Die Capuccinogruft
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Reuters correspondent in Berlin. You should all be on mastodon
Mostly amazed that the Reith lectures, once given by Edward Said,
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Mostly amazed that the Reith lectures, once given by Edward Said,
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This has been commented ad nauseam already but the part that always jumps at me in those screeds is how the 'dismiss intergenerational bonds' is always painted as going one way only.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This has been commented ad nauseam already but the part that always jumps at me in those screeds is how the 'dismiss intergenerational bonds' is always painted as going one way only.
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Fachtagung in Essen: Graue Wölfe: Ideologie, Netzwerke und Handlungsstrategien
29. November 2025
Uhrzeit: 09:00–18:00
Ort: Glaspavillon, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen)
Ich spreche einführend über die Ursprünge und die Ideologie der türkischen extremen Rechten.
antikurdischer-rassismus.de
29. November 2025
Uhrzeit: 09:00–18:00
Ort: Glaspavillon, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen)
Ich spreche einführend über die Ursprünge und die Ideologie der türkischen extremen Rechten.
antikurdischer-rassismus.de
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Fachtagung in Essen: Graue Wölfe: Ideologie, Netzwerke und Handlungsstrategien
29. November 2025
Uhrzeit: 09:00–18:00
Ort: Glaspavillon, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen)
Ich spreche einführend über die Ursprünge und die Ideologie der türkischen extremen Rechten.
antikurdischer-rassismus.de
29. November 2025
Uhrzeit: 09:00–18:00
Ort: Glaspavillon, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen)
Ich spreche einführend über die Ursprünge und die Ideologie der türkischen extremen Rechten.
antikurdischer-rassismus.de
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The interesting bit is that it should be just as damaging to him that he believed this stuff (while Gill only said it for the money) but somehow, as so often, it doesn't. If we want a better country, we have to work this disparity out (not just regarding Farage, either.)
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The interesting bit is that it should be just as damaging to him that he believed this stuff (while Gill only said it for the money) but somehow, as so often, it doesn't. If we want a better country, we have to work this disparity out (not just regarding Farage, either.)
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Happy three month bookaversary!
The German Democratic Republic by @historyned.bsky.social provides a succinct and comprehensive history of East Germany and its people, from its early Cold War foundations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
Publishing today! bit.ly/4kaEnJf
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Happy three month bookaversary!
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Happy 60th birthday to Björk.
You may now roll for psychic damage.
You may now roll for psychic damage.
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Happy 60th birthday to Björk.
You may now roll for psychic damage.
You may now roll for psychic damage.
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The inclusion of the promise that "Russia will be invited to rejoin the G8" indicates that Putin *really* minded Russia being booted out of it. It's a deeply, deeply weird thing to include in a peace treaty.
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The inclusion of the promise that "Russia will be invited to rejoin the G8" indicates that Putin *really* minded Russia being booted out of it. It's a deeply, deeply weird thing to include in a peace treaty.
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I) Britten is good, like quite possibly best of the 20th century good;
Ii) Spanish provincial airports should be inscribed in the UNESCO list they are that good
/edgelord
Ii) Spanish provincial airports should be inscribed in the UNESCO list they are that good
/edgelord
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I) Britten is good, like quite possibly best of the 20th century good;
Ii) Spanish provincial airports should be inscribed in the UNESCO list they are that good
/edgelord
Ii) Spanish provincial airports should be inscribed in the UNESCO list they are that good
/edgelord
It’s quite telling that Spanish speakers have needed to come up with a familiar slang term for what English speakers still seem content to refer to by initials
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A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s quite telling that Spanish speakers have needed to come up with a familiar slang term for what English speakers still seem content to refer to by initials
Remember when Windows let me shut notifications up without replacing them with periodic motivational pop-ups ("your focus period starts now!") that are manage to both distract AND infuriate?
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Remember when Windows let me shut notifications up without replacing them with periodic motivational pop-ups ("your focus period starts now!") that are manage to both distract AND infuriate?
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Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
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It’s not only literary journalism that’s often bad. Most long-form journalism in general is bad. You have to be absolutely ruthless to your own writing to be good at this, and your editor has to be an order of magnitude more ruthless than you
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s not only literary journalism that’s often bad. Most long-form journalism in general is bad. You have to be absolutely ruthless to your own writing to be good at this, and your editor has to be an order of magnitude more ruthless than you
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
Pretty amazed to hear words like this in parliament
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parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
House of Commons
parliamentlive.tv
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Pretty amazed to hear words like this in parliament
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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Man goes to doctor Goodwin and says
“Doctor I’m so sad and depressed and my political project is failing “
“You should go own the libs; quick win, makes everyone happy.”
“But Doctor, my voters are the libs”
“Doctor I’m so sad and depressed and my political project is failing “
“You should go own the libs; quick win, makes everyone happy.”
“But Doctor, my voters are the libs”
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Man goes to doctor Goodwin and says
“Doctor I’m so sad and depressed and my political project is failing “
“You should go own the libs; quick win, makes everyone happy.”
“But Doctor, my voters are the libs”
“Doctor I’m so sad and depressed and my political project is failing “
“You should go own the libs; quick win, makes everyone happy.”
“But Doctor, my voters are the libs”
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Heres the thing girliepop.....besides the obvious reasons why labour mps dislike tommy robinson.....they are constantly getting emails saying ill kill u by people who follow tommy robinson.....if you think they are gonna accept this being the line youre delusional
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Heres the thing girliepop.....besides the obvious reasons why labour mps dislike tommy robinson.....they are constantly getting emails saying ill kill u by people who follow tommy robinson.....if you think they are gonna accept this being the line youre delusional
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I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I simply do not understand how the govt can simultaneously believe (1) they don’t have enough political capital to breach the manifesto on tax and (2) they have enough to political capital to pick an unwinnable fight with their own MPs on immigration.
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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The most Munich story ever? It’s the prominent actress who asked a genealogist to investigate her ancestry in the hope of finding Jewish forbears only to discover that not only were there none, but her dad was in the Waffen SS serving in the Balkans www.welt.de/vermischtes/...
Familiengeschichte: „Schock sitzt tief“ – Uschi Glas‘ Vater war Mitglied bei NSDAP und Waffen-SS - WELT
Uschi Glas spricht mit Charlotte Knobloch für ein gemeinsames Buchprojekt über Schweigen und Verantwortung in Zeiten eines wachsenden Antisemitismus. Dabei offenbart die Schauspielerin ein bislang unb...
www.welt.de
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The most Munich story ever? It’s the prominent actress who asked a genealogist to investigate her ancestry in the hope of finding Jewish forbears only to discover that not only were there none, but her dad was in the Waffen SS serving in the Balkans www.welt.de/vermischtes/...
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We're stuck with it, but determining someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is actually pretty fucking weird, and it'd be better if we talked about it as an unfortunate practical necessity not a natural phenomenon
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're stuck with it, but determining someone's legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is actually pretty fucking weird, and it'd be better if we talked about it as an unfortunate practical necessity not a natural phenomenon
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I find it hard to explain centre-left/right party behaviour - inside and outside the UK - other than that mere fact of Radical Right parties converging on *the % you'd expect them to get when not actively proscribed/associated with the losing side of WW2* drives them mad.
My more serious thoughts in Ricky's reply, but given the political situation, another reason this is a strange message to the PLP is that it really invites the joke 'why, who on earth is Shabana planning to appoint as Home Secretary when she becomes prime minister?'
What are your thoughts on their possible attempts at political blackmail? Will it work?
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I find it hard to explain centre-left/right party behaviour - inside and outside the UK - other than that mere fact of Radical Right parties converging on *the % you'd expect them to get when not actively proscribed/associated with the losing side of WW2* drives them mad.