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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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The worst thing about so many ppl from „australia“ spending the summer in berlin is that it looks like the term FLINTA has escaped to the english-speaking world

06.03.2026 08:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

guess whose book just got described as "an exciting piece of scholarship", "meticulously researched", "theoretically innovative" & "an important new book" by the publisher's reviewers??

28.02.2026 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jumpscare of hearing Ben Lee, Cigarettes Will Kill You, on German radio

27.02.2026 17:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But Ben it’s a queer community space

24.02.2026 13:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can tell something’s going right in my life when this guy ❤️‍🔥 is in my suggested emoji/reactions

21.02.2026 09:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it's really frustrating to me that i have the ability to write a pitch-perfect formal, effective, passive-agressive email in english but i don't have the skills to do it in german

19.02.2026 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Said Nesar Hashemi
Hamza Kenan Kurtović
Ferhat Unvar
Sedat Gürbüz
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Gökhan Gültekin
Vili Viorel Păun
Mercedes Kierpacz
Kaloyan Velkov
Ibrahim Akkuş

Said Nesar Hashemi Hamza Kenan Kurtović Ferhat Unvar Sedat Gürbüz Fatih Saraçoğlu Gökhan Gültekin Vili Viorel Păun Mercedes Kierpacz Kaloyan Velkov Ibrahim Akkuş

Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall

19.02.2026 10:32 👍 160 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 1

A tiny bit funny that even though I’m an atypically privileged migrant (first world passport + whiteness), I still end up working as a cleaner a lot of the time

18.02.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wow, so you really did learn nothing. almost impressive.

15.02.2026 15:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or, everyone could have…read her story? Which is brilliant, & speaks very clearly for itself

15.02.2026 14:57 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/plan...

15.02.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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15.02.2026 10:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
screenshot of newspaper: "MEN'S EXPLANATIONS ACCEPTED
In Hotel on Sunday
Justices in the Glenelg Court today accepted the reasons given by four men for having been at the Family Hotel on a Sunday night.
One said he was there to give the manager a shave and haircut, another
claimed he went to see about a job, and the others explained that they were concerned with an order for ice.
Charges of having been unlawfully on the premises of the Family Hotel,
Gleneig, during prohibited hours on August 18 against George Herbert
Rule, brickmaker; William Anthoney Finnington, laborer; Frank Ernest Gar
diner, stablehand; and Stanley Brown, hairdresser, all of Gleneig, were dismissed.
Mr. Eric Millhouse appeared for Browm and Rule. The Assistant
Police Prosecutor (Mr. Bond) prosecuted.

screenshot of newspaper: "MEN'S EXPLANATIONS ACCEPTED In Hotel on Sunday Justices in the Glenelg Court today accepted the reasons given by four men for having been at the Family Hotel on a Sunday night. One said he was there to give the manager a shave and haircut, another claimed he went to see about a job, and the others explained that they were concerned with an order for ice. Charges of having been unlawfully on the premises of the Family Hotel, Gleneig, during prohibited hours on August 18 against George Herbert Rule, brickmaker; William Anthoney Finnington, laborer; Frank Ernest Gar diner, stablehand; and Stanley Brown, hairdresser, all of Gleneig, were dismissed. Mr. Eric Millhouse appeared for Browm and Rule. The Assistant Police Prosecutor (Mr. Bond) prosecuted.

nice work lads of 1935

14.02.2026 21:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i also did not know that "beat" was an australianism

14.02.2026 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just thought it was a generic term for a no-good person! not one I've ever used, but the kind of word my dad and his farmer mates would use

14.02.2026 15:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this article also describes "poofter" as "the most significant of the early Australian coinages in the homosexual field"

14.02.2026 15:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I now have the Middlemarch problem with Nova Scotia House

14.02.2026 14:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

how did I only just learn that "sod" (as a derogatory term) is short for "sodomite"?!

14.02.2026 14:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Alleged someone allegedly burning a concentration camp in Kansas City.

Alleged someone allegedly burning a concentration camp in Kansas City.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

13.02.2026 16:46 👍 11197 🔁 2443 💬 129 📌 22
Photo of a bookshelf with two books next to each other pulled out - „Ahmed, Complaint!“ & „Why Men Love Bitches“

Photo of a bookshelf with two books next to each other pulled out - „Ahmed, Complaint!“ & „Why Men Love Bitches“

Very funny juxtaposition, good work English-language-section of the Hugendubel in Karstadt on Hermannplatz.

13.02.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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„Ich bleibe bis zum Schluss“: Dirk Kögler ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in Berlin Wer in Berlin Kohle braucht, ruft bei Dirk Kögler an. Der Kreuzberger hat sie im Angebot. Er ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in der Stadt.

There’s an article about the guy I buy coal from in the newspaper, I feel like I know a celebrity taz.de/Ich-bleibe-b...

12.02.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m sorry 😢

02.02.2026 12:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

31.01.2026 01:45 👍 8277 🔁 2400 💬 37 📌 145
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Anti-DHS protesters in LA moved a huge dumpster, partially blocking agents in their building.

31.01.2026 01:42 👍 2374 🔁 521 💬 55 📌 75

Shit

27.01.2026 12:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bless the berlin public library system, but I now need to buy a copy to lend to everyone i know

23.01.2026 08:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So good!!!

23.01.2026 07:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

long meetings & annoying people, but it’s also real & it brings joy

23.01.2026 07:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

jockeying for social power. Particularly re online discourse, but not only. I’m thinking in particular of Tony Tulathimutte‘s Rejection. Which I know was Doing A Thing, & compellingly & well, but I fucking hated it.
But for Porter, radical political commitment is part of how we live: & it means

23.01.2026 07:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s extraordinary on (queer) sex & (queer) grief, which are kinda my Major Themes at the moment. But I also keep coming back to what it says about political commitment as part of our lives. I’ve read a few books recently that treat political involvement completely cynically - that it’s all about

23.01.2026 07:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0