Jesper Haglund

Fundamentall, stories are kind of boring (to me) if they're about mostly reasonable people doing the sensible thing. You need weirdos making bad decisions or it's just your dullest friend describing their weekend

And in one of those "it's not often, but it's weird that it happened twice" thingies, when they made a movie about it, the captain was played by one of the good guy actors from the Lord of the Rings trilogy (John Rhys Davis, in this case).

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

And "fis" is the modern Swedish word for breaking wind.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

All the cheese is gone
and the toast is dry
I've looked for a scone
on the breakfast tray
There'd be haggis on my plate
Were I in Dalgety Bay

Scottish breakfast dreamin
at the hotel buffet

(this is the most writing I've done today kill me now)

They're pretty good at it in Helsinki.

If you wanna say hi at NYCC today, this is what to look for

Dunderklumpen! - Wikipedia

I'm still not holding out any hope you'll be able to fit in a passus about Toots Thielemans's voice acting in Dunderklumpen, though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunderk...!

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

Was going to add a "and there was an awfully long time between Selma Lagerlöf and woman no. 2," but the biggest gap is actually between Nelly Sachs in 1966 and Nadine Gordimer in 91.

White text reading ‘Charlie, we found a loophole in the system’ on a black background

This accidental screenshot from Netflix has remarkably Twilight Zone energy

At some point I need to actually get round to having one printed with "No, no, I was reading what *your* shirt says."

As long as he's moving, I'd count that result a blessing.

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

I've heard Big Finish serials where they try to do a "southern" accent, and well, still not quite all of them based on that.

a man in a hat is opening a cabinet in a kitchen Alt: Steve Martin, making his famous java.

And to you.

Starship Alexandria The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

On the flesh easting scarabs from the 1999 film The Mummy

"I like a film that has good acting roles for insects" @aptshadow.bsky.social

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

A meme picture of Solas from Dragon Age in a black bob, dressed as Lord Farquaad from Shrek. Text on the picture is a quote from Lord Farquaad saying "Some of you may die but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".

Someone said to draw Solas in a bob and well, this happened. Kinda accurate though?🤷‍♀️ #solasdragonage #shrek

Image of bug scarf around my neck

Image of my bug scarf on the floor

FINISHED MY SCARF

As usual my phone struggles to show the correct colours so :^)
It is more like the first photo irl, but I kinda want it to be more like the second one 😔 maybe I can dye it

Toad, literally singing in the rain, serenades his seeds. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

All the next day Toad sang songs to his seeds.

Sausages and beer - the only two topics about which the phrase "German purity laws" doesn't make me wince.

I think I infiltrated a space ship that looked like that in Mass Effect.

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

Custer?

Adds a bit of "we'll rewrite gross incompetence as heroism if it gets us what we'll want."

teashoesandhair on tumblr: "Stellar conversation on BBC Wales today" Caller: I live in America now, since the '80s, but I'm visiting family in Wales this week, and I thought I'd ring in. Host: Why did you move from Wales to America? Caller: I actually moved because of a woman. Host: Who's the lucky lady? Caller: Margaret Thatcher.