Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Blockade! I was at the official celebration and had the chance to speak to several of the Airlift veterans - all in their 90s. So inspiring. Nice that the parachutes prepared by the kids at the John F. Kennedy School featured US chocolate.
12:10 PM - May 13, 2024
06:26 AM - May 09, 2024
Today is Ascension Day - an official holiday in Germany! I’m still lounging in bed, drinking coffee and eating homemade shortbread 😋 It’s also Father’s Day, which here in Berlin means men gathering in groups, pulling little carts of beer around and getting progressively drunker.
04:05 AM - May 09, 2024
08:05 AM - May 08, 2024
For some reason, the shocking collapse of Berlin’s famous Brandenburg #Gate didn’t get much airtime in the news.
#DailyPictureTheme #Berlin #Germany
#DailyPictureTheme #Berlin #Germany
07:02 AM - May 05, 2024
This sounds like a great movie! What films fit the description?
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Diogenes Wept @DiogenesWeptHere's what I want from a scary movie: Tragedy, mourning, Are ghosts real? Jump scare, Funny jump scare, stuff moving, research, scary history lesson, funny jump scare, moving furniture, scary eureka moment, doors opening by themselves, jump scare, discovery of solution, real jump scare, scene.🎬️12:09 PM - May 04, 2024
03:13 PM - May 04, 2024
My husband planted these mini fields of #grass as an Easter decoration and now we have a little lawn on our balcony 💚
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#DailyPictureTheme
03:31 PM - May 02, 2024
I loved Nancy Drew but I had forgotten about this episode 😂
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K S Hernandez @kswriteshereI'm tickled every time I think about that time Nancy Drew, George and Bess hid inside some empty picture frames. Talk about the dumbest crooks ever! #Frame #dailypicturetheme 🥴LMBO!!!11:42 AM - May 01, 2024![Pencil sketch of a scene from Nancy Drew stories where George, Bess and Nancy hide inside picture frames to allude capture by a crook.
A man stands inside an open door, inside the room he's looking in are 3 large picture frames where Nancy, George and Bess are kneeling down inside.]()
12:05 PM - May 01, 2024
Beautiful family 😍
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Marie Jamison @LaRichI love this generations themed picture of my niece with her grandmother, mother and daughter. Such a cool use of a #frame #DailyPictureTheme09:29 AM - May 01, 2024![Picture]()
11:18 AM - May 01, 2024
I’ve never had two bears sit across from me in the subway and loudly discuss all the degrading sexual things they would like to do to me (assuming I couldn’t understand their language), then get up and follow me when I got off.
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Unapologetically Beth @bostrawskiI have never had to pay for an unlisted number because of a bear.01:45 PM - Apr 29, 2024
I have never had to pick up my mail at my parents' house and not my mailbox because of a bear.
Bears don't cut car break lines either.
#Bear
04:17 PM - Apr 30, 2024
“Perfect Day” by Lou Reed 😢
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Kimberley Johnson @KimberleyJohnsonName a song that makes you cry immediately.08:30 PM - Apr 25, 2024
Mine is Simon & Garfunkel's "Bookends."
I weep. I can't listen to it. It guts me.
03:58 PM - Apr 28, 2024
I would like to wander along that path! Where does it go?
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Auntie CC . @ConitaChicanitaMy New Year's resolution to make some art and share it every month. This is one I did today. It's meditative. Black ink on a 3.5x3.5 inch cards that looks like a drink coaster. #ImperfectArt05:00 PM - Apr 27, 2024![Picture]()
05:04 PM - Apr 27, 2024
I don’t have a dog but I sometimes have deep conversations with my friends’ roommate Tiberius. He can also be annoying as hell but violence is never the way.
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Snow Girl ❄️ @SnowgirlPost a picture with your dog that doesn’t involve shooting them and throwing them in a gravel pit.10:50 PM - Apr 26, 2024![Dogs. A Shepherd Lab mix and a Blue Heeler mix looking up at the photographer with the sweetest eyes.]()
03:07 AM - Apr 27, 2024
I don’t post a lot of gifs, but all these years later my husband and I still make a cymbal-clapping motion when we realize that one of us has not been paying attention. It’s like a live gif 😂
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Auntie CC . @ConitaChicanitaWhat's your favorite or most frequently used gif? I'd love to see it. This is mine.11:09 PM - Apr 26, 2024![GIF-Image]()
02:04 AM - Apr 27, 2024
At the start of the war in Ukraine, thousands of people in Berlin joined at the Brandenburg Gate to sing “Dona Nobis Pacem” - give us peace. #DailyPictureTheme #pace #Berlin
07:36 AM - Apr 26, 2024
In response to Lorelei La.
It’s been recommended to click the X in the top right corner.
I’m suggesting the #ClickOneAdDaily challenge.
Pick any ad not fueling hate and click it to see more similar ads & less hate filled ones.
I clicked this:
I’m suggesting the #ClickOneAdDaily challenge.
Pick any ad not fueling hate and click it to see more similar ads & less hate filled ones.
I clicked this:
03:53 AM - Apr 26, 2024
I live in Germany, @cbouzy , and seeing ads for the AfD here is so upsetting. It is a racist, antidemocratic, neo-Nazi party! Here’s what their leader, Alexander Gauland, said about the Holocaust: "Hitler and the Nazis are just bird shit in more than 1,000 years of successful German history."
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littletraitor @littletrait0rPlease Mr. @cbouzy , I know advertising is important, but can you please make it possible for us not to see fascist ads? AfD is a fascist party from Germany and it hurts my soul to have to watch history repeat itself.01:31 AM - Apr 26, 2024![Advertising from a fascist party in my timeline.]()
02:10 AM - Apr 26, 2024
Mayo is delicious sandwich magic AND it’s good on fries 🍟✨
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Kristin N @BabyBluJayMayo is gross04:02 PM - Apr 21, 2024![GIF-Image]()
01:32 AM - Apr 22, 2024
Today “Schrippenkirche” is a charity that runs an accessible hotel and a group home. But its name, “bread roll church,” refers to its original mission: church services for the unemployed, with #free coffee and rolls. The decorative boulder in their garden is a clue! #DailyPictureTheme #Berlin
06:35 AM - Apr 21, 2024
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Spelling: one big strugle 😬
(To be fair, I live in Berlin so English was probably not this graffiti artist’s first language.) #DailyPictureTheme #spell #berlin #mauerpark
(To be fair, I live in Berlin so English was probably not this graffiti artist’s first language.) #DailyPictureTheme #spell #berlin #mauerpark
10:13 AM - Apr 17, 2024
Babelsberg - summer home of the Prussian prince who later became Kaiser Wilhelm I. The fountain featuring the Archangel Michael was a gift from his father after the prince brutally crushed a democratic revolution (=dragon) in 1849. Put this beautiful place in quite another light.
01:59 PM - Apr 16, 2024
German has different words for ice cream depending on the fat content and amount of milk versus cream it contains. A good human translator understands that this categorization doesn’t have an equivalent in English. Automatic translators don’t get it.
02:30 PM - Apr 11, 2024
Burning down the house! 🔥🔥🔥
Incredible performances from the entire band (including the musicians beyond the core four). David Byrne is mesmerizing, of course. But given how shitty he was to Tina Weymouth, I was especially happy to hear the crowd’s roar of approval for her at the end.
Incredible performances from the entire band (including the musicians beyond the core four). David Byrne is mesmerizing, of course. But given how shitty he was to Tina Weymouth, I was especially happy to hear the crowd’s roar of approval for her at the end.
07:35 AM - Apr 02, 2024
On March 30, 1974 - 50 years ago! - the Ramones gave their very first concert. According to the radio interview I heard today, it was a disaster… but fortunately that didn’t stop them from trying again. Hey ho - let’s go!
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Official Music Video) - YouTube
You're watching the official music video for Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop" from the album 'Ramones' (1976). "Blitzkrieg Bop" was featured on Rolling Stone's lis...
01:16 AM - Mar 31, 2024
Travelers in the countryside near Berlin may not be expecting a pyramid to #rise on the horizon.
Built in the 18th century by a German count in the little village of Garzau as the highlight of his grand garden and restored in the 2000s.
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Built in the 18th century by a German count in the little village of Garzau as the highlight of his grand garden and restored in the 2000s.
#DailyPictureTheme
04:30 AM - Mar 23, 2024
One bit of weird residue from doing a lit degree is the compulsion to power through a book even if I’m not enjoying it. But today I looked at the half-finished novel on my nightstand and thought, “This book is stupid and I don’t like it.” So I dropped it off at a book swap table. How liberating 🙌
09:36 AM - Mar 20, 2024
I was early for a haircut so I went around the corner into a nearby cemetery and had a wonderful surprise 💜 🪦💜
10:56 AM - Mar 03, 2024
I live by the location of the former Berlin Wall but today, while I exploring my new office neighborhood at lunch, I found this: the Berlin Wall medieval edition.
03:49 PM - Feb 26, 2024
In the US we say “life’s not a bowl of cherries” but in Germany it’s “Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof” - life’s not a pony farm. However, on Saturday I came close when I had lunch at a restaurant next to a pony farm! Just look at this face 🐴💕
02:01 AM - Feb 19, 2024
My husband and I went on a spontaneous date to our little neighborhood movie theater tonight and saw LOLA. Wow! Anybody else seen it?
LOLA - Official Movie Trailer (2023) - YouTube
SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/DARKSKY_YTDirected by Andrew LeggeIn 1941 England, two sisters invent a machine that intercepts broadcasts from the future. With Wor...
05:51 PM - Jan 25, 2024
