this is my local tram line
of all the memes to find yourself living inside, this one’s probably the optimal
| Lives? | Yes. Oh! Yes, in Helsinki and Reykjavík, depending on the season. |
| What? | I SAID I LIVE IN… oh, I’m a writer, mostly poems and fiction. |
Kári Tulinius
@kattullus
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Yet another goddamn Icelandic novelist. Mostly on Bluesky now.
To be fair, Twitter also breaks. This is what the homefeed looks like right now, with me logged in. Yup, no tweets.
I used Facebook for the first time in forever yesterday, and it took me three or four clicks to break the website. I'd forgotten just how badly made it is.
rambaði inn í nammibúð í Tampere í Finnlandi þar sem var hægt að kaupa íslenskt nammi
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wandered into a candy store in Tampere, Finland, where you could buy Icelandic candy
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wandered into a candy store in Tampere, Finland, where you could buy Icelandic candy
rakst á íslenska Andrésar Andar-syrpu í fríhillu hverfisbókasafnsins míns í Helsinki
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came across an Icelandic Donald Duck comics-collection in my local library in Helsinki
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came across an Icelandic Donald Duck comics-collection in my local library in Helsinki
Early this morning, while it was still dusk, I pulled my daughter on a sled to kindergarten. Suddenly, she shouted at me: “Tiger!” I turned around, saw this, and jumped out of my skin. I understand now the scariness of paper tigers.
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Snemma morguns, í birtingu, dró ég dóttur mína á sleða í leikskólann. Allt í einu hrópaði hún: „Tígrisdýr!” Ég sneri við, sá þetta, og fékk hland fyrir hjartað. Ég skil núna hve ógnvænlegir pappírstígrar geta verið.
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Snemma morguns, í birtingu, dró ég dóttur mína á sleða í leikskólann. Allt í einu hrópaði hún: „Tígrisdýr!” Ég sneri við, sá þetta, og fékk hland fyrir hjartað. Ég skil núna hve ógnvænlegir pappírstígrar geta verið.
A perfect description, from Alison L. Strayer’s translation of Annie Ernaux’s The Years, of the feeling that descends on people in the midst of World Cup fever.
