can’t believe the norwegian state is paying me money to explain to some of its brightest young people that in britain a fanny is a vagina but in america it is merely a bum

once again defrauded by the aurora app

NORWEGIAN APPLES

had my cards read, is this good?

one of my stupidest activities recently has been making a collage for my online norwegian class of all the pictures of one of the textbook characters (who is called Bartek and in my opinion is the most unintentionally hilarious man alive)

we have digital ID in Norway and it is pretty useful (eg we bought our flat in 5 seconds by text message) but it also meant giving all our identity data over to a private company with no real opt out because this digital infrastructure wasn’t provided by the state

You mother fucker I have never once wanted to upload to OneDrive, just let me attach the file to the email

absolutely vital to have a seminar group that matches your energy (when you are all nerding out about how amazing the interlibrary loan system is)

I’ve entered the cat in a competition to appear on norwegian postage stamps, please wish us luck

the norwegian name ole means “ancestor’s descendent” and the surname olsen thus means “son of his ancestor’s descendent”, which means the olsen twins are the dual offspring of the son of their ancestor’s descendent

made so much pumpkin soup that i’ve had to scrabble through our plastic recycling for more tubs to freeze it all in

I saw the cutest, most roly-poly little boat today

can i go downstairs and offer to make the boys from the business school a better party playlist because their music taste is like two-thirds spin class one-third wedding disco auntie-pleasers

Jeg vet ikke hvem av dere som trenger å høre dette, men ordbøkene.no har endelig fått en «tilfeldig ord»-knapp 🎉

boring question but do any of you have recommendations for a device/set up for annotating pdfs?

Normal People author Sally Rooney has been advised she 'can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest' due to her support of Palestine Action 👇

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

this reminds me of a suggestion at a former employer that using a numbers-based rubric would save us hours of marking. I think the idea was that, as at a takeaway, you’d return feedback as «number 23, number 15, and two portions of number 31» instead of simply writing a normal paragraph

I’m watching the netflix documentary about shaman durek and princess märtha and eight minutes in and he’s releasing evil from the body of eamonn holmes live on this morning

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities! Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December. Applications are welcome until 24 October. #envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Er ganske lei av at vi skal bruke all vår kollektive energi på å forstå ihjel unge menn med ekstreme holdninger og dertil dårlig kjærlighetsliv. Men. Dette virker å være 90 prosent frykt for avvisning, og en merkelig tillært holdning om at det ikke er noe man må lære seg å stå i når man blir voksen.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

making the cat a beautiful cat tower out of our old moving boxes and the bit she’s most excited about is this cardboard ring i had to cut off the top of a poster tube to get it to fit

ok, having checked a bunch of editions i now reckon there was a section of text removed from the uk edition of american psycho. it’s a bit which says bono is the devil so maybe there was a worry about uk libel law?

wow, angela rayner has a big unexpected bill >>>>> irregular choice immediately goes out of business

if you’ve got a copy of american psycho nearby, could you snap a quick photo of this passage for me (it’s the u2 concert bit) — i’ve got a query about whether this has changed between editions that i want to try and iron out

austerity brain: when you’ve got nothing left to cut you start trying to cut other people’s free labour

if you’ve got a copy of american psycho nearby, could you snap a quick photo of this passage for me (it’s the u2 concert bit) — i’ve got a query about whether this has changed between editions that i want to try and iron out

did my presentation and i’m absolutely gutted that i didn’t include the condoms they had made which said «ja til kjøtt» (yes to meat) on one side and «beskytte deg mot høyre og frp» (protect yourself from the right-wing parties) on the other

went to the out of town shopping centre and got jump scared by erna solberg canvassing outside the big obs

i have to give a presentation on monday about the norwegian senterparti and i’ve got so much material about how they’re the weirdest guys in norwegian politics but it just feels so fake when britain is producing absolutely incredible shit like this

Also came across this innocuous on the outside looking book where the artists had tried to give a name or identity to every leaf on a specific tree in Leeds in 1966, taking prints from each leaf

my phone keeps autocorrecting Tacita Dean to “Tactical Dean” and I can’t believe that neither universities nor the church of england have tried this as a title

reading the first page of the new jon fosse and doing the leonardo dicaprio pointing thing

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

getting allergies in every country I’ve ever been to, just call me an international woman of histamine

I’ve been teaching HD’s Oread today and I have to say it was pedagogically very useful that the classroom looked out onto a mountain covered in a pine forest on a windy day

my students taught me today that the norwegian for blutack is lærertyggis and english needs to start calling it “teachertack” immediately

fishing half a wet hotdog out of the nasturtiums on our front porch after the kids downstairs had a party at the weekend

we finally got a sofa today and it’s been given the seal of approval from the cat

amalie skram birthday flowers

my former institution made it into private eye, but i guess this was published too late to include the news that the vice chancellor (in post for less than two years) has already got a job at another university before the redundancy process she was appointed to oversee has even been completed

THIS VILE little scumbag resigned as a Labour MP rather than face action over sexual harassment allegations, got sacked from his non-job as a government advisor, and is a paid lobbyist for arms & fossil fuel companies. Why does the fucking BBC not cut ties with him

in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed

At least when they tried to nab Kneecap the supposed offence was “committed” in the UK. But Irish Sally Rooney can do whatever the fuck she wants with her Irish Euros in the independent Republic of Ireland, so what is he on about?

i’ve been doing norwegian wordle recently and i’m feeling very smug today because i solved it in three goes

rare situation in which the current book i’m reading in print, current audiobook, and the tv show i’ve got on the go are all actually really good??

went for a little hike behind two nice dogs who each got a chewy bone at the hut at the top

ok got some new weird eurosnack and this time they even say eurosnack on the packet