The face of not getting a slice of pizza

Why is everyone in a certain generation in Norway named something along the lines of Tor/Tore/Terje? It causes a lot of confusion in my daily life...

The Far Right: We don't want all these refugees from the Middle East. Also the Far Right: Let's arm and bomb the Middle East.

Today is Tuesday, but if it were a Hollywood movie, it'd probably just be titled something like Return of the Monday, Monday 2, One Day Later, The Mondayning, Electric Mondaloo...anyways, happy Tuesday to those who celebrate.

BREAKING: CEO Jay Graber of Bluesky has been replaced by rich venture capitalist Toni Schneider of True Ventures, who doesn't even have a Bluesky account.

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

ICYMI, @thecoalition.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a new First Amendment lawsuit earlier today challenging the Trump admin's denial of visas to tech researchers, tech workers, fact-checkers. Here's a post explaining why we're suing. mailchi.mp/knightcolumb...

Why does Netflix think it's an attractive enough feature to be worth advertising the fact that we no longer own any medium and so they're pulling the rug on what we can watch and when we can watch it, seemingly at random?

Horriefied to learn of the attack targeting the synagogue in Walloon this morning.

Watching Star Wars and thinking more movies should start with a bunch of text outlining tax policy - would probably teach some folks that tariffs ain't a great way to make friends.

God kampdag!

"...more significant than religiosity, education level, age, or employment....Misogynistic beliefs don't just coexist with violent extremism. They reinforce it, normalise it, and in many cases, precede it."

To all the women making our work and the field better. Happy International Women's Day! At Revontulet, we see violent misogyny not just as a societal issue; it's a security threat and one of the most reliable early warning signs of radicalisation to violent extremism. revontulet.co/insights/51u...

There's been an explosion at the gate of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo. Nobody was hurt. The police has searched the area and there's no other explosives. Suspects are at large and police is searching for them. It is too early to say who and why this happened. www.nrk.no/norge/eksplo...

I think the term "comedy" on streaming services these days means "dark and anxiety driven drama with actors who used to be in things that were funny when they aired 15 years ago"

London, UK

The way they talk about real places with real people as if it's Narnia is just such a consistently gross part of American media

What is this "congress" of which they speak?

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

På mandag hadde vi gleden av å presentere Revontulet for stortingsrepresentanter fra Arbeiderpartiet i Østfold i et møte arrangert av Halden Næringsutvikling. revontulet.co/insights/jbs...

Hi! Do you think Tucker Carlson “has a point”? Do think Platner platforming Holocaust deniers isn’t really a big deal? Do you think the “Epstein class” is short for “good w/ $$”? Well, my pal @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social and I wrote an article just for you! inthesetimes.com/article/form...

This is very serious and I hope all the 1A orgs will meet the moment here.

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

On that map where Greenland looks big the distance between western Iraq/Syria and Iran looks small indeed...

Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question! This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵

Loving how coordinated the messaging from the US government is at this particular point in history - great to have this degree of clarity while the world seems to be in a tailspin...

There is a very very obvious answer to this question.

I feel like the "rules based order" is one of those terms they taught at Kings but that we knew in Turkey to be a lie... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Despite prior convictions for assault and a past immigration violation, Tommy Robinson has been granted entry into the U.S. The former English Defence League leader is now meeting with figures in Trump’s orbit while promoting rhetoric once tied to deadly attacks, now from inside the United States.

Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.

Never forget that the senate confirmed this dumbass *unanimously*.

Had the pleasure of presenting the work we're doing at Revontulet and my thoughts on running a startup in Halden to visiting members of the Norwegian Parliament today. It's an exciting region, and as a border-town the gateway to Europe, deserving of good policies and conditions for building startups

"Most say they lack trust in Trump to make the right decisions about US use of force in Iran, with 60% saying they do not think he has a clear plan for handling the situation and 62% saying he should get congressional approval for any further military action." www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

I really wish there would be more than like 3 ads ay any given time in the Nordics - getting sick and tired on basically the same things on loop across Spotify, Prime, HBO etc.

En skulle tro det var en vits. Dette er vårt NRK. Når har vi bestemt mindre Urix - mer reality?

Can report that Claude does not understand Norwegian comma rules...

Happy Monday to you too weather forecast...

After Trump’s bombing of Iran, protesters breached the outer wall of the American Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan and 10 people were killed by security guards. An additional 11 were killed after torching a UN building in Skardu, and two were killed in Islamabad.

Several new Israeli airstrikes on various areas in southern Lebanon

As the Pentagon just announced the first three American deaths in the war with Iran the legitimacy of the war, the long-game, exit strategy and desired outcome remains unclear. Is this a price the President, and the U.S. are willing to pay?

Looking ahead I think Iran's capabilities for asymmetric warfare, including drawing on gangs/organized crime, terrorism and cyber will be the most significant risks to security in Europe and the U.S.

I think this is a point that we should pay more attention to as Maersk and others are confirming that they're stopping shipping through Hormuz.

At Revontulet, we are watching the situation in Iran and the wider region unfold in real time and continue to monitor developments. We have gathered some initial thoughts on the situation here: revontulet.co/insights/ryx...

"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."

NEW: "It is true that air campaigns can destroy things. What they cannot do, by themselves, is build political outcomes." Really superb piece from our @markhertling.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/bombing-ir...

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families. How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

If you wanna shut off oil supply to China, taking out Venezuela and Iran and generally blocking trade through the Strait of Hormuz is one approach...

Remember how stable Iraq was after they killed Saddam? Remember how stable Libya was when they killed Gaddafi? See how stable Haiti is now when they killed Jovenel Moïse? This always turns out well