It ever hit you that none of this needs to be happening?

I still believe there's a way to use Youtube (etc.) without being an "influencer." But that means focusing on a mission rather than purely on views. I said in an old video about doing educational Youtube, "Don't try to be a rock star, don't try to be a holy warrior. Be a hardware store owner."

Gnatty having some real big opinions #birds

I want a full division of 1000 lawyers and 5000 3rd years trying to get a job reviewing every file. Every transaction and communication.

I had a very enjoyable time talking to Eyþór Guðmundsson about his passion for restoring old Icelandic books (and how he does it). I should be able to get the whole interview on Youtube tomorrow.

we’ve been had, boys. this is aloe falsa

I still believe there's a way to use Youtube (etc.) without being an "influencer." But that means focusing on a mission rather than purely on views. I said in an old video about doing educational Youtube, "Don't try to be a rock star, don't try to be a holy warrior. Be a hardware store owner."

Grant, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower (to also not use any of the original four)

Finally our long-awaited chat with @norsebysw.bsky.social! Enjoy! We sure did. vikingology.substack.com/p/a-mileston...

Misconceptions about Spartans have been a thorn in my side for a long time too. For twenty years the only Vikings in pop culture have been 300's Hoplites but with crappy rune neck tattoos.

on the desk today: a second edition of the first dictionary printed in the americas, the Vocabulario en Lengua Mexicana y Castellana - also an extremely important document of classical Nahuatl. and a st francis with some lowkey lenin vibes

there's a reason boxing gloves are more difficult to put on than take off

February 16, 1862: "I propose to move immediately upon your works."

This has been my MO for a couple decades

There are a *few* real runic inscriptions with romantic contents

Love may be a worldwide phenomenon but the word for it sure isn’t. A video in which I take a shot at saying “I love you” in every Scandinavian language (and even Greenlandic and Sámi), past and present, and review the strange history of how we say this. More detailed version: youtu.be/Pc6jEV0wxaI

Bölvaða ICE, níðið ICE. Far þú til heljar. ICE sé níðingr ok frithlauss. #OldNorse #Havamal Hávamál translation by @norsebysw.bsky.social

Weird (and impact-less) thought: Based sheerly on the number of viewers who have seen Frozen, it is actually possible that I wrote the runic text that more people have seen than any other.

Truth is embedded in narratives whether or not they are intended to tell the truth.

Phone: free up 1GB of storage to download the new OS Me: no

Runes on the internet: ᛁ ᚨᛗ ᚨ ᛒᛖᚱᛊᛖᚱᚲᛖᚱ. Runic inscriptions in real life:

more like this

This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.

I am going to build a space colony on the surface of the sun

Like 50 messages reading “was an incedible evening my dear friend,, we must discus those ideas further”

The point of PhDs is that for every one of your idle thoughts someone literally spent 5-6 years deep diving on it.

how cool would it be to have a lunar research station with a bunch of scientists doing cool shit. well this guy wants to put 1,000 Bitcoin losers there

People who reject the simple explanation (the sky is blue because air is blue) are also arguing that no birds or butterflies have blue feathers. Which is ridiculous. If something appears blue that means it IS blue. Air is blue news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4694...

Guess I'm going to RT this every fucking day till the end of time

Imagining a guy who’s mad that Bad Bunny did the halftime show in Spanish instead of Quenya, the tongue of the high elves of Valinor.

this case is maybe the single best example of one of the most destructive tendencies of this court: the tendency to treat their job as a collegiate legal seminar where they operate in hypotheticals rather than deal with the real world as it exists

ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Post a banger that isn’t in English (No idea what genre to even call this, just check it out) youtu.be/LnaeImQ0TSg

The guy who is my bellwether for where the dumb money is going—he had a cloud engineer phase, crypto phase, nft phase, AI phase—has pivoted back to DJing, which is what he was first doing when I met him 20 years ago.

A nasally shriek, 'tis Staley you seek. But when harmonies swell, aye, that be Cantrell

Still out here posting this kind of bare-bones no-AI educational content on youtube every day without even a 😲 “You’re Norsing wronbg?!” thumbnail and after a decade of it I guess I’m committed to this bit till the heat death of the human internet

A lot of decisions go into translating. This famous stanza of Odin’s advice, Hávamál, might encourage us to call out evil—or to consider any evil an evil done to us. It might say not to give our enemies peace, or not to give our haters love. Somewhat subtle but real differences in the poet’s intent.

The bravery, resilience and sacrifice of many in our city to protect and support vulnerable communities show the world Minneapolis’ values. We’re honored the city was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize – and it’s because of your courageous solidarity to promote democracy, human rights and peace.

columbus mad as hell, still insisting he discovered Japan

Wasted a bit of water on an experiment. The robots can't do scansion for shit.

Mulder and Scully… Ken and Barbie

Har brug for.

Mulder and Scully… Ken and Barbie

Kunne vel trenga seia noko slikt til han ein dag

A new etymology proposed in the Etymological dictionary ”Våre Arveord” was *ailiskō- for ”elske”, related to *ailidaR OIc ”eldr” & East Nylandic ”eild” ’fire’. Monophthongization in ”elska” (with a more complex cluster) has not affected peripheral Swedish ”eild” bsky.app/profile/scha...

yeah

It was a mistake but it surely was not an accident.