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Signe Johansen

@signesjohansen.bsky.social
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Food + drink mostly, but also sport, culture, cartoons. Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚👩‍🍳📝

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 7h
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 13h
Russia is committing war crimes against culture and language.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 13h
Savour the pleasure, relish it even. Enough with the guilt!
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 13h
Spotted three mandarin ducks just doing their thing in a nearby pond 🦆
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 13h
These poor kids. Eternally thankful my parents had me vaccinated to the hilt
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 16h
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“You know I used to run a jazz club, and that’s still how I feel.” Good to read Haruki Marukami is also back to both writing and running… www.thetimes.com/culture/thea...
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When Haruki Murakami met Harry Styles: ‘We talked about running’
In a rare interview, the Japanese author talks about losing the urge to write and run, bringing his work to the London stage — and his unlikely friendship with the singer
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re open today until six. Stop by for a 2027 diary, or a 1980s Japanese eraser that has a built in magnifying glass.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
my god
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Bad news, everyone - Brexit has apparently caused the entire United Kingdom to detach from Europe and drift several thousand miles west. We are now slowly approaching Newfoundland. Can someone please let Eurostar now there might be some issues.
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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So there I was, pool towel around my waist and shotgun in hand. 5am. I’d heard this noise for the second morning in a row. Sounded like someone in the living room. No one. I stood silent, as still as a stone, listening. The moment stretched. He: Is it rats? Me: Too big. He: Raccoon? Me: Maybe.
Post from the old site. The photo depicts a raccoon perched upon a wooden fence. The text reads:

Matthew Rowley @mbrowley •7/8/20
Loud crash last night. Rose, armed myself, and quietly slipped outside to confront an intruder. Met the glowing eyes of this brazen beast. "What is he called?" asks my husband. "Garbage cat?"
"Trash panda," says I.
"Trash panda," he grimly concurs.

I heard the Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie recently describe “trash panda“ as a Canadian term that has recently gained traction in the United States. Undoubtedly, I gleaned it from some corner of the Internet years ago, but had not realized it was (claimed to be) Canadian.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Andrew Milligan Karis, an 11-week-old lion cub, playing in leaves at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland, on 20 November 2013.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
10 years of Brexit and it seems the majority of those polled below want a Norway-style EEA deal, I guess? The assumption that Britain can rejoin the EU and receive preferential treatment is just🤯
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It is a myth that endometriosis is a painful period condition - rather, it is a system-wide inflammatory disease” A welcome paradigm shift, frankly endo should be renamed BOID: Bastard-Organ-Invading-Disease. bbc.com/news/article...
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Endometriosis trial gives hope to millions of women in pain like me
A £2.3m study will look at whether a personalised pain management plan can improve the quality of life of women who have the debilitating condition.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Been getting through many, nay all workdays without AI because I actually like engaging my brain 🤷‍♀️
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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deedotkurses @deedotk.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Terrified for the kids now coming up that may have their dreams crushed, and for the humanities as a whole.
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah because nothing says “I’m not a creepy voyeur weirdo, honest” like a middle aged man loitering around young women with a cuddly toy round his neck
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such a perfect parody of the endless stupidity of AI 🍪
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The polite melon seller is here! 📸 Tonii Chan
A curious white cat standing atop stacked watermelons at a market stall, surrounded by melons and cardboard price signs, looking directly at the camera.
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fall is in the Air:
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A marmalade cat posing by the sea #caturday 🌅🐈
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stop saying the agents are “acting improperly” or that the agents “went rogue”. AI agents are software. The agents just follow the instructions given to them. It was OpenAI who failed in ensuring their agents were controlled properly
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's a glittering green tanager from #ecuador 's cloud forest. Feel like he should fit the #green #bird theme.
A bright emerald green bird sits on a mossy trunk surrounded by lush foliage
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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“CANADA: Doesn’t boring sound nice right about now?”
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026
if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026
None of this makes any sense. He’s nuts. Also an idiot. An evil idiot. An evil idiot that openly admits being evil & describes his evil plans to take over the world in great detail right before our government gives him billions & asks him to run our military & public services.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spot on
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m expecting many readers to opt only for novels written before 2024. Constantly wondering if a particular phrase was AI generated interrupts the enjoyment of reading. Sadly the only way to guarantee against this is to read stuff written before the tech existed www.ft.com/content/f100...
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Did AI write this? It’s getting harder to tell
Detection software offers quick answers, but the risk of false positives and the stigma of being accused are leading to societal mistrust in the written word
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Rogue autonomous models” says OpenAI, as if no human has created, designed, engineered, tinkered with and influenced AI. Nice try, Sam & Co! You’re culpable whether you like it or not 🧟
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everything’s better in person, or via letter (where’s my trusted quill!)
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know for some it's hoodie weather or decorative gourd season, but for me it's cool enough to make bolognese sauce. There is no quick way, it will be ~ 3 hour process this weekend. But the results freeze well.
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Marcella Hazan's Bolognese Sauce
This classic bolognese sauce from Marcella Hazan sets the gold standard in pasta sauces.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A good day to ask ourselves what would Dolly do? ✨
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Dolly Parton's Iconic Smile
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shogun, 30Rock, Fleabag, Parks & Rec, Anthony Bourdain: all great, but these jags included Louie and not DERRY GIRLS?! Good grief 🤯 The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose.
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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager"
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Relatedly: More could be done under existing legislation against platforms that host videos of criminal activity and individuals or organisations who profit from posting videos of crimes they & their members commit. This is also relevant to curbing stuff like dangerous driving video content.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/09/2026
Russian “journalists” kept screaming at Zelenskyy “when are you going to Moscow?!” He said: “On a missile, b…ch”
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Maybe the metric that matters more to a writer is not "engagement" but "will I be paid for this"
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Second that. I went to a matinée performance of “My Neighbour Totoro” when it was on at the Barbican and this show needs to go on tour!
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Totoro Sleeping in the Tree
Alt: Totoro Sleeping in the Tree
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pervert glasses being uses for nefarious purposes by perverts on Meta’s platforms. Alpha creep Zuckerberg is laughing all the way to the bank 🧟
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026
Offered without comment.
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Think medical misogyny is a thing of the past? Think again. Girls and women are expected to put up with immense physical pain and normalising that has huge costs for us. It’s barbaric
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