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Christoph Sorg

@christophsorg.bsky.social
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Social scientist at Humboldt University Berlin | research project "capitalist planned economies" | interested in political economy and economic sociology | planning, (post-)capitalism, social movements, social reproduction, digitalization, debt+finance

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Future Histories LAB @futurehistories-lab.com · 18h
Excited to announce our media partnership with the 'Age of Planning?' conference at the @humboldtuni.bsky.social organized by @christophsorg.bsky.social, and with a Future Histories LIVE recording with @iliasalami.bsky.social and Dylan Riley. Find out more: buff.ly/ciCXIxB
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Great work on planning from @christophsorg.bsky.social @futurehistories.bsky.social @waltherzeug.bsky.social @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social and more get shout-outs (and will be discussed in greater detail in the German print edition)! Order here: www.oekom.de/buch/die-hal...
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Die halbe Erde | oekom verlag
Die Welt brennt - und die alten Antworten reichen nicht mehr. In einer Zeit, in der demokratische Institutionen weltweit unter Druck geraten und die
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Die Bundesregierung will per Gesetz eine Vergesellschaftung von Wohnungen unterbinden. Das widerspricht den Möglichkeiten, die Art. 15 Grundgesetz bietet. Dass die SPD dies mitträgt ist historisch bemerkenswert: Denn die SPD machte damals ihre Zustimmung zum Grundgesetz von Art. 15 GG abhängig.
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Tilo Jung @tilojung.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Madness
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Vielen Dank an @koheisaito.bsky.social und @christophsorg.bsky.social und alle, die unser Event am 11.06. möglich gemacht haben! Die aktuelle Episode von Future Histories ist die LIVE-Aufnahme dieses Events! Episode: buff.ly/QqrtWh1 Deutsche Version von 'Creative Construction': buff.ly/Dl7bUah
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INDEP @lndep.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
. @futurehistories.bsky.social has published a recording of Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress, where @koheisaito.bsky.social, @christophsorg.bsky.social and Jan Groos discussed how democratic economic planning can solve capitalism's crises. www.indep.network/future-histo...
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Future Histories Podcast Publishes Recording Of Creative Construction And The Struggle over Progress Event
The Future Histories podcast has published a recording of the event Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress that happened on Thursday 11th June from 7PM-9PM UTC+2 at the Thalia Theater.
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A new episode of Future Histories LIVE! This episode is a live recording of the book event that took place on June 11 at @nachtasyl_thaliatheater, where @koheisaito.bsky.social, @christophsorg.bsky.social and I discussed democratic planning in the 21st century. Full episode: buff.ly/QGieJEr
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INDEP @lndep.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our next online talk will be happening today from 3:30PM-5PM UTC+0, where @christophsorg.bsky.social will discuss the relationship between democratic economic planning, social reproduction, communal care, reproductive work and gender relations. www.indep.network/event/indep-...
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INDEP online Talk with Christoph Sorg - Planning and Social Reproduction: Communal Care, Revaluing Reproductive Work, and Gender Relations
This event will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here. This presentation builds bridges between the emerging literature on democratic planning and feminist political…
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today, we’re launching our first paper from the Green Planning Commission — Economic Coordination and the Limits of Markets — as an analytical foundation for why the next progressive agenda must be built around public coordination. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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Economic Coordination and the Barriers Private Market Coordination Poses to Realizing a Progressive Agenda
Private market coordination cannot deliver decarbonization or affordable essential provisions. Instead, public coordination must be the organizing logic of the next progressive agenda and the premise ...
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Whoop, whoop! Ich durfte mit @sebastianbaehr.bsky.social vom @freitag.de über öffentlichen Luxus, demokratische Planung und einiges mehr sprechen. zu finden hier: www.freitag.de/autoren/seba...
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Demokratische Planwirtschaft: Luxus für alle – Wie kann das funktionieren?
Jahrzehntelang galt Planwirtschaft als gescheitert. Doch angesichts von Klimakrise, Tech-Monopolen und politischer Blockade erlebt die Idee demokratischer Planung ein Comeback. Der Forscher Jan Groos ...
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Große Freude! Band 1 unseres Buchs 'Creative Construction - demokratische Planung im 21. Jhd.' ist seit gestern bei Brumaire auf Deutsch erhältlich! Zu finden hier: brumaireverlag.myshopify.com/products/cre... @christophsorg.bsk.social
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Donnerstag im Nachtasyl des Thalia Theaters Hamburg! @koheisaito.bsky.social, @christophsorg.bsky.social und ich (Jan Groos) diskutieren darüber, wie sich lebenswerte Zukünfte jenseits von Wachstumszwang und Katastrophismus entwerfen lassen. Eintritt frei! Infos hier: tinyurl.com/HamburgJune11
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I'll present some work-in-progress on a synthesis between feminist critical political economy and the new planning debate.
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INDEP @lndep.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Our next online talk will be happening on Thursday 18th June from 3:30PM-5PM, where @christophsorg.bsky.social will discuss the relationship between democratic economic planning, social reproduction, communal care, reproductive work and gender relations. www.indep.network/event/indep-...
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INDEP online Talk with Christoph Sorg - Planning and Social Reproduction: Communal Care, Revaluing Reproductive Work, and Gender Relations
This event will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here. This presentation builds bridges between the emerging literature on democratic planning and feminist political…
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Save the date! Am 11.6. diskutieren @koheisaito.bsky.social, @christophsorg.bsky.social und ich (Jan Groos) über die Krise klassischer Fortschrittserzählungen und wie sich lebenswerte Zukünfte jenseits von Wachstumszwang und Katastrophismus entwerfen lassen. Infos hier: tinyurl.com/HamburgJune11
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Heute!!!
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Corinna Dengler @corinna-viajera.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
My paper “Invisible Debts: A Feminist Ecological Economics Approach to Debts from Below” is now published (open access) in @feministeconomics.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Invisible Debts: A Feminist Ecological Economics Approach to Debts from Below
This article proposes a feminist ecological economics approach to debts, which, by means of making the hidden visible, critically (re-)assesses the question of who owes whom. It highlights the impo...
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Rodrigo Nunes (University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social) about ecologies of organization, the role of political parties, power, and democratic transformation. Link to the full episode: buff.ly/14N8Dms #FutureHistories#Podcast
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Buchvorstellung Creative Construction im Brechthaus, 07.05., 20 Uhr, mit @rabeaber.bsky.social. @ninascholz.bsky.social. und mir. Link zu Veranstaltung und Stream hier: lfbrecht.de/event/demokr... Wäre lieb wenn ihr das auf euren Kanälen teilen könntet :)
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Love the creativity and clarity coming from @moneyontheleft.bsky.social!
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🎟️ ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION @cmmonwealth.bsky.social’s Green Planning Commission is joining forces with @indep.bsky.social for a joint event on how we can translate green democratic planning from framework to policy. 🗓️ 14 April ⏰ 3PM UTC Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indepxgree...
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INDEPxGreen Planning Commission: Green Planning for Transition and Policy
INDEP and Common Wealth's GPC's explore how green democratic economic planning can be translated into concrete policy proposals.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/03/2026
‘Some of us may no longer be Habermassians, but we learned from, with and against him what it means to keep faith with critique.’ Nancy Fraser on the philosopher, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas
Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...
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California Public Banking Alliance @capublicbanking.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We’re all in and getting ready to launch #AB2243 the California State Bank bill championed by Assemblymembers Matt Haney & Ash Kalra! Public dollars should fund what communities need: housing, small business & climate solutions. More soon. Join 80+ orgs! forms.gle/6a17WCn7SDKX...
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
„Das, was Frauen in Beziehungen zermürbt, ist mit dem verwandt, was Frauen in Redaktionen, in Autos, in Hotelgängen, in Chatfenstern und auf Partys bedroht. Immer geht es um dieselbe Lektion: dass weibliche Grenzen dehnbar, weibliche Zeit verfügbar und weibliche Loyalität selbstverständlich seien.“
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So good!
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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin @karldietzberlin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Geht bald in Druck: unser neuer Analysen-Band »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« von Cédric Durand (Universität Genf) + Razmig Keucheyan (Universität Bordeaux), übersetzt aus dem Frz. Das Wirtschaftsmagazin Alternatives Economiques urteilte: »Bis heute eines der besten Bücher zur ökologischen Planung« /1
Buchcover von »Das Prinzip Verzweigung« von Cédric Durand und Razmig Keucheyan. Daneben steht der Untertitel des Buches – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – und ein Button mit Text: Coming Soon.
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Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Announcement! From now on, Future Histories alternates regularly between German and English episodes - every two weeks. You can find the English-only feed as Future Histories International on your favorite podcast platform or here: futurehistories-international.com
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Future Histories International
The podcast to expand our concept of the future.
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Gestern hab ich bekannt gegeben, dass ich spätestens 2028 aus der Wissenschaft aussteigen werd — darüber schreibt @evamurasov.bsky.social nun im @tagesspiegel.de. Zig Kommentare & Nachrichten zeigen mir: Sehr viele Wissenschaftler_innen hadern. Bedingungen müssen dringend besser werden! #IchBinHanna
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#IchbinHanna-Gründerin schmeißt hin: Amrei Bahr wurde Juniorprofessorin – und verlässt die Wissenschaft
Mit ihrem Einsatz für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen an Unis wurde Amrei Bahr bekannt und löste eine Bewegung aus, die das Wissenschaftssystem ändern will. Jetzt gab die Juniorprofessorin ihren Ausstieg a...
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Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If you talk to leading profs, who made their careers in the 1990s and 2000s, they'll all tell you that what's been happening since ca 2010 has stifled research in Germany, that they no longer recognize the universities they helped shape, and that they would & could no longer become profs today. 2/3
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In 1982, Hayek wrote a letter to Thatcher, suggesting that the UK should follow the example of Pinochet's Chile in implementing radical market reforms. Thatcher's response is quite telling.
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Solveig Degen @solveigdegen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚀Our research project launched its new website! check it out here: socializationproject.de
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Socialization in Theory and Practice – Democratizing Access to Land and Energy
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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
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Cédric Durand, Michel Aglietta, NLR 156, November–December 2025
A tribute to the founder of the Parisian Regulation School of heterodox economics, with its striking combination of elite statistical training, rich conceptualizations and long-range economic history....
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, is among the most clarifying books I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Really enjoyed my conversation with @alybatt.bsky.social — we cover nature, value, feminist economics, existentialism, freedom and more live now!
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today, focused on countering the failure of markets to address the twin crises of climate + affordability. I'm honoured to be one of its Commissioners. Check it out and follow their work! www.common-wealth.org/publications...
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Only Green Planning Can Address the Twin Crises of Climate and Cost of Living
Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining challenges.
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today! I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner
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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Here is @christophsorg.bsky.social giving a brilliant talk on economic planning.
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I'm in Berkeley/Santa Barbara most of winter semester for a couple of presentations and field work. Any suggestions for academics and activists appreciated. Also: The great @itsmccarthy.bsky.social has put together this event at UC Santa Cruz I'm really looking forward to.
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New podcast episode on the global expansion of state capitalism, the weakness of capital, the end of neoliberalism, techno-fascism,and progressive politics, with @bungacast.bsky.social, the global politics podcast at the End of the End of History. bungacast.com/2025/10/13/5... @campolis.bsky.social
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/515/ State Capitalism Is Now ft. Ilias Alami
On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not ju…
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨 The Land Question October 30-31, 2025 Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I'm so disappointed my book (funded by public money) was purchased by a rentier capitalist plattform registered in a tax haven. Open access file is not available anymore since today, but I uploaded it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Social Movements and the Politics of Debt
PDF | It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today with @itsmccarthy.bsky.social at Humboldt University main building, details on zoom in quoted post for Non-Berliners :)
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Matthias Schmelzer @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Out today: Freedom for Capital not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order @versobooks.bsky.social
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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Vielen Dank an @surplusmagazin.bsky.social für die Übersetzung unseres Artikels @benbraun.bsky.social www.surplusmagazin.de/usa-trump-fi...
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Trumponomics 2.0: Der Kampf um die amerikanische Finanzordnung
Die Finanzordnung der USA wankt. In Trumps zweiter Amtszeit kämpfen MAGA-Nationalisten, private Investoren und die Tech-Branche um Einfluss.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 16/08/2025
Andreessen: “Fälle, in denen mehrere Unternehmen … das Gefühl hatten, dass sie nur noch Stunden von gewalttätigen Unruhen auf ihrem eigenen Campus und durch ihre eigenen Angestellten entfernt waren.” 🤡 Wochenendlektüre? 👉 @cedricdurand.bsky.social & yours truly im neuen @surplusmagazin.bsky.social.
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