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I made a German vocabulary app. Its out now on iPhone and Android.
It started with my own first weeks of German. Every app I tried began with words I already knew: Wasser, Hand, Winter, Hotel. English hands you hundreds of German words for free, and most apps make you learn them anyway.
Vögel teaches the most frequent German words, drops what English already gives you, and keeps the 1000 you'd have to learn on purpose. Each one comes with a real sentence. You flip, rate, and the word comes back just before you'd forget it.
Its free, with no account and no ads. 21 topic units, from work and school to shopping, food and travel.
I am not a developer. I built this because I wanted it to exist. If you're learning German, or know someone who is, I'd like to hear what you think.
voegel.app
Surrounded by losers
Misfits and boozers
Hanging by your fingernails
You made one mistake
You got burned at the stake
You're finished, you're foolish, you failed
There's always a hope
On this slippery slope
Somewhere a ghost of a chance
To get back in that game
And burn off your shame
And dance with the big boys again
It's a strange, strange game
Such a shame, shame
Yes a strange game
You got to carry the blame
In this strange game
You're out on a limb
And you're trying to get in
You piled up the corpses
Exhausted your sources
Living right under a cloud
The odds are against you
The gods haven't blessed you
You better get back on the rails
Drill down on the data
Keep pushing the paper
The damps dripping down on the walls
It's a million to one
There's a place in the sun
To dance with the big boys again
It's a strange, strange game
Strange, oh, so strange
You don't even know my real name
It's a strange game
You got to carry the blame
In this strange strange game
You're out on a limb
Trying hard to get in
It's a strange game
Ugur retweeted
A new political order is taking shape in Turkey, built on threats, judicial coercion, and the absorption of opposition into the regime.
The regime is giving opposition mayors two choices: Join the AKP (governing party) or go to prison. Those with integrity go to prison. The others join the AKP.
The judiciary is carrying out this operation. Sadly, Turkey’s judiciary has been turned into an instrument for clearing the way for a political project. Those within the judiciary who are troubled by this remain silent. They know what will happen to them if they speak out.
We are facing a regime of threats and blackmail.
The “Terror-Free Turkey” process must also be understood in this light.
There is a pretense of negotiations with the “Kurdish movement.” But there are no real negotiations. There is co-optation, absorption, and instrumentalization.
As I have written before: This political project has room for everything except the people.
The investment fund scandal suddenly exposed the anatomy of the regime to the public.
We will see how people respond to all of this.
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Turkey’s deposed main opposition leader Ozgur Ozel announced he will establish a new political party bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Stand-up comic in court accused of insulting Islam and Erdogan in Turkey crackdown bbc.in/4eK8W9w
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Erdogan's autocracy: Turkish riot police forced their way into the headquarters of the country's main opposition party, days after a court dismissed its leadership. trib.al/xxWZGcp
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Die CHP ist die größte Oppositionspartei in der Türkei. Özgür Özel soll jetzt seinen Posten als Parteichef verlieren, das hat ein Gericht in Ankara angeordnet. spiegel.de/ausland/tuerkei-g…
Curiouser and curiouser!
A funded vendor. A bounty director.
A 524,000 USDC bridge.
A 54,000 USDC transfer to Crane’s address.
Zero disclosure.
The on-chain sequence is now public.
See it for yourself: forum.polkadot.network/t/on-…
Ugur retweeted
Thousands of pages of indictments, years of pretrial detention, and hundreds of years in prison sentences — none of this is new for Turkey. But it marks a serious rupture in the country’s multi-party history: a new phase of authoritarianism in which the main opposition and its presidential candidate become the target.
A Turkish prosecutor has called for the jailed mayor of Istanbul to be sentenced to more than 2,000 years in prison, accusing him of running a criminal organization. The opposition called the case politically motivated. nyti.ms/47yv6b8
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Another grim day for the rule of law in Turkey. Journalists are now being summoned for questioning simply for sharing posts in support of Erdoğan’s jailed rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu.
I’m sharing my New York Times piece, which argues that the West’s eagerness to do business with Erdoğan—while turning a blind eye to his assault on Turkish democracy—has only emboldened his crackdown on opponents at home.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/opini…
We published new research showing the remaining runways of OpenGov bounties and the approximate timing of each next top up request:
forum.polkadot.network/t/bou…
We just published the first compliance audit of the bounties in OpenGov:
forum.polkadot.network/t/bou…
Hey I have an idea that might come interesting for some, maybe we should listen economists on the topic of.. economics:
I shared my thoughts in the @Polkadot forum on the recent discussion to further reduce inflation.
In these discussions, the relationship between inflation and economic resilience has largely been ignored. I created a report to educate on the topic and propose additional policies that I deem necessary, if the community votes to set up the protocol on a path of drastically reduced inflation.
link 👇
forum.polkadot.network/t/pol…
Ugur retweeted
Yesterday, Turkish Council of Europe youth delegate Enes Hocaoğulları was imprisoned in Ankara after denouncing, last March, the torture of peaceful protesters. This outrage exposes once more Erdogan’s systematic assault on democracy. The European Commission cannot remain silent: failing to act in the face of such repression is complicity. Europe must defend those who risk their freedom for truth and justice.
