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Posts by DominicE

Chart comparing current language and recommended better language

Chart comparing current language and recommended better language

Some examples of how language matters.

Via @sightline.org www.sightline.org/2015/03/31/s...

7 months ago 176 61 11 2

Notabene befand ich mich zu dem Zeitpunkt auf einer Quartierstrasse, die Teil der internationalen Veloroute Eurovelo 6 und einer nationalen Veloroute.

So, das musste ich mal in den Äther hauen.

Wie geht Ihr mit diesem Frust um, konstant von Menschen im Unrecht am Leben bedroht zu werden...?

7 months ago 1 0 0 0

Bike rant #393819
Heute ist ein Boomer in seinem Porsche SUV 2 m vor mir aus seinem Parkplatz gefahren und hat mich beim Rausfahren mit folgenden Worten angeschnauzt: "Das ist hier kein Radweg sondern eine Strasse." Das ist so falsch auf so vielen Ebenen.
Auf Strassen darf man andere überfahren?

7 months ago 1 0 1 0

every single day on the exactly same streets...

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I just finished reading the paperback. It's a phenomenal book and it filled in a lot of blank spots in my understandig. And now I can even show it to my kids! 😀
I'm planning to assign each chapter of the book to one of my students to present for my advanced biology class. 🦑

8 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Independent estimate of Gaza deaths is higher than official figures

A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 people in Gaza died violent deaths, while Gaza's health ministry estimates 46,000 for the same period

9 months ago 9 11 2 0

ach das warst Du eben! 🍾

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Pedestrians walk over a front car hood that stop in the pedestrian lane
Pedestrians walk over a front car hood that stop in the pedestrian lane YouTube video by Edco0328

I'd just walk over the car

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vixF...

11 months ago 9 1 0 0
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Solche "Sprachunfälle" passieren einfach noch zu oft!

sprachkompass.ch/themen/verke...

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Unfallsprache – Sprachunfall Neutrale, unpersönliche Formulierungen in Unfallberichten verhindern präventive Massnahmen und lassen Unfälle als schicksalhaft erscheinen.

"[Er ist] beim Rechtsabbiegen auf eine zweispurige Strasse in die Menschengruppe geraten."
Dieses Wording ist nicht ok. Ein Auto wird immer gelenkt. Das gerät nicht einfach in eine Menschenmenge.
Hier eine Anleitung, wie solche Berichte formuliert werden müssten: sprachkompass.ch/themen/verke...

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Oxfam beklagt starken Anstieg von Managergehältern »Völlig losgekoppelt«: Die Gehälter deutscher Spitzenmanager stiegen laut einer Oxfam-Analyse zuletzt 30-mal so stark wie die Reallöhne aller Beschäftigten. Vorstandsbosse bekamen demnach 2024 satte 4...

„Die Mediangehälter von Spitzenmanagern sind weltweit zwischen 2019 und 2024 um 50 Prozent gestiegen – 56-mal so stark wie die Reallöhne von Beschäftigten, die nur um 0,9 Prozent zulegten.“
Wichtige Studie von Oxfam zur wachsenden Ungleichheit:
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

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Wie war das damals mit den "Email-Servern" von Hillary Clinton? 🤦‍♂️ Every accusation is a confession...

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Tief gesunken: Ehemaliger Reality-TV-Star macht jetzt Infomercials für Autos Washington (dpo) - Traurig, wie weit es mit ihm gekommen ist: Der einst von Millionen bewunderte Reality-TV-Star und Geschäftsmann Donald Trump steckt

Tief gesunken: Ehemaliger Reality-TV-Star macht jetzt Infomercials für Autos

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Sam Seder ist enttäuscht und seine Seele hat seinen Körper verlassen

Sam Seder ist enttäuscht und seine Seele hat seinen Körper verlassen

Und genau das sind wir alle, wenn Politiker_innen, Zeitungen und Lobbyist_innen ihre Kulturkämpfe mit dem Nimbus der Ernsthaftigkeit präsentieren.

Wir alle, Sam Seder, wir alle.

1 year ago 367 16 7 0
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Euthanasieprogramm und Aktion T4 Das Euthanasieprogramm der Nazis, das unter dem Codenamen „Aktion T4“ durchgeführt wurde, war die systematische Ermordung von Menschen mit Behinderungen, die in Heimen lebten. Weitere Informationen üb...

Das hier muss (nicht nur in Deutschland) an allen Schulen unterrichtet werden:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/de/a...
Ich mache es in der Biologie beim Thema Humangenetik.

1 year ago 4 0 0 0
Register für psychisch kranke Menschen – eine Forderung von CDU-Generalsekretär Linnemann, die an finsterste Zeiten in Deutschland erinnert | patientenrechte-datenschutz.de

Linnemanns "eugenics light"-Forderungen sollten ihn für den Job disqualifizieren. Aber das gilt ja alles heute nicht mehr...
Hmm, vielleicht darf ich mich auch als Leiter der Herzchirurgie bewerben. Das Herz ist doch der Ort der Seele, nicht?

patientenrechte-datenschutz.de/register-fue...

1 year ago 6 0 1 0
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Never capitulate to right-wing framing. We need our own narratives.
Never capitulate to right-wing framing. We need our own narratives. YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

As Newsom and others capitulate to right wing framing on the issue of trans athletes, let's remember what real messaging, real movements, real leadership looks like. It's saying what needs to be said: trans people are people. youtube.com/shorts/c67pq...

1 year ago 243 37 15 4
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„Die Quote schadet ja in aller erster Linie den Frauen selbst.“

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US research in danger: solidarity with our colleagues

The Swiss and international scientific community is observing with consternation and horror the unprecedented and systematic attacks on research in the United States by the new Trump administration. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of scientists have been fired, essential funding brutally cut, and whole swathes of research brought to a standstill by the new regime, which seeks to inflict as much suffering as possible, by accompanying this destruction with vindictive rhetoric and deliberate cruelty. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds biomedical research, abruptly suspended the payment of grants, leaving many colleagues without pay and leading to the dismissal of over 1,000 employees. The National Science Foundation (NSF), for its part, has seen its budgets slashed by over 60%, and vital scientific projects from the study of ecosystems to the prevention of pandemics are now threatened or suspended altogether. Major demographic, epidemiological and climate change databases, used by thousands of researchers for their scientific work, have been taken offline and are now inaccessible.

US research in danger: solidarity with our colleagues The Swiss and international scientific community is observing with consternation and horror the unprecedented and systematic attacks on research in the United States by the new Trump administration. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of scientists have been fired, essential funding brutally cut, and whole swathes of research brought to a standstill by the new regime, which seeks to inflict as much suffering as possible, by accompanying this destruction with vindictive rhetoric and deliberate cruelty. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds biomedical research, abruptly suspended the payment of grants, leaving many colleagues without pay and leading to the dismissal of over 1,000 employees. The National Science Foundation (NSF), for its part, has seen its budgets slashed by over 60%, and vital scientific projects from the study of ecosystems to the prevention of pandemics are now threatened or suspended altogether. Major demographic, epidemiological and climate change databases, used by thousands of researchers for their scientific work, have been taken offline and are now inaccessible.

In Switzerland, although these unprecedented events may seem remote, they should not be perceived as an abstract threat. The current global climate bears witness to an upsurge in similar attacks, fuelled by misinformation and a growing desire for political control over scientific production. In the face of this, silence or indifference are tantamount to condoning a worrisome drift towards widespread authoritarian obscurantism.

The Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (CLADS) expresses its full and unconditional solidarity with all researchers in the United States affected by this campaign of scientific annihilation and mass layoffs. CLADS fully associates itself with Stand Up for Science Day, organized on March 7 in the United States and around the world to defend academic freedom, and calls for a broad mobilization in support of our American colleagues and free research. We call on all Swiss academic and scientific institutions, as well as our European and international colleagues, to take a clear stand against this unprecedented offensive. It is imperative that our voices, united and firm, recall that without academic freedom, there can be no democracy.

In Switzerland, although these unprecedented events may seem remote, they should not be perceived as an abstract threat. The current global climate bears witness to an upsurge in similar attacks, fuelled by misinformation and a growing desire for political control over scientific production. In the face of this, silence or indifference are tantamount to condoning a worrisome drift towards widespread authoritarian obscurantism. The Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (CLADS) expresses its full and unconditional solidarity with all researchers in the United States affected by this campaign of scientific annihilation and mass layoffs. CLADS fully associates itself with Stand Up for Science Day, organized on March 7 in the United States and around the world to defend academic freedom, and calls for a broad mobilization in support of our American colleagues and free research. We call on all Swiss academic and scientific institutions, as well as our European and international colleagues, to take a clear stand against this unprecedented offensive. It is imperative that our voices, united and firm, recall that without academic freedom, there can be no democracy.

Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy.
clads.ch/en/us-resear...

1 year ago 80 37 1 3

Ja, die Zahlen zeigen den prozentualen Anteil von Frauen an den gewonnenen Mandaten, die die im Bundestag vertretenen Parteien gewonnen haben. Insgesamt 33% aller Mandate

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

Er wird sich an irgendeinen Milliardär dranhängen...

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Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power. (2/2)

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Institute for the Study of War Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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That's why it's so disturbing that some people make their vehicles deliberately louder and the police mostly just shrug...

People here will accelerate noisily while drivin between the delivery ward of the university hospital on one side of the street and the children's hospital on the other.

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Europe’s Noise Capital Tries to Turn Down the Volume To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles.

“A single unmuffled scooter crossing Paris at night can wake as many as 10,000 people.”

We seriously underestimate the impact of vehicle noise on urban livability and health.

Cities aren’t noisy, engines are.

How #Paris Is Waging a War on Noise Pollution.

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Können wir bitte noch ein bisschen mehr über Abschiebungen reden bsky.app/profile/chad...

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