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

But Ben it’s a queer community space

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

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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

wow, so you really did learn nothing. almost impressive.

Or, everyone could have…read her story? Which is brilliant, & speaks very clearly for itself

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screenshot of newspaper: "MEN'S EXPLANATIONS ACCEPTED In Hotel on Sunday Justices in the Glenelg Court today accepted the reasons given by four men for having been at the Family Hotel on a Sunday night. One said he was there to give the manager a shave and haircut, another claimed he went to see about a job, and the others explained that they were concerned with an order for ice. Charges of having been unlawfully on the premises of the Family Hotel, Gleneig, during prohibited hours on August 18 against George Herbert Rule, brickmaker; William Anthoney Finnington, laborer; Frank Ernest Gar diner, stablehand; and Stanley Brown, hairdresser, all of Gleneig, were dismissed. Mr. Eric Millhouse appeared for Browm and Rule. The Assistant Police Prosecutor (Mr. Bond) prosecuted.

nice work lads of 1935

i also did not know that "beat" was an australianism

I just thought it was a generic term for a no-good person! not one I've ever used, but the kind of word my dad and his farmer mates would use

this article also describes "poofter" as "the most significant of the early Australian coinages in the homosexual field"

I now have the Middlemarch problem with Nova Scotia House

how did I only just learn that "sod" (as a derogatory term) is short for "sodomite"?!

Alleged someone allegedly burning a concentration camp in Kansas City.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Photo of a bookshelf with two books next to each other pulled out - „Ahmed, Complaint!“ & „Why Men Love Bitches“

Very funny juxtaposition, good work English-language-section of the Hugendubel in Karstadt on Hermannplatz.

„Ich bleibe bis zum Schluss“: Dirk Kögler ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in Berlin Wer in Berlin Kohle braucht, ruft bei Dirk Kögler an. Der Kreuzberger hat sie im Angebot. Er ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in der Stadt.

There’s an article about the guy I buy coal from in the newspaper, I feel like I know a celebrity taz.de/Ich-bleibe-b...

I’m sorry 😢

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Anti-DHS protesters in LA moved a huge dumpster, partially blocking agents in their building.

Shit

Bless the berlin public library system, but I now need to buy a copy to lend to everyone i know

So good!!!

long meetings & annoying people, but it’s also real & it brings joy