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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

BokDraken har uppdaterats! Säg till om något blev konstigt :)

Skärmdumpen som visar mjukvaruversionen 0.8.5

nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

@barbiche.bsky.social @doktorzjivago oj då. det kommer att ta lite tid för att det är BookWyrm som sköter översättningarna, men både “desentraliserad” och “anti-företag” är inte helt rätt så jag ska försöka att fixa det, absolut.

en skärmdump av BookWyrms kod som visar bland annat "Decentralized" översatt som "Desentraliserad" och "Anti-Corporate" som "Anti-företag"

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

current status: closing the work laptop and waiting for the big snowfall to start in an hour :) aaaahhhhh. this is what winter is supposed to be.

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

"Stories from a South African childhood" is an apt subtitle for this book. It's not an autobiography in the full sense, there's nothing about the career in comedy here, but a lot about South Africa. I'm not familiar with Trevor's work, but this text sounds […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

The cover of "Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood" by Trevor Noah: a portrait of the author painted on a chipped wall, and a black woman walking by and looking at it

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

I really wanted to like this one, and it's highly recommended in many places, but this book wasn't my cup of tea. Most of it felt quite trivial. There were two chapters towards the end though that were more meaty, especially the one describing failure modes […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

cover of "Thinking in systems: a primer" by Donella Meadows. white background, rainbow-colored slinky.

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

"Be the market leader" is not a strategy, and yet it pops up on so many company's websites. I think intuitively we all know this book's central message: an actual strategy is a guiding policy applied to a diagnosed problem through a set of coherent actions […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

Cover of "Good strategy, bad strategy: the difference and why it matters" by Richard P. Rumelt

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

like a library but loud and the entire country is there :) #bokmässan

a picture of a bookfair floor with booths, books, banners, crowd

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

the benefits of shopping locally during one's lunch break

a fox is standing on a dirt road leading to some countryside houses (it's a farm with a shop)

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

how to stay focused in all-hands meetings

a piece of dark fabric embroidered with different stitches in concentric circles

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

(from a book club) I think it's a divisive read (some reviews said 'woke'), but for me it was definitely useful, and I'm happy I read it. It's not your average self-help book. And it does what it says on the cover: after the first third with dissecting […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

the cover of Martha Beck's "Beyond Anxiety: curiosity, creativity and finding your life's purpose". blue sky with some white fluffy clouds is overlayed with a bold stroke of a paintbrush in pink, orange, and white.

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

The most similar books (feeling/theme-wise) I remember are "I who have never known men" and "The memory police". Identity, memory, that sort of stuff. Or, as I put it to my friend, "Groundhog day, but make it Nordic noir, and without the crimes. Ugh […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

The cover of the Swedish translation of the Danish book which in English is called "On the calculation of volume". By Solvej Balle. It has a photo of a woman with her back to the viewer, she's sitting at a table with some household items. The photo is separated into seven vertical strips.

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

Nice book with a lively language, but all the historical tidbits are maybe a little too disconnected to enjoy this as a cover-to-cover sequential read. It clocks in at 580+ pages and touches upon lots of areas (food, dress, health, architecture, ...) […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

The cover of "At Home: a short history of private life" by Bill Bryson. It depicts a pile of ironed laundry shaped to resemble a house.

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

"How buildings learn: what happens after they're built" is technically a book about architecture, and I don't want to detract from all the specific real-life examples of actual buildings with photos and everything. But it's also a great book for everyone […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

shout-out to the artist who makes fucking nightmares like a gulper eel look cute and happy

a page from a children book with cute drawings of a giant squid, a gulper eel, and a spider crab

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2024

My phone's camera captured less than half of the beauty, but these were real mother-of-pearl clouds! More information about them in Swedish: www.smhi.se/kunskapsbanken/meteorol…

it's like normal clouds but with the light/gentle colors of the rainbow

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2024

Dropped off these two at the library yesterday. One is scary, and the other has huge desert worms with sharp teeth in it. The scary one was an interlibrary loan, so I was returning it to the librarian and not a machine. I told her it was a good book, and […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

Cover of a well-worn "Dune" by Frank Herbert

Cover of "Konsten att avveckla en välfärdsstat" by Åsa Plesner and Niklas Altermark

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2024

I'm still learning to use it, but darning loom is my new favorite toy for mending all the small holes. I think I need a longer needle though to improve the experience even more. #visiblemending

a black sock with a darned patch in two shades of red, and a darning loom (a wooden circle + a rubber band + a metal plate with an arrangement of hooks that lift up the alternating threads, making darning fast and neat)

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

One of the fastest and most reliable websites in my life is down. Surely there's a German word for this feeling, something about grief and the rotten bits or bytes

a screenshot of svenska.se being unreachable (and cloudfare working)

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2024

good evening #drinkklubben :) there was no absinthe within an hour of driving, so cheers with a not-so-Pan American Clipper. gonna explore what else one can make with calvados

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2024

This is nonfiction, but it should be classified as a horror. This halloween, feel the chill of the taxpayers money being used to thwart an open source solution that fixes the problems introduced by a project so mismanaged it should be taught at […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

The cover of the book with a classroom as a background and blurbs such as "This app works worse than my previous marriage", "Worse than corona" and "Makes me regret getting kids"

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2024

Read "The Memory Police" by Yōko Ogawa. It's a dystopian novel about an island where the police can make everyone forget something at once, like roses or birds. It's written simply but beautifully, perfectly transporting the feeling of loss: losing your […] [Original post on mastodonsweden.se]

A cover of the book with a black-and-white photo of a (Japanese?) woman, parts of her portrait replaced by crude drawings in red pencil. Over her eye there's a golden badge with the names of the book and the author

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2024

I hate that it's true, I'm happy that someone's reporting about this, and I'm crying of laughter over the picture. So many feelings

A headline reading "Hard to protect oneself against cyber attacks as a private individual — Everything that's connected can be hacked, including a washing machine" illustrated by two images: some code on the black background with a "shining out" effect + a washing machine with some white fluffy fabric sticking out

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2024

The dragonflies have reached a strategic alignment I guess

two dragonflies sitting on a facade, facing the same direction

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2024

hi #drinkklubben! no copper but cherry is the most Ukrainian tree, so, close enough

kyiv mule in an enamel mug with a cherry motive

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nixie @darkscience.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2024

Fixed some holes with one of the two stitches I know. Maybe it's time to learn more stitches since I regularly get low-stakes opportunities to practice

Some pants and a shirt with three holes between them mended using the parachute rangers stitch

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