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maggajo.bsky.social
@maggajo.bsky.social
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translator, writer, poet, avid reader and constantly amazed by the weird and funny and wonderful things this world has to offer. also interested in politics, which kind of upends that delight at times
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vhsteacher.com
www.messynessychic.com/2017/05/10/t...
The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making
Where do I start with this photograph? The dapper shoes? The Gene Kelly stance? The delicate ease with which he's holding that enormous camera? Or the fact that all of this is happening at some unthin...
www.messynessychic.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
maggajo.bsky.social
orð dagsins er "aulahrollur"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
This makes me sad
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
“Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us [...] The debate here isn’t whether to have these programs, but how to improve them.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
I'm fortunate enough not to be American but how does it feel to have an insane president? For the rest of us Earthlings, watching you from the outside, it's horrifying enough, but are you ok? www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.
Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.
www.cbsnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
maggajo.bsky.social
Icelandic women's strike 2025: more than 50,000 people at the outdoor rally in Reykjavík alone plus well-attended rallies in other towns all over the country. (Icelandic population: ca. 390.000)
www.ruv.is/english/2025...
Women's Strike 2025 - live blog - RÚV.is
Events are being held across the country today in connection with the women’s strike. The occasion marks half a century since the (first) Women’s Day Off in 1975. Organisers say there has been a setba...
www.ruv.is
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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mims.bsky.social
In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...
Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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darrencullen.bsky.social
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
even in Iceland: www.visir.is/g/2025279126...
Veru­lega á­hyggju­full og þorir ekki heim til Banda­ríkjanna - Vísir
Veronica Fríða Callahan, hálfíslensk og hálfbandarísk kona, segir ekkert annað hafa komið til greina en að skipuleggja No Kings mótmæli hér á Íslandi í dag líkt og var gert í öllum ríkjum Bandaríkjann...
www.visir.is
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
"It is not the case that for a society to benefit from the culture of print that every citizen must be a bookworm. And yet if one habit unites the leaders, inventors, scientists and artists who have forged our civilisation it is reading. "
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
maggajo.bsky.social
Interesting
Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions:
I've reviewed every prophecy on the Antichrist, and what I read blew my mind. (Updated with new signs, 6/10/2020)
www.benjaminlcorey.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Panel One: A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room. A voice offstage says "You can't survive on books alone" The woman replies "Maybe I can!" Panel Two: "How?" asks the voice "I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman Panel Three: Caption: However The book is filled with yet more books. A skull sits on the chair. It says "I regret nothing!"
August 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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mirandayaver.bsky.social
Jack White is so badass and I love it.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 22
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
officialjackwhite "Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear" that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being. officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and "ample time on at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves. And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.
August 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
From noon on Monday, Íslandspóstur will no longer accept parcels to be shipped to the United States. [...]
Other postal companies across Europe have also announced that they will temporarily stop accepting parcels while working on changes to their procedures.
No parcel deliveries to the USA from Monday - RÚV.is
Íslandspóstur will on Monday temporarily stop accepting parcels intended for delivery to the United States. The reason is new US requirements for changed customs procedures, which were imposed at shor...
www.ruv.is
August 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
"Trump and his administration have claimed to have helped settle the conflicts between Israel and Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia."
Yeah - right.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Trump claims to have ended six wars – is that true?
Trump and his administration claim to have helped settle conflicts from the Middle East to Asia, yet the reality is more complex
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
maggajo.bsky.social
"Evidently Putin knows that whispering Trump’s favourite lies into his ear is the way to his heart. It worked." ...
"Trump’s humiliation was complete. But all was not lost. At least no one was talking about Jeffrey Epstein or the price of vegetables."
Love in a cold climate: Putin romances Trump in Alaska with talk of rigged elections and a trip to Moscow
For those who feared the summit on Ukraine might resemble Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler in 1938, the reality was worse
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
"Of course your feed algorithms ‘understand’ you! They’re scraping all your personal data and selling it to the highest bidder ..."
Did the system update ruin your boyfriend? Love in a time of ChatGPT | Arwa Mahdawi
Some people with AI partners expressed dismay at the new GPT-5 model
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
"The White House pushes back aggressively on the issue of Trump’s mental fitness."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity
Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped Felis when they created their official constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...
Old timey star chart illustration of a shorthaired ginger and white cat floating amongst overlapping grids and little black stars. The word "Felis" is written underneath.
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
Even they can see it
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
maggajo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys | Arwa Mahdawi
The Israeli PM went on Full Send Podcast ‘to reach young people’. After his appearance, its YouTube channel lost more than 100,000 subscribers in less than a day
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
Individuals aren´t naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are ... well ... human beings.
Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)
July 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
Midnight on the smoking balcony
June 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
maggajo.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
maggajo.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'
For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?
www.bbc.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM