Now In Berlin
@strangeluck.bsky.social
Refugee from the late 20th century. Cooking, soccer, and gaming are my jam. Oldster living a new life in Germany. He/him. Charlottenburg, Berlin.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Memorizing all my friends/families phone numbers. I still have my home number stuck in my head - 286-9603. I can rattle off two dozen that will never connect ever again.
Memorizing all my friends/families phone numbers. I still have my home number stuck in my head - 286-9603. I can rattle off two dozen that will never connect ever again.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Curling a freekick around a wall.
Curling a freekick around a wall.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Lacing up a 6-plate Steinbeck to view a film print to start an edit - and come to that, fixing a cut with tape
Lacing up a 6-plate Steinbeck to view a film print to start an edit - and come to that, fixing a cut with tape
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Memorizing all my friends/families phone numbers. I still have my home number stuck in my head - 286-9603. I can rattle off two dozen that will never connect ever again.
Memorizing all my friends/families phone numbers. I still have my home number stuck in my head - 286-9603. I can rattle off two dozen that will never connect ever again.
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You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
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Yes, age is just a number but does it have to be that big?
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Yes, age is just a number but does it have to be that big?
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Seems about right..
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Seems about right..
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This is false. Reagan corruption didn’t end when Reagan left. Bush corruption didn’t leave with Bush II. Trumpisn won’t just fade away. This stuff stays around and fucks everything up because Democrats are too cowardly or lazy or both to purge it.
When he dies it’s over. Fealty to a personality cult isn’t transferable.
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is false. Reagan corruption didn’t end when Reagan left. Bush corruption didn’t leave with Bush II. Trumpisn won’t just fade away. This stuff stays around and fucks everything up because Democrats are too cowardly or lazy or both to purge it.
I don't normally talk about these things but we've been around this general situation SO many times in the last decade.
YES. Hegseth commited war crimes.
YES, justice will move deliberately but slowly.
YES, that fucker in the White House will pardon him the moment it works to their benefit.
YES. Hegseth commited war crimes.
YES, justice will move deliberately but slowly.
YES, that fucker in the White House will pardon him the moment it works to their benefit.
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I don't normally talk about these things but we've been around this general situation SO many times in the last decade.
YES. Hegseth commited war crimes.
YES, justice will move deliberately but slowly.
YES, that fucker in the White House will pardon him the moment it works to their benefit.
YES. Hegseth commited war crimes.
YES, justice will move deliberately but slowly.
YES, that fucker in the White House will pardon him the moment it works to their benefit.
Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
Gonna tell my grandkids these were the bluesky elders
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Gonna tell my grandkids these were the bluesky elders
And I've got to live my own life;
I just can't spare the time
You've got strange things on your mind
I eat a lot
Sleep a lot
Passing the time of day;
Maybe I'll find my way
Who am I kidding?
Yes, it's just myself...
I just can't spare the time
You've got strange things on your mind
I eat a lot
Sleep a lot
Passing the time of day;
Maybe I'll find my way
Who am I kidding?
Yes, it's just myself...
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
And I've got to live my own life;
I just can't spare the time
You've got strange things on your mind
I eat a lot
Sleep a lot
Passing the time of day;
Maybe I'll find my way
Who am I kidding?
Yes, it's just myself...
I just can't spare the time
You've got strange things on your mind
I eat a lot
Sleep a lot
Passing the time of day;
Maybe I'll find my way
Who am I kidding?
Yes, it's just myself...
Ooh, woke up crying
With a break of dawning;
I looked out at the sky
The air was still
Yet all the leaves were falling
Can you tell me why?
Well, I just don't know the reason
I don't know what to say;
It just seems a normal day
And I've got to live my own life;
With a break of dawning;
I looked out at the sky
The air was still
Yet all the leaves were falling
Can you tell me why?
Well, I just don't know the reason
I don't know what to say;
It just seems a normal day
And I've got to live my own life;
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Ooh, woke up crying
With a break of dawning;
I looked out at the sky
The air was still
Yet all the leaves were falling
Can you tell me why?
Well, I just don't know the reason
I don't know what to say;
It just seems a normal day
And I've got to live my own life;
With a break of dawning;
I looked out at the sky
The air was still
Yet all the leaves were falling
Can you tell me why?
Well, I just don't know the reason
I don't know what to say;
It just seems a normal day
And I've got to live my own life;
Some staples from the west coast of the USA are not available here in Germany. Cotija? Unpossible. But feta is fresh and a winner. Time to cook some of this up on the weekend.
*looks around at assorted trash fires*
HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
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HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO!
You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char
1/
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Some staples from the west coast of the USA are not available here in Germany. Cotija? Unpossible. But feta is fresh and a winner. Time to cook some of this up on the weekend.
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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Shout out to Heidelberger Platz, one of Berlin’s most beautiful public transport stations…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Shout out to Heidelberger Platz, one of Berlin’s most beautiful public transport stations…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
What's your favoirte song about the rain?
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What's your favoirte song about the rain?
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I...
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My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My favourite word for “slow motion”from another language is the German Zeitlupe. It means “time magnifying glass”
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November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Posting up at the monthly back-end tournament here in Berlin. Currently going quite well so much so that I have time for a bite before the next round. I got a new lucky hat!
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Posting up at the monthly back-end tournament here in Berlin. Currently going quite well so much so that I have time for a bite before the next round. I got a new lucky hat!
I knew the reason why eggs here in Europe aren't refrigerated, but I didn't know that every single one of 'em would have a code on the shell. Found it curious, figured it was quality control of some sort. And it is! At a farmer's market yesterday came across a neat placard explaining it. 1/2
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I knew the reason why eggs here in Europe aren't refrigerated, but I didn't know that every single one of 'em would have a code on the shell. Found it curious, figured it was quality control of some sort. And it is! At a farmer's market yesterday came across a neat placard explaining it. 1/2
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She was a Sprite child, I would imagine, or is that just a Fanta see
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
She was a Sprite child, I would imagine, or is that just a Fanta see
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...