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Carolyn Stransky Vohr
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👩🏼‍💻🛰️ DX engineer for an IoT startup ✍🏼 Current focus: Docs and API design 🍑🔌 Journalist covering intimacy and emerging tech (on IG: @attentionvohr) 🏳️‍🌈 she/her ✨📍 Berlin
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It’s been nearly two weeks since we went on strike at The Berliner (@exberliner.bsky.social). We haven’t heard a single word from management.
Another ad for the Nova Festival exhibition has gone up on The Berliner social media channels, another day of our strike in protest. The freelance editorial staff of The Berliner have been on strike since October 5. We have heard nothing from management. It's a shame that unwillingness to open a dialogue is depriving coverage of so much great culture in this city. As we wrote to management on October 13, we call for English-language journalism with clear editorial independence. Support the strike! Done to the strike fund to help freelancers replace lost income! Our city - and our readers - deserve better.
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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When tipBerlin, the owners of the English-language local outlet The Berliner, accepted an advertising partnership with the Nova Exhibition, contributors, who felt the partnership established an editorial stance they had not consented to, threatened to withhold their labor should the magazine go ahead. For now, visitors can attend the exhibition (and purchase a 90 EUR limited edition t-shirt, among other merchandise) and the Berliner’s freelance staff is on strike.
October 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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We’re on strike.

The Berliner (@exberliner.bsky.social)'s decision to run ads for the Nova Festival Exhibition was made against explicit objections from staff and regular freelancers.

The ads follow months of pressure to suppress or soften coverage of the genocide in Gaza and its impact in Berlin.
The decision of The Berliner magazine to run an ad campaign for the Nova Festival Exhibition was taken against the explicit objections of its editorial staff and regular freelance contributors. As we expressed in a letter to management, we freelancers consider these ads clear evidence of ownership taking a political stance on Gaza, having for months pressured the magazine to suppress editorial coverage of Palestine. As such, we have no other choice but to protest the campaign by withdrawing our collective labour for the magazine's next issue. We demand that The Berliner withdraw the ads. If the ads continue, our protest will continue.
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Have you grabbed this month’s issue of The Berliner yet? It has 4 PAGES of Carnal Knowledge (double the usual size) and one of my favorite features I’ve written so far covering sex work legislation in Germany.

Here’s where to find a copy: www.the-berliner.com/berlin/where...

Coming online soon 💓
Front cover of The Berliner magazine’s March print issue. The cover story is “how to have fun in Berlin without breaking the bank”. The March edition of the Carnal Knowledge section in the print magazine (pages 1-2/4). The main feature is titled “Nothing about us without us”.
March 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Huge news: I’m in Cohort 16 of Sextech School AND launching my substack “Attention Vohr” 📢💜🗯️

Everything’s under construction for the next 6 weeks, but if sex tech industry insights and technical analysis sounds appealing—please subscribe!!! attentionvohr.substack.com
Headshot of Carolyn surrounded by the text “I’m enrolled in Sextech School”. Screenshot of the “Attention Vohr” signup page.
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Welp ok now we're back here I guess I'm never logging into discord again 💀
The "Wait! Are you human?" modal on Discord that launches the captcha.
December 2, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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"Why does this capybara wanna fuck" - @codebyte.re
Same image as the previous tweet with three turtles on the floor with pizza but now the big image has a neon yellow and purple background with pink squares, two semi-trucks, two sexy looking capybaras, one pizza, and one tomato.
December 2, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Alright nevermind you're just supposed to click on the item in the big image? Not which floor turtle pizza matches??
Same image as the previous tweet but the cursor is on the pizza in the large image.
December 2, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Ok reloaded it and this one makes sense (kind of) because one of the pizzas matches
Same image as the previous tweet with three turtles on the floor with pizza but now the big image has a pizza that matches. Instead of all semi-trucks, there is one semi-truck, two capybaras and two tomatoes.
December 2, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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I....... what........ help??
A 'make sure you're not a robot' test with three images of a turtle on the floor or grass or carpet with a pizza. Then there's a large image of a floating pizza with rectangles and semi-trucks against a background that's different than the carpet. The text reads 'Please click on the one that can be seen in the sample image.'
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM