Walter Benjamin #HappyNewYear

Fuck Germany (and Austria).

Here are my top10 films of the decade so far

I deplore how the German and western political classes have abused Holocaust memory to the point that publics have lost faith in its lessons.

Nichts ist so deutsch wie eine BILD-Kolumne, die den palästinensischen Bürgermeister von Jesus‘ Heimatstadt belehrt, er habe die „Weihnachtsbotschaft nicht verstanden“ — weil er über das Leid der Palästinenser spricht. Eine Einreichung in letzter Minute für den kartoffeligsten Text des Jahres. 👏🏆🇩🇪

I need yall to know that this is still the best essay written about the current German mind. You won't get it anywhere else and really speaks to the heart (or should I say, subconscious) of rising German racism and die-hard support for Israel.

You're welcome.

I just read this yesterday and it just blows my mind that hating Germany isn't just the common sense position lol.

@a-d-n.bsky.social has a theory about it - criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

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Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, 2025)

Udo Kier in 2016

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Outrageous: @lmumuenchen.bsky.social cancelled event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia.” As DAVO-CAF warns, this is an attack on academic freedom—protected by Art. 5(3) GG & UNESCO 1997. Universities must remain spaces for critical debate, not censorship: davo1.de/wp-content/u...

Every day a new case. Make no mistake: The re-aryanisation of German culture and academia is systematic.

Gorki theatre cancelling premiere of Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail due to “dynamics and differences within the cast and artistic production team”, why is Germany so embarrassing

The @lmumuenchen.bsky.social cancels a seminar titled "the Targeting of the Palestinian Academia". They claim that there were "doubts this event's academic standard would be acceptable". This is outrageous. Yet again, a German university silences Palestinian academics www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

Yes. By the same token, I don't think Germany as a society truly understands what Germany's complicity in all this means for the country. I predict Gaza will be a significant factor in alienating or repelling the "high-skilled" workers the economy needs: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g...

The 'Sarajevo Safari' thing reminds me of Baudrillard's classic text. I don't find it shocking at all as it falls somewhere between the familiar categories of perpetrator, bystander, voyeur, and war tourist.

at the thrift shop be like

R.I.P. Peter Watkins, who among other things arguably made the greatest 'biopic' ever and the greatest 'political' film ever A true radical and visionary if ever there was one in the cinema

food for thought

It‘s still three years until the next national election, the Nazis are leading several polls, and you’ve got fascists in the middle of Berlin acting like this. Good luck, Germany, if you’re trying to attract a sufficient number of non-white migrants to boost your economy. Good luck: you’ll need it.

long shot perhaps, but if anyone happens to have a spare ticket for the sold-out Xiu Xiu show in Prague, sell it to me ppleeeeaaase 🙏🙏🙏

Germany’s Hand in Sudan’s War www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

long shot perhaps, but if anyone happens to have a spare ticket for the sold-out Xiu Xiu show in Prague, sell it to me ppleeeeaaase 🙏🙏🙏

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truth bombs 💣 hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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called it 🤷 #NobelPrize

Was ich dazu noch sagen will. Hamza Kurtovic wurde in Hanau von einem rassistischen Terroristen ermordet. Ich traf seinen Vater ein paar Wochen nach dem 7.Okt 2023, als sich die dt. Politik überschlug, von allen Muslimen Distanzierungen vom Terrorismus (Hamas) zu verlangen/2

2 years into the full-scale, live-streamed Israeli genocide against Palestinians, Germany's support is still unwavering. Why? Weren't they de-nazified after ww2? Didn't they 'learn from their history'? No they didn't. This is the subject of my new video essay: https://youtu.be/DrxKR3UjJwk

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

Which genocidal racist is set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year?

That's the narrative they tell themselves but it falls apart pretty quickly Merkel: "Germany’s special historical responsibility for Israel’s security [...] is part of my country’s Staatsräson" Scholz: "Israel’s security is part of Germany’s raison d’état"

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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