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Ruth Weissmann

@ruthbetold.bsky.social
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features editor in search of rant stabilization @heistberlin

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Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As 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:
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SCENE: Mathilde Montpetit, in search of a Nobel pick, goes to Laidak
Anarchists, Ladbrokes, showtunes, and a little bit of literature
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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
people 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.
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ask me about my football team (if you dare)
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Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For @heistberlin.bsky.social and @ruthbetold.bsky.social, I wrote about the Union women's team and its growing fan culture, which fuses new inclusivities with older ideals and rituals >> www.heistberlin.com/new-gods-in-...
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New Gods in Köpenick: The Rise of FC Union's Women's Team
The 1. FC Union women’s team is pulling big crowds. Can the fans create a culture with staying power?
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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I keep meeting amazing people from @heistberlin.bsky.social — a newish worker-owned English-language local journalism platform in Berlin. And I really like their news and the whole project’s tone and language. So I signed up to become an accomplice (aka subscriber) and help steal the media back.
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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
City Chicken vs City Chicken: Berlin's brutal and bloody rotisserie feud that's spawned lawsuits, criminal investigations and landed one chicken tycoon in prison for torture... www.heistberlin.com/news/nhas-ci...
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City Chicken vs City Chicken: Berlin's Bloody Rotisserie Feud
14 lawsuits and one man in jail for torture: the story behind Sonnenallee's rival rotisserie chicken shops is crazier than you could have imagined.
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
For @heistberlin.bsky.social––an essential new worker-owned newsroom reporting on this city for the millions of people who make it their home and have a first language other than German––I wrote an essay about the AfD's attempt to swing both ways. www.heistberlin.com/lgbt-queer-r...
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The AfD, Alice Weidel, and the Politics of Homonationalism
The use and abuse of queer identity by the German far-right.
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
@oliviabensimon.bsky.social hot on turd beat arguing that winter isn't an excuse to be a shitty neighbor
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
normal text from journalist gf to journalist bf
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bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Sleuth @ruthbetold.bsky.social was hot on the potato trail around Berlin in search of free spuds amid the great glut. Really delightful dispatch in the FT magazine. www.ft.com/content/1554...
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‘Das glut’: why Germans are handing out free potatoes
Tracking the ambitious plan to distribute 4 million kg of surplus spuds
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
do they still show the kids Bill Nye?
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
if i’m back in nyc for five days and don’t see zohran mamdani on the street do i get my money back
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🙏 emoji popularity is an atheism recession indicator
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
were you sold a fitted tee between the years 1992 and 2009? join our class action lawsuit thanks to editor extraordinaire @biettetimmons.bsky.social for wrangling my screed about our generational recovery from cursed tee culture www.jezebel.com/raging-again...
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Raging Against the Fitted Tee
The girls of the mid-2020s have no idea how good they really have it. They idolize Y2K fashion without respect for their elders, who lived through the "fitted tee" blight.
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Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"The girls of the mid-2020s have no idea how good they really have it. ... They idolize Y2K fashion without respect for their elders." incredible rant from my girl @ruthbetold.bsky.social: www.jezebel.com/raging-again...
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Raging Against the Fitted Tee
The girls of the mid-2020s have no idea how good they really have it. They idolize Y2K fashion without respect for their elders, who lived through the "fitted tee" blight.
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LT @laurentousignant.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This perfect rant encapsulates everything I've ever thought about the fitted women's tee, but was always too blinded by rage to coherently put into words @ruthbetold.bsky.social www.jezebel.com/raging-again...
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Raging Against the Fitted Tee
The girls of the mid-2020s have no idea how good they really have it. They idolize Y2K fashion without respect for their elders, who lived through the "fitted tee" blight.
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
yeah, i’m making a career pivot from factory work to pigeon photography, what of it?
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Ruth Weissmann @ruthbetold.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
bf just turned to me after a long silence during pre-bed phone time and said “the napoleonic wars were WAY crazier than i thought”
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Newswomen's Club of NY @newswomensclubofny.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In the Local Reporting category, @oliviabensimon.bsky.social won for her piece in @nytimes.com, “Their Asylum Case Seems Strong, But Instead of Hope They Feel Despair.” Tara Rosenblum, Jean Salzarulo, Audrey Gruber and Lee Danuff from @news12li.bsky.social won for “TURN TO TARA: When Home Hurts.”
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