Ste Jormur
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Ste Jormur
@stejormur.bsky.social
· Dec 1
木村カエラ「A winter fairy is melting a snowman」（Official Music Video）
YouTube video by 木村カエラ Official -日本コロムビア-
youtu.be
Every day from now until Christmas (if I remember), I'm going to post a really weird Christmas song here.
I'm going to start with this one, mostly because I like to imagine the parallel universe where J-pop is as big in the West as K-pop, and this gets played in supermarkets youtu.be/iHYKlPLQgS0
I'm going to start with this one, mostly because I like to imagine the parallel universe where J-pop is as big in the West as K-pop, and this gets played in supermarkets youtu.be/iHYKlPLQgS0
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Two men were given 90% of Teesworks on the promise they would take on responsibility of remediating the site.
I've discovered they were charging BP for remediation on a project the oil giant eventually pulled out of.
Teesworks overspent and then asked them for more cash.
I've discovered they were charging BP for remediation on a project the oil giant eventually pulled out of.
Teesworks overspent and then asked them for more cash.
BP cancelled hydrogen scheme after refusing to pay Teesworks additional remediation charges
Energy giant paid undisclosed fees to Teesworks Ltd for projects it eventually shelved
teesside.thelead.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Two men were given 90% of Teesworks on the promise they would take on responsibility of remediating the site.
I've discovered they were charging BP for remediation on a project the oil giant eventually pulled out of.
Teesworks overspent and then asked them for more cash.
I've discovered they were charging BP for remediation on a project the oil giant eventually pulled out of.
Teesworks overspent and then asked them for more cash.
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This game/film series apparently required players to download a new one minute chapter *every day for a year* and if you didn't beat the prior chapter you didn't get access to the next. They must have had five players by the end, at best.
January 28, 2026 at 8:06 AM
This game/film series apparently required players to download a new one minute chapter *every day for a year* and if you didn't beat the prior chapter you didn't get access to the next. They must have had five players by the end, at best.
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Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial:
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial:
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
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America 2026: we save gay Iranians from execution by exposing them to measles
www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...
www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 AM
America 2026: we save gay Iranians from execution by exposing them to measles
www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...
www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...
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this is such a fav of mine. another fun thing it talks about is that lots of english lit survey classes go in chronological order and start w/beowulf, but beowulf was almost wholly unknown to english speakers before the 19th century and had no real literary influence before then
OUT of TIME
When did the English discover the Anglo-Saxons? [D.R.H.]
www.etymonline.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:14 AM
this is such a fav of mine. another fun thing it talks about is that lots of english lit survey classes go in chronological order and start w/beowulf, but beowulf was almost wholly unknown to english speakers before the 19th century and had no real literary influence before then
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this reminds me of the incredible essay on etymolonline dot com about how one of the earliest motivations for the english to relearn how to read old english was having to decipher all the anglo-saxon-era land records after the dissolution of the monastaries
Incredible things happening with Indian cadastral records. Ah, you can't find out who owns what land b/c it's written in a now unused script. Beautiful.
January 28, 2026 at 5:10 AM
this reminds me of the incredible essay on etymolonline dot com about how one of the earliest motivations for the english to relearn how to read old english was having to decipher all the anglo-saxon-era land records after the dissolution of the monastaries
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We have a higher foreign born percentage than the US btw xo
Take my country's fucking name out of your mouth and don't talk about it like it's a lab experiment, you disgusting fucking freak
January 27, 2026 at 8:18 PM
We have a higher foreign born percentage than the US btw xo
This reminds me of the guy who claimed that Irish Americans were actually the only true Irish people, because if you didn't emigrate you were too passive to be Irish.
This new arrangement where Britain gets to live rent-free in America’s finest minds feels like a much better deal than the previous one where we actually had to run the place.
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 PM
This reminds me of the guy who claimed that Irish Americans were actually the only true Irish people, because if you didn't emigrate you were too passive to be Irish.
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I for one didn’t expect the Trump regime to prove that race is a social construct that transmits power, just like they taught me at a selective liberal arts college, but
one kind of weird aspect of this is that a relatively diverse federal agency has been sent to a very white city by white nationalists to do ethnic cleansing, where they're executing white people in the street
January 27, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I for one didn’t expect the Trump regime to prove that race is a social construct that transmits power, just like they taught me at a selective liberal arts college, but
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Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center
The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.
Good for him, but also:
for the sake of my heart, please don't start a post "Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass..." over a sad-looking black-and-white photo
for the sake of my heart, please don't start a post "Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass..." over a sad-looking black-and-white photo
Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass withdrew his highly anticipated Symphony No. 15 from its scheduled Kennedy Center performance, saying “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony.”
Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center
The pioneering composer announced that “the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message” of his Symphony No. 15: “Lincoln.”
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Good for him, but also:
for the sake of my heart, please don't start a post "Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass..." over a sad-looking black-and-white photo
for the sake of my heart, please don't start a post "Breaking news: Composer Philip Glass..." over a sad-looking black-and-white photo
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I've got a big Teesworks story in tomorrow's Teesside Lead.
It feels pretty big in a lot of ways, but for anyone who's been following the Teesworks saga it might be a case of "who could have predicted this except everybody?!".
Just a grim inevitability with each new part of this story,
It feels pretty big in a lot of ways, but for anyone who's been following the Teesworks saga it might be a case of "who could have predicted this except everybody?!".
Just a grim inevitability with each new part of this story,
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I've got a big Teesworks story in tomorrow's Teesside Lead.
It feels pretty big in a lot of ways, but for anyone who's been following the Teesworks saga it might be a case of "who could have predicted this except everybody?!".
Just a grim inevitability with each new part of this story,
It feels pretty big in a lot of ways, but for anyone who's been following the Teesworks saga it might be a case of "who could have predicted this except everybody?!".
Just a grim inevitability with each new part of this story,
A surprising visitor lurking at Darmstadt Hbf today - an East German locomotive, originally built in Soviet Ukraine (at the wonderfully named "October Revolution Locomotive Works") about 50 years ago. The nameplate is still in Cyrillic.
January 27, 2026 at 4:40 PM
A surprising visitor lurking at Darmstadt Hbf today - an East German locomotive, originally built in Soviet Ukraine (at the wonderfully named "October Revolution Locomotive Works") about 50 years ago. The nameplate is still in Cyrillic.
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Incredible things happening with Indian cadastral records. Ah, you can't find out who owns what land b/c it's written in a now unused script. Beautiful.
January 27, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Incredible things happening with Indian cadastral records. Ah, you can't find out who owns what land b/c it's written in a now unused script. Beautiful.
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A thought: what's happening in the US shows that the somewheres/anywheres thing is bollocks. Most of the people mobilising, Goodhart would call Anywheres. And they're mobilising specifically to protect their neighbours and their neighbourhoods.
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
A thought: what's happening in the US shows that the somewheres/anywheres thing is bollocks. Most of the people mobilising, Goodhart would call Anywheres. And they're mobilising specifically to protect their neighbours and their neighbourhoods.
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
There are more empty seats for Melania: The Movie screenings this week than there are people in Loughborough
NEW: Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it (FREE TO READ)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/i-really-d...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/i-really-d...
Nobody in Britain is going to see the new Melania movie – I've crunched the data to prove it
I really don't care, do u?
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 3:35 PM
There are more empty seats for Melania: The Movie screenings this week than there are people in Loughborough
"beautiful and tragic"
The mural, featuring Nintendo-favourite Mario, has appeared in Gilkes Street, in Middlesbrough town centre, with the message 'You killed someone's brother'
Street artist's 'beautiful and tragic' anti-knife crime mural in Middlesbrough
The mural, featuring Nintendo-favourite Mario, has appeared in Gilkes Street, in Middlesbrough town centre, with the message 'You killed someone's brother'
www.gazettelive.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"beautiful and tragic"
(this is a super ragebait-y headline. It's about the Homeland Security Investigations, which is technically a branch of ICE, being involved in security for US diplomats, not anything to do with the Olympics themselves hiring ICE)
BREAKING: ICE agents will have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympics, U.S. embassy sources confirm.
ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games, according to sources at the U.S. embassy in Rome.
bit.ly
January 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM
(this is a super ragebait-y headline. It's about the Homeland Security Investigations, which is technically a branch of ICE, being involved in security for US diplomats, not anything to do with the Olympics themselves hiring ICE)
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The Surprising Physics behind Mommy
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 PM
The Surprising Physics behind Mommy
Thus giving Kemi Badenoch a life-long phobia of nightclubs that serve orange juice
January 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Thus giving Kemi Badenoch a life-long phobia of nightclubs that serve orange juice
Five back row seats, eh? I guess if you wanted to organise an orgy somewhere you'd never ever be discovered, a screening of Melania: The Movie would be ideal
UK cinemas being paid to play Amazon's pro-Trump propaganda film to near empty rooms
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Five back row seats, eh? I guess if you wanted to organise an orgy somewhere you'd never ever be discovered, a screening of Melania: The Movie would be ideal