Happy Birthday to German-lover Mark Twain 🙂 www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlin-the-c...

30 November 1835: Mark Twain is born. His essay on 'The Awful German Language' captures the joys and frustrations of learning German.

Habe gerade ein Video gesehen, in dem jemand sich eine nützliche Eselsbrücke dafür ausdenkt, wann der Mauerfall war. Ihr findet mich dann in der Gruft.

“West Berlin Zoo Station S-Bahn platform in 1986. A train is expected on the right-hand platform going to Friedrichstrasse, which was in East Berlin. There were border controls at that station…” - Chris John DeWitt blszcz.tumblr.com/post/1889777...

🎁 Home for Christmas 🎁 806 days. Can live with cats, no dogs. She needs an amazing, kind, loving, patient human who will be her forever. Quiet adult only home. 3.5 years old, 50 lbs 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter 💻[email protected] ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

We can forget about Thatcher by just looking around us.

Das bisher Einleuchtendste, das ich zum Thema Trump-Anhänger gelesen habe. (Geschenklink) www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Die amerikanische Invasion von Grenada

I don't work for the shelter. breaks my heart MELIA has been there such a long time. I am TRULY GRATEFUL for each of you sharing her. There is an amazing person who is the right fit for her. We just have to find them. Here's her bio. Please read it. Info is there ⬇️ 24petconnect.com/DetailsMain/...

Sitze als Frau allein in dunkler Bushaltestelle in einsamer Straße. Junger, von mir als mit Migrationshintergrund gelesener Mann nähert sich der Bushaltestelle. Grüßt (in Berlin!) und geht weiter. Stadtbild ok, meine Meinung.

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🗽 Good Morning New York 🗽 This gal is looking for a low traffic adult only home. Cats are ok. No dogs. Needs training. MELIA - 3.5 years old, 50 lbs Over 800 days waiting. Be her hero. 💻[email protected] 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Eingang zum U-Bahnhof Französische Straße, 1 November 1929 by Willy Pragher Source: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

@genodellamorte.bsky.social best headline of the day!

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Exeter, 2019 #streetphotography

The OG Simon's Cat film!

sunlight streaming through the s bahn #berlin

White Pelicans being escorted through the mist by some Cormorants on Lake Casitas. #Birds #Nature #Photography

“Parlor Ornament”. Postcard from my collection, 1906.

Bernauer Straße subway station in 1990. Formerly closed due to the Berlin Wall, it was opened for inner-city traffic on April 12th of that year—but was only accessible from the West Berlin side. Photo by Thomas Uhlemann, via Federal Archives: 183-1990-0412-010

I've always felt that "encounter" is a lazy translation of the German "Begegnung". When trade fairs talk about the value of "persönliche Begegnungen", they mean something like "face-to-face interaction". By contrast, "personal encounters" sounds like they disappeared to the toilets for a shag.

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

ich habe mal ein hübsches, sinnvolles kaffeezubereitungs-gadget verschenkt und bekomme nun immer mal werbung der firma. heute die übliche black-friday-mail, hauptfeature ist ein spiegel, den man sich an die kaffeemaschine hängen und den output beobachten kann und äh, sind männer okay?

Can you see the scorpionfish? (hint: eyes to the left, caudal fin to the right) They are tremendously camouflaged and I generally miss them, but this one shot in front of me, dropped onto some coral, and then stayed motionless. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans

Die Reichweite von NIUS ergibt sich insbesondere aus ihrer Vernetzung in die Politik und Witschaft. Es sind prominente Personen wie die Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner, die die Narrative dieses Mediums und seiner Satelliten amplifizieren und sie auf diese Art und Weise in dem Mainstream tragen.

Auch interessant! Die Agitprop-Schleuder „Nius“ liegt - trotz eines riesigen Budgets und großer Redaktion - nicht mal unter den Top 100 der deutschen Online-Plattformen: kress.de/news/beitrag...

Isaac Asimov, Foundation' Edge, published 1982. "It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy." And it's bang on the money today.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

No such thing as too many books and plants, pfft.

Blaumeisen einfach Gartenkampfzwerge.

Christmas trees at the Heinrich-Heine-Straße checkpoint in #Berlin, 1961.

23 November 1966: stamps issued in the GDR featuring motifs from East Berlin's Vorderasiatisches Museum

Der Mann hält zufrieden ein Weinglas gegen das Licht. „Die haben die Formel von diesen Geschirrspülertabs echt verbessert.” Ich: „Dann klappt‘s ja jetzt auch mit dem Nachbarn.“ Er: ??? Was soll ich sagen, manchmal fehlt ihm halt der kulturelle Hintergrund.

Es gibt sie noch, die guten Dinge.

Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.

Das ist wirklich heftig. Weniger Tote wegen der "scheiß Bürokratie" in Deutschland. "Bürokratieabbau" bedeutet oft "wir werfen Umwelt- und Arbeitsschutz über den Haufen".

Martin Höhlig, Berlin, Tiergarten, light tower of the Osram Company, 1928

Small and smaller. Tiny snail hitching a ride from a bigger slug. #blueskyartshow #small #photography #snails #Fibonaccisequence #animals #wildlife

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Die Waschmaschine sagte „noch eine Minute“ und dann dauerte es noch eine Minute und jetzt weiß ich auch nicht.

Heavy snowfall on Dimitroffstrasse (today Danziger Straße), November, 1965. #berlin

Helpful reminder that both Kyiv and its European partners can safely ignore Trump's pushes for a bad peace deal.

Keep in mind that since this year, it is us Europeans who pay for all the aid to Ukraine. Nothing comes from the U.S since Trump became president. We even pay for the American weapons bought for Ukraine.

Braucht jemand Gehölze für den Garten? Wir wollen den Baum-Wildlingen in unserem Institutsgarten ein zweites Leben schenken und testen hierzu am Sonntag in #Frankfurt ein neues Veranstaltungsformat!

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

October 1940. A member of the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service holds a cat that's just been saved from the rubble, after a daylight raid in London.

I had a pretty fun frost this morning.🌱🍁🌿❄️