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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Vor sieben Jahren wurde der CDU-Politiker Walter Lübcke nach einer jahrelangen Hetzkampagne auf seiner Terrasse von einem AfD-Sympathisanten und -Wahlkämpfer erschossen. Heute wirbt der CDU-Ministerpräsident Hessens dafür, der AfD Vorsitzendenposten im Landtag zu geben. Was für eine Schande!

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Andy Garcia meets the “Godfather 3, not so much’’ contingent at the Zurich Film Festival closing ceremony

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Télérama @telerama.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Une centaine de cinémas dans toute la France ont pris symboliquement ce 2 octobre le nom du cinéaste engagé contre la guerre d’Algérie, après la décision d’un maire d’extrême droite des Pyrénées-Orientales de débaptiser le cinéma local.

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Une centaine de cinémas se rebaptisent “René-Vautier” en réaction à la censure du maire d’Elne

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

It’s been darkly amusing watching people deal with the fact that Trump actually had not imposed a permanent change to our culture and politics that would allow them to be their worst selves without friction. Some are doubling down, hence the neighborhood bar fascination, and others are pivoting hard

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

File under “proof of genocidal intent”

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On a fundamental level, in early 1990s, no matter who you were and what you did, you had no influence over the fact that Russians (Belarusians, Central Asians etc) were accustomed and comfortable with living in authoritarianism, while Poles were obsessed with freedom in all shapes and sizes.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nothing captures the idiocy of Berlin BER airport better than this: you should have kept Tegel, not dedicate a memorial lounge to it.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s Tim Burton tribute night at the opening ceremony of the Zurich Film Festival

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/09/2026

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👻🎃 Bundescancleramt 🎃👻 @ellebil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tag 2 nach der Wahl. Berlin ist nicht wiederzuerkennen. Über Dahlem liegt das dumpfe Schluchzen der Eigentümer. Im Westen stauen sich SUVs mit hastig verladenem kulturellem Kapital. Erste Augenzeugen berichten von bezahlbarem Wohnraum. Wie konnte man es nur so weit kommen lassen? Ein Lagebericht.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vielleicht so etwas in der Art der Merkel-CDU mit ihren 36-42% Stimmenanteil?

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Robert Misik @misik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bemerkenswert: die CDU hatte mit Angela Merkel eine Chefin, die sozusagen fett in der Mitte saß und große Mehrheiten holte. Funktionäre träumten von einem rechteren Kurs. Sie setzten sich durch und das Ergebnis ist flugs die Selbstabschaffung der CDU. Und sie haben es noch nicht mal verstanden.

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵

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Anna Berg @bergdame.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Die CDU ist halt auch einfach selbst schuld, die haben sich das Merz Ei selbst gelegt. Das war keine Überraschung, dass der nichts kann und völlig ungeeignet ist für den Job.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Julian Nida-Rümelin gefällt das nicht.

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An important question in international law will be whether every American voter is an accessory to war crimes and this, or only those who voted for Trump.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Need someone to write an EU expansion strategy paper: From Toronto to Tirana (with an helpful explanatory preface that Toronto is pronounced Tirana by Torontonians).

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Manuel Oberhuber @manueloberhuber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Unglaublich: Diese Stange wurde vor einem Jahr in das Eis des größten Gletschers der Alpen gebohrt, dem Aletschgletscher. 🇨🇭 Allein in den letzten 3 Monaten sind hier fast 6 Meter Eis geschmolzen. Der Rekordsommer 2026 hinterlässt tiefe Spuren. 📸 A. Linsbauer via @matthias_huss

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Understandable. After Germany has paid full reparations to Ukraine for WW2 they will need some of that money back to sray afloat.

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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

lrt: i've talked about this before on here, but far right political movements are in fact intrinsically antisocial and criminal, and can prob be stopped in every country in which they're rising simply by enforcing existing law against them

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Like Hegel himself, Fukuyama dismissed the agency and even the historicity of Africans, and therefore he was unable to see the importance and even centrality of the anti-colonial struggle to completing liberalism and along with it modernity.

There is, however, one further dimension that is critical for our analysis. This has to do with an emerging historiography purporting a teleological unfolding of freedom in the form of liberal democracy on a global scale, The latter, as is well known, has found its most articulate expression in Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man. Fukuyama’s neo-Hegelian rendition of the Absolute Idea as market civilization in a liberal-democratic shell, amounts to a massive erasure of the record of how that democracy has come about, and who has been its leitmotiv. In contradistinction to the thesis of democracy’s inevitability contained in Fukuyama’s logical march of ‘History,’ it is rather more the case that the liberty of nations and of individuals has in fact been the result of persistent struggles by the marginalized in the world.

– Randolph B. Persaud, Re-envisioning Sovereignty: Marcus Garvey and the Making of a Transnational Identity, in Africa’s Challenge to International Relations Theory (Dunn and Shaw)

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is telling how in all lamentation about how "blue collar workers" are shifting to the AfD so much German political and media discourse does not engage with how much of Germany's "blue collar" and services workforce is made up of citizen or non-citizen immigrant labour that the AfD wants to expel

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The collapse of Russia will be the most important step in that direction.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sailboat “Ohana”, currently on the market for USD 19 million (following a price cut of more than USD 2 million in July m) at bay at sunrise, Astypalaia. Ah, the blessings of marinetraffic.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As with Labour and Keir Starmer in the May regional elections in the UK, I struggle to see how Friedrich Merz can survive as leader of the CDU after such a sign of strategic ineptitude as the election results in Sachsen Anhalt

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Carl Schmitt oder Friedrich Merz - Hauptsache Sauerland.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The inherent modernism of Greek architecture

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 03/09/2026

I note that the US is now redefining “democratic backsliding” as “the European Union” and “immigration”.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 29/08/2026

Hammer just released Four Sided Triangle for free on YouTube. It's an interesting ethical sci-fi drama about cloning, shot through with some very 1950s ideas about gender roles, but definitely worth 80 minutes of your time.

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Four Sided Triangle (1953) | FULL FILM in 4K | Hammer's Cloning Sci-Fi Thriller

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him.

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Wie ein bedeutender deutscher Publizist einmal über NZZ-Chefredakteur Gujer sagte: „Als er noch Deutschlandkorrespondent war, ist er uns gar nicht so aufgefallen.“ www.woz.ch/!A1V313YTJD81

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Auf allen Kanälen: Was heisst «liberal»?

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thinking about fighting the patriarchal roots of the concept of "patrimoine" with fancy theory merch

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

3. Why is DEI perceived by its "beneficiaries" within the academy as window dressing that failed to meaningfully address numerical disparities in hiring let alone their structural causes, and by others outside the academy as having transformed higher ed into a monolithic bastion of "DEI faculty"?

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

2. How do hiring practices in the DEI era compare to the postwar era, when a small caste of elite young white men were often installed in prominent positions on the basis of patronage by established mentors but little career achievement? Why is one so corrosive to meritocracy but not the other?

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Some questions/thoughts on DEI in the academy as an informed but once-removed observer. 1. How do the infractions Jason Arday was guilty of compare to the longstanding pre-DEI tradition of high-value professors not crediting the work/co-authorship of their research assts, particularly women?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Reiche Leute ballen sich sn Schweizer Seeufern, nur nicht sm Murten-, Bieler- und Neuenburgersee (Quelle: Blick)

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