Really grateful to have my #FocusFriend Eda to help me stay off my phone (by me helping her stay off hers) right now. I definitely need it, with all of the reading and writing I need to do for various uni courses, for my part-time job, and as a part of the job searching process.

Here we are again. At the time of year when I will start singing ”This Year” by The Mountain Goats to myself out of nowhere several times a week.

One of these shapes is called boo-ba and one is kiki. Which is which?

Sometimes, being a humanities student is hard. Other times, being a humanities student means sitting in a cosy cabin by a fireplace, sipping red wine and reading Nietzsche in German.

Donated blood today! 🎉 It feels so good to help save lives, either by people getting my blood directly or by them benefitting from the science it sometimes gets used for. If you can, I would highly recommend donating! ❤️

Dan and Phil dropping this video on my birthday despite it being a random Monday in October is so iconic #danandphil #phan youtu.be/Cxe_YMJ4nUs?...

I’m just now catching up on the last few episodes of @newestolympian.bsky.social and based on vibes and several things that were said in episode 191, I would love for Paul Caiola to be the guest for chapter 36 of House of Hades 👀

Now that I take both pole dance and aerial hoop classes, my favourite thing is showing people the huge bruises on my arms and telling them about how the bruises on my legs hurt so much that I can barely walk — and then say ”It’s sooo much fun, you should try it!” They always look so horrified 😂

I know we probably should be wary of the increasing gamification of our hobbies, but watching numbers go up sure helps my motivation! I’ve been trying to fight off reading slumps since high school and #StoryGraph is helping. And as a bonus I’m reading so many good books and feeling way happier! 📚💙

I’m speechless. I let him add me on Snapchat, but unfriended him after I politely told him I wasn’t interested (and venmoed him for a beer he bought me). It’s 11.30 pm on a Monday and this 30 y/o man just sent me another friend request. A month later. How am I STILL living in his head rent free?!

Went straight from my pole dance class to cast my vote in the church* election, just as the Christian god intended 😇

”At first, it hurts, but eventually you don’t feel anything. Then, it’s great.” - My aerial hoop teacher (probably only talking about hoop)

I’m rereading #Babel and tried to look up if R.F. Kuang has ever explicitly answered whether Robin is gay or bi. Instead, I found several people saying they didn’t pick up on him being either. I don’t understand. How can so many people miss a whole subplot?? The hints literally start in chapter 3!

I’ve been texting with a guy I matched with on Tinder for a few weeks. Seemed kind and genuine, asked questions, good-looking. We finally met up on a date. Then he said that he doesn’t vote in elections, and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten turned off by anything so fast.

It’s probably because — and I’m gonna take a wild guess here — Focus Friend is a better product, with better impact on the world than anything Musk will ever make.

I know this is not an original thought, but it’s 4 am and I just want to say that supportive drunk girl culture rules

I have now watched multiple people play the #DateEverything game and NOT A SINGLE ONE has commented on the line ”Bye, Phoenicia!” during the tutorial. It’s even said exactly like ”Bye, Felicia!” How can you not at least chuckle at the fact that they put that in there??

Can we acknowledge that the best thing about every edition of #Taskmaster is the assistant? Alex Horne, Paul Williams, Tom Cashman, David Sundin… In every edition I’ve watched, their mannerisms, comedic timing and ability to put up with anything while fighting to keep a straight face is hilarious 😂

So did the people in the audience share knowing smiles with each other at a specific point during the liveshow of this week’s episode, or…? Because at a certain moment, you really made some… interesting connections without realising it 👀 @newestolympian.bsky.social

The fact that I’m sick right now and my brain was like ”well, you don’t have enough energy to focus on a fantasy book at the moment, so you should just read a book about astrophysics instead” probably says something about me, though I’m not entirely sure what

Now that the idea has entered my brain, if we do get a new Twilight book for the anniversary this year about Jacob and the literal baby he imprinted on and their child is not named Billward or Sarabella, I will riot.

We say the same thing in Swedish! It’s ”förstå”, from the German ”verstehen“. The direct translation would be ”stand for”, but from what I’ve read it’s distantly related to the English ”understand” (where ”för-”, ”ver-” and ”under-” all mean ”among” in this context).

Every time I visit a country with any kind of tipping culture, I’m reminded of how much I hate it. Maybe it’s a hot take, but I think every job in all countries should pay a living wage and tipping should be an incredibly rare happy surprise if a customer is feeling generous.

Young men who use words like ”shrieks” and ”nags” when talking about a woman simply sharing her experiences and opinions break my heart 😔 It hurts that women in 2025 still get dismissed and belittled if we show any kind of emotion about things that concern and/or upset us.

The mid-roll of the new @newestolympian.bsky.social made me question my history knowledge. I was so sure that ”mark” the currency wasn’t in use anymore, but looked it up and one country still uses a kind of it. Apparently, the Percy Jackson podcast now teaches facts about Bosnia and Herzegovina!

I pay so little attention to movies nowadays that I just found out there’s a new Jurassic World movie — via a video about Jonathan Bailey’s clarinet solo, of all things

Does anyone know if songs on Spotify - alternatively the volume scale on headphones - have gotten louder these past few years? I swear, I used to be able to have really quiet background music on, but now even the lowest possible volume hurts my ears.

Happy last day of pride month to Dina from season 2 of The Last of Us, and to her alone. As a bisexual person, watching someone yell ”I’m pregnant!” seconds before passionately making out with her gay female best friend was peak representation. No notes. What a queen 🩷💜💙

In 2023, halfway through the year, I had read 1 book. Last year, it was 10 books. This year, I just finished my 23rd book and I’m so happy 📚💙

I will never ever tire of videos of men reacting to Bridgerton s1e1. So far, I have not seen a single one understand the scene with Marina looking through her sheets - and their confusion is hilarious every time. Meanwhile, the first time I watched it, I was like ”so she’s pregnant, huh” 😬

Moment of personal growth: I’m watching a video of someone reacting to the Twilight movies for the first time and she said ”Wait, does Jacob not make it out of these movies alive?” and my first thought was ”Unfortunately, he does” And to think that 14 y/o me was a Jacob apologist 😔

Apropos of male loneliness and declining birth rates, here are some things guys I’ve initially been interested in have said to me: - ”we should buy an apartment together” (2nd time hanging out in a group) - ”only men can build furniture” (date 1) 1/5

Somehow, getting a commercial for Aussie shampoo while watching Taskmaster New Zealand felt oddly offensive

I know there’s an argument going on about whether the ”de-extinct dire wolves” are actually just gray wolves with some genetic differences or a completely new species, but I just found the real discussion we should be having instead: Why on earth did they name them Romulus, Remus and… KHALEESI?!?

In a short 400 years we went from knowing we were the center of the universe to knowing that we are just one planet in one of billions of solar systems in our galaxy and our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies and I do think we haven't quite dealt with that...

Things I did today instead of writing one already late essay and one essay due today: - finished an audiobook 📚 - had coffee and chocolate in the sunshine 🌤️ - painted my nails 💅 - wrote 60 % of an essay due next week 😅

I know the @lateralcast.com has already received this information, but just as a PSA to everyone else*: - Scandinavia = Sweden, Norway and Denmark (the countries around The Scandinavia Mountains) - The Nordic countries = Scandinavia + Finland and Iceland (including the autonomous areas**) 1/2

I just had two moments of déjà vu while making soup and listening to podcasts. One was when Amanda on @jointhepartypod.com asked what a waifu is, and the second was the description of a WikiHow article illustration on #MBMBaM. Does anyone know if there’s a hidden message here somewhere?

Happy Walpurgis! 🌸 This is the busiest holiday for Swedish students/young people, but during my few hours of downtime, I’ve taken a nap and am now listening to the lastest episode of @wowiftrue.bsky.social while drinking coffee from A Very Unrelated Mug in preparation for tonight’s festivities 🔥

I half-jokingly said to the other students in my course that ”this month is packed with Walpurgis celebrations, the spring prom and other parties - I don’t know when we’re supposed to have time to study!” And the professor overhead and looked away, but smiled broadly and shook his head at us

It’s been over a decade since I read them, but I’m still not over the fact that a mum and daughter duo once tried to write a progressive vampire story for teens and somehow ended up with 12+ books full of misogyny, cheating, homophobia, and racist stereotypes. Authorial intent is funny like that.

Seriously. I had no idea about half of these things and most of them are absolutely bonkers.

I always love listening to @lateralcast.com, but especially when I know the answer or figure it out before the guests. This one, I knew from having read the article once for a course on linguistic differences, but hearing them figure it out was so much fun!

If anyone wants to know how to accidentally join a twerk class, I’m your gal 🙋🏻‍♀️

As a Swede, I felt like it was my duty to read the new Ali Hazelwood book 🫡 At almost 50%, my takeaways are that 1) it’s cringey and hilarious every time the Swedish language or accent is called ”foreign” or ”sexy”, and 2) an author can have a PhD and still don’t know what safe sex means. #DeepEnd

Yes, and a public that reads. Because reading (I’m thinking mostly about fiction, but of course also non-fiction) both informs people about things they themselves haven’t experienced and creates empathy for others.

Today, I almost wished someone a happy weekend. It’s Tuesday. How is your week going?

Other people: The monster is ”Frankenstein’s monster”! Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Me: The character is ”The Doctor”! Doctor Who is the name of the TV-show.

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever written a long apologetic email only to then delete two whole paragraphs and instead write ”sorry, I can’t make it” and hit send?

Tall, muscular and overprotective man: *sees my entire body covered in bruises* Him: *growls* Who did this to you? Me: Oh, this? I did. I take pole dance and aerial hoop classes. For fun, believe it or not. It really does hurt, though 😅 (I’m so sorry, but my mind couldn’t let this scenario go…)