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.

You would think that the worst thing about cleaning work is the clients, but that’s only the second worst thing, the worst thing is that dozens of times a day I perform gestures that remind me of my mum

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 🙄

Hey @heistberlin.bsky.social can you please do a story on the two rival City Chickens, it’s clearly some kind of Aldi Nord-Aldi Sud/adidas-puma split situation & I want to know the details. thankyou.

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

It’s an absolute travesty that I don’t have an academic position, firstly cos I’m a great teacher & secondly cos I can now absolutely pull off the academic soft-butch salt & pepper hair leather jacket look, & that’s just not a transferable skill

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

Very happy to have published an article on one of my minor obsessions - the long(er) history of the very present practice of fining shipping companies as a way of enforcing state borders: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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"?!

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

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

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...

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

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

Oh my, fucking god. This book.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Fans of australian english, I need to tell you: I was at a queer open mike night in Istanbul & the host, from Libya, identified themself as „non-bino“

“don’t say ‘happy new year’ say fuck the police perhaps say ‘rewrite the calendar’ but after that, immediately after that say fuck the police”

The only photo I took on NYE was of this incredible weapons-handling of a Berlin cop. (One of 12 cops surrounding one man arrested on the platform at Kotti)

The Rote Hilfe, a key infrastructure org of the german left, providing legal & financial support to political prisoners for more than a century, just had its bank account closed by GLS, an ~ethical~ bank. They suspect the new US sanctions against European ~antifa~ is behind it taz.de/Alle-Konten-...

"I would rise to this attack. I would fight back until it was over. There is no pregnancy I could conceive that I would allow to continue. Did my body doubt me? Did God? How many times would I be made to prove it?" this on abortion by @charlotteshane.bsky.social: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/pol...

Feeling strongly that book proposal might be the most abject genre of writing

An old student who I recommend for a Rosa Lux Stiftung PhD scholarship just let me know that he got it! 😊

Dream sequences are lazy

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

3/ The West Java Regional Police sweep is not limited to that area. They have already carried out sweeps outside their jurisdiction as well. Some have already been arrested in Makassar, eastern Indonesia and East Java too.

2/ Almost all of them are part of anarchist network. The police are trying to find out who is handling the funding and the social media admins connected to network. They will arrest people known to be linked with those social media admins.

1/ via Bandilang Itim News from Indonesia, comrades asked to circulate this: A silent police operation against the anarchist network is underway. Just got an update from Bandung city, West Java, Indonesia. Around 40 anarchists suspects have already been arrested.

I watched La Haine in the cinema last night & someone in the audience loudly said „oh no!“ just before the end

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

😭 😭

A major German newspaper just published a long article arguing, with extensive evidence, that the the cops lied about what happened at a Palestine solidarity demo, omfg

I finished reading Middlemarch & now I have the problem that no other novel is likely be as good as Middlemarch