Signe Johansen

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[Signe Johansen @SigneSJohansen]

Good tidings one and all. If any sentient beings still frequent this site, I’ve done a feature for @TelegraphFood on ‘How to host a hassle-free festive feast, Scandi style: Avoid a stressful Christmas Day by embracing the carefree joys of ‘julehygge’ 🎄🧑‍🎄

https://t.co/FC8gYNbgPa

[Variety @Variety]

Guillermo del Toro tells young directors they should not listen when “people tell you art is not important,” because that is “always a prelude to fascism.”

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism. They think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters," @RealGDT said.

Read more here: https://t.co/jrrVCSwyRH

[Latest in Culture @latestinculture]

Happy 85th birthday to one of Japan's greatest anime directors, Hayao Miyazaki 🎉❤️

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

[Matt @nosoupforgeorge]

You know who wouldn't start a war in Venezuela?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Actor Ethan Hawke on Donald Trump: “I’ve done enough Shakespeare plays to know power corrupts. It’s a common theme of mankind. History’s littered with despots and selfish people and greedy people and they make the rules for the kind people”

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

No one decides for Greenland and Denmark but Greenland and Denmark themselves.

Our Nordic friend Denmark and @Statsmin have our full support.

https://t.co/J4iVOSpn1J

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Reading this headline is a big proud-to-be-British moment.

There is no way X should be allowed to continue letting their AI undress people non-consensually.

Great to see Britain defending people and standing up to big tech.

https://t.co/Rz7bzI7Gwr

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

With fewer and fewer people reading every year, it’s urgent that you read daily. I don’t care why you do it: because it’s good for you, good for the world, because of the joy & renewal it brings. I just need you to read. Your life will be immeasurably richer if you read.

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

The most powerful country on earth scared shitless of Ed Davey is a good way to see off 2025

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯

[Joe @electionsjoe]

And the Atlantic wins best headline of the year

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

"memory" is a kinder word than "surveillance database"

[neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz]

I never want to hear a word about how AI is progressive or democratizing. It’s a tool for authoritarians & those who would drown truth in irrelevance. Period.

⁦@nitashatiku⁩ ⁦@GerritD⁩ ⁦@Cat_Zakrzewski⁩ ⁦@lizzadwoskin⁩ https://t.co/cIFWyfwula

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus:

"What Christmas has taught me is, above all, to be grateful. Grateful that I can celebrate it in peace with my family. And that makes me think about all the brave Ukrainian men and women who are fighting tonight to defend their country against the ruthless Russian aggressor.

And remember that when they are defending their liberal democracy, they are, in fact, defending ours as well. And that they deserve all the support that they can have from us."

Thank you! ❤️‍🩹

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I’m seeing a shocking amount of love on the timeline for David Copperfield, The Count of Monte Cristo & other classics. People are opening these books and discovering that they’re hypnotically readable. They’ve been beloved for generations because they’re terrific stories.

[Rick Petree @RickPetree]

When Putin emphatically endorses Trump’s National Security Strategy, it gives the game away.

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Slightly on the nose 2025 but as metaphors go...👏👏👏

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Over six years ago, I published an 11,000 word article in The Atlantic (gift link below) explaining how Donald Trump was, beyond any question, mentally ill and unfit to hold any office of public trust.

He has proven these points virtually every day since.

https://t.co/QnrkRKvhMw