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Fredrik Graver
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Professor of film school pedagogy and Head of Studies at the Norwegian Film School. Reader of science fiction. Lover of dogs. Watcher of sports. Drinker of […]

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Every now and then I open my junk drawers (yes, plural) and look at what I have there. While it’s mostly old cables and chargers, there’s enough other stuff that I think «I should go through all that stuff. Someday.» And then I put things back and close it up again…
On the left: a black iPod with click wheel. From sometime around 2003-04. On the right: a yellow Sony AM/FM Sports Walkman. Perhaps from 1986-ish.
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Nope. No aurora to see here.
The first of two images of a back yard seen through a rain-covered window. There are a handful of magpies on the grass, hunkering low, the tree in the background is bare of leaves and the sky is grey, wet, and heavy. The second of two shots showing a wet and dreary back yard. In this shot, the focus is on the many rain drops on the window, and the background is out of focus.
November 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Today’s mood.
A selfie of a pale man nearing 60, wearing an orange t-shirt and holding a glass of single malt scotch. In the background is water, some hills and vegetation and a clear blue sky.
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#silentsunday
A forest scene on a sunny afternoon. The foreground is dominated by tall, straight red pine while a clearing can be seen in the background. Beyond the clearing are more trees. The forest floor is covered by low, green vegetation — which, on closer inspection, would reveal themselves to be wild blueberry bushes — while a pond can be glimpsed in the clearing (which, on closer inspection, would reveal itself to be a marsh). There is a small piece of the forest path in the lower left foreground. The sky is a brilliant and cloudless blue.
September 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Neville’s really getting into this ‘working from home’ thing…

#mastodog
Neville, the not-so-small-as-he-thinks labradoodle sleeps contentedly in a tight space under a desk. He’s jammed in between the wall, a garbage can, and the office chair — all the while ensuring he can track every movement of the chair’s occupant by lying on the occupant’s right foot.
August 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I missed #silentsunday yesterday, and so I’ll post this tiny, little toadstool here as a #mondaymushroom instead.
A tiny, perfectly round toadstool in the upper right quadrant of the picture. The ground is covered by decaying leaves, and a bright green blade of grass creates protrudes towards the camera on the far right. The toadstool is bright red with white spots.
August 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The great thing about working at home is that I don’t need any form of timer to remind me to take breaks. Neville does the job so much better. Not pomodoro — dogadoro ftw!

#mastodog
Neville, the charcoal grey labradoodle, seated up. His left paw is on the knee of yours truly (the only part of me visible) while his right paw is on the arm rest of the chair. He is looking up, wondering why the hand that was, until just now, petting him is doing so no more. Behind him are book cases filled with science fiction.
August 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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@geirertzgaard
July 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Hey, @reclaimhosting — I’m having trouble logging in to my WordPress site through external apps (in this case, the official WordPress app on iOS). Any idea what I can do to fix this…?
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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These things don’t /actually/ go together, they just look like it… I’m also missing a computer running MS-DOS in order to see if the disks are still viable; likely not, since v.2 of CorelDraw was released in 1991… And, even if I had a computer from that era […]

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Five 3 1/2’’ micro floppy disks, labelled Corel Draw disk 1, 2, and 3, and Corel Draw 2.01 Upgrade disk 1 and 2. Also, a floppy disk drive, that once upon a time belonged with a 1st generation iMac.
July 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#silentsunday
A tree in a thicket, covered in webbing from tent caterpillars.
June 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I’m thinking this is either an interdimensional glimpse into Shelob’s lair, or else Christo was here…
A tree trunk in a thicket on a summer day. Normally that would be no big deal, but at this time the trunk and some of the surrounding shrubs are covered in webbing made by (I think) tent caterpillars.
June 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Ingen overraskelse her. #valgomat #stortingsvalg
Resultat fra NRKs Valgomat som viser jeg er 85% enig med SV, 82% enig med Rødt og 77% enig med MDG.
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I’ll have to negotiate the reading order with my wife, but I think we’re covered for a few weeks…

I suspect she’ll want to start with The Last Song of Penelope, since we’ve both read the first two.

Moving Pictures will, in fact, be my first Discworld, so I […]

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4 shiny, new books: The Last Song of Penelope by Claire North, Semiosis by Sue Burke, Universality by Natasha Brown and Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.
April 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#silentsunday
A snow-covered landscape. In the middle are two dead trees, and in between them the last glimpse of the setting sun at the ridge in the distance. The snow is bathed in golden light, and the sky is clear.
February 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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It's only funny 'cause it's so painfully true.
A screen grab with the text: Dear America, You've pissed off Quebec. Do you know how badly you've got to fuck up to get the Quebecios to be proudly Canadian?
February 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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#silentsunday
The skyline after sunset. The sky is dominated by clouds lit bright red, with hues of orange, yellow, and pink. At the horizon is a break in the clouds and yellow glow shows the trail of the recently set sun. The hills and trees are dark, in anticipation of the immanent winter night. The snow in the foreground is lit with a pink glow from the reflected lights from the clouds.
January 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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#silentsunday
Sunrise after the longest night of the year. There are fields and trees in the foreground, a farm hiding behind the first ridge. The valley beyond is filled with fog, barely exposing the hills on the other side. The sun is obscured by a long cloud, but a bright yellow glow escapes from underneath. Everything is covered by the new snow that fell in the night.
December 22, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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#silentsunday
An overview of the local village after sunset from part-way up a hill. The hill in question is used as a ski hill in winter, and the caretakers have already begun tamping down the snow. The village is in the mid ground, with outdoor lights creating pools of brightness on the snow. The local church, towards the right, is lit with orange-looking floodlights. In the distance is a glimpse of lake Mjøsa, and the hills beyond are dark silhouettes dotted with lights. The sky is dark blue with an orange glow still visible on the horizon. I recently learned there has been a church in this area since the 1100s. The foundations of the current church are from the early 1500s, but it has burned down at least twice. The current structure is from the end of the 1700s.
December 8, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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#silentsunday
A field in the foregrount, the grass and moss fringed with frost. Beyond the field is a slope up towards some trees that are partly obscured by fog. The sky is hidden behind a thick, grey fog.
November 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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#silentsunday
A close view of 3 boards on a wooden deck, with the wood crisscrossed with a pattern of white frost. In the upper right quadrant is a solitary leaf.
October 13, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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#silentsunday
A grey day, but no longer raining. The meadow is still green, although recent frost has turned some of the grasses brown. A wooden fence intrudes on the right, and the trees beyond the meadow are slowly taking on their fall colours. The sky is filled with grey clouds, although there are some cracks where the light shines through.
October 6, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Neville letting me know it’s his dinner time.

#mastodog #dogsofmastadon
Neville the labradoodle is sitting up, one paw on my knee, and giving a most intense look with the biggest puppy dog eyes he can muster.
October 5, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Life was better 50 years ago.

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October 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

Day 19/20
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
September 8, 2024 at 8:01 AM