Vic Phillipson

Rolling into the Weekend… Done getting ready for a busy week ahead.

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S06E02, Alice in Wanderland | Alice in Wanderland Alice has just arrived in Medina, Saudi Arabia. She begins the second leg of her walking expedition across the length of Saudi Arabia tomorrow morning at the exact spot where she finished the first ...

My friend, Alice Morrison, is leaving tomorrow on the second leg of her walking expedition across Saudi Arabia. Keep in mind that she is 63 years old (just a kid in my book) and will be the first person on record to walk the entire length of Saudi Arabia when she finishes in 70 days.

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow That's Trump Derangement! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Randy is, as always, right!

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From the frying pan into the fire…

YouTube video by Browser Ballett Hilfe! Die Amerika-Flüchtlinge kommen | Browser Ballett

This is hysterical!
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My office for the next two days.

This is great!

My office for the evening.

The last piece of the puzzle arrived today!

I passed the "Samfunnskunnskaps prøve" (citizenship test)! I turn in my completed application next month! It only took me 25 years...

The last part of the puzzle to get my Norwegian Citizenship! I turn in my papers to UDI next month...

Episode 177: El roto, Lo huachafo, Lo jodido (with Carlos Amador) - Hotel Bar Podcast Carlos Amador on Latin American aesthetics, precarity, and what it means to be completely f*cked.

We are fucked.
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We are fucked.

Could not agree more...

Episode 177: El roto, Lo huachafo, Lo jodido (with Carlos Amador) - Hotel Bar Podcast Carlos Amador on Latin American aesthetics, precarity, and what it means to be completely f*cked.

They got it right. We are fucked.

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@hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social

Snowy and cold here today.

Hey!

Happy Birthday to Hadrian (and me😉). He's 26, I'm 69 today.

My office this evening.

Does he have a limp?

Jesus Christ! Steven Miller is a dead ringer for Joseph Goebbels. He looks like he would gladly poison his children in their bunk beds.

My poor country. I am so sad for my family and those affected by those authoritarian "leaders".

S05E08, Alice in Wanderland | Alice in Wanderland Alice is at the gates of Medina, 900 kilometers away from the start of her expedition and just slightly ahead of schedule! She is relieved to be so near the end of this stage and is already looking f...

Alice crossed 900 kilometers of Saudi Arabia and reached the gates of Medina. She and I just posted the latest episode of our podcast:

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Oh no! I am so sorry to hear about Dickson. My deepest condolences.

My office tonight. Standup with Erlend Osnes

And lovely they were....

Why this female explorer, 61, is walking across Saudi Arabia | CNN On January 1, UK explorer Alice Morrison, 61, known as the “Indiana Jones for girls,” set off on a 2,500-kilometer journey, to cross the length of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from north to south, on ...

My Podcast partner on Alice in Wanderland:
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Cold, clear, and windy here in the Frozen North.

Join me at BlueSky

There is a place on the intarwebs that is not filled with hate, bigotry, and vile disinformation, that place is BlueSky. Join me there: @vicphillipson.bsky.social

4 years from today, the picture of Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg at the inauguration will remind us of Goering, Hess, and Von Ribbentrop in Nuremberg. I hope. I fear.

Fact checking? We don’t need no stinking “Fact Checking!”

Is anyone surprised that Mark Zuckerberg has decided to stop fact checking? He is clearly in thrall to the Evil Orange Muppet. Time to bail out folks. Your continued use of Facebook helps those that would use and abuse you. I know this is…