'Eins, zwei, drei': Never thought we'd see a UK Eurovision Song Contest entry that consists of someone yearning to count in German and preferring the Euro as a currency to the British pound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XR2...
I love this! Especially because I'm about to work on the first sentences of a new translation.
"I think that it needs to be known that the youth cares about this," said Maya,who walked out of her AP U.S. History class. "We don't think that any of this is okay, and we do not give our consent to have this kind of government.:
Sometimes walking out of your history class is the best way to demonstrate that you learned something in your history class.
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The latest version of Firefox allows you to block all AI "assistants" etc with one button. OK, so they're turned on by default, but the "what's new" screen after the update made it really clear how to turn them off... 🥳
Meanwhile, here's more on what sounds like a fabulous collection of (political) festival films: www.npr.org/2026/02/20/n... www.rogerebert.com/festivals/be...
“In Berlin, world events are for ever on the cinema doorstep and keep on spilling inside.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Millward was handing out a text that had hung under the president's portrait one week earlier.
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Doing a thing with Mack the Knife and came across this....
Oh to have gone to see Frank McGuinness' The Thrupenny Opera back in '91.
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Jetzt kann ich darauf hinweisen: Gerade das Nachwort zu meinem neuen Buch über die Zeit in den USA rund um die fatale Wiederwahl Trumps beendet. Was bedeutet das für die Demokratie dort und bei uns? Es erscheint am 27. Mai bei Siedler @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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As it is en vogue to describe Germany’s political landscape as resembling “Weimar conditions,” its worth taking a closer look at the era’s high levels of political fragility. In just 14 years of existence, the Weimar Republic saw 20 different governments. On average, a cabinet lasted only 244 days.
German poster for the 1964 Disney film adaptation of Erich Kästner's 'Emil und die Detektive'. Kästner was born on 23 February 1899. (2/2)
Wow.
"Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently." I remember reading this essay by Lynn Hunt when it was first published in 2010, and it's even more timely today. www.historians.org/perspectives...
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
In memoriam: Hessy Levinsons Taft (1934–2026). She was celebrated as “the ideal Aryan baby” on the cover of Sonne ins Haus, “a distinction complicated by the fact that she was Jewish.” She later moved to the US and became an accomplished chemist. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Abigail Spanberger will make history when she becomes Virginia’s first woman governor today. The inauguration ceremony begins at 12:00 p.m. and Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi and Attorney General-elect Jay Jones will also be sworn in. Follow our special coverage: virginiamercury.com/2026/01/17/s...
“[I]n a sense, a translator is always like a fan. You’re always in this position of admiration, but you are also emulating the author.”
Sarah Gear interviews translator Jen Calleja on the art, politics, and livelihood of literary translation. At Asymptote: buff.ly/3WmFKtX
Emilie Flöge (1874-1952) was an innovative Art Nouveau Austrian fashion designer who aimed to reform dress designs for women. Though (typically) not noted widely by history, she influenced the work of her companion, the artist Klimt and featured in his work #WomensArt
Madame, your Trabant 601 DeLuxe awaits...
ICE and Border Patrol have maybe 50k active officers combined. The Nazi SS had about 250k in 1939.
The fact that I’m making serious comparisons to Nazi Germany highlights how bad things have gotten. And it also shows how much worse they could be. It’s important to keep both of those in mind at once.
Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Every bit of this 🧵.
Recently saw a high-end lingerie store's products described as "laundry" because that's what the machine spat out for "Wäsche."
Even one lost sale is more than it would have cost for a human to have done it right.
Also you can see some of the photographs she took in Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas, between 1898 and 1900 (!) www.vogue.com/article/gabr...
The missing painting is Musik, by Gabriele Münter. But even if you don't have it, go see her other work at the Guggenheim. Her paintings are beautiful!
Actually, it's exactly the duty of an artist. To take a stand through their art.
“In Germany, ‘How are you?’ is anything but simple..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Marlene Dietrich and Billy wilder in conversation on a film set.
Marlene Dietrich and Billy Wilder, with John Lund in the background.
Marlene Dietrich (BOTD 1931) on the set of A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948) with director Billy Wilder.
Black and white still of four people emerging from the sparse remains of a bombed out building.
A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
The Best of Neon 2025:
Gone fishing.
