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

🚧 U5 closed 🪧 Record protests 🗑️ New cute trash sayings The 20 Percent for August 5!

👮 Police violence (again or still?) 😥 Homelessness up ⚙️ TikTok firing moderators because: AI The 20 Percent for July 29!

😡 Racist Brandenburgians (again) 💶 Record budget 🌿 168kgs of weed recycled The 20 Percent for July 25!

🤷 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.

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).

🚋 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?

🧑‍⚖️ Poisonous caterpillars 🧑‍⚖️ Suspect in Nazi attack 🧑‍⚖️ Super cops The 20 Percent for June 20!

🌈 Homophobic attack in B-Burg 🌴 Amazon Tower opens 🐀 X 1 mln = Hermannplatz The 20 Percent for June 17!

Anybody been on the High Swing?

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🤷 Coalition woes? 🎉 Record number of new Germans 👑 No king protest Saturday The 20 Percent for June 13!

🧚 Monday's a holiday 🥔 No more turbo Germans 🚋 BVG big ad spend The 20 Percent for June 6!

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.

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

🏫 Sixth-grade stabbing 🤺 The fence is on 🐍 ROGACKI! The 20 Percent for May 23:

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. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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:

🎉 Peaceful May Day 👋 Joe No. 2 is out ⛲ Another water main break The 20 Percent for May 2!

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.

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.

🛃 Protestor deportations? 🌉 A100 Bridge kaputt 🚽 Gentrifying toilets The 20 Percent for April 4!

🚌 Last BVG strike? 🟫 Nazis blocked 🥚 The Neukölln Chicken plant The 20 Percent for March 25 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

🚌 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.

🪧 ANOTHER BVG STRIKE? 🌉 Autobahn bridge closed 😡 Berlin & Xberg at odds The 20 Percent for March 21!

Indians are now the third-largest diaspora in Berlin after a 100-fold increase in the number of immigrants in the past decade to 41,472. Ukrainians are No. 1 with 70,501 (60-fold increase). No. 2? Syrians (46,564).

Sundays in Berlin: The sound of capitalism on pause (and people coming home from the clubs).

Oh no! A homeless man apparently sleeping in a dumpster was killed Monday when sanitation workers emptied the dumpster and he was trapped. Firefighters were unable to free the 33-year-old in time. He had called for help. 😢

We warned you: BVG striking next Wednesday and Thursday. Pay up already BVG!!!

🗑️ Trash strike over, BVG strike? ⚡ Stop burning Teslas ⛪ Gendarmenmarkt is back The 20 Percent for March 14!

🗳️ Federal election 🔪 Holocaust memorial attack ⛪ Reichstag fire The 20Percent for Feb. 25 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !

Results are in and the libertarian/liberal FDP are out. The horseshoe BSW sect didn't make it. Likely we'll get a CDU-led coalition with the SPD but without Chancellor Scholz (record-low 4 SPD his fault). What does that mean? Think Merkel years but less friendly for us foreigners.

What I always think:

A 19-year-old Syrian asylee stabbed and severely wounded a 30-year-old Spanish tourist at the Holocaust memorial Friday. The suspect returned to the scene and was arrested. Victim is in hospital. From @tagesspiegel.de

🚇 BVG, others striking Friday 🎨 Cops try to limit free speech 💏 That Brezhnev, Honnecker smooch The 20 Percent for February 21!

🚨🚨 BVG STRIKING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY🚨🚨 Workers say a 17.6% pay bump over four years is too low and are done talking! Take Uber, s-Bahn, yer bike or just WFH.

Little demonstrating on a Sunday ...

It's weird that we're all forced to pay for public broadcasters in Germany but foreigners have basically zero representation in the public broadcasters. @rbb24.de @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy

Only four of eight tracks in the bottom of the HAUPTBAHNHOF (North-south trains) will be available for the next two months as Deutsche Bahn upgrades switches and signals. Mostly regional trains will be affected. From @rbb24.de

💶 Millions in AfD cash 💃 Karneval der Kulturen in F-Hain? 🏢 Pankow and developer not building flats The 20 Percent for Valentine's Day!

Sometimes I make videos!

🪧 Public sector STRIKE 🕉️ Arabic inexplicably banned at demo 🇺🇸 Berlin exports €1.4b to Trump land The 20 Percent for Feb. 11 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social

🚇 BVG striking (again) 🧑‍🏫 Unis hit by Budget cuts 🗳️ Fewer Germans in Berlin The 20 Percent for Feb. 7!

Germany's most expensive house is back on the market. Rumors said it was built for Brad Pitt on Wannsee in 2009 but my sources said a tech couple, who are now apparently moving out. 9 bedrooms, 1,500 square meters and proof to the world you're a rich schmuck.

💩 6k protest not-chancellor Merz 💉 Diphtheria death 👮 Cops cozying up to con The 20 Percent for Jan. 31!

Super excited to read about the LEA dumpster fire, right on time for me to renew my visa 🔥🚒 Immigrants love hearing about 6-7k applications rotting away 🪦🧟 www.20percent.berlin/p/356-immigr... Thanks for the cheery update, @20percentberlin.bsky.social 😅

🛃 Immigration office SNAFU 💡 Highway lights back on 🅿️ €200k airport parking bill The 20 Percent for Jan. 28 from @mauricefrank.bsky.social !