Communicator. Reluctant optimist. Food enthusiast. Fond of people and other creatures. He/him.
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined July 2009
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If this scenario does not sound like an absolute nightmare to you, I'm afraid we are very different indeed.
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This is the best account on this platform by a wide margin. Just delivering joy and wonder on a daily basis.
Trump and Infantino have gifted Sepp Blatter an opening for a George W. Bush-style redemption arc. I did not see that one coming, but probably should have.
Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?
Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump
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I know this place is a cesspool, but still... it's depressing and revealing that most responses to @NickKristof providing the evidence that Elon claims does not exist are either "you made these names up" or "fine, so what, why should US taxpayers pay for people to survive".
.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
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This is just too perfect. cc @dieworkwear
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A fantastic, evocative read, beautifully illustrated!
I'm really excited about this piece published today in @ForeignPolicy that I edited. Journalist Ben Buckland retraces the ruins of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. It includes stories from people he met along the way and beautiful photos. Give it a read!
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/22…
On traditional knowledge and #science.
From @JulianBaggini’s brilliant „How the World Eats: a Global Food Philosophy“.
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Twitter is basically a desolate strip mall parking lot on a Tuesday night at around 1am now, but as long as @dieworkwear remains here to educate me and eradicate assorted hypocrites and skinny jeans apologists, I guess I’ll stick around.
My argument is simple: people who say they want to see a return of American manufacturing don't actually vote with their dollar. Let me show you. 🧵
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No words!
Extraordinarily sad news that one of the country's last remaining havens for turtle doves, whose numbers, @horton_official reports, fell a further 54% in the past 5 years, is officially going to be wrecked to build an artificial surf lagoon as @SaveBHCP lose their legal battle.
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Nature decline is now nearing dangerous tipping points, WWF warns - @BBCNews.
Wildlife populations have declined by nearly three quarters in the last 50 years, according to @WWF’s Living Planet Report. bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3j0…
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« For planning purposes, the planet to prepare for use as a base of survival in an apocalyptic event is the one where you're reading this blog ».
defector.com/neither-elon-mu…
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@_austrian thanks for making us run through VIE airport & passport control from our delayed connecting flight only to look at a closed gate when you could have told us at arrival… and for not having any information desks open at 11pm, so that we had to book our own hotel. #fail
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There can be no #conservation without human rights. Evicting or oppressing people "to protect wildlife" is not just wrong on moral grounds, it also won't do any good for nature in the long run. One would think that 100 years of experience would have taught us this simple truth...
Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back | Human Rights | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/features/2024/…
Vive la diversité! 🇫🇷 🥇
Aya Nakamura, drag-queens et performeurs queers…
L’extrême droite déteste la cérémonie d’ouverture, un bon point pour #Paris2024
liberation.fr/sports/jeux-ol…
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Devastating news from the Pantanal.
Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’ theguardian.com/environment/…
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Yes, wind turbines kill a lot of birds. But domestic cats kill *1000 times* more. Let’s see about tackling turbines AFTER we’ve passed a ban on pets being outside, ok?
Leonore Gewessler, Austria‘s Green Environment Minister, voted in favor of the EU Nature Restoration Law against the wishes of her conservative government coalition partners - a decisive vote that helped the law pass. History will remember her as a principled & courageous leader.
Die heutige Entscheidung ist ein Sieg für die #Natur. Die Europäische Union stellt sich geeint hinter den Schutz unserer #Lebensgrundlage. Wir geben der wunderbaren #Artenvielfalt unserer Heimat den Platz, der ihr zusteht. #Renaturierungsgesetz (1/3)
This quote sums up my own fear regarding our climate future quite well.
This entire thread is eye-opening and rather bleak.
I’ll give the last word to a guarded optimist: “I am convinced that we have all the solutions needed for a 1.5C path and that we will implement them in the coming 20 years. But I fear that our actions might come too late and we cross one or several tipping points.”
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