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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The word Ciao derives from the Venetian phrase s-ciào vostro, or s-ciào su, literally meaning "(I am) your slave". And the word Slave derives from Slav. Slave in Latin is Servus, and is still said today as a common greeting in Bavaria...Just so you know next time you're in Munich...

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As humans pave over the planet, will cities become heat sinks? The Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany published the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. Via tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For 20 years the sea has given everyone a false sense of security, that global warming wasn't so serious. When the city temperature stays in the 30's well into the night, you realize that a heat sink is not always cool, and probably the same with the sea one day also.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When the temperature in the city reaches 37 degrees, but on the coast only 31. When the summer wind that blows over the sea is fresh and clean, not hot and dusty. You realize and are first grateful and then shocked, that the massive, beautiful, blue sea before you, acts as a huge heat sink.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One of the best known songs in the USA, was written by a communist sympathiser. Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land", was for over 50 years played all across the USA, in schools and at national events including president inaugurations (by JLo), but without the 4th and 6th verse. Co-opted?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"Boycott" originates from 1880 in Ireland, named after Captain Charles Boycott, a land agent who was ostracized by local tenants after refusing to reduce rents. The community's organized, non-violent isolation of him led to the adoption of his name for this form of economic and social protest.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Bansky's "Blinded by the Flag", in the heart of London, outside British government offices.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The opposite of philanthropy is misanthropy. Why and when did philanthropy become more associated with money and less with love?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Imagine climbing a pyramid of greed? Pros, amateurs and people who just just happen to be there and aren't into climbing, pyramids or greed. And as a sport, on a course, including climbers on performance enhancing drugs? Or with brain computer bridging technologies, AI?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I've always been perplexed why anyone thinks that business, or finance sharks make good presidents, or prime ministers. Maybe we should first ask their employees, or subordinates if they were good bosses?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Mr Bates vs The Post Office. youtu.be/EbXYQxDJQ4E?... Between 1999 and 2015 more than 7000 postmasters, who run small community post offices across Britain were blamed for false accounting and bullied to pay back thousands each. 236 postmasters went to prison and at least 13 committed suicide.

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Mr Bates vs The Post Office: An Inside Look

YouTube video by MASTERPIECE PBS

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If fascism was a 20th century ideology, what will a 21st century ideology be?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Conflation Strategy involves merging two or more distinct concepts, ideas, or datasets into one to influence perception, simplify complex information, or create a false equivalence and is used in negotiation. Have people normalized deception in negotiation?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

For some people, from partners to presidents and prime ministers it's often someone else's fault. They can blame their spouse, the referee, or the opposition party. And when blame becomes violence, we have learned to unanimously condemn the the common thugs, but not the privileged ones it seems.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Attacking Iran is costing the USA 2 Billion US$ per day. Who's dollars and at what personal cost? I can almost imagine a geopolitical version of "The Apprentice".

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Hypernormalisation describes a state where society accepts a blatantly dysfunctional, fake, or artificial reality as normal because no one can imagine an alternative. Like conflict, is this another consequence of our lack of imagination and creativity? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNo...

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HyperNormalisation - Wikipedia

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Imagine if a Defense minister anywhere in the world that was investigated by his country’s parliament for promoting to military commanders, that the war was rooted in prophecy, part of God’s plan and that the President was anointed by God to cause Armageddon. Doesn’t it just sound impossible?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Feels like it could escalate very easily. And posts in the slightest incendiary are unhelpful. Although most likely governments havn't the slightest interest to what anyone is posting on social media. But how is it that the Saudis can hack dissidents to pieces and we roll out the red carpet?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's very delicate, most would call the recent brutality from the regime a catastrophe, not a crisis. And yet the louder we condemn, the more justified the hawks will feel. Could an attack on Iran be more catastrophic than you imagine? It would be best to de-escalate. In word bites also.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The article does appear to suggest that the Iranian regime has only itself to blame for military intervention. "If the Americans or Israelis do attempt a regime change against the Iranian state at some point, no one would have made their job easier than the Iranian state itself".

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's maybe a bit like saying that many on the right should not support support the Saudi Monarchy. I don't believe anyone in the west supports totalitarian regimes...except some politicians and businessmen. I wonder why there aren't protests in Saudi? Military intervention is not the answer.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goo...

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The Goose and the Common - Wikipedia

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Maybe we should start talking about weapons of mass "distraction"?

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Better than most, but unfortunately maybe not presidential enough yet.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Tramping during the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1760–1900) was a traditional, widespread practice among skilled artisans and craftsmen who traveled from town to town in search of work.

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markuskittner.bsky.social @markuskittner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Good character study is often overlooked in movies, in favour of storyline.

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