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Björn Friðgeir

@bjornfr.bsky.social

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The only living Björn Friðgeir in the world. Nerd. Programmer. Afper. Icelandic. Solidly middle-aged. May tweet about football with #boltinn #djöflarnir or #EuroVikes so please block those hashtags if that's not for you.

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · Jan 1

So my new year's resolution is:
Read 100 books.
Given the state of my Kindle half of those could be just finishing unfinished ones.

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · Dec 31

Books read:
2018: 145
2019: 107
2020: 92
2021: 37
2022: 61
2023: 30
2024: 36.

All the yikes. And a new year's resolution decided. For a start just finishing up the half read books should get me to '23 in about a month....

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 41m

Vísa í síðasta svar í hinum þræði!

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 43m

Ok.
Beijing er þá betra en Peking.

En við erum samt ekki bundin af því.

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 45m

Umritun úr öðru stafrófi lýtur reglum málsins sem umritað er í.
Dæmi

Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв
Ísl: Míkhaíl Sergejevítsj Gorbatsjov
Ens: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Þýs: Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 51m

Citation: umritunarreglur úr rússnesku.
Washington er alrangur samanburður því það er sama stafróf.

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 53m

En niðurstaðan er augljós: hvorki Peking eða Beijing er rétt umritun í íslensku.

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 1h

En Beijing miðast við enska ritun. Ætti þá kannski að vera Beidsjing?

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 1h

En Árnastofnun vill Peking

malfar.arnastofnun.is/grein/66710

Nýja umritunin Beijing (t.d. í ensku) í stað
Peking er óþörf og fer illa í íslensku enda
fellur hún ekki aỗ íslenska hljóðkerfinu.

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 1h

Move to a bigger house?

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CristinaBellino @cristinabellino.bsky.social · 4h

L'Acropoli di Atene, secondo George Hoyningen-Huene, 1938

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 4h

TIL þannig ég fyrirgef

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 10h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 7h

If you don't include the bony hair it could be mistaken for a gay couple and We Don't Want That.

Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 17h

Man eftir þér næst þegar við skipuleggjum hópferð.

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 22h

the thing that’s particularly cool about this is that he just very easily makes morgan’s takes look *weird*, by dint of honestly and simply speaking from the standpoint that trans people are ordinary human beings with the same rights to respect and dignity as anyone else

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 18h

Ef ég finndi þig á fési gæti ég boðið þér í íslenska aðdáendahópinn

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 18h

Just a small one!

Á burgundy blazer hanging on a hanger on a hook on a wall. There's a lighter burgundy coloured scarf on the hanger too (and it looks pink in the photo.
Pinned to the lapel is the Rainy Sunday Afternoon umbrella pin from The Divine Comedy

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 18h

Af hverju skrópar Ísland?

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 21h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)