Ciarán Fahey

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Associated Press sports writer, often distracted by news. I’m not German. I run @abandonedberlin.com in my free time. bio.site/cfahey

A wall over a river with “AGAB” written on it.
A wall with “no weapons factory in Wedding” written in big capital letters on it (in German) with smaller text underneath adding, “Money for the neighborhood, instead of weapons for war!”
Text in German saying “Rheinmetall, progress through genocide.”
A guy in a wheelchair in Palestinian colors goes past a banner that says "Rheinmetall? Rausmetall, neighborhood against weapons production," while a Palestinian flag flies in the foreground.
A Deutsche Bahn sign for the delayed train to Gesundbrunnen with Gesundbrunnen crossed out because it ain’t going there anymore.
A toilet on a sidewalk beside a road in Berlin. Berliners just discard anything they don’t want any more out on the street. Sometimes they write “zu verscheken” (to give away) like they’re doing people a favor, other times they don’t bother. Either way, the streets are a dumping group for all kinds of useless crap.
Memorial In Schönholzer Heide, Berlin, to the Soviet soldiers who died “for your freedom” in World War 2. There’s no mention of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
An Aer Lingus plane under a cloudy sky at Dublin airport.
Three Trabis parked beside the sidewalk where the Berlin Wall used to be with one man outside one of them looking at the front of it as if he wanted to fix it but hasn’t a clue what he’s looking at.
A demonstrator in Kathmandu, Nepal, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield taken from a police officer during a protest against a social media ban and corruption.
A large stone memorial with four triangles in memory of the resistance fighters murdered by fascism.
The Siptu building in Dublin with a giant banner on the front saying “CEASE FIRE NOW”
Justice Mvemba, founder of Decolonial Tours.
Sign for a garden colony (why are they called that?) in Berlin's "African Quarter" showing its name as "Little Africa."
A Benin Bronze in memory of a local ruler now on show in Berlin's Humboldt Forum.
Mnyaka Sururu Mboro leading the procession as Petersallee in Berlin was renamed to disassociate from Carl Peters, a murderous racist later feted by the Nazis. Peters was the driving force behind the establishment of the colony of German East Africa.
Mnyaka Sururu Mboro unveiling a street sign to rename Petersallee in Berlin.
Street signs, one reading Petersallee, the other saying Manga-Bell-Platz.
A monster with lots of sharp teeth wearing a helmet with a swastika on it, with blood on his hands, under a slogan for the AfD saying in German, Nightmare for Germany.
A window with a handwritten sign saying “I eat cement” in the middle.
Street art of a chicken painted in green (though this may have been added later) on a wall which was one of the ancillary walls for the Berlin Wall at the Bornholmer crossing.
Graffiti saying “Christmas is over, business is business.”
Bits of a wrecked bicycle thrown in among reeds with danger tape strewn haphazardly across it, or something else, who knows?
Greek swimmer Alexandra Stamatopoulou with her gold medal from the women’s 50m backstroke at the Paralympics.
A walrus. They’re pretty long in the tooth, so listen to what they say.
The text is from Bertolt Brecht and it reads: "The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer."
A side view of a Trabant, affectionately known as Trabi, which were pretty common in East Germany, then unfairly scorned after German reunification when East Germans dumped them in favor of fancy western cars. Well, this one’s more than 50 years old and still driving like new.