Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026me to my table of 10 Germans in the main tent at Oktoberfest while the brass brand plays “Country Roads”: actually it’s about western Virginia not West Virginia 150
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026left the house before 8am to catch a train and early october berlin was so beautiful & empty ... maybe early risers are on to something. 040
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026there's so much happening in the world but im just waiting on tenterhooks to know what's gonna happen to Man City 040
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Cornell 7 case is deservedly getting a LOT of attention, but holy crap, it is so upsetting. I'm glad I am not numb when hearing about this level of sexual violence, but man oh man am I down today. 160
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134513774
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026hilarious placement of Evan’s book for true Bowdoin lore heads 110
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Daily Mail, never subtle with its moral panic headlines 020
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Breaks All-Time Discourse Record With 72 Hours of BlueSky Posters Not Shutting the Fuck Up About It 030
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I had an incredible weekend—two weddings in two different cities, cheering my face off at the Berlin marathon, a meeting of bad faith book club—and now I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. 050
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsTom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that some elements of the German discourse around Die Linke in Berlin are...completely demented? 2133
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If my beautiful boy has been taken out of play for multiple games by the DUTCH, I am going to lose it 000
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026UEFA ref has had a very light touch with carding this evening until now but like half these players would have yellows if it was a league game 000
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026really juggling my two part time jobs tonight: posting about football (positive) and posting about global affairs (negative) 010
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103564411
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Dutch need to leave my beautiful boy Havertz alone 010
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this so wrong for so many reasons but is he trying to doing standup about mass murder at the UN?? 030
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"we're going to discover new" skills — dear god. shut off the AI & lock these people in an elementary school until they've relearned basic reasoning 000
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is why an absolute Brandmauer against the AfD or isolating the Linke are not workable long term strategies. It is more viable and sensible for CDU/CSU, Greens and SPD to set tough conditions any party that wants cooperation must fulfil. If they do great! If not, tough luck. 94510
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I love Emily St. John Mandel! I did not love Exit Party. PLUS: a new feature, in my latest Substack: thegoodreview.substack.com/p/on-emily-s...thegoodreview.substack.comOn Emily St. John Mandel’s shtickI loved Station Eleven. I’m not sure about Exit Party. 120
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026holy shit I had forgotten about this….. 210
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026my incredible grandpa (Pépère) died two weeks ago and, as the journalist in the family, I wrote his obit. To know him was truly to love him & even if you didn't know him, if you've been in Brunswick, Maine, you've benefited from his work on the land trust. www.stetsonsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/r...stetsonsfuneralhome.comRobert Biette Obituary Sep 7, 2026 - Stetson’s Funeral HomeView Robert Biette's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook. 150
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i will not read bret stephens on the national book award long list i will not read bret stephens on the national book award long list i will not read bret stephens on the national book award long list i will not read bret stephens on the national book award long list i will not read bret stephens on 050
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026you're telling me that not only is Susan Collins a liar & a coward, she's also (allegedly) corrupt (or at least her PAC is)?? banger of a story from @mtredden.bsky.social and co. (my wording above does not reflect the careful nuances clear in this investigation): www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 030
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026obviously the success of Die Linke in Berlin and the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt are big stories but the natural follow-up to both of those is the utter collapse of the CDU everywhere (and the SPD in certain states) — while there is a CDU chancellor, who appears to be taking zero accountability ! 110
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsMathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As anyone who knows me is tired of hearing, I am very good at guessing who will win the Nobel prize. This year, though, I needed a bit of inspiration, and I wrote about it for The Auflauf's new SCENE series:theauflauf.comSCENE: Mathilde Montpetit, in search of a Nobel pick, goes to LaidakAnarchists, Ladbrokes, showtunes, and a little bit of literature 1209
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Friedrich Merz ... took to the stage on Tuesday to grandly announce that as a result of this election, 'Jewish life is no longer safe in Berlin.' If that were true, it would give more than enough cause for him to step down after what has been a dismal tenure, but it’s not, so he won’t." 031
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026didn't understand the vague allusions to "controversy" over the Nikole Hannah-Jones essay and then popped over to Twitter for a bit and was reminded that no one can write a nuanced piece discussing entrenched problems without everyone over there reading it in the worst faith possible. 390
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026german elections have voter data ready for you to examine within hours of polls closing, it's so lovely, i've just been playing around with maps and bar graphs all morning www.rbb24.de/politik/berl...rbb24.de+++ Linke klare Wahlsiegerin in Berlin +++ FDP, Volt und Tierschutzpartei in drei Bezirksparlamente gewählt +++Berlin hat ein neues Abgeordnetenhaus und die BVV gewählt: Im rbb|24-Liveticker begleiten wir Sie durch den Tag nach der Wahl. 100
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026trying to buy the best mascara possible because i buy one about once every 18 months and the level of makeup some people wear is bananas. one review is like "i reach for this on days when i can't be bothered to curl my eyelashes." who is curling their eyelashes nearly every day!! 100
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The CDU/CSU has never been absent from a federal or state parliament in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949. This is a massive blow to the party that see itself as the natural governing party of post war Germany. 412631
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026what this says to me is: Young adults in their 20s and 30s want to be able to build an affordable, sustainable life in Berlin, and Die Linke is the party that seems most interested in facilitating that. 060
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Die Linke with a full quarter of the vote 👀 150
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457541515
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026one of the very few things the U.S. does better than Germany when it comes to voting: stickers!!! i wanna see evidence that people have done their civic duty! 051
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026does anyone know if Arsenal got any sleep last night 010
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026why’s the Brighton side all look like teens from a posh boarding school out for a day of golf? 000
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I know it’s boring to complain about but sometimes being a freelancer is absolutely humiliating. I’m not sure how many more emails asking someone if I can do work for them I have left in me!!!! 120
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026do you think we'd be more likely to save the Amazon if a man hadn't stolen that name and made it synonymous with labor exploitation and other capitalistic excesses? 031
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I love being like, I really want to listen to vampire weekend and then opening up Spotify and seeing that vampire weekend was the last thing I was listening to 😌 010
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026why am i so surprised that lena dunham had a baby via surrogate that i'm actually texting friends to break the news, why is my brain like this 010
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i'm sort of obsessed with the new Tom Cruise (non-)interview but mostly because it reminds me of this incredible Caity Weaver joint: www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/m...nytimes.comMy Impossible Mission to Find Tom Cruise (Published 2023)The action star has gone to great lengths to avoid the press for more than a decade. But maybe our writer could track him down anyway? 020
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026people on this website often complain (correctly) about the death of journalism. here's an easy way to help its rebirth: by supporting independent media in Berlin. 074
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026find myself itching for the insurance angle now that Ed Sheeran’s tour is up in flames. is “personnel exodus due to censorship of widely popular sentiments” covered? 120
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"i'm not complicit i'll just allow billionaires to dictate the speech that is acceptable in my very public workplace" 060
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026i don't like this argument. it's actually ok to be upset about things designed to upset you. obviously this ad is designed to go viral & make people aware of a betting app they'd never heard of—but it's alright to hate the way Sweeney is personally benefiting from that (while harming other women) 150
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026this is a bit random but one thing i'm dying to do these days is copy edit a book. i've got years of newsroom copy editing under my belt, plus a good bit of nonprofit/think tank work, and i know my way around an ARC. if you or someone you know are looking for a manuscript copy editor, get at me! 351
Reposted by Nora Biette-TimmonsDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So relieved to be handed a concrete reason to hate that Ed Sheeran guy. Backfilling my hatred of the Ed Sheeran 722518
