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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺

@bhartoft.bsky.social
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Retired IT nerd, M.A. English lang/lit, nerdy about literature & history, animal welfare, patient safety. I detest -isms, and do not tolerate discriminating behaviour justified by them.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great. I need to support wikipedia more.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are 51% of the vote.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Middle Ages as seen on 21st century film. Nordic Noir lighting, if any, and more dirt than in a pig’s mud pool.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical treatment as their children die. At least five sets of parents have lost multiple children.
propublica.org
These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Har danske medier sovet i timen?
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
😂🤣😂
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Noun + Verb + Blame Joe Biden
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hvis man skal overbevises om, at vejret er ekstremt …
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Glimrende artikel
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If the law explicitly says X, and you claim the law says X while I claim the law says Y, then you’re right and I’m wrong. But the current standard in the US is that if the law says X but Republicans feel Y, everyone must pretend the law says Y, or at least that Y is a reasonable interpretation.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Den lille skadefro
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The world's first trillionaire did this
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🤩🤩
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
TODAY IN 2024: “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt: That the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.” manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-de...
manhattanda.org
D.A. Bragg Delivers Remarks Announcing 34-Count Felony Trial Conviction of Donald J. Trump
Good evening. First and foremost I want to thank the jury for its service. Jurors perform a fundamental civic duty.  Their service is literally the cornerstone of our judicial system.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hope this becomes available to all of us. Pancreatic cancer is a killer.
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Len Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Bring on the tortoises.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.
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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My irregular reminder. #NeverForget
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026
"As in an old joke, we thought it was orgasm, but it was asthma. We thought the development of digital technologies advanced humankind through social realignment, but it was the technological imperative funneling human efforts and resources into artificial intelligence" default.blog/p/we-thought...
default.blog
We Thought the Internet Was For Us. It Turns Out It's For AI.
how AI is liberating intelligence from humans
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𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇨🇺 @jensgam.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
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𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇨🇺 @jensgam.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026
“.. jeg er mindre bekymret for dem som datakøbmænd og mere bekymret for dem som ideologisk aktør.” Men en ideologisk aktør med skarpladte våben og en uhyggelig magt.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Muslims don't deserve to be randomly killed because of Hamas actions. Jews don't deserve to be randomly killed because of Israeli govt actions. And the extent to which their communities speak out doesn’t justify violence against them. It's disturbing that I'm having to repeatedly explain that.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Mindes fru Dybkjær, som i en tale om fremtiden ved et nytårsmøde i IBM slut i 90erne forudsagde netop dette. Vi havde muligheden for at gøre noget. Vi gjorde intet. Det blev bare første store konsekvens af klimaændringer og menneskers misbrug af naturen.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Brilliant!
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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Louisiana now makes it a crime for police to refuse ICE cooperation. Florida created a board to punish officials who don't comply with ICE. Texas forced nearly all sheriffs to become immigration enforcers. And the crackdown on resisting ICE is spreading.
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How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
congressperson rushes in to meet his colleagues, waving the constitution “hey have you guys SEEN this thing”
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Yes, please.
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Alfonso Gonzalez @educatoral.com · 07/04/2026
Reading Was Never Meant to Compete "Reading was never supposed to compete. It is not a faster, quieter version of TikTok. It is not trying to win your attention the way an algorithm does. Reading is its own thing entirely."
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Reading Was Never Meant to Compete
We talk about reading as if it is in a race. As if every time a kid picks up a phone instead of a book, reading has lost a point. And I understand why we frame it that way. The competition feels re…
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
They’re not wrong.
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's incredibly important to understand that Hegseth is part of a movement. He is not some lone sociopath we have the bad luck to have heading our Dept of Defense. He is deeply embedded in a social movement that worked with others to elect DJT and ensure people like Hegseth would be in the cabinet
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Chris @chrisdkmx.skyen.live · 26/03/2026
Nu mangler der kun krematorierne, fy for helved et land🤢
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𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐝 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱🇨🇺 @jensgam.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026
“They don’t realise the barbaric nature of their language because they live in an aggressor’s bubble: both the US and Israel are failed states because war is their biggest economic sector ..”
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Så eksistentielt vigtigt. Og ingen taler om det.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My irregular reminder. #NeverForhet.
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Det skal åbenbart ikke være nemt. På samtlige vælgertests, scorer Enhedslisten og Radikale ca. samme superhøje procent for mig. 😳 Venstreorienteret borgerlig og venstreorienteret arbejderparti = omtrent det samme? 🤓
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
20/ This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. -- that has been my argument since war began. That weakest people will suffer most. Again, just as after Ukraine 20-30% SUPPLY is out. Asian govts now doing Covid-style DEMAND-side planned reductions
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 15/03/2026
You should know that just after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia enacted two laws that criminalized independent war reporting and protesting the war. The laws made it illegal to spread “fake news” about Russia’s military or call for an end to its deployment. Penalties up to 15 yrs in prison.
hrw.org
Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests
New laws are part of Russia’s ruthless effort to suppress all dissent and make sure the population does not have access to any information that contradicts the Kremlin’s narrative about the invasion o...
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
So very true.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Also, be sure not to spread this video of Justin Fox, the other DOGE bro who revealed that he's a malicious moron who caused incredible destruction. Do not hurt Justin Fox's reputation just by linking Justin Fox's name to the sworn testimony Justin Fox gave about what Justin Fox did.
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waterways like sewers, this is what we get. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake
Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics
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Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺 @bhartoft.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Feminism !!!
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