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In a city of 58,000, there are almost 1,000 people studying or making a living from video games. How can Skövde in Sweden punch so far above its weight?
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50-year-old debutant Andreas Harrysson stuns Ross Smith in the first round of the 2026 PDC World Darts Championship
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How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, in hiding for months, has told the BBC she knows "exactly the risks" she's taking travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize
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Comment on Top MAGA influencers accidentally unmasked as foreign actors in ~tech
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Nattradio – Alright For Now (2025)
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
mycketforvirrad LinkTrains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image BBC News – Zoe Toase & Laura O'Neill – 6th December 2025Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
Trains were halted after a suspected AI-generated picture that seemed to show major damage to a bridge appeared on social media following an earthquake.
Network Rail said the railway line was fully reopened at around 02:00 GMT and it has urged people to "think about the serious impact it could have" before creating or sharing hoax images.
BBC News – Zoe Toase & Laura O'Neill – 6th December 2025
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like coordinates, consumer electronics and dictionaries. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if...
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like coordinates, consumer electronics and dictionaries. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was befuddled.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched
offbeatstories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!9 votes -
Greenlandic women claim victory in legal fight with Denmark over forced IUD scandal – compensation due to thousands of women and girls fitted with coils without their knowledge or consent
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Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest
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UK and Denmark are demanding overhaul of European immigration laws – Keir Starmer and Mette Frederiksen argue populists will continue to gain ground if something isn't done soon
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Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene at Denmark's European Sperm Bank was used to conceive almost 200 children across Europe
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Unfyros – Black Magnetism (2025)
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Finland cut Russian energy imports and closed the shared border, erasing €12 billion in trade. The shocks deepened the Nordic nation's deficit, already strained by defense and welfare spending.
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A post on X claiming that Denmark has introduced an IQ threshold of at least 85 for sperm donors has sparked confusion, debate and memes, but ultimately is misleading
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Skogskult – Jag Ger Mig Av (2025)
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Christmas tree at Trafalgar Square shines with Norwegian roots – tree symbolizes the friendship between London and Oslo in an annual ceremony that highlights the history of the countries' alliance
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Parliament of the Faroe Islands voted on Thursday to legalise abortion until the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, overturning a decades-old law that prohibited abortions in most cases
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