kinocow @kinocow.com · 21/07/2026Berlin weather report: What's the German word for the impending sadness of the summer going to end? 231
kinocow @kinocow.com · 01/06/2026We'd like to take your money and sell your data. Data prisoners to data hostages with Meta now. techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/m...techcrunch.comMeta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunchMeta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscriptio... 020
Reposted by kinocowLivia @liviainberlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Revamping my photo diary of #Berlin toilets 151
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/05/2026Homie in the S-Bahn on his second box of cheese slices while staring into the distance. Hope his heartbreaker knows the gravity of the situation. 060
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/05/2026The way people talk about find a flat to rent and buying a lottery ticket is the same in Berlin. "You just need to keep trying until you find the one" "Have you tried on Monday mornings?" "Try when everyone's on vacation the jackpot is bigger" "Have you tried in the outskirts?" 040
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/05/2026During the peak of my visa troubles where I was bounced off between caseworker to caseworker it finally took a PoC to find out that I was being chaffed for no reason and told me my rights and handed me the paperwork that gave me the stability I needed after 14 months. 040
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/05/2026Got added to a Berlin flat finding group (which is basically a bunch of main tenants subletting their apartments at godawful prices) but the drama here is top notch. Fighting each other for deposits, calling each other scammers, desperation to show closets as studio apartments.. ANMELDUNG IMPOSSIBLE 130
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/05/2026Germany: Waiting for a doctor's appointment. Waiting for an appointment at the Burgeramt. Waiting for a tax refund. Waiting to find a flat. Waiting to find a kita spot. Waiting for the train to come. Waiting for the economy to recover. Waiting for life to end. 2100
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/05/2026Overheard in a German cafe: "I am lactose intolerant" "Don't worry we have a toilet" 190
kinocow @kinocow.com · 24/05/2026Is there a way to whiteface oneself? Also looking to advertise on Kleinanzeigen for a bio-Deutsch woman to pretend as my partner for a viewing. 50€ cash for 15 minutes work. 050
kinocow @kinocow.com · 24/05/2026That time of the year when it's flat hunting time in Berlin and the discrimination is fucking awful. I decided to do A/B testing with my real name and a German one the results are clear. I've sent 50 applications and received 7 flat viewings with the German name and with the Indian one? ZERO. 371
kinocow @kinocow.com · 07/05/2026Watched Project Hail Mary and it was surprisingly pretty good fun. All the jokes landed and the sappy ending even squeezed a tear out of me. Made me come back here because I miss my filmicows. 250
kinocow @kinocow.com · 05/03/2026But I guess what's the purpose of all those bombs and mil-tech if you can't use them. 020
kinocow @kinocow.com · 05/03/2026My idea of a time machine is not the kind that takes you back to 2003. 000
kinocow @kinocow.com · 02/02/2026Berlin weather report: So cold that I haven't seen my balls in two weeks. 020
Reposted by kinocowI'm Suzi Poppins, y'all! @soozlemcdoozle.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Had a meeting about digital sovereignty in Europe today, so that was fun. The big European companies waking up to this is interesting. The best time to have done it was in 2016, the second best time is now, I guess. 3172
kinocow @kinocow.com · 30/01/2026Berlin weather report: the sky needs some anti-dandruff shampoo. 030
kinocow @kinocow.com · 27/01/2026Through the course of my work I talk to a lot of German professionals and the biggest fear they have now is how dependent their infrastructure is on American software and hardware companies. Life in business Germany is currently bleak and they're all hoping that Trump is an aberration. 160
Reposted by kinocowSteve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Sad to learn of the death of former BBC foreign correspondent Sir Mark Tully. For so many years he was known as the ‘Voice of India.’ As a tribute I play one of the pieces Sir Mark selected on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs: Danny Boy.youtu.beMy tribute to Sir Mark Tully: a broadcasting legend.YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg 738644
kinocow @kinocow.com · 26/01/2026Earlier this century, the US went to war in the name of fighting terrorism and successfully painted a religious group as terrorists. A quarter century later the effects of that ring back, anyone who doesn't follow the authoritarian regime is a terrorist, the snake comes back to bite its own tail. 000
kinocow @kinocow.com · 24/01/2026Travel everywhere until the only place left is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 021
kinocow @kinocow.com · 22/01/2026Berlin weather report: Boycotting going outside till it hits a respectable temperature. I'm not heating the world with my body heat, not anymore. 050
kinocow @kinocow.com · 22/01/2026Need a social media platform without Americans posting about America. Yes Ice sucks, it's all over the pavement here in Berlin. 030
kinocow @kinocow.com · 22/01/2026Having spent months in this job hunting hellhole, the only thing that got me noticed was bypassing company portals and directly talking to people. Job listing written by AI which take in AI applications which are in turn vetted by AI with hallucinations at every layer, these are strange times. 021
kinocow @kinocow.com · 22/01/2026Decided before age and health knocks my appetite out I need to go around the world and eat as much as I can of the creative ways people reimagine ingredients. And a special place for a total Indian revisit. I'm Germany you eat to live, a dream destination would be where you can live to eat. 030
kinocow @kinocow.com · 21/01/2026Berlin weather report: Went out for five minutes today and the skin on the legs is cracked, lips sharp enough to shave the chin and a cold than gone to the deepest possible rungs of the lungs. Stay inside, do nothing. 030
Reposted by kinocowSolazul @solazul75.bsky.social · 21/01/20263. Paprika (movie) This film fully embraces its fascination with dreams. I mean, one of its characters is literally an alter ego of another character's psyche. I wish more movies had the courage to put what interests them first instead of sticking to the same old conventions 111
kinocow @kinocow.com · 21/01/2026My idea of travelling is just go to a place you're not supposed to be and then figure out why you're there in the first place. Always worked for me, even in places that were supposedly dangerous (though I'm told in latin america it'd mean I lose a kidney) 000
kinocow @kinocow.com · 21/01/2026Stopped a couple of tuk-tuk drivers and asked them to drive randomly for a couple of hours with no specific destination just an idea. Agreed to give them how much ever they asked without haggling and no one seemed to grapple with the concept. 100
kinocow @kinocow.com · 21/01/2026Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply: "2. Cut three scallions slantwise, slice ginger, and chop garlic" 000
Reposted by kinocowWasp Summer #JoinAUnion @waspsummer.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026There was a really great exhibition at Gropius Bau in 2022 called Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility that delved into exactly what you're talking about. Also, do you know the Habibi Funk reissue record label? Have a listen. 131
kinocow @kinocow.com · 21/01/2026The Lebanese joints in Berlin are onto something with the really sad songs they play over the speakers. Makes you stare into nothingness for ten minutes and take you to a Lebanon than exists only in the your mind. 120
kinocow @kinocow.com · 20/01/2026Wanted to escape having a calendar full of plans this year and be non-commital about every social event. What do we know, two days after being back my calendar is already full for the next two weeks. I guess I'll save these wishes for retirement (which will be never). 020
kinocow @kinocow.com · 19/01/2026Just make them do all the paperwork that an average Indian tourist has to do and then wait for the fireworks to fizzle. 0103
kinocow @kinocow.com · 19/01/2026Berlin weather report: Knockoff northern lights visible to the naked eye over the city. Look to the north, not just through any random window. 030
kinocow @kinocow.com · 18/01/2026Weirdly not attached to the luggage. Hope I get to this level of detachment with everything else in life. 000
kinocow @kinocow.com · 18/01/2026Berlin weather report: Last sun I've seen was over the clouds before landing in Berlin. The clouds were creamy white against endless blue and as we descended it was grey, grey, grey all the way down. Welcome to Berlin, where colour comes to die. 150
kinocow @kinocow.com · 18/01/2026Spent 3 hours in the airport baggage counter and some point was sp bored that I started timing people who were at the counters. The average time was 20 minutes, most of which was because people didn't read their ticket conditions and decided to haul a plane's worth of weight in their suitcases. 190
kinocow @kinocow.com · 16/01/2026Patience in long, pointless lines is one of my greatest virtues. 030
kinocow @kinocow.com · 16/01/2026Want this to be the year of doing and not talking. But what to do is still up in the air, worst case scenario I'll throw up in a public park. 120
kinocow @kinocow.com · 14/01/2026Also what explains the really cheap looking cinematography and set design? Every other movie advertises itself with a $50 million budget but the output looks oversaturated styrofoam in different times of day. 100
kinocow @kinocow.com · 14/01/2026Telugu cinema actors, producers and fan bases gives enough reason for people with even half a functioning braincell to not considering working there at all. Which explains the cultural output stuck in the late 90s. 010
kinocow @kinocow.com · 11/01/2026"What're they checking for?" "Drunk driving" "So all that crowd of people is caught driving drunk?" "Yes" "What happened next?" "If you want to go on the spot with your vehicle then it's a 10000 rupee bribe, they even give a QR code for digital payments" "India has really developed" "Yes" 030
kinocow @kinocow.com · 09/01/2026Story across India, it's crazy how car dependent this country is becoming. 110
