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... and with this question or thought, I send myself back to snooker and you to a pleasant evening and a good night – see you tomorrow 🤗 🥰 👋

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A black thought bubble above the narwhal contains the text in white: "Do they all get paid for being so stupid, or is that just their hobby?"

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December 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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Good day, my dear readers 🤗🥰

Da dieser Textbeitrag gerade die Runde in den Sozialen Medien macht, möchte ich meine Verwirrung zum Ausdruck bringen

Was möchten die CDU und CSU Politiker denn nun für die Automobilindustrie damit die Wirtschaft floriert ?

Original x.com/ManfredWeber...

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Manfred Weber
@ManfredWeber
Das Verbrenner-Aus ist Geschichte. Gute Nachricht für Auto-Industrie und Millionen Beschäftigte. Wir setzen unser Wahlversprechen um: Technikneutralität - wir verbinden Klimaschutz mit wirtschaftlichem Erfolg.

Manfred Weber
@ManfredWeber
Bayer & Europäer, EVP-Partei- und Fraktionsvorsitzender,
@CSU -Vize - Bavarian & European, President @EPP & Chairman
@EPPGroup

Neutralität

Übersicht mit KI
Neutralität bedeutet Unparteilichkeit und Nichteinmischung, sei es bei Personen (wie einem Schiedsrichter), in zwischenmenschlichen Konflikten oder besonders im internationalen Kontext bei Staaten, die sich aus bewaffneten Auseinandersetzungen heraushalten und keine militärische Unterstützung leisten, wie Österreich oder die Schweiz (Dauernde Neutralität). Sie ist eine völkerrechtliche Verpflichtung, die Territorium schützt, aber Vermittlung erlaubt und nicht die Teilnahme an UNO-Friedensmissionen ausschließt, solange militärische Bündnisse wie die NATO vermieden werden.
Merkmale und Beispiele:
International: Ein Staat beteiligt sich nicht aktiv an Kriegen zwischen anderen Staaten, leistet keine militärische Hilfe und gehört keinen Militärbündnissen (wie der NATO) an.
Rechtsgrundlage: Die Haager Abkommen von 1907 legen die grundlegenden Rechte und Pflichten neutraler Staaten fest, wie das Recht auf Unverletzlichkeit des Territoriums.
Vermittlung: Neutrale Staaten können eine wichtige Rolle als Vermittler bei Konflikten einnehmen, da sie als unparteiisch angesehen werden.
Bewaffnete Neutralität: Neutrale Staaten haben oft eigene Streitkräfte zur Verteidigung ihres Territoriums, wie Österreich, das sich zu einer „bewaffneten Neutralität“ verpflichtet hat, um sein Land zu schützen.
Dauernde vs. zeitweise Neutralität: Die Schweiz und Österreich verfolgen eine dauerhafte Neutralität, während Staaten wie die USA in der Vergangenheit ihre Neutralität zeitweise aufgaben.
Abgrenzung: Neutralität gilt nicht für interne Konflikte und verhindert nicht die Teilnahme an vom UN-Sicherheitsrat autorisierten Friedenseinsätzen.
Alltag: Auch Schiedsrichter im Sport oder neutrale Personen in Streitigkeiten agieren nach dem Prinzip der Unparteilichkeit und Gleichbehandlung.

Redet Herr Merz von Technologieoffenheit ?

Übersicht mit KI
Ja, Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz spricht regelmäßig und betont stark das Thema Technologieoffenheit, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Automobilindustrie und Klimaneutralität, um Innovationen zu fördern, anstatt sich auf eine einzige Lösung wie nur E-Mobilität zu beschränken. Er argumentiert, dass Deutschland technologisch führend bleiben muss, indem es eine Vielfalt von Antriebs- und anderen Technologien erforscht, um Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Klimaziele zu verbinden, und fordert Flexibilität statt Verbote.
Kernpunkte seiner Position:
Vielfalt der Technologien: Merz setzt sich dafür ein, dass in Deutschland in allen denkbaren Antriebstechnologien weitergeforscht wird, um Klimaneutralität auf unterschiedliche Weise zu erreichen.
Wettbewerb der Ideen: Er möchte einen Wettbewerb der besten Ideen und Technologien ermöglichen, statt nur auf eine Lösung zu setzen.
Klimaschutz und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit: Technologieoffenheit ist für ihn ein Mittel, Klimaschutz kosteneffizient zu gestalten und gleichzeitig Deutschlands industrielle Stärke zu sichern.
Gegen Verbote: Er fordert mehr Flexibilität und weniger Verbote, insbesondere im Autosektor, um Innovationen zu fördern.
Zukunftsfähigkeit: Er sieht technologischen Fortschritt als Schlüsselfrage für Deutschlands Zukunft als führende Industrienation und will Deutschland an die Spitze bringen.
Merz hat diesen Begriff zu einem zentralen Schlagwort seiner Politik gemacht und betont ihn bei wichtigen Anlässen wie dem Autogipfel oder dem World Climate Leaders' Summit.

December 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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🇮🇸 🌋🧊 Hamarinn 🟩

In today's update www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti... on the jökulhlaup ( glacier run / glacial outburst ), there is an explanation about conductivity ....

I wish you all a pleasant night - see you again ☺️

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Updated December 12
The Skaftár flood is still ongoing but is slowly reducing its flow and is now measured at around 130 m 3 /s at Sveinstind.

Conductivity appears to have peaked and a sulfur smell is still present in the area.

There are no impacts on major roads at this time.

The Skaftár flood is still ongoing, but it is slowly reducing its flow and is now measuring around 130 cubic meters per second (m 3 /s) at Sveinstind.

The conductivity of the river appears to have peaked but has remained fairly stable at just under 500 microsiemens per centimeter (µS/cm) over the past 24 hours. A sulfurous odor can still be detected along the riverbed. The flood has not yet affected major roads in the area, but the development of the flood will continue to be closely monitored.

The news will next be updated on Monday, December 15th unless circumstances change significantly.

For clarification: Conductivity is a measure of the amount of dissolved substances in water and is used to monitor glacial outburst floods. Elevated conductivity and a sulfur smell are typical characteristics of Skaftár outburst floods and indicate that glacial outburst water is still reaching the river.

December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM

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Contrails aren't chemtrails

Contrails form when airplanes fly at high altitudes ( 8-12 km ), where it is very cold ( down to -40°C or lower ), and the exhaust from the engines, ...

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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 1d

Study: “Hidden” contrails in cirrus clouds contribute to climate warming
Researchers at the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University have, for the first time, determined the climatic impact of contrails that form within natural cirrus...
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This image shows an “inverse” contrail. - Copyright Leipzig University

December 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Good morning, dear ones 👋 🤗 🥰

Today I've a study from the Main Marmara fault in the Mediterranean off the coast of Turkey - Here is a summary of the German-language text of the ‪@idw-online.de

Study 🇬🇧
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Abstract

In April 2025, the North Anatolian Fault Zone beneath the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey, near Istanbul, experienced its strongest earthquake in over 60 years. In a new study, now published in the journal Science, a research team led by Prof. Dr. Patricia Martínez-Garzón from the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam analyzed nearly two decades of seismic data surrounding the magnitude M 6.2 earthquake of April 23, 2025. The analysis of fault dynamics and aftershock patterns across multiple timescales reveals a remarkable sequence of magnitude >5 earthquakes along the fault over the past ~15 years, propagating eastward and all occurring so far on partially creeping sections of the tectonic fault zone. However, further east, just outside Istanbul, lies the completely locked section of the Marmara Fault This eruption has stored large amounts of energy and could therefore trigger a significantly stronger earthquake, with correspondingly devastating consequences for the metropolis of 18 million inhabitants. The study therefore emphasizes the need for further improved continuous real-time monitoring of this region.

December 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM

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🇮🇸 🌋🧊 Hamarinn 🟩

Updated December 11 by Veðurstofa Íslands

It has been confirmed that the flow comes from the Vestari-Skaftár caldera.

Sources

vmkerfi.vedur.is/vdv.php/hist...

www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

Updated December 11
The Skaftár River is still ongoing and constant.

Flow has increased partly in line with precipitation and is now measured at just over 160 m 3 /s at Sveinstind.

Conductivity is still high, but the increase has slowed in line with precipitation.

There are no impacts on major roads at this time.

The flow of the Skaftár River is stable, but precipitation and melting snow in the area have partially improved the flow, and it is now measured at just over 160 cubic meters per second (m 3 /s) at Sveinstind, which corresponds to the average flow in summer.

The river's conductivity has continued to rise since yesterday, but precipitation has slowed the increase slightly. A sulfur smell can still be detected along the riverbed. At this time, the flood has not affected major roads in the area, but the development of the flood will continue to be closely monitored.

December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Registration for the 12th Physics of Volcanoes workshop including two GeoX-hosted discussion rounds is now open: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... It will be hosted at the @geowpotsdam.bsky.social of the @unipotsdam.bsky.social from 18 to 20 February 2026. Everyone interested in volcanoes is welcome.

Physics of Volcanoes 2026 (PoV-12)

Event Timing: 18-20 February 2026 on site, in person, in Potsdam: 18 Feb 2026: 17:00 - 19:00 Icebreaker 19 Feb 2026: 09:15 - 18:15 Scientific Program + discussion, 19:15 Joint Dinner 20 Feb 2026: 09...

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December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM

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And something positive as well 🤩

The Asiatic lion is not extinct, but it remains a highly vulnerable species, recently reclassified from "Endangered" to "Vulnerable" due to successful conservation in India's Gir Forest, ...

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December 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM

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Good morning, dear ones 👋 🤗 🥰

Did you know that volcanoes and humans have similarities ?

While they are sleeping, there are massive but unnoticed activities - breathing, the heart, and much more are automatically active ... 😉 😊

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December 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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I think this could also be important for conferences in the USA

The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is Austria's public service broadcaster

Please read everything, as not everything is shown in the screenshot.

orf.at/stories/3413...

December 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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🇮🇸 🌋 Reykjanes - Svartsengi 🟨

🆕 Updated 10.12.2025 by Veðurstofa Íslands

The probability of a volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúk crater range continues to increase

◉ Magma accumulation slow but steady in recent weeks

◉ While magma accumulation continues, a new eruption must be expected.

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Magma accumulation slow but steady in recent weeks
Magma accumulation under Svartsengi is in a similar pattern to the past few weeks. In the run-up to the eruptions at the Sundhnúk crater series, the rate of magma accumulation has been variable. Looking at recent eruptions, model calculations show that the rate of inflow has gradually decreased with each eruption. However, the rate has remained fairly constant over the past two weeks.

While magma accumulation is present, the probability of magma flow and eruption remains elevated, but uncertainty about the timing of the next eruption is greater when magma accumulation is slow. The uncertainty about the timing, given the current rate of magma accumulation, is within a few months.

The amount of magma that has accumulated under Svartsengi since the last eruption is the fifth largest to date
Measurements and modeling show that since March 2024, the amount of magma needed to trigger a new magma flow or eruption appears to have increased compared to previous events. According to modeling, the volume of magma that has accumulated under Svartsengi between eruptions that have occurred since March 2024 has varied, ranging from 17 to 23 million cubic meters.

According to model calculations, over 17 million cubic meters of magma have now been added to the magma accumulation area under Svartsengi since the last eruption in July. This is a similar volume to that observed just before the eruption in May 2024.

Seismic activity low
Low seismic activity continues to be measured in the area, twelve small earthquakes have been measured in the last two weeks and they were located between Stóri Skógfell and Grindavík.

December 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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🇮🇸 🌋 Reykjanes - Svartsengi 🟨

This is my preliminary report - the really kind and great employees of Veðurstofa Íslands are very forward-thinking ...... ❤️

and now I'm going to start the English translation 😉

Fréttir

20.12.2025
Áfram auknar líkur á eldgosi á Sundhnúksgígaröðinni

8.12.2025
Skaftárhlaup yfirstandandi

December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Our paper about Russian subversive activities on Svalbard after 2014 is today published by the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE): Download, read and repost 🙌.

Hybrid threats in high latitudes: Facing Russia on Svalbard

This Hybrid CoE Paper outlines how Moscow blends information campaigns, coercive signalling at sea, symbolic gestures and surprise visits to challenge Norwegian authority while remaining below the thr...

www.hybridcoe.fi

December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM

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🇺🇸 Florida

Democrat wins Miami mayor's race for the first time in nearly 30 years

Eileen Higgins, 61, will be the first woman to lead the city of Miami.

Those are two outstanding larger-than-life victories - Bravo Mr.Trump 😍

www.npr.org/2025/12/10/g...

Democrat wins Miami mayor's race for the first time in nearly 30 years

Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak.

www.npr.org

December 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM

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🇮🇸 🌋 Reykjanes - Svartsengi 🟨

This interferogram includes the measurement data from November 23, 2025, up to yesterday ( December 9, 2025 ) ...... the magma chamber is still in the same place 🤩

Source brunnur.vedur.is/pub/vincent/...

December 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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🇮🇸 🌋🧊 Hamarinn 🟩

Good morning, dear ones 👋 🤗 🥰

There have been new earthquakes at Hamarinn and the jökulhlaup is still ongoing – the diagrams are all messed up at the moment because of my laziness – while I'm putting ...

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December 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM

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🇺🇸 🌋 Kīlauea 🟧

These technology-obsessed people are forgetting real life and telling us that WE are stupid ......

The beginning – many city children believed it .... and today they are the ones who believe in everything unnatural

The story of a purple cow…Milka – A Tablet of Happiness

December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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🇮🇸 🌋 Reykjanes - Svartsengi 🟨

I know it's late – but the last time I thought "Ah, I'll do it tomorrow morning," the eruption started 6 h later ....

I wish you all a full night’s sleep 😉 😁 🤗 🥰 👋

Benedikt Ófeigsson, head of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Meteorological Office says ⤵️

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Never again a longer eruption pause and great uncertainty about when or if the next eruption will occur
There has been no eruption at the Sundhnúk crater series for over four months, the longest period of time since the beginning of the eruption. Experts believe there is great uncertainty about when and whether another eruption will occur.

There has never been a longer eruption pause since the start of the eruption in the Sundhnúk crater series. Benedikt Ófeigsson, head of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, says it is uncertain whether there will be another eruption, but it must be expected.

Still magma inflow, although it has slowed down
It has been 126 days since the last eruption at Sundhnúk crater. It has erupted nine times since December 2023.

"We are seeing the same trend we have been watching since the last eruption ended. There is still magma flowing under Svartengi. The seismic activity is not increasing, it is quite low," says Benedikt.

Based on probability calculations, approximately 19 million cubic meters of magma have accumulated under Svartsengi, which is more than what left the magma chamber in the last eruption in mid-July, but less than in the previous eruption in April.

Based on the experience of previous eruptions in the same area, the likelihood of a new magma flow or eruption increases when the same amount of magma has accumulated under Svartsengi as erupted from the chamber in the last one.

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Great uncertainty about the future
This summer, it was expected that the magma level would reach its peak in mid-December, but since then the magma inflow has slowed down, so Benedikt believes that it will not be reached until after a few months.

"Over a two-, three-month period, if you look at it, you see that it's slowing down. It's pushing these upper limits. Or a projection of when it's going to reach them, over and over again," says Benedikt.

This also means that there is greater uncertainty, both about when the next eruption will occur and also whether it will occur.

"There is also uncertainty about whether there will be another eruption. It is not certain. But as long as we have an influx, we have to assume it and it is not unlikely that there will be one more, possibly, it just has to be seen," says Benedikt.

"We look back at the Kraflueldi eruptions, people were waiting for many years for an eruption that never came, we could end up having to wait for many months, see an influx but nothing happens, we need to be patient but still assume that there will be another eruption because nothing is ruled out while something is still going on," he adds.

But if the Sundhnúk crater eruptions are over, it must be assumed that the period of activity on the Reykjanes Peninsula is not.

"Given how the Reykjanes Peninsula has behaved in the past, there are some years where there is activity in one system - then there is a break for years or decades and then it goes to the next system. That's what you expect. But then it has to be revealed."

December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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🇺🇸 🌋 Kīlauea 🟧

The heli as scaling 😉

December 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Herr #Merz, zu Ihrer Information :) Partner und Verbündete sind verschiedene Gemeinschaften .... ohne Verbündete können Sie kein Partner der USA sein.

Oder wollen Sie mit der Trump Regierung auf Augenhöhe sein ? Dann sind Ihre anderen Aussagen ( Strafzahlung gegen X ) Makulatur.

Wählerwille des Grauens @mdbdesgrauens.bsky.social · 4d

Das ist ein ungeheuerlicher Aussage, die Kanzler Merz heute in Mainz in Richtung USA getätigt hat, so begräbt man die EU: "Ihr braucht auf der Welt auch Partner. Und einer der Partner kann Europa sein und wenn ihr mit Europa nichts anfangen könnt, dann macht wenigsten Deutschland zu eurem Partner."

December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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🇮🇸 🌋🧊 Hamarinn 🟩

A glacier outburst flood ( jökulhlaup ) in Skaftá river is ongoing & the discharge has been stable in ~ 160m³/s. Conductivity is still high & it is more likely that the flood is coming from the West-Skaftárketill cauldron in Vatnajökull glacier that last flooded in autumn 2021

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December 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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🇺🇸 🌋 Kīlauea 🟧

A small Terpha dust tornado ...

V1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM

@gongudottir.bsky.social

🇺🇸 🌋 Kīlauea 🟧

Yes, it is not a night vision cam and it is red-pixely ....

but now at dusk there is something ....

at first I thought the south fountain ... - but did it get that far (Terpha slides)? I thought it didn't go in that direction, but more south ...

📸 V1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM

@gongudottir.bsky.social

I find this article very interesting – yes, it’s an Icelandic topic … but don’t we see ourselves in it as well ? The way our society has changed ....

Besides, I find it very fitting for my post just now ....

Andri Snær Magnason @andrimagnason.bsky.social · 4d

Að byggja en byggja ekki drauma. www.visir.is/g/2025281001...

„Djúp menning sem hefur átt sér stað og enginn telur sig ábyrgan“ - Vísir

Bókin Jötunsteinn eftir Andra Snæ Magnason er viðbragð við yfirstandandi uppbygingarskeiði sem höfundur lýsir sem „stóra lúffinu“. Fólk sé ekki stolt af byggingum sem rísi á Íslandi líkt og áður fyrr...

www.visir.is

December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM

@gongudottir.bsky.social

🤔

I've been asking myself for years

WHY ?

What has happened in the world of men that makes them react this way ?

What has happened in the world of men that makes them think they always have to one-up each other with their remarks ?

I want to share one of my ideas with you ( maybe this ...

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December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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