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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 19h

Can anyone who speaks Icelandic let me know whether there is a logic behind "opna" taking the accusative but "loka" taking the dative? Regarding a door, "ég opna hurðina" but "ég loka hurðinni". This is the kind of thing I'll fail to remember if there isn't a reason and it's just how things are 😂

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Interesting post on the link between Blueksy and W Social. My personal experience with W Social has been fine fwiw. blog.ewancroft.uk/3ms3vzaytp22n

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W Social Isn't New. It Isn't Truly European. It Isn't Even Theirs.

Another rant on this “European” alternative

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pre-ordered Unspeakable Things by @elizabethhand.bsky.social and Off the Reservation by @stephengrahamjones.com You can’t go wrong with these authors. I recommend pre-ordering these books and checking out their other work if you haven’t already. 📚😁

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Use of English or other generally accepted language is an AI indicator. I’m busy translating my current story into semaphore. It’ll basically be a flip book.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I made an account on W Social not realizing it was connected to Bluesky through the AT Protocol. Trying to decide if it makes sense to have both or if that’s confusing. Maybe both are needed for DMs within a platform? Anyone have thoughts to share on this?

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This bobcat cleaning itself when I stumbled across it on a hike.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Kind of cool to spot a signed copy of Mongrels by @sgj.bsky.social at the airport bookstore in Denver.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

@onefootiniceland.bsky.social I’ve been travelling a lot but meant to post to say it was nice to meet you at Iceland Noir. This was my second year and I’m planning to be back next year as well!

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Áhugamál: tónlist (að mestu þungarokk), bækur og leikir Lítur: 🤷🏼‍♂️ kannski appelsínugulur (hup Holland hup) Nammi: lakkrís Drykkur: rauðvín eða gin-kokteill Búð: Eymundsson (á Íslandi) Mér finnst gaman að gefa gjafir. Forðast: Ekkert. Nei, margir Bandaríkjamenn

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Þessi önd var að nota gangbrautina.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A week in #Iceland I saw a few snow flurries, the roads were great, and the lowest temperature my car recorded was -2 C. Back in Southern California, had to chip ice off the 4WD and it was -4.5 C this morning.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Owls Woods Graves. Also a great show. Up next: Spectral Wound.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

At Ascension, in Reykjavík. Pthmulhu great, as was Nexion. More bands to come.

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Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

OK, thing that I can reveal is that until now, my self-published space opera books, The Questrison Saga®️ (writing as J. Dianne Dotson) were my bestsellers.Now, Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall, my @chooseadventure.bsky.social out April 2026, has smashed everything else in preorders. Thank you!

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Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall by Jendia Gammon: 9781937133108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Delve into the gnarly guts of a long-dead mall in this gloriously weird and whacked-out romp, where friendship, 80s music, and food court slushies are your weapons of choice against spandexed supernat...

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Excited for #icelandnoir. Second year attending. Iceland crime fiction was my entry into Icelandic literature. Starting with Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (the first Freyja and Huldar to be precise), then reading Arnaldur and Ragnar and from there to newer (to me) writers in the same genre. But, more…

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Ég er í Reykjavík. Ég er glaður að vera hér.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Heading to #Iceland. Left LAX on time. Next stop, Boston.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Got my ticket for the Friday night lineup at Ascension in Reykjavík next month! #Iceland #Metal

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The department dressed as Suprme Court justices at work. We had name tags but I had this hat on and no one needed my name tag to know who I was.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Legal claim against OpenAI for direct copyright infringement for ChatGPT's summary of works of fiction, as well as generating of outlines for potential sequels to such works, survives a motion to dismiss. No analysis of Fair Use at this point, since that defense isn't at issue. #copyright #ai

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

In furtherance of my goal of eating healthy and not eating out as often for lunch, I’ve made salmon fillets in the air fryer, and am now making roast vegetables, quinoa, and baba ghanoush. Should be good for a few days of lunch!

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Took this video on the drive from Akureyri to Siglufjörður. Great drive and I loved the town. Doubt I’ll make it back there next month but in the spring for sure. #Iceland

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Those of you who travel to Iceland: have any of you attended the cooking class at Salt Eldhús? @sophiecarr.bsky.social @onefootiniceland.bsky.social ?

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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Pub on Tuesday! THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP! buff.ly/Bf9BguU With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social 3 ways to WIN: @thestorygraph.com tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea #Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn @fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF #giveaway

Cover to THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP
Art by Tom Canty
Design by Elizabeth Story

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Richard Armitage will also be a guest at Iceland Noir next month. Fun! #IcelandNoir

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Just learned a great idiomatic Icelandic phrase. If everything is in chaos, going haywire, in disarray etc, you can say everything is on its hind legs (allt á afturfótunum). That made me laugh. #Icelandic

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We are about a month away from Iceland Noir 2025. Excited for this! #IcelandNoir

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Blind Guardian and Ensiferum, you say? I’m in! #Metal

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Dr Cecilia Payne. Important to Physics but didn't receive recognition for many years because she was a woman.

This is Cecilia Payne. She determined, as a doctoral student, that the sun was mostly H and He. Her advisor, Henry Russell, believed that the sun was obviously made from the same materials as the earth. He made her add a disclaimer to her thesis stating that she was almost certainly wrong. Later, when Russell realized she was right, he published his own paper. He credited her prior work but received scientific credit for the discovery himself for 40 years, until Payne was finally recognized.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The low character limit here prevents me from reposting this. #Science

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

RIP, Tomas Lindberg. The At the Gates album "Slaughter of the Soul" is legendary and hugely influential. I last saw At the Gates at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, where you could either be down on the floor or sit in the loge section where people would serve you wine during the show. #Metal

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AT THE GATES Frontman TOMAS LINDBERG Dies At 52

Tomas Lindberg, the iconic frontman of AT THE GATES, has passed away at the age of 52 following a battle with adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC).

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Magician is Colm Tóibín's biographical fiction of the life of Thomas Mann. Very interesting so far, though I don't know enough about Mann to know which details are fiction and which are not. #Books

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

An _extremely_ impressive map of Icelandic folk tales and folklores - I would need a few further decades for my own mapping efforts of German folklore to get this comprehensive. Alas, the entire site is in Islandic. But perhaps there are some people out there who are interested in translating […]

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

"Negroni weather". That state of affairs in which the weather is either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, too sunny or too cloudy, too foggy or too clear, and so on.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Reading a book by Ragnar Jónasson. The characters, coming from Siglufjörður, stop at the gap between the tunnels from Siglufjörður to Ólafsfjörður. When I drove through there, I stopped and walked around in that same place because I really liked it. Fun to come across it in a book! This is near.

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Amund Ose-Johansen @amundjo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Helt perfekte forhold for å lese The Night Guest av @hildur.bsky.social - liggende i teltet mens jeg hører på regnet. #lesesky

Bilde fra innsiden av et telt: på teltbunnen ligger boka The Night Guest en sjokolade. I bakgrunnen sees litt bagasje og støvler ved teltåpningen

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

@coelliptic.bsky.social I see you're in Los Angeles. Just curious--are you aware of any groups in the area of people learning Icelandic or interested in Iceland? I've seen groups in other parts of the country but nothing in SoCal.

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Turns out Ascension will be going on while I am already in #Iceland for Iceland Noir. Is it possible to work both in? We shall see. www.ascensionfestivaliceland.com

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ASCENSION FESTIVAL ICELAND

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Robert MacAnthony @robertmacanthony.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Came across an old book of #Icelandic that includes the verb "krýja," which means "to swarm". Pronounced the same as the bird, kría, and having seen kría go after people near their nests this doesn't seem like a coincidence. Not sure the verb is used anymore.

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