Kári Tulinius

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Yet another goddamn Icelandic writer.

Most viewed Across the Guardian 1. ‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
Bók stendur upp á rönd á borði, hallar upp að vegg. Titill bókarinnar er Mánahjörð, höfundur er Kári Tulinius.
Plakat fyrir kvikmyndina Everest eftir Baltasar Kormák
Most Viewed Across The Guardian ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Google search page, showing results for ‘homer melesigenes’ linking to GoTürkiye, HistorySnob, HistoricaWiki and Amura Yachts & Lifestyle.
The following table shows the top ten books from the editors' list:[2] 1 1918 The Education of Henry Adams Henry Brooks Adams 2 1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience William James 3 1901 Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington 4 1929 A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 5 1962 Silent Spring Rachel Carson 6 1932 Selected Essays, 1917–1932 T. S. Eliot 7 1968 The Double Helix James D. Watson 8 1951 Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov 9 1919 The American Language H. L. Mencken 10 1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes References "Modern Library Top 100 - Penguin Random House". sites.prh.com. "Modern Library Top 100 - Penguin Random House". sites.prh.com
Wall Street Journal Trump Approves Landmark Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia in Big Win for Kingdom 23 hours ago By Stephen Kalin & Michael R. Gordon
Google gervigreindarsvar við leitinni: „hversu margir vikudagar innihalda orðið kúk“. Svarið er: Einn vikudagur inniheldur bókstafina k-ú-k í íslensku: Miðvikudagur. Viltu vita meira um uppruna eða merkingu orða í íslensku?
An AI overview answer to the Google search result for the phrase ‘how many days of the week have the word poop in it’. The answer says: Only one day of the week has the word poop in it. That day is Wednesday (which contains the letters p-o-o-p sequentially: Wednespoop).
Google search results for ‘sextus propertius dante’s peak’, no “Books” tab
veðurspá veðurstofunnar fyrir fimmtudaginn 23. júlí, kl 18 spáir heiðskíru
A screenshot from the Simpsons, showing a kid pointing and saying: “Stop! Stop! He’s already dead!”
Úrslit úr síðustu fjórum leikjum á HM. Fyrir Spán - Argentínu stendur að Spánn hafi skorað eitt mark, en hjá Argentínu stendur bara mínus í stað núlls.
A poem’s title: Birth Certificate: Amsterdam, 22 June 1988
It starts in chaos, with many characters vying to survive. Soon, they start departing the story in droves and eventually fewer and fewer remain, until you get down to a final four. Only two can meet in the final, but before that can happen, the two defeated teams get an epilogue. Such a bizarre notion. Before the climax of the story, there’s an epilogue. It lasts just as long as the climactic match. If there is a tie at the end of 90 minutes, it goes to extra time, just like the climactic match. What a silly idea. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern don’t get a whole scene together in the Tower of London after Gertrude has drunk from the poison chalice but before Hamlet and Laertes have their sword fight. Mayor Vaughn of Amity Island doesn’t sit down to eat the dead tiger shark before Hooper gets into the cage and goes in the water. The pristine bib and onesie still in its plastic wrapping don’t get tossed into a sack before the never worn baby shoes are put up for sale. Any editor worth their salt would get rid of the third place match, and they’d be right.
the cover of Tears for Fears' Songs for a Nervous Planet, featuring an AI generated image of an astronaut in a field of sunflowers
“Brazil was better when their players were womanisers, drunkards and slightly out of shape. In other words, when they were behaving like Catholics,” argued one account on X, describing itself as the “Institute for Hispano Studies” a “think tank”. It claimed that “evangelical Protestant sterilisation has flattened their ball, ruined their samba and obliterated their swag.”
It’s generally agreed that the worst World Cup match ever played was the Round of 16 match between Ukraine and Switzerland in 2006. The idea of a bad game might conjure up images of fluffed chances, dangerous tackles, passes drifting out of bounds, mishits, or even clean kicks at nothing. However, anyone who’s watched their kids play will know that mistakes and errors make sport fun. And few events are graced by more astounding errors than the World Cup. In its crucible, the absolute worst mistakes are made by the very best players of all time. But the tie between Ukraine and Switzerland was different. It was a match without mistakes, without error, and more crucially, without joy, hope, or beauty.
A screenshot from a Google search results page which identifies Carlos Bilardo as an Argentine former gynecologist and football player.
A skeet from Chuck Schumer's Bluesky account. It says: The founding fathers called America God’s noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideas for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
We phrase the speaker question as: “Student groups often invite speakers to campus to express their views on a range of topics. Regardless of your own views on the topic, should your school ALLOW or NOT ALLOW a speaker on campus who has previously expressed the following idea?” The listed views of left-wing speakers are: The Catholic church is a pedophilic institution. The police are just as racist as the Ku Klux Klan. Children should be able to transition without parental consent. The listed views of right-wing speakers are: Transgender people have a mental disorder. Abortion should be completely illegal. Black Lives Matter is a hate group.
A column from a newspaper classifieds section. In the middle there’s a picture of the god Pan. Text: Ads are accepted on a pre pay basis. Fee is $2.50 for 25 words or less and 10c for each additional word. To list items, call: 533-7550 or write: Wheel and Deal Department East Village Other 147 Avenue A New York, N.Y. 10009 STUFF Selling holy double bed, holy refrigerator, holy toble, holy desk, holy clock radio, other holy items. 228-2251. Keep trying. You've tried keeping her high and paying her rent. Why not try something beautiful? Baubles, filigree, and silver earrings by Jambangle... in the east. 110 St. Marks Place. FANTASTIC PROTEST BUTTONS I only followed orders-Eichmann Pholo; Burn Baby Burn-Dayglow Flames (Wotts); Make Love not War-with N.D. Symbol; Abolich the Draft-with N. D. Symbol; Abol. ish Conscription-Militant N.D. Symbol; 1 am an enemy of the state; Vietnam-Amer Ica's Hungry?; Only Congress Shall Declare War, Colonialism and Imperialism Must End; Above Buttons 25 cents each/ /790-512.50. Below Buttons 50 cents each/- 100-$25.00. Bring the troops home now-War Photo; N. L. F. Flog (Square -Red-blue-gold; Wanted-Democratic Alter to Com- --monism; Prices Postpoid-Earl Segal-Dept. O. P. O. Box 4700, Chicago, Ill. 60608.
Knockout brackets for the first 2026 World Cup. The predicted final is France-Côte d’Ivoire.
The Panini trading card for Jesper Karlström, a dark-haired man with a full beard.
Marge Simpsons is holding a piece of paper. She is saying “I wrote another poem about a duck”. Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are looking on, with a mixture of despair and despondency.
Papparenningur. Á honum stendur: Takk fyrir að endurvinna!
Skjáskot af útsendingu RÚV á leik Kanada og Katar á heimsmeistaramótinu. Textinn neðst á skjánum segir: Ch ar Ed Nielsson pel Chiski sinn upp er sem Jean Neworld
Ljósmynd af opinni bók, tekin á miðnætti í vesturbæ Reykjavíkur. Það er hægt að lesa textann, bara við ljós frá glugganum.
A screenshot of the Google News homepage. The term ‘New York k’ has been typed into the search bar, the top result is “New York Knicks”, marked as a ‘Topic’.
Google News results page, showing “no items” on its New York Knicks topic page.
A card from the game 7-0, showing an eleven of players who’ve appeared at the World Cup. The record reads 5-1, signifying 5 wins and 1 loss.
Some travelers applying to enter Britain in recent days have hit a roadblock: The online system is down, and without digital permission they can’t board planes, trains or boats bound for the U.K. The electronic travel authorization, called ETA, is linked to a traveler’s passport. As of Wednesday afternoon, the app displayed a message saying, “Sorry, the system is busy,” and directed users to try again later. People attempting to apply on the website were also out of luck. A digital queue, which advertised a wait of more than an hour, stalled. A spokesperson for the British Home Office, which administers the program, said in a statement that it was “aware that some customers are experiencing delays” and that technicians were working “round the clock” to resolve it. Since February, most travelers to the U.K. have needed the digital authorization, which is distinct from a visa and costs 20 British pounds, or about $27. The ETA, for short-term visits under six months and valid for two years, is only for visa-exempt travelers, including those from the United States, Canada and most European countries. Before the outage, the approval process was generally swift, in some cases taking only minutes, though applicants are told to allow at least three days for processing. The Home Office said it was meeting that standard.
A screenshot of text from the UK government’s website about the ETA system. The highlighted text says: Applying for an ETA through the UK ETA app is quick and easy, and the vast majority of applicants currently receive a decision automatically within minutes, ensuring that spontaneous trips to the UK remain possible. The text continues: However, it is still recommended that visitors allow up to 3 working days before they plan to travel to receive their decision in time and, to account for the small number of cases that require additional review.
Kleya Marki, from the Star Wars show Andor, using a communications device.
Well, perhaps he can clear up at least one tiny mystery of several decades standing: What exactly is McCartney's maddening lyric in "Live and Let Die"? Is it, "In this ever-changing world in which we live in"? Or "in which we're living"? McCartney considers and seems genuinely puzzled. "Yeah, good question," he says. "It's kind of ambivalent, isn't it? . . . Um . . . I think it's 'in which we're living.'" He starts to sing to himself: "In this ever changing world. . . . ' It's funny. There's too many 'ins.' I'm not sure. I'd have to have actually look. I don't think about the lyric when I sing it. I think it's 'in which we're living.' 'In which we're living.' Or it could be 'in which we live in.' And that's kind of, sort of, wronger but cuter. That's kind of interesting. 'In which we live in.' In which we live in! I think it's 'In which we're living.' "
DAY It is Monday evening. The sky was amazing; I took some pictures. I have taken a lot of pictures of the sky over the years, another failed attempt to hold on to time. Photographs are strange; they baffle me even in their ubiquity. Pictures of persons I know and now knew only increase my bewilderment. How can you be dead? I ask the photograph. And it gets too warm and then it gets too cold; one is in a constant transition. And weary. I feel weary although I have attempted next to nothing today. Next to nothing, there must be something. There must have been something. Driving home as the sun was descending behind the mountains across the river, it made a brilliant shield against which the mountains were nearly black, silhouetted. I stopped the car but taking photos through the window is hopeless. I have so little time left on earth. What should I do not to just throw it away? I wish I could figure this out; I wish my lesser angels weren’t quite so in charge of the days. I think about a time when someone looks at a picture of me and wonders: How could you be dead? Is that not a kind of ultimate narcissism? Or just a simple acknowledgment on a day when it is reported that more than ten thousand persons have died in Gaza. Numbers again, the way they attempt to make things conceivable that are not. Dollars, miles, deaths. These measures are simultaneously empty and full, real and illusory. In another life, I shall study the origin and history of numbers.
A recreation of Alexis Gallén-Kallela’s The Defense of the Samoa, drawn by 24 10-year-olds
A screenshot from Google Translate, which translates the Finnish word “käyttäytyminen” as “my_life_is_my_life”. The word actually means “behavior”.
A frame from the Simpsons. A child is pointing and shouting: Stop! Stop! He’s already dead!
Google search result for: how many days of the week have a fish in it AI overview says: Exactly two days of the week have the word "fish" in them: Tuesday and Wednesday. If you are thinking of the religious tradition where people abstain from meat and eat fish, Fridays are also traditionally observed as fish days. Would you like to find some great seafood restaurants or recipes for those days?
A sign in a Finnish amusement park, advertising a service where employees will take children on rides. The English translation calls it “Attraction buddies for children”.
The album Adventure by Television, spinning on a turntable.
A chart showing bicycle traffic along one main road in Reykjavík. The orange line shows monthly average.
a photo of Phil Collins in a Wikipedia infobox where he looks like a skull with a three day beard and glasses, and his zipped fleece jacket is awkwardly bunched up
A chart that shows how the name “Logi” started to become more popular after 1980.
That’s the band “Sex as a Weapon” from House Party 3, starring Kid ‘n Play. Fictional band “Sex as a Weapon” were played by actual band TLC.
A close up of the center of a magnolia flower.
A photo of the Icelandair in-flight entertainment system. It’s set to music, and showing “Icelandic Artists”, including Páll Óskar, Ragnheiður Gröndal, Retro Stefson and Public Enemy.
The caption of the photo describes it well: When the Circus Comes to Town! Here We Have Douglas Fairbanks As the Strong Man, Charlie Chaplin As the Clown and Mary Pickford As the Bareback Rider
A photo of two trams on the number 1 line in Helsinki. They’re surrounded by grass and trees.
A magnolia tree blooming in the front yard of a wooden house.
Screenshot from the text of Wes Streeting’s resignation letter: “After the financial crisis, austerity, the disaster of Brexit, Liz Truss, the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and now the war in Iran”
Screenshot of text from the Guardian: However, Starmer supporters were also hinting that Downing Street may increasingly be coming round to the idea that they could drop opposition to Burnham becoming an MP later in the parliament. His closest friends say that if the polls still show Labour is floundering on 15% in the polls in May 2028 and Burnham’s term in Greater Manchester is at an end, then an accommodation may be reached that Starmer will stand down.
A photo of Wes Streeting in profile.
Six photos of Wes Streeting smiling, each more unsettling than the last.
Photo of text from the New York Review of Books. The two following sentences are underlined: James Joyce dubbed England's twelfth poet laureate "Alfred Lawn Tennyson They were all wrong. Lawn tennis was not invented until Tennyson was sixty-five
A map of Puck, a moon of Uranus. Craters look like eyes, and some feature looks like an open mouth or beak.