Gráinne O'Connell (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🦄

Legendärer Berliner Queer-Club: Schwuz muss nach fast 50 Jahren schließen Am 1. November schließt Berlins legendärer queerer Club Schwuz seine Türen. Zum Schluss soll es eine große Abschiedsparty geben.

Rettung gescheitert: Das Schwuz in Berlin muss schließen.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

America Needs a Project 2029 The road back from here will be harder.

Trump has so transformed and degraded the machinery of American government that it isn't enough to just beat him or his successor. Someone has to rebuild the liberal democratic state.

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

Essential reading
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

It's just so brazenly evil beyond words

@niamhberlin.bsky.social

Die Rückkehr der "Transvestiten-Karteien" muss verhindert werden Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern...

Das Bundesinnenministerium von Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) plant ein Sonderregister für alle Menschen, die das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz in Anspruch genommen haben. Das ist nicht nur geschichtslos, sondern brandgefährlich

11th & final speaker Afonso Malo talks about Breaking Through The Instragramification of our Industry

He feels unhealthy & unproductive comparisons are negatively affecting people’s happiness. Very curious talk

@productatheart.bsky.social

#ProductAtHeart #Instagramification #Comparison

10th speaker Tim Leberecht, @timleberecht.bsky.social presents the idea of Supercurator: How to Make a Difference When Everything’s Too Much

He impressively ties the crises of climate change & information overload.

@productatheart.bsky.social

#ProductAtHeart #Curation #Intentionality #DarkMode

9th speaker Elena Verna talks about From Self-Serve to Self-Build: The Next Evolution of PLG

Gives a great overview of what growth is: Product + Distribution

Distribute & optimise your growth loops

@productatheart.bsky.social

#ProductAtHeart #Distribution #Growth #ProductLedGrowth #GrowthLoop

6th speaker Marc Roulet, 7th speaker Julia Bastian & 8th speaker Andrey Vinitsky spoke about Metrics to Meaning: Data-Driven Product Decisions

@productatheart.bsky.social

#ProductAtHeart #Data #DataDriven #Product #Visualisation #Analytics

3rd speaker, Dominik Faber @thekeyplayingfox.bsky.social, 4th speaker Zamina Ahmad @zamina-ahmad.bsky.social & 5th speaker Jonathan Evens spoke about AI in Practice: Insights for the Road Ahead

@productatheart.bsky.social #ProductAtHeart #AI

#ProductAtHeart conference kicks off with 1st 2 speakers @martycagan.bsky.social & Henrik Kniberg

2 really inspiring talks about founder-style leadership and AI agents.

#Founders #FounderMode #AI #AIAgents

@productatheart.bsky.social

The Novara Live team has been nominated for the Amnesty UK People’s Choice Award! Cast your vote for Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker here: www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote

Just a reminder: there are new Novara Live episodes every weekday at 6pm UK time on our YouTube channel.

Read my analysis here! And support QueerAF, who are breaking their backs trying to help me get this info out there!

List is more updated. So the total of protests announced in the last 48 hours is about 21.

All over the UK.

I have also linked some fundraisers to Trans Legal Project and the @goodlawproject.bsky.social

And included petitions too.

If you don't like our trans inclusive stance, don't visit. It's not like you've been visiting anyway, keep that up.

Term 2 Trump foreign policy - from tariffs to NATO to soft power to China and Russia - is an epic mess. One reason seems to be that the administration is operating with two conflicting, equally flawed, views of the world and the US's place in it. 🧵

I feel like more people need to be aware of the quote from the AIDS crisis “Bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance all night.” To continue to find joy is an act of revolution itself.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

This is a big story with essential reporting from @alexreisner.bsky.social

New details about the massive scale of the database that Meta, OpenAI, and others used to train AI products

And internal documents showing Meta employees debating over copyright issues

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Here’s Elon Musk’s Government Email (Do With This What You Will) Elon Musk’s government email address is now public.

The government email address of powerful unelected bureaucrat Elon Musk is now publicly available.

erm71@who.eop.gov

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.

The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!

This is the power of representation.

BlueSky is one year old today. 🎉 In this thread, @altmetric.com compares its growth in disseminating academic research to Twitter's, where misinformation continues to spread. #BlueSky #SocialMedia #AcademicSky #IOEIDL

I wrote a letter to Jan-Marco Luczak, the CDU Spitzenkandidat in Berlin, member of the Bundestag and candidate in my district of Tempelhof Schoneberg.

We do not defeat fascists by wearing their clothes.

Please share.

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French movement asks X users to leave platform on US inauguration day The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X, formerly Twitter, on January 20.

The French Human Rights League is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X on January 20

www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama

The strain on scientific publishing Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

“The strain on scientific publishing” el trabajo en el que Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto, Pablo Gómez Barreiro & Mark Hanson ponen datos a lo que muchos pensábamos, sospechábamos, intuíamos, ya está publicado doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.

Here it is: my viral Bluesky thread significantly expanded into a full essay. Hope you will share it with anyone you think might be interested.