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bormaennchen

@bormaennchen.bsky.social
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Grown up behind the Iron Curtain, communication facilitator by profession, photographer by passion (www.thepictureangle.com), avid knitter, social media user since the noughties, intrigued by tech, anti-autocracy, pro-democracy

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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
… they will do more harm to the EU than the UK did with Brexit. I’m not sure who I should be pissed off with more right now. Even admitting that they have to do the tech overlords’ bidding to keep the jobs if they’re already not paying taxes. WEAK.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ireland is just doing its best to undo the EU and stabbing it in the back for the corporate tax privilege it got in order to dig itself out of the mortgage debt crisis. If they use their presidency to undo EU data protection and allow their biggest non-tax payers to scrape all our data for AI…
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I know I’m barking up the wrong tree as I took great solace from your post B-referendum Twitter coverage and I’m still on your side, although physically back in safety on the continent - but a blinkered and gullible majority said they wanted it like this.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It was nice while it lasted, though. Except we gave too much of ourselves away in the process.
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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 · 11/08/2026
The best revenge possible.
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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
Nobody ever accused him of being the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
With a SuperBowl half-time. Wrong sport. *red card for FIFA* *red card for Infantilino*
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Totally. National anthem of a country whose team is not on the pitch, excuse being host while ignoring co-hosts of the World Cup, kick-off six minutes late, camera team primed for celebrity spotting…effing annoying.
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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
If the hosts should have their anthems performed in addition to the teams playing the match, I am missing the Canadian and Mexican anthems.
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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 · 15/05/2026
Second time I voted in the GDR was at 22 years of age, still a student. PS: In East Germany, there were no tuition fees nor student loans but grants for every student sufficient to cover expenses, hence no need to job on the side, hence no need to pay tax.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Bravo, European Union. If you want to lose the European Parliament to the popunazis and the EU altogether, keep stopping EU citizens from voting in their EI country of residence. *really slow clap*
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Worse, the two times I voted in East Germany I never even paid tax yet as I was 18 and still in education. So in the 21st century, living in one of the most progressive places on Earth, I have never been allowed to vote on how my taxes would be spent in the country I lived and paid taxes in.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So despite the great promise of the European Union to allow EU citizens to live freely in any EU country, I have never been able to vote in the country I lived in and contributed to since East Germany was still an official country.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I paid tax all my working life till 2016 in the UK, since then I’ve done it in France. The only times I was allowed to vote in national elections of the country I lived in was in the German Democratic Republic, the last time in March 1990, being the only free elections in my country of birth.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Don’t give in to it! Easy for me to say but it’s not that obvious: in the EU I am not entitled to vote in national elections in the country I live in (France). I have to ask permission to vote in national elections in my country of origin as I left to live in the EU more than 25 years ago.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hope so. And I hope that at some point men will volunteer to compensate for what women do to keep humanity going so that both sexes will be valued equally in society, independent of their bank account statements. And yes, there is value beyond money.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Those two are men, and the worst men one could think of in such a position. Women should be taking as much comfort from that as they should take offence to it.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
That’s a very easy one. He’s been lying since January 2017. In a presidential role, J mean. I’m sure he’d had previous experience.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Den Ossi-Kommentar konnte ich mir nicht verkneifen, weil wir ja angeblich die unqualifizierten und faulen Säcke sind und noch dazu offensichtlich politisch immer total falsch liegen.
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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/...
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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
Except in Kyoto, where due to disrespectful behaviour by tourists it is now against the law to take pictures of geishas in the street without their consent, otherwise one could get fined. However, Kyoto is full of other people in kimonos. :-)
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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...
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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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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
You think they are smart enough?
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Like Farage seemingly conceding defeat on TV half an hour before final Brexit referendum result. Weird what happened to the £ then.
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/un...
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Unabhängigkeit von Trump und Co.? Unbezahlbar!
Europa braucht eigene Lösungen. Der digitale Euro ist ein wichtiger Schritt für unsere Unabhängigkeit. Doch um ihre Gewinne zu sichern, versuchen insbesondere Banken dieses Projekt zu schwächen. Das d...
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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Totally agree. Pathetic and scumbag.
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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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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I did my bit for the Paris results. :-)
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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
It's only been around 75 years since the first nuclear power stations have started operating, and still nobody knows quite what to do with the highly toxic waste.
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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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bormaennchen @bormaennchen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“per seat licensing sucks if seats are hit by job losses” I had this thought for a few years but never managed to put it quite so succinctly. Thank you, Georg Zoeller aka the Attention Economist. www.linkedin.com/posts/georgz...
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Nah, it’s Google saying, “sorry, we’re done pretending we don’t own the user”, which AI forced, their own transformer paper bring turned into an attack against their search monopoly by OpenAI with… | ...
Nah, it’s Google saying, “sorry, we’re done pretending we don’t own the user”, which AI forced, their own transformer paper bring turned into an attack against their search monopoly by OpenAI with sca...
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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 · 02/03/2026
I may be old-fashioned but people who keep talking over everyone else are just rude.
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