Signe Johansen
@signesjohansen.bsky.social
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Food + drink writer with a morale boosting newsletter: Sigstack! Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚
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If you happen to see the September issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social make sure you grab a copy 💁‍♀️

Replete with top-notch investigative reporting, this month’s edition also features a new ‘Diaspora Dinners’ column in which I share a 🇳🇴Norwegian recipe for a simple, yet delicious hot-smoked trout dish🐟
Hot-smoked trout with dill-butter potatoes and quick-pickle cucumber. Photo by Patricia Niven Front cover of the September issue of Byline Times, with Donald Trump and Keir Starmer pictured in a car. The headline reads: Lawless Britain? How Trumpian disruption has crossed the Atlantic
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart
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4nikkolas.bsky.social
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.
reuters.com
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
signesjohansen.bsky.social
Drag him, Hillary 👏👏👏
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gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
signesjohansen.bsky.social
Words to live by 🙌
womensartbluesky.bsky.social
"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling
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nonvieta.bsky.social
People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
signesjohansen.bsky.social
Better late than ever, but hard not to roll one’s eyes at how credulous the manosphere podcasting bros were when they indulged Trump during last year’s election campaign
rollingstone.com
"None of what Trump has done since retaking office should come as a shock... It’s a shame that many of the content creators who helped put him back in office only seem to be realizing it now."
Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him
bit.ly
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
signesjohansen.bsky.social
Zelda Williams nails it, AI “art” is repulsive
chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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socialmedialab.ca
This excuse might have worked for 2016 but not for 2024. They knew and yet, they still voted for all of this.
rollingstone.com
“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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elisewang.bsky.social
One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.
motherjones.com
@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr
signesjohansen.bsky.social
If I were really to go all in on the indulgence I’d also have croissants flown in from a Parisian boulangerie and an Imperial Torte dispatched from Vienna 😉
signesjohansen.bsky.social
And we all know Trump, Miller and all the goons supporting them would never have “won” WW2 because they would have supported the bloody Nazis
signesjohansen.bsky.social
You say that but I have a few close friends who (and I can’t quite believe this is possible) are indifferent to chocolate.
signesjohansen.bsky.social
Aside from what’s always present in our kitchen (eggs, bread, ABBA anchovies, Norwegian “kaviar” in a tube, the usual suspects) I’ve added some favourite ingredients below Naomi’s post, and hope you’ll play this game too! 🥰 #KitchenTreats
naomialderman.bsky.social
a fun game for Sunday evening. you arrive at an AirBnB on a cold wet October evening. what *ten ingredients* would you most like to find they've left for you in the kitchen?

(you also have tea, coffee, sugar, milk, olive oil, chocolate, salt & pepper)

naomialderman.substack.com/p/what-are-y...
what are your desert-island ingredients?
a game for a Sunday night (not dessert island, that would be different)
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