Seems to me that a working democracy would just remove someone from office for threatening to kill "a whole civilization".
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Óli Gneisti (English)
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I run my own instance of Mastodon for Iceland and Icelandic stuff.
If you want the Icelandic version of me you can find me @oligneisti@kommentakerfid.is
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Last year my friend died. It was a rather public affair since he was much loved by people in the media and arts. Still, six months later people on Facebook sent him birthday wishes oblivious to the fact that he had died.
Last month another friend of mine died. It has been a much more private affair. His birthday is coming up later this month and I am dreading seeing people using Facebook's default emojis to wish him well.
If you are so out of touch with someone that they might've died without you noticing you should consider checking their Facebook page and looking to see if there has been any activity there recently before posting.
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
> ‘You’re saying,’ he said, weighing each word, ‘that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.’
Firefox has added something new. Something useful. Something I really wanted. Split view.
So, instead of having to open two instances of Firefox and awkwardly arranging them side by side I can just open two pages in the same tab.
I don't know how long it has been since Firefox has made me this happy. The turning off AI button was progress but it was a problem they themselves had created.
If you have a podcast you should start each episode with:
"This episode contains trigger and/or content warnings. If you are sensitive to such warnings you should skip this one".
Screenshots of yourself dunking on dumb posts is not actually great "content".
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I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).
I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.
Her list in full:
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Abyss
Akira
Back to the Future
The Band Wagon
Belle de jour
Big
Blade Runner
Bound
The Bridges of Madison County
Carrie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Crash
Cruising
Deep End
The Deer Hunter
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Eyes Wide Shut
Gattaca
Grave of the fireflies
Gremlins
Groundhog Day
Heavenly Creatures
Heaven's Gate
La Jetée
Made in Britain
Man on the Moon
Morte a Venezia
My Own Private Idaho
Opening Night
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Phantom of the Paradise
The Piano
Point Break
Showgirls
Singin' in the Rain
Some Like It Hot
Soylent Green
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Teorema
Thelma and Louise
The Thing
Tootsie
Total Recall
Totoro
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Unbreakable
Vertigo
Victor Victoria
Zerkalo
https://www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celine-sciamma
#films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins
I don't usually share stuff in Icelandic but I want this to be seen.
My friend Ásgeir, poet and cultural critic, died last week. We had known each other since 1991 when I was twelve and he was fifteen. I tried to paint a picture of him and our relationship.
Traditionally such obituaries are published in the newspaper Morgunblaðið. Ásgeir used to work there and one of the last thing he published was a scathing indictment of the incoming editor, and former Prime Minister of Iceland, Davíð Oddsson. While most people kept their heads down hoping to be spared Ásgeir rose to the occasion.
https://smygl.is/2025/01/31/oli-gneisti-soleyjarson-skrifar/
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This happened when he took over back in 2009.
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⬆ This is a great point: ⬆
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"It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation."
@DrewKadel@social.coop
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Spoiler for Masters of Horror episode Homecoming
To me, Cliff Richard and Freddie Mercury always seemed an unlikely pair of friends.
The thing I didn't know was that Richard was born in India and because of his accent and complexion he, strangely, faced anti-Indian racism when his family moved back to Britain.
Freddie Mercury's family was from India and he was educated there in a British type boarding school. When he fled to Britain with his family from Zanzibar he also had to deal with racism.
So Cliff and Freddie actually had a weirdly shared/similar background.
I think they only performed together once, singing It's In Everyone of Us as part of a charity performance of the musical Time back in 1988.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9R1H-5Dtpw
#CliffRichard#FreddieMercury
America is having an episode where a much too big media corporation is fighting another much too big media corporation about the takeover of a third much too big media corporation.
IMDb has added AI-generated summaries from the text of user reviews. I noticed because I read this piece of garbage.
> Reviewers say 'Scarface' receives mixed reactions, with many praising Al Pacino's portrayal of Tony Montana, a Cuban immigrant navigating Miami's drug underworld. The film's style, violence, and Pacino's intense performance are commended.
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Are you still looking? I am not currently working as a librarian but I still know a lot of people.
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