#TIL that the word "gerrymandering" comes from a name, namely that if Elbrige Gerry: ▶️ @npub1w0ea...phvf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://mastodon.social/NOSTR_0 From this lovely book that I am trying to read with my morning coffee to avoid doomscrolling: #VicisBooks

I'm very excited to have contributed to defacing (or rather: rightfully correcting, once the actual thing happened) this particular announcement 😆 Seriously, being on the PhD defense committee is one of the favorite things for me in scienceb💚 #astrodon #academia #AcademicChatter

I knew all the games of tetris I played as a kid would come in useful at some later point of my life...

Be like a cactus: small and spiky and resilient. And sometimes making the most amazing flowers. #bloomscrolling #cactus

Flower rocket 🌷🚀 #ESA #Ariane6 #astrodon #bloomscrolling

The world is what it is - but there are flowers. Welcome to the tulip extravaganza. #tulip #bloomscrolling #keukenhof 1/21

I like the way that William #Herschel is introduced as Caroline Herschel's brother in the Royal Greenwich Observatory exhibition: #astrodon

Best impression of the new neighbours - when you tell them that you use Signal and WhatsApp and they tell you that they prefer WhatsApp because they want to disentangle themselves from Meta. Yay!

🌞 + 🌕 (At least I guess so...) #SoFi #eclipse

"Bürokratieabbau" ist zu einem Codework geworden, bei dem es nie um eine Vereinfachung zu Gunsten der wirklich schwachen Mitglieder der Gesellschaft geht, sondern ausschließlich um den Abbau von Rechten und/oder Schutz: ▶️

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Wenn dieses Gesetz abgeschafft wird, ist mit mehr Korruption zu rechnen

CDU und CSU möchten in der kommenden Koalition das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen. Gelingt ihnen das, ist mit mehr Korruption zu rechnen.