Current Week

Home of The Current Week — a weekly themed series featuring posts and articles.

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[Current Week @compfram]

This is The Current Week — a place where each week is given a theme, and we create content related to that theme. Most content comes in the form of articles and short messages, but others are warmly encouraged to join in, interact, and create their own content connected to the current theme.

The recommended way to engage is to enter into the spirit of the theme. For example, during NEET Week, try stepping into the shoes of a NEET and seeing the world through their eyes. During Ghost Week, even if we do not believe in ghosts, we can still pretend that they are real. And so on. This lets us play with different ideas, moods, and perspectives.

If the theme of a given week does not appeal to you, or you do not want to engage with it for some other reason, just skip that week. If there is one thing we know about weeks, it is that there will always be more of them!

During each week, messages, replies, and quotes, are all tagged. Normally, for XYZ week, the tag is #xyz_week, i.e., for Horse week it's horse_week (omitting the hashsign here to avoid tagging this message).

About language and interaction

People can interact with this account in any language they like, thanks to auto-translation, but the author writes his own content in English. Also, because of time constraints, the author may not always engage with the posts of other users. A week only contains so much time.

About the author

I am a Swedish man in my mid-forties with a background in science and computing. I have an interest in the outdoors, internet culture, and how people make sense of the world.

Calendar

The calendar contains a history of previous weeks, and also displays the theme during the current week. It can be found in the articles section of this profile.

[Current Week @compfram]

Low activity during #blubber_week, but we're switching gears now. This week is Stone week. Everyone has a good stone-story or two. This is the time to make sure they don't go untold. #stone_week

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Gaming week is now at an end. A day late, but better late than never. This week is Blubber week. You don't hear much about blubber these days. Maybe that can change. Did you know polar bears have it too? #gaming_week #blubber_week

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@MarioNawfal Try providing free video games. Cheaper then mass incarceration. #gaming_week

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@fandompulse Who cares? Woke is in decline now, if you like a game just play it. Next one will be less woke anyways, and so on. #gaming_week

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@LostMemeArchive Hahaha. #gaming_week

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@BullTheoryio This will be remembered as a great day in gaming history. #gaming_week

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This does not sound like truth. More like biological fiction written by women. Probably backed by sloppy studies made by psychologists and other pseudo scientists.

Many people are designed to engage with the outside world, not for huddling up with other people, like animals. "Not being touched enough" is not a condition.

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@MarioNawfal I see these videos of animals doing all kinds of amazing stuff, all I can think is that my animals must be retarded.

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@martian_lore Agree. Same with vacation rentals / hotels.

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Time to take the saddle off, #horse_week 2026 is officially over. This week we instead have: Gaming week!

A juicy short story is already in the presses, that takes place in the mysterious world of (World of) Warcraft.
#gaming_week

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@Lordoftheringsu Breaking the rules of parley has been considered extremely low behavior throughout history. It would not have been a good show for the new king... Maybe that's why Tolkien did not write that into the book. He was a very wise and educated man.

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@BluebellRaven Interesting. And somwhat unsettling.

#horse_week

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@Jadenk29354087 @Y40IFRQTTING Not gonna cooperate huh

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I’m not sure I agree with this particular picture, but horses are very important in Tolkien’s work - especially to actual horses.

Horses interpret The Lord of the Rings much the same way we do - at least when it comes to morals. Gandalf’s horse, for instance, is held in exceptionally high regard, and are, by some, considered even more important than Gandalf himself. The horses of the Black Riders, on the other hand, are widely despised. They’re basically the Nazis of the story.

As for the peoples of Middle-earth, the Horse-lords are, naturally, the clear favorites. To horses, Rohan represents the ideal arrangement: a noble society built on mutual affection and respect between horse and man.

#horse_week

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil.

Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold.

What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction.

I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.

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@arealmofwonder Then the horses came to the meadow, stepped on the grasshoppers, ate most of the grass, took a few dumps, then left. They're not much for frivolities.

#horse_week