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Hello Vienna. Singing for Sigi Maron tonight.

'Die größte von Europa ausgehende Bedrohung der Sicherheit Israels sind nicht seine Kritiker:innen in der jungen Linken, sondern seine falschen Freund:innen auf der extremen Rechten.' Robert Rotifer über die Diskrepanz in der englischen und deutschsprachigen Berichterstattung .

Wenn jetzt noch jemand gegen einen Waffenstillstand eintritt, sollte sie:er auch erklären müssen, wie sie:er sich eine Zukunft für zwei Millionen Menschen ausgebombten Trümmerhaufen Gaza vorstellt, meint Robert Rotifer weiter.

That‘s one way of putting it…

Had to FINALLY write another piece about the by now unbearably shrill dissonance between UK and German-speaking discourse on Gaza that's making me despair every single day. Tried very hard to keep an open mind.
Auf Deutsch für Radio FM4
fm4.orf.at/stories/304110…

'A café is not to be noticed, but remembered. It should be precisely to the point, and not annoy by pretentious ambitions.' Hermann Czech, who is lecturing tonight for Architecture Foundation #ArchitectureOfRepair instagram.com/p/C6yJfD6LhTP

Broke my toe on the fridge door trying to catch an egg that was rolling out of the fridge.

As BBC Newsnight runs a piece on the AfD’s neonazi links can’t help thinking of how just a few years ago UK media used to big them up as the eurosceptic voice of Germany, a kindred spirit in Brexit times…

Steve Albini was a great producer and also a guy who had an Unforgiven-style reckoning with his past self

theguardian.com/music/2023/aug… I’m in shock. Aside from changing music, he was one of the most thoughtful, intelligent writers and thinkers about culture I have ever read. RIP.

Not a great look to welcome Natalie Elphicke to the Labour benches while leaving Diane Abbott in the sin bin IMO.

Thanks for this thread Robert Rotifer, it brings to the for what I wanted to emphasize beyond the shouting