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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 29/09/2026

You’re saying this can be done without police brutality and kickbacks to friends’ non-profits like Berlin’s CDU led government has been doing up until now? Our incoming new mayor at least has a good example to follow.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 29/09/2026

Dann sind es halt nur noch Grünen in rote Klamotten. Was vielleicht auch nicht so schlimm wäre…

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 28/09/2026

Ist gar nicht so unplausible. Sind die meiste Leute (also auch der) unendlich viel naiver als man glauben möchte? Durchaus ja. Aber wenn er sagt: „sie tun endlich was für meine Leute“, wird mit ‚Leute‘ dann Palaestinenzer oder Kriminellen gemeint?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 28/09/2026

The loose knit group of cycling clubs in a specific park in London have a web presence that's tidier than that of many company or institution in Berlin. Why is this? www.regentsparkcyclists.com

regentsparkcyclists.com

Regent's Park Cyclists

To recognise the privilege of having a beautiful park to ride our bikes in

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

The left can't be trusted either because they're oftentimes financially illiterate and almost entirely beholden to Russia.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

Looking to get digital copies of the books my kids use in school (for reference) and I'm guessing the German publishers won't be too forthcoming with them? The shadow library also does not carry most of them. Is there a repository somewhere? Do teachers get PDFs?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

Judging by the attacks the Linke is seeing at the moment I feel like expropriation of real estate may actually be a real solution. Nothing else explains this level of insanity.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

You can't do politics in a country if there's an active gas leak. First you have to stop the gas leak.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

Die können trotzdem mitteilen wann etwas passiert. Alles ist hier so Scheiße weil die Anforderungen so verdammt niedrig sind.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

Und eine Baustelle wo keiner tätig ist muss doch nicht auf eine Regierung warten?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

Ist das nicht Bezirk?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

@baxhain.bsky.social @linkexhain.bsky.social Hallo, wir haben hier in der Lindenstraße eine Baustelle für diesen Spekulations-Bau Viktoriahöfe obwohl hier schon seit mehr als ein Jahr nicht mehr gebaut wird. Wann wird diese Baustelle entfernt?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 26/09/2026

If you must share LLM generated output without editing it, have the decency to block quote it.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

This is capital in the ranges where effectively the tax rate is zero so they can stand to pay back a little bit for a change.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

Yes, but you would also be paid handsomely to keep your mouth shut.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

Got a: “computer says no” today from a German civil servant. If people here had realized how great an excuse computers are so as not to be responsible for things, they would’ve digitized Germany decades ago.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

Say what you want, the sheer insanity of response their plans are getting tells me there is something of merit there.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

It should not be children and parents who are regulated, but the corporation taking advantage of us.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

A strong argument written in German against the privatization of social media as a problem inflicted on us by unaccountable profit seeking corporations. I'm not sure whether this will do anything to course correct the idiocy that our politicians seem hell bent on pushing on us.

blaetter.de

Die TikTok-Demokratie

Smartphonenutzung wird in der politischen und öffentlichen Debatte überwiegend als Privatproblem verhandelt und die Verantwortung dafür vor allem den Jugendlichen und ihren Eltern zugeschrieben. So…

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 25/09/2026

The German car industry has remained immensely profitable all the while driving itself off a cliff (!). The crisis is entirely self-inflicted and lots of people have taken the money and ran. There need to be political and criminal consequences for this before the country can move on.

somo.nl

https://www.somo.nl/manufactured-crisis/

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 24/09/2026

You may have seen that deleting lots of small files on your laptop can be a very intense and slow process. Deleting lots of things in a database can require so much extra work and bookkeeping that it can be detrimental to the health of the system. planetscale.com/blog/the-onl...

planetscale.com

The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE — PlanetScale

Large DELETEs add work instead of reclaiming it. Structure your database so deletion becomes DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 24/09/2026

One thing I will give them is that the total lack of leadership and project management in open source software is at the same time a liability as it is its strength. That kind of duality creates these kind of opportunities for actors not willing to play by the unspoken rules.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 24/09/2026

I don't think Omarchy is going to make Linux better so much as that they identified that Linux on the desktop has reached a tipping point and now is the time to capitalize on it. That's the DHH playbook and why would it be any different this time?

tante.cc

Power grab

Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software…

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 24/09/2026

Die Union ist eh sterbende. Wie die handlen könnte man sogar denken dass sie absichtlich den Laden für die AfD vorbereiten.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 24/09/2026

Third party managers not being supported well seems to be known and one might assume also that it's softly intentional to create further lock in on the main platforms.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 24/09/2026

I was forced to create a passkey recently and I wanted to store that key in 1Password where I store all my other credentials. How to do that properly was pretty non-obvious and a bad enough experience that it seems that it wasn't tested or a priority for anybody implementing these systems.

hawksley.dev

I don't like passkeys | Ethan Hawksley

Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 22/09/2026

Why didn't the Japanese occupation of Indonesia result in a vibrant Dutch sushi or ramen culture?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 22/09/2026

I had to explain today that Banh Mi is made on baguettes because the area used to be called FRENCH Indochina and the bread is a colonial leftover. Imagine what great food we could have had here in the west if we'd been colonised by countries with actual cuisines?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 22/09/2026

Calling the Linke in Berlin and their Mamdani candidate. This is your job and all of your job for the next five years.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

Take five minutes over on Twitter after yesterday's Berlin election results, and it should become immediately obvious how that space is extremely compromised and slanted.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

That sounds cool but IC engineering at the mid/senior levels is an even worse deal thanks to AI.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

Obwohl, es gab "bauen auf Tempelhofer Feld" aber das ist keine Lösung und dazu ist es auch noch extrem faul.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

Andere Parteien waren frei Lösungsansätze zu formulieren nur die hatten keine Interesse oder keinen Bock? Schon vom Anfang an sah es so aus als waren einige Parteien resigniert und auf Verlust eingestellt.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

I remember being worried that the CDU would form a government with the AFD. The better question to ask now is why should a CDU exist at all if people have an option that does the same things but harder and better. Great replacement but for political parties.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

Das zeigt dass wir noch viel weiter gentrifizieren müssen.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 21/09/2026

Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead!

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

No idea if Elif can deliver that. What’ll happen now is: They’ll faff around for the better part of 6 months to form a government. Then they’ll spend 3+ months getting settled in. It’ll be a year before we see any movement from a new government while the current one has been lame for 3+ now.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

Being Zoran doesn’t mean looking nice and being ethnically diverse. The goal is sewer socialism. The Linke in their program wants to put a Queer/Integrations/Whatever-Beauftragte in every borough. That’s really the last thing this city needs. The city needs a civil service that functions.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

The Linke has no history of achievement or governance in Berlin and plenty of obstacles in learning to do so. I would be very happy to be proven wrong here. Lederer was very content and achieved nothing but thankfully he’s gone.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

Nobody has raised the theory that Merz is an AfD psyop? I mean… it explains more than most other takes.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

Shitfuck is happening here on a goddamn election night.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

Du bist CDU-Mitglied?

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

(Of course this entire kerfuffle could be avoided and the housing crisis be solved, if a significant and non-transferable land value tax would be passed together with a state-wide upzoning.)

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

The land on which the dwellings stand is of course much more valuable and it’s the part where the owners have had almost no contribution on the value creation. The land becomes more valuable because of all of us here and it should be expropriated for a symbolic amount because we created the value.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

Paying a reasonable agreed upon value for the dwellings is only fair because that’s the part the holders have the most influence on. They could have passed improvements on the apartments (as if) and their value should be compensated in so far as it’s not based on speculative and extortionate rents.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

Here’s a Georgist approach to expropriation: * The dwellings will be purchased for some reasonable agreed upon value * The land on which these dwellings stand will be purchased for 1 EUR

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 20/09/2026

If Berlin elects the Linke today, that’s effectively a second referendum in favour of expropriation because that promise has been one of the party’s main campaign topics. At that point nobody can argue that it’s not democratically legitimate.

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