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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Unsurprisingly, games industry union recruitment is extremely creative Woodcock #cyborgWorkers #gameAI

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

So are there constant helicopter-accompanied police motorcades to “the hotel” or does it just happen every time I personally walk by? 3 times in about 26 hours.

Church with big pillars and violent reliefs

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Maybe not the best day to go to the plant store. Or not. Cc @jonathankoren

Lits of unopened boxes in a large greenhouse. In the background “ *Santa's®
POST OFFICE”

Boxes apparently say:
Baubles glass enamel, matt mi
NT: TA015
12 Tube a 10
zinter wnie
lia6.00cm
28716128765 573
HEA'T: 50 x 33.5 x 24 cm
2.4
(SD
ITEM#140394
Made in China
POD Rotterdam
Order No.: 74133
C/No.: 687 -750

Santa lying in a bathtub inexplicably. LOTS of boxes stacked in background.

Wood crate of identicate decorative logs. Two white reindeer with a red sled in the background, still in huge greenhouse.

Another angle on white reindeer and sled, revealing the sleigh has an apparently drunken Santa sprawled inside it.

Boxes in foreground say FA
CB
ROTTERDAM
Carton No.: $0 -400
Order Nr.: 26800367
Item Nr.: 675476
QTY.: 4
Order Nr.: 26800367
Item Nr.: 675476
QTY.: 4
Order Nr.: 26800404
Item Nr.: 678484
QTY.: 12

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Not sure there’s many hammer & cycles left in #Berlin other than recent graffiti (it’s on the angular monuments, towards the top of the point.) Apparently there really are a lot of soviets buried here, presumably including Russians and Ukrainians in the same mass graves.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I don’t think I’ve visited the Soviet graves since Russia invaded #Ukraine

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The new WIRTSCHAFTS UNIVERSITÄT campus is amazing! But they need to hide their name a little less, AND YET ALSO sell a WU t-shirt where the “wu” is not weirdly thick and fuzzy. I wanted to buy one for @conjugateprior to complement all his UW (isconsin!!) shirts.

Wildish flowers grasses and modern buildings.

Season 1, Episode 1 starts now

Banner in front of modern building with a young green tree

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In case you wondered what the anti women’s vote posters in 1971 looked like

1971 Referendum: Campaign Ads
Figure 1: Campaign Ad Pro Female Suff.
Figure 2: Campaign Ad Against Female Suff
Die Melter seist-
Politis /
Dans toute Europe les femmes votent
La Suisse seule fait exception
connaissor aur femmes ias dr
NEIN
W
WU-
Department of
Economics
wu.ncat/en/economic

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I’m not sure why an internet radio station in #dubai plays exclusively #talkingheads with no advertisements, but when I’m not in sync with the @wmbr dj it can be useful. Seriously, was enjoying some Berlin electro swing earlier. But.

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TO0 feet abeve sea level.
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the natural advantages of the
see-pure air, peat and
barley and the finest of hill water,
which rises through granite
from springs on the summit
of the mountain. The resulting
mingle MALT SCOTCH WHISKY,
is rounded and mellow.
*• 15 YEARS
43% vol 70 cl

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

In particular, what are these guys doing? I knew something about the barricades and 1848 as an early attempt at German #democracy, and I know where their graveyards are (not far from my house.) But what building are they breaching? #Berlin

drawn picture of people using a battering ram to knock on a door of some castle like object. Literal torches and well shovels not pitchforks. Men are wearing smocks and hats.

In March 1848, Berliners fought for basic freedoms and German unity
@ United Archives International/IMAGO
Image: United Archives International/IMAGO

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Terrific 2-page history of #antitrust including details on steel, farmers, and unions Wu&Khan skip, iirc. Note getting the law in place was not enough, it took another crisis and election to get it enforced and fixed. Cc @helenamalikova

Technology and the Rise of Antitrust
Because antitrust law is confusing—some would say contused-it
is helpful to look at the history of antitrust and the evolution of key prin-
ciples. From the beginning, antitrust was intimately connected with new
technology-in particular, new technology that exhibited economies of
scale. The last quarter of the nineteenth century witnessed a wave of new
large-scale technologies. In chapter 3 we saw how the Bessemer process
revolutionized steel production, slashing the price of steel rails. With cheap
rails and new railroad technology, railroads experlenced an investment
boom. Increasingly, with lower transportation costs, the market for farm
Produce grew and farmers turned to commercial agriculture. Other tech-
nologies similarly changed petroleum refining, sugar refining, meat produc-
tion, farm machinery, and other industries with substantial scale economies.
New technologies used by a small number of large firms brought lower
prices and new opportunities in many industries, but with that they also
gave those large firms, called trusts, significant power over people's lives.
Railroads gave farmers new opportunities in commercial agriculture, but
they also meant that farmers became dependent on railroads. In many rural
regions, only a single railroad was economically feasible, so local mo-
nopolies tended to emerge. Although railroads initially provided lower
transportation costs, they also had the power to raise prices, which they
used, squeezing the farmers.
The power and unfairness of the railroads became a major issue for the
populist movement. The public's deep outrage led to the Interstate Com-
merce Act of 1887, which regulated railroad rates, and the Sherman Antitrust
Act of 1890. This was the first federal legislation covering competition, but
it faced significant dificulties in the courts. Indeed, during the first decade
of the Sherman Act, there were no successful prosecutions of large compa-
nies. Instead, the Sherman Act was used against labor unions.

PLATFORMS AND ANTITRUST 147
But during the first decade of the twentieth century, public outrage
deepened further, fanned by so-called muckraking journalists who exposed
corruption in government, unfair behavior of large corporations, and other
social ills, such as lynching, sexual harassment, and the treatment of the
mentally ill. The muckrakers exposed company use of child labor and the
oppression of unions. Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle bared the unhealthy
practices of meat packers and other food companies; Justice Brandeis wrote
about how banks promoted the consolidation of industries in a few hands;
Samuel Hopkins Adams revealed the false claims made by pharmaceutical
companies; Ida Tarbell vividly painted the details of how Standard Oil
extorted its way to become the largest oil refiner in the world.
President Theodore Roosevelt picked up on this broad discontent, mak-
ing trust-busting part of his Square Deal. Under Roosevelt, the United
States initiated a lawsuit against Standard Oil for Sherman Act violations,
winning a victory in 1911 that led to the dissolution of the company. That
victory marked the real start of antitrust enforcement in the United States.
In 1914, recognizing the weakness of the Sherman Act, Congress passed
the Clayton Antitrust Act, which significantly strengthened antitrust en-
forcement powers and detailed various forms of illegal conduct.

The
New
Goliaths
How Corporations Use Software to
Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation,
and Undermine Regulation
James Bessen
Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Haven & London

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

First time I’ve seen someone performing cpr for real (not shown, took a picture with the emergency vehicles providing discretion )

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Given that we already expected the #afd outcome, can I just say what a thrill of joy it was to see only the #fdp being truly hapless? Selling your own country down the river to help US big tech shoot itself in the foot (I'm fully convinced the #AIA like the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

He'd graduated highschool, mattriculated college, and joined ROTC #usa #migration #migrants 2/2 #giftArticle

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I only had a few minutes to listen, but thanks for playing #berlin #hbf @db

Man playing a piano that’s attached to a pillar with an enormous chain, on a lower level of the Berlin hbf complex.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

1/4 the value of the ticket invalidated (though anyway I’m behind on course prep so.) #langenachtdermuseen #berlin

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I didn't think wordle used dead words? (I guessed it by brute force, but)

google ngrams showing a word used (very rarley) from about 1750 to 2010
actual word has been cropped off

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

But it was also the first step toward eradicating the ideological division of men and women along lines of sex—for her, the ultimate end of feminist revolution. "A society in which women are subjectively and objectively the genuine equals of men…will […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

makeup withdrawal centers, adopt their mothers
family names as their last names, deface billboard
advertising that insults women, disrupt public events by singing in honor of the docile wives of male celebrities and politicians, collect pledges to renounce
alimony and giggling, bring lawsuits for defamation
against the mass-circulation "women's magazines,"
conduct telephone harassment campaigns against
male psychiatrists who have sexual relations with
their women patients, organize beauty contests for
men, put up feminist candidates for all public offices.
"Women will be much more effective politically if they
are rude, shrill, and—by sexist standards—'unattractive,"
she proposed. "They will be met with ridicule, which they
should do more than bear stoically. They should, indeed,
welcome it." Welcoming it helped neutralize the sexist
condemnation of men. But it was also the first step toward eradicating the ideological division of men and women along lines of sex—for her, the ultimate end of feminist revolution. "A society in which women are subjectively and objectively the genuine equals of men... will necessarily be an androgynous society." She did not value separatism, the aggressive policing of the boundaries of who was or was not a woman, what was or was not beautiful. She valued the blatant disorganization of gender

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Re: Susan Sontag in "The Third World of Women," her extraordinary 1972 interview with the leftist quarterly Libre, death was the will to self-annihilation of the entire global order, whose ideology of unlimited growth went hand in hand with "ever-increasing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cover with a picture of her in the 1070s

Susan
Sontag
On
Women

The first picture was from the intro:

CONTENTS
Introduction by Merve Emre ix
The Double Standard of Aging 3
The Third World of Women 41
A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power S
Beauty: How Will It Change Next? 95
Fascinating Fascism 105
Feminism and Fascism: An Exchange Bet
Adrienne Rich and Susan Sontag 141
The Salmaoun di Interview 152

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Out of Morocco's 18 million economically active people, only 2.2 million employees are enrolled in the social security system. "They aren't necessarily poor, but they aren't part of a process of socio-economic integration. Socially, they are in crisis," said […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

photo of people on beach behind a single strand of wire. One has a sign.

WE
ARE
ALSO
HUMAN

ASILO

Migrants, including Moroccans who crossed the border into Ceuta (Spain), hold signs demanding
asylum on Playa del Trampolin, August 17, 2026. DANIEL CHATARD
During the two days of the attempted crossing, several waiters also walked off the job.
The restaurant sector abruptly found itself without enough staff. The Al Bahr fish
restaurant in Fnideq, for example, lost 15 employees, some of whom disappeared in the
middle of service. Most returned as if nothing had happened in the following days,
according to the owner. Others were never heard from again. On social media,
restaurant owners posted urgent calls for staff to address the shortage.
'The problem isn't poverty, it's precariousness'

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I’m not tired of this yet. They call him a garbage knight.

tagesspiegel.de
Politik
Sennabend, 15. August 2026
9
Durch die Absage etablierter Parteien galt ausgerechnet der Spaßkandidat Count Binface" alias Jon Harvey (I.) als Hauptkonkurrent von Nigel Farage.
Rechtspopulist Farage gewinnt
gegen den Müllritter
Showdown mit „Count Binface": In einem selbst für britische Verhältnisse
ungewöhnlichen Vorgang sichert sich Nigel Farage erneut einen Sitz im Parlament.
Von Patricia Bartos und Steffen Trumpf
hatte. Seinen Angaben Berg an Filz und Skandalen, in
De Dortoi
Nigel Farage
Ein Sieg, der
ihm zum
Verhängnis
werden könnte
KOMMENTAR
Lion Grote ist stellvertretender
Ressortleiter Internationale Politik
beim Tagesspiegel.
Es war die sinnloseste Wahl des
Jahres und Nigel Farage hat sie ge-
wonnen. Auf den ersten Blick steht
der Rechtspopulist nach seinem
Erfolg, er bekam 63,3 Prozent der
Stimmen, wie ein Sieger da. Durch
die breite Unterstützung in seinem
Wahlkreis Clacton zieht er wieder
ins Parlament ein. Doch tatsächlich
steckt der Parteichef von Reform
UK in einer schwierigeren Lage, als
das Ergebnis vermuten lässt.
Die Nachwahl
am
Donnerstag
war das Ergebnis eines politischen
Manövers. Wegen einer parlamen-
tarischen Untersuchung aufgrund
möglicher nicht deklarierter Geld-
geschenke hatte Farage sein Parla-
mentsmandat aufgegeben und d
mit selbst eine Neuwahl ausgelö
Den Ausgang kannte er prakt
schon vorher: Clacton ist fest i
form-Hand. Genau deshalb
die Wahl für ihn zur Bühne
-zum Beweis, dass er belieb
„Establishment" ihm nich
ben kann und seine Part
auf dem Vormarsch ist.
Doch Clacton ist nich
tannien. Farage brauc
Ziel, irgendwann Prem
zu werden, keine wei

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Being a member of #afd can contribute to a reason to deny a gun license #guncontrol

August 2026
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Jagdwaffen, Sportpistolen: Unter den deutschen AfD-Mitgliedern sind offenbar viele Waffenbesitzer.
Keine Waffen für AfD-Mitglieder:
Was das jüngste Urteil bedeutet
Ein Gericht in Sachsen-Anhalt hat bestätigt: AfD-Mitglieder dürfen in der Regel
keine Waffen besitzen. Ein Vorbild für andere Bundesländer?
Von Stefanie Witte
W
affen in den Hän-
den von Extre-
Die
deutschen
In-
nenministerien
beschäftigen sich seit Langem da-
mit, wie man mit Büchsen, Flinten
und Pistolen in den Händen von
AfD-Mitgliedern umgehen sollte.
Bin Urteil aus Sachsen-Anhalt geht
un besonders weit und ermög-
cht, Waffen im großen Umfang
1 entziehen.
© HS Kehl
Markus Eisenbarth ist
Professor für öffent-
liches Recht an der
Hochschule Kehl.
nur für Funktionäre,
sondern
auch für Parteimitglieder des Lan-
desverbands und aktive Unter-
stützer. Zuvor war drei Klägern auf
dieser Basis bereits im März ver-
gangenen Jahres ihre waffenrecht-
liche Erlaubnis entzogen worden.
Derzeit sind in Deutschland
rund 930.000 Waffenbesitzer mit
rund fünf Millionen Schusswaffen
registriert. Manche besitzen ledig-
lich eine Sportpistole, andere hor-
ten Langwaffen und Munition -
dem aktuellen Urteil recht weit
geht, hatte das Verwaltungsgericht
Gera erst im Februar festgestellt,
dass eine AfD-Mitgliedschaft allei-
ne kein Grund für einen Waffen-
entzug sei. Das Urteil ist allerdings
noch nicht rechtskräftig.
Gegenbeweis möglich
In Sachsen wiederum wies das In-
nenministerium die zuständigen
Unteren Waffenbehörden an, Waf-
fenbesitzer, die als AfD-Mitglieder

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I love this t-shirt. I used to wear it every year when I taught the first year undergraduates at Bath “the networking lecture” in second semester programming.

There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

Also a decent selfie reflection on my iPad ha (shirt is on husband, we’re on the s85)

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I miss when @20percentberlin posted its about its issues. This picture is epic!

"A dozen water buffalo hoped to experience Berlin after escaping from their herd in Wustrower Park in Hohenschönhausen Thursday." caption of a photo with the buffalo standing on a suburban street (with trees and large cars) one police man stands on the street before and after them looking at them, so the front of the picture is the back of a policeman. The police are surprisingly close to these huge animals with big horns, and look surprisingly not THAT worried. They are both young.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I know 38C indicates end times, but for one evening, it was lovely in #Berlin.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Musk did a great job of destroying US regulatory capacity, including wrt revenue

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

“We were horrified to hear that concentration camps were being set up in the middle of peacetime, and secret cells where innocent people were murdered without the formality of a trial had been built in the barracks.” WHERE IS OUR HORROR THAT THE US IS DOING […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

INCIPIT HITLER
Reich would of course divest himself of the vulgarities of an
anti-Semitic agitator. After all, what violent actions could he
carry out in a state where the law was firmly established, the
Parliamentary majority was against him, and every citizen was
assured of his liberty and equal rights by the solemn wording
of the constitution?
Then came the Reichstag fire, parliament vanished from
the scene, Goering let his wolf pack off the leash, and all at
once the rule of law in Germany was over. We were horrified to
hear that concentration camps were being set up in the middle
of peacetime, and secret cells where innocent people were
murdered without the formality of a trial had been built in the
barracks. This could only be an initial outburst of senseless rage
as the new regime took power, we told ourselves, such things
cannot last long in the twentieth century. But it was only the
beginning: The world began to pay attention, and at first would
not believe anything so incredible. However, it was in those
days that I saw the first refugees arriving in Austria. They had
climbed over the Salzburg mountains by night, or swum the
river marking the border. Starving, ragged and distressed, they
stared at us, and with them a panic flight from inhumanity had
begun. Refugees were to spread over the whole earth. But still
I did not guess, when I saw these exiles, that their pale faces
heralded my own fate, and we would all be victims of this one
man's raging lust for power.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I’ve wondered for some time what is up with Putin both imitating and vilifying the Nazis, then yesterday reading Zweig I realised the imitation was personal, not national. Be so dispicable all your secret backers assume you can’t have many others. Now today […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Even when he had become Chancellor on that January day in
1933, the vast majority, including some who had helped him to
rise to that position, still thought that he was just a stopgap and
National Socialism would be only a transient episode.
It was now that Hitler's cynically brilliant technique first
revealed itself on the grand scale. He had been making promises
to all and sundry for years, and gained important supporters
in all the political parties, each of whom thought that he could
exploit the mysterious powers of this 'unknown soldier' for
his own ends. But the same technique that Hitler later used in
387

Next page lists many sundry groups and individuals expecting to benefit , even the SDP, and he says the Jews expected him to drop the antisemitic pr now he was in power.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Quiet day to celebrate Brooks’ centenary by watching The Producers #babylon #berlin

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