No, advertisers, there is actually not that much of an overlap between the guy who keeps buying 40k audiobooks and the guy who will consider buying Harry Potter audiobooks. 😑

Holy crap, someone did the Oprah attack!

I guess the Ballroom will enable them to stage more cinematic "assassination attempts."

1/ With Trump once more looking to Greenland to manipulate the markets for the benefit of his cronies plays on prediction markets and to distract from his being Epstein's closest associate, I'm happy that the Danish troops sent months ago have remained there to entrench and prepare the whole time.

Why is this child still allowed to play president?

For the moment the election results are looking like the centrist government in Denmark will continue in some form with added supporters. Not my first choice (I'd prefer a move to the left) but Denmark in a safe set of hands until Trump is out is more important than my preference.

I wonder if behind closed doors, the AI companies are feeling much like the gulf states that their bribes had a lousy return on investment. Anywho, here's hoping that their entire industry burns to the ground.

There's my vote cast in the Danish parliamentary elections today, best of luck to SF, and to the prime minister! I also extend my thanks to the US media for ignoring the Danish election and thereby keeping it from the mind of the demented ogre currently squatting in the ruins of the white house.

I was going to translate this from the Danish news article earlier but Chris has done the job already. Our government is admirably committed to Denmark not going through another 9th of April (1940) - Greenland may ultimately be forcibly occupied, but the US military would have to bleed for it first.

Lindsey Graham, on behalf of Trump, lecturing Europe about arrogance and fickle allies is a joke so exquisite that he could never have come up with it intentionally. Denmark will be keeping its troops on Greenland, wouldn't want all those Russian and Chinese subs to get on shore.

A very strange time for the Islamic Republic to begin a dynasty.

I hereby thank God neither Denmark nor Greenland are in the bible.

So to sum up the opinions of the Danish government: The PM and FM have said that the Iranian government a repressive state and an enemy, but that Denmark was not notified of nor took part in the US/Israeli attack on Iran. DK govt supports de-escalation.

The Danish government has called for legislative elections on the 24th of March, and I think this is a good decision with the US military so heavily committed to their buildup near Iran. Preparations have already been made for US sabre-rattling during the election campaign.

Danish PM's reaction to Trump's hospital ship post: "Am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone: Where it is not insurance and wealth which decides if you get proper treatment. Same approach as they have in Greenland. Good Sunday to everyone. 😊"

Oh good, Trump is helpfully sending an AI-generated ship to take care of all of those Greenlanders who are in critical condition because of how greatly they valued Trump's illegal tariffs. 🙄

The white house is being a sick joke, I guess they decided against doing anything special for valentines day. 🤢

1) So given what I've seen around the English language press about Europeans getting complacent, I think it's worth highlighting todays headlines in the Danish news, at least on Danmark's Radio. First there's the cringe, it drew headlines that Trump shared his V-day card featuring Greenland.

Reading the English-language news you'd think that it was the Danish PM alone who was going to have a meeting with Rubio, but Greenland's PM is accompanying her and I feel like that is not trivial minutiae when Greenland is the topic at hand. #greenland

This really has become his safety blanket, hasn't it? #greenland

Can satire be given witness protection before this march is scheduled to happen?

From a European perspective it's especially strange that Trump be the man whom Republicans want to make dictator given how old, frail, and in poor health he is. There are no autopens in the grave, and regime successors are never in as strong a position, and they burned their chance for this clown?

Until yesterday all I knew of the Norwegian royal family was that they were closely related to the Danish royal family and that there was a Norwegian princess who was bit weird. Reading the news the past couple of days I am curious - What on Earth happened?

A fresh poll on Danish attitudes towards the USA has been published today, of those polled 17% view the US as an ally, 20% don't know, 3% didn't answer, and 60% view it as an adversary. Notably this new and hostile perception is not concentrated in any specific groups but is general. #greenland

A major demonstration was held in Copenhagen today as Danish veterans placed 44 flags each with a name of a soldier who died supporting the NATO missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. 44 such flags were removed and trashed days ago by US embassy personnel who later pled ignorance and apologized.

This morning the Minneapolis crisis and murder of Alex Pretti is the top news item on Danmark's Radio's front page, the coverage is unreservedly favouring the victim. If Trump was banking on Greenland and his NATO veteran's comments to make us disinterested in the US, he failed in this too.

The news broke on DR today - the troops sent to Greenland over the past week had indeed been sent urgently and had been issued live ammunition in the event that they ended up "in combat." The quoted thread reports it in English. #greenland

Danish Prime Minister speaking on Rutte and Trump's non-binding framework for future negotiations on #Greenland - "The Prime Minister has not moved her red line: We will of course not surrender sovereignty. Greenland's future must be defined by Greenland, and Greenland is a part of Denmark."

So in an interview with the Danish PM today the following things were said on #Greenland * No surrender of sovereignty has happened, nor is it going to. * Rutte was not officially negotiating on behalf of Denmark or Greenland * Rutte has no mandate to negotiate on behalf of Greenland or Denmark

If he sticks with this then the negotiating strategy of the Danish government has succeeded - Force him to explain what he needs in Greenland to protect it - and make sure that putting it there is multilateral and doesn't include a transfer or sale of Greenland. Will he stick with it? We doubt it.

Of course nobody in Denmark or Greenland genuinely thinks that Trump's change of mind is any assurance that he won't just change it again, he reserves his dwindling supply of honesty for Putin's red telephone and for the convicted sex trafficker who was married to Epstein.

Today Trump says at Davos that the military threat is off the table so long as immediate negotiations for the US to acquire Greenland are started. Foreign Minister Løkke says: "We will not negotiate over selling Greenland." Nothing has changed: It is not for sale.

It's a good thing the European negotiating position on Greenland is "No, we back Denmark and Greenland." The Anglo-French negotiating position in 1938 was "The Sudetenland is ethnically German, we recognise it as German territory already, and demand our ally cede it at once and without compensation"

"In the past, the university didn't always give some promising intellectuals the chance they deserved, thus unnecessarily driving them into politics." 🤣

Danish parliamentarian Rasmus Jarlov speaking to MS NOW on Stephen Miller comments regarding Greenland: "I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying."

I guess it's worth making clear as someone living in Denmark: I think it is natural that the regime crackdon in Minneapolis draws more immediate and visceral attention from Americans. 1/4

I'm surprised that it took this long, but the US government is suddenly showing an interest in what is known in Denmark as the "Spiral case" - There was a policy to sterilize some inuit women in Greenland, most of this playing out in the 1960s-70s but some cases happening as late as the early 90s.

I've seen the complaint that the EU supports Denmark but not the people of Greenland, and I can only assume people don't research these things before complaining about them. I'll quote the relevant part from the link: "The EU stands in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland."

If we reconcile with the USA before the 23rd century it will be too soon for my liking.

The PM who believed in the US enough to sign Denmark up to the war on terror: "The relationship to the USA will never again be as it once was." In the article he mentions that he would have made different choices with regards to Iraq and Afghanistan had he known the US would end up as they have.

Dwarf Fortress, but with Skaven

Apparently the governor of Louisiana's game plan for netting #Greenland for Trump is: Bring cajun food, tell people (who just a year ago voted 100% against Trump's agenda) that they "fit within the Monroe doctrine" and maybe some shit about the Louisiana purchase.

Just as a reminder, last year #Greenland held elections, and not a single person was elected who was open to Greenland becoming American, and the lone candidate who said they were willing to believe that Trump was capable of negotiating in good faith got too few votes (1.1%) to get a seat.

Since my regular account keeps turning images into a black square, here is the fennec picture I keep trying to post: Fen's job is to get pet, so Mondays are no problem! #fennec #fox #cute Image source: kawaii_zooland on the birdsite.

So in Norway this ship was beached, the guy who owns the house was no doubt pleased that the ship stopped before hitting his bedroom. 😅

Did bnnuy de-popeulate Rome?

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifts. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

But I was told that this is the future??

Today is the 85th anniversary of the German occupation of Denmark, in light of that: I sure wish the world wasn't spiralling in that direction again.

ACAB includes the Ordo Hereticus.