Det er iallfall veldig kult at det fortsatt er Amerikanere som snakker norsk! Det er jo ikke så mange av oss, så morsomt at det finnes en gruppe Nordmenn som ikke er norske ute i verden.
Vokste du opp med noe av norsk kultur? Lefse eller rømmegrøt?
Og har du sett filmen "John: The Last Norwegian Cowboy"?
The first episode of Twin Peaks offers a wonderful display of American Norwegian as it sounded in the 90s - there's Norwegian investors in the episode, and they hired local actors to play the part. They indeed sound like they're straight out of the 1920s.
Cool! I always love keeping up with GIMP, thanks for working on it!
Apparently it was added in GIMP in 1999 to sample that bitmaps could be used as brushes, and nobody bothered to remove it. At this point I guess there would be an outrage if they did.
The SPD turned into a third way economically liberal party around the same time Tony Blair did the same to Labour in England, and they haven't really reinvented themselves since. They're not necessarily evil but they're certainly not a progressive force. Infuriatingly the SPD had already won their election on a traditional social democratic platform, and just decided to change course for shits and giggles. At least Blair won an election, making the whole fuckup at least democratically rooted.
The CDU is at its core classical Christian Democrats. Their voter base is not bad people, just normal folks who are not particularly progressive but not necessarily backwards either. Remember it was Merkel from the CDU (alongside Swedish social democrats) that was the biggest proponent of humanity and solidarity when a bunch of asylum seekers arrived in 2015 - "wir schaffen das" and all that. Ironically Merkel's biggest mistake was her softness towards Russia, which is a stereotypical fault of left wing parties...
The leadership of the CDU has taken a turn to the right since Merkel, but there's still plenty of reasonable people within the party. And there's plenty of fools in the SPD. I wouldn't trust either of them to do the right thing, but I wouldn't be surprised when they occasionally do either.
My most recent ThinkPad also overheated an insane amount at whatever use I could put it through, and the fan was constantly running full speed. It was like that from day one, and there was no dust or anything, it was just a terrible machine.
In six years I have burnt through two Lenovo ThinkPads. In the first the USB C charging port malfunctioned, and it turns out the charging port is soldered directly to the motherboard so they had to replace the whole thing. Ever since I got it back from repairs it enters into kernel panics all the time, no matter which distro I install.
I was in the middle of writing my thesis so I had no time for repairs when it broke, so I ordered mysef a new ThinkPad. I had to choose between pre-assembled models, and I wanted a high resolution display, a good processor, and some other things. I got one with not quite as much RAM as I really needed, and found out when I wanted to upgrade that they had rendered upgrading RAM completely impossible in that model of ThinkPad. It wasn't even one of the new slim ones, but a pretty traditional bulky one. Complete bullshit.
Both of these laptops are recent enough that had they not sucked I would still be using them years from now. I'm happy Lenovo appear to be changing their ways, but I wouldn't touch another ThinkPad with a stick after my experiences with them.
Currently I'm using a Framework 13. Hopefully it'll last me decades.
You’d think the misguided appeasement policies of German chancellors reached its extreme with Markel’s foreign policy towards Russia, but Merz is here like “hold my beer”.
I don't think it's because the regime in Iran is evil, but because Germany considers Israel and the US to be their allies, and they don't want to lose their support. So it's more like opting not to protect children against paedophiles because you're best friends with Epstein. Not that that would ever happen..
And every Ubuntu Touch device with support for external monitors for the last ten years or so. Here's a demonstration running on a Fairphone 4.
I don't even mind subscribing to 404media, as I feel like their operation makes sense. But there's no way I'm going to pay to read some sponsored content on a page riddled with trackers.
Jeg har ikke til vane å kritisere foreldre, men altså. Kanskje ikke introduser barna dine til vennekretsen din av velkjente seksualforbrytere som har til vane å organisere voldtekt av barn. Bare en tanke.
Of 42 ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla, one made it into the waters outside Gaza. It remains unknown whether they made it to Gaza or if they have been arrested by the Israeli navy just when they were about to enter.
~~While not officially confirmed, the following footage allegedly shows their arrival in Gaza:~~
~~syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115304225699538245~~
edit: It seems this post has been taken down, it was probably a video from another occasion.
Other sources claim that the Mikeno too has been captured by Israel: https://mastodon.social/@Al_Quds_News14/115303483176696689
According to Israel via Al Jazeera, they have seized "all but one" of the vessels carrying aid:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza
This could refer to the Marinette, which is still just north of Cairo, or to the Mikeno, whose status is not confirmed:
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
In either case these people are heroes. The person on the right side (their left) top row is the Fediverse's own @Vegard@fribygda.no, who is also the source of this image: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299846437410236
Bonus picture: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299851567351974
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Update:
It is with heavy hearts and sadness that we announce the Global Sumud Flotilla vessel "Mikeno" was seized by the Israeli Navy.
The captain, a hero, defied direct Israeli orders to shut his engine down and seize progression. He then went completely dark, shutting off all electronics and maneuvering past their blockade. The "Mikeno" made it within 7NM of the coast of Gaza. The ship was then intercepted, seized, and boarded by naval commandos deployed from multiple Israeli warships with drones flying overhead.
Source:
https://t.me/gsfnews/217
Whenever I go through a slideshow of pictures in a community in tile view, such as !photography@piefed.social, the behaviour is a bit janky for me.
On Firefox in android, swiping right moves one picture at the time, but sliding left (and forwards in the slideshow) sends me through a bunch of pictures making it difficult to navigate.
On Firefox in desktop (Linux) and moving to the right using arrow keys, the picture display slowly drifts to the left: After going through 20 pictures, half the image on display is outside of my screen. With every new picture it moves further to the left.
In both cases the X button moves along.
Du har norske aner og snakker norsk, så du er så norsk som noen norskamerikaner kan bli uten å flytte til Norge.
Vi i Europa syns ofte det er morsomt med Amerikanere som sier de er "irske" eller "italienske" når de aldri en gang har vært i landene - for oss er dette konkrete nasjonaliteter, og betydningen er ganske klar. Men for amerkanere er det så klart spørmål om identitet, og etter den definisjonen er det lite tvil om at du er norsk.
For min del mister norskamerikanere retten til å påberope seg norskhet om de ikke er tilhengere av offentlige velferdsgoder - om de forkaster ideene Norge et bygd på skal de ikke gå rundt og kalle seg norske. Typ Hegseth kan dra til helvete. DNA bryr jeg meg lite om.