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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social Is it silly of me to assume that Altman & Co. decide to "slow down" AI development only because they have no idea how to advance it further now that they can't find any more training data?

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Literally reading Moby Dick (via Metcalf's Genoa) when this cloud swims by.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I hope your adblocker doesn't catch this one.

German Braunolin ad, found in a Simplicissimus from 1917. "Your face brimming over with health, and freckles obscured. You receive a strong brown tan with Braunolin (brownoline). Recommended by doctors..."

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Orcutt Shelley Miller is the best live band since sliced tea.

Triptych of Orcutt, Shelley and Miller being fan-fucking-tastic

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

PSA: penultimate does NOT mean super-duper-ultimate

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A watershed moment to flush all those turds away. I'm so happy, I could cry.

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Georg Elser, after the interrogation by the Gestapo in 1939, following his assassination attempt on Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess, Rosenberg, Streicher & Ley. If it weren't for the fog, Elser would have single-handedly prevented the greatest failure of mankind. (1/10)

Georg Else standing defiant, with bruises under his eyes.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

20 songs Steve Albini posted two years ago today exactly (plus a fortnight plus a day). Here as a playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

How am I only the 300th person to see this? Nina Nastasia has released another wonderful album (and 3 music videos) and I'm only finding out about it 3 months later. She's bypassing the streaming platforms, selling it only direct-to-fan via bandcamp: ninanastasia.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

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Nina Nastasia - No Communication

YouTube video by Nina Nastasia Official

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Today, Japan celebrates Mountain Day for the tenth time. The kanji character for "eight" (八) looks like a mountain, 11 like two trees, so naturally August 11 became a new public holiday dedicated to: appreciating mountains. I just like that.

Panorama picture of the Ligurian Apennines in the hinterland of Genoa, Italy. Soft green hills of woods and Maquis shrubland lined with mule tracks and topped with forts built between and 18th and the 19th century. You see villages nested between the hills, and parts of Genoa by the coast, with a few container ships dotted across the sea.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

How I wish I lived in a world where anything meant anything anymore. Where an 11,000 word article on how you sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands for your own personal gain would be a career-ender. How long would Watergate stay in the news today? Surely not long enough for Nixon to resign.

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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Wonderful evening

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Please help me bang the drum: @forbidden-stories.bsky.social should have a billion followers. They're a nonprofit dedicated to continuing the work of journalists who've been imprisoned/abducted/murdered for their work. Their investigations (on Gaza, Ukraine...) are invaluable & free to read here:

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Investigations - Forbidden Stories

Investigations Discover our latest investigation About the investigation Recommendations Find all of Forbidden Stories’ investigations here See more Loading… Support us so that we can continue investi...

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Forbidden Stories @forbidden-stories.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Forbidden Stories has long documented attacks on the media and exposed how Israeli forces have sought to evade accountability, through cross-border investigations like the #GazaProject. Today, alongside 130+ global press freedom leaders, we join the urgent call for immediate access to Gaza.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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Investigations - Forbidden Stories

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The least streamed song on Rich Dawson's new album might be my favourite song of 2025. Mountains of finger food, flutes of fizz Billowing bunting my self-loathing is A purse full of bile whose drawstrings are this cheery smile "How've you been getting on?" Sausage rolls and vol-au-vents

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Knot

YouTube video by Richard Dawson - Topic

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It is the height of cruelty that steve albini is dead and elon musk is alive

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

"deal" is a magic word, part of the Trumpian spell, but vacuous. Challenge to reporters: write the news, especially regarding Ukraine, without using it.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This is the only white noise video that drowns out the subwoofer array of the travelling circus across the road. Spare a thought for those poor dromedaries, torn from the tranquil wadi into the eternal noise of electronic tightrope music.

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ZENI GEVA "Desire for Agony" [Full Album]

YouTube video by Killian

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Beatrice Rana's incredible new recording of Bach's keyboard concertos. Check it out for her wonderful, effortless playing, & the communal, joyous atmosphere, & the rare balance between modern piano and the small string orchestra of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. 10/10

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Beatrice Rana plays Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. Allegro

YouTube video by Warner Classics

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The literal motto of the EU: United in Diversity

European Union, EU-Flag and the EU-motto: United in Diversity (In varietate concordia)

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The current state of the used Tesla market in Germany

The burnt out hull of a Tesla Model 3 offered for 900€ (757GBP, 36777TRY, 5576BRL).

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

[Fucking kill him (2x) Kill him already kill him] (3x) Just Fucking kill him (2x) Fucking kill him already kill him Fucking kill him (2x) Kill him already kill him Kill him already (2x) "Just" breaks the regular pattern, a disturbance reflected in a later trochee & epizeuxis w/ "fucking kill him".

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We need to build a European Silicon Valley and actively recruit highly trained scientists and professionals who don't feel at home in the US anymore. Build the reservoir, pump and pipes for their brain drain. So much potential.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

22 Feb 1943 - Sophie Scholl's last words: "Such a fine, sunny day and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred into action?"

A young Sophie Scholl, smiling with all the joy in the world.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Elser was executed in Dachau, on April 9, 1945 - like many other prominent dissidents - as Hitler's regime collapsed. For years, Nazi propaganda and conspiracy theories obscured his legacy. But Georg Elser, acting alone, came closer than anyone to saving millions from war and genocide. (10/10)

Memorial plaque at the Gasteig Cultural Center in Munich unveiled on November 9, 1989, at the spot where the column was located. That's how long it took before Elser was finally recognized as the hero he was.

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Georg Restle @georgrestle.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Ungedeckte Schecks in Wahlprogrammen. ifo-Institut (!) zeigt jetzt auch große Finanzierungslücken bei BSW, AfD, FDP und CDU.

Ifo-Institut: BSW -199 Mrd., AfD: -155 Mrd., FDP:-142mrd., CDU: -97 Mrd., SPD: -8 Mrd. Grüne: -2 Mrd. Linke : + 50 Mrd.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Two ways to misread satire: 1. Take it literally. 2. Dismiss the earnest within. The tenderness of "where her garments come together, where I used to lay my face" is still as tender. And that second half - when you listen to it today - you just can't help but feel it deep in your guts.

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Prayer To God

YouTube video by Shellac - Topic

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NS-Dokumentationszentrum München @nsdoku.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Wir erinnern an Regina Rivka Becher, Max Meir Blum, Leopold Arie Leib Gimpel, David Jakubowicz, Siegfried Offenbacher, Georg Eljakim Pfau und Rosa Drucker. Sie starben bei dem antisemitischen Anschlag auf das Wohnheim der Jüdischen Gemeinde am 13. Februar 1970 in München.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Glory to Ukraine.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Americans love to tell each other that, if they had a time-machine, they'd kill baby Hitler. They say that because it's - conveniently - impossible. When their actual present-time government builds an actual concentration camp for immigrants, they can't even be bothered to show up to a protest.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In early 1939, Elser began gathering materials for his bomb. He stole explosives and detonators from a quarry where he worked and hid them in a false-bottom suitcase. In his parents' orchard, he tested prototypes, refining a timer mechanism to ensure precision. (5/10)

Side view of the replica of the explosive device with a view of the two clockworks (right) and the firing mechanism (left).

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"At least 1,426,000 people have demonstrated against the right across Germany since the beginning of the year."

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

300,000 against fascism Bravo, München! ❤️

Collage showing pictures from today's demonstration against fascism and racism. Bigger crowds than during the Oktoberfest. Much love from the Swifties, too.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Bit tired of people compiling evidence like they're unravelling some grand mystery. The case is long solved. They never tried to hide it: They're taking away your rights. They're coming for all of them, one by one, till it's over. So put away your calabash pipe and stand in their fucking way.

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