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Because the daughter wanted Supplì.

Picked the right day to visit the Treetop Walkway in Beelitz with the kids (highly recommended)

A long read for those into this kind of thing: the Soviets had around 20 nuclear weapon storage sites in East Germany, most stripped, sealed or torn down after 1994. Sonderwaffenlager Stolzenhain is probably the last one in Germany still largely "intact". digitalcosmonaut.com/sonderwaffen...

Someone burnt down the Kehlsteinhaus

you know whats super annoying? When Ikea slightly changes the dimensions of their products over time

A long read for those into this kind of thing: the Soviets had around 20 nuclear weapon storage sites in East Germany, most stripped, sealed or torn down after 1994. Sonderwaffenlager Stolzenhain is probably the last one in Germany still largely "intact". digitalcosmonaut.com/sonderwaffen...

Winter is coming

A new post on the website: We explored the Sonderwaffenlager Stolzenhain, a Soviet nuclear warhead depot near Jüterbog. The GDR built and paid for it in 1967 - but the men who poured the concrete never found out what they had built... digitalcosmonaut.com/sonderwaffenlager-stolzenhain/

A usefully way to spend my Thursday 😉

Vielleicht weiss ja der @wiegold.de was hier los war (seit wann gibt's das denn für nen Staatsbesuch?) www.reddit.com/r/germany/s/...

The 3 Polish fiber technicians when I show them the cables in the cellar: "Kurwa - Katastrophe"

Finally writing up/editing the photos of this tour from last year. While there are quite a few Soviet nuclear weapons bunkers in East Germany - this one is the only one which still has a good chunck of its internal equipment still intact. Its rare enough that it includes a rare photo of me in it 😜

I always feel like somebody's watching me

14 years ago we explored the abandoned Elisabeth Sanatorium. Built in 1912 as a private lung clinic, the property was seized by the Nazis and the family fled into exile. The property was returned to the family around 1995 with the intent to redevelope it... digitalcosmonaut.com/elisabeth-sa...

Some rather unremarkable Soviet Barracks in Saxony-Anhalt which were meant to hide the much more important command bunker close by. The bunkers been sealed since 2019 and the barracks have turned into a dumping ground. digitalcosmonaut.com/gssd-kaserne...

I photographed my boys face the moment he saw/found out who Lukes father is. The expression was priceless.

I always get hit with a sense of nostalgia when I pass by this Arab supermarket. Why? Right opposite of this supermarket used to be a branch of "Kaisers" - the goat of all german supermarket chains. The chain went bust in 2017, but "Al-Kaiser" remains

14 years ago we explored the abandoned Elisabeth Sanatorium. Built in 1912 as a private lung clinic, the property was seized by the Nazis and the family fled into exile. The property was returned to the family around 1995 with the intent to redevelope it... digitalcosmonaut.com/elisabeth-sa...

NGL - the entire internet needs a toggle like this

Not much left of this Lenin - though he does seem to have a more recent incarnation on a building nearby... digitalcosmonaut.com/gssd-kaserne...

You might have noticed that there have been substantial changes to the website. Ive completely revamped the look and feel of the content. This also means that im finally fixing all the broken posts/images that have accumulated over the years. Stil a long way to go but im very happy with the progress

Some rather unremarkable Soviet Barracks in Saxony-Anhalt which were meant to hide the much more important command bunker close by. The bunkers been sealed since 2019 and the barracks have turned into a dumping ground. digitalcosmonaut.com/gssd-kaserne...

Our guide to some of the best German cuisine in the Hauptstadt is updated and non-paywalled until the end of the month. www.slowtravelberlin.com/eating-germa...

someone inside the SPD seems to think that it needs to be fully destroyed before it can properly renew itself 👍🏻 - I wish them all the best with this Speedrun

"Frieden" (Peace) by Walter Womacka, 1988 📍Berlin, Germany

Berliner! Samstag feiern @slowberlin.bsky.social & ich die Premiere von "Berlin. Ein literarischer Stadtführer" im wunderbaren Romanischen Café mit Barbaros Altuğ als Gast. Kommt vorbei und stosst mit uns an! 19.30 Uhr im Romanischen Café im Europa-Center: romanisches-cafe.berlin/event/berlin...

I've caved - I've officially turned on the heating in my flat.

Untitled - Artist and year currently unknown 📍Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

Love that they restored the old "Haus der Statistik" alongside the old neon sign from the cafe that used to inhabit the ground floor.

NGL - this is one of those events that I find so massively overated and it seems to have gotten worse over the past 10 years. Much of the same old same old.

Short walk to have a quick look at the festival of lights.

Attaching your LinkedIn profile to a job application is just the new way of uploading your photo tbh 😅. 💯 Guarantee that every HR/Manager will look at your LinkedIn profile the moment your CV comes across their desk.

Me: Mom, can we have US Presidential Busts? Mom: No, we have US Presidential Busts at home.

Just a random fox walking around my kids school

One for @ykomska.bsky.social

Gotta love ai bots pitching ai slop. Fuck off.

Me: Mom, can we have US Presidential Busts? Mom: No, we have US Presidential Busts at home.

I feel my kids pain of having to do German "Diktat" - in cursive as well. I remember massively struggling with German spelling as a kid (and adult lol). None of their cousins in the US or UK are learning curisve either.

The Greeks booing the German Anthem are a bunch of pathetic losers. Fuck them.

Happy 3er Oktober #TagDerEinheit

Absolutley destroyed about 20 kids in Lasertag for my son's belated birthday party this evening. 2nd place was the other dad 😂

can't remember the last time I washed my backpack - but let's say it was long overdue...

"Arbeiten für den Frieden" (Working for Peace), by Walter Womacka, 1965 📍 Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

You do not need to be good at something to enjoy doing it.

I wonder how long it's going to take my kids to figure out what Steve-Os signature looks like....

Just a reminder: They took away the €9 Ticket because they said they couldn't finance it anymore (Cost: €2.5 Billion) Yet the government just approved it's second "Tankrabatt". (Cost: €2.5 Billion)

Always fantastic to see East German "Public Art" being saved and restored 👍🏻

The weekend of 17/18 October will be our last walking tours of 2026. 17th will follow the Soviet assault through Schöneberg and over the Landwehr Canal. 18th will be pre war Nazi Berlin and the Soviet assault from Prenzlauer Berg into the central district. Message for details.

Little movie fact: for the movie "Valkyrie" - they used the abandoned NVA Löpten airfield in Brandenburg as a stand in for the Wolfsschanze airfield in Rastenburg-Wilhelmsdorf (image 1 taken from the movie) digitalcosmonaut.com/flugplatz-lo...

As I've gotten older - I've really internalized two things: 1. I don't need to give my opinion to everything I see/read/hear. (Both online and IRL). 2. It costs absolutley nothing to be nice. Following these two points, my quality of life has drastically increased.