Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lynn Nothegger

@lynnnothegger.bsky.social

2.1K followers 2.1K following 9.3K posts

Eingebürgerte Scottish lass in Germany. Writing. Translating. Riesling. Not all at the same time.

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · Nov 15

If I have one tip for people coming to Scotland, it’s this - slow down. Take the back roads. Don’t rush from the airport or the ferry to get up north.

There’s so much to see on the way. Here’s Forres, Dundee, Fife, and Angus.

A row of colourful beach huts face the sea. Two women are walking past, on the stony path near the beach. In the background you can see the hills of the Black Isle.

Dundee railway bridge is silhouetted in the rising sun. The sky glows orange and gold, reflected in the River Tay.

A row of cottages in a fishing village in Fife in the glow of the setting sun. They have red roofs and whitewashed walls - some of them are in the typical red stone that’s commonly seen in this area.

A small country road lined with autumnal trees and shrubs.

11 19 170

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 1d

My neighbor Judy hits it out of the park again with her Halloween yard skeletons, this year the busted “Coldplay Couple”.

12 170 1.1K

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 22h

Stoke Newington sometimes out parodies itself

2 9 31

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 1h

Pavlova for breakfast sounds lush.

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 1h

When I was in Kenya, I was delighted to find that the slang for shilling was ‘bob’, which is what we say in Scotland.

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve always taken on accents easily. My theory is that it helped me learn German.

1 1

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 1h

Was great. Their first cake.

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 1h

Käsekuchen is basically Käsebrot in a slightly different form, right? Making it a legit breakfast food.

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

My men made cake.

3 1 13

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 1h

More of this kind of thing, please.

Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 7d

Coping with the fact that tomorrow is Monday by convincing local strangers to send me pictures of their pets throughout the week.

Chalk art on a sidewalk of a multcolored burst of angular lines, under which "GOOD DOG" is written in fluorescent yellow, pink, and black with an arrow pointing up to the line burst, encouraging people to put their dogs in the middle and take a photo because sharing pet pictures makes the world a better place. At the bottom of the sidewalk it says "SHOW US YOUR DOGS!" with the handle of the art instagram @rocks_on_the_block

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

5 72 160

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

Ha. I should try that one. There’s a 25% Impertinence Tax.

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

Damn. Just missed it.

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

170 740 4K

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

47 1K 3.7K

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

“The one I just quoted you”, is my answer to this.

1 1

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

5 640 570

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

Haha. I need to know the story behind the filter coffee.

And the bye bye bye bye is so Irish. My husband’s colleague used to do that.

1 1

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

This is amazing. Any more nominations for the best, most German Verein.

AndreasP_RV @andreasp-rv.bsky.social · 18h

not really.. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verein_...

Verein gegen betrügerisches Einschenken – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

1 5

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

And I have also adapted my English because Germans wouldn’t always understand my Scottish accent (it’s not that strong anyway, but I do avoid certain slang phrases).

1 4

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

I didn’t realise there were different dialects of Indian English or Malaysian English. Now that you mention it, it’s obvious, but I’ve never thought about it. And fairly logical that people would adapt to the local version when they move.

2 4

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t mind the Würzburg dialect. Some of people from villages nearby have really strong accents though!

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

Or maybe they have an elderly relative who uses it!

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 14h

My men made cake.

5 30

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 20h

My heartfelt condolences. And thanks for sharing this beautiful and moving poem.

Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social · 20h

As someone who has always taken on the accent of the place where I live - this is incredibly unsurprising. I mean, it’s totally normal, no?

My husband sounds Franconian when chatting to friends here, Bayerisch when on the phone to his cousins, and used Hochdeutsch with colleagues.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

In a rare study, two audiologists found that Taylor Swift's accent has, indeed, changed over the years, reflecting where she's lived, where she wants to go and who she's inspired by.

How Taylor Swift's accent and dialect have changed throughout her eras

In a rare study, two audiologists found that Taylor Swift's accent has, indeed, changed over the years, reflecting where she's lived, where she wants to go and who she's inspired by.

n.pr

7 2 22

Reposted by Lynn Nothegger

Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 22h

Please name who did this. If it’s you, give yourself 10 cool points.

5 44 150