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Breaking news! NOT windy in Reykjavík!

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com made sure Uggi got noticed on his walk today. And yes he got a treat and a pat!

Afternoon

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99. A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?

Good morning

Fantastic 1st day at #IcelandNoir, the Rescue Team panel was worth the ticket price alone! Eliza Reid, fab pair @hildur.bsky.social & @alexanderdan.bsky.social, and also finally got to meet the lovely @villimeymist.bsky.social! At Kjarval also got to fangirl at Kalmann author Joachim Schmidt 🤩

HEADCANON ACCEPTED

expansion of LLM chat bots and the like is incompatable with human survival

Unfortunately, even these big three flags never managed to break even on the first run and the setup fees are high for each design, so I'm not planning any of the other flags in this form. I hope you enjoy these ones though! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...

To all the doubters, AI is so close to being perfect Look my iphone helpfully transcribed a voice message left by my French mechanic

1/ Saga, tímarit Sögufélags, er ekki bara vettvangur harðúðugra ritdóma og hjaðningavíga heldur einnig brautryðjandi rannsókna. Forsíðumyndargreinin að þessu sinni fjallar um endurupptötvun þessara geggjuðu 18. aldar búningamynda.

Have somehow found myself starting every workday by watching this incredible video. Sound on.

TONIGHT!

Good morning

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

Afternoon. My dad is visiting, which Uggi is happy with.

Convincing you to read my new novella by the first few sentences. Share yours if you want! So begins Dead Weight (which comes out in May).

I’ve read it in Icelandic, it’s great!

Unfortunately I discovered a few years ago that reading a book out loud really helps when you’re doing that last pass and polishing the language. So if you meet me in the next days and my voice is scratchy, it’s because I am just about to turn in a book.

TOMORROW!

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "Wearing The Lion.")

Convincing you to read my new novella by the first few sentences. Share yours if you want! So begins Dead Weight (which comes out in May).

I would just live my life so that Joyce Carol Oates does not feel the need to destroy me.

There is robust data that suggests having a lot of money makes you less empathetic towards others. I have a suspicion that it works the other way around too, and I probably have less empathy for the super rich than for other people.

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Good morning

Good morning

Oh god, US friends, I’m so sorry 😞

On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.

"The Night Guest" by @hildur.bsky.social comes to mind.

The Iceland Noir festival is kicking off next week! I have my guest of honour interview on Wednesday at 9 PM in Fríkirkjan. I have a few arcs of DEAD WEIGHT (which isn't out till May, and is translated to English by @maryrobinettekowal.com) that I want to give out there. First come first served!

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

🤚 Because WHY WOULD I??

Daughter: Mamma, when I take your things it’s not stealing. They are just switching rooms.

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

Wake up babe, best unboxing video in the world just dropped. Courtesy of Fanney Hrund Hilmarsdóttie, YA author, lawyer and sheep farmer.

FIVE mosquitoes have now been found! I repeat, FIVE mosquitoes! www.mbl.is/frettir/innl...

I tried to do a screen record, hope it does it justice!

I don’t know if sharing Instagram reels works on this app, but here is the link to the best unboxing video you are ever going to see, by Icelandic author and sheepfarmer Fanney Hrund.

The old lane to the coast path at dawn... Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩

Hah yes this. Some of the books I loved as a teen have really not held up, while others did and are clearly excellent. But there were books I was also just not ready to read, and my opinions on them were a waste of space.

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My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

cone of shame vs cone of delight