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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

[alcohol (photo)] Time for the Friday ‘phroaig. If we can’t be on Islay, we can bring a little bit of Islay to us…

Two low tumblers sitting on a kitchen island, with a diamond pattern cut into the glass. The one of the left is green glass, the one on the right, blue. Behind and between them is a bottle of Laphroaig single malt whisky from Islay, 10 y.o. The glasses are, as yet, empty. And so the pouring of the whisky is still at the anticipation stage (which is no longer the case as this alt. text is being written.)

Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Ok, so writing *is* happening. Not the way I usually spend the last week of my summer vacation, but perhaps I'll finally get this damn article out of my head… #Writing #AcademicWriting #AcademicLife

A desk in a home office. The desk is covered by piles of books, there is a vertical mouse and a keyboard, as well as a laptop and external monitor (giving a provisional 2-monitor setup. The desk is flanked by bookcases, and behind the desk the wall is dominated by a window looking out at vegetation.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

@Vigdisol @tanketom Tenkte bildet mitt var relativt nytt, men når jeg kikker på det ser jeg dette var tatt i 2017…

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Ok, how’s this, then: Donald Trump is corrupt, vain, dim, and a failure. The current US administration is incapable of running a country. ICE are terrorist goons. The Republican Party consists entirely of spineless, weasely, craven idiots who would sell […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A dark blue background. At the top in the centre is a US flag. Below it is a text that reads: «Effective immediately, all individuals applying for a nonimmigrant visa are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to «public» to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States.»

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

I seem to have found a secret passage…

A jumble of roots and tree trunks, growing up a small, rocky cliff. Behind some of the trees, a rock slide has created a small cave.

The cave is dark and the back cannot be seen, appearing as a black void.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Neville demonstrates the classic 3-paw-stack technique. (And is sporting a smart new spring haircut.)

Neville, the charcoal grey labradoodle is on a green couch trying to sleep. His paws are stretched towards the camera, and the two hind paws and his left front paw are stacked one on top of the other.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Sometimes it’s all about taking a break and looking out the window at just the right time.

A snow-covered garden, bordered by a fence. Beyond the fence are a couple of trees and a house. The sky is just clearing, and the sun is shining through a hole in the clouds causing the trees to cast stark shadows on the snow covering the garden.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Nothing unusual to see here. Just the Canadian armed forces training for to meet the greatest military threat they currently face … [checks notes] … an invasion by the US.

Justin Massie writes on Twitter: “military planners are modelling a U.S. invasion from the south, expecting American forces to overcome Canada’s strategic positions on land and at sea within a week and possibly as quickly as two days.

Canada does not have the number of military personnel or the sophisticated equipment needed to fend off a conventional American attack, they said. So, the military envisions unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military or armed civilians would resort to ambushes, sabotage, drone warfare or hit-and-run tactics.

The aim of such tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. occupying forces, the official said.

This rupture in the joint defence agreement would likely see France or Britain, nuclear-weapon states, being called on to provide support and defence for Canada against the U.S.”

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

Ireland continues to be good to me this Christmas…

Menu from Homestead Cottage near Doolin, County Clare.

It reads:

In House Breads & Glenilen
BBQ Kishanny Lamb & Pickled Garden Vegetables
West Clare Moyasta Oyster, Champagne & Dill
Garden Celeriac , Apple, St tola & Dukka

Locally Landed Red Mullet
Rouille, Saffron, Crouton & Soup de Poisson

Garden Heirloom Pumpkin & Squash
Stracciatella, Rosehip & Garden Bitter Leaves

Wild Atlantic Halibut
Trompette Mushrooms, Hazelnut, Miso & Garden Brassicas
(Add White Truffle - €25 per portion)

East Clare Vension
Garden Jerusalem Artichoke, Galway Chantrelles & Black Truffle

Valrhona Dark Chocolate
Burren Hazelnut, Miso Caramel & Shortbread

JJ Corry Whiskey Chocolate Truffles
Cherry Pate de Fruit
Mincepie Financier

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

Ireland has been good to me this Christmas.

A scene from a west coast. The sun is low in a clear sky, and hangs over a small group of houses on the promontory in the distance. The ocean laps gently on the beach in the mid ground, and in the foreground is a grass-covered dune.

Waves lapping on the shoals, throwing white spray into the air. The sky is clear and blue.

Closeup of some stones on a sandy beach. There is a little water between some of them, and on the left are some footprints left by a human and a dog.

A ruined croft in a green field. In the background is Spanish Point golf club, and some houses. Beyond them is the ocean. The sky is perfectly clear and blue.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

Every now and then I open my junk drawers (yes, plural) and look at what I have there. While it’s mostly old cables and chargers, there’s enough other stuff that I think «I should go through all that stuff. Someday.» And then I put things back and close it up again…

On the left: a black iPod with click wheel. From sometime around 2003-04. On the right: a yellow Sony AM/FM Sports Walkman. Perhaps from 1986-ish.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

Neville’s really getting into this ‘working from home’ thing… #MastoDog

Neville, the not-so-small-as-he-thinks labradoodle sleeps contentedly in a tight space under a desk. He’s jammed in between the wall, a garbage can, and the office chair — all the while ensuring he can track every movement of the chair’s occupant by lying on the occupant’s right foot.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

I missed #SilentSunday yesterday, and so I’ll post this tiny, little toadstool here as a #MondayMushroom instead.

A tiny, perfectly round toadstool in the upper right quadrant of the picture. The ground is covered by decaying leaves, and a bright green blade of grass creates protrudes towards the camera on the far right. The toadstool is bright red with white spots.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

The great thing about working at home is that I don’t need any form of timer to remind me to take breaks. Neville does the job so much better. Not pomodoro — dogadoro ftw! #MastoDog

Neville, the charcoal grey labradoodle, seated up. His left paw is on the knee of yours truly (the only part of me visible) while his right paw is on the arm rest of the chair. He is looking up, wondering why the hand that was, until just now, petting him is doing so no more. Behind him are book cases filled with science fiction.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Hey, @reclaimhosting — I’m having trouble logging in to my WordPress site through external apps (in this case, the official WordPress app on iOS). Any idea what I can do to fix this…?

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

These things don’t /actually/ go together, they just look like it… I’m also missing a computer running MS-DOS in order to see if the disks are still viable; likely not, since v.2 of CorelDraw was released in 1991… And, even if I had a computer from that era […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Five 3 1/2’’ micro floppy disks, labelled Corel Draw disk 1, 2, and 3, and Corel Draw 2.01 Upgrade disk 1 and 2. Also, a floppy disk drive, that once upon a time belonged with a 1st generation iMac.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

I’m thinking this is either an interdimensional glimpse into Shelob’s lair, or else Christo was here…

A tree trunk in a thicket on a summer day. Normally that would be no big deal, but at this time the trunk and some of the surrounding shrubs are covered in webbing made by (I think) tent caterpillars.

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Fredrik Graver @fgraver.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

I’ll have to negotiate the reading order with my wife, but I think we’re covered for a few weeks… I suspect she’ll want to start with The Last Song of Penelope, since we’ve both read the first two. Moving Pictures will, in fact, be my first Discworld, so I […] [Original post on hcommons.social]