/kirby-mee...

Sonja and Bastian will be at the meetup in Mainz and it looks like Jonas from Uberspace is coming as well.

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Jul 14

What’s new in Kirby 5? Chunked uploads make uploading large files a piece of cake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cne3...

New in Kirby 5: Chunked Uploads

Have you ever struggled with uploading huge files to your website? Fear no more. There is a new feature in Kirby 5 called "Chunked uploads".💡 Get to know Ki...

www.youtube.com

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Jul 10

What's new in Kirby 5? In today's video, we show you how to delete multiple files and pages simultaneously using the new batch delete mode: youtu.be/QKRJK4nuqpM

New in Kirby 5: Batch Delete

YouTube video by Kirby CMS

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Bastian Allgeier @bastianallgeier.com · Jul 9

Macht hier schon ein paar mal die Runde, aber ich muss es jetzt auch nochmal weiter verteilen. Einfach weil's so gut ist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLZ...

Die Rechten haben Recht! Aber anders, als ihr denkt... | heute-show

YouTube video by ZDF heute-show

www.youtube.com

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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · Jul 8

beyond tellerrand has always been more than a conference.
It’s a creative, friendly community built on curiosity and connection. It’s a passion project with heart. If #btconf has ever sparked something in you, consider becoming a “Friend of beyond tellerrand.”
beyondtellerrand.com/blog/friends...

“Friends of beyond tellerrand” – What Your Support Means and Does

beyond tellerrand has always been more than a conference. It’s a creative community built on connection and curiosity. Now you can become a real part of it. Join Friends of beyond tellerrand, a member...

beyondtellerrand.com

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Jul 7

Today is the final day of our sale: getkirby.com/buy 🛒🏃‍♀️

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Kirby CMS @getkirby.com · Jul 3

What's new in Kirby 5? In the second video in our series, we explore the new dark mode and show you how to activate or deactivate it: youtu.be/LuxMh0XLlKI

New in Kirby 5: Dark mode

YouTube video by Kirby CMS

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