K.V. Johansen
@kvjohansen.bsky.social
Author. Epic fantasy: Blackdog, The Leopard, The Lady, Gods of Nabban, & The Last Road (Pyr). High fantasy: The Wolf and the Wild King (Mystique). Spring 2026: Breath and Bone, new sword & sorcery from Candlemark & Gleam. Cdn, Bay of Fundy. www.kvj.ca
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K.V. Johansen
@kvjohansen.bsky.social
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K.V. Johansen | The Wolf and the Wild King
About The Wolf and the Wild King, book one of The Forest high fantasy duology, by K.V. Johansen
www.kvj.ca
Hello, new people! I write literary epic fantasy (and a bunch of other things too). You're most likely here for THE WOLF AND THE WILD KING, book I of a new darkish high fantasy duology. A troubled assassin, an outlaw, human sacrifice and dragons in a winter forest. www.kvj.ca/wolf.html
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In truth, though, I don't believe there is a paradigm of 'healthy masculinity' seperate from 'being a decent human being, whatever your gender'.
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In truth, though, I don't believe there is a paradigm of 'healthy masculinity' seperate from 'being a decent human being, whatever your gender'.
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Just listening to the @LBC news, and it occurred to me - why do they read out the ftse100, and exchange rates, as if these make a difference to the everyday person?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just listening to the @LBC news, and it occurred to me - why do they read out the ftse100, and exchange rates, as if these make a difference to the everyday person?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
Maybe it’s time to add CO2 levels, or global temperature increase, or climate change deaths, so we’re all more informed?
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This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News
A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Europe facing civilsational collapse, says despot who has undermined the central pillars of western civilsation: democracy and separation of powers.
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Europe facing civilsational collapse, says despot who has undermined the central pillars of western civilsation: democracy and separation of powers.
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“The last house standing”. Built in 1912, Haus Huth (formerly Weinhaus Huth) is the only building from the pre-WWII era to survive intact at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz. It’s still standing today, an outlier amidst all the postmodern architecture that surrounds it.
All images via Wikipedia
All images via Wikipedia
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“The last house standing”. Built in 1912, Haus Huth (formerly Weinhaus Huth) is the only building from the pre-WWII era to survive intact at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz. It’s still standing today, an outlier amidst all the postmodern architecture that surrounds it.
All images via Wikipedia
All images via Wikipedia
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This is not a drill. The Trump doctrine has been boldly stated:
Reduce Canada to a vassal state.
Crush Ukraine.
Undermine Europe by promoting racist hate parties.
Serve Putin.
The plan has been clear as day all along now it is being stated openly.
We must resist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPI...
Reduce Canada to a vassal state.
Crush Ukraine.
Undermine Europe by promoting racist hate parties.
Serve Putin.
The plan has been clear as day all along now it is being stated openly.
We must resist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPI...
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE - THIS IS NOT A DRILL !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is not a drill. The Trump doctrine has been boldly stated:
Reduce Canada to a vassal state.
Crush Ukraine.
Undermine Europe by promoting racist hate parties.
Serve Putin.
The plan has been clear as day all along now it is being stated openly.
We must resist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPI...
Reduce Canada to a vassal state.
Crush Ukraine.
Undermine Europe by promoting racist hate parties.
Serve Putin.
The plan has been clear as day all along now it is being stated openly.
We must resist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPI...
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How is this not a red line for a book retailer? That Daunt isn't prepared to make a principled stand on this rather than weasel away about the market is ludicrous (tho' not entirely unsurprising). It's also a massive Public foot in the Relations mouth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Waterstones would sell books written by AI, says chain's boss
James Daunt says booksellers instinctively have
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
How is this not a red line for a book retailer? That Daunt isn't prepared to make a principled stand on this rather than weasel away about the market is ludicrous (tho' not entirely unsurprising). It's also a massive Public foot in the Relations mouth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
Snowing like it means it out there.
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Snowing like it means it out there.
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Head's up: C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner (Foreigner Book 1) is on US ebook sale for $2; I got some copies for random giveaway.
Invasive by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $2; I got some copies for random giveaway.
Invasive by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $2; I got some copies for random giveaway.
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Head's up: C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner (Foreigner Book 1) is on US ebook sale for $2; I got some copies for random giveaway.
Invasive by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $2; I got some copies for random giveaway.
Invasive by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $2; I got some copies for random giveaway.
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octavo die Decembris, Minimus rangiferum invenit. (On the 8th December, Minimus finds a reindeer) #latinadventcalendar
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
octavo die Decembris, Minimus rangiferum invenit. (On the 8th December, Minimus finds a reindeer) #latinadventcalendar
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‘Taboo‘ must be another word for ‘facial recognition is notoriously unreliable, biased against people with darker skin and what *kind* of “AI” is it?’
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.
AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
‘Taboo‘ must be another word for ‘facial recognition is notoriously unreliable, biased against people with darker skin and what *kind* of “AI” is it?’
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"A pre-condition for Europe to remain a pole in the emerging multipolar world is leaders who believe this ideological battle is worth fighting - and can be won. The alternative is vassalage."
“In Britain, it is striking how little attention the new NSS has received in the right-wing media, as has Farage’s Reform Party’s past links to Russia”
A sobering analysis of the US/Russia alignment & the consequential threat to liberal democracy in Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
A sobering analysis of the US/Russia alignment & the consequential threat to liberal democracy in Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...
Can Europe be Saved?
A few thoughts on the state of Europe amid a twin-pronged assault from the United States and Russia
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"A pre-condition for Europe to remain a pole in the emerging multipolar world is leaders who believe this ideological battle is worth fighting - and can be won. The alternative is vassalage."
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✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
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Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Kremlin: The new US security strategy is “largely aligned” with Russia’s vision.
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Kremlin: The new US security strategy is “largely aligned” with Russia’s vision.
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The AMOC (ocean current) that, among other things, keeps Europe warmer than Canada is definitely weakening, & it could well tip entirely in the next few decades. At this point we can only *reduce* the chances.
Really good, detailed overview, espec for the N hemisphere:
Really good, detailed overview, espec for the N hemisphere:
The latest research confirms AMOC weakening together with a tipping point that is getting closer and closer. Governments are starting to notice with Iceland the first to declare it a national security threat.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake...
#climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint
drtomharris.substack.com/p/amoc-weake...
#climatechange #amoc #adaptation #tippingpoint
AMOC weakening declared a national security threat
Iceland has declared the AMOC a national security threat and an existential risk in the coming decades, enabling its Government to prepare for worst-case scenarios. Should we be worried?
drtomharris.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The AMOC (ocean current) that, among other things, keeps Europe warmer than Canada is definitely weakening, & it could well tip entirely in the next few decades. At this point we can only *reduce* the chances.
Really good, detailed overview, espec for the N hemisphere:
Really good, detailed overview, espec for the N hemisphere:
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The United States new National Security Strategy has declared Europe the enemy, it is now official US policy to weaken and destroy the European Union in order to subjugate the continent under Russia.
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The United States new National Security Strategy has declared Europe the enemy, it is now official US policy to weaken and destroy the European Union in order to subjugate the continent under Russia.
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The Kyiv Independent has selected 10 of the best books published in 2025 related to Ukraine. Curious readers should use this list as a guide on the path to discovering even more books from this and previous years, with the anticipation of what is to come in 2026 as well.
Looking for the 10 best Ukraine-related books of 2025? We’ve got you
The year 2025 brought us more books about and from Ukraine that carry an inescapable heaviness, with war present on almost every page. Lives once shaped by literary ambitions continue to be cut short ...
kyivindependent.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Kyiv Independent has selected 10 of the best books published in 2025 related to Ukraine. Curious readers should use this list as a guide on the path to discovering even more books from this and previous years, with the anticipation of what is to come in 2026 as well.
Pancakes, and then the Day of Chores and Errands with some writing crammed in around them.
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Pancakes, and then the Day of Chores and Errands with some writing crammed in around them.
Anyway, what it would be best to make right now is pancakes, I think. A beautiful morning out there, sun breaking through cloud and it snowed overnight again. All the trees, boughs still bent heavy with ice and snow from the storm, have a new layer of fluffy white.
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Anyway, what it would be best to make right now is pancakes, I think. A beautiful morning out there, sun breaking through cloud and it snowed overnight again. All the trees, boughs still bent heavy with ice and snow from the storm, have a new layer of fluffy white.
I'm not actually sure how threading all these #SolsticeAdvent quotes from The Wolf and the Wild King is working. Would it better to make individual posts ...?
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I'm not actually sure how threading all these #SolsticeAdvent quotes from The Wolf and the Wild King is working. Would it better to make individual posts ...?
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#BookAdvent #Day7 I love a bit of Bond and very much enjoyed @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social's #QuantumOfMenace featuring the curmudgeonly Q.
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#BookAdvent #Day7 I love a bit of Bond and very much enjoyed @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social's #QuantumOfMenace featuring the curmudgeonly Q.
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