T. S. Eliot’s admiration of P. G. Wodehouse was said to be “just this side of idolatry”, Douglas Adams named him a “great genius” who “writes pure word music”. Read Wodehouse's Leave it to Psmith (1923) here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/leave-it-to-psmith-1923/

Inntil videre spiller Spurs så håpløst dårlig at man blir i tvil om de glemte å ansette en trener i det hele tatt. Det er begredelig. 82% ballbesittelse til Arsenal.

This is a great thread, worth your time. And I’m filtering it now through the perspective put forth here that humans have an innate quality of cooperation/conformity.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Om det er keisamt med fredagspils, så vil eg tilrå å heller lesa litt i Syn og Segn. Sivert Nesbø har skrive om den snikande kjensla av at han er litt finsk, og om då han oppdaga den lite omsette forfattaren Antti Hyry, som han måtte lese alt av. «Det var berre det at eg ikkje forstod finsk.»

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

Elsker at skøytekommentatoren til nrk sier “uppløpssia”.

My wife, being a photographer, figured something was up when she was looking to get a new HD for her work and noticed prices were astronomical. Thanks ai 🙃

Meg, hos optikeren som ber meg om å se inn i en liten firkantet dings på en maskin: Hehe, har du sett Blade Runner?

Roughly 2 USAIDs

If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has the same effect worldwide: lilliputian hallucinations. [bbc.com]

Indigenous needle-workers from 12,000 years ago, sewing tailored clothes to fit snug & keep people warm. And you thought Otzi's 5,300 yr old clothes were a big deal. (Tenino, Nuumu, Cayuse, Umatilla, & Walla Walla folks in what is now called Bend, Oregon) www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Who is going to tell him

Hvor mange fotballspillere trengs det for å skifte en lyspære?

Beste OL-øyeblikk til nå er Francesca Lollobrigida og sønnen hennes. “Mamma er olympisk mester!” sa en i teamet til ungen. Så utrolig kult. Heia mammaene!!!

Just a girl, standing in front of a restaurant's social media, begging them to put their goddamn address somehwere in the header

Italienerne har rett og slett hengt opp saurons øye som ol-ild

Gartnerlosjen besøker OL?

And Just Like That season four: Miranda trawls the Epstein files for mention of Mr Big

Can Jeremy Allen White guest star so that Miss Piggy can declare that she's replacing Kermy with Carmy? And Fozzie can have a hilarious misunderstanding when she says something about loving The Bear?

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

"In 2024, almost three of every four restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant, according to data from the National Restaurant Association." A lot of people are focusing on the cost in this story but I want to focus on something else: the intangibles and a culture that's bad at valuing them.

Fødevarechecken: I kan simpelt hen ikke både få Statens Arbejdsprogram (=ca 15% nedgang i antal ‘kolde hænder’ i løbet af det næste år) og finmasket offentlig service. Pick one. Sig det videre til #dkmedier som snart bør begynde at spørge til hvad de besparelser betyder for kvalitet. #dkpol

Generation X's pejsevideo.

They stole his Spidey backpack.

Det er supert at bokbad går så bra at Litt.huset ønsker større saler. Men er det ikke et selvskudd å sette skaperne av litteraturen – oss rufsete forfattere og oversettere som labber inn hver dag, og ildsjelene i org. som ivaretar oss – på gaten? Står det ikke til slutt bare metadebatt igjen?

Jeg er en av de mange forfatterne på Skriveloftet. Til sommeren kastes vi ut. Det gjør også de små organisasjonene som holder til på Litteraturhuset. Vi skaper og forvalter det frie ord. Det er sørgelig at bikuben vår skal bli et glossy konferansesenter. www.forfattersentrum.no/artikler/fry...

Hvor er det sørgeligt, at Ditte Giese er død. Hendes egen sidste klumme i Politiken er så god, og Mads Zacho Teglskovs nekrolog må være en af de bedste, jeg har læst. En hyldest til livet og juicyness og en brandfakkel til os alle, der burde tage os sammen og nyde livet endnu mere, mens vi har det.

Langt fakkeltog fra parken til minnesmerket på Åsbråten i kveld. Holmlia glemmer aldri Benjamin Hermansen. Det må ikke resten av Norge heller!

The Best Book Covers of the Past Decade (picked by book cover designers). Lots of great work in here. [kottke.org]

ICE aren’t going around trying to find the most kind and generous people, they’re just killing the people who try to prevent them from kidnapping people. And it turns out the type of person who will put themselves in harm’s way in order to protect a stranger is usually a pretty good person

Kanske 30 000 mördade i Iran, enligt lokala myndigheter. Ofattbart. Ogreppbart.

Når det hvite huset skriver “embrace the penguin” er det umulig at det ikke er en referanse til batmanskurken The Penguin. Det sier faktisk en hel del. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin...

Fy faen.

Greia er at vi tar ikke mot flyktninger fordi de skal bli Gode Nordmenn eller fordi de er nyttig arbeidskraft. Vi tar dem mot fordi vi etter krigen skrev under på, menneskerettighetserklæringen, som i art. 14 slår fast at det er en rettighet for alle å søke beskyttelse i et annet land.

Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.

Småprat mot fascisme. Strikking mot fascisme. Yoghurtnøttspising mot fascisme. Vedfyring mot fascisme. Litt lav-intensive tiltak, kanskje, men.

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

At least 1,850 protesters have been killed in more than two weeks of anti-regime demonstrations in Iran, rights group says. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4qOHgmR

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One of the things I am proudest of in Minneapolis. I brag about them to anyone who will listen. I fucking love Brass Solidarity. They bring us courage and joy and will.

Slightly diminish a game: Zelda: Tears of the Municipality

bread AND roses? it’s more likely than you think

Well, that was a fast year.

La "La elva leve" (1980) koma på Blu-ray! Det er nokre dagar att av folkefinansieringa av Blu-ray-utgjevinga av denne filmen, og eg byrjar verta nervøs. Det må då vera 24 personar til som vil ha denne i hylla? www.platekompaniet.no/film-tv/blu-...

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

uh holy SHIT?

Det er så sørgeligt at jeg kan ikke engang