Chris Ward

Starting to believe the only situation in which the CDU would support banning the AfD is if they started proposing affordable rents.

Why did I spend all those hours learning German?

Burnham is, to be frank, full of shit. European migration hasn't "changed in the past decade" - countries simply employed the restrictions they (and the UK) always had access to. "The EU are as racist as us now so we can rejoin safely" isn't an argument here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Berlin Cops wrongly stormed a trans event in Berlin with roughly one police van to every attendee. It's clear there are huge efficiency savings to be made with the Polizei, so if a large number of them want to relocate to somewhere else, surely conservatives should applaud this state shrinkage?

🚨 If you use OkHttp, you might want to add the following certificates to a blocklist ASAP due to a recent leak of certificate authority private keys Thanks to @swank.ca for posting about this and adding the steps to mitigate publicobject.com/2026/10/20/m...

Good morning from the pre-sunrise sky at Tempelhofer Feld.

Les Snifferables.

Dass die Junge Union den Schwur von Buchenwald missbraucht, um vor Rot-Grün-Rot zu warnen, ist eine geschichtsvergessene Entgleisung auf AfD-Niveau. Gleichzeitig schweigt sie dröhnend zu den Abgeordneten ihrer Partei aus Sachsen-Anhalt, die sich gerade erst an unserer Demokratie versündigt haben.

People who have their phone speakers up loud on public transport would absolutely hide the bite in a zombie apocalypse so yeah go get them Andy.

In Großbritannien hätte das Konsequenzen. Die Polizei in Deutschland hat zu viel Macht und wird zu wenig kontrolliert. Und das sieht man leider viel zu oft. taz.de/Durchsuchung...

Es gibt kein besseres Beispiel für die kollektive kognitive Dissonanz des deutschen politischen Establishments beim Thema Rassismus: ein angeblich antirassistisches Plakat, das nur so vor Rassismus strotzt.

Stefan Evers. A literal loser.

Life sure comes at you fast.

The President posts a video of the incident where a man suffering from mental illness is mauled to death by a tiger, mocks him, then reposts an AI generated video of himself play-fighting with a tiger. This country is a failed state. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Living my best life.

Has he done a Liam Byrne?? A reminder of the state this atrocious SPD/CDU coalition is leaving Berlin in: www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...

October is a good time to do morning walks at Tempelhof. Except it is getting a little nippy...

Whenever you're sad, remember that Franziska Giffey no longer holds elected office.

Ok I want to try something out here. Maybe I'm wrong but imma try it anyway. Put your hand up if you're an adult with ADHD who *doesn't* see the appeal in living in an elaborate furnished high up treehouse.

I am begging news outlets to stop gulping down the bullshit that companies are "ponder(ing) machine conscience" of statistical models. User input is a source of training data. They're basically telling free users to sanitise that at the source for them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I realised this #nextapp26 #droidcon that previously I had quite a strong community of Android speakers/conference goers on Twitter before it became a cesspit. Are many of you here? Or is it a Mastodon/Threads game these days?

Finally, a picture that captures my essence.

#nextapp26 talk done. Thanks to Grace for being such a great co-speaker. Brb sleeping now for a hundred years.

A reminder to the CDU how you're actually supposed to respond:

In the war between AI and humanity I'll pick whichever one has the capacity to walk single-file on a narrow pavement.

"Former German spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power" Yeah I don't think I need all three guesses as to which. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Heh. This comparison is in my AI talk at a conference this week. It wasn't all roses. Child safety, surveillance, and vast anti-terror legislation. But the Internet was democratic. That's the difference. You can't train an LLM on the second hand laptop you started a booming online business with.

Tempelhofer Feld was cute this morning.

Over to you Söder.

At school I was relentlessly bullied by others who told me I wasn't British because I was born in Germany. I was born in Germany. On a British army base. Because my dad was stationed there as a British soldier. That's why these "Englishness" debates are all bullshit.

Why do they always look like an alien was asked to draw a human form but only with verbal instructions?

Last post deleted cos I missed the slop. Sorry all x

There are some words in German that are in English with a completely different meaning and my brain still even today interprets them first in English. Notausgang. Not an exit. This will cause problems in future. Tankrabatt. Sounds like a Panzer sale at Hellweg.

I only sign into Facebook to stay in touch with friends and family and every time I do my feed is filled with far-right bile. Previously you'd have stuff catered to your own tastes. Now they throw stuff at you to get you riled and mad because that's where the 💵 is. And it is profoundly dangerous.

Five years ago the AfD put up an election poster underneath *this* migrant. 😅💪

If my insta FYP is accurate then that reality TV star's jury have been listening to his AI generated songs for at least 26 hours now.