Fólk svarar tölvupóstum annað hvort strax eða aldrei.

“Lipurt spil hjá Fílbeiningum.” Lipurt málfar hjá íþróttafréttamanni @ruv.is 👌🏻🇨🇮⚽️

Midnight in Iceland, June 20th.

Uppáhaldsmaturinn minn? Hvítt hveiti. Hvað?

Midnight in Iceland, June 20th.

What does the whale use to write a follow up to his first novel? A sea quill.

A huge congratulations to my sixth cousin @hildur.bsky.social on her new book Dead Weight, out today! 🥳 Translated by @maryrobinettekowal.com

A common Icelandic saying is hefur marga fjöruna sopið = has sipped many beaches. It refers to someone who’s been through a lot and grown from it. The origin comes from seals: the mother must bring her young to a beach to drink, and the more beaches a baby seal has drunk at the stronger it becomes.

A common Icelandic saying is hefur marga fjöruna sopið = has sipped many beaches. It refers to someone who’s been through a lot and grown from it. The origin comes from seals: the mother must bring her young to a beach to drink, and the more beaches a baby seal has drunk at the stronger it becomes.

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

We've heard kids saying "that's AI" for something that seems fake or wrong. And now also for things that are lousy. Heard kids talking about a coffee shop saying: no let's not go there, it's too AI.

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A way to refer to pursuing someone romantically in Icelandic is að gera hosur sínar grænar, which means to make your woolly socks green for someone. You can also say að ganga með grasið í skónum, which means to walk with grass in your shoes for someone.

A huge component of imposter syndrome is overestimating how qualified everyone else is.

We have a word in Icelandic for when someone eats a lot of blueberries and their mouth turns blue. Berjablár or berry blue.

You haven’t lived until a seagull has taken a hot dog, with only one bite taken out of it so far, from your hand and flown away with it.

Finnst að það eigi að vera hægt að gera fólki leik rétt eins og óleik.

Líkurnar á því að það verði rok og rigning þegar sólmyrkvinn kemur? 50-50? Meira, minna?

As both a bookseller and a parent of two teenage boys, trust me: if you want your young men to read enormous books with obsessive zeal, buy them the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (or borrow it from the library).

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A marvelously succinct articulation @winterjessica.bsky.social “chatbots are manipulative and dangerous, that A.I.-image generators are loosening our collective grip on reality, that large language models are built atop industrial-scale intellectual-property theft.” www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Grjónagrautur með óþeyttum rjóma út á. Það var ekkert. #matarblogg

The word narwhal is apparently derived from the Icelandic náhvalur. Nár is dead human body, hvalur is whale. It’s said it’s because medieval sources describe náhvalur using their enormous tooth to eat men who had died at sea. Or, that the gray, pasty skin of náhvalur recalls that of a dead body.

I wrote a short story set in the future where exactly this has happened, the Gulf Stream has moved away from Iceland making it close to inhabitable. przekroj.org/en/world-peo...

Peak cherry blossom season in NYC

Nú þegar prófatíð fer að skella á kemur hér sögustund frá 👵🏻🦕 Hér áður fyrr voru einkunnir fyrir kúrsa (já kúrsa) settar í möppur sem geymdar voru á göngum háskólans. Til að vita hvort það einkunnir voru komnar þurfti að fara upp í skóla til að gá. Til að skoða einkunn varð að fletta upp í möppunni.

“”I just use it for research. It only gets things wrong or hallucinates crazy stuff 30 percent of the time.” I don’t need a research assistant that gets things wrong 30 percent of the time. I can do that myself. Are they trying to replace me?” @colsonwhitehead.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

It also keeps women on edge in their first jobs, knowing this is a pattern/possibility. A burden their male counterparts do not have.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social ‘s new book carries a hopeful message and is a reminder of how far we’ve come even though progress isn’t completely linear. Onward. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

One of the indignities of getting older they don't warn you about is getting a hangover without having gotten drunk.

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Daffodils are called Easter Lilies/Páskaliljur in Icelandic.

Have one with everything but the raw onion! “Eina með öllu nema hráum.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/d...

Yndislegur þráður um þessi krútt sem sækýr eru.

Yndislegur þráður um þessi krútt sem sækýr eru.

Hibiscus is called Havaí rós in Icelandic, or Hawaii rose. 🌺

PSST! You still have 5 days to enter the giveaway for Dead Weight! Nightfire is giving away 50 copies*! As ever, I would appreciate if you’d share this post and even add the book on Goodreads. Apparently Goodread adds matter a lot in some algorithmic way that is beyond me. *for U.S. residents only

“There is no way to know how many crimes have not been committed because the chance of escaping unpunished had shrunk in a society now more ready to listen to women and girls” Fantastic and encouraging essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Hér er app um öpp frá öppum til appa Hér er löpp um löpp frá löpp til lappar

Today’s moment of calm Just think, in April, which isn’t far off now, all over the islands that are off the coast of Pembrokeshire, puffins will return to have their babies in their burrows. Thousands of them coming from far & wide to grace us with their charm and beauty. Life goes on regardless

Það er enginn svona listi án Bjarkar. Aldrei.

Would YOU like to win an arc of my new book DEAD WEIGHT? If yes, click this link to enter*: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... PS I would very much appreciate it if you shared this post for me friends 🙏 *US residents only

"Where are we on this"?

When I was little I thought Daylight Savings was a bank.

Icelandair just announced it’s switching to Coke after years of Pepsi. I hope you’re ok Pepsi.

PSA from an Icelander in NYC: If you don’t have snow boots, put on some warm socks, put plastic bags on your feet over your socks and then put on your shoes. Tried and true. ❄️

If you’re cracking a raw egg and putting It on the pan or in a recipe, you must crush the eggshell fully in your fist before throwing it away, otherwise a fisherman will die. Crushing the eggshell is called: saving a fisherman’s life. (Icelandic superstition.)

Thrilled to see my cousin @hildur.bsky.social ‘s novel in one of my all time favorite bookstores, Three Lives & Company in New York City.