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Snuggles with #NyushaTheCat are the best #TurkishVan #Caturday #Cat #Cats #FediCat #FediCats #CatsOfMastodon #Katze

I got Claude AI to write what I did at work last week. I'm so clever and accomplished! If I email it to Elon will he give me a job? I might even upload it to my LinkedIn 🫠

@jonnywhitlam.bsky.social can you help with this?

🗳️ ✔️ #btw2025

We no longer need to wonder if Russia is interfering in foreign elections, since the US is doing their job for them

Happy voting day, for those here who can x 🇩🇪✏️

Berlin's transit operator BVG really need to improve their mobile phone tickets system. @eliotlovell.bsky.social tried repeatedly to buy a ticket but it kept timing out 😡

Just witnessed the most German experience ever: Indian man stood up in the S-Bahn, and while he was still saying goodbye to a friend, a fat white man literally pushed him out of the way to get to his seat.

DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

I just finished backing up all my (~300) Amazon books to Calibre, so that I own them forever, and can read them on my Kobo or another e-reader. But I don't remember buying most of them, even less what they said. I wonder if that's because until relatively recently, Kindle didn't show book covers?

Gym hottie is here today. Tall, muscled, tattooed, floppy blonde hair 🔥 Then he came to use a machine near me, and I thought: I preferred it when he was further away. Easier to admire :)

To be clear, it's the same as the Australian 2 year youth mobility visa, and absolutely not at all just the same as the basically identical European Union 2 year working holiday visa 🫠

It’s a puzzle that so many people are surprised [that Trump said Ukraine is the aggressor], for he's repeatedly told the world who he is. If you’re still credulous that this disability-mocking rapist could behave like a despicable quisling, then you too are part of the problem.

Elon proving here that his ketamine habit is proving to be a challenge

So I don't have to keep explaining, US being in league with RUS does not mean subordinate to it. It's possible, ofc. But it's also easier to fathom some evil RUS plot with kompromat and sleeper agents, than the more difficult truth: that their values align and our former ally is the senior partner.

"The notion of America as selfless protector of Europe is bogus. Take NATO bases. Without any forward operating points in Greece, in Turkey, in Malta, in Cyprus, how does America protect its Middle-East interests, if something happens? Where's its closest ship? Where's its closest aircraft?”

Throwback to a sunny June afternoon in Berlin #AlbeeTheCat #BritishShortHair #NyushaTheCat #TurkishVan #Caturday #Cat #Cats #FediCat #FediCats #CatsOfMastodon #Katze

Of course, all of this might be untrue. But now they should be scared and unsure whether to trust them or not.

This is my final OFM column. Here’s what I’ve learned about buffets, ‘clean eating’ and what not to serve food on | Jay Rayner

Defaced Alternative für Deutschland election poster at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Now including an additional stuck on poster "whoever defaces posters has no argument", which is also defaced!

I'll be happy to see the end of the minus weather. It's currently -6° here, and I have to cycle on the main roads, because all the back routes and cycle paths haven't been cleared, so they're just strips of slippery ice :(

Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over “broken tracks and bad trains”, claiming that "nothing works any more” in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

Nutella inventor Francesco Rivella has died at the age of 97. In his honour, Germany will now indulge in its usual pastime of disagreeing on the gender of 'Nutella'. atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-4/f24a... (via 'Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache')

Even the Financial Times thinks that Trump's sweeping away of regulators is a bad idea

In Germany, over 40 parties are up for election, and because it’s a proportional representation voting system, how someone votes actually makes a difference. To help people decide how to vote, there's Wahl-O-Mat, which asks questions and compares people's answers to the parties' pledges