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Signe Johansen

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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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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 5h

Words to live by 🙌

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

"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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Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 9h

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.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 6h

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

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6h

"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

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · May 26

Oh fuck off.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 2d

Amen

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 3d

An important piece. 👇

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 3d

Quite

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 3d

Zelda Williams nails it, AI “art” is repulsive

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

This excuse might have worked for 2016 but not for 2024. They knew and yet, they still voted for all of this.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

“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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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 3d

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.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d

@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

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

It’s SO fun

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

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 😉

Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

You say that but I have a few close friends who (and I can’t quite believe this is possible) are indifferent to chocolate.

Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

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

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 4d

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)

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what are your desert-island ingredients?

a game for a Sunday night (not dessert island, that would be different)

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

A meal that features a whole turbot AND a ridiculously fancy cheese? The *dream* 🥰

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

Dammit I missed the detail about you including chocolate (unlikely to be 85% though?!)

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

Now THIS is a fun game. If I could pick any ingredients…

* Turbot
* Pistachios
* Fennel
* All olives
* Anchovies
* Garlic
* Mixed berries (frozen)
* Passionfruit
* 85% dark chocolate
* A whole Tête de Moine, with the accompanying slicer (essential)

a chef with a mustache and a pink bow tie is mixing something in a yellow bowl

Alt: Swedish Chef from The Muppets having a little moment singing and dancing in the kitchen with what looks like sprigs of parsley, possibly kale or some broccoli spears?

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

She was the real deal

Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

Can well imagine. A good roast chicken never goes out of style 🥰🥰🥰

Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

Oh dear lord, that’s such a massive red flag

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and saying nope . don 't like that .

Alt: Steve Carrell from the American Office, shaking his head and saying “Nope. Don’t like that”

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

“Don’t give up”

Impossible not to be moved by Jane Goodall’s gentle words of encouragement here (and she was right about gathering all the worst monsters on this earth and shooting them into space on one of Musk’s rockets)

From ‘Famous Last Words’ on Netflix

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 4d

Glorious!

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