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personal account of an intergovernmental quasi-bureaucrat in stockholm. apologies in advance for all posts
defector.com/humanists-ha... endorse this piece's argument in the whole but i do think humanities scholars need to admit that while gayatri spivak DOES make this claim in the essay in question, she then follows it with ten or so pages of impenetrable prose about the nature of desire in foucault
swedish election posters are now EVERYWHERE and this time the governing coalition oddly went with very specific promises that are the opposite of what happened during the last five years? like, my kids' class sizes increased from c 20 to c 30 while this party was in charge of education?
en fråga till stockholmsbluesky: min familj tänker flytta, men problemet är att jag har helt vanliga, normala barn som skrattar, leker och busar. hur stor röd flagga är det här från den (möjligen) nya brf:ens ordningsregler?
fun story: in the human rights world other orgs frequently don't bother to reach out to amnesty for joint statements and press releases as its internal approval process for all comms requires so many sign-offs that they can never decide in time
i am reasonably sure my immigrant great-grandfather (who self-identifed strongly as acadian and is pictured here with his 11 children) was bootlegging
disappointing to see people trying to get in the middle of a potential nolan-wilson feud, i was hoping it would escalate to gallo-ebert levels
can't believe they seem to be having a tough time finding people to do this for free
'ska SD få vara med i pride' är en fråga som har ett enkelt svar, vilken är 'SD vill inte och har inte ens frågat om dom kan vara med i pride' www.dn.se/kultur/sd-fo...
in GoT beyond the wall is swordfights in spectacular icelandic mountain landscapes. the land of the dead is a featureless desert where odysseus speaks to a man sticking out of the ground. odd running theme in this review is one recognizes neither the film nor the cultural references
if we're doing close reading i would like to get into this clause. yes water do be like that
people worrying over a future dystopia where regular humans might like bad writing should read a page at random from a dan brown novel some time
man who wrote a book on LLMs and writing shocked to find out it was unwise to include "direct quotes" produced by chatgpt www.ft.com/content/6b52...
will take any opportunity to show people what historically accurate armor for the odyssey/iliad looks like
the managing director of ericsson from the turn of the 20th century collected (stole?) asian art and, at least in the case of this 19th century tibetan buddhist embroidery, also wrote his name on stuff? auctionet.com/sv/5115643-t...
there are a lot of weird gaps in this story but the largest one is where we cut from a couple not being able to find a 5k a month apartment they like in three months to the boyfriend moving to an isolated rural community four hours away
there are a lot of words in this piece but none of them explaining how single young people are spending thousands of dollars every month on groceries
the internet has redeemed itself by allowing me to buy a xelaju mc super chivos shirt from a guy in poland for about twenty euros
as my professor kishore kukarni once said to a student who proposed a dissertation on pinochet as a benevelont dictator, "i can imagine someone writing such a paper. i cannot imagine it receiving a passing grade."
the new yorker's famed fact checking department missed that this is not a word in swedish. i assume they meant to write 'känslor' (feelings) but the right word would be 'vibbar', which also would have landed better
would rather not work in july but this time of year i might have the world's greatest commute
have seen a million posts like these and had similar conversations with American and European friends and family, with the key and interesting difference that the European instances do not always end with the person buying the thing
getting through the hottest part of the second to last day of the heat dome in friuli, in an apartment in a medieval building without AC, by chopping up some stale bread for croutons while shirtless
everyone agrees this driftwood planter is eerily reminiscent of the boars in princess mononoke