A picture of a sticker on my hotel mirror urging me to turn off the tap while brushing my teeth in order to save the best drinking water in the world

My Helsinki hotel’s unsubstantiated claim about Finnland having the best drinking water in the world is quite offensive to my cultural identity, which is entirely based on ICELAND having the best drinking water in the world, actually.

This is such a small country 😆

😂

An old, powder-blue Volvo with snow all around and a red house in the background

Except maybe this old blue Volvo.

A foot stepping on smooth snow.

There are few things better than stepping on undisturbed snow.

Þú ert augljóslega smekkmaður Sigurður.

An old record sleeve with a photo of four men dressed in matching Adidas tracksuits for obscure reasons. Three of them are holding long logs/branches that are much taller than them, also for obscure reasons. And why are there not four logs/branches, as many as the men?

An Icelandic record from 1985 named 'Saturday Night'.

No notes 🔥

A bent page in a book, but it hadn't been torn off, so my brother is not the culprit.

My brother used to eat little corners off book pages. In the small library of the small town we lived in, I'd sometimes get a book with a few missing top corners, and I'd know he'd read it at some point. I wonder if any of them are still there and if people have puzzled over this.

Ok, I'm moving tomorrow 🥹

And the world thanks you, sensible Canadians.

The Polish team has a pierogi plushy! I repeat, THE POLISH TEAM HAS A PIEROGI PLUSHIE! Where is the online shop and who's going to take my money?

I'll pick one up for you while I'm at it! The women's Haiti is so gorgeous, too, and it comes with pocketses! 😍

Feel sudden need to own Mongolia's OL outfits.

☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:

A raven in flight against a bright sky

A raven posing on a telecommunications mast

A raven flying over the town Hveragerði

The ravens are still in town. #photos #iceland #nature #birds #ravens

So thankful for winter Olympics while sick and vegging out on sofa. 7 year old daughter supports Canada because, and I quote, "They make the syrup." Can't argue with her logic.

The outraged people? Those are having some opinions on Lupita Nyong'o possibly playing Helen of Troy.

So, I did not remember that Helen of Troy hatched from an egg after Zeus raped her mother in the guise of a swan but now, thanks to Strange Outrage on Internet, I do.

It's caught for human consumption and has been since the 60's. It's an important food source for cod, but capelin has been moving further north. There's less of it than there used to.

Map of Iceland. In the sea to the north and east, there are colourful lines that go back and forth, almost like a sewing pattern.

There are five ships sailing along the north and east of Iceland in a pattern, searching for capelin. It's a daily moment of mindfulness to check on their progress, provided by the Icelandic Marine Research Institute: skip.hafro.is

The Iceland Space Agency is on bluesky @icelandspace.bsky.social 🥳
Have followed, and will now wait excitedly until they start posting Iceland Space Things.

YES PLEASE

Ok, while Iceland Space Agency sounds a little bit funny, it's a genuine research institute. I think their main focus is research and training for extraterrestrial environments because the Icelandic terrain is, apparently, suitably alien. The Appollo 11 astronauts trained here in 1967 and 1969.

To the chagrin of Icelandic logo-designers.

Circular logo with black and red border, on which is written "Iceland Space Agency", and "Frá Íslandi upp í himingeim". In the middle of the logo, there is a circular Icelandic flag on top of a white outline of Iceland, on top of a starry sky. Above the country you can see the edge of the moon, below it, the edge of a reddish-brown planet that is Mars. We know this because also on the outer circle, it says "Moon" and "Mars", though not in the same place as where the planets are placed in the inner circle.

The Iceland Space Agency has a strangely busy logo. It fascinates me.

Ok, this was a good one 😆😅

At least once a day, I think about the fact that the United States is trying to buy or steal our neighbours. That is an actual thing that's happening in my lifetime.

This is true 😌

This is the cleverest thing!