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Author of 'THE ALMOST NEARLY PERFECT PEOPLE', 'SUSHI AND BEYOND', and other such books. Denmark correspondent, Monocle magazine. Contributing editor, Condé Nast Traveller. michaelbooth.substack.com
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www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

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“They were found and decoded by a team including George Lasry, Israeli computer scientist, Satoshi Tomokiyo, a Japanese astrophysicist, and Norbert Biermann, German music professor. They routinely go through archives and decode ancient ciphers purely for fun.” All crime writers rush to typewriters.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

God, totally.

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Wait. WHAT????

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How did James Brown ever make a living in the world of words? "I didn’t really know what I would be visiting, but as a former NME writer it dawned on me that I was finally swapping sex and drugs and rock’n’roll for seeds and buds and garden rollers." www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Richard, thanks for providing a little beauty into my day with these posts.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Gummiagtige porrer. Stenhårde, sure ferskner. Grisekød, der smager af vand. Er I danskere blevet fuldstændig ligeglade med, hvad I putter i munden?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Oh stop it, The Times.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I made a report on MAD7 monocle.com/player/?uuid... #MAD7

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

When in Rome... www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... Alice Thomsen leaving her bike unlocked in Copenhagen. (I don't know a single Copenhagener who hasn't had their bike stolen but, hey-ho).

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I’ve always felt people should pronounce words exactly how they want (though I’m not keen on ‘haitch’ or ‘mischiev-i-ous’). But pronouncing the ‘j’ in Beijing softly like French ‘je’ instead of hard like ‘jingle’ pains me because people think it’s accurate. It isn’t.

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

Kenneth Branagh would make an amazing Noel Edmonds in The Noel Edmonds Story.

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In 2010, Mark Zuckberberg became Time's "Person of The Year". The article is surreal reading today. Here are just two quotes: "As for money, his indifference to it is almost pathological" "Facebook wants to...tame the howling mob...The Internet, and the whole world, will feel more like a family"

submitted 34 days ago • 62 comments

Someone just began an email to me with: 'I'm closing the loop on the previous outreach'.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

And there, in three statistics, is everything that's gone wrong.

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Harald Slott-Møller's 'Summer Day,' (1888) was painted in Skagen, in the far north of Denmark, the fishing town made famous by artists who first discovered the area and its special quality of light in the 1800s.

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Just reading about Copenhagen's "lesser-explored Latin Quarter" and the "suburb" of Nørrebro in The Times Travel section. www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

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A 74-year-old truck driver!

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

100? Ambitious.

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'The snakey fish'.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Some newspaper corrections are more important than others!

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Scandalous. Shameful. Not In My Name!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Is it the Popemobile?

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 66 days ago • 804 comments

What, in his head, does he imagine he looks like, I wonder?

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Pre-internet, apparently Danish comics simply copied Monty Python. This is the 'Argument' sketch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RogJ...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I needed this. Quality #content.

submitted 75 days ago • 7 comments

Me too. Still chuckle when I recall the interior of the 2003 Chrysler Sebring.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Today I am visiting a literal chocolate factory. Excited to see whether I am Charlie, Augustus or Mike TV. Fear I know the answer...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

this reads oddly, almost as if written by AI

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

France, the country of true justice

submitted 82 days ago • 31 comments

Thanks Nick. It is a fairly compelling argument, I think.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

No need for the quotation marks.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

'Ditchling Beacon, East Sussex.' (1936) For many years Charles Knight lived in Ditching, a picturesque village at the foot of the South Downs - many of his landscapes are of a similar quality to this work, yet they are often stored away and so Knight is another obscure artist.

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The Happiest Danes aren't even Danes open.substack.com/pub/michaelb...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 87 days ago • 9 comments

What are the best songs by Prince? Well I’m glad you asked

submitted 90 days ago • 9 comments

Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.

submitted 93 days ago • 187 comments

*coughs* politiken.dk/debat/debati...

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*coughs* politiken.dk/debat/debati...

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@aiannucci.bsky.social Talk of war with Denmark has reminded me of Time Trumpet...the CGI is amazing for 2006.

submitted 92 days ago • 7 comments

Last year I made a BBC series about what happens when group chats go wrong. A US national guard officer called Jack Teixera posted classified details (Ukraine casualty figures and security assessments) in a group chat. He got 15 years in jail. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

submitted 93 days ago • 92 comments

An enjoyable distraction so far today: 'Dieter Rams pointing at things he doesn't like' (I think he is in the very great Hamburg design museum). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyA...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Less than three months and then the days start getting shorter again.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Been worrying about this. And my cholesterol.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Beers on you Andrew?

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Like seeing young men smoking pipes. All is well with the world somehow.

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