Sebastian Herrmann

Redakteur im Wissen bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Sozialpsychologie. Fahrräder. Schreibt Bücher.

[Sebastian Herrmann @HerrSe]

Wir sind #Radfahrerinnen, wir sind #Radfahrer, wir sind der Chainreaction Bikeconvoy for Ukraine – und wir haben einen Plan. Wir wollen zehn gebrauchte Rettungswagen finanzieren und in die #Ukraine bringen. Die Fahrzeuge sollen helfen, Leben zu retten.

[Sebastian Herrmann @HerrSe]

@hanno_sauer Das glaube ich sofort. Ich empfinde in Berlin auch jedesmal eine besondere Form der Enge und Spießigkeit.

[Gryn ✌ @gryn_a]

The convoy was taken to Ukraine 🇺🇦 by one of our Twitter friends @misku_brolis alongside Lithuanian 🇱🇹 police officers.
There will be a longer documentary published about the whole endeavor.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Russia is stupidly provoking WWIII by resisting the Great Power of Ukraine. Putin should stop the killing and give up territory for peace. Thanks for tuning in to the latest episode of Realist Geopolitics.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Not only have conservatives become vanishingly rare in academia, so have centrists. That’s how complete the left’s dominance is: Even moderates are now a fringe group in academia.

https://t.co/3TCZW5YzIF

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.

It migrated inward.

Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.

That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.

So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.

The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.

The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.

The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.

That is the trade.

A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.

This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.

The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.

It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.

The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

[Sebastian Herrmann @HerrSe]

Heute Morgen beim Frühstück, Radio angemacht, Bayern 2, Moderatorin sagt "Patriarchat", Radio wieder ausgemacht, Kaffee in Stille getrunken.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

This is both funny and horrifying. Xi spoke openly of the US being in decline, right to Trump’s face. But Trump did not understand it and spent his time praising Xi who had just demeaned US power. Now Trump is contorting himself to cover his ignorance.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

24 dead in Kyiv—including three children—following yesterday’s Russian attack.

Another 48 people were injured. Today is a day of mourning in the capital.

And here is a quick refresher for supporters of Russia: Russia started this war in violation of international law; Ukraine is defending itself.
But you idiots will never understand that.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The search and rescue operation at the site of Russia’s strike on a residential building in Kyiv has been completed. Our first responders from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine worked continuously for more than a day. The Russians practically demolished an entire section of the building with their missile. Twenty-four people were killed by this strike, including three children. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Everyone who was wounded or lost their home must receive the necessary assistance. In total, 48 people were wounded in Kyiv as a result of yesterday’s attack, including two children. I thank the State Emergency Service, the National Police, and everyone who dealt with the aftermath of this Russian attack and helped people.

A Russia like this can never be normalized – a Russia that deliberately destroys lives and hopes to remain unpunished. Pressure is needed. It is Ukraine that is defending Europe and the world so that such strikes, in which children are killed, do not spread further. That is why support for the defenders of life must continue. Ballistic missile defense is always needed. I thank the partners who continue investing in the PURL initiative and develop our anti-ballistic coalition. All of this must be implemented. I am grateful to everyone who did not remain silent and condemned this savage strike.

[Sebastian Herrmann @HerrSe]

Der Moralpsychologe Jonathan Haidt beobachtet seit Langem, wie liberale Gesellschaften sich immer weiter spalten. Ein Gespräch über Stammesdenken, Trump, Wokeness – und die Frage, was noch zu retten ist. https://t.co/9aRjIUufhE

[Sebastian Herrmann @HerrSe]

Women complaining about things. https://t.co/DBYqr4cC5N

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"Drivers who killed women received substantially longer sentences than those who killed men. As we see in the table below, the average sentence for killing a woman was 9.7 years, whereas the average sentence for killing a man was 4.4 years."

https://t.co/8hjFM0Nzr5

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

A zombie belief I frequently encounter in woke papers is that there's a tenure-track hiring bias against women in STEM.

A new paper combining all research on faculty ratings for identical CVs for men vs. women show that not only is this belief false, the opposite is true.

[Sebastian Herrmann @HerrSe]

Sure. He's also done more for Christianity than Jesus. He's certainly done more to make formerly reasonable people believe every piece of nonsense that leaves his mouth than anyone else in history. Now he's Ukraine's savior. Keep believing.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

He did NOT cut US support for Ukraine — he’s doing more for Ukraine than Biden ever did — and his goal from the beginning was to save Ukraine as a sovereign independent nation.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“We all see what is happening to Ukraine now. But it all began with Ukraine’s attempt to join the European Union,” Putin said.

And with that single phrase, he essentially admitted the real reason for the war himself.

Not “protecting Donbas.”
Not “fighting Nazism.”
Not “defending the Russian language.”
Not religion.
Not any of the endless horror stories invented by Russian propaganda.

There was only one real reason:

Ukraine dared to make its own choice.

The choice not to live under Moscow’s control.
The choice to become part of Europe.
The choice to build its own state, its own language, its own politics, and its own future.

For an empire, the greatest threat is not foreign armies near its borders.

The greatest threat is when a former colony stops being afraid and starts living independently.

[Jan Schipmann @JanSchipmann]

Grinsend mit Vertretern eines faschistischen Terrorstaats feiern, der jeden Tag unschuldige Zivilisten in der Ukraine ermordet. Das ist das BSW.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Mariupol
Half a million people used to live there.
They had jobs, schools, restaurants, arguments about football, bad haircuts, mortgages, annoying neighbours, birthday parties, and all the magnificent, boring, irreplaceable machinery of a normal life.

Then Russia arrived.

Now Mariupol is a photograph that makes you look away. Apartment blocks reduced to their skeletons. Streets that go nowhere because the buildings at the end of them no longer exist. A port city on the Azov Sea that has been methodically turned into a lesson about what happens when nobody stops a man with tanks and no conscience.

Five hundred thousand people. Gone, dead, or scattered across a continent.
And JD Vance is proud of that.

Not quietly conflicted. Not reluctantly neutral for strategic reasons a diplomat might one day explain. Proud. Visibly, performatively, almost joyfully proud that America withheld the weapons, blocked the aid, and let the rubble pile higher while his boss complimented the man doing the demolition.

The Trump administration’s Christian base has found, at last, the hill they are willing to die on. Not their hill, obviously. Someone else’s. They have decided that their defining moral achievement, the thing they will tell their grandchildren about, is that they did not help.

In a just world, that would be embarrassing.

In this one, they’re giving speeches about it.

Mariupol had half a million people.
That number is apparently not the problem. The problem, according to Washington’s proudest Christians, was being asked to care.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian historian Yuri Pivovarov, April 2026:

"I know nothing in Russia’s military history more disgraceful or more shameful than the current war. This is a Great Patriotic War of the Ukrainian people against an invader. Unfortunately, the invaders are our [Russian] people."

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Russia: Don't bomb our parade in Moscow!

Ukraine: OK. We'll start a full ceasefire.

Russia: Bombs a kindergarten in Sumy.