People who say the Germans have no sense of humor have never tried to connect to WiFi in a regional or ICE train.

#412: U5 down, record number of demos, clean Berlin campaign I met some Schauze while on vacation

🚧 U5 closed
🪧 Record protests
🗑️ New cute trash sayings

The 20 Percent for August 5!

#410: Police violence, homelessness up, Tik Tok strike Jail for jam thief?

👮 Police violence (again or still?)
😥 Homelessness up
⚙️ TikTok firing moderators because: AI

The 20 Percent for July 29!

Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz are the reasons.

#409: Brandenburg racism, acquittal in Trump trial, recycling cannabis Is illegal parking even illegal?

😡 Racist Brandenburgians (again)
💶 Record budget
🌿 168kgs of weed recycled

The 20 Percent for July 25!

S-Bahn-Linien im Berliner Südosten unterbrochen - Störungen auch am Sonntag Weil ein Stellwerk der S-Bahn in Schöneweide nicht besetzt werden konnte, mussten am Samstag sechs Linien unterbrochen werden. Ab 20 Uhr soll der Zugverkehr wieder anlaufen - aber nur bis Sonntagmorge...

🤷 Need a job? The S45, S46, S47, S8, S85 and S9 are not running in southeastern Berlin again Sunday because ... S-Bahn Berlin has no one to operate a switching yard. S-Bahn stations between Treptower Park and Schöneweide will be affected until 6pm Sunday.

Feinkostladen Rogacki in Berlin-Charlottenburg muss offenbar schließen

What!? ROGACKI, a West Berlin institution and popular Butcher/Fishmonger/Restaurant/snack bar, on Wilmersdorfer Straße is bankrupt and the entire staff has already been let go. It is no more (and hundreds of thousands of animals are breathing a sigh of relief).

#407: What U1?, bribes for passports, Mohrenstraße again It's supposedly easier to take an Einbürgerungstest

🚋 The missing Ubahn
🚏 Mohrenstraße No more
💰 Passports for bribes

The 20 Percent for July 18!

Ok it's not Berlin but you probably need to know: Cops in Bavaria were forced to shoot a catfish this weekend because it kept biting swimmers:

German playgrounds! AMIRITE?

#399: Poisonous caterpillars, Nazi douchebaggery, Copper Claudia Plus an adventure at the Lost and Found

🧑‍⚖️ Poisonous caterpillars
🧑‍⚖️ Suspect in Nazi attack
🧑‍⚖️ Super cops

The 20 Percent for June 20!

#398: Festival attacked, Amazon tower protest, Neukölln rat infestation Smokers at the station: what to do?

🌈 Homophobic attack in B-Burg
🌴 Amazon Tower opens
🐀 X 1 mln = Hermannplatz

The 20 Percent for June 17!

Anybody been on the High Swing?

h/t to @20percentberlin.bsky.social for pointing out the Ad. Do follow them and subscribe. They write good stuff.

#397: Coalition on the brink? Protest weekend. The Denver Walk. Record numbers of you are leaving the 20 Percent.

🤷 Coalition woes?
🎉 Record number of new Germans
👑 No king protest Saturday

The 20 Percent for June 13!

#395: Three-day weekend, Kant bike path no more, no more turbo-Germans BVG ads cost millions

🧚 Monday's a holiday
🥔 No more turbo Germans
🚋 BVG big ad spend

The 20 Percent for June 6!

Golf abgeschleppt, Halter unbekannt: 200.000-Euro-Knöllchen am BER bleibt unbezahlt Monatelang stand ein VW Golf unbewegt auf einem Kurzzeitparkplatz am Flughafen BER – die Parkgebühren sollen sich auf mehrere Zehntausend Euro summiert haben. Nun wurde das Fahrzeug entfernt. Die Such...

Russian spies for 200 Alex:

The mysterious Golf that amassed €200,000 in short-term parking fees at BER has been removed. Officials were unable to determine who owns the Hanover-registered VW.

Spreekanal Berlin: Verbotene Demo gegen Schwimmverbot Der Verein Berliner Flussbad möchte, dass in der Spree geschwommen werden kann. Doch ihr schwimmender Protest darf nicht stattfinden.

At least the Berlin cops don't discriminate in one thing: banning protests. The swimming in the Spree protest was banned because: too risky.

#391: Spandau stabbing, Görli fence, Most expensive street in Berlin A death reminded me of my favorite Berlin eatery/store

🏫 Sixth-grade stabbing
🤺 The fence is on
🐍 ROGACKI!

The 20 Percent for May 23:

That is literally the argument they're having. 🤦

Kompromiss zur Einigungsstelle deutet sich an: Berliner Verwaltungsreform soll vor der Sommerpause kommen Auf dem Weg hin zu einer Reform der Berliner Verwaltung sind nur noch wenige Punkte strittig. Ein Konflikt steht kurz vor der Lösung.

Mayor Kai Wegner's (CDU) trademark project is simplifying bureaucracy in Berlin. And how? By creating a committee to decide whether boroughs or the city-state is responsible for performing certain tasks.

Fighingt bureaucracy with bureaucracy. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Rassismusvorwurf im Museum: Wie bei einem Spießrutenlauf Ein Schwarzer Besucher der Neuen Nationalgalerie wird von Wachmann unfreundlich behandelt. Die Sicherheitsfirma spricht von einem Missverständnis.

Neue Nationalgalerie's security provider denied a guard racially discriminated against a Black visitor from Brazil last Saturday.

But Neue Nationalgalerie says it wants its guards and cashiers to attend sensitivity training anyway.

Contradictory?

From @taz.de

Republicans criticizing Germany for surveilling the AfD.

Also the Republicans:

#383: No May Day mayday, Joe's out, Water main break (again) Go ahead -- hyphenate your last name

🎉 Peaceful May Day
👋 Joe No. 2 is out
⛲ Another water main break

The 20 Percent for May 2!

Walpurgisnacht und 1. Mai: Berlin tanzt friedlich in den Mai – Polizei zieht erste Bilanz Der Tag der Arbeit ist in Berlin immer ein Tag der politischen Demonstrationen. Zugleich zieht es viele Menschen zum Feiern ins Freie. Wir begleiten Protest und Party im Liveblog.

What used to be a battleground on April 30 is now just an open air club: Cops said Walpurgisnacht in Mauerpark was chill with fire dancers and techno.

And only one arrest was made during the Take Back the Night demo in Xberg-Fhain.

Yeah it pisses me off that I have to go check there

Berliner Wasserbetriebe says an 80cm water main burst at Leninplatz (Platz der Vereinten Nationen). They're having trouble replacing the pressure. Hopefully we can all shower tomorrow.

#375: Protesters face deportation, A100 bridge kaputt, a fateful coin toss You can't always be who you thought you'd be

🛃 Protestor deportations?
🌉 A100 Bridge kaputt
🚽 Gentrifying toilets

The 20 Percent for April 4!

#372: Last BVG strike? Nazis blocked. Tesla being Tesla. Berlin's high-rise hen house

🚌 Last BVG strike?
🟫 Nazis blocked
🥚 The Neukölln Chicken plant

The 20 Percent for March 25 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

Verdi ruft bei BVG für kommende Woche zu zweitägigem Warnstreik auf Bei der BVG soll in der kommenden Woche erneut gestreikt werden. Die Gewerkschaft Verdi hat die Beschäftigten für Mittwoch und Donnerstag zum Warnstreik aufgerufen. Hintergrund sind die am Freitag ges...

🚌 So it's weekly now? BVG will again strike this Wednesday and Thursday as the public transport provider refuses to meet union Verdi's demands. Members are voting on a possible UNLIMITED strike if BVG execs continue to resist.