Cathi Harris
@cathiharris.bsky.social
Writer, editor, and opinionated human.
I write a blog and weekly email newsletter, Alte Frau - New Life, about life in Berlin. You can find it at www.diealtefrau.com.
And I natter on about everything else at cathiharris.com.
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I write a blog and weekly email newsletter, Alte Frau - New Life, about life in Berlin. You can find it at www.diealtefrau.com.
And I natter on about everything else at cathiharris.com.
She/hers
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Looking over the Berlin Wall into a foggy East Berlin, 1961
Photo: Heinrich Sanden Sr.
Photo: Heinrich Sanden Sr.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Looking over the Berlin Wall into a foggy East Berlin, 1961
Photo: Heinrich Sanden Sr.
Photo: Heinrich Sanden Sr.
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Always repost Rosa 🌹
Designed by architects Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte, this memorial to Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg symbolizes the spot where her body was thrown into the canal after she was murdered in January 1919. A plaque nearby provides details about her life and death. #berlin
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Always repost Rosa 🌹
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Humans literally walked out of Africa to people the globe. You can't freeze borders unilaterally. Climate change is going to create millions more refugees. We need to treat people with compassion & meet our international obligations. Let them work immediately. The UK needs workers & the tax income.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Humans literally walked out of Africa to people the globe. You can't freeze borders unilaterally. Climate change is going to create millions more refugees. We need to treat people with compassion & meet our international obligations. Let them work immediately. The UK needs workers & the tax income.
Berlin Ostbahnhof at midday. The station looks so much better now that all the construction scaffolding is gone.
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Berlin Ostbahnhof at midday. The station looks so much better now that all the construction scaffolding is gone.
"If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening."
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening."
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So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
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Experience: I escaped East Berlin in the boot of a car
Experience: I escaped East Berlin in the boot of a car
‘Tonight or never,’ the men helping me said. ‘Meet us in the alley. Eight-thirty’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Experience: I escaped East Berlin in the boot of a car
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Remembering Toronto bike messenger Mike Rankin who was killed on the job on November 7, 2012 by a taxi driver was “clearing the light.” (i.e. trying to beat the red light or running a red light). Police threw Mike’s belongings and evidence in the garbage next to where his body lay on the road
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Remembering Toronto bike messenger Mike Rankin who was killed on the job on November 7, 2012 by a taxi driver was “clearing the light.” (i.e. trying to beat the red light or running a red light). Police threw Mike’s belongings and evidence in the garbage next to where his body lay on the road
Everything is stupid, now.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Everything is stupid, now.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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holy shit.
BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate!
In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
holy shit.
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Ägypten: Diskussion um Rückkehr der Nofretete ins Heimatland: Wie der BER in Berlin hat es auch beim Großen Ägyptischen Museum lange gedauert mit der Eröffnung. Jetzt warten mehr als 100.000 Artefakte auf ihr Publikum. Aber ein Meisterwerk fehlt: Nofretete. Das wollen immer mehr Menschen ändern.
Ägypten: Diskussion um Rückkehr der Nofretete ins Heimatland
Wie der BER in Berlin hat es auch beim Großen Ägyptischen Museum lange gedauert mit der Eröffnung. Jetzt warten mehr als 100.000 Artefakte auf ihr Publikum. Aber ein Meisterwerk fehlt: Nofretete. Das wollen immer mehr Menschen ändern.
www.spiegel.de
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ägypten: Diskussion um Rückkehr der Nofretete ins Heimatland: Wie der BER in Berlin hat es auch beim Großen Ägyptischen Museum lange gedauert mit der Eröffnung. Jetzt warten mehr als 100.000 Artefakte auf ihr Publikum. Aber ein Meisterwerk fehlt: Nofretete. Das wollen immer mehr Menschen ändern.
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Stay safe out there, everyone:
Lights
Helmet
Bright clothing
Several bottles of wine
Mini pump
Lights
Helmet
Bright clothing
Several bottles of wine
Mini pump
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Stay safe out there, everyone:
Lights
Helmet
Bright clothing
Several bottles of wine
Mini pump
Lights
Helmet
Bright clothing
Several bottles of wine
Mini pump
Struggling with new German keyboard today. Please excuse typos involving letter 'z' or quotation marks. Turns out a keyboard optimized for Deutsch makes English writing v. difficult.
October 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Struggling with new German keyboard today. Please excuse typos involving letter 'z' or quotation marks. Turns out a keyboard optimized for Deutsch makes English writing v. difficult.
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In Lübeck gehen Reformationstag und Halloween-Grusel zusammen
In Lübeck gehen Reformationstag und Halloween-Grusel zusammen
Neben dem Gottesdienst wird es auch eine Grusel-Tour durch den Dom zu Lübeck geben. "Wir haben Lust auf verschiedene Formate", sagte Pastorin Margrit Wegner auf NDR Info. [mehr]
www.ndr.de
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
In Lübeck gehen Reformationstag und Halloween-Grusel zusammen
OK, TL/DR my previous rant: Be very wary of writers urging other writers to go "all in" on a single platform. Usually there is a hidden motive. There's a reason that most of the smaller, independent writers I know are publishing across multiple platforms with multiple, different revenue streams.
Capital Will Crush Substack
One of the biggest problems with trying to build a career in something creative in a capitalist world is that the tools and platforms you need to use to achieve your goals are all adversarial to those...
plato-was-a-dick.ghost.io
October 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
OK, TL/DR my previous rant: Be very wary of writers urging other writers to go "all in" on a single platform. Usually there is a hidden motive. There's a reason that most of the smaller, independent writers I know are publishing across multiple platforms with multiple, different revenue streams.
Disclosure: I have a blog on Substack that I moved from Wordpress. (And they didn't even need to pay me! What kind of a dunce am I?) I was lured by the brand visibility and promises that I would always own my subscriber lists and content.
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Disclosure: I have a blog on Substack that I moved from Wordpress. (And they didn't even need to pay me! What kind of a dunce am I?) I was lured by the brand visibility and promises that I would always own my subscriber lists and content.
I find it interesting that he is complaining about Patreon luring people away when Substack also offered writers with large independent followings incentives to move to Substack..
substack.com/@blgtylr/not...
substack.com/@blgtylr/not...
Brandon (@blgtylr)
Okay, Hamish, but the people on Substack Notes are the most annoying people to log on to the internet in the history of mankind. That is simply not the user experience on Instagram.
substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I find it interesting that he is complaining about Patreon luring people away when Substack also offered writers with large independent followings incentives to move to Substack..
substack.com/@blgtylr/not...
substack.com/@blgtylr/not...
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“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
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Lest you doubt a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, consider Keisha Mayuga: a young woman who improvised a kilometre-long pop-up cycle lane in Manila, sparking 500 kilometres of permanent infrastructure throughout the Philippines. theurbanactivist.com/mobility/com...
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Lest you doubt a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, consider Keisha Mayuga: a young woman who improvised a kilometre-long pop-up cycle lane in Manila, sparking 500 kilometres of permanent infrastructure throughout the Philippines. theurbanactivist.com/mobility/com...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – Europe live
Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – Europe live
Exit poll suggests Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV could finish second, but election is deemed ‘too close to call’
The Anne Frank House is not the only unusual place where voters can cast their votes today.
The Dutch Vogue has a list of 11 special locations, including a children’s zoo in Amsterdam, the marine museum in Rotterdam, the miniature park in The Hague. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – Europe live