my favourite YouTube comment has to be from WG Sebald's old postman

‘The German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.’
– President Hage Geingob, 13 January.

Online early: eyal weizman reports from Namibia on Nama and Ovaherero calls for not just recognition but reparations.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

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Lovely spot — and a good base for hiking in the Harz mountains

Back on my favourite train ride in Italy - the night train from Sicily to Rome which gets a lift across the Straits of Messina on the ferry

Potsdamer Platz, 1985 by Christopher John De Witt. More 80s Berlin -> slowtravelberlin.com/berlin-in-the-…

The German kezboard. A challenge for English speakers who live in Germanz. #deutschfürAnfänger

Just now the German airport security is holding doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta and refusing to allow him to enter the country. He is supposed to speak at the Palestine Congress today in Berlin!

This country is an absolute menace.

Curves 🔥

NOW IN BERLIN: Hundreds of German police are blockading the Palestine Congress in Berlin before it has even started.

Police have put up barricades around the congress venue in the Tempelhof neighborhood and are preventing people from entering.

The congress has been organized by…

Tuned in to the press conference for the Palestine Congress in Berlin with the head of Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost

A Danish journalist asks if it's difficult as a Jew being called antisemitic by German media. He says yes but you get used to it. Next question from a German: 'Are you antisemites?'

Find someone who talks to you the way Germans say 'Altbauwohnung'...

nico, late 70s.

During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras,

and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

📹gottigreen

The photograph is meant to get lost somewhere in a box in an attic. It is a nomadic thing that has only a small chance to survive.
––WG Sebald

I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

By critiquing everyone else’s judgement

Doing my best to honor Ursula Le Guin’s schedule:

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 17 long yrs.