iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There was a time when I changed from Twitter (far too late) to @bsky.app that I thought I’d try to regain the same number of followers but frankly a) it’s not going to happen and b) I don’t even want it go any more. Sorry to say it but social media’s become so toxic I prefer to not even go there. 😕

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trump and Nutlick said we would be running a surplus by now because of tariffs. According to Trump, a trade deficit means other countries are “ripping us off.” I guess they are ripping us off even more under Trump.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Response to someone in the family whom I'd better not address directly about it: but a few more degrees on top of summer average temperatures in Germany won't make us 'die from heatstroke lol' (his words). What if it's not JUST the temperatures? www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers

Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@deutschebahn.com Wenn es heißt, in Zügen ohne Reservierungspflicht werden einem Sitzplätze automatisch zugeteilt, was dann aber nicht passiert, stimmt es dann laut dem netten Herrn am Telefon, dass wir dann eben keine Sitzplätze haben und notfalls stehen müssen? In der 1. Klasse? Im Ernst jetzt?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The best team won. The Orange One must hate it, seeing how Spain is such a thorn in his side. Bet he’s asking Infantilino to retrospectively annul the winning goal?

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think they’ll never start. Maybe I should go to bed.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

9:02 pm, still no kick-off. Infantilino out!

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It’s 9:01 pm and no kick-off yet. The Americans as hosts are great at boring/bombastic showmanship but they have no respect for football.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A black female singer, one of his citizens Trump least cares about, lowers herself to singing the US anthem at a match that the USA are not contesting. The world has gone utterly bonkers.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“It’s the surviving companies that will rehire, the others will have killed themselves with AI.” I like this statement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAge...

youtube.com

Companies are killing themselves with AI | David Gerard

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Die Stasi war schlimm. Was jetzt passieren soll, stellt die Stasi voll in den Schatten. Tut was dagegen, so wie die Ossis damals. www.campact.de/datenschutz/...

campact.de

Nein zum Palantir-Deal – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen

Die Polizei könnte die US-Überwachungssoftware Palantir bekommen. Stopp den Deal mit dem Trump-Vertrauten Peter Thiel.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The conflict between right of artistic expression and the right to privacy in public places appears to have been settled on appeal, at least in France, and the right of artisitic expression supersedes the right of an individual to not be photographed: genarobardy.com/blog/droit-a...

genarobardy.com

Photographie de rue et droit à l’image : peut-on tout publier sur Internet ? — Genaro Bardy

Le droit à l’image et les droits du photographe qui pratique dans la rue , ou dans tout autre lieu public, sont très mal compris. Un épisode récent d’une rencontre entre un photographe de rue et mon ...

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God @thegodshow.com · 21/03/2026

Thou shalt not buy oil from the foreigners you’re bombing and then claim to be “America First.”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Still loving my latest creation and enjoying the spring sunshine while starting to write the pattern for this shawl. #knitting

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 13/03/2026

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box. The Senate must reject this bill.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Thought on gen AI: we now have AI to replace humans by pretending to be them, writing and talking to other humans, then we have AI to 'humanise' the AI output, and finally we have AI to figure out that it was AI all along. Do we have no other urgent issues? Take care of the humans in your life. 🩵

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My latest shawl/throw, hot off the needle (and blocking mat). #knitting www.ravelry.com/projects/Jou...

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"While the U.S. has no permanent national repository yet, Canada, Sweden & Finland are taking innovative, consent-based approaches to create a final repository for their spent fuel inventories..." In short, NOBODY has a solution yet. www.nuclearinnovationalliance.org/sites/defaul...

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So European Commission President UvdL advocates for 'low emission' (but high-radiation) nuclear energy to secure energy supply especially in times of geopolitical tension. Genius! Why not build your enemies' nukes in your own country? They just need to hit them conventionally then!

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 04/03/2026

Dozens of wannabe EU translators who were forced last year to resit a grueling entry exam because of a technical blunder say they have now been incorrectly disqualified.

politico.eu

Would-be translators say EU botched their entry exams — again

“How is it so difficult to arrange a test?” asked one frustrated applicant.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I like to watch Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's Pivot podcast. That's where Scott first came up with the idea, at least that I know, and I am very glad to see it is gaining traction. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

resistandunsubscribe.com

Resist and Unsubscribe

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

There is always a tweet.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

To the US women ice hockey team: I take my hat off to your win and to the way you dealt with the Trump administration trying to use you to improve their ratings (which are the LOWEST in history, you've never seen anything like it). To the US men's ice hockey team: What were you thinking??????????

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

How can US ice-hockey players parading a deceased teammate's jersey be a 'beautiful gesture' and a Ukrainian skeleton rider wearing a helmet with uncommented pictures of dead teammates a 'political statement'? Did the politicisation of the helmet happen in the heads of the IOC who disqualified him?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Very powerful thread.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

So happy that First Felon pleaser Infantilino may be excluded from the IOC for being and wearing a First Felon supporting hat at the Board of Peace meeting.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"The Supreme Court has been swayed by foreign interests." (Trump on tariffs decision) 🤔

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/02/2026

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

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Sanktionsfrei @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

„Die Zitrone ist ziemlich ausgequetscht“ – Merz lehnt höheren Spitzensteuersatz ab Derweil die pralle Zitrone:

Studie beweist: Superreiche zahlen weniger Steuern als der Mittelstand
Die Zahl der Milliardäre nimmt zu. Gleichzeitig sinken die Steuersätze, die für Superreiche gelten. BMW-Erbin Susanne Klatten etwa zahlt einer Studie zufolge weniger Abgaben als der Durchschnittsbürger.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My hometown Halberstadt has its very own Olympic Champion now! Bravo, Georg Fleischhauer of the two-man bob team with Johannes Lochner! So proud. #MiCo2026

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I hope Jeff Bezos thinks the money he sunk on the leaden duck that is the Melania documentary (our French/American friends call it 'Rich housewives') was worth it, given how he single-handedly sinks an institution of respected journalism to please... whom?

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT receives 1 million prompts per week for local news and acknowledged that journalism is foundational infrastructure for AI systems.” Smart move culling WaPo journalists, Bezos.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I cancelled my WaPo subscription. You're welcome, Bezos.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If the UK Parliament goes on to investigate the Peter Mandelson connection through Global Counsel with the UK government contract going in direct award to Palantir, could the result change the UK government's view of AI in general or even topple the UK government? www.theregister.com/2026/01/28/m...

theregister.com

Britain's Ministry of Defence agrees deal with Palantir

: 'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Mark Rutte’s encouragement to NATO allies talking about less US involvement to ‘dream on’ is decidedly unhelpful, especially given that his ‘daddy’ had quite clearly told him and the European allies to take care of their own defence. 👎

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Glad to read this morning that Greg Bovino is not only leaving Minnesota but has been kicked out of his post altogether: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.com

Greg Bovino Loses His Job

The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Cowardly street execution of an ICU nurse and protester by masked and heavily armed ICE agents in the former 'beacon of democracy', the once-upon-a-time 'land of the free and the home of the brave'. 🤬

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Dear Apple: after the tone-deaf participation of Tim Cooke at Melania Trump's documentary launch while Ales Pretti, an ICU nurse, was executed in Minneapolis, I pledge to change my two MacBook Pros, one iPad, one iMac and two iPhones for non-American products as quickly as I can afford to.

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We have a new category in mental health: the mentally insane. Thank you, DJT. #POTUS #pressbriefing

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Slashed pharma prices by up to "400%". Again. As I said: madman's ramblings. #POTUS #pressbrief

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

OMG! Trump's one-year-in-office press conference is the ramblings of a madman!!!

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

@lequipedusoir.bsky.social How about the disallowed goal for Senegal only three minutes before the penalty for another fake foul?

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"Greenland is critical not only to our national security, but to the national security of the entire world.” A Yale law graduate said this. I thank him for giving me one moment of hilarity during this most worrying start to any year of my time on Earth.

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