Gerd Duerner
@gerdduerner.bsky.social
Alman.
Occasional Drama Llama.
Monogamous oriented, cis, heteronormative, white guy with all the privilege.
Keeps fighting windmills.
He/Him (sometimes Asshole)
Occasional Drama Llama.
Monogamous oriented, cis, heteronormative, white guy with all the privilege.
Keeps fighting windmills.
He/Him (sometimes Asshole)
Pinned
I notice that bsky has the same problem as twitter, my Discovery and my Following tabs show the same people I regularly interact with, but refuse to show a huge batch of other people I follow.
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I notice that bsky has the same problem as twitter, my Discovery and my Following tabs show the same people I regularly interact with, but refuse to show a huge batch of other people I follow.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The way this whole admin is now openly using plain Nazi speak to legitimise murder and terror is becoming increasingly disturbing.
These fanatics are out for war:
These fanatics are out for war:
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The way this whole admin is now openly using plain Nazi speak to legitimise murder and terror is becoming increasingly disturbing.
These fanatics are out for war:
These fanatics are out for war:
Drop something MIRRORED
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Drop something MIRRORED
Mercy Thompson, by Patricia Briggs, books 12 and 14 are on my TBR (I accidentally skipped 12 and then it wasn't available for some time).
And The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf (Kalix, #3), by Martin Millar.
#Bookvember
And The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf (Kalix, #3), by Martin Millar.
#Bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 29!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss your reading habits.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss your reading habits.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Mercy Thompson, by Patricia Briggs, books 12 and 14 are on my TBR (I accidentally skipped 12 and then it wasn't available for some time).
And The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf (Kalix, #3), by Martin Millar.
#Bookvember
And The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf (Kalix, #3), by Martin Millar.
#Bookvember
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There is literally footage of the IDF executing these two Palestinian men in the West Bank, after they surrendered.
There's no "appear" about it.
There's no "appear" about it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There is literally footage of the IDF executing these two Palestinian men in the West Bank, after they surrendered.
There's no "appear" about it.
There's no "appear" about it.
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🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
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24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🎄 We just have to find MELIA a forever home by Christmas 🎄
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Heres her bio. Shelter contact information is there. Please read it, maybe you're the one for her. If not repost. Her human is out there. We have to find them. 🤞
⬇️
24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...
Pocket- and ebooks mostly, and find that the older I get the harder it gets for me to read paperbacks in bed, yay for ebooks on that front.
Don't really do audiobooks much because there's a only few narrators I found which I find easy to listen to, both in terms of voice and their reading speed.
Don't really do audiobooks much because there's a only few narrators I found which I find easy to listen to, both in terms of voice and their reading speed.
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 28!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss your reading habits.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss your reading habits.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Pocket- and ebooks mostly, and find that the older I get the harder it gets for me to read paperbacks in bed, yay for ebooks on that front.
Don't really do audiobooks much because there's a only few narrators I found which I find easy to listen to, both in terms of voice and their reading speed.
Don't really do audiobooks much because there's a only few narrators I found which I find easy to listen to, both in terms of voice and their reading speed.
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I need a new pinned post! Here's my webcomic, How to be a Werewolf!
🐺http://howtobeawerewolf.com
🌕http://patreon.com/shawnlenore
🌖https://instagram.com/shawnlenore/
🌗https://ko-fi.com/howtobeawerewolf
🌘https://linktr.ee/shawnlenore
🌑http://hivemill.com/collections/how-to-be-a-werewolf
🐺http://howtobeawerewolf.com
🌕http://patreon.com/shawnlenore
🌖https://instagram.com/shawnlenore/
🌗https://ko-fi.com/howtobeawerewolf
🌘https://linktr.ee/shawnlenore
🌑http://hivemill.com/collections/how-to-be-a-werewolf
November 12, 2024 at 1:34 AM
I need a new pinned post! Here's my webcomic, How to be a Werewolf!
🐺http://howtobeawerewolf.com
🌕http://patreon.com/shawnlenore
🌖https://instagram.com/shawnlenore/
🌗https://ko-fi.com/howtobeawerewolf
🌘https://linktr.ee/shawnlenore
🌑http://hivemill.com/collections/how-to-be-a-werewolf
🐺http://howtobeawerewolf.com
🌕http://patreon.com/shawnlenore
🌖https://instagram.com/shawnlenore/
🌗https://ko-fi.com/howtobeawerewolf
🌘https://linktr.ee/shawnlenore
🌑http://hivemill.com/collections/how-to-be-a-werewolf
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Larry is my beautiful princess. I've so rarely had such a photogenic cat! She's gotten fluffier for the winter, I think. Or she's just fat, idk.
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Larry is my beautiful princess. I've so rarely had such a photogenic cat! She's gotten fluffier for the winter, I think. Or she's just fat, idk.
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Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Israel still won’t let international journalists into Gaza.
Not a fan of cliffhangers when I have to wait a year or longer between books, but I they are okay for shorter publishing periods.
And once saw an author advicing to end each chapter in a story on a mini cliffhanger to keep the reader hooked, all that does to me usually is getting me annoyed.
And once saw an author advicing to end each chapter in a story on a mini cliffhanger to keep the reader hooked, all that does to me usually is getting me annoyed.
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Not a fan of cliffhangers when I have to wait a year or longer between books, but I they are okay for shorter publishing periods.
And once saw an author advicing to end each chapter in a story on a mini cliffhanger to keep the reader hooked, all that does to me usually is getting me annoyed.
And once saw an author advicing to end each chapter in a story on a mini cliffhanger to keep the reader hooked, all that does to me usually is getting me annoyed.
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ICE arrested the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, and the comment from her brother makes it hard not to wonder if the woman was intentionally targeted.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
ICE arrested the mother of Leavitt’s nephew, and the comment from her brother makes it hard not to wonder if the woman was intentionally targeted.
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...since MTG is resigning, now would be a great time to assess the pensions of all former government representatives...what y'all think???
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
...since MTG is resigning, now would be a great time to assess the pensions of all former government representatives...what y'all think???
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
No phone (well, a housephone) but I have an ebook reader that is going in its 13th year, I'm sure Sony and the economy hate me for that. :D
My phone is doing all the same things from 2015 with only minimal benefits. The only reason we have to upgrade is increased software bloat.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
No phone (well, a housephone) but I have an ebook reader that is going in its 13th year, I'm sure Sony and the economy hate me for that. :D
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This is not just a current political issue. Charging & punishing these particular perpetrators is vital to keeping the fight against the ongoing abuse & killing of women & children by men in the spotlight. "Me Too" was only a start.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This is not just a current political issue. Charging & punishing these particular perpetrators is vital to keeping the fight against the ongoing abuse & killing of women & children by men in the spotlight. "Me Too" was only a start.
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The crazy wife/girlfriend trope was made up by men, so they never have to be responsible for the ways they traumatize women.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The crazy wife/girlfriend trope was made up by men, so they never have to be responsible for the ways they traumatize women.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
Ah the days when "Who shot J.R.?" moved the world, simpler times.
As J.R. Ewing, Texan Larry Hagman was the only actor to appear in all 357 episodes of "Dallas." I only mention it because Larry died 13 years ago today, on Nov. 23, 2012. He was 81 years old.
November 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ah the days when "Who shot J.R.?" moved the world, simpler times.
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“THE MUMMY” (1932) dir. Karl Freund
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron
🎬 Universal Studios
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron
🎬 Universal Studios
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“THE MUMMY” (1932) dir. Karl Freund
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron
🎬 Universal Studios
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron
🎬 Universal Studios
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Shhh! She's coming...
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Shhh! She's coming...
Made the mistake to read a few paragraphs in an article about that Nozzi thing, and ... ewww!
I'm out for a lobotomy, brb.
I'm out for a lobotomy, brb.
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Made the mistake to read a few paragraphs in an article about that Nozzi thing, and ... ewww!
I'm out for a lobotomy, brb.
I'm out for a lobotomy, brb.
Had to google Nuzzi, and ... seriously?
With RFK jr.?
Like yeah, can't argue taste, but... SERIOUSLY?
With RFK jr.?
Like yeah, can't argue taste, but... SERIOUSLY?
I think we all have to ask ourselves what we would do if Zohran left his wife to be with Olivia Nuzzi. I would learn the clarinet - I feel like that instrument would be able to express what I felt
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Had to google Nuzzi, and ... seriously?
With RFK jr.?
Like yeah, can't argue taste, but... SERIOUSLY?
With RFK jr.?
Like yeah, can't argue taste, but... SERIOUSLY?