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A collective statement from the board of the Schwules Museum on the raid against Casa Kuà www.schwulesmuseum.de/presseaktuel...

There will be no speculation about comrades or judgement of people under attack, on my posts 😊 go do that on yr own timeline if you really have to, or better still keep it yourself/the private group chat 😊

Every poster on this wall on Sonnennallee is scratched out like this. The text removed said “From the river to the sea” & “colonise” & I’m trying to picture the person who objects to that phrase & the analysis of Palestine as colonised, but not to “free Palestine” nor to an image from October 7

A cyclist yelled (in english) “fuck your islamism” at me, presumably cos I was wearing a kuffiya? & it’s like, mate, we are in neukölln, you are 2 blocks from Sonnennallee here, you are gonna get tired very quickly

If the most ~scandalous~ thing that the hostile press can find about berlin’s future left-wing mayor is that she was (openly) a member of a broad left legal defense organisation, then the party really did do an amazing job choosing their candidate

Die Linke have a lot of good election material, but personally I find it hard to beat “For Neukölln. For migration. For Palestine.” as a political summary 🖤

Fuck every petty bureaucrat & fuck every border

Serious request: can whoever organises the 2028 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference put it in mid July so that I can come and then stay to see the total solar eclipse that’s happening on July 22? Would be very convenient, thanks in advance 😊

Wir gedenken heute Ferdane Satır, Çiğdem Satır, Ümit Satır, Songül Satır, Zeliha Turhan, Rasim Turhan und Tarık Turhan, die heute vor 42 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 26. auf den 27. August 1984 in #Duisburg bei einem Brandanschlag auf ihr Wohnhaus ermordet wurden. Heute 17 Uhr Kundgebung Fischerstr 2-4.

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

The Haitian revolution was one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments

Environmental storytelling: pregnancy test packaging in the bin in the supermarket toilet at Fort William bus station.

New map projection just dropped

I can’t imagine again living somewhere where you have limited sick leave days you have to ration out over the year.

Linguistically I think it’s kinda fun that one of the main ways to be gender neutral in spoken german involves using a pause as a meaningful phoneme

Yesterday, eight people were sentenced to decades in prison for protesting outside an ICE facility in Prairieland, TX. In our latest issue, Lauren Fadiman covers the case and the right-wing “Antifa” panic surrounding it: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Try to imagine the kind of person who goes to a Massive Attack concert and complains about the politics 🙄

Exciting story from my hometown shared in the family group chat today www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is also the first thing I've published since the realisation that I have to publish with my middle name, to avoid confusion with my name-twin, the other Louise Thatcher, who works at the CSIRO & writes a lot about some very cool sounding plant biology I do not understand

The fact that there are now regularly ticket inspectors on berlin busses and not just u-Bahn and s-Bahn feels like a breach of the social contract

Conclusions are for cowards, if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know what my argument was

The worst thing about so many ppl from „australia“ spending the summer in berlin is that it looks like the term FLINTA has escaped to the english-speaking world

guess whose book just got described as "an exciting piece of scholarship", "meticulously researched", "theoretically innovative" & "an important new book" by the publisher's reviewers??

Jumpscare of hearing Ben Lee, Cigarettes Will Kill You, on German radio

I can tell something’s going right in my life when this guy ❤️‍🔥 is in my suggested emoji/reactions

it's really frustrating to me that i have the ability to write a pitch-perfect formal, effective, passive-agressive email in english but i don't have the skills to do it in german

Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall

A tiny bit funny that even though I’m an atypically privileged migrant (first world passport + whiteness), I still end up working as a cleaner a lot of the time

nice work lads of 1935