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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 8h

Me too. Was surprised how janky the new behaviour was. New OS feels like change for the sake of it - or for the marketing dept. I guess

Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 9h

Screenshot behaviour was changed in the new iphone OS, which has made it difficult to take and share multiple screenshots. If you’ve also noticed this and find it annoying, you can change it back to the old method by switching “Full Screen Previews” off👇

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History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social · 3d

List of researchers focusing on the German Democratic Republic
go.bsky.app/drcrDK
#DDR #GDR #RDA #EastGermany

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 11h

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 18h

My latest long format video is all about the Neue Wache. Enjoy!

Yes, the thumbnail is… a choice… but you’ve got to fight for clicks over there! There’s a LOT more to the place (and the video) than him.
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The WWI memorial Hitler used for Nazi Propoganda: The Neue Wache

YouTube video by Whitlam's Berlin Tours

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iamkosmonaut @iamkosmonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to announce that we've finally printed a small run of our newest photo book "Faces From The East" - a 32 page documentation of soviet faces left behind after the military withdrawal of the Soviet Union from East Germany. Grab your copy now! -> digitalcosmonaut.com/faces-from-t...

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 1d

His wife and daughter would be killed in Theresienstadt. They’re buried together in the Friedrichsfelde Cemetery in Lichtenberg.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 1d

Friedrich Simon Archenhold, born in 1861, founded the Archenhold Observatory in Treptower Park in 1896, home to the “Celestial Cannon,” the world’s longest moveable telescope - it’s still there today! He died #otd 1939 after being forced out of his career under the Nazis.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 1d

In my experience it’s interchangeable with test

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect update. Enjoyed that!

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iamkosmonaut @iamkosmonaut.bsky.social · 2d

Dropping soon 👌🏻 Shoot me a DM if youre interested, though a page will be up on the website soon.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 1d

Oooooooh!

Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 2d

My review of autumn: fuck yeah!

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from the Prinzenstrasse Frog Prince 👋

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German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 3d

12 October 1988: in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Erich Honecker opens the 3 millionth new flat to be opened in East Germany since a housing policy decision was announced by the SED in 1971 (via Bundesarchiv)

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 3d

😬 that queue is sometimes huuuuuuge - what I find weird is the automatic machines are never on for the EU passport people.

Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 3d

“Many of whom are now dead” is the part that always gets me.

I didn’t think the queues at BER could get worse 😬 good luck, mate!

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

Glad you’re looked after. I try to not remind mine that I exist 🙃

Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

Thousands of job losses I guess is the reason. It really irks me that we pay for all of the various marketing departments, offices etc. of all these krankenkassen wherein none of the workers do a single thing to improve our health. Awful. Best not to think about it I suppose.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

Would’ve been so much better if it was where they’d made Nazis fight bears (no weapons, one on one, naked)

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

😂 fair enough!

Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

I have not once engaged with a part of the healthcare bureaucracy in this country that I think makes sense. So much of it is keeping people in pointless jobs, which is why it is eye-wateringly expensive.

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

…are you a (fellow) King Gizzard fan??

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

Two of the original bears were gifts from Bern!

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Jonny Whitlam | Berlin Guide 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!