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Middelalderhistoriker på Nasjonalbiblioteket. Han andre i podkasten Strid: https://www.nb.no/historier-fra-samlingen/borgerkrig-podkast/
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🌟💀MORÐ lanseres 4. mars! 💀🌟

Før det kan du forhåndsbestille boka, attpåtil signert og med personlig hilsen, og jeg har fått beskjed om at det beste stedet å gjøre det er her: bok.norli.no/mord
Se hele. Historien lever og vi må bruke den for å skape det samfunnet vi vil ha.
January 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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🌟💀MORÐ lanseres 4. mars! 💀🌟

Før det kan du forhåndsbestille boka, attpåtil signert og med personlig hilsen, og jeg har fått beskjed om at det beste stedet å gjøre det er her: bok.norli.no/mord
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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A very important point to remember about stuff like this is that, until the end of the 18th century, nobody imagined worrying about *what your territory looked like on a map*. Having neat borders was of absolutely no practical benefit. People who lived there knew what was what.
The borders of the prince-bishopric of Liège (in present day Belgium) were sort of bonkers.
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Kalmarunionen 2.0? Nå eller aldri.

Kalmarunionen var et kongefellesskap og politisk forening mellom de tre nordiske rikene Norge, Sverige og Danmark. De tre rikene hadde felles monark og felles utenrikspolitikk, men ellers styrte seg selv og hadde sine egne lover.

📷Wikimedia commons
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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Eg har alltid hatt enorm sans for Vetlesen som filosof, og denne nydelege praktiske anvendinga av dei grunnleggande standpunkta hans minner meg på kvifor.
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Dette blir et motiv i Strid sesong 3. Hadde ikke regna med at det skulle bli så grusomt aktuelt.
The ‘evil advisor’ trope is back, early modernists!
Tillis: "To be clear -- I'm not critical of the president. I'm critical of the bad advice he's getting on Greenland."
January 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Elites right now:

Did it work for those Trump whisperers?

No, it was a total disaster on every front and just emboldened him to go further and further into his insane depravity.

But, it might just work for us!
January 20, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Today is the feast of Saint Sebastian, so here is a depiction of him from Steffen Arndes' 1492 edition of the Lübeck Passionael, a collection of saints' lives & liturgical texts. The depiction follows Italian iconography.

[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA M 15, f.332v]
January 20, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Denne næggingen mellom partier som er helt avhengige av hverandre på venstre side av midtstreken er ikke bare kontraproduktiv, den spiller ball-i-hatt med høyresidens narrativ
Og Ap har samme klimapolitikk og innvandringspolitikk som FrP, så…
Høyre er forresten stadig medlem av samme internasjonale organisasjon som Republikanerne i USA, Giorgia Melonis parti i Italia og Netanyahu parti i Israel.
January 19, 2026 at 9:28 PM
January 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Alt er Torbjørn Jagland sin skyld.
fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
🌟💀MORÐ lanseres 4. mars! 💀🌟

Før det kan du forhåndsbestille boka, attpåtil signert og med personlig hilsen, og jeg har fått beskjed om at det beste stedet å gjøre det er her: bok.norli.no/mord
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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En av de mange tinga som norsk presse underdekker er hvor sjukt mange åpenlyse nazister som driver USAs statsapparat for tida.
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.
"Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the U.S. to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark?"
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)

4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
January 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Noen ganger kan gamle kunstverk gi en sånn plutselig og intens følelse av fellesskap med mennesker som døde for mange hundre år siden.

Dette er en illustrasjon av januar i en kalender i en tidebok laget i Flandern på begynnelsen av 1500-tallet. I dag er dette et sånt kunstverk.

Merk katten! 🐱
January 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you.

These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.
January 11, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Den eneste filmen jeg har sett på kino flere ganger er Mad Max Fury Road, men den så jeg til gjengjeld to dager på rad.
the film you saw the most times in its initial theatrical release

go

[👇🏻 probably 14 or 15 times]
January 10, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Noooooo
January 10, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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#SomethingBeautiful a little orange dragon from a medieval manuscript
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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"we live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world". (Stephen Miller, White House deputy Chief of Staff).

This is what that world looks like.

The history of freedom is the struggle to constrain power by law
👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...
January 8, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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that dreadful feeling in Crusader Kings when your ruler is crippled and dying and you're desperately trying to paint the map red before the inevitable
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
22. mars, på Litteraturhuset i Oslo, snakker jeg om ære, sladder og livet på landsbygda i Norge 1400-tallet – og om hva som skjer når et mystisk drap snur opp ned på alt sammen.

www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...
Saklig søndag: Mord i middelalderen
Foredrag ved Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby
www.litteraturhuset.no
January 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Broke: hvor er brevet fra Hogwarts?

Woke: hvor er sopphuset mitt uten trapper?
Tel Branora is the tower and seat of the eccentric Telvanni wizard named Mistress Therana.
January 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM