When your organ is so massive you need not just one but two elephants to hold it up

I visited the Royal Library in Copenhagen and saw this beautiful Hebrew manuscript (ca. 13??—my photo of the tag is too blurry to tell). Look at the amazing micrography for the beginning of Vayikra.

When your organ is so massive you need not just one but two elephants to hold it up

This feels pretty weird in a church, tbh

This feels pretty weird in a church, tbh

Oh hey, I found the menorah

Weird Medieval Guy from Aarhus Cathedral

Seems like a weird business model but I’m intrigued

Watching Danish news on the ferry today and the poor anchor is interviewing John Bolton and just seems at a loss for words as Bolton tries to explain Trump. “It sounds…uh, kind of alien, to not pay attention when you are the president,” she says.

Seems like a weird business model but I’m intrigued

Watching Danish news on the ferry today and the poor anchor is interviewing John Bolton and just seems at a loss for words as Bolton tries to explain Trump. “It sounds…uh, kind of alien, to not pay attention when you are the president,” she says.

Found a whole section just for me at the Aarhus library

Found a whole section just for me at the Aarhus library

Danish supermarkets have shown me a whole world of wonders. Who knew that this existed?

Definitely a contender for best public washroom I’ve ever used. Certainly the most scenic.

Solid cat day today in Reykjavík. The first was in our hotel, and I’m told his name in Mango. The second was being very well fed by scraps tossed from the window of a sandwich shop.

Moody scene today in Reykjavík

Moody scene today in Reykjavík

I met a cat in Reykjavik today so this trip is already going great

Icelandair is sending me emails giving me tips for an easy transfer at Keflavik to make my connecting flight to Copenhagen, suggesting I proceed directly to the departure gate when my flight lands. That’s going to be a long three days at the airport.

Icelandair is sending me emails giving me tips for an easy transfer at Keflavik to make my connecting flight to Copenhagen, suggesting I proceed directly to the departure gate when my flight lands. That’s going to be a long three days at the airport.

This is actually a correct take but nobody is ready for it

This has to just be AI associating “country with distinctive shape” with “shaped like a boot”, right? I refuse to believe that any human person has looked at the outline of Serbia and associated it with footwear

Imagine the foot that fits “Serbia’s distinctive boot-like shape”

This is also the only way to make sense of much of internet leftism. The aesthetics part, not the reading part. But maybe also the reading part.

The only way I can make any sense of some of the Booktok/stagram discourse I’ve seen lately is by assuming that most of those people don’t actually like to read. It’s all just aesthetics.

For reference: FUN=museums, libraries, galleries, cafes, gardens, boats, public transit, historic architecture, pastry, modern architecture, walking around, shopping for stationery NOT FUN=things that are loud, things that are fast, eating treyf, shopping for things that aren’t stationery

Do any of you lovely people on the internet have opinions (preferably based on direct experience) of fun things to do in—or a reasonable day-trip from—Copenhagen? I’ll be there for a week soon.

For reference: FUN=museums, libraries, galleries, cafes, gardens, boats, public transit, historic architecture, pastry, modern architecture, walking around, shopping for stationery NOT FUN=things that are loud, things that are fast, eating treyf, shopping for things that aren’t stationery

Do any of you lovely people on the internet have opinions (preferably based on direct experience) of fun things to do in—or a reasonable day-trip from—Copenhagen? I’ll be there for a week soon.

I deleted something snarky re: the discourse, but I do want to say: the tendency to insist on the most bad-faith, paranoid interpretation of everything is actually something you can fight against in yourself and I promise it will make your experience of social media, and the world in general, better

I saw it at a company screening for ILM in SF, with George Lucas sitting in the row behind me. This theater was full of people who had worked on the movie but never seen it. The vibes were very bad and I have never heard a more awkward silence than the one after credits rolled.

reading is one of the great pleasures of my life and I deeply and furiously resent the introduction of a low grade but ever present anxiety that I might be fooled into believing that some slop came from a human mind

I saw it at a company screening for ILM in SF, with George Lucas sitting in the row behind me. This theater was full of people who had worked on the movie but never seen it. The vibes were very bad and I have never heard a more awkward silence than the one after credits rolled.

While I have you here: German is often used for examples of “wow look they have a single word for this very specific situation” and I’m here to tell you that the only real difference between German and English here is that English puts spaces between the various components of its compound nouns

Related to that: If you can describe what a word means, it’s not “untranslatable”

The fact that different languages often don’t have exactly equivalent words is unremarkable and not an illustration of meaningful differences between their respective cultures.

These whiteboard birds have been keeping me company at work for months. I guess nobody wants to be the one to erase them.

There’s an apartment building in my neighborhood that’s bright green. I always think of it as the bright green apartment. I walk past it daily. Its bright-greenness is a landmark in my personal navigation system. I walked past it yesterday and IT WASN’T GREEN. It was dark blue. Not freshly painted.

Oops, I read the comments on a FB post about a new library here. Did you know that we don’t need libraries anymore because everyone has a phone? And nobody reads books anyway. And building it close to transit means it’s going to be filled with scary people instead of normal people who drive.

Oops, I read the comments on a FB post about a new library here. Did you know that we don’t need libraries anymore because everyone has a phone? And nobody reads books anyway. And building it close to transit means it’s going to be filled with scary people instead of normal people who drive.

I got 33 haggadot but the one I’m actually looking for ain’t one

Looking up and looking down on my walk today

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Every time I open Threads, which is nearly always accidental, I feel like I’ve somehow ended up in the audience at a paste-eating contest

Can this be a solution?

Can this be a solution?

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Me learning about creaky voice in linguistics classes: oooh neat Me trying to learn a language with phonemic creaky voice: oh no I do not like this one bit