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@gillespe.bsky.social

created November 24, 2024

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In Germany, electric vehicle charging stations at gas stations is common. Highway locations often have a lot of charger infrastructure connected to the power grid. Residential areas frequently see the upgrade of street-side parking with chargers.

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1/9/2025, 6:04:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bernd Pickert (@berndpickert.bsky.social) reposted

Unsere langjährige Moskau-Korrespondentin Inna Hartwich verlässt Russland. Das ist ein beruflicher und emotionaler Einschnitt für sie und ein herber Schlag für die @taz.de. Zum Abschied hat Inna einen wirklich beeindruckenden Text geschrieben. Unbedingt lesenswert!!!! taz.de/Abschied-von...

11/8/2025, 10:23:26 AM | 152 58 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

Wenn Aufmerksamkeit die knappste Ressource unserer Zeit ist, dann wurde sie in den letzten 36 Stunden grandios vergeudet – zwischen Geburtstagskarten, Migrationsgipfeln, AI-Agenten und G20-Gipfel gab es Themen, die mehr Beachtung verdient hätten. Oder einfach mal auf die eigene Umwelt achten :)

19/7/2025, 10:37:38 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kreml Plots | #standwithukraine (@kremlplots.bsky.social) reposted

Russland möchte gerne Telegram und WhatsApp aus Russland verbannen und die User zur Nutzung des staatlichen Messengers "Max" zwingen. Man geht aber subtiler vor: Mehrmals pro Woche werden Telegram und WhatsApp vom Netz getrennt und Influencer, wie die Rapperin "Instasamka", promoten "Max" offensiv.

6/7/2025, 12:21:44 PM | 43 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katharina Nasobem_lyricum (@nasobem.bsky.social) reposted

Lest euch unbedingt diesen Thread zu Papst Leo von Martin Gak, einem Vatikan-Spezialisten. Sehr spannend und informativ! Check out this thread at Thread Reader App. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19205...

9/5/2025, 8:42:23 AM | 41 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Tried ChatGPT to turn random sketches into realistic images and it works impressively well. Outperformed other models I tested - worth a try.

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30/4/2025, 5:53:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Today, 70 years ago Albert Einstein passed away. Einstein was a critical mind, a humanitarian, a challenger. In a strange, little-known post-mortem, his brain was illegally removed, sliced into 240 pieces, and stored for decades…in a basement in Kansas. In this video, he explains E=mc² himself. ⚛️

18/4/2025, 2:58:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

Great one - back in 2001 I recorded this from the movie to put in on my MP3 player (long way before streaming:)

18/4/2025, 2:30:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

If you have kids, please listen to that: open.spotify.com/episode/1hKD...

1/4/2025, 6:27:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads,
17/3/2025, 6:30:20 PM | 61138 17278 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Just as Putin with Crimea… involuntary volunteers.

5/3/2025, 10:36:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

...und die Geschichte geht weiter. Nach dem Impeachment verlor Trump die Wahl, und Putin verlor Trump. Auch Putin rächt sich. Hätte Trump bereits 2021 wie heute gehandelt – mit unvorbereiteter EU, schwacher NATO, UK-EU-Feindseligkeit und überschätzter russischer Macht - Es wäre noch viel schlimmer.

4/3/2025, 9:37:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) reposted

Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

2/3/2025, 1:20:18 PM | 2384 671 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) reposted

"Putin went through a hell of a lot with me." ~Donald Trump

28/2/2025, 7:07:28 PM | 3427 888 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Doemens (@karldoemens.bsky.social) reposted

Das alles begann übrigens mit dem „perfect call“ vom Juli 2019, als Trump Selenskyj zum ersten Mal erpressen wollte. Es ist Teil seines Rachefeldzugs und der revisionistischen Geschichtsfälschung: er (und Putin) waren „Opfer“ der „Russia hoax“ (und des Impeachments), der Ukrainer ist der Bösewicht.

1/3/2025, 12:20:24 PM | 50 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for that. Good questions. Asked a similar question yesterday, if E.M should endorse the AFD. Answer was a clear "No".

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23/2/2025, 8:11:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Makes wonder if some EU regulations – like the ones on Privacy – aren't actually pretty sensible.

22/2/2025, 4:35:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

The challenge lies in maintaining focus in such an environment. Some of the people may be able to do it on their own. Yet as a society we need some very conscious efforts to right the ship, just as we did with physical drugs or gambling.

26/1/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

It's no surprise that institutions, societies, and governments struggle under the strain. Attention has become the most valuable commodities, relentlessly mined by the richest individuals and companies in the world. Reading Clarke's words today shows that we created a world designed to distract us.

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Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

Today across all platforms, billions of hours of content are available, an unimaginable scale. This endless stream of distractions pulls at our minds, diminishing our capacity to ponder and wonder.

26/1/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

...you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that’s available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges – absorbing but never creating."

26/1/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

"Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else,...

26/1/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social) reply parent

Even it was written in 1953, when vacuum tubes were standard, transistors were yet to rise, and Earth had no manmade satellite (Sputnik was 1957). Yet the book holds up well. Clarke predicted automation, computers, social mobility, and even the impact of mass media with astonishing foresight.

26/1/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Just finished "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke. In the book the idea of 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. He feared a future where people consumed entertainment at the expense of creativity. Today 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲.

26/1/2025, 12:04:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Gut dargestellt und mit der NZZ einer Quelle, die auch den konservativen Ansprüchen unverdächtig ist. youtu.be/6bYnG07YO80?...

8/1/2025, 7:42:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gillespe.bsky.social (@gillespe.bsky.social)

Heute morgen bereits gehört und mich wie immer sehr gefreut über die Information & Einordnung 🙏

2/1/2025, 11:03:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alice Bota (@alicebota.bsky.social) reposted

Seit langem wollten wir Hanna Notte zu Gast haben im #Ostcast - 2025 ist’s endlich soweit! Mit @hannanotte.bsky.social sprachen wir über Russlands Einfluss im Nahen Osten, die Kooperation mit Iran, was Putin durch Assads Flucht aus Syrien verloren hat www.zeit.de/politik/2024...

2/1/2025, 9:04:50 AM | 34 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alice Bota (@alicebota.bsky.social) reposted

Wie Putin mit seinen nuklearen Drohungen die Hemmschwelle für atomaren Einsatz in der russischen Gesellschaft senkt - und wie er den deutschen Wahlkampf erreicht. Wer gut gewappnet sein will für die Diskussion mit dem Onkel an Weihnachten, hier entlang #Ostcast www.zeit.de/politik/2024...

5/12/2024, 8:58:00 AM | 80 20 | View on Bluesky | view