If you need some good news. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

Make America Great Again… GTF Out!

In breaking news, Burt braved one level higher in the cat tree this morning. 😅 Since discovering the thing that has been in our flat for months, he’s pretty much been living in it.

A headline that is misleading af www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...

Check out these cool markings around a doorway I saw in Berlin today

🇩🇪 Germany's turbo 3-year citizenship path is being debated in parliament this week, and the CDU wants it gone. Worse? Applications already submitted will be cancelled completely.

15 of those arrested are German. I'd like to know their status. According to their lawyer, the German embassy refused to provide updates to her as their legal counsel, or their family. They sit in a prison. The German gov't should be ashamed in their complicity. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I have had this cat tree for several months now, mostly for energetic orange guy. The other one ignored it, until today and look how I found them. 🥰

Some of the best neon signs are those that capture the imperfections of handwriting.

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

Cat portraits ❤️

Rarely seen photos that painstakingly document the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 serve as a reminder of the limitations of authoritarian solutions.

New from The Berlin Life: TikTok Germany Workers Want 3 Years Pay LinkedIn icks. A 2-day Berlin job fair to help your search. How to quit your job in Germany. Berlin lost its Currywurst title and its NYE party. An American/German student exchange. theberlinlife.substack.com/p/tiktok-ger...

That was excellent. #TempelhoferFeld #Drachenfest #Berlin

The latest South Park episode might have been the best so far this season www.salon.com/2025/09/25/s...

Saturday night in 🍵

I have a new way to channel stress (because I am super stressed atm). It’s cooking and baking. I made a chicken soup for lunch, which involved a lot of aggressive chopping. And I made veggie muffins tonight, which involved more chopping,

In case you needed a moustached cat in your feed today 🥸

My cat Domi went a bit wild in the kitchen tonight 😅

I've never watched Kimmel, but I will tomorrow. I am sooooo interested in what he'll actually say. Like, what will be real and what will be forced?

So Stephen Miller basically plagiarized his speech directly from ... Joseph Goebbels. And they get mad when you call them Nazis. www.thenational.scot/news/2548457...

🤯 Germany officially ranks dead last among 38 advanced economies for hours worked annually - a shocking reversal for a country known for its work ethic. This week's newsletter dives into what this means for the economy and your career prospects. What's inside:

One day, we'll look back at the abomination of the Charlie Kirk event today with the same horror that we look at footage of Nazi Germany. It's a gathering of modern Nazis pretending to be Christian, glorifying a racist, sexist, homophobic man who was nothing more than an "influencer" (at best).

We all need some good news, or just silly news sometimes. www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/9/...

Sometimes life in Germany is just wild. One was less than a km away

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

Brooklyn 99 timeline cleanse

A wholesome and much needed TL cleanser.

The best part of having a new soda stream refill delivered today was how much Domi is enjoying the box 😅

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Techies using vertical monitors will like that Chrome is finally getting vertical tabs. chromeunboxed.com/google-chrom...

Germany's journalist's union head today calling on the US media to "not cave in to MAGA cult": "We are observing a rapid erosion of freedom of the press and freedom of expression in the US... Their servility toward Trump will not bring them peace, but will result in further pressure."

Continuing the beer theme from yesterday, here is a delightful sign for an old (but still active) brewery in Münster.

When a dictator talks about "freedom of speech" he really means that you do have freedom of speech. He doesn't mean that you really have freedom after speech.

Melania has once again donned her Club Mate fit for the royal visit

At least one country is doing things kinda right

Tonight's vibe

A man just paddled 26 miles across the open ocean in a kayak grown entirely from mushrooms—it took 12 hours and held together perfectly. Halfway through, a 50-foot whale followed him for 3 miles. Nature collaborating with nature. 🍄🌊 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I have a Smart Reads for the Curious Minds section in my newsletter. Not all links make the cut, so I will start sharing them here.

Hope America proves to be interesting.

Staatsbibliothek in #Berlin 🥰

Absolute legends: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a really well written piece. open.substack.com/pub/historyc...

There’s never a year where the test alerts don’t scare the heck out of me! 😂 Got an SMS and NINa alert. I think there are some sirens outside but they seem far away.

Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.

I'll merely note that today, like all days, is a great day to stop posting on Twitter, a platform whose owner force feeds this slop into people's brains with an algorithm designed to boost his views and trample yours.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

There isn’t a bag he won’t sit in 🥰

Is chlorophyll actually good for you? Also, are humans just getting that much dumber that people take advice from influencers? Or that we're woke because we trust doctors and scientists? 🤔🙄 www.popsci.com/health/is-ch...