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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think I can vote for anybody who thinks Trump can fix immigration. @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social might hope to win some Republican votes but he loses mine.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Laufen F-35 eigentlich auch auf Starlink?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Perhaps. We should study it, probably, so we have some preliminary answers in about thirty years.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Kill switches? No our systems don't have kill switches. You can trust American systems. 😁

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

These security measures should be the mandatory access guard to social media access for anybody who pushes the need for "Western civilization" education. (Or gives speeches about it on the Acropolis or such.)

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

180 Tage um die Kriegsverbrecher in der US Regierung anzuklagen?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sure, but you are breaking US law. It is illegal to import energy from Russia.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What I wonder in all of the mask-off Trump behavior is whether Denmark and Greenland will ratify this agreement... Democratic processes are of course something the Bully in Chief does not understand (or accept).

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🥱 😯 🥱 🙄 😏 🤣🤣 🤔 🤬

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

One legacy of Eloise Cobell is that we should all know that the federal government destroys files at will, during lawsuits for which they are needed as evidence.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is illegal to import energy from that country into the US... Have state police intercept the load and arrest everybody involved in arranging this crime.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Had 44% charge today when I had to drive a friend to the big city here, about 35 miles away. Briefly panicked with range anxiety then took a breath and came back with over 20% charge left. Could have done it again. EV driving in Iowa? Not a problem. #NoExcuse

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It never ceases to amaze me how people who think Iowa is flyover country and cannot place it on a map become experts in Iowa politics around election time and tell all those pig and soybean farmers how they have to vote. Thanks, guys.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maybe troll ran it through ChatGPT and was told this was an expert they should trust.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The waters I am legally required to call Gulf of America that historically were and by any other nation are known as Gulf of Mexico" - too long? Might get used to it.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Funny, nobody has told my kids yet.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And for decades in the rest of the world...

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I used to have some respect for the man. "Bringing Boris Johnson to the University of Iowa gives students the opportunity to hear directly from an international leader who can challenge them to think more deeply about the history, values, and ideas that have shaped the West into what it is today."

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No, tribes still have not gotten water. There is dry water and wet water. Native nations usually got the right to water without the actual water - dry water, that is. To get wet water, they usually need to give up parts of their rights to the water they are due.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Identity through literal "blood" ancestey is racist by definition. It is also wrong. Kinship -how we relate to whom - and tjerefore identity has nothing to do with biology. Period. She apparenrly would tell adopted children that they are not really her children.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe Fiat will understand that the Grande Panda would have a consumer base... And then Nissan (Renault) will follow? One can dream...

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What are you going to do about it?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sure, but protected against what? If you are protected against mysogyny then whether or not you are "in *a* protected class" is not relevant for quite a few people. Every federal employee is in a protected class because of their exposure to stupidity, now that *would* be a different thing.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Email today from a higher ed tech company: what to do when students push back on AI use in the classroom. No. I push back on AI use. We can have an open, critical dialogue, though... But I just overheard students complain about a prof using AI in the classroom. They are fed up with it.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am going to finish that sentence: "it got all thrown out the wundow and none of the execs had the guts or the foresight to explain to the morons what would happen, or to resist and build EVs anyway."

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

But it is so - (gasp, whispering) diverse...?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"morally impotent" - it was a typo. What do you expect from AI...

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Best movie starting quote ever is in "Duck, you sucker" - on the whole a very underrated movie. Spoiler: "The revolution is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or an embroidery; it cannot be done with elegance and courtesy. The revolution is an act of violence."

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Arguably (I argue this) it is the better model than writing 10% each of five three-page papers every year that say nothing... and - gasp - still cheaper...

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Well, if you read Annexarion (the tract from 1846 that coined "manifest destiny") you know that the plan is really much older. It's hung around a while in different guises. Supremqcy fantasies tend to do that.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I dont like people getting killed by speeding, but modern life. I dont like assault rifles but modern life. I dont like climate crises but modern life. ...

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

No politician should earn more than the average elementary school teacher.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It will leave everybody in trouble except those programs that provide certifications absolitely necessary for a job. Universities will be technical high schools. (Dont tell anybody, but we are already halfway there anyway).

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I am really upset about how science is being treated right now. And then some scientists tell me that my work is not research while they cannot be bothered to look up citations or know another language. And looked the other way when humanities were ravaged. Because that is not research.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You were too kind. We dont need to know what groups. It has been clear that the racist, unlinear development theory he is using goes back to the worst excesses of social Darwinism and belongs headling in the trash heap of history. It has been thoroughly disproven a hundred yeara ago.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And that has something to do with free markets bexause ... ?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hmmm. Of course, Western induatriea could build EVs to compete... Hmmm... free markets -- capitalism --- competition... Hmmmm... Devastation...

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

As an antidote: And if you don't know German, find the lyrics and translate them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-S...

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Danger Dan - Keine Angst

YouTube video by Danger Dan

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Lots of thinga that have not killed me yet.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

He is just trying to prove he is one of the boys. All puffed up when around weapons and proud to be using the lingo and stuff.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

They were spacing out when they applied, though.

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

But nobody. Nobody. Is laughing at the US. Nobody. Because, Testosterone!

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As a cultural anthropologist, I am comfortable saying that assumption 1) is absolute B.S. and that I shudder to think what he has in mind when he talks about assimilation in 2). What the fuck is so precious about this culture that makes it the only right one?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Isn't (shouldn't) the whole purpose of falling under Supremw Court precedent be that you know when you arw doing aomething that is unconstitutional (and stop doing it that way)? And doean't (shouldn't) everybody fall under that (but especially govt agencies)?

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Sebastian Braun @mitakuye.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If you live in Indiana, you always knew there were those people, it is just that they now wear a suit and sit at the table.

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