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Jens Wiechers

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📨j@wch.rs 🗣️he/they 💼Herding Shibes 🧑‍💻information security, data science 📚int'l relations, IHL/LOAC, statistics ❤️ISO 8601 💜ISO 216 💛ISO 3166-1

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 17/06/2026
Counsel wishes to tender the post-heroic suggestion that inserting protective exceptions into the Promethean framework indicated is a Herculean, Sisyphean, ultimately Danaidean task that will not avert the Damoclean sword hanging above client's head, nor in any way addresses daily predation by eagle
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/06/2026
ISO Standard for Today: ISO 8601. Today is: 2026-06-13. Valentine’s Day is on 2027-02-14. Only P246D away. ISO 8601. The authoritative dating standard.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/06/2026
Friend at UK BigLaw sometimes helps us out pro bono & she is my bureaucratic soul mate. Her: "I first told you so on [...]" *paper rustling* She & I, at same time: 21st of February, 2025, [her:] just before tea/ [me:] around 7pm your time, [both:] via Signal."
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 12/06/2026
New idea to expand my ISO Standards bit: ISO Standard for Today. Starting, of course, with ISO 8601. *The* ISO Standard for *Today.* Today is: 2026-06-12 Valentine’s Day is on 2027-02-14. Only P247D away. ISO 8601. The authoritative dating standard.
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New per MEE: -Only application filed is for Smotrich (2 April): war crimes (displacement, transfer of settlers into occupied territory)+CAH (displacement, persecution, apartheid) -Last wk, prosecutors reviewed 2 more, incl Ben Gvir, but they have yet to be filed www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: ICC prosecutor's office seeks arrest warrant for Israel's Smotrich
Charges sought against Israeli finance minister over West Bank occupation include crime of apartheid against Palestinians
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 18/05/2026
I would quibble with a few details here, but excellent article nonetheless.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 15/05/2026
I contain literary multitudes. ... They *may*, admittedly, tend towards being cat shaped.
Screenshot of an Audible library on a phone, dark mode, showing six audiobook entries:
1. The Book of the Night with Moon by Diane Duane — currently playing, 4h 8m left. Cover shows a black cat under an ornate title.
2. Starter Villain by John Scalzi — Finished. Cover is a close-up of a grey tabby's face. Tagged "LESEN & HÖREN" (read & listen).
3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip G[abriel] — Finished. Cover is a stylized illustration of a figure with an umbrella above and a cat walking below, split across pink and green panels.
4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, new translation by Michael Karpelson — Finished. Cover shows cartoonish figures including a large black cat holding a pistol.
5. Kitty Cat Kill Sat by Argus — Finished. Cover shows a cat in a spacesuit-style frame against a starfield.
6. The Book of the Night with Moon again, shown as the currently-active player entry at the bottom.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/05/2026
Keir Starmer's fundemental problem is that the most realistic gains to be had in terms of the UK-EU relationship were in just not being fucking weird and pointlessly antagonistic... and Rishi Sunak kind of did that already. Everything else is long, slow, complex, incremental and politically hard.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 09/05/2026
The two kinds of reaction(mass)less pseudo-drives: fans & scales Electrostatic lifter? Fan. EmDrive? Scale. Mach-effect thruster? Scale. Q-thruster? Usually scale, occasionally fan. One kind of idiot forgets what they're pushing against. The other builds a shitty thermometer.
​A tweet from Deep Tech Week (@deeptechweek) dated May 9, 2026. The text identifies Dr. Charles Buhler, Lead Scientist of the NASA Electrostatics Physics Laboratory and CEO of Exodus Propulsion, presenting a discovery of a "new force" behind the Biefeld-Brown Effect and "Non-Newtonian propulsion" at an event in NYC.
​The accompanying image shows Dr. Buhler on stage next to a technical slide titled "Possible Explanation of the generation of Force: Classical Theory." The slide displays a series of equations involving potential energy in electrostatic systems (U = \frac{\epsilon_0}{2} \int E^2 \, d\tau) and the chain rule for derivatives. It concludes with a formula for Force (F) that splits into two components: "Electrostatic Pressure Force" and a highlighted box labeled "DiVinE Force ('Divergence in E')." The bottom of the slide includes a "Confidential and Proprietary" watermark for Exodus Propulsion Technologies Inc.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/articles/aft...
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 04/05/2026
I still find physical marking & reviewing has a quality all its own and helps with understanding/commenting/perhaps writing something supplemental (especially if you need/want to doodle maths or code).
The image depicts a workstation during an intensive editing or research phase. The focus is on the stack of papers, which appears heavily organized or cross-referenced with many colorful tabs—a typical sight when working on manuscripts, legal documents, or academic research.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 02/05/2026
Solidarity with the Spirit Airlines planes who I will remind you are not unionized
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 29/04/2026
The Red Button/Blue Button discourse on Twitter is so annoying to me, especially since far too many people just very obviously don't understand that you cannot parasitically bootstrap the intradecisional rationality of your own choice. Then again, *stares at Iran* Oh. Oh no.
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️
Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/04/2026
In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 22/04/2026
Germany as well.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 22/04/2026
Part of me still feels it's depressing I have expensive equipment for astrophotography, incl. motorised telescope Another part of me is like: yeah, but with all that, you did it maybe once a year... now you've done it every night cloud cover allowed. Late life lesson I wish I'd learned earlier.
Dwarf3 photo gallery, 67 capture series sorted by date. Tuesday 21 April 2026 contains seventeen waning crescent Moon series in varying processing states (some natural grey‑brown, some pinkish, one strongly red) plus one wider series of the open star cluster M44. Wednesday 15 April 2026: a single galaxy integration series of Messier 64. Tuesday 14 April 2026: another series of M64 and two Jupiter captures.Live view from the Dwarf3 of the open star cluster M44 (Praesepe / Beehive) — a loose scatter of bright blue‑white stars on a dark grey background. Counter at top centre: 147 of 250 frames captured, 133 stacked. Caption at bottom: "Tracking M 44".A Dwarf3 smart telescope on a tripod at night, lens ring glowing red, with a mounted green laser pointer used for polar alignment and then to show current capture to another person. The laser beam runs from the unit up to a thin waning crescent Moon partly veiled by cloud. Bare early‑spring trees fill the middle ground; the suburban street and houses sit in the background.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/04/2026
Malcolm Tucker was intelligent, focused, and strategic, but he was also rude, overconfident and relentlessly unprofessional. That's the kind of thing you can get away with in a TV show when the writers ensure you really are the smartest guy in every room. In real life it leads to shit like this.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 20/04/2026
This file kept my backup jobs from working and cost me almost an hour to find because the job complained about files three folders up. ... I... I can't even be mad.
Screenshot of a file viewer displaying a file with a very long file name.
A cartoon drawing of Mudkip — a small, round, bipedal creature with pale blue skin, a large head, and a long flat tail. Two dark-blue fins stick up from the top of its head like ears, and orange gill-frills fan out from its cheeks. It is dressed formally: a black top hat tilted on one fin, a monocle on a chain over one eye, a red bow tie, and a black tailcoat with buttons down the front. The style is clean digital art on a plain white background. The overall effect is a small amphibious creature cosplaying as a Victorian gentleman.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I look at the motives of several nations.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 30/03/2025
SwiftOnSecurity & @SwiftOnSecurity
Forcing a terrorist through all the rights and due process he's entitled to is the most hardcore American patriot shit I can imagine.
4:11 PM • 9/19/16
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 18/04/2026
I feel like I should look into which classes Vermeule is teaching that are accessible via Harvard DCE, then attend and troll him. This is just such a transparently populist and hackish take by him. x.com/i/status/204...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 17/04/2026
The thing about the right is, they want to be able to attack their opponents as if politics were an existential battle of good versus evil they are on the right side of, but demand to be treated by them as if politics were a good faith disagreement among gentlemen about optimising the tax code.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 17/04/2026
Treats Collection Purrtocol
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 17/04/2026
I honestly feel like the Disney Cars universe has incredibly rich inspirational potential for unhinged historical tankiness. It would be an incredibly *Italian* bit to be an irredentist Bourbon legitimist while also being ride or die for Ferrari, a symbol of the unified industrial Italian machine.
Interior of the Cars Land ride queue at Disneyland, designed to look like an Italian garage or trattoria. A large framed antique map of Italy from before Italian unification, titled "ITALY with the Islands of SICILY, SARDINIA & CORSICA," hangs centrally on a brick wall under a pressed-tin ceiling. To the left are vintage Italian travel posters, a chrome car wheel on a stack of tires, and a sign partially reading "TO." To the right of the map, a yellow Ferrari logo with a prancing horse is displayed among rows of small white business cards mounted on the brick wall. In the foreground, a stainless steel counter holds stacks of paperwork, a bottle, and an organizer filled with colored folders.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/04/2026
it’s weird how “having a job that isn’t actively evil” now feels like a genuine luxury
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 17/04/2026
Random aside triggered by thinking about Iwate prefecture, but Druon Antigoon is one of those 10/10 Belgian mythic hero names.
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【randi】 @dopamine.church · 17/04/2026
why webpage long when display wide? WHY WEBPAGE NOT WIDE???? WHY DISPLAY NOT LONG???????? why
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/04/2026
CLAUDE CODE JUST RICKROLLED ME. I'm working on a project where part of it will involve videos, and in building out the project it created a dummy page, with made up content (relevant to me!) with two video links pretending to be something else and BOTH WERE RICKROLLs.
An image showing two YouTube embeds. One labeled "Section 230 Explained: A brief overview of Section 230 and why it matters" and the other saying "The Future of Content Moderation: Keynote on the challenges facing platforms." Both videos show "video unavailable" with a "watch on YouTube" link.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/04/2026
I really need to hang out on BlueSky more. My BlueSky feed looks exactly how I remember my Twitter feed looking when it was good. Damn it. I'm trying to hold the fort over there, but it's seriously exhausting.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026
this is why I do find it rather bleakly hilarious when people on here see the word “drones” in my bio and assume that means I must therefore make bank working for a military contractor on using drones to kill civilians…no, I work on the opposite thing, and lemme tell you, the money is Bad right now
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026
The tech world in general has seen a very disturbing reorientation towards military tech away from civilian solutions, and the drone industry - which again, revolves around a technology with a TON of purely civilian applications - is no different. It sucks!
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 04/04/2026
Something that has genuinely disappointed me about several journalist friends of mine: unwillingness to correct or learn in face of significant evidence against their previously held and communicated position or information.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Kudos to the person who invested 580 million dollars 15 minutes before a Trump tweet moved the market. I am sure that’s just a coincidence. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/i...
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Iran-Ultimatum verlängert: Unbekannte setzen 580 Millionen Dollar auf Ölwetten – Minuten vor Trumps Post
»Da ist gerade jemand um einiges reicher geworden«: Schon wieder erweisen sich Wetten hochprofitabel, die von Entscheidungen oder Äußerungen des US-Präsidenten abhängen. Diesmal geht es um Ölpreise un...
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 24/03/2026
Perhaps minor aside, but: does this not raise, *ehem*, "questions" for Berlin under Article 25(3)(c)-(d) of the Rome Statute, the VStGB, & other treaties, vis-á-vis Ramstein Air Base being used as a C2 relay for an openly stated assassination program? www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
We're in the testing phase of really trying to figure out who can rise, who wants to rise, who tries to rise," the first official said. "And then as people rise, we'll do a quick test, and if they're radical, we'll take tuek out."
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'll get start to get worried when we go 100 years straight with no men winning Best Cinematography, thanks.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 16/03/2026
A jar of Kattus green peppercorns on a dark leather desk pad, surrounded by scattered silica gel beads from a torn desiccant packet that reads 'SILICA GEL — DO NOT EAT — THROW AWAY.' The beads are nearly identical in size and color to the peppercorns in the jar. A white-on-black label in the upper right reads 'the forbidden peppercorn.'
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 15/03/2026
Bruh.
A screenshot of a social media post by Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) that reads: "Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks."

​Below the text is a map of the Persian Gulf and the United Arab Emirates. A thick, straight, brown corridor illustrates the proposed artificial channel cutting directly across the landmass to the Gulf of Oman, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. The massive trench carves directly through populated areas, passing over or extremely close to cities like Ras Al Khaimah, Dibba, Khor Fakkan, and Fujairah. The map visualizes the immense geographic scale and catastrophic local destruction that would be caused by the "dozen thermonuclear detonations" required to excavate the waterway.
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Brandee @misscherryjones.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
-The New York Times
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 14/03/2026
I love Makita and this'll be replaced easily, but always annoying when you order something you really need for one specific thing and then this happens.
Makita ratchet and bit set in a blue case, with the ratchet’s internal magnet visibly installed sideways in the square drive.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/03/2026
Some non-US billionaire could do the funniest thing: Black Wednesday 2: Electric (Soros v. BoE) Boogaloo via front-month crude futures Marxists, this is the time to express critical support for tovarish Bessent. Few have ever been in a better position to destroy capitalism & gone all-in with gusto
Screenshot of a Financial Times article. The FT masthead/hamburger menu is visible at top. The following passages are highlighted in yellow:
"We were being pushed by clients as to who the big seller was," Skirrow said.
"The speculation was that it could be from the US Treasury," he added, noting that the government has previously intervened in other markets, such as currencies.
Rapidan Energy Group, a consultancy founded by former White House energy adviser Bob McNally, said this week that while such a move by the government would be "unprecedented", it was clear "the idea of the US Treasury selling front-month crude futures" was getting "more attention than usual".
"Given the current panic situation," Rapidan analysts wrote in a note for clients, "we cannot completely rule it out".
All four passages above are highlighted in yellow. Additionally, the phrase "The speculation was that it could be from the US Treasury," has extra orange/hand-drawn marker emphasis over the yellow highlighting.Day Financial (NYMEX: BZW00), dated March 13, 2026 at 9:51 AM EDT. Current price $99.54, down $0.92 (0.92%) on the day. Intraday 1D view shows the price opened at $101.66, spiked to a high of $103.21 in early pre-market trading, then sold off sharply through the morning session to a low of $97.55, currently sitting around $99.49. Previous close was $100.46. Volume 38,702; open interest 49,842.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 11/03/2026
So, quick question: am I the only one vaguely uncomfortable with s/one arguing for the (targeted) killing of virtually every chemistry & physics grad student and all advanced industry? To start with? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/o...
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 10/03/2026
My greatest worry at this point is that the dispensationalists in Trump's orbit somehow win out and make the argument that the only strategy that might prove Pape wrong isn't just palatable but (theologically) desirable: outright glassing Iran. Israel has decided it's a pariah, anyway.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 15/12/2025
I'm not sure whether my recent appreciation for electronic music is a defence mechanism because I'm beginning to like gradient coil switching noises of MRI machines... 🧐🤔
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 16/11/2025
My mother is watching odd XMas movies & I was having breakfast with her. Some woman at a party says "I'm studying [XMas decorations] at the Plaza" & people laugh at her. & I'm immediately like: "That's an extremely interesting topic in terms of cultural & economic history?" :|
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 14/10/2025
The audacity! Henry Kissinger did not live a full century & die peacefully in his Connecticut mansion, only to have his sanctification as patron saint to genocidaires undermined & his name & legacy maligned by a milquetoast centrist like Anne Applebaum. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 27/06/2025
It's really hard to get even a well-tailored suit to look "good" on me,¹ but this (kinda²) works? 🤔
A man with shoulder-length brown hair and glasses stands in a tailor shop during the second fitting of a tan-coloured suit. He is wearing the suit jacket and trousers over a black shirt, with black socks and no shoes. He is smiling, standing on a grey carpeted floor. Behind him are bolts of fabric draped on the wall and a wooden counter partially covered with blue velvet, indicating the workspace of the tailor. The setting is lit evenly, with visible wooden ceiling beams and a minimalist interior.
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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 26/06/2025
A friend made a joke about Vaporeon. I assumed it was something wholesome like the trans affection for Sylveon because of its colour scheme. I was very wrong and now feel strongly that amoebae deserve their shot at building a better world after a nuclear winter.¹
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