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Eike Pierstorff

@eikepierstorff.bsky.social
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I do not know how to make a cogent argument in 300 characters and don't really like tit-for-tat, so I am not sure what I am doing here. Also I am a lefty who likes dogs and science and home cooked food.

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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Every 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.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
There 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.
Screenshot of a NYT article stating that researcher struggle to explain an alleged left wing bias in AI chatbots.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am pretty sure my dog's autobiography will be titled "I wanted food and all they gave me was love".
Picture of a mid sized blonde dog staring upwards in expectation of some food that may or may not come.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2025
Noem 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...
Graphic highlighting the suspension of FEMA staff who criticized Trump, featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in 'Make America Great Again' hat with 'America' crossed out to say 'Disasters'.
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Jan-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."
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Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany
Jan-Werner Mueller worries that the governing Christian Democrats is beginning to engage in opportunistic norm-breaking.
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Homo heidelbergensis @staudner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Bluesky 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.
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L’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...
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Maddow: 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...
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
At least someone is happy here.
Picture of a dog rolling in the gras on a summer day.
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Congratulations 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... #Astronomy
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UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A 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,"
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Nicole Diekmann @nicolediekmann.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
„Mit Berichterstattung gedroht.“ Stark.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
On 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.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In a crazy world, at least I have a lovely dog by my side.
A picture of my dog, a lovely mid sized mutt, as she is standing on a rural train station and waiting with me for the train.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
German 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...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dear god let this man cook.
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Eine 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.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Confession Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/confes...
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In 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?
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Fantastic and necessary piece from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social (deleted earlier post because typo) stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
Here’s the truth: White Americans — white men especially — who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool because of gender and racial discrimination; who have long enjoyed access to neighborhoods and networks, jobs, clubs, and government programs that systematically excluded others; and who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth — have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action in this country.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/04/2025
Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)
"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if the child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I 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.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I 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.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
It'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
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
As 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.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I 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...
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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...
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Ukraine: Merz will Ukraine erst nach Kriegsende in EU und Nato aufnehmen
Der designierte Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hält an der EU- und Nato-Beitrittsperspektive der Ukraine fest. Aber nur, wenn dort Frieden herrscht.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Because they made them in their own imagine, presumably. velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
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Why 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...
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I 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.
A picture of Easter-themed sweets.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I 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.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Judge 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...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
good AI art doesn't exi—
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Nikki Petersen @nikki-m.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My 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.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
And 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_...
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I 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.
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 29/03/2025
Teuer und schädlich: Subventionen für fossile Brennstoffe #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If you are making a list of "shittiest holidays", I want to nominate "wedding anniversaries for widowers".
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Dr. rer. nat. Dennis Eckmeier @denniseckmeier.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Two pieces of misinformation, "Solar power hasn't taken off, yet" and "What about the Chinese", can be countered with a single graph:
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
An Oscar-winning director is attacked and then disappeared. Time for the international film community to step up. apnews.com/article/no-o...
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists say
Activists 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.
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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 24/03/2025
Abendliche Astronomie gefällig? Wir sind auf Sendung!
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
One of those must read things. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/social-sec...
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Social Security: A Time for Outrage
Trump’s policies attack his own base — but who will tell them?
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Mattia Nelles @mattian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Polish Magazine Wprost has another great cover, kudos!
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Keker, Van Nest & Peters @kekerllp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Our 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.”
“Trump’s new Executive Order underscores how far removed this President, Attorney General and Administration are from our nation’s Constitution and bedrock values. Our liberties depend on lawyers’ willingness to represent unpopular people and causes, including in matters adverse to the Federal Government. An attack on lawyers who perform this work is inexcusable and despicable. Our profession owes every client zealous legal representation without fear of retribution, regardless of their political affiliation or ability to pay. We encourage law firm leaders to sign on to an amicus effort in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to the Administration’s executive order targeting the firm, and to resist the Administration’s erosion of the rule of law.” 
– John Keker, Robert Van Nest, Elliot Peters, Laurie Carr Mims, and the Keker, Van Nest & Peters Partnership
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is incredible. I think the bright star is Venus, and the one directly between Earth and the Sun is Mercury.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18/03/2025
Yesterday, 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...
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GOP state Sen. Justin Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with a 16-year old girl • Minnesota Reformer
Eichorn’s arrest complicates efforts by Senate Republicans to expel DFL Sen. Nicole Mitchell from the upper chamber.
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Okay, 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...
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I started (with) a joke
After ten years without a blog, trying to get back into the habit by making fun of unfunny (but ridiculous) people. Also featuring a planet.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It was that danged woke liberal Renchburg guy I just knew it
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Eike Pierstorff @eikepierstorff.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I do not understand stock market language. 10% down is a correction, but 2% up again is "soaring"?
A screenshot from the CNBC website. It says "The S&P 500 closed in a correction on Thursday, down more than 10% from its record high in late February. It then soared 2% on Friday as investors snapped up beaten-up technology shares".
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Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The 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.
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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 15/03/2025
Bislang 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.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This 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
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