Signe Johansen
@signesjohansen.bsky.social
Food + drink writer with a morale boosting newsletter: Sigstack! Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚
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If you happen to see the September issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social make sure you grab a copy 💁♀️
Replete with top-notch investigative reporting, this month’s edition also features a new ‘Diaspora Dinners’ column in which I share a 🇳🇴Norwegian recipe for a simple, yet delicious hot-smoked trout dish🐟
Replete with top-notch investigative reporting, this month’s edition also features a new ‘Diaspora Dinners’ column in which I share a 🇳🇴Norwegian recipe for a simple, yet delicious hot-smoked trout dish🐟
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Sound up
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sound up
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Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
The man couldn’t even figure out how to wash his hands properly, why anyone voted for this fool is beyond me
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry concluded
Johnson's 'chaotic' Covid response led to more deaths
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the Covid-19 pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a repor...
www.rte.ie
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The man couldn’t even figure out how to wash his hands properly, why anyone voted for this fool is beyond me
A stellar shortlist!
Damian Barr’s The Two Roberts (Canongate), Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) and Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul (Hutchinson Heinemann) have been shortlisted for the 2025 Nero Book Awards 👇 #BookSky
Damian Barr, Ian McEwan and Lyse Doucet shortlisted for 2025 Nero Book Awards
ebx.sh
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A stellar shortlist!
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A weirdly on point microcosm of MAGA’s whole toxic nostalgia trip. All those things always sucked. You thought they were good because you were twelve. Rinse & repeat.
Late-stage MAGA means accepting that things will never be great again
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
A weirdly on point microcosm of MAGA’s whole toxic nostalgia trip. All those things always sucked. You thought they were good because you were twelve. Rinse & repeat.
You know November’s hitting hard when you go into the kitchen and think “I’ll just have some muesli with warm milk, as a head start on breakfast tomorrow” 🐻
a cartoon of a bear sleeping under a do not disturb hibernating sign
Alt: a cartoon of a bear sleeping under a “do not disturb hibernating” sign
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
You know November’s hitting hard when you go into the kitchen and think “I’ll just have some muesli with warm milk, as a head start on breakfast tomorrow” 🐻
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Congratulations, Donald Trump—you finally had a landslide!
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Congratulations, Donald Trump—you finally had a landslide!
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To paraphrase: they know they shouldn’t have included AI answers at the top of search and that it is rapidly devaluing the whole brand, and that other AI tools are better at that job too, but they can’t just remove it because it would be an admission of failure?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC
Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
To paraphrase: they know they shouldn’t have included AI answers at the top of search and that it is rapidly devaluing the whole brand, and that other AI tools are better at that job too, but they can’t just remove it because it would be an admission of failure?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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to fix a collar gap on a budget, stick a pin in the collar like this to prevent your head from dropping
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
to fix a collar gap on a budget, stick a pin in the collar like this to prevent your head from dropping
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Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ah the 1970s.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.
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Can you trademark a word as generic as “vegetable”? Good article on the debacle of Bloomsbury halting the release of Yasmin Khan’s Sabzi, following a threat by a deli of the same name who claimed the trademark. Literally a billion people use the word “sabzi” daily, common to more than one language.
A Cornish deli trademarked a word for vegetables – and all hell broke loose
When a Cornish deli claims to ‘own’ a Farsi word spoken by a billion people, and a book with the same name disappears from Amazon, something’s gone badly wrong. Hannah Twiggs asks what this latest fig...
www.the-independent.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Can you trademark a word as generic as “vegetable”? Good article on the debacle of Bloomsbury halting the release of Yasmin Khan’s Sabzi, following a threat by a deli of the same name who claimed the trademark. Literally a billion people use the word “sabzi” daily, common to more than one language.
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
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I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.
I was trying to recall who Trump reminded me of as he constantly demanded the Nobel Peace Prize and it’s Paul Rudd playing the halfwit, nepo-baby, wannabe politician in Parks and Recreation 🫠
a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man and saying `` give me it ... ''
Alt: Paul Rudd, playing a halfwit nepo-baby wannabe politician in the sitcom Parks and Recreation is talking to another man and saying `` give me it ... '' over and over again
media.tenor.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I was trying to recall who Trump reminded me of as he constantly demanded the Nobel Peace Prize and it’s Paul Rudd playing the halfwit, nepo-baby, wannabe politician in Parks and Recreation 🫠
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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Words to live by 🙌
"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."
-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)
#WomensArt #FridayFeeling
-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)
#WomensArt #FridayFeeling
October 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Words to live by 🙌