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Berlin-themed history, culture and travel website. We are community funded—the only thing we sell is memberships: https://steadyhq.com/en/slowtravelberlin
Dirk Moldt reminisces about squatting in the early-90s and the murder of his friend, Silvio Meier, by neonazis. Interview by John Feffer. (No paywall). www.slowtravelberlin.com/squats-neo-n...
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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“Socialism is dead”, graffiti on the Berlin Wall months after its fall, 1990. Image via East German Visuals (photographer unknown).
A wonderful way to get a broader and more personalised sense of Berlin’s often tumultuous history is to read books by the people who lived through it. www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlin-remem...
Comin atcha live from Rykestraße — this view always makes our little hearts skip a beat 🙌#prenzlauerberg #berlin
View of the Reichstag from the Siegesäule around 1900 - back when the Siegesäule was located right opposite and before the Nazis moved it to its current location in the middle of the Tiergarten. Note the statue of Bismarck outside #berlin
1961 - crowds gather to look over the Berlin Wall into the East.
always fascinating to find unrenovated houses / facades in the middle of the city. they seem so vulnerable and full of stories they’d like to whisper to you…if only you’d stop and listen…
German film score composer Hans Zimmer showing off his Moog modular in the early 80s.
East Berlin’s Fernsehturm, under construction, 1968 — viewed at night from Prenzlauer Allee (via Bundesarchiv)
David Bowie in the Lützower Lampe, 1977. A vegetarian restaurant during the week and a transvestite cabaret bar at weekends, The bar was also a filming location for the 1978 film Just A Gigolo, which started Bowie as well as Marlene Dietrich in her final film role. #berlin
Construction of the SK 65 high rise buildings at Helene-Weigel-Platz in Marzahn. Exact date unknown. Source: mfdcb.fornaxvoid.com
Colosseum Filmtheater Berlin - a Prenzlauer Berg classic 🙌
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
This day in history. 1914. The Swiss army began to mobilize for World War I. Many thousands of conscripts were seen sitting alertly on fences all over the country.
EXTRAORDINARY EVENT IN EUROPE Thousands of records smashed from West to East from North To South Over 40C again in AUSTRIA, records allover the country,records smashed in Czechia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Croatia,Poland,Hungary... It's worse than during June. TBC
