I think what frightens me most is that the sheer volume of things to be horrified by has become its own kind of protection for the people responsible. Nothing has to be explained or resolved becuase a story or a scandal or a tragedy only has to survive until the next thing happens in five minutes.

Sure. Hard to know exactly when that was but clearly a long time before literary Old Icelandic

Happy Finnish literature day to all who celebrate!

Pretty often some “brave” “truthteller” in the Youtube comments lets me know that Scandinavia should be fighting to “stay Scandinavian” or something and it’s always obvious what they’re getting at. It’s also ironic that you can bet money these comments are made *in English.*

Ladies and gentlemen, I present a satire of the gambling industry that is, well, not as satirical as you’d hope

Who cares about the corrupt failing Nobel prize for literature. Everyone knows that the FIFA prize for literature is the one that matters

bribe a shit-head, get a shit-storm

In theory there may be people who obsess over “Zionists” controlling American politics who aren’t anti-Semites but at this point I pretty much assume anyone speaking this way is one step away at best from going full ZOG.

This is something one could do, if one were inclined to for some reason.

Det er tilfeldig at norsk ‘tannfe(a)’ liknar ‘tannfé’ (fé som i ‘storfe(et)’), som førekjem ein gong i den poetiske Edda/ It’s a minor coincidence that Modern Norwegian ‘tannfe’ (“tooth fairy”) resembles an Old Norse word that occurs once in the Poetic Edda (tannfé “gift for a teething child”(?)).

me, having exercised and eaten well for exactly the past two days: it took a lot of hard work, but I'm finally perfect

A way more interesting thread than this story probably deserves.

legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear.

I decoded the Voynich manuscript and it's just another stupid ad for the Voynich+ Personal Agent

Imagine if you were unfamiliar with the American fraternity/sorority system and saw this.

Real big ups to Jared Polis, world's biggest fucking idiot, for freeing this fucking clown and giving her a bigger platform to try and topple democracy than shed ever have if you let her *sit in fucking prison like she'd been sentenced*

Precisely. You know not what defeat preceded nor what defeat will follow this moment; you have only the defeat of now.

Oh you don't understand a word of the original language but you understand more about the *symbolism* of the words of this Old Norse stanza than I do. Yes, thank you, that clears it up, perish my ignorance.

Dissatisfaction with the Rockies prompted me to imagine Coloradans as a mass of as-yet unenlightened pagans who might be receptive to improving their lot by accepting The Good News from Constantinople (or Milwaukee). Does switching baseball teams work as an analogy for ancient conversion? You decide