tonyreads.bsky.social
a Texan in Norway, stereotypical coffee-drinking book nerd, works in tech for the Norwegian Refugee Council
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IYKYK ...
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Once again, I feel like XKCD characters are all people I know.
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“I've stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” Trump said. #Newspeak
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@brandaid-world.bsky.social do you have the same in DK?
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maybe, like the Nightingale in the fairy tale, they are offended to have been replaced by the chirping of automatons in our earbuds and have left the kingdom
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The "Please" is a nice touch.
Always be polite to your robot servants lest they some day become your master.
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I came here to say this
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In an earlier time, all the young goths dreamed of starting a club "just like the one in The Hunger", bought vintage broaches for our collars, played Bauhaus on our Walkmans, and aspired to become a Bowie.
Different vampires but maybe the same species.
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I would like to see it as parallel Georgian upstairs/downstairs stories with a stuffy individualistic James Bond like international intrigue upstairs and a budding class war downstairs as the different trades form a family bond over beer, god, and the horses. Austen-tatious action.
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Well, I am a bit of a fanboy, so yes - but having just started I am still very much in the world building phase and waiting for the more personal and specific - will be interesting to see whether the epic sweep of history keeps things a bit at arm's length or how she grounds the story in character.
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Here in Norway, Teslas are enormously popular with EVs outselling combustion and Tesla dominating those. As a Texan, I am glad not to see our giant gas guzzling behemoths clumsily navigating tiny European roads and think Musk's politics will turn buyers to alternative local EV options.
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Best album ever for driving in the rain
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It's brutal. As our sector is massively impacted (www.reuters.com/world/norweg...) we're following all the news all the time and can't really afford not to. Self care is just trying to understand that I can only do what I can do and that I really need to do whatever that is.
Pastry also helps.
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a body wants what a body wants ... I'm planning a pastry-based diet based on the feedback I get from body
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thanks for the appreciation on this post, y’all! here’s a list of black-owned bookstores you can filter by location aalbc.com/bookstores/l...
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Not really looking for inner peace, more on accepting the limitations of what I can do to make a difference. Fortunately my day job, like yours, contributes to that.
Stay informed. Stay angry. Know that you can only do what you can do ... but go do that and do it well.
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Lovely.
There is a small, almost throwaway, scene in the movie Cradle Will Rock where Deco era Robber Barons (Rockefeller, et al.) decide to sponsor abstract art because it isn't so obviously political like Diego Rivera's.
As much as I love this art, I fear the scene rings true.
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hadn't heard of them before, this is fun
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Excellent.
I can't wear acetate frames, they deeply discolor in under 6 months - so have experimented with wood (fragile) and am now on my second pair of recycled plastic but would love to have more choices for mood, formality, fabulousness but the progressive lenses are just so $pendy.
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There are a lot who speak powerfully (Bob Vylan, Sleaford Mods, and I still count Billy Bragg as current) but none of these are powerful ... maybe Beyoncé is the most popular political musician?
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"talented weirdo" is an epitaph to aspire to
#goals
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I never reread, it feels like cheating on my TBR with an ex.
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Cake for my wife's birthday and trying to keep the poor puppy calm and quiet as evil fireworks echo all around us. It is still the norm in Scandinavia that everyone sets off an enormous quantity of enormous rockets where ever they are at midnight.
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trees of oslo - scene from a dog walk
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Stunning.
Similar mood here - scenes from my 25 December dog walk in Oslo.
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Noe I am picturing the sermon from Cold Comfort Farm, «There will be no butter in Hell!»
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is this a variation on Hamlet's, ""how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar" speech?
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Ooh, interesting, Niamh - my memoir-in-progress is about when my father opened The Unicorn Center in '79 and ended up taking us, as kids, into the mountains of Mexico in a (failed) attempt to learn the secrets of the Huichol peyote shamans. Less politically "radical" & more New Age ...
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Somehow this seems to call for a Rhapsody in Blue style soundtrack
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Last night, I went to put our fur-companion's coat on him before heading out into the fresh snow for late-night walkies but it no longer fits around him. Perhaps we have been too generous with the treats ... or he is preparing for a long winter's hibernation.
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Looks like the puppy is off to fetch the great ball just sitting there on the horizon.