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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 12/09/2026

The Google listing doesn’t really prepare you for how big they are maps.app.goo.gl/BS5Y6C6oJFxN...

A growth on a beech tree. It looks like a pair of human testicles.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 11/09/2026

Nice thing to see at the end of a pretty bleak week to be an immigrant in this country

“Fuck AfD”, “Fuck Nazis”, etc. written in crayon on pieces of paper taped to a window. There’s also a skeleton for some reason.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 04/08/2026

How are there so many beloved BBC journalists who look exactly like this and are also wildly racist pedophiles? At least I only have to learn about them when they die, but that seems to happen every couple of months now.

Photo from the Guardian of a jowly man with messy white hair.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of the whole thing, but this poster for KitKat Club is probably the most offensive example I’ve seen in Berlin.

A woman dressed in black holding a white cat in a sunflower field, facing a farmer with his back to us. There’s another woman in the background.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 30/06/2026

Productive morning in Berlin: picked up my new Aufenthaltserlaubnis at the Ausländerbehörde and happened to ride past a burned out car (the first really good one I’ve seen in a year or two).

A parked car that has burned. The windows are broken and the trunk and hood are partially open and damaged.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 23/06/2026

I would learn German and get my German citizenship solely to be able to vote for a politician who would pledge to get these fucking vehicles out of our bike lanes and off of our sidewalks. Fuck Amazon, obviously, but also fuck every other company doing this shit.

A photo of an electric Amazon delivery vehicle that is essentially a small car but that seems to be allowed to use bike lanes and block sidewalks in Berlin for some fucking reason?

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 19/05/2026

Share to traumatize an American in Berlin

Photo from the courtyard of the Berlin Immigration Office. It shows a gray building, a covered walkway, and some weeds growing through the concrete.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 08/02/2026

Here’s an email I got from Scott Horton when I contacted him last month to confirm that he runs this account. There’s something very wrong with this guy, and yet I see him posting misinformation and ripping off actual journalists in my feed every day, because Bluesky runs on this shit.

Email from Scott Horton to me on January 16: “Very puzzled by this claim: "seem to be automated, or taken from other accounts or platforms without attribution." Nothing here is automated, much is clipped from other platforms, attribution and links are always supplied, though the severe limitation on text makes this difficult sometimes.”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 21/01/2026

Ah so this is why he’s our problem now. He flew too close to the sun

Screenshot of a Facebook post from "Make Every Voter Equal" (March 18, 2025): "Robert Scott Horton is now on Bluesky 'Apparently I have been kicked off Facebook and my account has been permanently suspended. No explanation as to why, but in the past three months I have been issued warning six 1/'"

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 17/01/2026

Watching a Телеканал СПАС segment about Americans in Russia and it’s wild to see the guy from NJ who claims to own the copyright to the Pine Tree Riots song recently featured on the DHS IG hanging out in Moscow with prominent neo-Nazi Charles Bausman.

Frame from a Russian television program showing three men in a church. There is a priest on the left, and the man on the right is Charles Bausman.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 16/01/2026

It’s especially odd that many of the early posts from the “Scott Horton” account are AI-generated memes, verbatim rip-offs of random physics facts from viral tweets, etc.

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Scott Horton from March 2025. There is no post text, only an apparently AI-generated meme that reads, “MODERN CONSERVATISM: WHERE REAGAN IS A COMMIE AND PUTIN IS THE HERO”.

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Scott Horton from April 2025. The text reads, “The universe can have three possible geometries: closed, open, or flat, determined by the density parameter Oo. A closed universe (Oo > 1) is finite, with curved space that loops back on itself. Open (Oo < 1) and flat universes (Oo =1) are infinite, with straight paths never returning”.

Screenshot of a tweet by “Physics in History” from November 2024. The text is identical to Horton’s later post, except that the final sentence isn’t cut off.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 12/01/2026

Watching this for the first time and thinking about how annoying it would be if the first big epic film about the fall of America comes out in 2034 and Bovino is an ice cold badass villain with sick lines.

Lieutenant-Colonel Philippe Mathieu talking to a group of journalists in The Battle of Algiers. The subtitle reads, “Why are the Sartres always born on the other side?”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 14/12/2025

It really sucks that you can leave America but almost anywhere you move will be downstream of America and sooner or later every piece of American trash is going to wash up in your backyard.

A billboard in German for a Christian television show from 2018, now showing on Bibel TV courtesy of Warner Brothers and CBS Studios.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 23/10/2025

If you run the world’s most famous sex club in a city full of artists who are both poor and horny, you should not be doing this shit:

A photo of part of an AI-generated image showing some very weird fingers and a white cat. From a poster for KitKat Club.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 19/09/2025

Did it never occur to any of you that you risked forging an angry anti-Communist coalition broad enough to stretch all the way from neo-Nazis to libertarians like me

A photo of Eric S. Raymond wearing a tuxedo and holding a keyboard and pistol

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 22/08/2025

One more from this morning (also Karl-Marx-Allee, but with some sunshine this time).

Another photo of Karl-Marx-Allee, going east from Strausberger Platz.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 22/08/2025

Berlin says “LECKT EIER”.

View toward Rosenthaler Platz. Letters on a rooftop in the foreground read “LECKT EIER”.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 22/08/2025

Did some touristing this morning. Here’s Karl-Marx-Allee looking pretty good for late summer.

A photo of Strausberger Platz from above.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 06/08/2025

Breaking news: the pope finally got back to his Duolingo account on Sunday. He’s now learning Italian.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 30/07/2025

Looking at stuff around the house to make sure I don’t buy US products and I guess I’m not going to be replacing this ancient can of cheese

A can of CHEESE ZIP that was apparently made in the US and imported into Germany.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 20/07/2025

Found a new favorite Berlin spot (it’s a poplar grove with a good mix of sun and places for setting up a hammock)

A photo of blue sky through some poplar trees

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 08/07/2025

BER is on fire, it’s almost like we’re in America or something

A fire at BER. It’s unclear what is burning. Water is being sprayed on the fire.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 01/07/2025

From two trips to the US last year. Nothing between us to protect me from them either time. One of these situations was super chill and the other was scary as fuck.

Two alligators sitting next to a pond in some grass.

Four Border Patrol officers who have just jumped a fence to harass us.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 27/06/2025

Raichik also had an account with the screen name “cuomomustgo”

The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point meme guy

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 21/06/2025

Five stars, would recommend if you’re in Berlin and want a nice view all to yourself.

A photo of fields and countryside just outside Berlin.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 21/06/2025

Finally made it to the highest point in the city (I’ve wanted to hike up here for years, but the fence has been just enough friction for me to put it off).

A photo of the Berlin skyline and trees.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 21/06/2025

lol somebody couldn’t handle this RAW UNCENSORED TRUTH

Bluesky screenshot showing that I’m blocked by Jake Hanrahan.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 18/06/2025

If Musk‘s rockets worked as well as his Nazification machine we‘d already be on Mars.

Facebook post, 17 January 2022: “59 years ago a man had a dream, a dream of freedom of justice and of equality, we haven't completely fulfilled that dream, but we have made big strides in the fight for the most basic human rights! Today, we honor that man! Today, tomorrow and until that dream is reality, heres to you, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr!! Happy Birthday and Rest in Love!”

Twitter post by the same person, 22 May 2025: “If I hated [slur] anymore than I already do I might spontaneously combust. Fuck them motherfuckers and all of their descendants”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 28/05/2025

My adoptive city does a little trolling.

THANK YOU AMERICA. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE FREEDOM THAT YOUR COUNTRY HELPED US GAIN.
MAY WE SHARE SOME IN RETURN? BERLIN IS THE CITY OF FREEDOM, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND DIVERSITY IN SCIENCE AND CULTURE. 40 UNIVERSITIES, 70 RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND OVER 200,000 STUDENTS ARE STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE. JOIN US.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 27/05/2025

Just noticed Bincode’s new “Usage Manifesto”, and it’s shocking to see this kind of clarity and courage from an open source project: github.com/bincode-org/...

Usage Manifesto

The bincode developers do not endorse or support: the gas and oil industry, gambling, the military industrial complex, or any usage of AI. This means we will not accept any contributions coming from or related to these fields. This includes both PRs and filed issues. If you fall in one of these categories; do better.

Additionally, if any contribution you make makes use of generative AI, be it in code or PR/issue descriptions, you will be immediately banned from this organization.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 14/05/2025

This is from the product page of a t-shirt from an X ad and it’s like the purest essence of 2025 Twitter I’ve ever seen: some grifter paying a Nazi for ads to sell AI-generated Nazi shit to Nazis

Screenshot of a product page linked from an ad on X: “Official Europa The Last Battle Shirt: Show Your Love with Style / The target audience for this shirt is likely a group with a keen interest in history, historical events, and possibly historical themes.”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 12/05/2025

I just thought to check on what Chris Roach has been up to since we ID‘d him as a Nazi groyper in WIRED last fall, and I have news: he’s now senior counsel at a law firm that’s doing some amazing things with Papyrus and mustaches (that’s his CEO on the right).

Header image for Zinzow Law with the text “Construction — Real Estate — Business” over an backhoe (I think).

A photo of Justin Zinzow, the CEO of Zinzow Law. He has a big mustache, a little goatee, and is wearing a cowboy hat.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 29/04/2025

The Wayback Machine now renders JSON tweet snapshots so that they look like the original web view, making it a little easier to keep track of what the Nazis are doing over there without digging through piles of curly braces.

A screenshot of a Wayback Machine snapshot with a rendering of a tweet by a Nazi account. I have obscured part of the text and image. Header: "This is a page generated by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from Twitter/X post data. Display JSON." Tweet by "Ardito": "We're currently recruiting for our North Dixie chapter, run by @aryanscotch. We're organizing to shape the future of the Aryan race. If you would like to be part of the New Way community in this region, please click the link below to go through vetting:"

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 27/04/2025

It’s so strange to me that this is an hour from Berlin (the grocery store is open on Sunday!)

A photo of a Polish grocery store and parking lot with a large crucifix next to it.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 18/04/2025

Source for this one is an archived tweet by Jean-François Gariépy (another white supremacist): web.archive.org/web/20180306...

Frame Game Radio on Twitter, 14 February 2018: "At the same time, I fully and completely recognize the JQ a very real and very serious issue. I spent many years in the armpit of Corporate America's diversity industry and can tell you point blank, White demographic genocide really *is* largely on account of Jewish influence."

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 18/04/2025

One funny thing I just noticed is that Benz's "Frame Game Radio" Twitter account wasn't really anonymous in any meaningful sense, because under his earlier "Green Star Paradox" identity he used this very recognizable photo as his profile image for the account.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 16/04/2025

I was looking up what specific kind of legless lizard this is and for some reason the list of UK names for it is just a pile of random ableist slurs? Why are they like this?

Wikipedia summary from Google: “The common slow-worm is a species of legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, steelworm, and hazelworm.”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 16/04/2025

Saw three snakes while biking around in the woods outside Berlin today, which is remarkably snaky (I think I probably saw three snakes in total last year). Also this guy, who is not a snake

Photo of a gold-colored legless lizard on a dirt path

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 29/03/2025

Tucker Carlson makes an appearance at the Prototype Fund celebration

A screenshot from the Tucker Carlson segment about my Prototype Fund project.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 29/03/2025

Proud to have been invited to be on this morning‘s panel at Prototype Fund‘s celebration of their first eight years (photo from Mastodon).

Hadi Al Khatib, Marie Kochsiek, our moderator and me (speaking) at Prototype Fund‘s 8 Jahre celebration today.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 28/03/2025

I was walking past Mauerpark today and noticed that they’ve torn down the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion. I can’t find any good photos I’ve taken of it, but it was such a hideous old beautiful building. I wish I could have seen it one last time.

A photo of the back of the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion in Berlin.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 25/02/2025

I love it when Nazis do this shit (and luckily for me they do it all the fucking time)

Photo of a man with the same finger tattoo and cell phone. His face is clear. He is holding a child and standing next to a woman.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 16/02/2025

As a demo, I checked @/nullllptr (racist DOGE staffer Marko Elez’s Twitter account) and the @memory.lol index shows his real name, but also two other screen names that I haven’t seen in any reporting.

A screenshot of search results showing that Marko Elez's Twitter account had the screen names @/marko_elez from (at least) 2022-02-05 to 2022-04-05, @/mlz565 from 2022-04-06 to 2022-06-10, @/bronzeagedragon from 2022-06-13 to 2023-07-31, and @/nullllptr from 2023-11-03 to 2024-12-27.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 09/02/2025

I’m very sorry to screenshot Twitter but I don’t know where else you’d find shit this funny

From a thread on X:

@LokiJulianus: "How did she find that guy's deleted tweets anyway? How did she know where to look? Seems like this parallel construction is missing a step."

@EndUniParty: "X H1B Indian employees have been leaking user information to employers and now to journalists. We are working on suing x.”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 09/02/2025

Will I regret not buying this

A jacket at the Flohmarkt with a patch showing an astronaut Snoopy with an American flag and another patch that says “FUCK ELON MUSK”.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 03/02/2025

I found WBM snapshots from 2022 of a Twitter account where Edward Coristine used a fake name (a plausible one, not a Big Balls one) and this profile image, which seems a little on the nose now.

An illustration of Humpty Dumpty smoking a cigar and looking smug.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 29/01/2025

I had to see this shit twice today before I got around to blocking @integralanswers.bsky.social

A detail from an image from a thread that has gone viral on Bluesky today. It is apparently supposed to be a book with the title “Tuskagee Experiment”, but the text is garbled and the layout and illustration make no sense. The image seems to have been created by some GenAI tool.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 20/12/2024

Just a bunch of fucking clowns (with guns)

Five Border Patrol agents walking in a field. One appears to be coughing dramatically or stomping or something.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 19/12/2024

We’ve been on the border for two hours and five pigs just jumped a fence to harass us

A photo of Border Patrol agents who just jumped a fence to chase us down in a field.

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 09/12/2024

The nice woman at the grocery store checkout gave me this book and I think she might be trying to tell me something about my shitty German??

A children’s book in German with the title “Tatort Ponyhof”

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