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jwcph

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End capitalism 👊

He/Him, Northbridge Boi #WeAreNorrebro

Who I want to be when I grow up: Dolly Parton. The Doctor. Any of the Mythbusters. A guitar player.

Who I am now: Bad guitar player. Believer in the idea that society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check & that #politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best.

I enjoy being politically outspoken & overanalyzing #PopCulture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t #maker #3Dprinting

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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116065967069190628

"But now we have “AI” and everyone can generate some code. That might work. Or might mine some crypto or give your laptop an STI. Decades of collective work proving that “open source” is not less but at least as secure as commercial offerings now slowing going down the drain. Because a bunch of men – and it is always all men – just don’t want to be responsible for their actions. Which is fine if you are 5. But after 18 it gets old really fucking fast." - @tante

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

It's clearly a cover up, and they think we’re all stupid and won't notice.

Screenshot of a tweet from a Democratic congresswoman stating that Epstein-related files remain redacted for Members of Congress and alleging that Pam Bondi has been tracking which members reviewed the files. Below is a split-screen news image showing Rep. Jasmine Crockett speaking on ABC News Live Prime alongside a photo of Jeffrey Epstein, with a caption about viewing unredacted Epstein files.
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@georgetakei No - they think you're complacent & won't act on it, even when you see it plain as day. Prove them wrong.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan.
"It’s time to go back to the Moon—this time to stay."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/why-is-bezos-trolling-musk-on-x-with-turtle-pics-because-he-has-a-new-moon-plan/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica Would you kindly ignore these two fucking assholes. TY.

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Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/platforms-bend-over-backward-to-help-dhs-censor-ice-critics-advocates-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica Again: I think we're well past the "advocates say" phase here. Please stop framing facts as disputable. TY.

@jwcph@helvede.net avatar jwcph , to random Danish

RE: https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/116062821594498216

Også: Kan vi droppe "digitalt udfordret", gerne sammen med ideen om at det handler om hvor gammel man er?

Det er sgu kun rimeligt at kræve en særdeles udstrakt frihed til at vælge det digitale fra uden at det sygeliggøres, af en lang række årsager, som jeg helt ærligt er træt af at skulle argumentere for.

Normaliser at dem, der bliver ved med at insistere på digitaliseringens herligheder bliver bedt om at argumentere & at argumenterne bliver udfordret ordentligt.

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116062509846666680

"- the progressive anti-monopoly movement [...] were able to best their coalitional rivals because they did the hard work of winning support for the idea of shattering corporate power itself – not just arguing that corporate power was bad when it was used against them.

This was a slower, harder road than dividing up the world into good monopolies and bad ones, but it paid off. Today [...] their ideas have spread far and wide..."

There are no good bad guys.

@pluralistic

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116056780900371801

This is what I mean when I say that politicians are supposed to be lobbyists for the people: Not only should they not be so easily swayed by corporate marketing blitzes - it's literally their job to stand firm on the public's interests in face of such efforts.

Corporate lobbyists are - again, quite literally - their adversaries & we have to start yeeting every pol who doesnt't treat them as such.

@pluralistic

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RE: https://mastodon.bergen.social/@Kollisjon/116046777464175947

Norwegian consumer protection council perspective on enshittification, with @pluralistic , 27. Feb, “Kulturhuset”, so I assume in Oslo ;-) There seems to be an option to register and watch the stream as well!

@finnmyrstad

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@fm_volker @finnmyrstad Hey @pluralistic , since you're in the neighborhood, how about a stop-off in Copenhagen? I'll buy you several of our wildly expensive cups of coffee & also a ticket to whatever thing you appear at 😁

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@pluralistic @fm_volker @finnmyrstad I choose to believe that's the only reason I won't be having the opportunity to buy you coffee 🤣😁

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Trump said he would deport the murderers.

Now a MAGA dad has shot his own daughter, allegedly after an argument over Trump and sexual abuse.

Case is ongoing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no

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@randahl Note that the man's apparent defense, that he shot her by accident while showing her the gun nobody thought he should have for "home defense", during an ongoing argument, does very little to make matters better...

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Is it okay to beg for money on Mastodon?

Every week I see accounts asking for money, often tagging me or others directly.

I support recognized aid organisations, but these direct requests make me concerned, because as a Mastodon user I have no way of verifying if the requests are legitimate, or some nefarious person is pretending to be a person in need.

So my question is, should Mastodon servers have a policy about begging, and if so, what should the policy be?

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@aral @randahl Also, the other main demographic I see appealing for mutual aid are trans and/or neurodivergent and/or cronically ill people who are either actively marginalized where they live & therefore cut off from "regular" aid sources, or have fallen through some sort of crack, also cutting them off from other, more readily available forms of support.

In many such cases, just asking for aid requires more courage than you or I will ever know.

Like Aral says, context matters.

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116046410916823849

No, seriously, why is nobody doing this? I'm actually pretty sure that some version of it could be established outside the US, too - there's SO MUCH CRIME! on front-row display here & a lot of it crosses borders and/or international law...

Fucking how did the world become this uninterested in bringing (a certain kind of) criminals to justice?

@pluralistic

@aphandersen@friendica.dk avatar aphandersen , to random Danish

Hvis Linux skal udbredes til det brede publikum og være et reelt alternativ til MacOS og Windows, skal nogle linuxdistributioner dø. Det argumenterer Sydney Butler for i denne artikel.

Det er lidt sat på spidsen, men han har en god pointe. Det brede publikum vil ikke have de mange valg som mange linuxentusiaster elsker. De vil have andre vælger det bedste valg for dem og at det virker. Det er man nødt til at indstille sig på hvis Linux skal udvikles til også at anvendes af mange flere. Og det synes jeg det skal.

howtogeek.com/if-linux-is-goin…

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@simonjust @mosgaard @aphandersen OK, men hvis man er lidt flabet, så kan man sige at bil-analogien understøtter at noget skal dø.

Hvis der fandtes lige så mange måder at få en bil til at køre på, som der findes Linux distros, så ville det være umuligt for de fleste at købe bil, fordi man aldrig ville få klarhed over hvilken bil man kan få mekaniker-hjælp, reservedele, brændstof m.m. til i det område hvor man bor...

Et for stort felt af muligheder bliver knust under sin egen vægt.

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@simonjust @mosgaard @aphandersen You made me tap the sign... det du opfatter som kilder til hjælp er helt utilgængeligt for folk, der ikke interesserer sig for computeren selv. De fleste vil formentlig ikke engang prøve at søge på ubuntudanmark - de vil kaste ét blik på siden & gå ud fra, at de ikke forstår den; et BB-forum ligner ikke noget de kender eller kan forholde sig til.

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@simonjust @mosgaard @aphandersen
Mit ønskescenarie - Linux eller ej - er teknologi til mennesker der er ligeglade med teknologi. Hvis vi ikke kan løse det, så bliver teknologi-samfundet aldrig voksent & det er allerede træls & vil kun blive værre.

  • og ingen kapitalisme, selvfølgelig.

Re. Apple, så er der ingen, dem inklusive, der kommer i nærheden af at tælle som eksempler på ordentlig kundeservice & support. MS har support-fora på dansk, det bliver det fa'me ikke bedre af.

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@simonjust @mosgaard @aphandersen Jeg er bestemt ikke sikker på, at vi er på vej - jeg er ikke engang sikker på, at vi vender næsen i den rigtige retning 🤔

Al computerteknologi i dag er jo mere eller mindre bare videreført i lige linje fra de første løsninger man fandt på & de var jo knap nok ingeniørvenlige, for slet ikke at tale om bruger-, & grundlæggende har UX stort set stået stille siden Xerox PARC.

Jeg tror vi er 1-3 paradigmeskift fra at være på rette spor, hvis jeg skal være ærlig.

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@simonjust @mosgaard @aphandersen Sagde du lige "Google SmartGlass cool"...? 😱

  • men det er det jeg mener; vi har præcis ét computer-paradigme & det er det første, vi fandt på. Det ville fa'me være underligt, hvis det var den eneste rigtige måde at gøre det på & vi ramte den i første forsøg!
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@simonjust @mosgaard @aphandersen Jeg mener det er omvendt - når vi ser en bedre model, så er vi overbevist med det samme.

(at vi så har brug for at gøre op med Silicon Valley-kapitalismen for at trænge igennem er en anden diskussion - som også er relevant, men reelt afsporer spørgsmålet om hvad folk rent faktisk gerne vil have...)

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985

I've said this before: Those dickhead business types in "Resident Evil", who destroy the world through greed & negligence & then just keep having board meetings in their bunkers & discuss their next insane projects?

Yeah, real-life billionaires are exactly like that, except way stupider. You can't even shame them by pointing it out - they think it's cool & wish they were sunglasses-inside-guy at the head of the table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnJ81pffUc

@pluralistic

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

This is a bit interesting if you are a NERD who is interested in STATISTICS (which I am)

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list

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@TheBreadmonkey I find it unaccountably hilarious that the map repeats when you zoom all the way out 🤣

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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/115961254774065427

Fucking obviously. These are statistical engines & by definition, anything interesting stands out, i.e. is different from the statistically common. OF COURSE they will shave everything down to its most boring mean; there's no way they can NOT do that.

The main understanding gap is that almost nobody realizes that THESE ARE JUST STATISTICAL ENGINES! They're un-original by design & function.

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RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115904617539822735

This is actually kinda important.

You see, some of us called this back in ye earlie '10s, that there was no viable business case for VR to justify Meta's investment - we were of course poo-poo'ed, because if a company the size of Meta wants something to happen, they'll make it happen.

Turns out no, they will not, because even with billions upon billions to burn, even Meta can't make something out of nothing.

We, The Market™️, rejected this. We have more power than we think.

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RE: https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-N_Oo_QnLT0K7vX7hN68fUg%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

"Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years..."

Once again, this is ENTIRELY an outrage bait bullshit issue, manufactured out of whole cloth by the bigoted Right™️

When will we learn not to let the worst people dictate the common conversation?

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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115833246133934434

No. There's no ambiguity in the text & yet this headline.

It's like going "Did a group of dudes breaking into the Louvre & making off with various works of art act legally?", which no news outlet would ever do, because it would be both stupid & a dereliction of journalistic duty to state fact clearly so people can know what the fuck is going on.

The role of the press getting us into this mess cannot be overstated.

@jwcph@helvede.net avatar jwcph , to random

"- the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave..." - Anthony Moser

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

@jwcph@helvede.net avatar jwcph , to random

You know what, fuck bling. If you're rich it's for rubbing people's face in it & if you're not, it's for lying to them. Fuck both of those options.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

I think it's important we try out bold new looks. Its also very important when we're doing so that we look in the mirror, realise we've made a tremendous mistake then not do that.

(skintight black rollneck sweater - I do not look like a spy - I look like someone who made a clothing mistake)

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@TheBreadmonkey 😂 I notice that I've started pre-stretching my form-fitting sweats & tees before putting them on for some reason... 😂

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"Trump is a crisis, and crises precipitate change..." - @pluralistic

You know, I really don't care which country does this, or does it first - I just care that it happens.

Moreover, I absolutely believe it will happen. It will have to happen. The only question is if it's before or after the broligarchy destroys tech as we know it.

Will we reappropriate tech, or will we revive it after it's broken?

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/#post-american-internet

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I could never live there.

Europe is the only continent that has no frogs.
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@lowqualityfacts So what do the French eat? Touché!

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

How do I say this in English:

In Danish we use the term "en nærliggende tanke" (a nearby thought) to describe that an idea would easily come to mind in a given a situation.

For instance, if a tribe was using drag sleds to move heavy items, and they saw a round shape rolling down a hill, it could be "a nearby thought" to combine round wheels and a drag sled to create a cart.

Is there a similar term in English?

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@randahl Well, since the expression doesn't exist I wouldn't get hung up on translating the words, but rather the intent - e.g. "Hvis X er det en nærliggende tanke at Y" = "If X it's not a stretch to say that Y".

In my view "nærliggende tanke" does not, in fact, mean anything like an inspiration or stroke of insight - it's more mundane, like "This makes me think of..." without great fanfare 😁

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@randahl @CiaraNi That's how languages evolve 😁

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

If the world wide web for some time was the way the human race could talk to each other, the launch & fast roll-out of various forms of 'artificial intelligence' is fast destroying this aspect of social media...

If the chart below is anything like accurate, one can only wonder what the next few years will being in the way of 'automated' content & what that might mean for the handling & distortion of information, communication & politics?

Should we be worried? Yes!

Chart: AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles proportion of articles published on the web (%) - human, AI Shows 0% AI generated in 2020, growing to around 10% in 2023 when ChatGPT launch, and then accelerated increase to over 50% this year (2025)
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@ChrisMayLA6 Someone pointed out recently that this is ALL of the internet, most of which is marketing copy & I tend to agree - it's hard to suss out in data but pretty sure the portion of text online dedicated to actually communicating with each other was already dwarfed by commercial slop even before AI.

So the question is, if nobody reads any of it, do we even care? Sure, search is broken but that, too, is down to over-commericalization - better search is still possible.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

Screenshot of a CNBC headline that reads: “How device hoarding by Americans is costing economy.” The subtext says Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever, which may be smart for consumers but can reduce productivity.
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@georgetakei "Will somebody think of the poor trillion-dollar corporations whose stakeholder profits rely on you throwing away perfectly good devices & buy new ones until the heat death of the fucking universe"...

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"Ripping out all the proprietary code that powers our cloud software and devices and replacing it with robust, auditable, user-modifiable free/open source software is a massive project [that is] long overdue. It's a move that's in the power of every government, because it merely involves changing your own domestic laws to enable adversarial interoperability..." - @pluralistic

Nobody complains about spending countless billions on oil infrastructure. Just sayin.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/26/difficult-multipolarism/#eurostack

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

“We are gonna be meeting in the very near future”

Trump thinks the plan to help convicted felon Jair Bolsonaro escape from Brazil worked, and appears to tell the press that Bolsonaro is coming to the US to meet Trump.

The press then informs him that Bolsonaro was caught trying to escape, to which Trump replies, “Is that what happened? It’s too bad.”

https://youtu.be/mBrVf1eh64w?si=lZOVAHkoTnDtwm1O

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@randahl Note about Temu Hitler's psychology: He gauges the wording & tone of whatever he's asked & by whom - if he thinks it's about someone he likes he'll say "I'm meeting them soon" & if not he'll say "I don't know who they are".

It's completely knee-jerk & has nothing to do with any kind of reality.

Because he's never not propagandizing himself.

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@randahl Don't think I can take credit for it 😝

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@randahl sounds on brand for her 😂

@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random

Easily back up and restore your Flatpak apps when switching distros or reinstalling your system.

https://itsfoss.com/back-up-restore-flatpak-apps/

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@itsfoss Uh, you guys do realize that things like Flatpak are, either deliberately or by sheer luck, made for normie users & other people who don't want to & also shouldn't have to use Terminal, ever, right...?

I'll be blunt: Until it's more normal/accepted to provide a solution with a UI than just a few lines of terminal commands, is not mature enough to be considered a viable replacement for Big Tech.

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Oddly enough we got to talking about last night & what stuck with me was this weird idea that having food & water for 3-4 days will save you & your family 🤔 that's also a wildly spoiled & unrealistic idea of a crisis as something somebody else will fix in less than a week, while you triumphantly drink your bottled water & everyone else can just fuck off.

The only thing that'll work in a crisis is community. Everything else is a power fantasy.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/#guillotine-watch @pluralistic

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Most people want a usable OS - they don’t want any AI or copilot capabilities. But who will tell them? https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-ai-ceo-pushes-back-against-critics-after-recent-windows-ai-backlash-the-fact-that-people-are-unimpressed-is-mindblowing-to-me

How do you work as a CEO when you don't know what customers wants? They are totally out of touch and batshit crazy with AI.

A screenshot of a news article headline. The headline reads: "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash - 'the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me'" Below the headline is the short summary: "Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS."
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@nixCraft Based on my own experience with quite a few of them, almost no CEOs of anything above large-ish companies know how their business works or how it makes money.

These guys are hired by a board of directors & the real mystery is how they think putting an oblivious idiot in charge of their company is a good idea.

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There we go - quick & dirty montage of some of the cool stuff I saw a Comic Con Copenhagen yesterday... 🤩

https://youtu.be/Z_CULGyVyNo

@jwcph@helvede.net avatar jwcph , to random

You know, having red-green spectrum displacement vision doesn't cause me much trouble - but stupidity & bad design does.

Pretty sure that in a fairly dimly lit restroom even you normal-sighted folx would find it easier to determine stall occupancy if the tiny indicator was red/white, rather than red/green of the exact same intensity...

Closeup of a toilet stall door with the occupancy indicator in the shadow of the handle, making it look just dark
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    @simonjust @bech - men det sku' jeg...!! 😫😂

    @jwcph@helvede.net avatar jwcph , to random

    Fun fact: good customer service makes customer lifetime value shoot through the roof. It's 5-10 times cheaper to sell to a repeat customer than acquire a new one.

    • but acquisition is handled by marketing & they typically have 10-100x the budget of customer experience, if the latter even exists as a department at all.

    "Business is rational" my ass. Greed makes stupid & then hype wins.

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/sorry-to-bother-you/#we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to

    @pluralistic

    @jwcph@helvede.net avatar jwcph , to random

    Usually I just complain here but now I have a real question: Trying to set up to run a DAW on Linux I'm reading a lot of things like JACK, Pipewire, ALSA et cetera - which is what & how does audio on Linux actually work?

    What I would like to find out is, what does the system audio chain look like & which ones of all these... apps? whatever they are are versions of the same things & which are drivers & which are necessary/optional 🤔

    Preferrably in n00b speak, please 😁

    @Camlarsch@helvede.net avatar Camlarsch , to random Danish

    Jeg ved ikke helt hvorfor*, men det er aldrig før faldet mig ind at søge systematisk på Kong Arthur-bøger, som jeg ellers har læst, siden jeg var barn.
    Men nu fandt jeg en Wiki-artikel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_Arthurian_legends
    Og en Reddit-tråd: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1mwkcie/arthurian_retelling_recomendations/
    Og jeg vurderer listerne som fine ud fra, hvad jeg allerede har læst.

    *Det afslører nok, hvor udigitalt indfødt jeg er, hvor intuitivt drevet min lystlæsning er, og at min Kong Arthur-interesse opstod før min adgang til internet.

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    @Camlarsch Ahem, det er altså ikke verdens fedeste film... bare så du er advaret 😂

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

    My retirement goal is to do nothing but prance around town in a tutu so everyone will say I aged gracefully.

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    @Alice I'm on the "annoy people by pretending I'm deaf" Blackadder plan.