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Jennifer Durham

@feringermany.bsky.social
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Retired expat living In Munich. Former software developer. I'm an old hippie born and raised in the hills behind Stanford University.

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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is really funny, it does take a few minutes to warm up, but hang in there, it is worth it. bsky.app/profile/sepi...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
That was very funny! It took a while to warm up, so stick with it...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We go to the Krampus Run through Munich every year, and enjoy the traditional costumes. We are concerned that Krampus have been used to express antisemitic ideas. What do you think about this, in these times of a resurgence of antisem?
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Yes I get retirement benefits from both Germany and the US.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We have a lot to be thankful for.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our house is getting organized. It was really nice to celebrate thanksgiving with a few friends.
Thanksgiving celebration with friends Our living room The kitchen The dinner table
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It worked for, for a few years....
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Enjoying the Haderner Brauereifest
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I did finally receive approval for my Social Security benefits.. it took 6 months.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Yes, the US and DE have a treaty agreement for retirement benefits. I already receive a small amount from Germany from my 5 years of work here.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Well I received confirmation of receiving my retirement benefits from the US yesterday! Thank you government employees for helping me, in spite of being harassed by DOGE. It took 6 months from the time I applied for my benefits until I received them...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We are doomed... AI will destroy us with flattery. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
rollingstone.com
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
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Frederick Guy @frederickdguy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
frederickguy.com/2025/04/03/e...
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Europe should hit Trump right in the platform
As a business deal, Trump’s tariffs seem to make sense for Trump and Trump only: Trump, the shake-down artist. As many have pointed out, what the President gets out of this is a queue of CEOs…
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thanks @frederickdguy.bsky.social for sharing your economic analysis of what Europe can do to fight back.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Yes, let's go after the tech bros! frederickguy.com/2025/04/03/e...
frederickguy.com
Europe should hit Trump right in the platform
As a business deal, Trump’s tariffs seem to make sense for Trump and Trump only: Trump, the shake-down artist. As many have pointed out, what the President gets out of this is a queue of CEOs…
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Thanks, fortunately I can afford to wait. I'm being public about this because there are many people for whom this could be a terrible hardship.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
All they have is an email address, which they sometimes reply to...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I finally heard from the SSA. I applied for my retirement benefits more than 4 months ago. The nice woman sent my application on to Maryland for processing. I should get my benefits in 6 more Months! Elon really has slowed things down. It used to take 30 days to receive benefits after applying...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We took a little break from winter. We celebrated Ralph's birthday with a week in Madiera. Really lovely, and the food was excellent.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Unimaginable! Things are going downhillhill fast in the USA .
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
That is what they call the email...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It was great to have some sunshine and bike down to Starnberg see with friends.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The only Mexican food in Großhadern, is what my husband cooks...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrate Women today and everyday.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I sent emails two weeks ago. Called the Maryland office and was on hold for a long time until it hung up. I called the consulate in Frankfurt, but the benefits office there is completely separate, they gave me a number that only answers on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 - 12:00...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Spring is coming...
The beginnings of a bird's nest.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The attacks to academia are accelerating
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I applied for my social security 4 months ago.. I have heard nothing...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If you are in Munich and have access to an adequate smoker bbq, my husband makes killer ribs, pulled pork and brisket... He also makes awesome pies.. perhaps we could arrange a BBQ?
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ordering bread wrong sounds like an excellent goal.. even I can do that.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
They cancelled the big outdoor Fasching(carnival) party due to a car attack a week ago...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Finding a bit of Fasching in the Aussie Bar here in München.
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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Jack Watling and I take a look at what the requirements might look like for a European force in Ukraine. We find that this not an insurmountable task, but will require proper resourcing and difficult political choices. @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...
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Willpower, Not Manpower, is Europe’s Main Limitation for a Force in Ukraine - War on the Rocks
Following a dramatic meeting in the White House, U.S. military support for Ukraine is perilously uncertain. Sustaining Ukraine in this war, and
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There is also a fabric store and a wig store in the same building.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Who are they to tell another democratic country who they should have as their president...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Enjoying the sunshine and eating Krapfen instead of popcorn while watching the crazy things happening in the USA.
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Congresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 26/02/2025
The Republican budget is betrayal of the American people. In #MA3 alone, they’re targeting: ❤️‍🩹Over 200,000+ people who depend on Medicaid for health care 🍽️ Almost 130,000 people who rely on SNAP to afford dinner 🧑‍🧑‍🧒Over 100,000+ kids who need the Children's Health Insurance Program for care
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RalphinGermany @ralphingermany.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Found an AfD flyer in the ground on our dog walk in Munich. Did you know that the Alternativ für Deutschland's address is on SCHILLSTRASSE? Yes Shill Street.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ralph made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. The hard part is the sausage. Germans don't season sausage with sage... So Ralph gets unseasoned sausage and seasoned it himself.
Ralph smiles before he eats biscuits and gravy with fried eggs.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is an excellent response to Elon.. substack.com/@jaykuo/note...
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Jay Kuo on Substack
Elon Musk attacked democracy defender and superstar court lawyer Marc Elias as “undermining civilization,” taunting him by asking if he suffered “generational trauma.” Elias’s response was brilliant ...
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
ORAG eG Bayerische Schneidergenossenschaft Oberanger 9, 80331 München
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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#TeslaTakedown and the move from protest to resistance: hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
Man in suit with Musk mask and red Nazi-style armband with Twitter "X" in place of swastiki gives Nazi salute front of Tesla dealership.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Just like many other dictators. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook
US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The news is so crazy these days that I need a regular attitude adjustment...
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/02/2025
Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Some street art in Munich. A sustainable SUV.
Art in Munich. An SUV made of wood and burlap in the snow.Art in Munich. An SUV made of wood and burlap in the snow.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records
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Claire @clairesmith1848.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The Basic Law of Germany, Art 1: (1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority. (2) The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.
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Jennifer Durham @feringermany.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Airbräu Next to Heaven Terminal 2 – Gates G, H - Ebene 05, 85356 München-Flughafen There is also a Restaurant and Biergarten outside of security.
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