Die Capuccinogruft
@thomas.escritt.eu
Reuters correspondent in Berlin. You should all be on mastodon
Honestly though the old bathroom was much more stylish
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Honestly though the old bathroom was much more stylish
Astral telescope
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Astral telescope
Tomb of an undead elder God
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Tomb of an undead elder God
Spose this scenic route is the most plausible, with Trump prevailing on Greece and North Macedonia to open their air spaces
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Spose this scenic route is the most plausible, with Trump prevailing on Greece and North Macedonia to open their air spaces
Can’t help being intrigued by what’s presented as generic (“east European Jewish”) and what’s thought worthy of specificity (“Paris”)
My redraft: “Born in Chernivtsi, then Romania, now Ukraine, Celan later settled in Western Europe”
My redraft: “Born in Chernivtsi, then Romania, now Ukraine, Celan later settled in Western Europe”
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Can’t help being intrigued by what’s presented as generic (“east European Jewish”) and what’s thought worthy of specificity (“Paris”)
My redraft: “Born in Chernivtsi, then Romania, now Ukraine, Celan later settled in Western Europe”
My redraft: “Born in Chernivtsi, then Romania, now Ukraine, Celan later settled in Western Europe”
Quite a moment this:
Airbus A320 ousts Boeing 737 as most-delivered jet in history
Airbus A320 ousts Boeing 737 as most-delivered jet in history
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Quite a moment this:
Airbus A320 ousts Boeing 737 as most-delivered jet in history
Airbus A320 ousts Boeing 737 as most-delivered jet in history
One of the worst genres in journalism is native who understands things perfectly well repackaging everything in a an act of self-abasing cultural cringe as “not American therefore weird”
“strangely decentralized” indeed
“strangely decentralized” indeed
October 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
One of the worst genres in journalism is native who understands things perfectly well repackaging everything in a an act of self-abasing cultural cringe as “not American therefore weird”
“strangely decentralized” indeed
“strangely decentralized” indeed
Whoever wrote this must have extraordinarily interesting things to say about law and history
September 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Whoever wrote this must have extraordinarily interesting things to say about law and history
Reading this from the Geoghegan piece on the TBI, and what leaps out about this is that database guy is describing a database. And 94.7% of all usage cases for LLMs are indeed that: a fuzzy, sometimes inaccurate database that can’t easily modified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
September 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reading this from the Geoghegan piece on the TBI, and what leaps out about this is that database guy is describing a database. And 94.7% of all usage cases for LLMs are indeed that: a fuzzy, sometimes inaccurate database that can’t easily modified. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Hände hoch, wer sich nicht schon immer für sich einen e-Weimer gewünscht hätte
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hände hoch, wer sich nicht schon immer für sich einen e-Weimer gewünscht hätte
So I was @stabiberlin.bsky.social stabikatting and the catalogue showed me what could possible be the most @alexdrace.bsky.social book ever written
September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So I was @stabiberlin.bsky.social stabikatting and the catalogue showed me what could possible be the most @alexdrace.bsky.social book ever written
Not now deadly brain-eating amoeba
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Not now deadly brain-eating amoeba
Spoiler: Star sign is an excuse they use to let you down gently
September 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Spoiler: Star sign is an excuse they use to let you down gently
I wonder if there’s anywhere outside Cologne where the new de-Stalinized Linke can establish themselves? Muenster or Bonn?
September 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I wonder if there’s anywhere outside Cologne where the new de-Stalinized Linke can establish themselves? Muenster or Bonn?
And so it came to pass: the Linke take the coveted “only democratic party to gain votes” position in Cologne - the state‘s actual capital, as opposed to the pretend capital which is Duesseldorf. Germany’s fourth-largest city, with a gothic cathedral whose bells you can follow on here
September 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And so it came to pass: the Linke take the coveted “only democratic party to gain votes” position in Cologne - the state‘s actual capital, as opposed to the pretend capital which is Duesseldorf. Germany’s fourth-largest city, with a gothic cathedral whose bells you can follow on here
Ngl this “incorrigeable old me” affect in senior journalists in positions of immense responsibility drives me potty. It’s not a hobby! You have the privilege of doing an important job that matters! If you think it’s just nerdery perhaps you should be doing something else
September 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ngl this “incorrigeable old me” affect in senior journalists in positions of immense responsibility drives me potty. It’s not a hobby! You have the privilege of doing an important job that matters! If you think it’s just nerdery perhaps you should be doing something else
I was today years old when I learned that swastikas remain in some German parliament buildings: built as the interior ministry in 1937, the building is listed and these elements were left in place with an appropriately stern notice of explanation next to the plinth
August 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I was today years old when I learned that swastikas remain in some German parliament buildings: built as the interior ministry in 1937, the building is listed and these elements were left in place with an appropriately stern notice of explanation next to the plinth
If it sounds like a hammy film script, it’s because it’s read all of them and vomits up parodies on demand. Gross.
August 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
If it sounds like a hammy film script, it’s because it’s read all of them and vomits up parodies on demand. Gross.
I swear some people spend their idle moments wondering how 2090's Peter Hennessy will portray them
August 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I swear some people spend their idle moments wondering how 2090's Peter Hennessy will portray them
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, after he was killed along with other journalists and people in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
August 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, after he was killed along with other journalists and people in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
That's quite the juxtaposition
August 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
That's quite the juxtaposition
Why did they make outlook so bad when it was once good? Find text with Ctrl-F is a new August 2025 feature!
August 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Why did they make outlook so bad when it was once good? Find text with Ctrl-F is a new August 2025 feature!
Look. At. The. Cat.
August 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Look. At. The. Cat.
So this is the first sentence of a book on language. Either it’s unbearably sloppy OR it’s an elaborate troll and he’s going to hit me with an elaborate slapdown about the evils of prescriptivism in at most four paragraphs’ time. Which will it be?
August 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So this is the first sentence of a book on language. Either it’s unbearably sloppy OR it’s an elaborate troll and he’s going to hit me with an elaborate slapdown about the evils of prescriptivism in at most four paragraphs’ time. Which will it be?
Total masterclass - the assertion that he is a “terrorist” unattributed, and the killing reported in the passive voice
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Total masterclass - the assertion that he is a “terrorist” unattributed, and the killing reported in the passive voice