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James East @jameseast.online · 20h

There’s one good thing I’ll say about getting to BER airport at 6.30am: security is brilliantly fast

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James East @jameseast.online · 13/09/2026

Found where they keep the noisy dogs in Germany

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James East @jameseast.online · 02/09/2026

Badgers was TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO? *crumbles into dust*

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James East @jameseast.online · 26/08/2026

LH got there first! Sadly not from gate 22 but *so* close…

Flight Boarding card for LH2222 to Toulouse from Munich at gate K24

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/08/2026

So the Berlin 2026 Wahl-O-Mat is live, and... well let's say there's no major shock in my results

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James East @jameseast.online · 20/08/2026

Once again I find myself thinking it's time to make that full-time career switch to Alcoholic. I could probably be a Senior Alcoholic quite quickly... 🍻

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James East @jameseast.online · 27/07/2026

Today, I genuinely heard a Scrum Master say “the corporate people don’t work in Agile, they don’t understand it means we can’t change our plans last minute” and, reader, my face reacted faster than my brain could stop it.

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James East @jameseast.online · 15/07/2026

Err, I don’t think this is what they were intending to broadcast on the BBC News channel right now…

A tv screen showing a quad-split video on a grey background with a BBC News strap at the bottom. The video contains two views of football fans in Atlanta, one black screen with a graphic and the EBU Eurovision “upcoming” slide.

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James East @jameseast.online · 26/06/2026

Yeah ok, I'll take that britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

2020s political compass results: 81% woke / 19% chud; 38% techbro / 62% neo-luddite; 55% hopepilled / 45% doomer; 70% Davos / 30% Dubai. Closest match: Zohran Mamdani.

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James East @jameseast.online · 22/06/2026

Just arrived at the dentist‘s office for an appointment and instead of saying I was here for a zahnreinigung (tooth cleaning) I tripped over my own tongue and said darmreinigung (gut cleaning) 🤦‍♂️

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James East @jameseast.online · 20/06/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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James East @jameseast.online · 19/06/2026

LV, as I remember. Might have helped that she‘s had the policy for ages though. And I think they asked if I had been a UK resident with a UK license in the past (both true in my case).

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James East @jameseast.online · 19/06/2026

For me it ended up been less for my mum to put me on her insurance permanently, with the insurer knowing I have an EU license, than any of the temporary insurers wanted for a week

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

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James East @jameseast.online · 12/06/2026

Will there be a rail replacement bus replacement rail service?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/06/2026

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

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James East @jameseast.online · 05/06/2026

Had a pint with Anthony Head in the King's Arms in Soho once, he was a really lovely guy. Sad to see he's gone at just 72.

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Fuck them. Defy. Refuse to comply. Where’s it going to end up? Head librarian given the boot? Could be the unfair dismissal case of the age.

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James East @jameseast.online · 25/05/2026

I’m not sure these days I’m afraid, it’s been 10 years since I worked on it

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/05/2026

The "volume goes to 11" thing wasn't my idea, but I was responsible for making sure it kept working when we migrated from Flash to HTML5

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/05/2026

I was responsible for this (it was literally my idea while I was Product Manager for Media Playout at the BBC) and it is still my proudest achievement ever

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/04/2026

Oh their internet connection is totally going to fail at a critical moment, isn’t it? 😬

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/04/2026

A colleague just said to me "I've always had issues setting boundaries but this job could work for someone like you, who I know doesn't have that issue" and wow does it feel cold in this shade

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James East @jameseast.online · 11/04/2026

Not sure if the s is meant to be slightly collapsed or if it’s due to all the tourists sitting on it… 😂

A selfie in front of a large sign that says “Lisboa” in the Parque Eduardo VII in Lisbon. The “s” is slightly wonky and there is a tourist leaning on it.

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James East @jameseast.online · 28/03/2026

God bless Irish pubs (but how is it easier to get this in Frankfurt than Berlin!?)

A full Irish breakfast, with bacon, sausages, mushrooms, hash brown, fried eggs, tomato, baked beans and toast

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James East @jameseast.online · 13/02/2026

This apparently eternal winter in Berlin is just pushing me towards making poor life choices (booking a flight somewhere warm and stretching my credit cards even further)

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James East @jameseast.online · 04/02/2026

Landed back in Britain an hour ago and only just now heard my first “see it say it sorted”. The country is slipping.

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James East @jameseast.online · 21/01/2026

I have to say this every time someone mentions Pingu, but my favourite ever piece of audience feedback when I worked at the BBC was a call made to CBeebies to complain that the show wasn't being broadcast in English.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 12/01/2026

The UK National Health Service has very clear information on all major medical conditions. It is browsable by all Never EVER rely on an LLM for health advice www.nhs.uk/conditions/

nhs.uk

Conditions A to Z

Find out about health conditions, including their symptoms and how they're treated.

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James East @jameseast.online · 07/01/2026

The authorities just sent an emergency alert to the whole of Berlin to tell us the power is being reconnected in the south-west. Seems a little over-dramatic…

Screenshot of the emergency alert in German and English titled “Extreme Danger” but then labelled MODERATE

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James East @jameseast.online · 16/12/2025

If you can get it in the UK, I'd recommend this from AVM - the Fritz stuff is all designed in Germany and used very widely here, it's been rock solid for me for years. Although it's marketed as a "repeater" it can also connect to a non-Fritz router and share the Ethernet port to existing wifi.

fritz.com

FRITZ!Repeater 1700

FRITZ!Repeater 1700 ✓ Powerful Wi-Fi Mesh extender ✓ Wi-Fi 7 up to 3.6 Gbit/s ✓ Gigabit LAN ✓ 5-year warranty ✓ Made in Europe ✓ Order now!

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James East @jameseast.online · 24/11/2025

Accordions, all over the U-Bahn, for all of 2026? Please, $deity, no...

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James East @jameseast.online · 12/11/2025

This is literally what happened to me designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/do-i-have-...

designthinkingcomic.substack.com

Do I have ADHD?

DTQ! for today

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James East @jameseast.online · 07/11/2025

Yeah, I'm probably not explaining it very well either 🙈

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James East @jameseast.online · 07/11/2025

Sorry, I didn't mean "last" as in previous, I meant the most recent 10th one (which, admittedly, hasn't been posted yet unless I missed it)

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James East @jameseast.online · 07/11/2025

Well, you've done ten of them, but the latest (number 10) wasn't posted a year ago - it was/is 0 years ago - 2025. 9th was 1 year ago (2024), 8th was 2 years (2023), etc down to the 1st being 9 years ago - 2016...

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James East @jameseast.online · 07/11/2025

Right, but we're in 2025. Ten years ago tomorrow was 8th November 2015.

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James East @jameseast.online · 07/11/2025

Unless you were alarmingly prescient, it was nine years ago...

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James East @jameseast.online · 21/10/2025

Lads, is it gay to wash your sheets now?

A Facebook advert for „The First Bed Sheets Engineered *For Men*“ apparently now live on Kickstarter

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James East @jameseast.online · 17/10/2025

Unexpected side effect from yesterday's Covid vaccine: I feel hungover. 😵 At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't drink six pints in my sleep last night...

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James East @jameseast.online · 14/10/2025

This is the advantage of living in CET!

My lunch plate with one tuna & sweetcorn roll remaining of the two I made

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James East @jameseast.online · 17/08/2025

On a warm Sunday in Berlin there’s nothing better than a few beers with friends in Mauerpark

A selfie as I sit in Berlin‘s Mauerpark with a few trees and some picnickers in the background

My bottle of Berliner Pilsner sat in the Mauerpark grass

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James East @jameseast.online · 16/08/2025

Cheers mate, Bismarck's crying

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James East @jameseast.online · 15/08/2025

Oh, air conditioner, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… (it’s 33°C right now in Berlin and stepping outside may lead to spontaneous combustion)

It’s me sitting on the floor cuddling a portable air conditioning unit and gazing lovingly at the temperature setting, which is at a sensible 74 degrees (well, 23 because it’s in Celsius but close enough)

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James East @jameseast.online · 11/08/2025

I got a Blue Peter badge for appearing on the show when I worked for the BBC and took part in the Mattress Dominos world record attempt. Lost it on the tube though :(

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