Joschka Meier

Well, that's what I thought too, but I was obviously wrong!

Sounds like you also need an overconfident dude to set you straight*

*No, no you don't, no one does

Overheard:
"Día de los Muertos? Oh, that's basically Halloween for kids."

Kinda fascinating how the dude managed to cram a whole lot of dismissive ignorance in such a neat little packet

We generally find two models of history dominating popular discourse: a heteronormative model, in which only male/female relationships may be readily accepted as romantic or sexual and so all same-gender relationships must be read as socially normative friendship, or an amatonormative model which, in being open to the possibility of same-gender romance or sex, reads all intimate friendship as actually romance in disguise. The latter is an understandable compensation for the former, which dominated much 19th-20th century scholarship, but is just as essentialising and limited.

Big thoughts on a very complicated personal and academic topic! My approach to friendship in medieval lit is always informed by having started out looking at homoerotic readings, but it's also informed by looking at history/stories/life through an aromantic lens.

finnlongman.com/no-platonic-...

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

The leading cause of death?

Covid-19

Reports @motherjones.com

The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Yesterday when I was teaching health policy, I told them that SNAP payments are not being made on November 1 and that while there is a contingency fund, they’re not using it.

My students naturally asked why they wouldn’t use these funds to help people eat.

Tough thing to answer in PG language.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC Researchers dismayed by the targeting of Preventing Chronic Disease’s editorial staff

Exclusive: Most of the government editorial staff at Preventing Chronic Disease, an academic journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 2 decades, have been told they’re being terminated, leaving the publication’s future uncertain. https://scim.ag/3LAtvJ6

wisst ihr, was absurd ist. thema nicht direkt sichtbare krankheit/behinderung.

wenn ich 1 hilfsmittel benutze, reagieren leute manchmal unfreundlich bis aggressiv. das ist: eine maske.

wenn ich 2 hilfsmittel benutze, sind praktisch alle nett und bieten noch hilfe an. das ist: maske und gehstock.

Na ja:
Töggu = (Spiel)Figur
Tisch Fussball(???) oder..Kicker oder so? = Töggelichaschte
Ergo:
Töggele = (Mit Figuren) spielen

Obligatorische Joker Variante Bärndütsch: Töggeler

Zuerst Blockchainschmarrn (original flavour), dann NFTs bis sie Klo runtergingen, immer noch fröhliche Cryptobubble und jetzt noch der GenAI-Nonsens oben drauf...

...ist nicht nur alles pausenloser Hype & Bubble cycle, sondern kann sich nicht mal mehr besseren PC zur Ablenkung gönnen deswegen 😔

Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease"

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

New career path: Telling everyone that I use generative AI for everything (and then just half-assing it with my own brain) so people I don’t respect throw piles of money at me and are cool with the final product being bad.

In a game of no consequences, why are you still playing the "good" side? Because being mean makes me feel bad. Because my no-consequences power fantasy is being able to help everyone.

Ich schon, habe mich auch gewundert

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

Vorbildlich!

Ich habe nur ne stets wachsende Sammlung von historischen Bildern verschiedener Tierarten, wobei...

.....Gibt es da Potenzial für ein unverschämt kreativ-innovatives Crossoverprojekt?

Weil wer interessiert sich nicht entweder für Kink *oder* cute animals content?

Rechts im Bild kniet der heilige Bernard und ist verzückt wie eine Statue von Maria (links im Bild) ihm treffsicher einen Strahl heiliger Brustmilch sauber direkt in den Mund spritzt Bild "Saint Bernard and the Virgin": https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/saint-bernard-and-the-virgin/25b83887-3b11-4a99-a9b1-3b3050733d6a

...ab und zu denk ich wieder, dass irgendjemand mal ein Grundsatzwerk dazu schreiben muss, wie & wieso Teile von Heiligenverehrung frühe Form von Fetischcontent waren.

Mit Grüssen an den heiligen Bernard und Maria, Treffsicher auf jede Distanz

"oh I wrote those comments a long time ago when I was in a different place" I'm thirty nine years old do you know what I call a sweater I got in 2021? "my new sweater."

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Ancient skeletons yield the first hormonal evidence of reproductive life University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a wa...

"first successful detection of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in bones, teeth and dental calculus, opening a way to identify pregnancy in the archaeological record." phys.org/news/2025-10... #histmed #WomensHealth #MedievalSky

It's also a design that is very distinct (i.e. odd) and, well, really bad.
So why would anyone choose a tattoo like that, unless looks are less important than other aspects of the design - and there's not exactly a lot to it, what with it being a logo of the SS.

WE DID IT! GamesMarkt has a shiny new home with a sleek design and user comforts. This took some sleepless nights because we migrated ALL 61.000 articles from the magazine's 24 year history - so if you find any hiccups, let us know, well improve it on the go! ❤
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The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

Damit die Strassen […] iren Gang hab und zu Fuessen gehalten wird: Schnee, Eis, Wasser und alpine Verkehrsinfrastruktur im Spätmittelalter Water was the cause of many problems for people living in the Alps during the Middle Ages, ranging from snow covered or muddy roads up to devastating avalanches or floods carrying away entire bridges....

New Open Access article about how people in the Alps managed to adapt to the dangers of water (14th to 16th cent.), including fun stuff like bridge recycling or why a tree was a better border than the Rhine: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#SkyStorians #Medievalsky #EarlyModern #envhist

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?