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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 3d

As an American I was only glancingly familiar with Jilly Cooper’s oeuvre but this is such a cracking take on her importance to the culture (last segment)
economist.com/podcasts/202...
from The Economist

Liberté, égalité, désordre: chaos in France

Also on the daily podcast: San Francisco’s driverless taxis and celebrating Jilly Cooper

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in Berlin wildlife…

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently yes, occasionally, according to a well-sourced Wikipedia entry: "Other miscellaneous rodents reported sporadically in the diet include dormice, Old World mice and rats, zokors, gophers and jirds." This has my full support. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia...

Eurasian goshawk - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 6d

Guardian live von Viktoriapark!

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 6d

Not nice but nature’s gonna nature I suppose. Be glad you don’t live in wild boar territory (or Berlin’s notorious kangaroo/lion hunting grounds…)

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 6d

The goshawk is thriving in bustling capitals such as Berlin, Amsterdam and Prague and the apex predator could be heading to a city near you. Uplifting one by Ajit Niranjan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 7d

Another great read from Salzburg by @kateconnolly.bsky.social

German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social · 8d

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... via @theguardian.com @kateconnolly.bsky.social

‘One rule for the rich’: the Salzburg mansion, the Porsche heir and the writer Stefan Zweig

The car magnate, who is restoring the Jewish author’s former villa, has been given permission to dig out a 500-metre road leading to a garage, causing consternation in the city

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 8d

It’s not a free choice if affordable, reliable childcare options aren’t on the table or if you’re getting branded a Rabenmutter (neglectful) by those closest to you (including yourself)

Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 9d

Women in East Germany had higher rates of labor force participation than in the West, leading to both an infrastructure of childcare and a mindset about working while parenting that have persisted. Western mothers are also more likely to go part time which has a lifetime impact on earnings

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 9d

The difference in pay between men and women is 'only' 5% in the east (in green), compared to 17% in the west (and Berlin)

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 9d

Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 10d

Bellingcat volunteers using AI joined forces with a German historian to solve an enduring mystery of the Holocaust - who was the Nazi killer from the picture once known as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa, a chilling image kept as a 'trophy' from the massacres in Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 12d

Night train services linking Paris, Berlin and Vienna are to end from mid-December because of the French government’s withdrawal of funding, the Austrian national rail operator has said, in a blow to sleeper travel on important European routes www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 13d

‘Pasta grannies’ selling fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares. Lovely one by Angela Giuffrida www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Barricades in Bari: why the city’s ‘pasta grannies’ are under scrutiny

Sellers of fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares

www.theguardian.com

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 15d

Der Herbst kann kommen

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe for organizing the timely, packed Freya von Moltke doc screening in Berlin tonight - a love story that has only grown in its impact & poetic power. Not a dry eye…

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 21d

Ach, Berlin Marathon day ❤️

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · 26d

3 pretty punctual trains, a Flixbus & a leisurely ferry to reach the magical Rilke path along the Adriatic coast outside Trieste 🇮🇹🇪🇺🥾 #derwegistdasziel

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · Sep 5

Edgar Feuchtwanger, probably the last person alive to have personally encountered Hitler, is dead at 100. I spoke to him in 2014 about his illustrious Jewish family & the “blissfully without charisma” Angela Merkel sg.news.yahoo.com/hitlers-jewi...