Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration
that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris.
In Europe, only Spain refused to allow the U.S. to use its bases to attack Iran,
while France, Switzerland, and Slovenia condemned Trump’s attacks as a violation of international law,
as did Russia, China, Chile, Venezuela, and Pakistan.
And yet as the price of fuel a…
Ich bin in den Epstein-Files.
Also nicht ich persönlich, aber unser SWITZERLAND SECOND Video ist in den Epstein-Files. Ariane de Rothschild hat Jeffrey Epstein 2017 den YT-Link geschickt mit der Anmerkung "The Swiss love it".
Something about being German very consciously, after all those years living in Switzerland, and science history
I'm currently in Mannheim, hotel prices are triple the usual, almost all hotels fully booked. I learned that’s because of “der Kongress ist bis Samstag!”
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Ich lach auch Jahre nach unserer Recherche noch jedesmal, wenn ich das da sehe #dnip #swisscows
At least six killed in Swiss bus fire in possible deliberate act
Police investigating blaze in Kerzers in Fribourg canton, about 12 miles west of Berne
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/multiple-deaths-injuries-bus-fire-switzerland?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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#ThroughTheNight
- Mendelssohn, Rosauro and Rodrigo from Switzerland
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and conductor Alessandro Cadario are joined by marimba player Matthias Würsch in Ney Rosauro's Concerto no 1 for Marimba and String Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3ny
It still includes some road widening.
"Switzerland Unveils 2045 Transport Plan: Major Rail Upgrades and Over 30 Road Projects Scrapped" - SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/switzerland-to-…
Thinking about buying a seismic sensor for my Raspberry Pi.
"Yeah, I know we're moving away from the seismically active zone of Switzerland, but you could record the shockwaves when he-who-must-not-be-named uses the nukes, you'd have first hand data! You'd be among the first to know that mankind is gonna end!"
Some days I'm not sure about the mental health of some of my inner voices. Especially since it said "when", not "if".
Currently watching Women’s #olympics Hockey featuring Canada vs. Switzerland and the rink seems dark. Anyone else notice the same? I wonder if it affects the players? #olympics2026
One of my favorite modes of trolling is to wait for somebody to say something about "the greatest country in the world" and then act confused and eventually say "I don't see what any of this has to do with Switzerland"
Kennt ihr schon unsere Solawi-Karte? Dort können Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher Solawis in ihrer Nähe finden.
Wir teilen nicht nur unsere Ernte, sondern auch unsere Software! 4 #Solawi-Dachorganisationen haben sich heute zur Frage der Finanzierung der Karte getroffen. Geeinigt haben wir uns auf eine #Beitragsrunde
Hmm, cocoa free #chocolate substitutes made by fermentation hmm. They're pushing it as ethical etc - but I wonder what the health differences are; Cocoa is pretty good.
https://www.
Ich bin in den Epstein-Files.
Also nicht ich persönlich, aber unser SWITZERLAND SECOND Video ist in den Epstein-Files. Ariane de Rothschild hat Jeffrey Epstein 2017 den YT-Link geschickt mit der Anmerkung "The Swiss love it".
🤔 What's the best thing to do in #Bern if I have 2-3 hours to kill? #fedipower #switzerland
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Mozart and Tchaikovsky from Switzerland
Nelson Goerner performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no 23 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Jonathan Nott. Later, Tchaikovsky's rarely performed Third Symphony.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tcc6
A new data release from Eurostat shows just how much the public #EV charging network in Europe has improved in recent years. A single charging point doesn’t make spring, but a network certainly does. More and more Europeans now have five or more charging points within a relatively short distance.
In much of north-western Europe, even within 3 kilometres. Coverage with multiple charging points i…
I asked Reddit AI for hidden gems in Switzerland 🇨🇭 .
Here's what it suggested:
Marmot Wrestling Rings in Valais: A quirky and unique experience.
Aromat Mines Under Olten: A peculiar and interesting visit.
Cheese Wars in the South: Witness a 100kg wheel of Emmental launched by a trebuchet
Last week, tramping the Milford Track with my whānau (it was stunning), I ended up chatting with a lone fellow tramper from Switzerland. Got to practice my German quite a lot... turns out he's a recently retired heart surgeon, who primarily did heart transplants. 😲 Turns out he wants nothing more to do with his profession & is very pessimistic about the EU social situation heading rightward. He finds Aotearoa magical & inspiring & is busy doing as many Great Walks as he possi…
"“Scaling Small” and Governing Together: Towards a National Diamond Open Access Consortium in Switzerland" by Daniela Hahn and Susanne Aerni @ 027.2
https://doi.org/10.21428/1bfadeb6.a8e140f1
"CoDOA is a national initiative led by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Lib…
Last night, I was reading a book that contained this passage about Mussolini, and it took me an hour to fully grasp what this meant:
"[his 2-year stay in Switzerland] had initiated Mussolini to a form of revolutionary socialism based not on materialism or orthodox Marxism, but on a cocktail of voluntarists and anti-rational principles derived from Pareto, Le Bon, Nietzsche, and Sorel"
Sources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/ubs-plans-crypto-tr…
Austria is the latest to take a stance against directly aiding the U.S. and Israel’s war.
Also citing its neutrality principles, Switzerland announced in March that it had halted all weapons export licenses to the U.S. and other involved countries since the first U.S.-Israeli bombardments on February 28,
and would continue doing so “for the duration of the conflict.”
Spain has opposed the war from the start, with its socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez proclaiming “no a…
No Denmark 😔
#openaccess for all authors from 11 supporting countries:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Now "incentivize" institutions to make this the default #publishing option. #openscience
...on second thought, maybe let's not go to the mountains this weekend. Avalanche danger Level 4 (2nd highest grade) pretty much everywhere. Bit of an unusual sight, but not surprised, we had quite a lot of fresh snow in past three days, and it's getting too warm too quickly...
#Avalanche #Map
I can't believe it's almost been a year since the Open Science Retreat in Switzerland #OSR25CH! Now I am already getting ready to go to the next two.
Two?! Yes.
I will head off to the Netherlands for a Dutch-centered retreat in the dunes and right after I'll continue on to Wales for the Open Science Retreat Global in the wonderful green nature of Wales
In future, Open Research Europe (ORE) will no longer be open solely to projects funded under the EU Framework Programmes for Research; instead, all research institutions in the participating countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) will be able to use the platform free of charge, regardless of whether their projects receive funding.
RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116114168563340683
And guess who wants to keep negotiating even though it should by now be clear that these tariffs are completely arbitrary and just a way for the regime to line their pockets?
Switzerland!
RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116114168563340683
And guess who wants to keep negotiating even though it should by now be clear that these tariffs are completely arbitrary and just a way for the regime to line their pockets?
Switzerland!
RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116114168563340683
And guess who wants to keep negotiating even though it should by now be clear that these tariffs are completely arbitrary and just a way for the regime to line their pockets?
Switzerland!
"Without us, you'd all be speaking German," Trump tells an audience... in Switzerland.
“Without us, you’d be speaking German”, says Trump at the WEF. In Davos. In Switzerland. Where they speak German… 🤦♀️
In our house, affection is most often expressed through food, with cheese very much holding a special place in our hearts. So this morning I went to the local cheese shop and spent way too much. I believe St. Valentine would approve.
Germany's population is estimated to decline by 10% by 2070, from 83.5 to 74.7 million. One of the reasons is emigration; over 250,000 people per year leave #Deutschland.
https://www.
As Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called
"Board of Peace" at the
World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, on Thursday,
his son-in-law Jared Kushner
presented his vision of
turning the Gaza Strip into
an upscale seaside resort
with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities.
The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion,
and Kushner’s presentation showed a map of the besieged territor…
Say that the event is taking place in Switzerland without saying that the event is taking place in Switzerland
Wir müssen reden. Public Eye spricht Klartext.: Zucker im Babybrei: Nestlés Doppelstandard in Afrika | Mit Manuel Abebe
Webseite der Episode: http://publiceye.ch
Mediendatei:
LombardoGraphia: Automatic Classification of Lombard Orthography Variants
Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychl\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28418 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28418 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28418
arXiv:2603.28418v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Lombard, an underresourced language variety spoken by approximately 3.8 million people in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland, lacks a unified orthographic standard. Multiple orthographic systems exist, creating challenges for NLP resource development and model training. This paper presents the first study of automatic Lombard orthography classification and LombardoGraphia, a curated corpus of 11,186 Lombard Wikipedia samples tagged across 9 orthographic variants, and models for automatic orthography classification. We curate the dataset, processing and filtering raw Wikipedia content to ensure text suitable for orthographic analysis. We train 24 traditional and neural classification models with various features and encoding levels. Our best models achieve 96.06% and 85.78% overall and average class accuracy, though performance on minority classes remains challenging due to data imbalance. Our work provides crucial infrastructure for building variety-aware NLP resources for Lombard.
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Concerns over Trump’s health are coming to light once again after pictures of the 79-year-old felon showed new dark and crusty bruises on his left hand during his recent visit to Davos, Switzerland
-- different from ones that had previously been captured in his right hand.
https://bsky.app/profile/irishstar…
#FediHire
Dear Fediverse, I'm still looking for a new job.
Place: I'd prefer Zürich area, or remote, because then I'd not have to relocate. But I'm open for jobs all over Europe, except Russia, and Belarus. I can legally work without sponsorship in the EU, and in Switzerland.
I can do: programming, preferably C , or Python; software architecture, including b…
Days like today I miss Switzerland, I miss the people and scenery, and I miss having a six-figure, ideation-focused, two-hour-wine-lunch laptop job in a sensible, permissive country, far, far away from the Anglosphere. Why anybody willingly lives here is a mystery to me. Why I returned, even more so.
Eleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.
I was interested in #Meshcore, but then I came across the website of the Meshcore Switzerland Community. Greeted by AI generated pictures I was appalled, but then I found this:
Work in progress vibe coding project, don't trust this data!
Nope, thanks, I'm outa here.
#meshcore <…
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- Haydn, Mendelssohn, Cowell, Liszt and Nielsen from Switzerland
Barbara Hannigan conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins for Henry Cowell's Irish Suite.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rfkd
Yesterday, a friend told me a fun linguistic experience: He and his partner (both speaking standard German) spent some time in Switzerland, both kids are born there. Kids went to crèche and kindergarten, they moved back to Germany when the oldest was 7. At home, all 4 spoke standard German. The parents only realized by visiting hours to crèche and kindergarten, that both kids were fluent in Züridütsch
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@… @… Some craft breweries from around here, in case you find yourself in western Switzerland (Coop supermarkets have a selection):
@… @… Some craft breweries from around here, in case you find yourself in western Switzerland (Coop supermarkets have a selection):
The 26th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (#DocEng26) invites submissions for its upcoming edition in #Fribourg, Switzerland.
Theme: Document Engineering in the Era of AI and Sustainability
Key Dates:
• Full Papers: April 21, 2026
• Short Papers & Demos: June 9, 20…
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#ThroughTheNight
- Debussy and Saint-Saëns from Switzerland
The Basel Symphony Orchestra performs Debussy's Prélude Š l'après-midi d'un faune and the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. Plus the premiere of Dieter Ammann's viola concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qjdt
Just an FYI, the aurora forecast just alerted me to look up at the sky - in Switzerland.
Pity I live in the fog 😔
If you are in the mountains: prepare for the show!
Donald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator
suffering from a brain bleed
during his speech yesterday
at Davos.
It was a national embarrassment
even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.
The president’s showing in Switzerland was so shabby that I feel compelled to share some thoughts about it.
First of all, despite what cable news chyrons would have you believe,
Trump’s screed was chillingly aggressive.
He began the Gree…
The 26th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (#DocEng26) invites submissions for its upcoming edition in #Fribourg, Switzerland.
Theme: Document Engineering in the Era of AI and Sustainability
Key Dates:
• Full Papers: April 21, 2026
• Short Papers & Demos: June 9, 20…
The 26th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (#DocEng26) invites submissions for its upcoming edition in #Fribourg, Switzerland.
Theme: Document Engineering in the Era of AI and Sustainability
Key Dates:
• Full Papers: April 21, 2026
• Short Papers & Demos: June 9, 20…
Political leaders, CEOs and opinion-makers arrived at #Davos in Switzerland ahead of the World Economic Forum ( #WEF ),
with mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe set to dominate discussions after Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats.
Trump, who is expected to deliver a keynote address later this week…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Mahler's Tenth Symphony from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Mahler's haunting Rückert Lieder with Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča feature in this concert from Switzerland, alongside Mahler's Tenth Symphony and Boulez's Mémoriale.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q3fg
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An "issue" forced
Air Force One to turn around
and return to Maryland
less than an hour after takeoff Tuesday night
as it was headed for Davos, Switzerland,
with Trump aboard
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- Handel and Mozart from Switzerland
Countertenor Iestyn Davies joins the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Robin Ticciati in Handel and Mozart arias. John Shea presents
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r48k
A heavier version of the proton, has been discovered by a team at the nuclear research laboratory CERN
It was found using the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as part of its latest “beauty” experiment, known as LHCb.
Scientists spotted the particle amid a spray of debris created by colliding particles at the facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
The particle has been called
Xi-cc-plus,
(written as Ξcc⁺),
and is four times as heavy as a normal prot…
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- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Rachmaninov builds a new home in Switzerland, a villa called Senar, which attempts to recreate aspects of the Russian home he'd had to leave behind.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k8cg
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