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Jörg Ritter

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https://www.facebook.com/joerg.ritter/photos_albums <-- SF&F convention pics galore SF&F maniac | BlueSky is my tool for all thinks (geo)politic incl. military aspects/medical/scientific/SF&F etc.; don't expect kittens!

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Murmansk, wir kommen?

12.03.2026 01:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

we’re doing the meme ourselves now

12.03.2026 00:08 👍 706 🔁 110 💬 17 📌 1

You'll need plenty of missiles then, don't you. And have to find them. If you want to avoid using missiles and instead use e.g. helicopter gunships, please keep in mind that some of those boats have missiles of their own. So it takes time, eats into your missile stack or endangers soldiers.

11.03.2026 01:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This country deserves everything coming its way <3

10.03.2026 19:08 👍 646 🔁 107 💬 26 📌 9

I remember that - back then - US Navy ships sailed in between the oil tankers they guarded because - unlike the tankers - they weren't able to withstand mine hits.

10.03.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy - Wikipedia

The IRGCN has several thousand speedboats. Question is: How many of those can be used to lay mines, and how does the USN distinguish between those that can and those that can't. I guess we'll have to wait for the experts to chime in.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic...

10.03.2026 22:17 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Prima Podcast. Hören!

10.03.2026 15:36 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Das ist wohl ein Sicherheits Dome. Funktioniert aber anscheinend (siehe *) nur in Städten, nicht auf'm Land. Und sähe mit (z.B.) mir unten drunter bestimmt nicht so gut aus (womit ich zugegebenermaßen lediglich Carlo, Frank und Thomas dazu bringen will, hier auch Bilder zu posten).

10.03.2026 15:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

With free to read link

as.ft.com/r/1754a96b-d...

10.03.2026 14:54 👍 103 🔁 51 💬 6 📌 8
The Atlantic 9.3.2026, The Pete Hegseth Exception

The Atlantic 9.3.2026, The Pete Hegseth Exception

@kampfmitkette.bsky.social hat es in den @theatlantic.com geschafft 😏

10.03.2026 14:14 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An excerpt from the official minutes of a meeting at the Turkish foreign minister's office in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday March 10, 1975, from 5:20-6:30 p.m. The subjects were "aid cut-off" and "Cyprus."

Esenbel: "The Europeans should find ways to meet quick needs: for example, the Air Force needs spare parts. For other items that they can't find in the stocks, maybe you could make a deal with the Dutch or others to send it here.

[US Ambassador William B.] Macomber: "That is illegal."

Kissinger: “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.' [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that. We'll make a major effort.”

An excerpt from the official minutes of a meeting at the Turkish foreign minister's office in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday March 10, 1975, from 5:20-6:30 p.m. The subjects were "aid cut-off" and "Cyprus." Esenbel: "The Europeans should find ways to meet quick needs: for example, the Air Force needs spare parts. For other items that they can't find in the stocks, maybe you could make a deal with the Dutch or others to send it here. [US Ambassador William B.] Macomber: "That is illegal." Kissinger: “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.' [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that. We'll make a major effort.”

Today in 1975, during a meeting with Turkey’s Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel in his office in Ankara, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said candidly, “Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, ‘The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.’”

10.03.2026 15:06 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Ich hab halt viel scrollen müssen 😎. Und die 30% sind zugegebenermaßen ein Jägerzaun, mit dem ich gewunken habe 😇.

Aber im Ernst. Eine Diskussion auf einem deutschsprachigen Account zu dem Thema Führungswechsel / evtl. Änderung der kommunizierten Ziele bei Bluesky wäre doch was als follow-up. Oder?

09.03.2026 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@docgaby.bsky.social, da ab diesem Thread gefühlt 30% meines Bluesky-Feeds Posts und Reposts zum Thema Eurosky waren: Wie wäre es mit einer Diskussions-Eröffnung zum Thema Bluesky-CEO-Wechsel. VIEL schlimmer kann das ja auch nicht werden, oder?

09.03.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

09.03.2026 17:08 👍 9103 🔁 2938 💬 596 📌 141

The most I ever made as a journalist was $36k, in 1995, which translates to about $76k in 2026 dollars. I was young and had cheap rent in a place that was not very expensive to live in. To be making six figures these days you have to be working in the top tier of publications.

09.03.2026 18:24 👍 603 🔁 59 💬 21 📌 7

Spielt da ein Mitspieler einen Grand? Der Kreuzbauer liegt ja schon mal auf dem Tisch.

09.03.2026 16:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Manche haben halt einen Fetisch für kahle Köpfe. Das haben die sich nicht ausgesucht. Denkt an die Newsgroups: Da gab/gibt(?) es alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hairy-armpits.

😇😜😎

09.03.2026 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Der will sich gut mit Dir stellen. Für den Fall, daß Du demnächst Baden-Württembergischer Griegsminischder bischt 😇.

09.03.2026 12:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Der Account von @claasgefroi.bsky.social scheint mir letztens auf alle politischen Richtungen einzuschlagen. Ich frage mich, was das Ziel ist. Immer weniger Info, immer mehr Emotion. Schade.

09.03.2026 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wenigstens hat Luis Bobga bis NACH dem Wahlsieg gewartet, bis er sich auf Kosten Özdemirs profiliert hat … wobei ich nicht sicher bin, ob der Schuß nicht nach hinten losgeht.

08.03.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Johann Mayr Cartoondestages

07.03.2026 14:38 👍 1010 🔁 306 💬 12 📌 4
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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

08.03.2026 19:14 👍 1135 🔁 501 💬 15 📌 59

News to the Shah

08.03.2026 15:57 👍 70 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 1
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Das Miniaturwunderland von Brakel – Das Miniaturwunderland in Hamburg kennt jeder. Die „Modellbundesbahn“, eine der schönsten Modellbahnanlagen der Welt, nicht. Darum schließt sie Ende Mai. Wenn kein Miniaturwunder geschieht.

Wäre das nicht ewig schade, wenn so etwas Schönes einfach verschwindet?

www.waz.de/kultur/artic...

07.03.2026 15:35 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”

Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”

Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail

07.03.2026 02:47 👍 2051 🔁 328 💬 22 📌 33
My Account - Paul Krugman

‪Recommended:

Politics, Economy
paulkrugman.substack.com/account
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/account
www.muellershewrote.com

Military Strategy
missilematters.substack.com/account
mickryan.substack.com/account
www.ungemeve.de/links/ (German)

+ @carlomasala1.bsky.social et al.

04.03.2026 22:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@noelreports.com

03.03.2026 23:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ah, OpenAI is entirely stopping DoW deployment for now

that was not clear to me from sama’s post. also, i’m very glad to see Noam getting directly involved in policy. i realize he’s just a researcher, but it’s great to have important people deeply invested in this

03.03.2026 16:24 👍 138 🔁 24 💬 14 📌 7

For better or worse, here we are. I wonder whether the powers that be have thought it through: That they (and their families) are - by their own actions - now not just ordering assassinations, but became targets. Do ut des?

02.03.2026 18:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jaja, jetzt lästern die PV-Fans wieder über Erdgas, das bei politischen Krisen plötzlich viel teurer wird. Dass auch die PV massive Probleme bekommen wird, wenn die Sonne dann nach ihrer Roter-Riese-Phase zum weißen Zwerg wird und deutlich weniger Energie abstrahlt, wird wieder verschwiegen.

02.03.2026 13:03 👍 2603 🔁 413 💬 194 📌 24