StephenBln
@stephenbln.bsky.social
🇩🇪Berliner since 1983. From London.
Lapsed Runner, Social Historian. 🏳️🌈
I post on Architecture, Books, Buses, Maps, ÖPNV, Trains, Trams, Public Transport.
Sometimes I'm not at my desk, but in the toilet https://x.com/StephenBln.
I block bots.
Lapsed Runner, Social Historian. 🏳️🌈
I post on Architecture, Books, Buses, Maps, ÖPNV, Trains, Trams, Public Transport.
Sometimes I'm not at my desk, but in the toilet https://x.com/StephenBln.
I block bots.
One shitbag less on #TalkCrapTV.
He claimed he'd been hacked, but couldn't grow any concrete evidence
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Mike Graham sacked from TalkTV after ‘failure’ to assist inquiry into racist post
Broadcaster suspended presenter last month over Facebook post he said happened after account was hacked
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One shitbag less on #TalkCrapTV.
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This is what they did at one of my mother's dementia facilities, so that residents are less likely to get lost.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is what they did at one of my mother's dementia facilities, so that residents are less likely to get lost.
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
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🇵🇱 "Poland will force Putin's plane to land for arrest," - Foreign Minister Sikorski said that the country cannot guarantee the safe flight of the plane over its territory.
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🇵🇱 "Poland will force Putin's plane to land for arrest," - Foreign Minister Sikorski said that the country cannot guarantee the safe flight of the plane over its territory.
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Vaccines are safe and effective.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.
When you want information, ask your doctor.
It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
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"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."
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Also note, more. Importantly, all iof these countries - every one - are part of the 🇪🇺 single market, in one for of another, and have European law at the core of their regulations
#ThankEU
#ThankEU
‘The top 10 countries in the 2025 Global Social Progress Index all use proportional representation’
When all votes count social outcomes improve.
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
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When all votes count social outcomes improve.
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
www.socialprogress.org/alti-global-...
September 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Also note, more. Importantly, all iof these countries - every one - are part of the 🇪🇺 single market, in one for of another, and have European law at the core of their regulations
#ThankEU
#ThankEU
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“I miss when Disney didn’t push an agenda!” 😁
Disney in 1943: GET VACCINATED!
Disney in 1943: GET VACCINATED!
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
“I miss when Disney didn’t push an agenda!” 😁
Disney in 1943: GET VACCINATED!
Disney in 1943: GET VACCINATED!
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Schloßstraße today.
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Schloßstraße today.
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A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent.
Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
August 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent.
Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
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I don't like sport of any kind but I think I could enthuse over shopping trolley archery.
Watching German Shopping cart archery can be very satisfying.
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I don't like sport of any kind but I think I could enthuse over shopping trolley archery.
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“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
August 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“Putin would eat you for lunch.”
Today, exactly that happened.
Today, exactly that happened.
Three modes of BVG public transport - Trams, Double-Deck buses, Articulated buses. Seen in 35°C on 14 August 2025 at Berlin Hauptbahnhof.
August 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Three modes of BVG public transport - Trams, Double-Deck buses, Articulated buses. Seen in 35°C on 14 August 2025 at Berlin Hauptbahnhof.
Reminders of Putin's terror regime outside of the Russian Embassy yesterday afternoon. Stalin's enormous complex is barricaded off and the apartments behind it have also been empty for a decade or so.
The captured Russian tanks were parked outside the Embassy in February 2023.
The captured Russian tanks were parked outside the Embassy in February 2023.
August 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reminders of Putin's terror regime outside of the Russian Embassy yesterday afternoon. Stalin's enormous complex is barricaded off and the apartments behind it have also been empty for a decade or so.
The captured Russian tanks were parked outside the Embassy in February 2023.
The captured Russian tanks were parked outside the Embassy in February 2023.
You don't often see Ik units working the U4. Seen at U-Bhf Nollendorfplatz. The last time I saw one was in 2022 (Second photo).
This 100-year old station has some stability issues (Berlin underground stations are cut and cover into sand) and will be closed for a few months in early 2026.
This 100-year old station has some stability issues (Berlin underground stations are cut and cover into sand) and will be closed for a few months in early 2026.
August 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You don't often see Ik units working the U4. Seen at U-Bhf Nollendorfplatz. The last time I saw one was in 2022 (Second photo).
This 100-year old station has some stability issues (Berlin underground stations are cut and cover into sand) and will be closed for a few months in early 2026.
This 100-year old station has some stability issues (Berlin underground stations are cut and cover into sand) and will be closed for a few months in early 2026.
Schiffshebewerk Finow, Germany. It really is time for you to do Germany.Boat Lifts just north east of Berlin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederf... @mrjamesob.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Schiffshebewerk Finow, Germany. It really is time for you to do Germany.Boat Lifts just north east of Berlin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederf... @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Berlin-Friedenau in July 2025/1
July 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Berlin-Friedenau in July 2025/1
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Use some common sense.
July 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Use some common sense.
Along with introduction of the D-Mark in the DDR and the consequent open borders, Berlin's S-Bahn start running from Germany (East) to Germany (West)* for the first time since 1961. Re-unification of the country came three months later on 3 October 1990. *on the Berlin Stadtbahn
35 years ago today, on 2 July 1990, the overground train in Berlin, the S-Bahn, ran between the East and West parts of the city without any interruptions for the first time since the decades of disruption.
July 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Along with introduction of the D-Mark in the DDR and the consequent open borders, Berlin's S-Bahn start running from Germany (East) to Germany (West)* for the first time since 1961. Re-unification of the country came three months later on 3 October 1990. *on the Berlin Stadtbahn
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An important and significant step. Both Russia and Belarus have been thrown out of the Council of Europe. (And so would the UK if Farage had his way).
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
President Zelensky and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE) Alain Berset have signed a document that establishes a tribunal for the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.
June 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An important and significant step. Both Russia and Belarus have been thrown out of the Council of Europe. (And so would the UK if Farage had his way).
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Yellow Berlin this week.
June 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Yellow Berlin this week.
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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
June 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.
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Labour wins a by-election-It's bad news for Labour. Labour loses a by-election-It's bad news for Labour. Reform wins a by-election-It's good news for Reform. Reform loses a by-election-It's good news for Reform. That's the take of #r4today over and over again.
June 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Labour wins a by-election-It's bad news for Labour. Labour loses a by-election-It's bad news for Labour. Reform wins a by-election-It's good news for Reform. Reform loses a by-election-It's good news for Reform. That's the take of #r4today over and over again.