I'm leading two tours focusing on the history of Berlin's Jewish Community on June 1st. DM for details.

Pedro Pascal has heard it 🙏

IKEA Berlin going hard for that sex-positive €€€

Me to my tour group: "So that was museum island. The enlightenment, the rise of the Prussian Kingdom, the birth of the Empire, the Republic, the Reich....its all here. Any questions?" Midwest US lady: "When are you going to talk about immigration?"

Is there a word in German for the joy and pleasure that one experiences as a result of someone else's misfortune and humiliation? 🤔

5 'Nicht Einsteigen' U12 trains in a row this morning. It's the hope that kills you.

Went on a guided tour yesterday with @berlintourguide.bsky.social and loved seeing a side of Berlin that was just a bit different from the usual tours. Ryan’s expert knowledge and enthusiasm for the city, helped illustrate how different West Berlin was during the years of the Wall Recommended

Little excerpts from my interview with George Nebieridze about his zine 'Powertool' which explores Berlin's feminist noise-punk scene. Go buy the zine right now---> nebieridze.bigcartel.com

German astronaut Alexander Gerst on the ISS with the Maus and Elefant in what seems like an homage to GDR cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn bringing Sandmännchen aboard his Interkosmos flight in 1978

"I've got news for you. Those weird people on the street — every hundredth weirdest one has a Steely Dan record at home." - Walter Becker, 1981

"There's nothing funny about Daphne & Celeste getting bottled offstage, it's an indictment of the violence of the audience and their complete intolerance for anything outside their rigidly masculine definition of acceptable music."

One United Power - Graffiti, gentrification, Berlin and some Dylan Thomas for the day that's in it

On this day in 1921, Talaat Pasha, one of the key figures behind the Armenian genocide, was murdered on the streets of Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian. The idea, part of "Operation Nemesis" was not just to take revenge, but to bring global attention to the genocide. Find out more here 👇

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

On Germany and techno

On Germany's strict abortion rules

Has anyone done a deep dive into Marxist tendencies in the lyrics of Steely Dan, and if so can someone point me in its direction?

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

Cocaine, fascists etc

The Brutalist is a huge disappointment. It tries so hard to be profound but the director just doesn't have the chops. It also *MILD SPOILER ALERT* indulges in the vaguely antisemitic fallacy that the only place that Jews can be safe and should therefore exist is Israel.

George Grosz wurde am 16. Februar 1924 vom Landgericht Berlin, da seine Mappe "Ecce homo" die öffentliche Moral verletze und die Werte des deutschen Volks in den Schmutz ziehe, zu einer Geldstrafe verurteilt.

10 years ago, I visited the Phil Lynott statue in Dublin

Good to see: 1. The rise of the BSW stalling somewhat 2. the Linke finally being somewhat relevant again

What if you never come down? The 90s clubbers who wouldn’t let the night end – a picture essay

Gonna tell the kids that this was Elon Musk

A photo of SA brownshirts being confirmed as ‘auxiliary’ police, Hessen, February 1933. We know where this led. It’s frankly terrifying to see something similar happening in America - the politicisation and purging of state institutions, incl. the FBI.

"This is who she was! She’d lost the virginal soprano... but in its place was a war cry." Marianne was a warrior witch.

When you break the brandmauer and lose the vote anyway

Über 6.000 Menschen haben vor dem Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in #Berlin demonstriert. @christianeymery.bsky.social www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/mehr-...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Imagine the outcry if US officials hadn't been invited to the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz because of their country's conduct in Vietnam, all over Latin America, Iraq etc etc

Well you can’t get pardoned from tasing your own balls and dying

“Now, I hear you have a funny story about a time you gave, not one, but two Nazi salutes at a presidential inauguration rally”

Been doing some back breaking work with Lego. Half way through a homage to a Brutalist hospital in Berlin. Should look good when finished. Some very clever person out there made the plan that you see on the iPad. I’ve just got a lot of time on my hands

The best to ever do it. RIP

Absolutely sickening to see all the libs on here praising Biden for something that he could and should have done a long time ago.

In the upcoming German elections, its absolutely imperative that we all come together to do the right thing - and that's making absolutely sure that the Volt dweebs don't get any seats whatsoever.

refugeworldwide.com/schedule?fbc... I'm live on this radio station between 1500 and 1700 Berlin time. I think you can text in your questions, which is something I may regret mentioning 🤷‍♂️

I'm not a legal expert but does this mean that if I renounce by UK citizenship before I commit "serious crimes" then I can still keep my German one?

I'm eternally grateful that restaurant choice in Berlin has improved hugely in the last 10 years or so but sometimes all I need is an 'Italian' restaurant which is actually run by Turks or Yugoslavians where a pizza costs a tenner and a large beer is still less than a fiver.

If I was one of those guys who believed that the world was run by a Satanic Paedo Cult, I would be feeling quite excited about Biden giving the Medal of Freedom to Bono, George Soros and Anna Wintour. bbc.com/news/article...

Martin Luther overlooking the charred remains of a Christmas Market stall near Alexanderplatz

A couple of dozen broken windows across several buildings near Schöneberg's Hauptstrasse this afternoon. A pretty grim start to 2025 for these people but at least some absolute dickheads got to set off some fireworks.

This is what I feel like when people follow me if I walk across the road when the lights are still on red.

My deepest condolences to whoever appears to have spilled their New Year stash on the U2 this morning.

In love with this mid-century brutalist banger on Uhlandstrasse. I'd like some more tumbling foliage from the apartment balconies but otherwise, no notes.

This is the future that all those anti-modernist, Greek statue profile pic, RETVRN guys have in mind for us