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Carlotta Rainoldi 🦋
@lottarain.bsky.social
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Fremdsprachenlehrerin, Autorin, Sprachnerd, politisch, Europäerin.
Language teacher, Author, language nerd, interested in politics and European.
🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇹🌻💚Deutsch - English - Español - Italiano - Slovenščina
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Carlotta Rainoldi 🦋 @lottarain.bsky.social · Nov 11
Welcome! Willkommen! Benvenute/i! Dobrodošli! ¡Bienvenidas y Bienvenidos!
I am a European 🇪🇺 living in Cologne, Germany. Italian born and also German. Ich schreibe hier auf Deutsch, also in English e qualche volta in italiano. I also speak and understand Slovene and Spanish.
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brianbilston.bsky.social
This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs   Fake news travels fast. Post in haste, regret immediately. Two’s company, three’s a crowdsourcing campaign. AI for an eye, an untruth for a truth. Beware of geeks bearing gifs. Caesar’s Wi-Fi must be above suspicion. A scrolling phone gathers no moss. Share and share and like. Don’t feed the troll that bites you. Empty influencers make the most noise. Every blog has its day. Blessed are the content creators. There’s a time and podcast for everything. Do not judge clickbait by its cover. A WhatsApp a day keeps your mother at bay. All’s well that trends well. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach a man to phish and you pheed him for a lifetime. Every cloud has a data centre. Spam tomorrow and spam yesterday – and always spam today. The end justifies the memes. Brian Bilston
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
lottarain.bsky.social
Today with my 65+ Italian class at the Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne. We developed the test "How much do you feel German?" We had a lot of fun comparing stereotypes with the Italian ones.

E tu, quanto sei tedesco/a?

#italiano
Quanto sei tedesco/a? A1
Quiz - A series of multiple choice questions. Tap the correct answer to proceed.
wordwall.net
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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July-August 2025. Summer in Italy at my favourite seaside, the Mediterranean Sea. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast
Clear water, stones and blue sky. A beautiful evening sky over the Mediterranean Sea, some yellow, some blue, spare clouds. Different colours of the sea: white and sandy, green, light blue, dark blue. On the background the light blue sky. Big white cloud over the sea, which is dirty after a storm so you see some brown on the surface, but also green and blue.
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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June 2025. Watching a movie at the Cologne Marina. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast
A big movie screen showing an action film, in the background the Skyline of Cologne with the famous Cathedral. The sky is yellow and pale rose.
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
lottarain.bsky.social
🎄🎁🎀 Auf der Suche nach #Geschenksideen für #Weihnachten? Verschenke oder schenke Dir einen #Italienischkurs! 🇮🇹

👉Finde hier den richtigen Kurs für Dich: www.freunde.iiccolonia.de

#italienischlernen #iiccolonia #AmiciIICColonia #italienisch

L'italiano è sempre una buona idea!
Freunde des Italienischen Kulturinstitutes Köln e.V.
Italienische Sprachkurse Freunde des Italienischen Kulturinstitut Köln
www.freunde.iiccolonia.de
December 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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lamyakaddor.bsky.social
Alle Jahre wieder: Nein Muslime wollen keine Weihnachtsmärkte abschaffen, nein das ist kein Kulturkampf. KI-generierte Videos und Fake-News zu Weihnachtsmärkten sind Teil einer rechten Agenda, die gegen Muslime hetzt.
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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February 2025, Cologne Carnival. It is the most important Carnival in Germany and a massive European event. Millions of people come to Cologne during the "fat" days. I was Prof. Sprout at the local parade. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast
A person with the Carnival costume of Prof. Sprout from Harry Potter Saga.
December 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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February 2025. It was suddenly so cold. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast
A piece of iced surface of a bank where you can see the many water bubbles in it. A hand holds the ice and you can see its fingers.
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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1.1.2025 at the Mediterranean Sea in Italy. #WeekYforYearpast #AlphabetChallenge
A ray of sun light shines through grey clouds and on the sea.
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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German X-Mas biscuits. You can eat them only if you pronounce its name properly. All together: Weihnachtsplätzchen! One of many impossible words in German. 😉 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas #German
Some Christmas biscuits with different designs, star, snow man, Santa's boot, heart. They are decorated with black chocolate and sugar glitter or mini marshmallows. Different colours as well: pink, white, red, green, blue.
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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X-Mas Stars and its reflections on a window. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
A Christmas decoration. It's a white star made of a net of knitting wool, led light and glitters. It is on the floor of a house, its lighting is reflected on the window behind.
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Black and White X-Mas tree. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
A black and white photo of a small Christmas decoration tree on some leaves.
December 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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lottarain.bsky.social
Die Rente ist der unsichtbare Elephant im Raum der europäischen Politik. Es ist und bleibt eine enorme Herausforderung für die nächsten Generationen. Ich bin pessimistisch. #Rente #Ungerechtigkeit #Gerechtigkeit
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Sehr geehrte demokratische Abgeordnete des Deutschen Bundestags,

der einzige Grund, warum die Plattform X in Deutschland noch Relevanz hat, ist Ihre Anwesenheit dort. Ohne Amts- und Mandatsträger wird die Plattform auch für Journalisten irrelevant und mit ihnen für die gesamte politische Blase.
Tweet Elon Musk "The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that fovernments can better represent their people" Antwort Dmitry Medveded: "Exactly"
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hidden X-Mas star by the Cologner artist Barbara Otto. Barbara used old advertising posters to make these decorations. The posters, glued on top of each other in many layers, form "slabs" up to 10 cm thick, which are removed and disposed of after about 10-15 years. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
A Christmas star hanging on some green leaves of an indoor plant. The stars shows different forms and colours such as red and grey. It is made of recycled cardboard of old advertising posters.
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
lottarain.bsky.social
Die Rente ist der unsichtbare Elephant im Raum der europäischen Politik. Es ist und bleibt eine enorme Herausforderung für die nächsten Generationen. Ich bin pessimistisch. #Rente #Ungerechtigkeit #Gerechtigkeit
December 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🟢 We asked @janalbrecht.bsky.social what does it mean for the Greens to be ‘loud’ in a Europe where autocrats & climate backlash are getting ever louder too, and what’s the one message the 🇪🇺 Green family should take from the @europeangreens.eu Congress as we head into a tougher political decade 🌻
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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politicaperjedi.bsky.social
A Musk, Trump e Putin andava benissimo l’Unione Europea che legiferava sulla dimensione delle vongole. Adesso che comincia ad alzare la voce contro i fascismi dell’Est e dell’Ovest si incazzano. Come farebbe qualsiasi fascista, del resto.
December 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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X-Mas decorations in Germany include the "Adventskranz", where four candles symbolise the four Sundays of Advent. Yesterday was the second one. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
A German Adventskranz, it is a round decoration with fir branches, golden stars and a golden chain. It has four red candles in the middle and two of them are burning, the symbols of the second week of Advent.
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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German X-Mas biscuits. Weihnachtsplätzchen. #baking
On the table are two plates of cookies. They have different Christmas designs such as stars and trees. On the other plate, the cookies are already decorated with chocolate and sugar sprinkles.
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Pumpkin cream soup. Kürbiscremesuppe. #cooking
A white cup on a brown table. The cup is filled with orange pumpkin cream soup.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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christianstoecker.de
Protipp: „Hocheffiziente Verbrenner“ gibt es ebensowenig wie fliegende Elefanten oder singende Sonnenblumen. Ein Verbrennungsmotor verschwendet prinzipiell ca. 4/5 der eingesetzten Energie. Deshalb kann man im Motorraum während der Fahrt essen garen. Dieses Buch ist echt.
Kochbuch „Manifold Destiny“ Guide to cooking on your car engine.
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Windows at the German Parliament. Bundestag. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows
The main gate of the German Parliament, Bundestag, leads to this facade made of many windows where you can see behind the German eagle (Bundesadler) a symbol of the Federal Republic of Germany. This is the main room of the Parliament, where all ministries and deputies discuss and vote for or against laws.
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Yes, it's Christmas time again! In Germany it is a tradition to have four candles for the four weeks of Advent. Happy 1. Advent! Einen schönen 1. Advent! #christmas #xmas #weihnachten #natale #navidad
A German Adventskranz has 4 candles representing the four Sundays of Advent, the four weeks before Christmas. These four candles are red and they are surrounded by typical Christmas decorations such as stars, golden balls and chains and green cypress leaves.
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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miriamvollmer.bsky.social
Weil sehr viele Wähler mit Jobs rund um den Verbrenner mehr verdient haben, als ihre Qualifikationsstufe in anderen Industrien erlaubt, und sie haben sich hochgradig mit diesen Jobs identifiziert, mehr als in anderen Jobs. Ich verstehe den Abschiedsschmerz, aber ich halte ihn für alternativlos
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM