Hans Peter Petzny

Expertising terrains for boards on water things with gravity dings in nature's blings, hr.sys bot apprentice and metal rocks my PerryRhodanSystem ... dropping!

[Hans Peter Petzny @ironhp]

Frage mich seit meiner Jugend, wie Douglas Adams auf einer Wiese über Innsbruck so eine Story einfallen konnte. Klar ist mir mittlerweile, warum die Erde (Ö ist Teilmenge davon) der Hyperraum Umgehungsstraße weichen muß. Handtuch gefällig? #ibizaaffaere #drogenistgefahr

[franceinfo @franceinfo]

🏔️ 4 heures, 41 minutes et 24 secondes : le nouveau record pour un aller-retour entre Chamonix et le sommet du Mont Blanc. Un duo de Français a cumulé ces 4 806 mètres à pieds et à ski. #JT13h

[Hans Peter Petzny @ironhp]

@txgermanbre @bitappend Have you ever heard of Heilstollen Bad Gastein in Austria https://t.co/MHndvgkYwY ? Its a unique radon therapy (Rheuma, Arthritis) in a gallery 2km in the mountain. Through hot springs the temperature is between 37 and 44°C and humidity up to 100% which Supports the radon intake

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Incredible shot of Aiguille du Midi (3842 m) by the great @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social this morning at 9:54 am! 😲😍

This alignment can be seen twice a year from the valley (Les Houches)! 🌞🏔️

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

One century of anthropogenic melting of Glacier Blanc, southern French Alps (Ecrins massif)! 🧊🔥

📷 Source: RTM / ONF and Ecrins National Park

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Have you ever noticed that the worst people keep getting promoted?

You’re sitting in a meeting thinking, How is this person in charge?
That’s not bad luck. That’s a system working exactly as intended.

Here’s the truth:
A lot of workplaces don’t promote the most capable people; they promote the least threatening ones.

The people who move up fastest aren’t always driving results.
They are the ones who keep leadership comfortable.

- They don’t challenge decisions.
- They don’t surface problems too clearly.
- They make things feel calm, even when nothing is actually improving.

Real competence creates friction.
When you are genuinely good at your job, you expose gaps, weak processes, bad decisions, and poor leadership.

And that makes people above you uncomfortable.
So instead of developing strong leaders, many organizations quietly sideline them.

What gets rewarded instead is loyalty, predictability, and the ability to manage optics.

Once that pattern starts, every layer protects the one above it.
Promotions stop being about skill and start being about safety.

And over time, the people doing the real work either burn out from carrying everyone else or they leave.

- That’s how mediocrity becomes a culture.
- That’s why leadership can feel hollow.
- And that’s why, when you look around and wonder why so many managers seem unqualified, the answer isn’t random.

It’s structural.
They didn’t fail upward by accident.
They were rewarded for not rocking the boat.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Number of metal bands (bands per 1 million inhabitants):

🇫🇮 Finland: 905
🇸🇪 Sweden: 536
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein: 432
🇳🇴 Norway: 406
🇩🇰 Denmark: 212
🇪🇪 Estonia: 195
🇨🇿 Czechia: 169
🇦🇹 Austria: 167
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 165
🇩🇪 Germany: 156
🇵🇹 Portugal: 153
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 152
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 149
🇭🇺 Hungary: 141
🇧🇪 Belgium: 136
🇮🇹 Italy: 132
🇵🇱 Poland: 112
🇮🇪 Ireland: 107
🇬🇧 UK: 105
🇪🇸 Spain: 104
🇫🇷 France: 95
🇱🇻 Latvia: 81
🇷🇸 Serbia: 80
🇱🇹 Lithuania: 77
🇧🇾 Belarus: 56
🇷🇺 Russia: 39
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 37
🇷🇴 Romania: 28
🇲🇩 Moldova: 20
🇹🇷 Turkey: 8

According to Encyclopedia Metallum, 2023

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

A message from a Danish friend that really hit home:

“Dear Americans, Look Inward

I write this as a Dane, from Denmark. From here — and with Greenland very much in mind — it may appear that we fear the direction the United States is heading. And we do. But the truth is that you — as an American — are far more frightened.

You live in a country where power turns against its own people. Where the military is used at home. Where democratic institutions are weakened while fear becomes a governing tool. In that reality, silence is not neutral. It is a survival strategy.

So, you do things to convince yourself that everything is fine. You scroll. You binge-watch. You drink a little more. You choose sitcoms over news. You post a smiling selfie, add a stronger filter, and write: “Doing great.”

You stay quiet because speaking up can cost you your job. Because your employer fears losing contracts. Because schools, boards, and communities prefer calm over courage. So denial becomes routine. Distraction becomes normal. Comfort replaces truth. But fear does not stop there. You begin to police yourselves. You watch each other. You suspect each other. You question motives. You report. You label. You call fellow citizens extremists. You call them terrorists. In the name of security, you learn to mistrust one another.

And then think about this: when you dream of a bigger gun, a stronger caliber, more firepower. Ask yourself whether that weapon is protection, or a mirror. Whether the need for a larger gun is not a sign of strength, but a measure of how afraid you have become. Fear has many faces. Fear of those who call themselves patriots but threaten instead of arguing. Fear of your neighbor. Fear of the police. Fear of being open, kind, or publicly disagreeing. From the outside, this does not look like freedom. It looks like a frightening society pretending to function.

And then there is the thought you try hardest to suppress: that people willingly choose not to be part of the United States. Not out of hatred. Not out of jealousy. But out of clarity. That must be brutal and deeply disorienting to face — especially because, deep down, you already know why.

So, look inward. Not as a nation. As a person. Because democracies do not collapse in one dramatic moment. They fade while people convince themselves that everything is fine.

Kind Regards,
Jacob @JacobHokland “

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

— Douglas Adams

[FREESKIER magazine @FREESKIER]

Candide 🤝 La Clusaz. Your Tuesday just got way better.

[Candide Thovex @CandideThovex]

Candide skis x La Clusaz

[Warren Miller Entertainment @WarrenMillerEnt]

The World Championships brought us out to Austria last season, but we also made the most of the powder days we got there! 🌨️

Watch Daron Rahlves and Jacoba Kriechmayr explore Saalbach-Hinterglemm in our new film “SNO-CIETY” 🇦🇹

Tickets are now on presale: https://t.co/CarLJchi2A

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

The Voice of an Absolute King

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

Stunning visualisation of glacier retreat (Glacier Blanc, Ecrins massif) over 1984-2024 that goes hand in hand with 'greening' (vegetation moving upward)! 📈 🌱 🌿
Source: Arthur Bayle

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

3,000 m3 rockfall on the Hohen Sonnblick north face (3 106 m, Hohe Tauern, AT) on 17th July 2025! 🔥
Release area ~2800 m asl

Source: Gerald Valentin / IG

[Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy]

The tongue of the largest glacier in the Alps from Belalp tonight (6:20 pm)! 😍

Anytime soon the front will not be visible anymore from this famous belvedere... 😰

🙏 @ABettmeralp for today's pic and comparison!

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

Sometimes I think Middle-earth isn’t fiction.
It’s just memory, disguised as story.

[Ski Life @powderski]

Night skiing next to glowing lava on Mount Etna🌋 ⛷️

After sunset the lava flow and explosions glowed bright red and orange against the dark sky.

[Hans Peter Petzny @ironhp]

@DrDisco8 @gertikovski Das Konzept von Kleidung im Zeitalter der Klimaerwärmung sowieso überbewertet - mit flipflops über den melting glacier!

[jacque boatman @jacqueboatman]

Rise, thou silver Sun, each morning,
Source of light and life hereafter,
Bring us, daily, joyful greetings,
Fill our homes with peace and plenty,
That our sowing, fishing, hunting,
May be prospered by thy coming.

- Crawford, Kalevala

[Hans Peter Petzny @ironhp]

@BuffsInChucks Initiativbewerbung geht raus ...von [email protected]