A boat has sunk in the harbour of Hafnarfjörður. Which maybe shouldn't be newsworthy, except the same boat sank at the same harbour five years ago. The boat doesn't leak and they don't really know why it keeps sinking there.

Afternoon

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burn

Morning showdown

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"Jack is 30, a barrister's clerk, newly engaged to Chloe and has taken part in research at UCL to turn his diagnosis into a positive." "But he'd always known he was destined to share his father's fate, until today." Wow.

Why does this sound like two little boys fighting? Trump: Russia is just a paper tiger. Putin: No, Russia is a bear, actually. And not a paper bear, there are no paper bears, Russia is a REAL bear.

Hot new writing tip: Spend a couple of months writing something in another language. Then, when you switch back to writing in your native tongue, writing will suddenly feel SO VERY EASY!

Absolutely wild that, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five, there's a new research article that calls women "females" but calls men "men"

Good morning. It’s raining and so Uggi turned on the spot when I opened the door and ran back in to sleep on all the blankets.

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What a shit show

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It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

I'm neurodivergent and don't need to be cured. A vaccine didn't make me this way. Tylenol didn't make me this way. I just am. That shouldn't be hard to grasp. Here's my latest book.

France recognises the State of Palestine.

If you buttdial me, I’m going to listen to whatever you’re talking about. This seems ethical to me!! I would never read somebody’s diary, but this is more like somebody handing you their diary

Me: Would you like an egg? Daughter: Only if it's perfectly cooked.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

More nature! Because nature is good even when a lot of other shit is bad. Today's photo: a kingfisher with, well, a fish. Photo by me.

Application for the government funded Artist Salary for next year: Sent!

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

The worst thing about being a writer who publishes books is having to update your website.

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The worst thing about having Uggi in the house is that I am no longer allowed to tickle my own children. He thinks I’m hurting them and will insert himself between us EVERY time.

A proper tangle of legs

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Evening

I kind of need to ask him a question now but I didn’t go to the seminars and I’m afraid he’s too busy for me 🫣

Deer costume, C14th.

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LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Look what just came in the mail! It looks so good and it IS so good!! @sarahgailey.bsky.social @kellylonesome.bsky.social

I asked my husband to buy me teas called Sleepytime and Moon Salutation and he came home with:

I’m going to write a long essay about this soon, but yesterday morning I woke up to a revelation. Every time someone has said to me, “you’re talented, but you need to team up with this more famous/popular/connected person in order to succeed on this project…” that project has failed. 1/?

This one is making the rounds again I see.

Daughter: What are you going to give me for Christmas? You have two choices. Me: Oh, what are they? Daughter: A new sibling or a hamster. Your choice.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty. It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

Ehem. Báðar fréttir eru á forsíðu RÚV akkúrat núna. Að fjárfesta í olíuvinnslu er bara að pissa í skóinn sinn.

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I was looking at the Icelandic Film Centre's (through which all government funding for Icelandic film & TV goes) website and I LOVE that they ask film makers to please think about the Bechdel test before applying for funding for their projects and then proceed to explain what it is.

Folks are having critically important discourse in the fantasy football Reddit

It’s so sad spending most of your life trying not to die.

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Okay so not technically a horror script but there are still dead bodies in it.