owlsome-ovo.bsky.social
Quirky, noisy and nosy.
I am an Austrian studies scholar who woke up one day as a marketing exec.
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Die mochte ich auch echt gern
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Ich weiß auch nicht, was das Problem ist. Ich bin mit für den Skeptix-Bsky-Account zuständig und als ich gecheckt habe, was los ist, war der Blogartikel schon aktualisiert. Das ist er schon seit dem 28.3., also seit Nella uns angepingt hat.
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Weil's ja im Kampf gegen unethische Systeme und massive Probleme wie Rassismus und Faschismus noch nie geholfen hat, zu verstehen, wie auch Wissenschaft an den Punkt kommt, unethisch zu handeln oder sich in solche Systme einbinden zu lassen, oder?
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No worries then. You've voiced your opinion in a couple of replies, I've voiced mine. We just don't agree as to whether or not he's truly broken ranks and that's fine. Let's just agree to not be on the same page entirely.
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Thanks! That's helpful and I'm sure we are!
I'm just worried that all the qualifications and language surrounding that are reducing the impact of that, you know. Do you care to hear a couple of the spots that irritate me? If not, that's perfectly fine.
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I didn't mean to be condescending at all, I was just wondering whether you've read it. I don't know how I should've asked that differently. I did not mean to talk down to you - or anybody else - at all. I was just curious to hear how you'd arrived at your conclusion given how the text is phrased.
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That's a pitfal of the platform, for sure. :)
And don't get me wrong, I'm more than happy he's pivoting in this direction for once. But his piece is full of difficult passages and doesn't state clearly that he wants people to take the vaccine. It makes me worry that it's often sold as pro-science.
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That's not my view at all. I just find it problematic to sell that piece as more than it is.
Especially with headlines claiming he "recommends the vaccine" or "changed his mind". That's just not accurate and gives him more credit than the piece deserves.
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Imagine he turns around and says something outrageously anti-science again and the last thing people read all over the place was "Oh well, he's changed and trusts science now." It'll legitimize his next nonsensical take. It's not black and whit with him ever.
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Did you read the Fox piece? He doesn't state it as clearly as that & he doesn't urge people to get vacc'ed. He's dogwhistling the whole way, minimising the dangers and he's always been inconsistent.
I find it problematic to present *that* as a clear change of mind and as being convinced by science.
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If read through an anti-vaxxer lens, one can easily leave with the impression that everyhting's fine if you don't vaccinate.
The last sentence is such an insult: "Under my leadership, HHS is and will always be committed to radical transparency to regain the public’s trust in its health agencies."
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But he's got so much anti-vaxxer language in. He literally stresses that sanitiation & nutrition reduced cases massively before the vaccine was even invented, speaks deaths "with, or of" measles, hails supplements & stresses again and again how much of a personal choice it is to have kid vaccinated.
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Na zum Glück hast du mir das jetzt - mit toller Begründung und scharfsinniger Analyse - klar gemacht. Dann können wir jetzt beide weiter unserer Wege gehen.
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Sane Washing so weit das Auge reicht ...
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Doggos doing doggo things :D
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Very recently Dimitrij Kapitelman's latest novel "Russische Spezialitäten". His use of and thoughts about langauge are brilliant. And he's able to navigate the tension between hope and hopelessness so, so well. Can't recommend that enough.
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Same same in German langauge media. It's unfathomable.
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Was auch aufgrud systemischer Probleme so einfach nicht gehen wird. Dass #wirsindhanna immer noch ein Ding ist, ist ein kleiner Hinweis in die Richtung. Es lassen jedes Jahr kluge Köpfe die Forschung & Lehre hiner sich, weil die Rahmenbedingungen unmöglich sind.
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Wenn der sich mal an seine eigenen Ratschläge halten würde, ginge es der Welt ein wenig besser.
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Ich wünschte, das wäre alles nicht real.
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Selbst FAZ und tagesschau. Es ist so ein mediales Totalversagen, dass man schreien möchte.
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There. Much better.
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Es sind Faschisten. Auch dieser Tatsache bitte ich euch ins Auge zu sehen.
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Adorable! <3
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Eh gscheid!
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Wieder die gleiche Frag wie immer: Warum eigentlich ned, Quati? XD
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Hatten wir da nicht auch wen mit einem Speer? 🤔
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Schau einer an, jetzt hab ich das geschickt bekommen:
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Gibt's schon eine Petition über den Bundestag, von der du weißt? Ich hatte vorhin gesucht und keine gefunden.
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Das stimmt wohl. Ich bin da insofern zwiegespalten, als Campact auch ins Visier der Kleinen Anfrage geraten ist und es daher Unterstützung für sie ist, sie sichtbarer zu machen.
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Schad eigentlich, Quati! :D