Nora Biette-Timmons
@biettetimmons.bsky.social
editor + writer. New Yorker in Berlin. www.biettetimmons.com
I met a friend and we took the long way around the lake to our usual spot, and a full kilometer from the train station, we saw the chicken. Its owner was taking it to the lake.
Nora Biette-Timmons@biettetimmons.bsky.social · 8h agoon the s-bahn platform next to a barefoot woman drinking a monster whose pet chicken keeps wandering away
on the s-bahn platform next to a barefoot woman drinking a monster whose pet chicken keeps wandering away
i just want everyone to know that i'm still mad about Argentina's loser behavior during the world cup final and semi-final
to risk repeating one of the oldest complaints in the internet book, it's astounding how little people can figure out; if you're like, "what's this tax form do", you have to wade through 37 redditors going "uhhh i just found out at 40 years old that I have to file taxes, how screwed am i???"
This Women in Translation Month, very happy to be working at The Auflauf, where it's WITM every month: in our first 6 months we've run reviews of Franck, Maci, Mehr, Reimann; original translated fiction by Sylvia Krupicka; and an interview with Herta Müller's latest translator:
Kate McNaughton: 'Herta Müller reminds us that writers are on the front line.'
The novelist on her new translation of the Romanian-born Nobel Prize winner—and the limits of beauty as resistance
theauflauf.com
sorry what? Kids famously do not want to go back to school but tough shit that’s what they’ve gotta do!
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoIt’s nearly time for your kid to go back to school — but what if they don’t want to? If so, it may help to know it’s more common than you might realize. Read more analysis: https://cnn.it/4bnE5NY
📢 JOB ALERT: @blockclubchi.bsky.social is teaming w/ @thetrace.org to hire a reporter focused on gun violence in Chicago. By combining the Trace's expertise + BC's neighborhood approach, this reporter will be positioned to land stories that drive change. Apply: blockclubchicago.org/the-trace-is...
The Trace Is Hiring: Staff Writer On Gun Violence In Chicago
The Trace, in partnership with Block Club Chicago, is looking for a full-time staff writer to cover the impact of gun violence on Chicago’s neighborhoods. The staff writer in this role, which is funde...
blockclubchicago.org
conspiracy theory that the point was staged to make Sophie Cunningham go viral right before she publicly went anti-trans so that people besides WNBA fans actually knew who she was and her comments got juice
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2d agoIs the WNBA gonna do anything about the fact that a hate movement is trying to use its league as a platform for rallies every week
“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
hellgatenyc.com
Personally, I think "Spain's migration crisis" reveals how "the European mainstream" has fallen
conspiracy theory that the point was staged to make Sophie Cunningham go viral right before she publicly went anti-trans so that people besides WNBA fans actually knew who she was and her comments got juice
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2d agoIs the WNBA gonna do anything about the fact that a hate movement is trying to use its league as a platform for rallies every week
sorry to do discourse but to choose Project Hail Mary over The Odyssey is insane. I know this is her whole thing now but the nicest thing I can say about PHM is that it’s a children’s movie
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you want a big spectacular book-adaptation American movie about a reluctant clever hero on an impossible journey through weird places (which I do), Project Hail Mary is great.
Berlin was empty this weekend, except my friends were still here (for the most part) — a perfect combo
I have seen Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY and I LOVED it. Thank you.
wait they did a SECOND SEASON of this insane show?????
Vulture@vulture.com · 5d agoThis week, Sugar proves he’ll do anything for the case, including burning his last bit of humanity.
UEFA spokesperson Dietmar Fumm said to reporters "This decision effectively signals that Gianni Infantino is an enemy of world football". tl;dr: FIFA "foe" - Fumm
thoroughly unsurprising list from Obama, did his creative book-choosers get poached by Dua Lipa?
forgive what might be an really old person thing to say but i just learned an incredible phrase from british tiktok: wagwan alaikum
seeing The Odyssey Saturday, just rewatched Interstellar, thinking of maybe squeezing in an Oppenheimer rewatch Friday just to really maximize my Nolan this week
sorry to pearl clutch but dear god, have some decency
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't snotty: if you are changing your writing intentionally to sound "not like AI" or whatever, I think extremely little of your craft. This is simply not a problem or a consideration for an even moderately developed writer www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
wired.com
no physical nerves compare to the shakes i have sending a birthday invite to a couple dozen friends who have also invited me their birthday parties
this style of portrait photography as the default when you can't figure out another way to illustrate a story drives me nuts
New York Magazine@nymag.com · last wk.Michael Levin, a Tufts biologist with a 40-person lab, has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.
People posting engagement bait about how the center-right is going to use the Berlin attack as a way to crack down on Muslims on X, come ON! If you care about actual harm against the Muslim community, don’t contribute to the platform owned by a FAMOUS Islamophobe
[guy who reportedly makes seven figures arguing for centrist positions]:
look he’s obviously so hot but why do British men insist on wearing hats like this???
"Perhaps predictably, the initial political reaction from many Berlin politicians has not been to call for a review of police procedure. Instead, attention has turned to a familiar target: the left."
heistberlin.bsky.social@heistberlin.bsky.social · last wk.Should Berlin police have been following the CSD attacker the evening of the attack? Abdul Ballout had a "red" high-risk status, and a camera outside his house caught him leaving at 20:58 – one hour before the attack. www.heistberlin.com/news/csd-fal...
love to have one (1) martini and tear up during my rewatch of 30 Rock at Jack and Liz’s friendship
