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Arved Gintenreiter

@arvedgintenreiter.com
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journalist, photographer, audio-visual storyteller territorially detached - for the most part he/they

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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 17/02/2026
Layered cities are much more efficient, and fun. As we wish to become ever more humans on this planet, we will have to figure out how to accommodate more people without expanding our footprint, growing higher and denser, not wider. Without cars we might even squeeze in a lot more green spaces, too.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 15/02/2026
I wonder what the black magic of Chinese automakers is, other than producing highly competitive cheap electric cars, strongly supported by a government that is all in on climate friendly EV's for both the local market and for export. I have really no clue what could possibly give them an edge.
Yahoo finance headline: From 'slippery slope' to 'existential threat,' auto CEOs Sound Alarm on Chinese competition.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 06/01/2026
This is why we need a functioning UN - for moving towards a better world. (Seen at the Cambodian Landmine Museum, Siem Reap)
Aki Ra was a child soldier in Cambodia and is now a hero of landmine clearing. The UN inspired him to leave behind his destructive past and make a positive impact in life.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 15/12/2025
I am genuinely surprised by the VinFast EV Revolution in Vietnam. Wake up, Europe. Only losers are gas guzzling.
VinFast EV cars charging in Vietnam
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 06/11/2025
That's the main point: he had a modern, forward looking vision and is charismatic, fun and genuine enough to make people believe that he really means it. Old style politics are dead, like it or not. Adapt.
Reuters headline saying: "Mamdami wins over New York with bold vision that galvanized young voters".
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 09/10/2025
In the old days it would have been a rattling Cinquecento, now it's a silent Leapmotor EV with zero pipe emissions posing in small alleys of the Mediterranean. #cultureWars
Small Leapmotor EV charging in front of a limestone church in Malta
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 27/09/2025
Exactly here our/your freedom ends. This shouldn't even be a question.
Nyt headline saying "Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 17/09/2025
More than 12.000 traffic jams amounting to 20.000 km in combined length were counted just in Bavaria just this year just during the 6 weeks of summer holidays. German trains are terribly unreliable, but motorists tend to forget how long and often they are actually stuck on the road. #perceptionBias
Traffic jam on a German highway
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 12/09/2025
I tend to ride on the rough side in traffic and on trail. Today, for the first time in over 30 years I fell from my bicycle - in an empty car park. Confused, Magic Mary doesn't easily lose grip. Then I spotted a small sheet of paper. Must have gone over it with the front wheel. Limping off in shame.
A piece of paper on the ground of a parking lot.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 03/09/2025
Funny headline. Good morning BBC, there is no more international law in that sense. The leaders of the world have failed to protect and enforce it. Now international law is a lot of black ink on white paper, nothing more.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 08/08/2025
These pink flamingo pedal boats are a nice middle finger to the failed Thousand-Year-Reich assimilation terror during the Nazi times.
Colorful animal shaped pedal boats in a lake at the Rallying Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 02/08/2025
Confused
Screenshot of the weather forecast for Malta showing  47C real temperature, over 1000 km/h wind, and a temperature feel of -131C.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 23/07/2025
Looks like the extermination of the Gazan population is going according to plan. Israel won't stop until the Gazans have all starved, been shot, or fled. And the West Bank will be next. Call it a genocide or whatever you want, but Israel should be held accountable to international laws and norms.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 02/07/2025
DHL is getting slower and slower. To compensate for the lack of progress they now do the German thing: gloss over real life standstill with fake movement in the status updates. My personal favorite is "loaded into a shipping container". Feels like a slap in the face.
DHL Status updates glossing over no progress for a week.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 08/06/2025
Beach season started. Pretty hot already for early summer. We might have to stay more under water than above in the coming months. #boilingFrog
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 23/05/2025
Hypnotized in the Asia store. #abroadInBerlin
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 06/03/2025
Grab him by the balls. (Sorry for the language, it's obviously a reference.) The world is watching. And laughing in disbelief. So much self-humiliation. Truly MAGA #clownShow
Text: Trump announces month-long suspension of Mexico tariffs
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 06/03/2025
Germans stood up, French stood up, Poles stood up. Democratic Europe stood up in the millions, flooding the streets, peacefully. #silenceOverseas
A Statista graph showing that 1.3 Million people have protested against the rising right since 25 January in Germany alone.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 16/01/2025
News outlets railing against X while having an active account on the Xitter platform and even linking there on their websites, is just a very bad look. #wouldLoveToTrustYou
Screenshot of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) seemingly railing against the Xitter platform X in several subsequent articles.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 08/12/2024
Went to the contemporary art museum in Rome today, MAXXI. Zero art, even less contemporary. On display an exhibition glorifying 100 years of highways in Italy. Any bit of reputation this house had gained, went down the drain with the new political realities in Italy. #fascistCulture
Exhibition glorifying 100 years Italian highways sponsored by the company "autostrade per l'Italia", in the contemporary art museum MAXXI. The connection between fascism and highway culture must be total coincidence.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 08/08/2024
Never seen as many men fishing without catching, as along the EU-Russia borderline in the Estonian River Narva. #spyGames
Small rowing boat with Russian border patrol pretending to be fishing.
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 06/07/2024
Coffee break with amazing seaview in a car obsessed country. #freeTheRoadside
Coffee place in Gozo with cars and a motorcycle blocking the sea view
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 02/04/2024
Absolutely heartbroken. The ends can never justify the means, not in peace, not in war. #gaza #wck #humanity
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 15/01/2024
Rethink masculinity
Dislodged urinals on the floor of a public bathroom
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 10/12/2023
Ok, have to admit, this came a bit as a surprise. Guess I have to work on my prompts - and Google Bard on its creativity skills. Prompt: "draw a portrait of a pirate"
Result of Google Bard prompt "draw a portrait of a pirate", showing a weird yellow smiley face
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 30/11/2023
Getting priorities right.
Triangle traffic sign depicting a cat and saying "caution cats crossing".
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 30/11/2023
On "Top of the World" (WFJ3+MC2)! First week with an e-bike and it's simply WOW! While I mostly speed way above the 25km/h support limit, uphill/ w wind the e-boost is a blessing. Con: in scenery I sometimes turn off the motor for silence. Thanks to EU and Malta for grants footing 70% of the bill.
Viewpoint "Top Of The World" in Malta
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Arved Gintenreiter @arvedgintenreiter.com · 17/11/2023
Without my bike life would be terribly inconvenient. Having a good day, no climb is too steep, no road too far. Speed past traffic jams, go shopping, into the countryside, to the beaches, all with zero emissions and a little workout for free. Healthier and way more rewarding than driving in a car.
My 30(?)yr old reliable companion
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