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flightpath.bsky.social
lou thtchr
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researching histories of border control, in particular early 20th century australia // grounded in no border politics. archive posting & shitposting. she/her.
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Wow, they’re gigantic! Great mushrooms. I found wild oyster mushrooms the other week in Wandlitz
Photo of white oyster mushrooms growing on a log
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
flightpath.bsky.social
Do you think if Palestinians had techno festivals, Germans would recognise them as human?
January 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
flightpath.bsky.social
I love Denglish
Photo of a section of a poster that says “ABGEFUCKT DISCONNECTED GESTRESST?”
January 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
flightpath.bsky.social
every dead mother is my mother
Photo of graffiti written in cursive on a piece of scrap wood on a Neukölln street: “every bombed village is my hometown and every dead child is my child”
January 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
flightpath.bsky.social
Big fan of this guy, at least from the medical report in his deportation file. (he was deported from australia back to britain in 1931)
He has never done any real “job of work” either in England or in the various States of Australia. He has tried clerking, soldiering and farming, all to no purpose. His mother died in an asylum in England. He is subject to delusions and is very unstable. He says people are watching him and making ambiguous signs about his. He has a vague idea that he might be Christ and that his mission is to save the oppressed and the unemployed. When there is a storm he interprets it as a message from God. He has certain homosexual tendancies. His general conduct is fairly good. He is never violent or dangerous and he can converse for a long time without disclosing any of these delusions, etc. At the same time they (his delusions) prevent him from doing any work – they make him an undesirable citizen, one likely to mix with “down and outs” and foster discontent and communistic ideas (such as he has) and render him likely to be a more or less permanent charge on the State."
September 29, 2023 at 3:02 PM
flightpath.bsky.social
Some excellent book design up for grabs in neukölln today
Photo of pile of books on the street
September 20, 2023 at 8:24 PM
flightpath.bsky.social
Moby Dick giving an epigraph for microhistory
"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel’s great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it."
September 19, 2023 at 12:01 PM