Ste Jormur
@stejormur.bsky.social
Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.
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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-
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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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Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
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I think what both have in common is that in the modern age, you are always only one click away from either being screamed at by idiots or having to look at an idiot's opinion. A hugely radicalising experience for many people!
The problem of politics in a noisy age
We are once again having to readjust to a vast expansion in the amount of conflicting information at our fingertips
www.ft.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I think what both have in common is that in the modern age, you are always only one click away from either being screamed at by idiots or having to look at an idiot's opinion. A hugely radicalising experience for many people!
Small toddlers 🤝 BBC political editor
Comparing everything to a long and twisting marble run
Comparing everything to a long and twisting marble run
January 26, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Small toddlers 🤝 BBC political editor
Comparing everything to a long and twisting marble run
Comparing everything to a long and twisting marble run
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look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
January 25, 2026 at 7:11 PM
look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what
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mr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM
mr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get
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WE DIDN'T BURNHAM!
![[a photo of Andy Burnham]
Burnham Banished](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreihy73se4fdc2v5iq5yivg2p636c6reft4we2jfgohc3im7pyaqmmm@jpeg)
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
WE DIDN'T BURNHAM!
I hope Michio Kaku just showed up for work at City College of New York one day in a gold-plated Bentley
Thinking of the hundreds of London lobbyists, architects, PR advisers, engineers, etc who managed to buy a house in Clapham after a few years work on whatever this was.
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject ft.trib.al/fdrazIJ
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I hope Michio Kaku just showed up for work at City College of New York one day in a gold-plated Bentley
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Thinking of the hundreds of London lobbyists, architects, PR advisers, engineers, etc who managed to buy a house in Clapham after a few years work on whatever this was.
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject ft.trib.al/fdrazIJ
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject
Review expected to propose a significant redesign after years of delays and overruns
ft.trib.al
January 25, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Thinking of the hundreds of London lobbyists, architects, PR advisers, engineers, etc who managed to buy a house in Clapham after a few years work on whatever this was.
Just reading the Wilson Odyssey now, and it turns out the answer's even better. Odysseus basically means "hated guy", and Odyssey would therefore be "story of a hated guy"
January 25, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Just reading the Wilson Odyssey now, and it turns out the answer's even better. Odysseus basically means "hated guy", and Odyssey would therefore be "story of a hated guy"
We've changed from D&D to the mechanically simpler Daggerheart, and are trying a beginners' adventure with pre-rolled characters that is meant to be finishable in a single session.
In this entire session, we have managed to:
Fill in the four empty lines on our character sheets.
That is all.
In this entire session, we have managed to:
Fill in the four empty lines on our character sheets.
That is all.
Us and some other parents have a D&D group, so we can play while the toddlers keep each other entertained. In theory.
The fact a D&D turn is equivalent to 6 seconds is very sobering. We worked out that, minus nappy and feeding time, our entire last session advanced the story by 18 seconds.
The fact a D&D turn is equivalent to 6 seconds is very sobering. We worked out that, minus nappy and feeding time, our entire last session advanced the story by 18 seconds.
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We've changed from D&D to the mechanically simpler Daggerheart, and are trying a beginners' adventure with pre-rolled characters that is meant to be finishable in a single session.
In this entire session, we have managed to:
Fill in the four empty lines on our character sheets.
That is all.
In this entire session, we have managed to:
Fill in the four empty lines on our character sheets.
That is all.
The classic Victorian trope where you need to send a character an impossibly long distance away so they can't possibly interfere in the plot, so they go from London all the way to exotic Birmingham
Unrelated but there’s one Sherlock story where he asks Watson to get the night train down from London and bring all his luggage for a long journey and Watson’s like “sure where are you” and Sherlock says “Lewisham” and it just sends me
sherlock holmes booking a train ticket for himself and watson like yea I need one passenger and one huge baggage
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The classic Victorian trope where you need to send a character an impossibly long distance away so they can't possibly interfere in the plot, so they go from London all the way to exotic Birmingham
"Why, at the hardest times of my life, was there only one set of footprints?"
"It was then that I carried you, my child. NOOT-NOOT."
"It was then that I carried you, my child. NOOT-NOOT."
It used to be said that the left was far too 'online', but it seems that this is increasingly (more) so for the right nowadays.
January 25, 2026 at 12:50 PM
"Why, at the hardest times of my life, was there only one set of footprints?"
"It was then that I carried you, my child. NOOT-NOOT."
"It was then that I carried you, my child. NOOT-NOOT."
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vote for me (I am a Batman villain)
It used to be said that the left was far too 'online', but it seems that this is increasingly (more) so for the right nowadays.
January 25, 2026 at 12:45 PM
vote for me (I am a Batman villain)
Labour Blueskyers 🤝 Writers of Star Trek: Discovery
"Burnham is always right and only selfish idiots who don't understand true genius would ever disagree this noble hero should be the leader."
"Burnham is always right and only selfish idiots who don't understand true genius would ever disagree this noble hero should be the leader."
January 25, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Labour Blueskyers 🤝 Writers of Star Trek: Discovery
"Burnham is always right and only selfish idiots who don't understand true genius would ever disagree this noble hero should be the leader."
"Burnham is always right and only selfish idiots who don't understand true genius would ever disagree this noble hero should be the leader."
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my great power rival told me corruption purges kept jailing his bureaucrats so I asked how many reforms he has and he said he just goes to the civil service exam results and gets some new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding bureaucrats to purges and then the PLA started crying
January 25, 2026 at 5:49 AM
my great power rival told me corruption purges kept jailing his bureaucrats so I asked how many reforms he has and he said he just goes to the civil service exam results and gets some new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding bureaucrats to purges and then the PLA started crying
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Scrap the online safety act and ban this instead.
January 25, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Scrap the online safety act and ban this instead.
Governing is just a distraction from the real job of politicians - vicious infighting with members of your own party
And yet, it could all backfire for Burnham.
Even if he gets through all the hurdles, there's no guarantee he'll be welcomed.
“Where was he in the Corbyn years?," says one MP. "I was in the trenches, dealing with all the abuse, with people in tears – and he swans off to be mayor of Manchester."
Even if he gets through all the hurdles, there's no guarantee he'll be welcomed.
“Where was he in the Corbyn years?," says one MP. "I was in the trenches, dealing with all the abuse, with people in tears – and he swans off to be mayor of Manchester."
January 25, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Governing is just a distraction from the real job of politicians - vicious infighting with members of your own party
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The 1* reviews of the concept of Ireland on Google Maps are very impressive www.google.com.au/maps/place/I...
January 25, 2026 at 3:44 AM
The 1* reviews of the concept of Ireland on Google Maps are very impressive www.google.com.au/maps/place/I...
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Have never been to Minnesota in my life but I grew up with MST3K playing on a loop on my computer and that does a weird thing to your brain where you’re like “why do I know what Menards is?”
January 25, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Have never been to Minnesota in my life but I grew up with MST3K playing on a loop on my computer and that does a weird thing to your brain where you’re like “why do I know what Menards is?”
Does anyone else's autocorrect keep "correcting" words to weird hypercorrect forms like "curiousity" and "maintainance"?
January 24, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Does anyone else's autocorrect keep "correcting" words to weird hypercorrect forms like "curiousity" and "maintainance"?
This is why you've all gotta come to Frankfurt
Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
This is why you've all gotta come to Frankfurt
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in fact I will say that while on the whole I think Sadiq Khan is a solid 6/10 mayor - like, just unremarkably fine, the fact that he is a genuine unapologetic booster for London in this particular regard is one of my favourite things about him. Complete lack of defensive crouch about this stuff.
January 24, 2026 at 12:56 PM
in fact I will say that while on the whole I think Sadiq Khan is a solid 6/10 mayor - like, just unremarkably fine, the fact that he is a genuine unapologetic booster for London in this particular regard is one of my favourite things about him. Complete lack of defensive crouch about this stuff.
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Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
January 24, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
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I like how liberally-minded the Passport Service is and that it only bars babies from having toys or dummies in their photographs. The rest of us can crack on!
January 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I like how liberally-minded the Passport Service is and that it only bars babies from having toys or dummies in their photographs. The rest of us can crack on!