mrundkvist

mrundkvist, 3 days ago to books

#Reading Jen Campbell's funny and occasionally cringeworthy 2011 book "Weird things customers say in bookshops". Some of it becomes a bit more comprehensible if you suppose that certain people don't quite understand the difference between a bookshop and a public library.

#books

mrundkvist, 3 days ago to boardgames

The Gallerist #boardgames

mrundkvist, 3 days ago to boardgames

The Gallerist #boardgames

mrundkvist, 3 days ago (edited 3 hours ago) to books

Listening to the Imaginary Worlds podcast about the truly astonishing number of #books being banned from #school and public #libraries in the US. About half of them are about people of colour of queer people. And I remember #reading Inger Edelfeldt's #gay coming of age novel "Duktig pojke" as a set text in middle school in the mid 80s. My teacher brought a box of that book into class as one of a few options. USA, you are a travesty.

#bannedbooks #lgbt #poc

mrundkvist, 4 days ago to random

My parents met when they were 19, divorced in their early 50s and have rarely met since. Recently they did though, at a concert. They're 80 now. Afterwards both commented to me, "Awful how old he/she looks these days!" They were both incredibly good-looking in 1970.

#aging

mrundkvist, 4 days ago to random

mrundkvist, 4 days ago (edited 4 hours ago) to love

On this date in 1999, I went to a party and met a charming and pretty journalist of Chinese extraction. Since that day we've never been apart for more than a few weeks. Raised two kids and lived at three addresses together. 25 years with my YuSie! <3

#love #marriage #anniversary

mrundkvist, 4 days ago to Horror

Hey skeptics, this new #horror film is about what would have happened if James Randi had encountered something supernatural and really bad on camera during an appearance on the Johnny Carson Show.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14966898/

#movies #skeptic

mrundkvist, 4 days ago to sailing

#sailing #Stockholm

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mrundkvist, 4 days ago to Archaeology

This is technical commentary on a brand new chronology paper by Helene Agerskov Rose and John Meadows. #archaeology

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/06/05/new-dates-for-the-pre-roman-iron-age/

mrundkvist, 4 days ago (edited 9 hours ago) to random

Next week I'm attending a conference in Brussels under the heading "Hobby #archaeology: from citizen science to heritage practice communities". It's going to be a little unusual, because most of the participants approach metal detecting as an object of sociological study, not as an instrument to gather data on archaeological objects. But I have very little interest in sociological aspects on archaeology, or meta-archaeology. 1/2

#citizenscience

mrundkvist, 5 days ago to gardening

German towns have lent their names to two of my rose bushes: Rostock and Uetersen.

#gardening #roses #deutschland

mrundkvist, 5 days ago to Stockholm

Good evening from #Stockholm.

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mrundkvist, 5 days ago to academia

Apparently one of the most common uses of LLMs in #academia is copy editing: cleaning up your #writing on points of spelling, grammar and style. This is wildly unattractive to me. I love writing. My personal style, my personal voice, are extremely high priorities to me. It annoys me no end when a journal editor replaces one of my unconventional style choices with something bland. If an editor ran a paper of mine through an #LLM I would scream bloody murder.

mrundkvist, 6 days ago to blogging

May Pieces Of My Mind #3

https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/06/04/may-pieces-of-my-mind-3-8/

#blogging

mrundkvist, 6 days ago to FolkMusic

The Monday night Irish trad session at Wirström's pub is one of Stockholm's finest musical events, and very long-lived too. For the price of a glass of Sprite you get to hear great live music while sitting crammed in with the music in a 17th century vaulted cellar!

#folkmusic #irish

doktorzjivago, 6 days ago to random Swedish

En kul grej med att vara ”en stor fisk i en liten skål” i sin musikgenre är att man ibland får headline:a på festivaler. Var i Florida förra året och ska till England på lördag på en sån grej. Man kan dricka öl när man jobbar (=spelar musik på scenen). Det tar effektivt död på all åldersnoja.

Beedazzled, 6 days ago to wildflowers

Foxgloves and hawkweed are really showing off on the way up in to the field #wildFlowers

mrundkvist, 6 days ago to Stockholm

Yay! The National Library's café in #Stockholm has opened again after closing in 2020! And in August the basement restaurant named for an early runologist's enormous note-taking tome will reopen too!

#libraries #tea