I've had a few journalists ask me about 'Tommy' and his intimidation campaigns lately. I could talk for hours about why nothing seems to happen, but... Fact is, his current paymasters and fellow travelers in the US administration are some of the most unhinged around right now.

Gotta love all these weirdo racist nerds freaking out about Cem Özdemir becoming the first German state premier (BW) with a Turkish background. 1. He's ultra-Swabian. Lives in Bad Urach. Speaks with a THICK accent. Couldn't be more local. 2. He was already FEDERAL AGRICULTURE MINISTER.

Can't win 'em all, Riley. Hell, seems you can't win most. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/rile...

Well, well, well.

'You see it too, huh?' 'Your neighbours vote for us too' Why do AfD voting placards always read so damn weird and pervy?

One day he's going to get someone killed, and there's going to be some very serious questions needed asking.

Goodness, what a shame! 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They're not like the SS or the Gestapo. That grants them far too much power and focus. They're like the thugs, the disaffected veterans, the extremists and chancers that joined the Sturmabteilung or 'SA'.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

They're not like the SS or the Gestapo. That grants them far too much power and focus. They're like the thugs, the disaffected veterans, the extremists and chancers that joined the Sturmabteilung or 'SA'.

I chose perhaps the worst time in recent decades to keep my head down and protect my peace, I swear. 🤣

Some might want to read up on what happened to a certain German paramilitary group, full of thugs and extremists, who thought they were doing the regime's bidding.

Man, 'Tommy' is lapping me at the number of countries he now can't enter.

Working with LLMs (not in a creative capacity, mind you), I now understand the Adeptus Mechanicus.

We've got a famous folk song here in Germany, called 'Die Gedanken Sind Frei' - 'Thoughts are free'. Just a little slice of German culture. youtu.be/3h6ZZ28QtX4?...

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

Things are about to get really, really, really bad.

We used to have this kind of messaging in Germany. Then the cities were flattened, and they put brass plaques outside the house of those 'disappeared'. (ht Jeremy on Facebook)

Most of them.

Many differences between Stuttgart and Frankfurt, but the single-minded bloody determination that people have to claim ubahn seats is a big one. Reminds me of Melbourne, or London. I think I'll be at home.

Everything old is new again.

I'm going to save you a lot of time. If an online piece has a headline posed as a question, you can be damn sure the answer can be found in the very last paragraph. Scroll to the end.

In a weird spot. Old enough to occasionally shake my head and raise concerns about the impact of sexually provocative media, then immediately have to clarify it's not because I agree with weirdo terminally-online zoomer prude culture.

There has never, ever been an easier choice. Pass me the glitter.

I never thought I'd get sucked in by a turn-based game about grief, mimes and gigantic swords.

I live. New job. Silly overwrought French video games. Life. But I do miss the chatter.

WITH A FOLDING CHAIR.

C'mon, let's have a Celestine, an Innocent or an Urban. I've love a Callixtus.

Absolute cowardice. www.thelocal.de/20250508/ger...

How can a made-up Space Switzerland anthem make me tear up?

The Ghorman Massacre might be the most intense episode of TV I've ever watched.

When Facebook comment sections describe the new German chancellor, Merz, as a radical leftist.

Currently playing: Expedition 33.

Currently playing: Expedition 33.

German spy agency ranks far-right AfD "extremist". About damn time. - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Dom Lucre is now taking part in White House press conferences. For people who don't know who Lucre is, this is like inviting David Icke to a Number 10 press conference. For people who don't know who Icke is, this is like a Tellytubbie doing Question Time.

Pope's gone. Conclave.

CECOT is a concentration camp. It may even be an extermination camp.

Deep down, I think the 'snap back' from the marked shift in politics, economics and societal norms over the three decades is going to be the subject of books, films and intensive academic study centuries from now. It's going to be brutal.

My commute home each week takes me past a number of castles, sitting atop hills - they were built there to control tiny fiefdoms in last centuries. Can't help but think those days are coming back.

Deep down, I think the 'snap back' from the marked shift in politics, economics and societal norms over the three decades is going to be the subject of books, films and intensive academic study centuries from now. It's going to be brutal.

CECOT is a concentration camp. It may even be an extermination camp.

If there is one thing Assassin's Creed: Shadows nails, it's the steadily rising panic as you slaughter your way up through a castle (usually to the neat sword or armour up the top).

Reclaiming my life from social media has been fun, but I do miss the chatter. Will be ramping up again.

Searches for information about an attack before it happened, you say? In Russia? Golly! www.thelocal.de/20250407/ger...

Context: I have to parse many html files (mail templates) for certain text, and change.

I think I need to learn how to code. In your experience, what's the best way?