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-
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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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
It's weird as a Brit seeing how American schools build so many prestigious and apparently bitterly contested hierarchies into the system. You have the football team, the cheerleaders, honor student/a valedictorian, maybe a marching band, and kids build their society around them?
if you went to a British state school, it is incredibly unlikely that you knew or cared who was on any of your school's sports teams. I had a couple of friends who were national level competitors and that was a niche fact at best.
I remember somebody saying years ago that Americans missed this because that genre just wasn't as much of A Thing over here, leading to takes going awry. E.g., "Harry is a jock" doesn't really work, because the protagonist of a genre school story isn't a "jock" in the American sense.
January 27, 2026 at 6:55 AM
It's weird as a Brit seeing how American schools build so many prestigious and apparently bitterly contested hierarchies into the system. You have the football team, the cheerleaders, honor student/a valedictorian, maybe a marching band, and kids build their society around them?
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„Hitler hat den Menschen im Stande ihrer Unfreiheit einen neuen kategorischen Imperativ aufgezwungen: ihr Denken und Handeln so einzurichten, daß Auschwitz nicht sich wiederhole, nichts Ähnliches geschehe.“ (Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialektik) #WeRemember
January 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM
„Hitler hat den Menschen im Stande ihrer Unfreiheit einen neuen kategorischen Imperativ aufgezwungen: ihr Denken und Handeln so einzurichten, daß Auschwitz nicht sich wiederhole, nichts Ähnliches geschehe.“ (Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialektik) #WeRemember
Immediately recognised this photo as the cover for Alt+J (Δ)'s Fitzpleasure, which I think means its time to take me out behind the woodshed
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Immediately recognised this photo as the cover for Alt+J (Δ)'s Fitzpleasure, which I think means its time to take me out behind the woodshed
NFL MANAGEMENT: "We need a Super Bowl act who are Republican-coded, apolitical, love fascism and would never criticise the president."
GUY WHO JUST FELL THROUGH A PORTAL FROM THE MIRROR UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING IS OPPOSITE: "How about Green Day?"
GUY WHO JUST FELL THROUGH A PORTAL FROM THE MIRROR UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING IS OPPOSITE: "How about Green Day?"
i am genuinely sort of surprised they went with bad bunny and then *added* green day, neither of whom have any incentive to stay quiet and both of whom have every incentive to make a big spectacle scene of it
the best part is that this is going to happen anyway, the NFL know what they’re doing
January 27, 2026 at 5:56 AM
NFL MANAGEMENT: "We need a Super Bowl act who are Republican-coded, apolitical, love fascism and would never criticise the president."
GUY WHO JUST FELL THROUGH A PORTAL FROM THE MIRROR UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING IS OPPOSITE: "How about Green Day?"
GUY WHO JUST FELL THROUGH A PORTAL FROM THE MIRROR UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING IS OPPOSITE: "How about Green Day?"
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*South Park-style notes flashing at the bottom of the screen* "This is what Kemi Badenoch actually believes"
"Ban under-16s from social media so the rest of us can all post AI nudes"! Truly we will never see her like again
January 26, 2026 at 9:21 PM
*South Park-style notes flashing at the bottom of the screen* "This is what Kemi Badenoch actually believes"
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[world-weary voice of an unheeded prophet] buy my book www.amazon.com/Enthusiast-J...
The Enthusiast
The Enthusiast [Fruhlinger, Josh] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Enthusiast
www.amazon.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
[world-weary voice of an unheeded prophet] buy my book www.amazon.com/Enthusiast-J...
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catching up on my pal @meyerson.bsky.social's newsletter from last week and why was i not informed that reality is becoming every more The Enthusiast-core (tobacco companies are posting pics of ashtrays on nostalgia subreddits to drum up cig sales) rangelife.substack.com/p/uh-oh-were...
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
catching up on my pal @meyerson.bsky.social's newsletter from last week and why was i not informed that reality is becoming every more The Enthusiast-core (tobacco companies are posting pics of ashtrays on nostalgia subreddits to drum up cig sales) rangelife.substack.com/p/uh-oh-were...
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George Woke Bush was bad enough, I absolutely refuse to deal with Enlightened Blatter www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup
The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:11 PM
George Woke Bush was bad enough, I absolutely refuse to deal with Enlightened Blatter www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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