Espen Wiborg

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Norwegian who sometimes thinks better in English. Software development pays my bills; music, reading and writing keep me sane. Father and principal caretaker of a very severe ME patient

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If you see this, post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation (if you feel like it).

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Hatchery xkcd.com/2958

Weather's nice again today, so another cocktail experiment. Today's is a Greyhound's Tooth: vodka, Bénédictine, bitters and grapefruit juice. I was a little heavy-handed with the bitters. And yes, it's the wrong glass. Bite me.

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"An attack that interferes with our sacred mission in service of the Lord will be met with the full force of our arsenal."

Megachurch Conducts Successful Nuclear Missile Testwww.theonion.com LAKELAND, FL—In what the evangelical congregation hailed as a significant step forward for its security capabilities, local megachurch Lakeland Liberty Fellowship confirmed Tuesday it had conducted ...

TFW your best friend expresses an interest in reading your poetry

Expanding my cocktail repertoire: this is an English Garden: Gin, elderflower liqueur and apple juice. A refreshing drink for summer afternoons; this one came out a bit heavy on the gin, though.

I have no followers here so it feels safe to say this: I've started divorce proceedings against my wife of 23 years, and it feels good. And bad at the same time, I guess. Feelings are complicated

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. The year I turned 14, CNN cut away from its coverage of a war to announce the death of my birth country's head of state.

Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy. When I was 16, you could get three tacos for a dollar at Taco Bell.

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@mockingnerd.bsky.social @marthawells.bsky.social

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thank you google ai, very cool

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I think I just found my life motto.

I just finished Broken Monsters by @laurenbeukes.bsky.social, and it's been a while since a book made me this uncomfortable. Not because it's especially graphic or gory, it's just... the excellent writing combined with some deeply unsettling themes really got to me

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Most of us worry sometimes about death and the afterlife. Most of us don't think about it in terms of eels. But the 4th-Century BC poet Philetaerus was not most of us. “Fear death," he warned us. "For when you are dead, you cannot eat eels.” 🗃️🧪

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Last post before bed

Introduce yourself with: One book: Lord of the Rings One film: Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb One album: Demon Box (Motorpsycho) One TV show: Good Omens

Introduce yourself with: One book: The Last Unicorn One film: The Fugitive One album: Heavy Horses (Jethro Tull) One TV show: Farscape

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Max Gladstone

I'm now imagining a place that pretends to be a "Pray the Gay Away" Conversion Camp but is, in actuality, a safe haven for queer kids to be away from their awful parents for the summer, and teaching them the life skills to get away and find their community the second they turn 18.

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I have a joke about MEcfs but I can't finish the punchline till tomorrow because I've gotta rest for the remainder of today. #MEcfs #LongFlu #LongCovid #Cfs #CFIDS #SEID #MEAction

I have a joke about epilepsy that will really shake things up a bit

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It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st Century. Intransigent doctors and gullible journalists have made the lives of ME/CFS patients a living hell. A massive and shocking story in this week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘You don’t want to get better’: the outdated treatment of ME/CFS patients is a national scandal | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com The notion that this illness is psychosomatic is having devastating effects, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. His last piece of art, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.

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Roses are only sometimes red, Violets definitely aren't blue; I'm not really a poet So I'm not sure what you're expecting from me, here?

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YOUR MOVE - dashare.zone ADMIN

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