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lou thtchr

@flightpath.bsky.social
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researching histories of border control, in particular early 20th century australia // grounded in no border politics. archive posting & shitposting. she/her.

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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the most ~scandalous~ thing that the hostile press can find about berlin’s future left-wing mayor is that she was (openly) a member of a broad left legal defense organisation, then the party really did do an amazing job choosing their candidate
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The open letter from more than 150 Jews living in Berlin calling “for a social & safe city”, & against the claims that die Linke are a threat to Jews, was just discussed on the rbb radio news-the first pushback I’ve heard against the post-election media panic from anywhere other than the left press.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Die Linke have a lot of good election material, but personally I find it hard to beat “For Neukölln. For migration. For Palestine.” as a political summary 🖤
Photo of election poster for Basem Said, who stands in front of the sign for U-Rathaus Neukölln, with the text “Für Neukölln. Für Migration. Für Palästina.”
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fuck every petty bureaucrat & fuck every border
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Serious request: can whoever organises the 2028 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference put it in mid July so that I can come and then stay to see the total solar eclipse that’s happening on July 22? Would be very convenient, thanks in advance 😊
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NSU-Watch @nsuwatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wir gedenken heute Ferdane Satır, Çiğdem Satır, Ümit Satır, Songül Satır, Zeliha Turhan, Rasim Turhan und Tarık Turhan, die heute vor 42 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 26. auf den 27. August 1984 in #Duisburg bei einem Brandanschlag auf ihr Wohnhaus ermordet wurden. Heute 17 Uhr Kundgebung Fischerstr 2-4.
Schwarzer Hintergrund, rechts ein schwarz-weiß Bild, Bilder und Blumen an eine Hauswand gelehnt. Text: Wir gedenken heute Ferdane Satır, Çiğdem Satır, Ümit Satır, Songül Satır, Zeliha Turhan, Rasim Turhan und Tarık Turhan. In der Nacht vom 26. auf den 27. August 1984 in Duisburg ermordet.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Haitian revolution was one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Environmental storytelling: pregnancy test packaging in the bin in the supermarket toilet at Fort William bus station.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New map projection just dropped
Logo for the 15th International Congress of Entomology (1976), showing a map of “the world” on a coccinellid beetle. Australia’s placement might KIND of make sense when the elytra are opened??
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I can’t imagine again living somewhere where you have limited sick leave days you have to ration out over the year.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
You would think that the worst thing about cleaning work is the clients, but that’s only the second worst thing, the worst thing is that dozens of times a day I perform gestures that remind me of my mum
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Linguistically I think it’s kinda fun that one of the main ways to be gender neutral in spoken german involves using a pause as a meaningful phoneme
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 24/06/2026
Yesterday, eight people were sentenced to decades in prison for protesting outside an ICE facility in Prairieland, TX. In our latest issue, Lauren Fadiman covers the case and the right-wing “Antifa” panic surrounding it: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...
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The Invention of Antifa | Lauren Fadiman
The Justice Department wants to prosecute “Antifa” members for domestic terrorism. The only problem? The Antifa they describe doesn’t really exist.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his armsArticle screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Try to imagine the kind of person who goes to a Massive Attack concert and complains about the politics 🙄
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hey @heistberlin.bsky.social can you please do a story on the two rival City Chickens, it’s clearly some kind of Aldi Nord-Aldi Sud/adidas-puma split situation & I want to know the details. thankyou.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Exciting story from my hometown shared in the family group chat today www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 100,000 cockroaches worth $200,000 seized from NSW breeder in record-breaking bust
The invertebrates were likely destined for the pet trade, including as reptile food
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is also the first thing I've published since the realisation that I have to publish with my middle name, to avoid confusion with my name-twin, the other Louise Thatcher, who works at the CSIRO & writes a lot about some very cool sounding plant biology I do not understand
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Very happy to have published an article on one of my minor obsessions - the long(er) history of the very present practice of fining shipping companies as a way of enforcing state borders: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Shipping Companies as Border Guards: Financial Penalties and Outsourced Immigration Control
This article describes an important but hidden tool through which Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act, and thus the White Australia policy, was enforced: the fines that were issued to captains,...
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The fact that there are now regularly ticket inspectors on berlin busses and not just u-Bahn and s-Bahn feels like a breach of the social contract
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Conclusions are for cowards, if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know what my argument was
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The worst thing about so many ppl from „australia“ spending the summer in berlin is that it looks like the term FLINTA has escaped to the english-speaking world
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
guess whose book just got described as "an exciting piece of scholarship", "meticulously researched", "theoretically innovative" & "an important new book" by the publisher's reviewers??
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Jumpscare of hearing Ben Lee, Cigarettes Will Kill You, on German radio
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I can tell something’s going right in my life when this guy ❤️‍🔥 is in my suggested emoji/reactions
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
it's really frustrating to me that i have the ability to write a pitch-perfect formal, effective, passive-agressive email in english but i don't have the skills to do it in german
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall
Said Nesar Hashemi
Hamza Kenan Kurtović
Ferhat Unvar
Sedat Gürbüz
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Gökhan Gültekin
Vili Viorel Păun
Mercedes Kierpacz
Kaloyan Velkov
Ibrahim Akkuş
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A tiny bit funny that even though I’m an atypically privileged migrant (first world passport + whiteness), I still end up working as a cleaner a lot of the time
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
nice work lads of 1935
screenshot of newspaper: "MEN'S EXPLANATIONS ACCEPTED
In Hotel on Sunday
Justices in the Glenelg Court today accepted the reasons given by four men for having been at the Family Hotel on a Sunday night.
One said he was there to give the manager a shave and haircut, another
claimed he went to see about a job, and the others explained that they were concerned with an order for ice.
Charges of having been unlawfully on the premises of the Family Hotel,
Gleneig, during prohibited hours on August 18 against George Herbert
Rule, brickmaker; William Anthoney Finnington, laborer; Frank Ernest Gar
diner, stablehand; and Stanley Brown, hairdresser, all of Gleneig, were dismissed.
Mr. Eric Millhouse appeared for Browm and Rule. The Assistant
Police Prosecutor (Mr. Bond) prosecuted.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I now have the Middlemarch problem with Nova Scotia House
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
how did I only just learn that "sod" (as a derogatory term) is short for "sodomite"?!
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
Alleged someone allegedly burning a concentration camp in Kansas City.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Very funny juxtaposition, good work English-language-section of the Hugendubel in Karstadt on Hermannplatz.
Photo of a bookshelf with two books next to each other pulled out - „Ahmed, Complaint!“ & „Why Men Love Bitches“
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
There’s an article about the guy I buy coal from in the newspaper, I feel like I know a celebrity taz.de/Ich-bleibe-b...
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„Ich bleibe bis zum Schluss“: Dirk Kögler ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in Berlin
Wer in Berlin Kohle braucht, ruft bei Dirk Kögler an. Der Kreuzberger hat sie im Angebot. Er ist einer der letzten Kohlehändler in der Stadt.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Anti-DHS protesters in LA moved a huge dumpster, partially blocking agents in their building.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Oh my, fucking god. This book.
Cover of Nova Scotia House: a novel, by Charlie Porter
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Fans of australian english, I need to tell you: I was at a queer open mike night in Istanbul & the host, from Libya, identified themself as „non-bino“
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“don’t say ‘happy new year’ say fuck the police perhaps say ‘rewrite the calendar’ but after that, immediately after that say fuck the police”
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The only photo I took on NYE was of this incredible weapons-handling of a Berlin cop. (One of 12 cops surrounding one man arrested on the platform at Kotti)
Close up of a cop wearing a police vest & blue adidas trackpants with a gun tucked into the waistband of his trousers
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The Rote Hilfe, a key infrastructure org of the german left, providing legal & financial support to political prisoners for more than a century, just had its bank account closed by GLS, an ~ethical~ bank. They suspect the new US sanctions against European ~antifa~ is behind it taz.de/Alle-Konten-...
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Alle Konten gekündigt: Rote Hilfe droht das finanzielle Aus
Innerhalb weniger Tage wurden die beiden Konten des linken Hilfsvereins Rote Hilfe gekündigt. Steckt der Feldzug der Trump-Regierung gegen die Antifa dahinter?
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"I would rise to this attack. I would fight back until it was over. There is no pregnancy I could conceive that I would allow to continue. Did my body doubt me? Did God? How many times would I be made to prove it?" this on abortion by @charlotteshane.bsky.social: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/pol...
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Three Times | Charlotte Shane
One was OK: a mistake. But two was a pattern. I knew at an early age that I never wanted to have kids but I didn’t think I was the type of girl who would have an abortion, certainly not more than one....
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Feeling strongly that book proposal might be the most abject genre of writing
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
An old student who I recommend for a Rosa Lux Stiftung PhD scholarship just let me know that he got it! 😊
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lou thtchr @flightpath.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Dream sequences are lazy
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
3/ The West Java Regional Police sweep is not limited to that area. They have already carried out sweeps outside their jurisdiction as well. Some have already been arrested in Makassar, eastern Indonesia and East Java too.
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