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they. norse & viking stuff in 🇮🇸 but mostly whining about uspol
Kick over the crab bucket and go to the club
Kick over the crab bucket and go to the club
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WHY YOU DON'T NEED NEIL GAIMAN TO READ NORSE MYTHOLOGY, A THREAD, OR: THE PROSE EDDA IS REALLY SHORT
by me, a Norse myth guy
by me, a Norse myth guy
HAHAHAHAHA SO THAT WAS IT. Thanks Chuck!
The last time Chuck Schumer did something everyone hated it turned out he saved democracy by funding the courts so hows about we all take a deep breath and assume he knows what he's doing
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
HAHAHAHAHA SO THAT WAS IT. Thanks Chuck!
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*wokely* “only white dudes should hold public office”
Sarah McBride is an excellent example of how identitarian representation in public space cannot be the only metric of value - if given the choice between McBride and a cis white man with reliably good politics I'd pick the latter because her positionality only helps if she uses understanding to act.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
*wokely* “only white dudes should hold public office”
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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chuck schumer didn’t even vote yes and the same corner who backed fetterman (who did vote yes) were chill with a guy with an SS tattoo unironically, and im supposed to believe antisemitism doesn’t play at least a *small* part in why so many people just hate schumer? be so fucking fr right now
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
chuck schumer didn’t even vote yes and the same corner who backed fetterman (who did vote yes) were chill with a guy with an SS tattoo unironically, and im supposed to believe antisemitism doesn’t play at least a *small* part in why so many people just hate schumer? be so fucking fr right now
I don't think anyone properly appreciated how insane it was that Tim Walz was the faculty liaison for a GSA *that* early
The thing about getting older I was determined to avoid was telling younger people how much better it was when I was young. Now I find myself having to explain to people how much worse it was. I was there Gandalf.
*deep breath*
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I don't think anyone properly appreciated how insane it was that Tim Walz was the faculty liaison for a GSA *that* early
The last time Chuck Schumer did something everyone hated it turned out he saved democracy by funding the courts so hows about we all take a deep breath and assume he knows what he's doing
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The last time Chuck Schumer did something everyone hated it turned out he saved democracy by funding the courts so hows about we all take a deep breath and assume he knows what he's doing
Eric the Red's farmhouse has a great lawn
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Eric the Red's farmhouse has a great lawn
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Perhaps the most well known antagonist/trouble maker in the Medieval North. Is he an antagonist? No doubt trouble maker! He is Loki!
Have a paper on Loki or other antagonist/outlaws/trouble makers? Send your papers for the The 15th Annual Háskóli Islands Student Conference on the Medieval North!
Have a paper on Loki or other antagonist/outlaws/trouble makers? Send your papers for the The 15th Annual Háskóli Islands Student Conference on the Medieval North!
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Perhaps the most well known antagonist/trouble maker in the Medieval North. Is he an antagonist? No doubt trouble maker! He is Loki!
Have a paper on Loki or other antagonist/outlaws/trouble makers? Send your papers for the The 15th Annual Háskóli Islands Student Conference on the Medieval North!
Have a paper on Loki or other antagonist/outlaws/trouble makers? Send your papers for the The 15th Annual Háskóli Islands Student Conference on the Medieval North!
I truly think we wouldn't be here if the stress and age monster had given Biden arthritis rather than reactivating the stutter
Biden’s biggest problem was his life long speech impediment, Trump’s greatest strength his ability to lie with a straight face.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I truly think we wouldn't be here if the stress and age monster had given Biden arthritis rather than reactivating the stutter
I have either made successful modifications to my first big journal publication or I have ruined it completely
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I have either made successful modifications to my first big journal publication or I have ruined it completely
So, this reminds me of this guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_...
which would maybe indicate Hustler Doe is undocumented
which would maybe indicate Hustler Doe is undocumented
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
So, this reminds me of this guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_...
which would maybe indicate Hustler Doe is undocumented
which would maybe indicate Hustler Doe is undocumented
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They can't rig an election if it isn't even remotely close. Something to remember before dooming about next year.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
They can't rig an election if it isn't even remotely close. Something to remember before dooming about next year.
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The winning Democratic message in 2025:
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The winning Democratic message in 2025:
Honestly at the rate Chicago Pope is going I wouldn't be really surprised if he starts excommunicating in the very near future
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Honestly at the rate Chicago Pope is going I wouldn't be really surprised if he starts excommunicating in the very near future
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
I had my weekly Treat (a chimichanga) and forgot that the reason I stopped with the weekly Treats is GLP agonist converts them into pure nausea within ten minutes 😭
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I had my weekly Treat (a chimichanga) and forgot that the reason I stopped with the weekly Treats is GLP agonist converts them into pure nausea within ten minutes 😭
bizarrely the pretty privilege has made her less competent at some things because people just like, do them for her, or don't mind when she does it. it's a net negative! and also she has never paid for a drink. duality of man
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
bizarrely the pretty privilege has made her less competent at some things because people just like, do them for her, or don't mind when she does it. it's a net negative! and also she has never paid for a drink. duality of man
marrying someone who is so gorgeous she gets stopped in the street to get modeling gigs has made me very aware of pretty privilege in a way I hadn't really even thought of before. I'm not even mad it's just genuinely astounding
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
marrying someone who is so gorgeous she gets stopped in the street to get modeling gigs has made me very aware of pretty privilege in a way I hadn't really even thought of before. I'm not even mad it's just genuinely astounding
that you are such a good dad song but about how people react to my (weird toad) tismy executive dysfunction and my wife's (ethereal goddess) tismy executive dysfunction
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
that you are such a good dad song but about how people react to my (weird toad) tismy executive dysfunction and my wife's (ethereal goddess) tismy executive dysfunction
A lot of veteran hospitality industry people like tips. Not all of them but it's not exactly a fringe delusion. And boy do I have Things to say about Icelandic greed
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A lot of veteran hospitality industry people like tips. Not all of them but it's not exactly a fringe delusion. And boy do I have Things to say about Icelandic greed
All my American friends who work bars here got really annoyed when they found out tips weren't a thing
Another Icelandic observation: you don’t have to tip here. That’s because service industry workers are paid a living wage and customers aren’t expected to subsidize the restaurant owner’s greed.
It occurs to me that is the American way: Subsidizing the greed of the rich.
It occurs to me that is the American way: Subsidizing the greed of the rich.
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
All my American friends who work bars here got really annoyed when they found out tips weren't a thing
My favorite part about living in a place literally called LAND OF ICE is that the only city on the glaciated, everwintry island loses its mind and falls to the floor screaming and crying when it snows a weeny bit
Pathetic
Pathetic
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My favorite part about living in a place literally called LAND OF ICE is that the only city on the glaciated, everwintry island loses its mind and falls to the floor screaming and crying when it snows a weeny bit
Pathetic
Pathetic
I'm in New York City and as a superior Western New Yorker I gotta ask: why the fuck you guys say waiting on line
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm in New York City and as a superior Western New Yorker I gotta ask: why the fuck you guys say waiting on line
Okay so, this is a...hggggh of mine.
I know the impulse to feel pity about this, but, well. Modern Norse heathenism has all of its roots in 19thc romantic, nationalistic (read: racist) new religious movements popular in Germany. The Nazis "had" those symbols before there were coherently Nazis
I know the impulse to feel pity about this, but, well. Modern Norse heathenism has all of its roots in 19thc romantic, nationalistic (read: racist) new religious movements popular in Germany. The Nazis "had" those symbols before there were coherently Nazis
I feel so fucking bad for genuine, non-bigot Norse pagans! It sucks so fucking much that so many of their symbols have been co-opted and they have to loudly and vigorously signal they are not Nazis in every possible way :/
October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Okay so, this is a...hggggh of mine.
I know the impulse to feel pity about this, but, well. Modern Norse heathenism has all of its roots in 19thc romantic, nationalistic (read: racist) new religious movements popular in Germany. The Nazis "had" those symbols before there were coherently Nazis
I know the impulse to feel pity about this, but, well. Modern Norse heathenism has all of its roots in 19thc romantic, nationalistic (read: racist) new religious movements popular in Germany. The Nazis "had" those symbols before there were coherently Nazis
While I admit to having a tattoo of the associated magical sigil, sadly the nábrók probably were never real. As in no one ever made one. There's weird stuff in grimoires that's only there to be weird. The model in Hólmavík is wax 😞
In regards to skinning people, while I don't know anything about wearing faces, there is a purported bit of Icelandic folk magic that involves placing a coin in the groin in a pair of pants made from the tanned skin of man. They call this Nábrók: 'corpse britches' or necropants
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
While I admit to having a tattoo of the associated magical sigil, sadly the nábrók probably were never real. As in no one ever made one. There's weird stuff in grimoires that's only there to be weird. The model in Hólmavík is wax 😞