Reading the news this morning, I come across the most important one in Swedish tabloid Expressen. 😆 People are dying from Covid-19, but Michelle Obama has taken up knitting.

The Irish Supreme court has ruled that the bread served at food chain Subway can’t be defined as bread because it contains too much sugar. I love Subway subs, but I hate sugar. Now I don’t know what to do.

The US president is now in quarantine, BBC News reports. Karma is a bitch.

A new reports from Human Rights Watch, describes how the Egyptian security forces use dating apps to “clear the streets” of the gay community. Gay people are thrown into prison and subjected to systematic torture. 😡 Read about it at The Independent.

Arwa Mahdawi of the Guardian writes:

The grand prize for the most unhinged conspiracy theory goes to (who else?) QAnon followers. One of the many bizarre things these people believe (without any foundation) is that Covid-19 is a hoax designed to deflect attention from a Satan-worshipping pedophile ring operated by Hillary Clinton and liberal elites. Trump, their reasoning goes, is pretending to have Covid-19 as part of a grand plan to arrest Clinton. According to these geniuses Trump communicated his intentions via a tweet on Friday morning where he announced he and Melania had tested positive and declared: “We will get through this TOGETHER!” When you pull apart TOGETHER it spells out TO GET HER. Boom!

“These authoritarian tools may become permanent because government officials are rarely punished for doing something, even if the something is awful and counterproductive,” J. D. Tuccille of Reason writes. 😢

A Greek court ruled today that the Nazi Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organisation, Kathimerini reports. 👍

Lord Byron’s translation from 1820:

Equal to Jove that youth must be—
Greater than Jove he seems to me—
Who, free from Jealousy’s alarms,
Securely views thy matchless charms.
Ah! Lesbia! though ’tis death to me,
I cannot choose but look on thee;
But, at the sight, my senses fly,
I needs must gaze, but, gazing, die;
Whilst trembling with a thousand fears,
Parch’d to the throat my tongue adheres,
My pulse beats quick, my breath heaves short,
My limbs deny their slight support;
Cold dews my pallid face o’erspread,
With deadly languor droops my head,
My ears with tingling echoes ring,
And life itself is on the wing,
My eyes refuse the cheering light,
Their orbs are veil’d in starless night:
Such pangs my nature sinks beneath,
And feels a temporary death.

“The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’,” the Swedish Academy writes. “Louise Glück made her debut in 1968 with Firstborn, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature.”

The words “sucker” and “loser” come to mind.

After reading an article on Amy Coney Barrett in the New York Times, I’m afraid the civil rights of gay Americans are in jeopardy.

I’m watching the documentary on Swedish television and can’t take in the bizarreness of Europeans who devote their life to the North Korean dictatorship.

Pete Buttigieg’s witty remark on Amy Coney Barrett’s opening statement.

Pathetic Trump begs suburban women to vote for him.

In the Guardian, Frank Pasquale writes about the dangerous rise of military AI. Both frightening and fascinating.

The University of Minnesota recently hosted a lecture that taught white people about their white supremacy and how to counteract it by using a twelve-step programme. Seems skin colour is now a condition to be cured.

Sacha Baron Cohen in the New York Times.

France24 writes about yet another Islamist attack on our freedom of expression. #IslamismIsNotIslam #LibertyTriumphsFanaticism ✊🇫🇷

“New data from media intelligence company Conviva finds that Joe Biden has begun to draw more engagement per post on Twitter than President Trump,” Axios reports.

It’s not full equality, but this is a huge step for the Vatican. This will make the lives of many gay Catholics better. It will save lives. 👍

I hope the Chinese government punish us by blocking Grindr. We need a break from dick pics.

Wikipedia (2020-10-21 21:03)

Average of the October 2020 polls in Scotland
Yes	50%
No	41%

I’m the best at dancing. Nobody has better dance moves than me. Believe me folks! So true.

According to a new demographic study, the Jewish share of the Europe’s population is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago and is declining even further. 😢 Read about it at the Jerusalem Post.

It’s Friday night! Yay!

The Jewish Chronicle writes about a disgusting man with horrendous ideas. Pretty f**king far from The Wall? #Sad

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Erdogan is perhaps the most hypocritical politician around. He turns a UNESCO-protected, sixth-century church into a mosque. But when Europe criticises Islamist terror, he acts offended. Pathetic!

After months of surveillance, the Spanish police have arrested individuals who boasted about Russia being prepared to make up to 10,000 soldiers available to advance Catalonian independence. Read about it at El Mundo.

There’s an English-language article in El Pais

Madrid’s city officials say they will deploy drones at two cemeteries on All Saints’ Day to ensure Spain’s virus restrictions are respected, The Local reports.

Amazon has launched its Swedish website. The translations have offered some laughs.

A knifeman kills three people in Nice. I’m disgusted by this senseless violence against civilians. And for what? A cartoon? 😡

The former party leader was upset about a new reports citing twenty-three instances of “inappropriate involvement” during his leadership, so he continued to act inappropriately.

…he becomes a ware wolf. 🎃

Jill Filipovic goes all in when he roasts the US president in the Stamford Advocate.

“With an estimated 17 per cent of votes still to be counted, 65.2 per cent voted in support of the End of Life Choice Act, while 53.1 per cent voted against the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill,” the New Zealand Herald reports.

One of Sweden’s most despicable communists has died. Myrdal was a writer who defended every inhumane regime imaginable, perhaps most notable was that of Pol Pot in Cambodia. Now he’s gone. He shouldn’t be missed by anyone.

Bond is gone.