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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Should I buy golden cowboy boots suitable for old-lady feet? I am reserving judgement until the morning; they’re very expensive. Apparently stylish people with old-lady feet have a lot of money.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Actually, I decided to fight AI and corporate greed by staying in and reading a book.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fighting AI and corporate greed tonight by going to a northern soul do.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah I see. Well, maybe a theoretical rich institution was considering inviting several different writers to the UK for an event, and wanted a sample of their work. Not all of our translations are for direct publication.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But take the writers’ names out, they’re little more than stand-ins anyway.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mangold nutzt den „gesunden Marsianerverstand“ hier als rhetorischen Klammer, um linke Verlage zu denunzieren, bringt gleichzeitig Werbung für rechtes Plattform in der Zeit unter. www.zeit.de/feuilleton/l...

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Frankfurter Buchmesse: Mit Pathos gegen den Spott

Zur Verleihung des Deutschen Verlagspreises: Was muss ein Verlag anstellen, um nicht ausgezeichnet zu werden? Und was kann Wolfram Weimer sagen, um Applaus zu bekommen?

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Driver has to go down the other end of the train at Leipzig—he looks annoyed too.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Themes are ranging widely but mainly concern their own behaviour and clubbing.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Verbal diarrhoea guy ate a fucking boiled egg. I feel very petty but I can’t bring myself to ask them to stop their unceasing conversation.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh no, they think Berlin is a microcosm of Germany. I only wish it was.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Front seat in the train in an 8-seater again, unfortunately facing backwards and NOT a quiet carriage, so us four quiet travellers are exposed to a conversation about the nature of Berlin between some south Germans.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tagtraumhaft-klebrig, provinziell, erfolgsbesoffen, opportunistisch…

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You probably don’t need to know the names of all the many people he disses; the adjectives are fun though:

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is hilarious. ONLY DEAD DUDES ARE GOOD WRITERS!!1! EVERYONE YOUNGER THAN ME IS BAD! CRITICS ARE IDIOTS!

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My top book-fair moment today: the tech guy who walked up to the sign with the missing Umlaut (Ubersetzer) and added a tiny sticker of a lower-case e over the top of the U.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, they published my short story at 3:AM magazine, almost a month ago. I was very busy and didn’t notice, but please read it now: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/quelque-...

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually the meeting would have been at the Hof, a ridiculously fancy hotel with carpets so thick your calves have to work harder to walk, so I’m not that bothered really.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And in a tiny eight-seater quiet car. With no one next to me.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For part of my journey to Frankfurt I was sat at the very front of the train, seat 11, and I could watch the driver through the glass in front of me. Almost makes up for my first meeting being cancelled.

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René Aguigah @aguigah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

„… dass es keine Minderheit in Dtld gibt, die keinen Grund zur Sorge hat“ — Shida Bazyar, als sie den Dt Buchpreis

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

About the dubious protection offered by recognition (WWI medals didn’t stop Jews being gassed) and about friendship and support between writers. Her publisher, she said, offered her a “literary Heimat” and that was the only time the word has made sense to her.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m thrilled for the fantastic writer Shida Bazyar on winning the German Book Prize tonight. Very exciting for @dances-with-voles.bsky.social too, her English translator. Her acceptance speech was amazing, about antisemitism and racism and how every minority in the country is scared right now…

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And, whoops, you’re writing German!

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saturday is a bank holiday in Berlin so I guess stock up on food on Friday and then come and see us all reading at the Grüner Salon. That’s my plan anyway. I’ll read a world exclusive from my unedited translation of Clemens Meyer’s The Projectionists, at 3:30.

Fitzcarraldo x DAAD, it says, and then it tells you we’ll be in the Grüner Salon from 3 to 10 on Saturday. We being Ed Atkins, Chris Shields, Kirsty Bell, me, Vincenzo Latronico, Vanessa Onweumezi, Maria Stepanova and Saskia Vogel. There’s also readings from Alexievich, Melchor, Tokarczuk, Gombriwicz and others, done by Hanne Lippard and Tanasgol Sabbagh.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Noisy Rooms springs to mind. They’re actually music rehearsal rooms but they have lots of small spaces and one big one and used to host a podcast festival: noisy-rooms.com/en

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Rent a rehearsal room in Berlin – noisy Rooms | noisy-rooms.com

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are online questionnaires more convenient for the recipients? Because they’re incredibly inconvenient for me.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Are you horrified by the German press’s attempts to get the corrupt CDU back into Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus by flinging accusations at die Linke? I recommend becoming an accomplice to @heistberlin.bsky.social — principled news from Berlin in English plus a very good podcast. Support them for €9 a month

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost-of-living issues that drove Die Linke’s victory.' jacobin.com/2026/09/die-...

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German Centrists Are Smearing Die Linke as Antisemites

Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost...

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On the super-local level, I’m glad my local council in Berlin-Mitte will probably be Linke/Green now. But concerned that Beatr*x from the #NoAfD will be on it too, along with 4 others. She’s already an MP, can’t quite get my head round what it will mean in practice. www.rbb24.de/politik/berl...

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Wahlen zur BVV Mitte

BVV-Wahl 2026 in Berlin-Mitte: Hier finden Sie nach Auszählung alle Wahlergebnisse für den Bezirk.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lovely man, great writer, 110% charisma

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Vonovia hat sehr viel zu verlieren bei dieser Wahl.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fühle nur ich mich unwohl damit, dass diese Veranstaltungsreihe direkt vor der Berlin-Wahl von Vonovia gesponsert wird? penberlin.de/mitwirkende-...

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

19.00 FILM: BROGUE ONE
Shoe-focussed Star Wars prequel.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My grandparents divorced in the 1950s, I think, but I remember my nanna complaining about my grandad going down to London on antifascist marches too often. Maybe there isn’t a too often.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/09/2026

#OtD 9 Sep 1934 over 100k Londoners flooded Hyde Park to protest a rally by fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Mostly was drowned out by the anti-fascist locals, who then chased the police-protected Nazis out of the park. More about the fight in the 40s: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This but constantly seeking feasible alternative English translations for liegen/legen, sitzen/setzen, stehen/stellen.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It was only the first rehearsal for me and the trombonist, but it was really exciting and fun. Mostly I kept a 6-yr-old busy and handed out snacks, but I also tested out the dancing potential (extremely high).

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Update on the ska’n’b band project: we found women on sax and trombone and I am allowed to be the manager. I am taking way too many snacks to the first rehearsal.

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The AfD’s victory was principally a mobilisation surge. The extraordinary increase in turnout - from 60.3% to around 76.5% was overwhelmingly advantageous to the AfD. People who had withdrawn from politics did not return to defend the centre; they returned to punish it

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