Now In Berlin
@strangeluck.bsky.social
Refugee from the late 20th century. Cooking, soccer, and gaming are my jam. Oldster living a new life in Germany. He/him. Charlottenburg, Berlin.
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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Shout out to Heidelberger Platz, one of Berlin’s most beautiful public transport stations…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Shout out to Heidelberger Platz, one of Berlin’s most beautiful public transport stations…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
What's your favoirte song about the rain?
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What's your favoirte song about the rain?
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
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My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
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November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Posting up at the monthly back-end tournament here in Berlin. Currently going quite well so much so that I have time for a bite before the next round. I got a new lucky hat!
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Posting up at the monthly back-end tournament here in Berlin. Currently going quite well so much so that I have time for a bite before the next round. I got a new lucky hat!
I knew the reason why eggs here in Europe aren't refrigerated, but I didn't know that every single one of 'em would have a code on the shell. Found it curious, figured it was quality control of some sort. And it is! At a farmer's market yesterday came across a neat placard explaining it. 1/2
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I knew the reason why eggs here in Europe aren't refrigerated, but I didn't know that every single one of 'em would have a code on the shell. Found it curious, figured it was quality control of some sort. And it is! At a farmer's market yesterday came across a neat placard explaining it. 1/2
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She was a Sprite child, I would imagine, or is that just a Fanta see
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
She was a Sprite child, I would imagine, or is that just a Fanta see
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Remember when Roger Sterling had a mustache? It's important that we not let this kind of image slip from our collective memories.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Remember when Roger Sterling had a mustache? It's important that we not let this kind of image slip from our collective memories.
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Berlin Via Harwich Twice A Day, 1925, by Frank Newbould.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Berlin Via Harwich Twice A Day, 1925, by Frank Newbould.
I use deck.blue and have a column set up for food/cooking. A day like today where I'm a little down on myself can be difficult, but seeing all the posts of folks and their food creations really helps get me back to 'normal'.
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I use deck.blue and have a column set up for food/cooking. A day like today where I'm a little down on myself can be difficult, but seeing all the posts of folks and their food creations really helps get me back to 'normal'.
Never been to NYC, this might be the start of a pilgrimage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Never been to NYC, this might be the start of a pilgrimage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...
Knives are in need of sharpening. Multiple choices here in Berlin...go back to the Zwilling shop where I bought them (EXPENSIVE), or go to the 'Knife Spa' a short distance away...just outside the city...on the outskirts of the Grunwald (forest/park). Yeah! I'm on a quest to find the local Hunter!
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Knives are in need of sharpening. Multiple choices here in Berlin...go back to the Zwilling shop where I bought them (EXPENSIVE), or go to the 'Knife Spa' a short distance away...just outside the city...on the outskirts of the Grunwald (forest/park). Yeah! I'm on a quest to find the local Hunter!
Two things that made be cry buckets today...
archive.is/esLWv (h/t thank you my friend @destroytime.bsky.social )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=boPP...
(watch his other stuff, amazing)
archive.is/esLWv (h/t thank you my friend @destroytime.bsky.social )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=boPP...
(watch his other stuff, amazing)
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Two things that made be cry buckets today...
archive.is/esLWv (h/t thank you my friend @destroytime.bsky.social )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=boPP...
(watch his other stuff, amazing)
archive.is/esLWv (h/t thank you my friend @destroytime.bsky.social )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=boPP...
(watch his other stuff, amazing)
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Message to Senate Dems that was apparently too late to help them find both spines and political sense
Don’t help them to bury the light
Hey You - The Wall
Hey You - The Wall
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Message to Senate Dems that was apparently too late to help them find both spines and political sense
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Senate Republicans this morning
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Senate Republicans this morning
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So relevant again today:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
So relevant again today:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
Backgammon tournament day in Hamburg. Two of my favorite things... Rolling the dice and watching the fußball.
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Backgammon tournament day in Hamburg. Two of my favorite things... Rolling the dice and watching the fußball.
Left a couple of hours early today to visit another large Park here in Hamburg.
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Left a couple of hours early today to visit another large Park here in Hamburg.
Foggy chill day in Hamburg, just the way I like it. Breakfast at a local Portuguese bakery. Walked a portion of the harbor, then up through the park.
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Foggy chill day in Hamburg, just the way I like it. Breakfast at a local Portuguese bakery. Walked a portion of the harbor, then up through the park.