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Parenting and Pedaling Rugby and IP laws Washing and Warmachines Cold war temperate climate kid Giggling Cardbox Master of pillow forts Calculated mediocrity Somewhere on the fringes of the lowlands and industrial wastes of the Ruhr.

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Dutch courts fighting to make Facebook and Instagram useable again.

08.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Es gibt einen Grund warum ich da primär mit Nordics interagiert habe.

Mein exzellentes Englisch war es sicher nicht.

08.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Streit in der CSU: Ex-Parteichefs Seehofer und Huber kritisieren Söder für Anti-Grünen-Kurs Zwei Ex-CSU-Chefs halten die »Brandmauer« zu den Grünen des amtierenden Parteivorsitzenden Markus Söder für einen strategischen Fehler. Sie warnen vor politischen Folgen für die Regierungsfähigkeit de...

Zwei frühere Chefs der #CSU halten Söders Kurs der harten Abgrenzung von den #Grünen für einen strategischen Fehler. Sie warnen vor politischen Folgen für die Regierungsfähigkeit der #Union.
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

08.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Ha!

Ihr seid von Twitter hier rüber. Nicht von Mastodon.

Erklärt alles!

08.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

07.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 981    🔁 303    💬 40    📌 39
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Beeindruckend, wie nahtlos man "freundlich" und "lobend" mit "übergriffig" und "anmaßend" verbinden kann. :D

08.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 54    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries colored according to their government's stance on ChatControl in 2025. The legend explains: Green stands for "Against", Blue for "Undecided", and Red for "In Favor".

The following countries are in favor (red): Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

The following countries are against it (green): Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The following countries are undecided (blue): Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Romania.

At the bottom is the call to action: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries colored according to their government's stance on ChatControl in 2025. The legend explains: Green stands for "Against", Blue for "Undecided", and Red for "In Favor". The following countries are in favor (red): Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. The following countries are against it (green): Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The following countries are undecided (blue): Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Romania. At the bottom is the call to action: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

🇪🇺YOU ARE AMAZING: ❤️ Your protest stopped #ChatControl! I hear Germany isn't caving in; so there's no majority in the EU Council. Digital privacy is safe for now! Let's celebrate this huge success TOGETHER! 🎉
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[Original post on digitalcourage.social]

07.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 38    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 3

„were here during the Civil War“

Well, I know a demographic that definitely was.

07.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

„Gender neutral male standards“

07.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Xiaoying You: "Nearly 80% of CATL’s overseas investment has been in Europe. The company has pumped $12.3 billion into three production hubs, according to the September analysis. Its German facility is up and running, while its plants in Hungary and Spain are under construction." #battchat

07.10.2025 16:38 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Chatkontrolle stoppen! Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...

Wenn ihr das auch so seht, unterschreibt hier:

weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

07.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 388    🔁 155    💬 21    📌 2

Die #Chatkontrolle ist ein massiver Eingriff in die Grundrechte. Wenn sie kommt, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation in Europa mehr geben.

Das gilt es bei der Abstimmung im EU-Rat nächste Woche zu verhindern. Denn es geht um unsere Freiheit.

07.10.2025 14:10 — 👍 1907    🔁 616    💬 42    📌 7

mit ohne nicht

07.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.

Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

07.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 81    🔁 29    💬 6    📌 8

The point is that the equipment was just fine for the specs and doctrine. But when you start a two front world war, it’s not the equipments fault that you lose it.

It was specced for overcoming Poland and France as quickly as possible. Not for fighting the largest land war in human history.

07.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They were harder to maintain.

Which is similar but not the same.

Most German tanks were built with quick campaigns in mind.

07.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Erzähl mir nix!

Das ist doch alles inzwischen KI!

07.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Reliability is always shit when your repair depot gets overrun.

07.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sicher?

07.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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(𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛)

www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/a...

07.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

07.10.2025 08:17 — 👍 923    🔁 339    💬 42    📌 55

Take Spain e.g.: Gas power plants only set the price there 15% of the time. This makes these cost inefficient the rest of the time.

07.10.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dobrindt soll zumindest einmal das richtige tun und den Doktor wieder nach vorne holen. Wozu hat man sonst nen CSU Innenminister?

07.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aber inzwischen lediglich auf der Rückseite. Scheiss.

07.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Friedrich Merz: “Eine Wurst ist nicht vegan”

Konrad Adenauer: ⬇️

07.10.2025 10:46 — 👍 1553    🔁 470    💬 66    📌 42
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@josdings.bsky.social: "An unsung success of EU policy that electric roadtrippers will have noticed: impressively fast rollout of fast charging along Europe's motorways

funding "CEF-AFIF" = instrumental

Performance-based, it pays out EUR20-30k per fast charger within 2km of an exit"

07.10.2025 10:25 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Nah. Getting savely to retirement is paramount.

07.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hard agree. It's a paradox that in Denmark right now, there is a discussion about whether it would be an aggressive move to acquire long-range strike capabilities that can reach Russia. How do these people assume we will be fighting a war if we don't have weapons that can reach the enemy?

07.10.2025 09:42 — 👍 226    🔁 35    💬 16    📌 1

May copyright help us all!

07.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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„Tankstellen sollten verpflichtet werden, auch Strom anzubieten” Umwelt- und Klimaschutzminister Carsten Schneider (SPD) will bessere Tarife für E-Ladesäulen und auf dem Autogipfel einen Schub für E-Autos aus Europa. Er fährt selbst eins, aber auch gerne Bahn.

Interessant
www.rnd.de/wirtschaft/m...

06.10.2025 07:19 — 👍 265    🔁 42    💬 21    📌 7

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