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
Gen Z will be alright. Great article from @brennanbrown.bsky.social
Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work.
This will give you the most amount of hope you’ve had in a long while.
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Gen Z will be alright. Great article from @brennanbrown.bsky.social
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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Battery-electric cars accounted for 16.4% of new registrations in EU in first ten months of 2025
Combined market share of petrol and diesel cars fell to 36.6%, down from 46.3% in 2024
www.acea.auto/pc-registrat...
Combined market share of petrol and diesel cars fell to 36.6%, down from 46.3% in 2024
www.acea.auto/pc-registrat...
New car registrations: +1.4% in October 2025 year-to-date; battery-electric 16.4% market share
By October 2025 year-to-date (YTD), new EU car registrations increased by 1.4% compared to the same period last year, marking the fourth consecutive month of growth.
www.acea.auto
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Battery-electric cars accounted for 16.4% of new registrations in EU in first ten months of 2025
Combined market share of petrol and diesel cars fell to 36.6%, down from 46.3% in 2024
www.acea.auto/pc-registrat...
Combined market share of petrol and diesel cars fell to 36.6%, down from 46.3% in 2024
www.acea.auto/pc-registrat...
"Listeners who wrote in to us said they were shocked to hear the leader of a platform with 151.5 million monthly users, most of them minors, express frustration and annoyance at being asked about the company's history of failures related to child safety."
Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?
www.platformer.news
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"Listeners who wrote in to us said they were shocked to hear the leader of a platform with 151.5 million monthly users, most of them minors, express frustration and annoyance at being asked about the company's history of failures related to child safety."
"More than half of all jobs in Germany are covered by collective bargaining agreements, despite only about 16 percent of workers directly belonging to a union."
Not Working for The Man
Labor strikes are a regular fact of life across Europe - why not the U.S.?
www.cathiharris.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"More than half of all jobs in Germany are covered by collective bargaining agreements, despite only about 16 percent of workers directly belonging to a union."
Is this new or have I just never bothered to look up? Corner of Finowstraße and Oderstraße in Friedrichshain
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Is this new or have I just never bothered to look up? Corner of Finowstraße and Oderstraße in Friedrichshain
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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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.