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alright it’s official 🛬
Who wants to be first to welcome me back to SF?
- the Americans also not understanding that comparing how much things cost with some strangers is like, not an international interaction

Alright my list is actually mostly about the group of Americans, lol — I can’t believe how completely culturally symbolic that whole exchange was for both sides.
- the Americans not understanding that the sweater is a practical garment; you must have one
- the Norwegians not wishing to be bothered AT ALL, nor to have to speak English, and were probably shocked to be engaged yet felt obligated to respond all the same
- the Americans missing the above
-the Norwegians not understanding the question, because the sweaters are naturally hand-knit by the family matriarch
- the Americans not understanding that in Scandinavia you are given your sweater, buying them as expensive souvenirs is just for tourists
Watched a loud group of American tourists from Massachusetts (“which is in the United States”) break into the conversation of a group of Norwegians at the next table at the cafe, to ask “how much did your sweaters cost?” with each side proceeding to entirely fail to comprehend each other
Is “Type C personality” AuDHD?
Someone (I can’t find it now) responded to a prompt asking how to describe the internal experience of autism, without relying on external gaze / inconvenience to others, and gave “the desire to observe without being observed” and I loved that.

What’s the ADHD edition of this?
Ólafur Darri is no longer the telecom’s voice for a wrong number in Iceland, I’m so disappointed that I no longer get to be gently laid straight by his crackly booming baritone. 🥲
If I could redesign bathrooms with unlimited budget —

Floors would have a lot more texture and not be slippery when wet tile

General purpose sink? No, I want a car wash for my hands. I want some kind of actuator-driven terry cloth end-effector thing, like a massage chair but for suds.
A dear friend (one of my roommates in an apartment during undergrad, we kept in touch) passed away this Sunday. I’m heartbroken, my sleep has been wrecked. I’ve also discovered that he scrubbed himself from the social networks, which I respect but find surprisingly upsetting.
It’s the year where I finally remembered about this with enough lead time to make it happen
fun 🍬 idea — I know it’s early to think about Halloween 🎃 but if anyone wants a big bag full of Icelandic candy to hand out this year HMU, I’m thinking of importing a pile of it myself.
Bluesky is definitely better than all the other posting text things at this point. So glad we’re all still here.
Oh I love the library but he kind of just runs around there when we go.. I should try again. Mainly we go to listen to Valli play his guitar honestly.
I didn’t know you’d been a preschool teacher!
We have a few Krakkarnir í Kátugötu but they seem to be still a bit over his head. Will keep them to keep trying, and try the others. Thanks!
For Icelandic Bluesky: are there typical Icelandic books that would be considered good “early readers”? We are going to be in the US for a while so I plan to buy as many books as I can to keep our language skills going.
Thanks! I didn’t grow up with Frog & Toad but it seems somehow still a little socially complex or subtle for 3? No?
He is reading stories that already offer concepts he doesn’t really grasp, for example: “the ant went in the bag. the bag was a trap” — he’s puzzled about the idea of a “trap” in a way that I think a 6-yo wouldn’t be? What books are even age-appropriate?
My 3.5-year old read story books to me for an hour yesterday before bedtime. I’m astonished. To be clear, he learned how to read while I feel like I did very little to actively encourage it. There’s so little guidance about how to be a good & supportive parent to a kid like this.
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Autistic people trying to flirt