!["Häagen-Dazs" is an invented pseudo-Scandinavian phrase coined by the American Reuben Mattus, in a quest for a brand name that he claimed was Danish-sounding.
However, the company's pronunciation of the name ignores the letters "ä" and "s", and letters like "ä" or digraphs like "zs" do not exist in Danish. 7][note 11 According to Mattus, it was a tribute to Denmark's exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War, 151 and included an outline map of Denmark on early labels. Mattus felt that Denmark was also known for its dairy products and had a positive image in the United States. 151 His daughter Doris Hurley reported in the 1996 PBS documentary An Ice Cream Show that her father sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked. The reason he chose this method was so that the name would be unique and original](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzeqxtpby7xhanifseqzy45v/bafkreihnyb4nqowh3fen7wwyzxbmj32s6j6ukruv6hn2qsuhze3duznpwe@jpeg)
"Häagen-Dazs" is an invented pseudo-Scandinavian phrase coined by the American Reuben Mattus, in a quest for a brand name that he claimed was Danish-sounding.
However, the company's pronunciation of the name ignores the letters "ä" and "s", and letters like "ä" or digraphs like "zs" do not exist in Danish. 7][note 11 According to Mattus, it was a tribute to Denmark's exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War, 151 and included an outline map of Denmark on early labels. Mattus felt that Denmark was also known for its dairy products and had a positive image in the United States. 151 His daughter Doris Hurley reported in the 1996 PBS documentary An Ice Cream Show that her father sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked. The reason he chose this method was so that the name would be unique and original
Losing my mind over the Haagen-Dazs naming process
10.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 0
Mass Attack on Ukraine’s Energy Sector: Strikes Grow, Global Reaction Shrinks
Russia launched a massive overnight attack on October 10, 2025, targeting Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure, with the heaviest damage in Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, where a child was ...
⚠️ Mass Attack on Ukraine’s Energy Sector: Strikes Grow, Global Reaction Shrinks
The enemy focuses on one or several regions each night. Distribution facilities are among primary targets, gas stations and gas infrastructure are also damaged.
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theukrainianreview.info/mass-attack-...
10.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 83 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 1
NRK: Regjeringen skrinlegger Stad skipstunnel
Regjeringen skrinlegger Stad skipstunnel. Tunnelen blir rett og slett for dyr, mener statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap).
Frp vil gjerne snakke om sløsing med offentlige midler. Men når regjeringen endelig har tatt til vettet og stopper Stad-tunnelen, hvem er først på banen og forlanger mer sløsing? e24.no/norsk-oekono...
10.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 84 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 3
Deeply troubling.
08.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
🧵👇
08.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 64 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 10
😂😂😂😂
08.10.2025 08:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AI er en kjempeboble. Mye hype, begrenset substans. Og veldig mange hallusinasjoner.
07.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal.
@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.
07.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 466 🔁 142 💬 17 📌 8
This guy is in charge of US health care.
07.10.2025 02:56 — 👍 2880 🔁 795 💬 199 📌 98
Oof. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/934c...
06.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 938 🔁 219 💬 26 📌 18
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
28.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 2084 🔁 636 💬 12 📌 7
2/5 People keep underestimating Trump. But no authoritarian starts with their biggest crimes.
The Gestapo didn’t begin with gas chambers. Trump’s ICE is already breaking laws.
The potential for even more escalation is very real
06.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 68 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Kva gjer ein historie- og norsklærar som har gått lei av ord? Eg kjenner på ein trong til å arbeide for reduksjon av ordbruken i samfunnet, snarare enn å bidra til ordgyteriet.
05.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 8 📌 0
Folk som ikke ser at dette er fascisme, ville ikke kjent den igjen om Mussolini banka på døra deres.
05.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 175 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 0
*Massive* protests in European Georgia. Demonstrators have attempted to storm the Presidential Palace.
The pro-Putin Georgian Dream party which stole the election and has sent out a new wave of riot police.
04.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 700 🔁 273 💬 15 📌 12
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
04.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 24061 🔁 7435 💬 1464 📌 581
Aftenposten, 4. oktober 1975. Avisannonse. Bilde av en smilende president Richard Nixon. Tekst: «Førstegangskjøpere av lydutstyr må vanligvis lære av sine feil. Vi viser hvordan man unngår feilene: AKAI-demonstrasjon idag i Motzfeldtsgt. 21.» Avsender: EL-SPECTRA A/S. Reklame for hi-fi-utstyr.
«Førstegangskjøpere av lydutstyr må vanligvis lære av sine feil.» Annonse fra #aftenposten #pådennedag for 50 år siden, 4. oktober 1975. #aftarkiv @aftenposten.no
04.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Det finnes ikke ekstremvær, bare ekstreme klær.
04.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 50 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
En uke igjen
03.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Al-Jazeera says Hamas has given its response to the mediators (no details as to what the response is)
03.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Ja. Pinlig.
02.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A printed poem which reads:
I hav for breakfast Weetabix
I hav for lunch some meat
I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat
Peter Hazel, 5
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
02.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 3568 🔁 942 💬 61 📌 72
How AI is changing the office
Did you listen to the new Dwarkesh?
"There was a spasmodic moment in the early 2020s when the metaverse was going to be the future. A McKinsey report published in 2022 reckoned that it could generate up to $5trn of value by 2030"
I'm going to laugh about this all day.
www.economist.com/business/202...
02.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2
Ikke så lett å være sløseripopulist i Argentina heller.
Milei, Farage og Musk har mye til felles med sine norske ideologibrødre:
De vet lite om økonomisk historie og statens roller. De forstår ikke statistikk. Og de vet ikke hva offentlige utgifter faktisk går til. Resultatet blir forutsigbart.
02.10.2025 07:27 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bokomslag:
Wilhelm Reich
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Utforskar fjernmagasinet (kjellaren til far) til boksamlinga mi. Er Wilhelm Reichs kopling av fascismen til undertrykt seksualitet meir relevant i dag enn da eg kjøpte denne boka i 2012, las litt og ikkje skjønte stort?
01.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
Forby skiten.
#oppdrettslaks #naturkrise
Der er hinsides min ringe forstand at noen fortsatt spiser disse motbydelige greiene.
01.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Glimt fra Aftenpostens arkiv. Abonnenter har tilgang til arkivet. Se også instagram.com/aftarkiv. Vi startet på twitter.com/aftarkiv for over 10 år siden, men er ikke så aktive der lenger.
Arkivet: https://e-avis.aftenposten.no
Se også @aftenposten.no
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Journalist i Morgenbladet
Professor ved Universitetet i Oslo. Arbeider særlig med opphavsrett, ytringsfrihet og elektroniske transaksjoner. Er i tillegg opptatt av sykkel, vin, musikk og mye annet. blogg.torvund.net
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty; I'm that Jungian thing...
$TSLAQ card carrying member
PSA: Elon Musk is a dumb persons idea of a smart person…
Evelyn Beatrice Hall fan
Professor i sosiologi i virkeligheten. Tulling på nett.
Spiller og synger i all that will remain.
Liker å improvosere,men veldig opptatt av at alle skal være enige.
Pakket i en beskyttende atmosfære.
The Switch, Oslo World, Jazznytt, Now's The Time og Spise med Price
Samfunnsviter, skeiv aktivist, antifascist, lesbisk, funkis - jobbsøker!
Ny dag. Nye sjansar. Journalist i 45 år. Matmor til Balto. Vil helst vere utandørs. Ikkje på Facebook, men på insta og snap. God mat er sterkt undervurdert.
Jobber i NHO. Er her for retorikk, media og samfunn. Sjøsame fra Finnmark. Bor i Tromsø.
Bibliotekar og forskningsrådgiver med interesse for vitenskapelig publisering, forskningsetikk, og åpen forskning.
Open science, academic publishing, research ethics.
Academic librarian and occasional science sleuth
I occasionally take pictures of stuff.
Humana obscura Norvegiensis.
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Climate scientist, professor of Physics of the Oceans in Potsdam. Opinions my own.
Environmental economist at NIFU and Skatteforsk/NMBU. Also here hoping to catch some chess drama.
Landsdekkende og demokratisk miljøorganisasjon med 125 lokal- og fylkeslag og over 43 000 medlemmer.
Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature/Friends of the Earth Norway.
https://naturvernforbundet.no/medlem/
Samfunnsøkonom og seniorforsker, Transportøkonomisk institutt (TØI) // Senior research economist, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway #EconSky
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