Environmental storytelling: pregnancy test packaging in the bin in the supermarket toilet at Fort William bus station.

New map projection just dropped

I can’t imagine again living somewhere where you have limited sick leave days you have to ration out over the year.

You would think that the worst thing about cleaning work is the clients, but that’s only the second worst thing, the worst thing is that dozens of times a day I perform gestures that remind me of my mum

Linguistically I think it’s kinda fun that one of the main ways to be gender neutral in spoken german involves using a pause as a meaningful phoneme

Yesterday, eight people were sentenced to decades in prison for protesting outside an ICE facility in Prairieland, TX. In our latest issue, Lauren Fadiman covers the case and the right-wing “Antifa” panic surrounding it: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...

The Invention of Antifa | Lauren Fadiman

The Justice Department wants to prosecute “Antifa” members for domestic terrorism. The only problem? The Antifa they describe doesn’t really exist.

thebaffler.com

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Try to imagine the kind of person who goes to a Massive Attack concert and complains about the politics 🙄

heistberlin.bsky.social@heistberlin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Berlin vs Massive Attack The Bristol band played the Zitadelle Spandau over the weekend, leaving the German press with one clear complaint: the politics. www.heistberlin.com/news/massive...

Hey @heistberlin.bsky.social can you please do a story on the two rival City Chickens, it’s clearly some kind of Aldi Nord-Aldi Sud/adidas-puma split situation & I want to know the details. thankyou.

Exciting story from my hometown shared in the family group chat today www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More than 100,000 cockroaches worth $200,000 seized from NSW breeder in record-breaking bust

The invertebrates were likely destined for the pet trade, including as reptile food

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It’s an absolute travesty that I don’t have an academic position, firstly cos I’m a great teacher & secondly cos I can now absolutely pull off the academic soft-butch salt & pepper hair leather jacket look, & that’s just not a transferable skill

This is also the first thing I've published since the realisation that I have to publish with my middle name, to avoid confusion with my name-twin, the other Louise Thatcher, who works at the CSIRO & writes a lot about some very cool sounding plant biology I do not understand

lou thtchr@flightpath.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very happy to have published an article on one of my minor obsessions - the long(er) history of the very present practice of fining shipping companies as a way of enforcing state borders: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to have published an article on one of my minor obsessions - the long(er) history of the very present practice of fining shipping companies as a way of enforcing state borders: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shipping Companies as Border Guards: Financial Penalties and Outsourced Immigration Control

This article describes an important but hidden tool through which Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act, and thus the White Australia policy, was enforced: the fines that were issued to captains,...

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The fact that there are now regularly ticket inspectors on berlin busses and not just u-Bahn and s-Bahn feels like a breach of the social contract

Conclusions are for cowards, if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know what my argument was

The worst thing about so many ppl from „australia“ spending the summer in berlin is that it looks like the term FLINTA has escaped to the english-speaking world

guess whose book just got described as "an exciting piece of scholarship", "meticulously researched", "theoretically innovative" & "an important new book" by the publisher's reviewers??

Jumpscare of hearing Ben Lee, Cigarettes Will Kill You, on German radio

I can tell something’s going right in my life when this guy ❤️‍🔥 is in my suggested emoji/reactions

it's really frustrating to me that i have the ability to write a pitch-perfect formal, effective, passive-agressive email in english but i don't have the skills to do it in german

Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall

A tiny bit funny that even though I’m an atypically privileged migrant (first world passport + whiteness), I still end up working as a cleaner a lot of the time

nice work lads of 1935

I now have the Middlemarch problem with Nova Scotia House

lou thtchr@flightpath.bsky.social · last yr.

I finished reading Middlemarch & now I have the problem that no other novel is likely be as good as Middlemarch

how did I only just learn that "sod" (as a derogatory term) is short for "sodomite"?!

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Very funny juxtaposition, good work English-language-section of the Hugendubel in Karstadt on Hermannplatz.

There’s an article about the guy I buy coal from in the newspaper, I feel like I know a celebrity taz.de/Ich-bleibe-b...

„Ich bleibe bis zum Schluss“: Dirk Kögler ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in Berlin

Wer in Berlin Kohle braucht, ruft bei Dirk Kögler an. Der Kreuzberger hat sie im Angebot. Er ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in der Stadt.

taz.de

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

Anti-DHS protesters in LA moved a huge dumpster, partially blocking agents in their building.