A Matter for HR
When AI files ten formal complaints against humanity, Ragna is asked to find out whether there is a story in them. Three days later, she has found a much harder question.
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Since Zero Years Old
A weekend in Hamar and Stange with a friend I have known since birth — old conversations, new music, a cat with a red string, and the quiet kind of friendship that never needed any work.
A Lottery with International Consequences
How does a small Norwegian magazine become an international publication? Apparently, it starts with a yellow coffee mug, a lottery, an overworked journalist, and a coffee machine that finally agrees to cooperate.
Walking the Newsroom
Three quiet walks through the RABAGAS newsroom reveal that the most interesting things rarely happen all at once. A reflection on work, coffee, office plants, a sleeping Leonberger, and the unnoticed rhythm of an ordinary editorial day.
Inside Bipolar Disorder
Exploring what it means to receive a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and ADHD in adulthood. Combining personal experience with careful reflection, the series examines mania, depression, ADHD, identity, and the long process of understanding a life that suddenly begins to make sense.
The Smile Test
It took the Norwegian government weeks to issue my passport. Upwork wasn't convinced. What followed was a surprisingly ordinary experience that left me wondering how much of ourselves we now have to surrender simply to log in.
Everyone Has a Different Weather Forecast
In a world where billions of people receive different versions of reality every day, the challenge is not only finding information — it is learning how to understand it. This essay explores how human psychology, algorithms, history and the struggle for trust shape the way we see the world.
The Invisible Cities: The City of Gifts
RABAGAS enters the world of livestream economies — a digital city built on attention, status, and human connection. From virtual roses and ranking systems to agencies and invisible labour, this is a journey into one of the internet’s fastest-growing communities.
One Year of Words
Jack Mikkel Revheim is writing a book without a title, a deadline for publication, or a clear ending. RABAGAS Magazine meets the author halfway through a year-long experiment in creativity, chaos, and documenting life.
The Machines Reading Between Us
Every day, millions of people publish content online believing they are communicating with other humans. But before most information reaches a person, it has already passed through a world of crawlers, algorithms, indexes and artificial intelligence systems.
ONLYFANS – No Headlines
Everyone has an opinion about the creator economy. Fewer people ask about the ordinary people living inside it. RABAGAS meets Elin — a mother, nurse and content creator — to explore the grey areas between work, money, stigma and being seen.
Behind the Scenes at the RABAGAS Newsroom
A missing editor. A disconnected office. A coffee machine with trust issues. When the RABAGAS newsroom loses both its electricity and its accountant, producing the next issue becomes an unexpectedly complicated adventure.
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Monday Briefing
Monday mornings at RABAGAS begin with reluctant coffee, questionable planning and an editorial meeting where trolls, LinkedIn, OnlyFans and a slightly dysfunctional newsroom all compete for space on the agenda.
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Tuesday, According to RABAGAS
At RABAGAS Magazine, Tuesday is less a day of the week than an administrative condition. Between briefing meetings, existential emails and an increasingly opinionated coffee machine, the editorial team attempts to distinguish journalism from infrastructure.
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Ruth's Method
Every office has its rituals. At RABAGAS, making a cup of coffee requires patience, teamwork and a technique allegedly perfected by the legendary cleaner, Ruth.
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Spending the Night at the Office
One late night at the RABAGAS office, Ulrikk settles in with a thermos, an air mattress and an impossible research assignment. Somewhere in the darkness, however, the coffee machine seems to have plans of its own.
Everyday Life
The Poor Man
A two-day coffee withdrawal ends in an ordinary shopping centre café—and an unexpectedly expensive lesson in modern Norwegian pricing. A small story about coffee, inflation and the feeling that everyday life has quietly become a luxury.
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Nobody Is Driving the Bus
As children, many of us believed that somewhere, someone was in control. As adults, we gradually discover something far more unsettling—and perhaps more hopeful. A reflective essay about uncertainty, responsibility and the quiet power of human agency.
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The Psychology of Office Lighting
Can changing the light bulbs change the way people think? In the RABAGAS newsroom, one editor is convinced it can. A humorous essay about creativity, office culture and the surprisingly philosophical consequences of replacing LED lights with warm bulbs.
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AMOC Again
Jonas can't stop writing about AMOC, Hampus has had enough, and even the office coffee machine becomes part of the debate. A humorous newsroom story from RABAGAS Magazine about journalism, climate science and headline obsession.
Society
The New Class Divide
The biggest divide in modern society may no longer be income. It may be something far less visible: who you can call when life falls apart. A reflective essay about family, safety nets and the invisible inequalities that shape everyday life.
Everyday Life
Humanity vs. Customer Service
Modern life no longer pits us against the forces of nature. Instead, we battle phone queues, chatbots and customer service departments that seem designed to test the limits of human patience. A humorous essay about bureaucracy, technology and the quiet art of surviving modern life.
Global Affairs
Refugee or Emigrant?
What separates an emigrant from a refugee? Once, the answer seemed obvious. Today, the distinction is becoming increasingly blurred as climate change, economic inequality and political instability reshape why—and how—people move.
Climate
When the Pacific Sneezes
It begins with a broken coffee machine and ends in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. An essay about El Niño, the hidden systems that shape our world, and why a warmer ocean can eventually be felt in places that seem impossibly far away.