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Stepsen wrote that a post pinned to his profile against the AfD received 1,000 likes and 48 comments, most of which disagreed. Previously, the ratio of likes to comments was about 1:1, now it is 20:1. He interpreted this as a sign that many AfD bots had disappeared from X. He also wrote that Russian propaganda was decreasing; this could allow the online discourse to recover. He described the day as good for X, the online debate, and Germany, and contrasted the colors of the German flag with the blue hearts and the Russian flag. #AfD #OnlineDebatte #Deutschland (translated)

Kolja Barghoorn wrote that a lawyer apparently does not know the correct term "penal prohibition declaration" and instead used "penal proven." The latter means linguistically that a punishment has proven itself, Barghoorn explained. https://t.co/yP1XSLlOU2 #Recht #Juristen #Sprache (translated)

GFrei.News reported that Tobias Rausch's open letter addressed an important detail of the BMW affair: If BMW withdrew the leasing offer for the position on the day of Rausch's election as President of the State Parliament, this was a message both to the AfD and to the public. GFrei.News regarded this as political discrimination in the sense of the Basic Law and referred to Article 3, Paragraph 3, Sentence 1, as well as Article 33, Paragraphs 2 and 3. The author noted that these constitutional provisions only obligated legislation, executive power, and jurisdiction, as they represent the people's defensive rights against the state. Nevertheless, behavior in accordance with the Basic Law is a benchmark for moral and civic conduct. Measured against this, BMW, in the view of GFrei.News, behaves not only unconstitutionally but also disgracefully. #BMWAffäre #Grundgesetz #PolitischeDiskriminierung (translated)

Flavia Zaka, the wife of Cem Özdemir, defends herself against criticism of her English interview about the State Garden Show, but emphasizes that she still needs to find herself in the German language and that her migration history shapes her as an outsider in German culture. #FlaviaZaka #CemÖzdemir #SpracheUndKultur (translated)

Marc Friedrich criticized that German is not being used as the language so that young children could learn it from the beginning and be integrated. Instead, another "wall" is being erected, which in his view will further strengthen parallel worlds and fears. #Integration #Sprache #Gesellschaft (translated)

The news broadcast in Simple Language reports on 07.10.2026 about the 3rd anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, a proposed law against digital violence, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Messi's last game for Argentina, and the weather. #Hamasüberfall #digitaleGewalt #Nobelpreis (translated)

Miss Meyer wrote at school that this time everyone had followed the development: The language had shifted, people had been turned into enemy images, and hatred had increasingly been normalized; at the same time, borders had fallen. Later, no one could claim to have been unaware of it. #Sprache #Hass #Gesellschaft (translated)

Shira S, MD, accused the SPD of collaborating with the SED successor party, Die Linke, while simultaneously using bans, surveillance, and exclusion against the opposition. She wrote that the party presents this as a democratic responsibility. Furthermore, she claimed that SPD representatives were colluding with people who shook hands with clan leaders. Boris Pistorius described the events as an unprecedented taboo violation of parliamentary democracy in the past 90 years and accused democrats of having served fascists as "stool pigeons," Shira S, MD stated. She countered the SPD by saying that they govern on the shoulders of the SED heir and label dissent as fascism. She also wrote that German politics needs an enemy image to distract from its own allies. #SPD #Pistorius #SED #DieLinke #Tabubruch #Clans #Heuchelei #AfD #Berlin #Korruption #Tabubruch #Korruption #Berlin (translated)

"Translated from the Future" - Capsule event with Xia Jia, Milena Adam, and Wolfgang Tress moderated by Felix Meyer zu Venne October 14, 2026 | 8:00–9:00 PM | Otherland (Bergmannstraße 25, 10961 Berlin) Let us imagine we could bridge decades in cryosleep until incurable diseases are defeated. But what does it feel like to awaken in a world where our friends and relatives are no longer there? And what does a world look like where a pandemic has resulted in only children living there? On the third evening of "Translated from the Future," the question arises of how to translate feelings that one does not (yet) know. Time: 8 PM Location: Otherland Bookstore, Bergmannstraße 25 10961 Berlin Admission: Free - please register by emailing [email protected] Language: English Xia Jia writes science fiction, engages academically with the genre, and translates. She teaches Chinese literature at Jiaotong University in Xi’an as a professor. Her style is described as "Porridge Science Fiction" because her stories are sprinkled with numerous elements atypical of the genre, such as references to myths. Her short stories "In the Clouds," "Night Walk of the Dragon Horse," and "Tongtong’s Summer" have been published in capsule publications. Milena Adam is a translator and interpreter from French and English. For Matthes & Seitz Berlin, she has translated works by Sandra Newman, Eileen Myles, Ken Kesey, Alain Damasio, and Cal Flyn, among others. She lives in Berlin. Lucie Rico and Milena Adam were shortlisted for the PRIX Premiere #5 (2024/25). Felix Meyer zu Venne is a sinologist, translator, and Chinese teacher. Since 2018, he has been part of the editorial team of the science fiction magazine "Kapsel"; since 2021, he has been a co-editor of the magazine. He has translated works by Jia Pingwa, Xia Jia, Jiang Bo, Baoshu, Regina Kanyu Wang, and Chi Hui into German. Wolfgang Tress is a co-owner of the Otherland Bookstore in Berlin, which has specialized in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and role-playing games in German and English for over 25 years. His favorite quote is from Ursula K. Le Guin's essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction": "The stories we tell ourselves create the reality in which we live." (translated)

Apollo News reported that two department heads in the Foreign Office deliberately blocked gender-neutral documents. According to the report, they undermined the language regulation of Foreign Minister Wadephul and impaired the agency's working capacity. https://t.co/LTCIDmUy1v #Gendergerechtigkeit #Sprache #Gleichstellung (translated)

LilitThyra wrote that Ukrainian has no benefit for German children and is completely irrelevant worldwide. She referred to Hamburg as a federal state that is again a pioneer in the initiative she called "nonsense." https://t.co/2LW657qdaD #Ukrainisch #Bildung #Hamburg (translated)

Steffan Nethe wrote that he helped a friend carry a dresser into her second apartment in the Schanzenviertel district of Hamburg. Although she had warned him in advance, he was surprised by the extent of the stickers on the walls of the houses. Nethe described the district as a stronghold of the left and wrote that entire blocks were covered with stickers against the police, the state, and the right. He said that this had nothing to do with normal residential culture; he compared the appearance to a run-down Antifa command center in public space and called it terrible. #Hamburg #Schanze #Antifa (translated)

HeiLender™ wrote that the obligation to use gender-neutral language would be abolished, although in his view there was no such obligation at all. In response, the contribution described two department heads from the areas of Culture (K) and Global Order (GO), who refused to approve documents without gender-appropriate language and would not forward the documents to state secretaries and the minister. The author proposed not to employ or pay the two any longer. Furthermore, he stated that activists in the foreign ministry could be particularly critical. #Gendern #Sprache #Diskussion (translated)

GFrei.News reported that McDonald's announced on September 23 during an investor day in Chicago that it would support franchisees with approximately 8.5 billion US dollars by 2036. This is intended to make the company more competitive again. The author explained that he has been going to McDonald's only once or twice a year on average for the past ten years, and therefore perceives the changes particularly clearly. In his assessment, the quality has declined and prices for fast food, which used to be cheap, have risen significantly: one now pays nearly seven euros for a Big Mac. He doubted that customers remained loyal to the company primarily because of the food, and suspected that habit and advertising played a role. Furthermore, GFrei.News criticized that there are no longer many students and schoolchildren working in the restaurants. He spoke disparagingly about today's employees and complained that some hardly spoke his language. The original idea of having young people from the neighborhood quickly serve affordable food of consistent quality has largely disappeared. McDonald's has thereby lost its identity, he wrote. #McDonalds #FastFood #Qualität (translated)

Christiane Meusel wrote that at the request of a woman, she had written a simplified description of "Tatort." In the series, a person is killed, and the police try to identify the perpetrator. According to her depiction, it is always either the gardener or a Nazi in the end. Meusel concluded with a thank you for the attention. #Tatort #Krimi #Mord (translated)