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Hjalmar Fors

@hjalmarfors.bsky.social
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Historian of science, medicine & books & lover of all things weird and wonderful. Posts in English and Swedish.

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Had my dinner together with this guy today! It was having grass, I had tomato salad and kroppkakor (South-Swedish dumplings).
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Guardian today: ”The US accounts for more than 20% of global tissue consumption despite having only 4% of the world’s population. ” Strange!
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Minst 50000 gick ut idag! #denstoraklimatdemonstrationen
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Det här börjar kännas mäktigt! #Denstoraklimatdemonstrationen
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Gustav Holmberg @gustavholmberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Om krisen eller kriget kommer: OLW dillchips och Hjärnes Testamente.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Arcimboldo’s librarian sits quietly and modestly on a wall at Skokloster castle (north of Stockholm). He’s next to Arcimboldo’s more famous Vertumnus painting of Rudolf II.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Beheading from a physiological point of view by Frithiof Holmgren (1831-1897). Holmgren is more well known for his discovery of colour blindness. But this here was also a somewhat peculiar research interest of his.
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Brian O'Connor @johnnybesad.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
youtu.be/7_ktnQAC3TQ?...
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Eminem becomes a Second Century Warlord
YouTube video by L Void
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Nikaaaaaaaah! 👻🎃 @mxnectarine.polycule-slut.cloud · 29/07/2026
fuck yeah
Truck on the autobahn with the company name AFA-TRANS
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
worseonpurpose.com
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@magdalenaandersson.socialdemokraterna.se Troligen hänger du inte här fortfarande Magdalena men om du gör det så läs den här analysen.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
”If you, as the far right, know that your centrist opponent is committed to trying to give you what you want, you just keep asking for stuff.” Briliant analysis! Nails it!
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Here’s a nice detail of the frontispiece of W. H. Ryff, New Kochbuech fuer die Krancken (1545). Hagströmer library, collection of the Swedish pharmaceutical society. Cooking for the sick and infirm in the 16th C!
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Another milestone in the (still too slow) clean-energy transition: Wind and solar produced more of the world's electricity than fossil gas for the first time ever in April ember-energy.org/latest-updat...
Chart: In april 2026, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas globally for the first time
Charts global electricity generation by source in Twh

Top line is still for coal, sadly, at about 800 Twh
Second line is wind and solar at roughly 550 Twh
Just below that is gas at about 500 Twh
"Other renewables" are at 400 Twh
Nuclear is at 200
"Other fossil" is at about 75.
Source: Monthly electricity data, Ember
Other renewables includes hydro, bioenergy and smaller generators such as geothermal; other fossil includes oil and other fossil generators.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 20/05/2026
During his talk at RBS, James Malin—not on Bsky—showed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobel’s Nitro-Glycerin Company I’d like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print history—we need to make something with it for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2026/05/viki... great research by @medivalist.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social #medieval #Vikings #Abbasids
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Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds - Medievalists.net
A remarkable new study argues that Vikings may have supplied rare Arctic falcons to the rulers of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate, creating a trade network that stretched from Iceland to Baghdad in the ninth…
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/04/2026
A Japanese oil tanker has crossed the Strait of Hormuz after paying transit fees to Iran in Chinese yuan, according to official Iranian media.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/04/2026
I'm obsessed with this! From the incomparable Bette Midler . . . 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj5...
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ALL YOU FASCISTS (Bound to Lose) Music Video Bette Midler
YouTube video by Bette Midler
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Sofia Jeppsson @jeppsson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...? A researcher at Gothenburg U made up a skin problem caused by too much screentime, and uploaded a popular science piece and "preprints" online. Soon, LLMs would treat the condition as real, and the fake study cited in real medical papers.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
”I went to a French restaurant accompanied by four very well dressed poets. We all ordered steaks with pepper. When the steaks arrived, we rubbed them all over our clothes, soaking ourselves in the sauce. Once this was accomplished, we ordered the same thing again and repeated the act. … ”
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Leeches! By Per Boström. Tonight’s lecture at the Hagströmer Library. Don’t think we ever had as many questions as we did this evening.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 23/02/2026
By the way, tomorrow #Finland will have been independent for longer than we were a part of the Russian Empire. Finland had been part of Russia for a total of 39,526 days. It will be 39,526 days since independence on Monday, February 23, 2026. suomenkuvalehti.fi/mielipide/ol...
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Oletko huomannut? Suomi on pian ollut kauemmin itsenäinen kuin osa Venäjää
Suomen itsenäistymisestä tulee kuluneeksi 39 526 päivää maanantaina 23. helmikuuta 2026, kirjoittaa Ilkka Hemmilä.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/02/2026
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
UNKNOVVVN CLOUDS at HoboBar, Stockholm tonight.
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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This piece by Rebecca Solnit is one of the most deeply moving explorations of what tech takes from us, how it transforms us, how it demands we become more like it and less human, that I've read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yes, this is my hand holding a real unicorn (narvahl) horn!
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Today I’m giving a lecture on the continuation of alchemy in the 18th century. Come and listen if your in Wroclaw, Poland. If not you just have to miss out! hist.uwr.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
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Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 06/11/2025
Not now, carnivorous death ball
Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep

This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/10/2025
Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration theonion.com/diplomatic-talks-break…
Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration
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Svenska högtider och vanor @svenskavanor.se · 03/10/2025
I dont care what ChatGPT told you about literally anything.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This may been the best climate news I have ever seen. Chinese greentech manufacturing investments utside of China, that is industrial infrastructure, not sales, now equals Marshal Plan. Investments are ”straightforwardly good for climate” and focuses on Global South.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.” William Morris, How I Became a Socialist (1894).
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
BREAKING: Ireland will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year if Israel is allowed to take part, RTE has announced news.sky.com/story/irelan...
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Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel is allowed to take part
Eurovision Song Contest's director Martin Green has said he would "respect" the decision of any country which chooses not to participate in the competition.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
45 mins of deep talk about alchemy with the briliant Per Faxneld. I just wish I hadn’t been hungover.
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Alchemy as Science and Art | Per Faxneld & Hjalmar Fors | Academic to Academic
YouTube video by Axess Television
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Note the quote by Mark Twain. Book release by historian Anders Ottosson tonight. An interesting story of how American and English medical actors invisibilized the Swedish origins of chiropractic and osteopathy.
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olalarsmo.bsky.social @olalarsmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Reading the Swedish National Library’s copy of Jacqueline Van Gent’s marvellous book ’Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden’ and find that a previous reader has made a marginal annotation referencing my work!
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Leif Nixon @nixon.now · 14/08/2025
"generera en bild av svenska kungalängden"
ChatGPT-genererad bild med 55 generiska manshuvuden som ser ut som kopparstick. Namnen och årtalen är mestadels oläsliga.
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: buff.ly/BsB17aj It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
You Are Getting... Generous! Go support LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology (which was just on fire!!) and get deeply odd swag like this levitating lenticular homunculus (?). Read about the museum and fire here: lawrenceweschler.substack.com/p/july-17-20... Donate/join here: www.mjtgiftshop.org
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My sock got toe teeth!
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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social discussed the shift in focus from sensory experience and sensory-derived, embodied knowledge, towards an approach that prioritised the kinds of knowledge derived from analytical chemistry. Embodied knowledge is crucial for Preservare as well. #14ichc
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Daniel Sabater Salabert, _Eso es progreso humano_. Detail. At the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Även i Valencia påminns man om existensen av Borås…
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Lukas J. Meier, Our Hagströmer fellow of 2025 lecture on Icepicks, brains and Nobel Prizes: the history of lobotomies in Sweden. Briliant stuff.
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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Har använt word sen början av 90-talet. Snart troligen helt oanvändbart pga enshittification med påtvingad värdelös AI-funktion. Som att ha en demon som sitter på axeln och låtsas hjälpa en, men som egentligen försöker lura en till helvetet.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 31/05/2025
The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of-t…
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The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories
Their erasure wasn’t just historical; it was archival - and that's why we must preserve our stories, because only we can do it justice
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