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Halldór Auðar Svansson

@tharfagreinir.bsky.social
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I live in Iceland, work as a software geek but I've also played at being a politician in a previous life. My posts tend to be focused on politics, social issues and tech. They are in Icelandic or English, depending on subject matter and target audience.

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 16h
Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of radical Christian nationalists.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 18h
@Amtrak_CA

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

@porkbelt

.@Amtrak_CA With all due respect, this is terrible advice for trains
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h
It's because the phrase is used to identify those loyal to the in-group, and identify those members of the out-group who need to be targeted and attacked.
Donald J Trump Truth Social post "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 18h
I've seen before and after pictures of Laura Loomer before but not ones of Karoline Leavitt until they popped up in a feed today. I think there's an essay here somewhere about how these alterations are not so much about confirming to beauty standards as erasing character and individuality.
Pictures of Laura Loomer before and after plastic surgery.Pictures of Karoline Leavitt before and after plastic surgery.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This rant has been rightly criticized for the slur - but it also showcases how Trump is becoming more blatantly narcissistic. "I got angry because a guy thought his sister was better than me" is some highly sick stuff. His cultists will brush this off as a joke but it's not. It's really not.
A screenshot of Donald Trump's Truth Social post on Annie Andrews and Darline Graham.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Mean Girls Day, everyone.
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Mean Girls: It's October 3rd
Alt: Mean Girls: It's October 3rd
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was there, Gandalf. I was there three decades ago.
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My 9 Games | Shared games picks
A shared 9-panel games collage.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Burkman and Wohl are like the Penn and Teller of grift. Of course this is what they're grifting now. Of course.
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Pardon brokers offer to "put pressure on the president," at sky-high costs
Hidden cameras captured lobbyists as they tried to woo a potential client interested in obtaining a pardon from President Trump.
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lookcaitlin @lookcaitlin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Seth Jaben #1984 h1.nu/1CcDF
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/08/2026
The administration is desperately trying to spin the hopeless war in Iran as a success, but our service members and their families are telling a different story. trib.al/27HVXCK
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Trump Hates the Troops. The Troops Are Taking Notice.
The administration is desperately trying to spin the hopeless war in Iran as a success, but our service members and their families are telling a different story.
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The idea that the claim "God is not a Christian" is some sort of gotcha is one of the weakest and stupidest political attacks that I've ever seen. Talarico must be clean as a whistle of that's the best that his haters can come up with.
The cover of the book God is not a Christian by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.
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They're still doing it because we didn't hang them
last time.
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 02/08/2026
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The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called "boring as hell," but I can't help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, "anybody here tonight from Chicago?" and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering
Homer's like, "and there were forty black ships from...
LOCRIS" and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/08/2026
The President of the United States says the US Attorney for DC lied in court papers.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
the world historical equivalent of what Trump has done for the fossil economy at Hormuz
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Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 7: The Nazi Submarine

At night, Mickey is charging down a beach towards a gasoline tanker.

Mickey: Gosh! NAZIS! I've got to empty the gas out of that truck!
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If the Democratic coalition has room for anti-Trump conservatives, it has room for the DSA.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 22/07/2026
'Sigmund and the Witch Woman' Harry Clarke
intricate black and white illustration of a woman standing with a large hound
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg
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Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
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The Odyssey, the original work by Homer, is told non-linearly.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
And vile. You forgot vile
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is still up on the White House’s official website. It reads like bad satire. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When my Civ VI game gets really interesting
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO TINA TURNER
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Trump is incapable of diplomacy or strategy, he simply rotates between positions that reflect his twisted psyche. “They’re terrified of me, we’ll kill them all” “Best deal ever, they’re begging to work with me, they love me” “Everyone is unfair to me”
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The alarmist "what if Putin escalates?" hand wringing every time Ukraine gains momentum is tiresome. Putin can't escalate w anything but full mobilization, which is risky for his political grip and might not be as useful in the new drone war. He's increasingly in a no-win situation. That's good
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This hotel opened up recently in Iceland and it's giving familiar vibes.
A promotional image for the Icelandic Black Sands Hotel, showing a modern concrete building next to some reeds and a black beachThe start of the first level of Hitman 2, showing a modern concrete building next to some reeds and a black beach
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/06/2026
the core of the centrist freakout is “how could voters unsatisfied with the status quo choose such an extreme ideology” and man what those voters are choosing is a lot less extreme than what republican voters did in similar circumstances so idk what you guys expected
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I love how this story continuously insinuates that the real creep here is Hegseth himself. "It’s like he’s constantly lurking around corners."
duffelblog.com
Pentagon insiders increasingly concerned about 'mission creep'
Officials say problem worsens every time Hegseth enters a room
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/06/2026
Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/06/2026
I really do think a lot about how big tech systematically destroyed all the reasonably-safe places intended specifically for kids online…. and now powerful interests are turning around and claiming that we have to destroy Internet privacy because being online is obviously dangerous for kids.
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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A photo of algae with white letters in the upper left: Pantene Color of the year 2026 and a paint chip appearing box with a solid block the color of the algae labeled Pantone #658a2a American Flag Blue.
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So much winning.
From the MOU between Iran and the US:

7. The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Such a truthful representation of today’s events at the White House 😡🤬
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For all the talk of genocide elsewhere, this is going to end up as the largest scale mass killing event in modern history. A crime against humanity & the rule of law of almost unimaginable proportions for which Musk must be marched in chains to the courthouse & then to jail for the rest of his life.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 08/06/2026
2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a
Comic-book panel from WATCHMEN has blue Dr. Manhattan sitting on the red surface of Mars, depressed at existing in several times at once, the futility of it all
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Measurehead win
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Halldór Auðar Svansson @tharfagreinir.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
10 milljónir yfir 10 ár er að sjálfsögðu ein milljón á ári. Í Evrópusambandinu búa um 450 milljónir. Þetta er því 1 / 450 * 100 = 0,2222...% af íbúafjölda svæðisins árlega. Það hefur orðið einhvers konar afturför í pólitískri umræðu, þar sem það þykir óþarft að beita lágmarks rökhugsun.
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Bíður hælis­leit­enda­vandi ESB Ís­lands í „fyrir­heitna landinu“?
„Yfir 10 milljón hælisumsóknir hafa borist ESB-ríkjunum undan­farinn ára­tug. Yfir 10 milljónir! Þetta er það sem bíður okkar í fyrir­heitna landinu ESB.“
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Bricktop with a chat bubble at the bottom of the screen, from the movie snatch
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