Nebenan.de

Nebenan.de is also good for Germany.

There is no EU decline, despite what shitty right wing Russia sponsored MEPs want you to think.

I used to take a life drawing class and we had one model who was this shape and I loved drawing him.

I won a competition. I wrote a story about a disabled child that, now I think back on it, was alllll kinds of wrong. Anyhoo, I won a trip to the Christmas circus in Rotterdam, a fancy dinner in the Euromast and first class train tickets to get there.

They weren’t even in a bad financial situation, their profits were a little lower.

I bet they’re making the ones who are left work longer shifts, or they hired badly paid “contractors” who they can ditch at will.

Especially when you’re removing the names of women who actually achieved something.

Elmo’s cronies have been trawling Reddit lately.

In Accident and Emergency with chest pains because I’d caught Covid already.

Fun fact: many shelters in Germany won’t allow you to adopt a cat if it can’t go outside freely.

So I don’t have a cat. Do I worry about extinct birds or anything like that? No. Cats are native in Europe and I have shit tons of birds of prey (and storks) around here that catch way more birbs than the local cats do.

But I’ve had cats for years, and they’ve been poisoned (rat and antifreeze), hit by cars, hit by trains, and even shot by farmers. I kept my last cat inside.

My apartment and balcony are big enough. I’m looking at rescuing a couple of cats in Bulgaria because those rescue organisations insist you keep the cats inside. Sorry, German kitties.

Empty boxes, build shelves, organise my appartement. I moved last week and it’s a frigging mess.

Bol no longer sells outside the Benelux. Dutch companies and banks and the Dutch government have become increasingly isolationist.

Our Edeka sells flavour drops, by the way.

It’s a shame that it only seems to have taken hold in certain areas in Germany. I.e. not in either of mine.