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Amanda Farah
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Woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.
Your foreign correspondent.
Sometime music writer.
Kombucha socialist.
Pointy dog owner.
Hemmelig dansker.
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Happy Halloween from me and my hellhound.
A black galgo wearing a skeleton costume. A black galgo wearing a skeleton costume. A black galgo wearing a skeleton costume.
October 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Copenhagen Airport is currently closed with all outbound flights cancelled and all inbound flights diverted because of drone activity.

DR has a live blog, but since there’s no actual information, we’re getting useful headlines like: “No doubt about it, things are not as they usually are.”
Translation of a screenshot from DR (Danish Broadcasting): Reporter: No doubt, things are not as they usually are. Queues to get help are now even longer at check-in kiosks, says my colleague, Daniel Myrup, who is on location at the airport. “There’s no doubt about it, there’s something that is not as it should be,” he said.
September 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The organ at the Great Church of St. Bavo in Haarlem. Both Mozart and Handel played it.
August 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The highlight of my day was walking through the park and a little girl looking at my dog and bursting into a fit of giggles. I mean, who could blame her?
A black galgo with his ears pricked out like a fruit bat stands in the dirt at a park.
July 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Existential translations.
A graphic from Kyoto train station on where to find the smoking are. The text reads: “Trying to find a smoking area on my trip was a little journey in itself. Before I discovered the Map of Smoking Areas, I had been an endless wanderer. Although I smoke, I hate other people’s smoke. Empty cans and bottles are not substitutes for small ashtrays.” A white piece of laminated paper that reads: “Caution. There’s a beehive ahead. Although they are quietly bee, Please walk quietly as not to irritate the bees.” There is a cartoon bee underneath the text with a hand drawn arrow. Written in marker, it says, “Inside of the corner.” A text from the Kanazawa Mechanical Doll Museum. It reads: “Greetings. During the Edo period, people enjoyed their lives more than we expect now.” It continues: “‘Karakuri’ are mechanical toys and puppets born from such an enjoyable atmosphere of the period. Although they are just toys, the delicate workmanship tells the beginning of unique Japanese skills supported by craftsman’s creativeness, ingenuity, and commitment to beauty. These features have satisfied the playful and curious minds of people and have been handed down through generations to this day. “When we think of the science and skills at the early stage during the Edo period and their subsequent progress in Japan, we realize we realize how important a role karakuri has played. “This museum exhibits ‘the world of karakuri’, which developed as a unique Japanese culture, with a focus on Ono Benkichi, a karakuri maker in the Kaya Province. Please enjoy the world of unique Japanese toys.” A sign which reads “Today was finished.”
May 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Protest pup
A black galgo in a purple raincoat stands with a sign. The sign is green lettering on a pink background. It reads “nothing cute about pink washing.”
May 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Posh Isolation’s farewell show at Nikolaj Kunsthal set up in the middle of the Lars von Trier exhibition. Maybe peak Copenhagen?
Moodily lit wedding dress in a white gallery. Crowd of people both sitting and standing in a gallery with the frame of a wooden shelter among them. A decadently laid table in shambles with dried flowers strewn about, messed up linens, and broken china around. Vanity Productions and Emma Acs performing in the loft of a former church in front of the pipe organ.
March 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Galgos del Sol is just one of many, many organizations working to protect these dogs from cruelty. But until then, they’re just treating a symptom.

Galgos just want to be around their people and sleep on a comfy sofa. They deserve all those things. #FreetheGalgo

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A black galgo wearing colorful striped pajamas is asleep on a black sofa with some small plush toys.
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Galgos make wonderful pets. They’re loyal, loving, and very silly. They sleep about 16 hours a day, and are unexpectedly great apartment dogs.

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A close up of a black galgo with a colorful rope toy. His snoot is right up to the camera and he is having fun playing.
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Animal welfare laws in Spain don’t apply to hunting dogs like galgos and podencos. There is no recourse for abusing, abandoning, or killing these dogs.

There is a very rural-urban divide over hunting dogs. Many galgos get rehomed in Spain, and a lot of people are working to change the laws.

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Two black galgos stand on pavement. One is larger and older and wearing a grey coat. The smaller one is wearing a purple coat. They are both looking at something out of frame of the camera.
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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It’s World Galgo Day and I want to share a little about how I got my beloved pointy dog.

February 1st marks the end of hunting season in Spain. This tends to coincide with large numbers of galgos being surrendered or abandoned. 1/

#diadelgalgo
A black galgo wearing a plaid snood and a blue coat.
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Christmas is when I make Lebanese-style baklava. I’m the only one in the family who learned from my aunt, so it’s an annual production with enough for everyone to take some home.
A large round tray of baklava, cut into diamond shaped pieces. A big section of it has been cut out. There is a small metal spatula there.
December 26, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Serving fish.
#ifykyk
Close up of a table cloth that says “the feast of the seven fishes” with illustrated holly, eels, muscles and other fish. A magnet of Santa’s sleigh being pulled by seven fish. It says “WTF where’s the fish?” Because the expectation for an Italian Christmas Eve would be to eat seven different kinds of fish.
December 25, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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Through my friends with small children, I have learned that two members of the boy band McFly have written the children’s morality tale “The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas.”
The cover of the children’s book “The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas,”!featuring an illustration of a red T-Rex and a boy balanced on his tail. None of the horrors within are revealed through the cover
December 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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“He looks like a tiger,” said the man with the small dog who walked past us.

I honestly don’t know what he meant.
A black galgo wearing a high-necked blue coat with a blue and red snood. “Tiger” is not a word I would use to describe this dog.
December 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Love that the block lists got him before I even noticed.
A screenshot showing that the account for Matt Ygelsias was preemptively blocked by the list “A Very British Bigotry”.
November 15, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Orwell went as a skeleton for Halloween. Unless you’re an indie rock fan, in which case he went as Phoebe Bridgers.

#skyhounds
A black galgo wearing a black body suit with bones sewn on it to look like a children’s skeleton Halloween costume standing among some leaves. A black galgo wearing a black body suit with bones sewn on it to look like a children’s skeleton Halloween costume standing in front of a shop window with craft paper skeletons. A black galgo wearing a black body suit with bones sewn on it to look like a children’s skeleton Halloween costume standing in front of hay bales with jack o lanterns.
October 31, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Mini cross stitch (2x3 inches) done as a gift. Small projects are such a nice brain reset – I wish I did more on this scale.
A cross stitch embroidery of a sunset over mountains with a sail boat on a lake in muted, minimalist design and colors.
October 13, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Annual Great Global Greyhound Walk (but they’re mostly galgos).
A group of six galgos, plus two Italian Greyhounds, stand in the grass. They are all attentively looking in the same direction because someone had treats. Most of them are wearing sweaters or jackets. A grey galga wearing a pink sweater standing on a dock in front of a lake. A group of galgos and people walking through a forest.
September 29, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Are we making the dog a Halloween costume? Maybe.
#SkyHounds
Sewing pattern pieces of a dog skeleton laid out on a sighthound’s jumpsuit. It looks like a children’s skeleton costume, but it is for a dog.
September 26, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Bert in my feed being relatable AF.
Twitter post from the Sesame Street Muppet Bert declaring: “Do you know what’s my cup of tea? A nice cup of tea.” Thank you for being relatable, Bert.
September 24, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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Swathes of northern Copenhagen are boycotting Coke, but our Swedish neighbors have come up with an alternative.
A can of Palestine cola.
September 17, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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As Trixie Mattel once said, pizzas are everywhere.
A hooded crow in a tree, sinking its beak into a slice of pizza.
September 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Point/counterpoint
A wall-sized print of work by the collective Superflex that says: “Foreigners, please don’t leave us alone with the Danes!” This bright orange work has become ubiquitous in Denmark over the past 20 years. A blue print by the artist Nermin Duraković that reads: “Multiculturalists, please deal with the Danish racism and leave us foreigners alone!”
August 30, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Pretty girls! They have similar coloring to my galgo, Orwell:
A black galgo with a white chest and white paws sits with his front paws on one stair and his back legs on the stairs above.
August 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM