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Dani

@placebo-effekt.bsky.social
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In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind, be more kind, my friends. Try to be more kind.

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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Here's a new one for me: Northern lights over Berlin. 😍
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy holidays from me and this old girl, still going strong. 🥰🎄
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Anesthesiologist: I'll just insert this weapon of mass destruction right here, your arm might feel tingly and then you'll get tired within 20 seconds or so, nothing to worry about.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
@winterl0ver.bsky.social 😂
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/12/2025
This is Levi. He encountered a forbidden stick while on his walk. Decided to go for it anyway. 13/10 (TT: levisgoldenworld)
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Was looking for a rather specific travel guide book (which may be too specific and not exist, actually) and was confronted for the first time with the absolute flood of random-ass AI books on Amazon these days. Backed away so fucking fast. #Enshittification
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Not to be like that, but god, this Covid thing is boring as hell. I basically feel fine again (some coughing and sniffles, nothing to write home about, no doubt thanks to countless vaccines), but still testing sooo positive. I am going a little stir-crazy over here. 🫠
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
*throws everything I've got at this bout of The Rona* (also, this is a bit rude five days after getting my booster shot, lol.)
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Here's to a life hack that really probably does not apply outside of academia: when the job market is shitty, just go forth and create your own position (along with several others). In related news, I just got the biggest achievement of my professional life to date. Cheers!
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I don't want to jinx it, but it's looking like my needing to find a job woes may completely evaporate in the best possible way. Will take any crossed limbs for the next 4-6 weeks to ensure that this option really materializes.
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kermit the frog from the muppet show is holding his hand to his chin .
ALT: kermit the frog from the muppet show is holding his hand to his chin .
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Me: *buys a new bookshelf because the old ones are overflowing and I also need to take home my sciencey books from the office* Me, immediately after: oh no, I need to buy more books, these shelfs are so empty!!
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Lads, my gut instinct was right and my overactive ovaries have produced another large (5ish cm) cyst. 😬 It's a hybrid model (half Endo, half functional cyst), so there is hope that my body may be able to resolve at least part of it without intervention. But JFC, this is getting annoying.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I'm glad Dingo is happy. I, however, feel like my soul levitated out of my body in horror at the sight of this image, lol.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Don't threaten me with a good time.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Newsflash: being on the job market sucks and I do not like it.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I feel this dog on a spiritual level.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/07/2025
This is Taco. He is the most relaxed little guy in the world. Mostly because he does not know about emails or the economy, but shoulder rubs help too. 13/10 (IG: tacofoxyhuahua)
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Backyard fox 🦊 documentation, as seen from the balcony, for @aldiwitch.bsky.social. He has a bum leg, but otherwise is living his best life rooting around the garbage. 😁
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Let me be the first to say: LOL. (This is a German politics skeet.)
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My discipline's international academic association just moved its 2027 conference location from Chicago to Glasgow over.... *gestures in the general direction of the US* alla that. Shame it's too late to do the same with this year's conference (Denver).
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am now for the first time experiencing the one symptom you do *not* want with confirmed bowel endometriosis (I'll let you fill in the blanks to limit the public oversharing 😬) and the immediate anxiety is killing me.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
So, I guess the new strategy is to just turn the world economy off and on again until it starts working again? Cool.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I am sure feeling liberated off of what little cash is in my portfolio, lol. Btw, great trick, US gov, to tie people's retirement to the stock market, then deliberately tank it. Owning the libs by dying on the Walmart floor.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My gynaecologist described me as "a challenge" today bc neither my uterus nor both my ovaries are remotely where they are supposed to be and v difficult to image on ultrasound as a result, so that's fun. :'D But no new endo cysts, so that's good news!
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
When you google a weird recurring symptom like "swollen lymph nodes the week before period" and naturally, the answer is endometriosis. Bc ofc. Anyway, happy endometriosis awareness month, lol.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
:)
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Does... I mean, does Zuck realize things did not exactly end that well for Caesar? And right before the Ides of March, too?
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Both excellent.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The fact that my discipline's international academic association now saw the need to re-issue visa letters for this year's Denver conference omitting research topics lest they be deemed too woke is, uh, not confidence inspiring.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Aren't we all, lately?
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Not how I would ideally choose to spend my Sunday, but y'know. Not feeling the late stage Weimar Republic vibes in this house, either. Heartening, at least, to see 200k people get out there on a cold February day. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Protests in Germany against party leader who pushed migration bill backed by far right
Angry rallies in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Leipzig accuse Friedrich Merz of cooperating with AfD
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Brain is still braining, unfortunately. Think it's time to get in touch with the psychiatrist about alla that.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 07/01/2025
This is Maisy. She gets an additional party hat for each birthday, and she just turned nine. 13/10 may this tradition go on forever
a collage of nine photos of a gray bully pup wearing an increasing number of polka-dotted party hats from one to nine.
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ewww, crappy, crappy mental health night. Haven't had one of those in a while, unsure how much I can hope for this just being a random aberration. 🤔
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! I made it to the free new year's day run for the first time since 2019? 2020? I take that as a promising start. 🎉
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My thrilling NYE plan is to deep clean as much of my apartment as possible, lol. Aren't I an exciting person to know?
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Dani @placebo-effekt.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry crisis, everyone!
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