Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Every 20th of July, Germany honours, as examples of "the better Germany", the guys who literally planted a bomb for the head of state, so opposition to political violence does not have to be absolute but can be measured in degrees of separation to Adolf Hitler. Still, better don't shoot people. 000
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025There is no mystery here. Per conservative ideology, the world is created via an act of will by a person with a penis. Contradicting this by claiming that there are things such as facts or science or objective reality makes you in their eyes automatically a left wing radical. 010
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I am pretty sure my dog's autobiography will be titled "I wanted food and all they gave me was love". 010
Reposted by Eike PierstorffStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2025Noem and Trump's actions are a recipe for disaster🚨 Join us in standing up against Noem and Trump in the name of the Katrina Declaration dissenters — add your name to our Statement of Solidarity and Support ⬇️ www.standupforscience.net/katrina-decl... 311836
Reposted by Eike PierstorffJan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"The sabotaging of what normally is a consensual procedure is a test-run for prying away ever more members of the center-right from what remains of Angela Merkel’s legacy through US-style culture war."project-syndicate.orgRight-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to GermanyJan-Werner Mueller worries that the governing Christian Democrats is beginning to engage in opportunistic norm-breaking. 15023
Reposted by Eike PierstorffHomo heidelbergensis @staudner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Bluesky do your magic. I found this chain on 8.8.25 on the ascent to the Col de la Bonnette in the Alps. A pet name is engraved on the side. Anyone who knows it will get it back. 55069
Reposted by Eike PierstorffL’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025“We’re beyond waiting and seeing now…” “We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.” And we are against it. So we’ll fight Abbott in TX. We’ll fight masked kidnappers, we’ll fight extortion in the WH, and quisling Republicans in Congress. #MessWithTexas www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...msnbc.comMaddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months of authoritarian rule. "We have a consolidating d... 8482208
Reposted by Eike PierstorffJodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Congratulations to Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the UK's Astronomer Royal – the first woman to hold the position in its 350-year history! 🔭✨ 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Astronomybbc.co.ukUK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 yearsProf Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post. 210518
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 29/06/2025A character in Chesterton's "Flying Inn" was a journalist nicknamed "Higgs However" who owed his name to being so dedicated to "balanced reporting" he put forward that "whatever we may think of the rights and wrongs of the vivisection of pauper children," 100
Reposted by Eike PierstorffNicole Diekmann @nicolediekmann.bsky.social · 19/05/2025„Mit Berichterstattung gedroht.“ Stark. 2841878
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025On the state of evidence based medicine: a doctor basically accused me being a junkie for taking medication a colleague of his had prescribed. Still convinced of a scientific approach, but sometimes I understand people who "do their own research" because irl there seems a lot of guesswork anyway. 000
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 08/05/2025In a crazy world, at least I have a lovely dog by my side. 030
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025German AfD was designated "gesichert rechtsextremistisch", "assuredly right wing extremist", by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Now parliament or government would have to go to court to have them banned. Not holding my breath here. www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...verfassungsschutz.dePressePresse 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Dear god let this man cook. 10968172117337
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Eine Einrichtung, in der meine verstorbene Frau vorübergehend untergebracht war, heuerte offenbar gezielt Pflegerinnen aus dem Ausland an, um ihnen dann erst mitzuteilen, dass sie bis zur Anerkennung nur mit reduziertem Gehalt als Helferinnen arbeiten dürfen. Keine Ahnung, ob das branchenüblich ist. 010
Reposted by Eike PierstorffZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Confession Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/confes... 817519
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025In one of his AMAs, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social suggested Google scholar as one step in a process to ascertain if a person is an expert in their field. How do I weigh popular science books against peer reviewed papers? What if the books meant for laypersons have more citations than the papers? Wdyt? 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffLily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Fantastic and necessary piece from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social (deleted earlier post because typo) stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w... 181189241
Reposted by Eike PierstorffDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/04/2025Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...) 14993337
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I am watching recipes on Youtube and somebody instructed their audience to cook something „on the high end of low medium“ and now I am thoroughly confused. 000
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I have now been taking #methylphenidate for three months. I don't feel better anymore when I am taking it, I just feel a lot worse when for a day or two I don't. Is that how it is supposed to feel? That would be not so great. 000
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025It's been almost three months now that I last bought at Amazon. This was not even meant as a politicial statement, just an attempt at keeping a budget. Not being exposed to one click buy buttons did save a lot of money. If I compare prices first, I often end up not buying at all. So it does 1/2 100
Reposted by Eike PierstorffZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025As long as universities continue to have their main role be "ticket to middle class," it'd be insane to expect them to serve classical liberal education functions. It's too late, but I think things would be a lot better if job-prep and preserving the Great Conversation were separate institutions. 1414418
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I frankly write as therapy (trying to restart a brain fried by trauma) and not for an audience, but if anyone in the US wants a gratituous outside view on Trumps idea of indiscriminate reshoring, here it is. open.substack.com/pub/eikepier... 000
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025"Ukraine is a country at war, and a country at war cannot become member of either EU or NATO". Merz, if he even is elected German chancellor, is not in strong position so this might just be moderating expectations, but I guess many people expected more from Germany. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...zeit.deUkraine: Merz will Ukraine erst nach Kriegsende in EU und Nato aufnehmenDer designierte Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hält an der EU- und Nato-Beitrittsperspektive der Ukraine fest. Aber nur, wenn dort Frieden herrscht. 010
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Because they made them in their own imagine, presumably. velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...velvetshark.comWhy do AI company logos look like buttholes?A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t... 010
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025I recently helped a local facility for neglected children with books and writing materials. If they don't have money for pencils, Easter is probably not in the budget as well, but no worries, I got them covered. 000
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I am right now watching "Margin Call" as a reminder of the happier times when it actually took a multitude of greedy stupid people to make the stock market crash. Those were the days. 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, says the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a "path of perfect lawlessness." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 7845061190
Reposted by Eike Pierstorffshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 06/04/2025good AI art doesn't exi— 241527175
Reposted by Eike PierstorffNikki Petersen @nikki-m.bsky.social · 04/04/2025My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too. 8231201133
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025And sometimes there are still little things that make me happy, such as finding a @seanmcarroll.bsky.social talk on youtube that I have not seen yet. For a brief moment I'm filled with the unbridled optimism that I might understand what this is about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOW_...youtube.com 010
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I did that and lost weight because I skipped meals without eating more in my designated "eating time". It visibly did not slow down aging nor boosted my cognition, but I still don't have cancer, so one out three. I stopped because cultivating neurotic eating habits felt worse than a few pound extra. 010
Reposted by Eike PierstorffParents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 29/03/2025Teuer und schädlich: Subventionen für fossile Brennstoffe #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen 07635
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025If you are making a list of "shittiest holidays", I want to nominate "wedding anniversaries for widowers". 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffDr. rer. nat. Dennis Eckmeier @denniseckmeier.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Two pieces of misinformation, "Solar power hasn't taken off, yet" and "What about the Chinese", can be countered with a single graph: 34218
Reposted by Eike PierstorffHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/03/2025An Oscar-winning director is attacked and then disappeared. Time for the international film community to step up. apnews.com/article/no-o...apnews.comOscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists sayActivists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military. 1227123
Reposted by Eike PierstorffMarkus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 24/03/2025Abendliche Astronomie gefällig? Wir sind auf Sendung! 0104
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025One of those must read things. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/social-sec...paulkrugman.substack.comSocial Security: A Time for OutrageTrump’s policies attack his own base — but who will tell them? 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffMattia Nelles @mattian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The Polish Magazine Wprost has another great cover, kudos! 014465
Reposted by Eike PierstorffKeker, Van Nest & Peters @kekerllp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.” 33355971506
Reposted by Eike PierstorffPhil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This is incredible. I think the bright star is Venus, and the one directly between Earth and the Sun is Mercury. 416725
Reposted by Eike PierstorffAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18/03/2025Yesterday, a Republican state lawmaker in Minnesota named Justin Eichorn introduced a new bill he coauthored to legally define "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a "mental illness" in the state. Later in the day, he was arrested. For what, you ask? For this: minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...minnesotareformer.comGOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl • Minnesota ReformerEichorn’s arrest complicates efforts by Senate Republicans to expel DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell from the upper chamber. 42582179
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Okay, blogging is called "creating a publication" now but whatever. I used to like writing until by brain got fried by trauma, so I will try to revive the old habit. This is opinionated and insubstantial, but then it's probably for my sake rather than yours anyway. open.substack.com/pub/eikepier...open.substack.comI started (with) a jokeAfter ten years without a blog, trying to get back into the habit by making fun of unfunny (but ridiculous) people. Also featuring a planet. 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It was that danged woke liberal Renchburg guy I just knew it 481510311
Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I do not understand stock market language. 10% down is a correction, but 2% up again is "soaring"? 000
Reposted by Eike PierstorffJonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 16/03/2025www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...newyorker.comHundreds of Thousands Will DieThe writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world. 0143
Reposted by Eike PierstorffMarkus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 15/03/2025Bislang ergibt eine Suche "site:tagesschau.de "Fabian Schmidt"" noch keine Treffer, die auf diese Story passen. Wenn man bedenkt, was uns sonst von der Tagesschau so als Eilmeldung geliefert wird, etwas sonderbar. 69529
Reposted by Eike PierstorffRachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH 7072653910659