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@joewein.bsky.social

German software engineer and cyclist in Japan. Politics, environment, cyber security.

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In Japan hat jedes Zimmer, egal ob Apartment oder Einfamilienhaus, von vornherein ein Loch (mit Stöpsel) in der Wand für die Kühlmittel- und Kondenswasserleitungen sowie eine Steckdose in der Nähe oben an der Wand, damit der Mieter jederzeit das innere Modul der Wärmepumpe installieren lassen kann.

16.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Tariffs Did Is this the end of the trade war?

The trade war behind Trump’s tariffs “might be coming to a strange end,” @annielowrey.bsky.social writes—but the consequences would be messy:

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I Want You to Understand Chicago

"I Want You to Understand Chicago"
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15.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 435    🔁 171    💬 12    📌 17
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but it's kinda tricky when Putin may have pictures of Donald and Bubba

15.11.2025 11:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Das grosse Versprechen von H2 war das Betanken in Minutenschnelle und die längere Reichweite im Vergleich zu Batterien. Doch das extrem dünne Tankstellennetz ist jetzt sein Pferdefuss, von Kosten und schlechter Effizienz ganz abgesehen. BEVs haben H2 schon lange überholt und der Abstand wächst.

15.11.2025 11:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mark Epstein's clarification is not helpful to Trump at all. By focussing only on the identity of "Bubba", he indirectly confirmed that the incident actually took place.

15.11.2025 02:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Translation: The publication of the Epstein emails is really hurting Dementia J. Trump!

14.11.2025 06:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Remember that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley

Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal

Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz

Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics

Every MAGA accusation is a confession

14.11.2025 00:32 — 👍 1148    🔁 350    💬 19    📌 12
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Thanksgiving is the time to share your blessings with your family and your closest, most enigmatic friends.

13.11.2025 07:07 — 👍 7323    🔁 2788    💬 242    📌 105
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Wind- und Solar-Energie wirken! Der CO2-Ausstoss Chinas steigt seit 18 Monaten nicht mehr, fällt leicht und wird sich ab nächstem Jahr merklich reduzieren.
#COP30 @luisaneubauer.bsky.social

13.11.2025 07:09 — 👍 170    🔁 45    💬 7    📌 2

This should get a Pulitzer. It's going to be an all-time classic.

07.11.2025 07:53 — 👍 6603    🔁 1241    💬 393    📌 51

Die Aussage ist richtig, aber das Zitat stammt ursprünglich *nicht* von Hannah Arendt. Ich hatte schon vor 7 Monaten mal darauf hingewiesen.

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07.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | Sudan Is in Free Fall

We have now entered the most catastrophic phase of the war in Sudan.
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06.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 486    🔁 180    💬 15    📌 13

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.

He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.

How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

04.11.2025 01:55 — 👍 30718    🔁 7155    💬 1636    📌 430
Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”

Wolff quotes economic adviser Gary Cohn writing in an email: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”

Anything long enough that reading it involved turning pages, he probably didn't read it.

01.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

01.11.2025 12:59 — 👍 561    🔁 283    💬 4    📌 12

Sales of internal combustion engine cars globally peaked back in 2017. Since then any growth has come from electrified vehicles such as BEVs or Plugin-hybrids. Japan is an outlier amongst developed countries, with a BEV market share below that of lower income countries such as Thailand and Malaysia.

31.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wir wollen nicht mehr sein wie ihr! Die Chefredakteurin Margarita Simonjan von „Russia Today“ erklärt, warum immer mehr RussInnen Putin lieben – und den Westen verachten. Ein Warnruf. Die Chefin des TV-Senders versteht sich selbst als l...

Feminismus, das war mal! Bye, bye, EMMA!

"Die Chefredakteurin Margarita Simonjan von „Russia Today“ erklärt, warum immer mehr RussInnen Putin lieben – und den Westen verachten."

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31.10.2025 08:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hell of way to try to win the Nobel peace prize!

30.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This would be so on-brand

30.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Calling the global pace of switching to EVs in recent years "subdued" is a bit misleading.

Last month, global sales of electric vehicles increased 26% YoY. Sales in Europe increased 36%. 51% of sales in China, the biggest global car market, are now electric. 1/6 of new cars in Thailand are EVs.

30.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It still does that, BTW. I searched Google for the incident just now and Google's helpful AI saved me from having to go to any other posts.

29.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

s/bottom left/bottom right/

29.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Berlin, 80 years later:

The New Reich Chancellery was completely demolished.

The parking lot at the bottom left is where Hitler's ballroom once stood (on top of the "Führerbunker" where he ended his own life).

On the the top left is the memorial for millions of murdered Jews.

29.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

8 vacations in the first 7 months on the job must be really rough. I don't know how he does it.

29.10.2025 07:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LDP+JIP want to cut 50 proportional representation seats in parliament. This is a mortal threat to Komeito: 20 out 24 Komeito lower house seats in 2024 were from PR vs. only 59 out of 191 the LDP won. Komeito has no choice but to fight back hard.

29.10.2025 04:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stefan Rahmstorf: "Als Donald Trump das erste Mal gewählt wurde, habe ich geweint" Der Klima-Diskurs steckt in der Krise: Alle Warnungen treffen auf taube Ohren. Wie man darüber nicht verzweifelt, erklärt der Klimaforscher Stefan Rahmstorf im Gespräch.

Neues Interview, ohne paywall. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

27.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 261    🔁 105    💬 16    📌 9
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Having this guy meet in Japan with the families of those abducted by North Korean dictators is a little ironic, considering he allocated $170,000,000,000 in his budget for ICE to abduct millions of fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters off American streets by unidentified masked men

28.10.2025 10:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

He's like a 4th grader getting a chance to redesign a nuclear powered carrier.🤡

28.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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