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Marco
@madeingermany.bsky.social
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Things I’m into: All things IT (also professionally), social and environmental justice/volunteering/activism, cooking, baking, eating, music (listening, singing, string instruments), fantasy books, audio-books, PC gaming, parenting, Germany, Seattle WA
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Why #China Won’t Stop the #Fentanyl Trade

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The United States won’t be able to solve the fentanyl crisis without help from its greatest rival. China is the world’s largest supplier of the chemicals that drug smugglers use to produce the opioid, and the country’s regulators have proved that they can stem its spread on the black market—when they’re so inclined. But despite pressure from Washington, Chinese leaders have not done nearly as much as they could to crack down on the illicit-fentanyl trade. For Beijing, the opioid that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year is a source of political leverage that it won’t easily give up. Chinese officials still decry the opium crisis that foreign traders seeded two centuries ago. The country’s long memory informs the regime’s regulation of domestic drug dealing and use, which it polices and prosecutes severely. But Beijing denies its role in the drug trade beyond its borders. As a spokesperson for the foreign ministry said in May, “Fentanyl is the U.S.’s problem, not China’s.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Hey #SaraLee why are there molluscs in ma #pumpkinpie?
Screenshot from the Sara Lee website pumpkin pie ingredients. It said at the bottom: CONTAINS: EGGS, MILK, WHEAT No information provided for: Molluscs
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Like this?
Comic strip with 4 labels. Interviewer is soaking to a sportsperson. You were sportsing pretty hard out there. A lot of sports happened. Why do you think you lost? We sportsed our best and scored points, but the other team was sportsing, too, and they scored even more points. What's your strategy for the next match? We need to stop the other team from scoring points while we ourselves score many points. Now back to the studio for ten hours of sports analysis. My income is higher than most countries
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Screenshot of YouTube keyboard shortcuts

For example:

CONTROL + → Seek to next chapter

0..9 seek to specific point in the video (7 advances to 70% of duration)
Playback Toggle play/pause k Rewind 10 seconds j Fast forward 10 seconds l Previous video P (SHIFT+p) Next video N (SHIFT+n) Previous frame (while paused) , Next frame (while paused) . Decrease playback rate < (SHIFT+,) Increase playback rate > (SHIFT+.) Seek to specific point in the video (7 advances to 70% of duration) 0..9 Seek to previous chapter CONTROL + ← Seek to next chapter CONTROL + → General Toggle full screen f Toggle theater mode t Toggle miniplayer i Close miniplayer or current dialog ESCAPE Toggle mute m Subtitles and closed captions If the video supports captions, toggle captions ON/OFF c Rotate through different text opacity levels o Rotate through different window opacity levels w Rotate through font sizes (increasing) + Rotate through font sizes (decreasing) - Spherical Videos Pan up w Pan left a Pan down s Pan right d Zoom in + on numpad or ] Zoom out - on numpad or [
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
And then Democrats evolved and Republicans elected a racists. Don't you forget that part.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
This is not a new argument Princeton University Edwards Professor of American History Tera Hunter told USA TODAY that this trope is a fallback argument used to discredit current Democratic Party policies. “At the core of the effort to discredit the current Democratic Party is the refusal to accept the realignment of the party structure in the mid-20th century,” Hunt said. In September, NPR host Shereen Marisol Maraji called the claim, “one of the most well-worn clapbacks in modern American politics.” Comedian Trevor Noah tackled the misleading trope on an episode of "The Daily Show" in March 2016, after two CNN contributors debated the topic. “Every time I go onto Facebook I see these things: ‘Did you know the Democrats are the real racist party and did you know the Republicans freed the slaves?’” Noah joked. “A lot of people like to skip over the fact that when it comes to race relations, historically, Republicans and Democrats switched positions.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
"Designer cookie tins" from Kelsen featuring AI slop from Shutterstock
Photo of a cookie tin, a screenshot from the manufacturer Kelsen Group featuring their Designer tins, and a screenshot of the AI image on Shutterstock. The AI image features children ice skating on a frozen river next to windmills.
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
"Walk of Stars" sculpture at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton, Wa
"Walk of Stars" sculpture at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton, Wa
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
This ad is playing on heavy rotation on Roku. It gets worse every time I see it.

The characters sound and look just a little off. It is just a gimmick and an annoying one at that.
Screenshot of a TV ad with the small print "performed by AI"
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Seriously,
@sound-transit.bsky.social ?

You expect me to send you a letter by post after taking a digital survey?!?
Screenshot: Thank you for taking part in Sound Transit's Passenger Experience Survey! This survey will help us better understand your experience in areas like cleanliness, dependability, and safety. Your feedback is crucial in helping us improve and ensure a better experience for all riders. The survey will take about 20 minutes to complete. As a token of our appreciation, we'll enter you in a drawing for one of fifteen $100 gift cards or one of four $250 gift cards. To enter the drawing without taking the survey, please send your name, email, and phone number to EMC Research, 720 3rd Ave STE 1110, Seattle, WA 98104
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
"Silent Bob, you're a rude motherfucker, you know that? But you're cute as hell. I could go down on you, suck you, line up three other guys, make like a circus seal."
Donald Trump's plane flew to Epstein's island at least 37 times, tracked on radar. It's from the scene in Clerks shown in the meme. Dante's girlfriend Veronica has sucked 37 men's dicks, and Dante is just finding this out. Recent leaks have alleged that Trump flew to Epsteins island 37 times and also that he gave Bill Clinton a BJ.
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
#Sisyphus has been updated
A woman is angrily pointing at her phone. Headline: Digital purgatory Bottom text: You have to ask to speak to a representative all day and then it will hang up on you.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Finally, retirement here I come ...
Facebook Internet Tracking Settlement Administrator has sent you $4.01 USD on PayPal.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
What a place
Alki Beach, in sunny fall
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Via @gamefiend.bsky.social 's old tweet :)

Goes well with
“The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.”
― Richard Needham
“Quick note: your brutal honesty? Ain’t nobody asking for that. Where is your clever honesty? Your compassionate honesty? Your insightful honesty? Uplifting? Poetic? Empowering? Take your brutal honesty and go sit in the back with all the devil’s advocates.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
I imagine his response, but can't be bothered to go on that website and actually look ;)
Fake truth social post: This VERY BIASED court is trying force my hand! I will not BACK DOWN until every one of those ILLEGAL ORPHANS has been STARVED! It is all the extremist and radical democrats fault that I decided to withhold the money reserved for SNAP benefits! Thank your for your attention in that matter DJT
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Assuming DJT is fuming he can't use the government shutdown as an excuse to withhold snap reserves.
@Tim_Walz BREAKING: A court has ordered the America First president to feed the hungry. 2:52 PM · Oct 31, 2025
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
#cascadianow
MEMORANDUM OF REAFFIRMATION BETWEEN THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, AND THE STATE OF OREGON RENEWING AND STRENGTHENING THE CASCADIA INNOVATION CORRIDOR
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
And you know what else has changed since the 70s? Almost every major economic indicator - it's such a dumb comparison without mentioning any of this...

www.epi.org/publication/...
Graph: The minimum wage would be over $18 had it risen along with productivity Real value of the federal minimum wage compared with its value had it grown at the rate of productivity and average hourly wages, 1968–2014
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Let's accelerate with the speed of a falcon
Let's be brave like a wolf.
Let's trample with the hooves of mighty horses.
Let's press the tamga with the wisdom of Genghis Khan.

(A tamga is a traditional tribal or clan mark used by nomadic peoples in Eurasia for branding livestock and as a seal.)
Lyrics of Wolf Totem by The HU Шонхорын хурдаар хурцлан давшъя Чонын зоригоор асан дүрэлзье Тэнхээт морьдын туурайгаар нүргэе Тамгат Чингисийн ухаанаар даръя Xy xy xy xy Xү хү хү хү
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
So, you like #bats?

jgmartinez-fonseca.smugmug.com/Bat-Photogra...
Portraits of bats from the neotropics, Madagascar, Malaysia, and the United States by José G. Martínez-Fonseca, a Nicaraguan biologist and currently a postdoc at the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University.
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Worth it :)
win98 [Running] - Oracle VirtualBox Last Chance to See ... Thanks to astounding advances in twig technology we arrived in canoes, then boats and finally aeroplanes, and once again started to compete for use of the same habitat, only this time with fire and machetes and domesticated animals, with asphalt and concrete. The lemurs are once again fighting for survival.
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
VirtualBox running WIndows 98
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
madeingermany.bsky.social
Seriously? YouTube won't let me queue up the next video without paying for premium?

#Enshittification
YouTube screenshot with a P for premium next to the play next in queue
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
sock it to them!
SOURCERY Rincewind thought about this and then, with an air of finality, started to take off his last sock. "No half-bricks," he said, to no one in particular. "Have to use sand." "You're going to attack them with a sockful of sand?" "No. I'm going to run away from them. The sockful Of sand is for when they follow."
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
madeingermany.bsky.social
FOUR MORE SWAMPS!

(I doubt it's ai generated)
President Trump rally transcript generated from a bot after having it read over 1000 hours of Trump rally transcripts. **TRUMP RALLY** &#x200B; INT. BIG ARBY'S IN SOUTH WYOMKLAHOMA &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP forces himself on a podium. &#x200B; **PRESIDENT TRUMP** I just had a phone call with the economy. Jobs poured out of the phone. Great jobs. Tall jobs. Steve Jobs. All at Kinko's. &#x200B; The crowd cheers. It is full of real Americans (man with hard hat, man with harder hat, gun that is alive). &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D) The United States is doing so good. Other countries are on fire. All the people on fire. Hot fire too. Not us. Our flag is so beautiful. &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP salutes a flag that says: **ARBY'S FOOD IS FINE TO EAT.** The crowd howls. They love this flag of America. &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D) I signed a bill. No more swamp. Swamp gone. Swamp is in Mexico now. It's on fire. Great deal for us. &#x200B; The crowd chants: **FOUR MORE SWAMPS! FOUR MORE SWAMPS!** &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D) Foreign powers cheat us! Canada steals our milk. China steals our milk. We only had one glass of milk left! Obama drank it. Not fair. &#x200B; The crowd boos. They wanted that milk. &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP (CONT'D) But like President Ronald Rogaine, I will bring back the milk! &#x200B; The crowd roars. They still want that milk. &#x200B; PRESIDENT TRUMP (CON'TD) A wall of milk. No criminals get through. Democrats want criminals to have the milk. No way. Milk come from coal. We'll dig it up. &#x200B; All of the words are mispronounced. The crowd cheers. They hate pronunciations. They love milk. They start digging.
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM