Is there anything as cold as warm regards?

To stave off the awfulness we are watching Culinary Class Wars, the most demented cooking show I've ever seen.

Vi har nå permanent bevæpning av politiet pga. en utbredt *følelse* av at Norge har et blitt farligere sted, til tross for at drapsstatistikken viser at vi har historisk lave drapstall 1/

It's fiction but if you've never watched Season 4 of Borgen, now is not a bad time to do it.

The hollowing out of the postal service and it's privatisation and fragmentation is one of the best markers of the decline of the idea of something existing as a public good. I've pretty much had universally bad experiences with PostNord. Posten is usually better except when its bad, its really bad.

Its amazing how when countries are running deficits and they need to save money, they always go straight for the arts and museum sectors. Depressingly predictable. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Explaining Acid Mothers Temple suddenly of an Epiphany night.

Today is the Feast of the Epiphany, when God realised he could get the novel out of it's 19th century hole by inventing James Joyce.

Going to Japan later this year (much later this year). Novels! Recommendations! Advice! Going for 2 weeks. Will be in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima and maybe Fukuoka or Matsue too.

Personally I think Amorim should have been sacked at the end of last season but sacking him now just seems stupid.

The song-sheet seller. c. 1632-4 Jan van Vliet (British Museum)

This is fascinating by @claireconnolly.bsky.social on coats and the Irish peasantry

The photo hardly does it justice, but the moon is full and bright tonight, and is making the mountains visible

Book one of 2026!

Our old two hob cooker at the cabin has the most baffling number range for the heat. 1200 seems like A LOT

2025 has been a life-changing year. It started with the birth of our daughter right at the very end of 2024 (she turned 1 yesterday). In summer, we moved from the small village of Dokka that had been home for 5 years to Kongsberg.

Has there been a revised OBEV since the 1999 Ricks??? It's about time!

I am here for the impassioned poetry nerdery of the replies

I'm "a gravy boat for Christmas" years old. God jul / nollaig Shona, a chairde!

Cooking something up for you all.

Time to start soaking the pinnekjøtt for julaften 🤤

As a man from the land of the large bottle, I feel able to say that this lovely light Christmas beer (Sunturn) is in fact a *very* large bottle, so we're sharing. Happy midwinter!

Tis the year's midnight. You've made it through the dark. Mehr licht!

Sorry, but I find it very hard to make this headline make sense. Is it just me?

Happy Christmas! Or as the case may be, Happy Hannukah!

The people who want to make AI a part of every aspect of our lives, will never ever want us to have more leisure or time to think. Life only on their terms, not our own: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

'Best wishes for the Season in Hell!’ — Crimbaud

Det er en hel uke til jul men allerede er toget redusert fra to till ett togsett. Hvorfor? Folk står i gangen fortsatt. Hva er vitsen med det altså, Vy?

Any way, I am more concerned not about the motivations of what happened the other eveninfz but about the fact that these people are dead for no good reason. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We all know review culture has gone mental but when an authentication code app is asking me to rate my experience, I really do despair. What do they want? 5 stars for generating random sequences of numbers? Feedback? "Could be more Kabbalistic"

€80 for the new Waterford FC home jersey? Would you be well.

Well, can't wait to bring my child through security later to celebrate Chanuka because that's completely normal for a reason.

The worst thing about moving to a new town is always finding a barber. I feel like they make a big production of it here sometimes so I'm delighted I've found a fella who'll give you a good cut in about 15 minutes and not charge an arm and a leg!

Reader, he was in fact not after buying...

The alarming way in which people are making plans for Q1 and using that term unironically. What's wrong with "in the New Year"?

We've been watching The Last Kingdom on Netflix, which has sent me back to this wonderful book of poems by Mike Smith.

Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

I've never had Snapchat and never will and have never fully understood it's irongrip on Norway and Norwegians.

you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay

Tips on how/where the watch Ken Burns' new documentary of the American Revolution if you are outside of the US?

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Front row seats to bawlfest 2025 😭😭😭 #LateLateToyShow

Fucking hell I've been outed.

Do The Silver Tassie!

The RTE Player cuts out without fail after about 30mins each time. Consistent at least.

Literally everyone watching the #LateLateToyShow right now

Shane Lowry delivered that like a man being held hostage.

This contains a seance I conducted with the photography of Norwegian musicologist Ole Mørk Sandvik from 1927. Delighted to see this piece come into print!