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radical idealist. probably stressed out. definitely oversharing. UX, science, societal issues & empathy.

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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
omg I love rewatching things because how Luke saw Rory and Lorelai pass the diner at the end of episode 2 and then closes up because he keeps the diner open longer just for them ??? and i never noticed 😭 #gilmoregirls #s1e2
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Outlander is way more horny than I had imagined.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
after having to watch pride and prejudice in german last week and cringing a little over the translation, but realizing this could have been PERFECT, I.. - 've read the entire thing in english - watched the 1995 bbc series (1,5 times) - rewatched the movie in english I think I'm going MAD!!!!
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
the last two days I have been sparkling with productivity and joy, which is a very uncommon thing right before my period. turns out —you know how deadly sick people get an energy surge before they die? 😭
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Peter Magulski @magulski.com · 29/03/2025
Größere Schlagzeilen in 🇬🇧 Medien als in 🇩🇪. »#Russia could be behind migrant #terror attacks« »German intelligence officials are exploring the theory that #Russia sought to recruit mentally ill and/or extremist asylum seekers« www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Russia could be behind migrant terror attacks, German investigators fear
The goal, security sources say, is to increase support for far-Right, pro-Kremlin AfD
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I've never been this unhappy with my opportunities. Is it because they can't make me happy, or is it because I had the perfect thing, and everything else is not the same?
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yeahhhhh there's a reason why I won't travel to the US, and it's the same reason why I won't travel to russia.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"System features that are conducive to the minority to majority effect do not deterministically set specific outcomes, but they offer political elites both the resources to constrain democratic practices and the incentives to do so."
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Militant Democracy and the Minority to Majority Effect: on the Importance of Electoral System Design | European Constitutional Law Review | Cambridge Core
Militant Democracy and the Minority to Majority Effect: on the Importance of Electoral System Design - Volume 18 Issue 3
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Consumer boycotts were very effective and played an important role in ending South Africa's Apartheid, if anyone is wondering why Elon is especially pissed about people not buying Tesla.
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Syria Notes @syrianotes.org · 12/03/2025
Sectarian disinformation from Iraq … “They give me the posts, and I publish,” the social media user told DW. “I trust my leadership very much, and they are the ones who verify the news,” the person explained, adding they’re paid between $20 and $30 for their online posts. www.dw.com/en/how-disin...
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How disinformation intensified Syria's weekend of violence – DW – 03/11/2025
Over the weekend, Syria saw its worst violence since the end of the dictatorship — along with significant social media disinformation. AI fakes and manipulated historical images online inflamed the re...
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
another thing I just read: capitalism relies on people having children not only because they need workers for their infinite growth, but also because parents are easy to control. Parents can't afford to take risks and challenge the system in fear of repercussions.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
my to do list is piling up with things that are so emotionally draining for my assumed audhd brain but the absolute worst is that my ex bf is still using our shared bank account like his personal credit card after over a f*ing year and there's nothing I can do about it.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today on Linkedin: "I started to ask my clients how they'd define success in what we're doing and now they're much happier" like what else have you been talking about at kick-off if not what you're going to do??? ffs #ux #design #linkedin
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
there are many things that make me randomly emotional. today it's learning (again) about the Scully Effect.
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"Ich bin kein Held, ich bin Muslim" - A. Muhammad, der sich dem rechtsextremen Terroristen von Mannheim in den Weg stellte. Wäre ja echt nicht schlecht, wenn sich christliche Deutsche da mal ne Scheibe von abschneiden würden. Soll ja sogar ne Partei geben, die sich als christlich bezeichnet.
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Emaldrien de Argutus @emaldrien.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Es gibt zwei Sorten von Menschen auf der Welt. Die einen hätten gerne, dass es allen Menschen gut geht. Die anderen hätten gerne, dass es allen Menschen schlechter geht als ihnen. Wenn man das einmal verstanden hat, ergibt so vieles plötzlich einen Sinn.
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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 08/03/2025
Zum #Weltfrauentag ein Reminder, dass vieles im Leben kein Nullsummenspiel ist. Was gut für jemanden ist, muss nicht schlecht für jemand anderen sein - und umgekehrt. Trumps Strafzölle z.B. sind schlecht für sein Land UND für seine Nachbarn. Feminismus hingegen ist gut für Frauen UND für Männer.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
In this economy, is it crazy to refuse a job that is stable and literally falling into your hands?
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Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Merke: Täter, die Ali heißen, sind Islamisten, Täter, die Alexander heißen, sind psychisch krank. Deswegen heißt es beim einen: Grenzen zu, beim anderen heißt es: 🤷‍♂️
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Andrietta🇪🇺🇺🇦Nazis quälen, Grüne wählen‼️💚💚💚 @andriettaporete.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Eine Übersicht über US Produkte und das EU Pendant ‼️
Eine Übersicht von US Produkten und dem europäischen Pendant.
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JimfromNY @dissentinator.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Hot dog guy meme”
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Next time someone tells me I'm for sure skinnier than last time they saw me, I'll show them my Oreo Shake, Cannoli & Macarons breakfast
The background shows the interior of a car. A woman photographs her breakfast on her lap - a brown lunchbag, on it a vanilla cannoli. She holds an oreo milkshake in her left hand. It's a beautiful day.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/03/2025
Whenever a man shows you charts and graphs about how people with kids are happier than people without kids, ask him to show you the same data sliced by gender. Even if that man is me!🙂 Because considering men / women, and people with/without kids, the happiest demographics, is "women without kids"
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I've been taught to repress my feelings so much that once I was so mad and frustrated in an interaction that I developed my first and worst and only migraine in my life without losing calm for one second.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you don't want to see posts made through #flashes in your regular #bluesky experience, mute the tag "flashes-app-ln3348nvl89" in your moderation settings :)
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...
Then she asked me a question I hadn’t considered before. What is the difference between a bias and expertise?

In a previous newsroom she worked in, there were a few people who had pilots’ licenses. When a plane crash happened, those people were looked to as experts. Similarly, newsrooms seek to hire people with military experience, seeing that as expertise as opposed to bias. Many news outlets sent reporters to cover Hurricane Maria who were either Puerto Rican or had lived in Puerto Rico. Ho believes she’s a better business reporter because she worked in banking for three and a half years.

So why do we consider some lived experiences — being a woman, being a person of color, being queer, having had an abortion — biases, and others expertise?

From: https://longreads.com/2018/03/29/is-journalism-a-form-of-activism/
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I just read someone's comment how criticising a meeting of all white men was reducing them to their external qualities and thus the same thing they were criticising and it's just so funny to me that they can't understand the simplest issues and still think they're superior
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This woman just shoved her phone in my face when she was leaving the tram. Her notes said "Amazing outfit ❤️". Man I love women.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I think next I'll test the picture viewers for bsky. Wasn't really amazed by #pixelfed because it was a bit buggy/slow and felt sad. Who can recommend #pinksky or #flashes or sth similar? why?
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
constantly torn between trying to be more positive and coping with things by talking about them. this makes me especially fun to be around, as I can laugh while saying very sad things
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 26/02/2025
Here are all the tech companies rolling back DEI or still committed to it — so far
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Here are all the tech companies rolling back DEI or still committed to it — so far
Companies around America have started cutting DEI programs and eliminating DEI commitments from public documents in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the…
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Campact e.V. @campact.de · 26/02/2025
Natürlich gibt es klare regionale Unterschiede, und der Rechtsruck und der erstarkende Faschismus dürfen nicht kleingeredet werden. Aber es macht einen Unterschied, welche Karten wir zeigen. Die Realität ist bunter, als es die Schwarz-Blauen Wahlergebnis-Karten vermuten lassen. ✊💕
Die alternative Darstellung aus Bild 1 ist hier vergrößert dargestellt. Eine detaillierte Deutschlandkarte mit bunten Symbolen für Wähler:innen zeigt die realistische Bevölkerungsverteilung. Der Titel „Hier nochmal in groß“ hebt die genauere Perspektive hervor. Quelle und Campact-Logo unten.
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Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Angela Merkel Bundestagswahl 2017: 32,9% nach 12 Jahren CDU-Regierung. Friedrich Merz Bundestagswahl 2025: 28,9% (circa) nach 3 Jahren Ampel-Regierung. Stark.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
OTOH if you are willing to debate "what is the right amount of genocide" then you are welcome on the truck
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is THE thing that centrists fall for every time. The runaway truck might be headed in the direction you like on immigration, regulation, etc, but its goals aren't *actually*aligned with yours because it's ultimately headed off a cliff. Waiting to hit the brakes at the "right time" won't work.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Of course I visited the Grandparents from Hell today, because obviously I act purely out of obligation. It might seem at first like they're suffering from dementia, them being 89 and all. But throughout the conversation it becomes clear that they had an agenda for today's conversation.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
today on Grandparents from Hell: apparently calling on the birthday is wrong. calling two days before the birthday to congratulate became the right way to do it.
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DemokraTEAM @demokrateam.org · 20/02/2025
Wahl-Endspurt: 160 Demos am Freitag und Samstag! Alle Details unter demokrateam.org/brandmauer 💜
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Brandmauer Demos gegen Rechts
Finde Brandmauer Demos gegen Rechts in deiner Nähe.
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Fridays for Future Germany @fridaysforfuture.de · 20/12/2024
Lasst uns auf die Straßen gehen, die Debatte zurückerobern und gemeinsam für eine lebenswerte Zukunft kämpfen. Deshalb rufen wir zum bundesweiten Klimastreik vor der Wahl auf – am Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 überall in Deutschland!
save the date - 14.02. klimastreik
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I once asked a lead designer what other accessibility features they wanted to implement besides a few basics, and they just listed more basics 😭 Their initial request sounded so complicated, I didn't know what to respond after this. I will never recover from this, they think I know nothing.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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On Joe Rogan’s podcast — where male brain cells go to die — he recently decried Facebook’s old fact-checking policies as “like something from 1984”, and railed against his platform’s censorship of covid-19 misinformation. 

This he did with all the easy patter of someone taking part in a memory test, reciting each buzzy talking point as if it was a mnemonic he’d been taught to remember the names of Henry VIII’s wives.

Has there ever been a less convincing agitator for his own interests than Mark Zuckerberg? Even now, dressing in XXXL tees and gold necklaces and hair his small army of stylists and design consultants have decided should make him look exactly like a Bafta, he seems as robotic and mannered as he ever did. Musk speaks like a man who believes his own insane conspiratorial guff, because he does. For years, we’ve watched as the most malodorous portions of the internet have fully infected his brain and transformed his entire personality.

Zuck avoided this fate by not having a personality to begin with. It is difficult to imagine him holding a strong view on anything, for much the same reason it is difficult to imagine him enjoying a poem or a sandwich. It would be like attributing sentiment to a set of venetian blinds. There is simply nothing there.
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
23.02.25 ist #Bundestagswahl. Geht #wählen und sammelt Freunde und Familie ein. ❤️ Das Schild ist von letztem Jahr, aber die Message ist die gleiche. FYI: #Nichtwähler sind die stärkste Kraft und können noch einiges Bewirken, auch und vor allem für die kleinen Parteien.
Demonstration against the AfD far-right party in Germany (January 2024). People are standing on a small-town square. In the center a woman holds a sign over her head that says "Wählen gegen Rechts" ("Voting against the Right"). Another person shows her sign on the left, which says "Streut mehr Glitzer auf braune Gedanken" ("Pour more glitter on brown thoughts"). They're coming together in community.
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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 30/01/2025
Bilder des Tages – beeindruckende Fotos aus Deutschland und aller Welt www.der-postillon.com/p/bilder-des-…
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Das Problem mit dem Aufweichen oder Abschaffen von Grundrechten ist, dass es der Willkür der Faschisten den Weg ebnet. Das Problem ist nicht, dass man schwere Straftaten nicht bestrafen will. Sondern dass die Faschisten "schwere Straftaten" definieren können, wie sie wollen. #grundrechte #cdu
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Und das ist total realistisch. Siehe die Lehrerin, die ihr Referendariat vielleicht nicht antreten darf, weil sie "Profitmaximierung" schlecht findet.
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abgeordnetenwatch @abgeordnetenwatch.de · 29/01/2025
Ein für heute geplantes Treffen des Digitalausschusses im Bundestag mit Meta, X und TikTok fällt aus. Grund: Meta und TikTok haben angeblich niemanden, der für sie kommen könnte, schreibt Politico. Thema sollte die Umsetzung des Digital Services Act sein www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Oh no, a company was wildly overvalued, and finance bros didn't calculate that tech innovations get cheaper and more accessible over time. What a shocking surprise. #stockmarket #nvidia #ai
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hi! it's me. @askaboutmytrauma.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
idk why I thought bluesky would be better for my mental health. the world is still the same
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A QA tester walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Crawls into a bar. Dances into a bar. Jumps into a bar. And orders a beer. 2 beers. 0 beers. 99999999 beers. -1 beer. "qwertyuiop" beers. Testing complete. A real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar goes up in flames.
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