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Jesper Haglund

@jesperhaglund.bsky.social
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Mostly here to talk about SFF stories and how to bring down capitalism. Sadly doubt they can be combined. Sports talk may also occur.

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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 11m
"he's studied his Agrippa."
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Crystal Frasier @handle.invalid · 19h
If you want to help and make your voice heard, please sign our petition, asking Wizards of the Coast leadership to voluntarily recognize our union: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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Jamie McKelvie @handle.invalid · 21h
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Kenneth Williams: Ooh Matron
ALT: Kenneth Williams: Ooh Matron
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I believe @greenleejw.bsky.social takes commissons.
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Peoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#BPHM8689 It's the start of our NEW POLL BLACK POP HISTORY 1986-1989 In honour of Black History Month (UK) Four extraordinary years in Black music history, 256 tracks, one poll - vote for your favourites and cast your bonus votes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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#BPHM8986 Black Pop History 1986 Day 1
Welcome to BLACK POP HISTORY MONTH 1986-1989! This is our annual poll where we take four years of Black music and find the greatest track - who will unseat reigning champion "The Message"? Find out h...
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seconding Tasha Suri. Top stuff.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
D'oh! Tyrant Philosophers, not Philospher Kings.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
M.A. Carrick's "Rook & Rose" trilogy (The Mask of Mirrors, The Liar's Knot, and Labyrinth's Heart). Adrian Tchaikovsky's Philosopher Kings series (starting with "City of Last Chances," which I felt showed his writing going up another level. Again.)
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Unfrozen Caveman Librarian @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026
Original Tweet: “I like Hole better than Nirvana”

Quote Tweet: “me leaving the monastery”
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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Actually begging publishers to get more specific because like "African mythology" or "Asian folklore" actually means nothing. That's a whole ass continent.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
4) It is, however, an excellent time for students to educate themselves about the basics of #PublicHealth & how systems of disease surveillance work. There's a regularly updated bibliography on historical pandemics (see ALT-TEXT). And find good PH people to follow, like @helenbranswell.bsky.social.
The opening page of an #OpenAccess, regularly updated bibliography on the Second Plague Pandemic (Black Death), which is followed by a similar bibliography on the First Plague Pandemic (Justinianic Plague). Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0D_dwyAwp9xi9sMCW5UvpGfEVH5J2ZA/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104263744463668175127&rtpof=true&sd=true
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
3) If they ask, "Is this related to the Black Death?," we need to (a) remind ourselves that we don't yet have specifics about this case (incl. whether this is really Y. pestis), but (b) strains descended from the late medieval proliferation of plague do still persist in the region. This is not news.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2) If this is plague, then it's important to point out that plague (unlike smallpox) was never eradicated. We still live w/ it in many natural environments (including in the U.S.), & that's why we *want* on-going research. The circumstances of this Russian lab accident remain to be clarified.
Chart from a 1955 study counting known incidents of plague found in the United States between 1902 and 1951. Shown are the incidents in Colorado.
Source: Link, Vernon B. A History of Plague in the United States of America, Public Health Service monograph No. 26, 1955.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#MedievalSky In case your students this week come in w/ questions about the Russian plague case currently in the news, you can tell them: 1) if this is plague (Yersinia pestis), there is nothing unusual about it (a) being in Russia or (b) being the subject of lab research. Plague is worldwide.
The opening of a 2019 study of the 20th-century Soviet system for controlling plague. Citation: Susan D. Jones, Bakyt Atshabar, Boris V. Schmid, Marlene Zuk, Anna Amramina, and Nils Chr. Stenseth. "Living with Plague: Lessons from the Soviet Union's Antiplague Syste," PNAS 116, no. 19 (6 May 2019), 9155-9163, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817339116.
Abstract: Zoonoses, such as plague, are primarily animal diseases that spill over into human populations. While the goal of eradicating such diseases is enticing, historical experience validates abandoning eradication in favor of ecologically based control strategies (which reduce morbidity and mortality to a locally accepted risk level). During the 20th century, one of the most extensive plague-eradication efforts in recorded history was undertaken to enable large-scale changes in land use in the former Soviet Union (including vast areas of central Asia). Despite expending tremendous resources in its attempt to eradicate plague, the Soviet antiplague response gradually abandoned the goal of eradication in favor of plague control linked with developing basic knowledge of plague ecology. Drawing from this experience, we combine new gray-literature sources, historical and recent research, and fieldwork to outline best practices for the control of spillover from zoonoses while minimally disrupting wildlife ecosystems, and we briefly compare the Soviet case with that of endemic plague in the western United States. We argue for the allocation of sufficient resources to maintain ongoing local surveillance, education, and targeted control measures; to incorporate novel technologies selectively; and to use ecological research to inform developing landscape-based models for transmission interruption. We conclude that living with emergent and reemergent zoonotic diseases—switching to control—opens wider possibilities for interrupting spillover while preserving natural ecosystems, encouraging adaptation to local conditions, and usi…
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Erin Jade Raven @jaderavenarts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I've suddenly gotten so obsessed with The Concierge podcast (Canadian spy/assassin thriller by ex-Bioware devs at @northmiststudios.bsky.social) after catching up on it again, I can't wait to have them drop more character art from the game so I can draw more fanart haha
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Years of working in left archives and engaging in left politics has made me wary when I hear or read "Zionist" - not because it is inherently offensive or abusive or antisemitic - but because it provides cover for a huge range of different arguments and attitudes. Political parties should know this!
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(Very paraphrased.)
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a Clash documentary where Joe Strummer talks about when they had to sack Topper Headon, and among all the more serious reasons goes on a tangent on how drummers in particular shouldn't do heroin "because they need to stay sharp. Saxophone players, not an issue, but drummers, no."
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those early Hawkwind albums are a trip bc everyone is playing dosed-to-the-gills psychonaut space rock except for Lemmy who for all intents and purposes is already in Motörhead. The net result sounds like voyaging to Alpha Centauri on a Harley. It’s basically what Lobo hears in his head all day.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Att skutta runt mellan fansbyggda multiplayer-servrar för Neverwinter Nights. (Skulle först skrivit "fanskapade," men det känns som att det kunde uttydas fel.)
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Lilla Jonna @lillajonna.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Om ni undrar varför det behövs utbildade bibliotekarier på våra skolor så kan jag meddela att min kompis, som har motsvarande min roll i en annan kommun, häromdagen pratade med en rektor som undrade om böckerna skulle stå uppställda i bokstavsordning efter titel eller författares förnamn.
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Kurt Busiek @handle.invalid · 05/10/2026
That's quite a cover. Not the art so much as the design -- that'd catch my attention on the stands.
Cover to DARING ADVENTURES 12
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As a fellow October 4 child, I don't want us to forget that it's also the cinnamon bun's day.
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Atsemtex @atsemtex.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Autorité
À l’école, le directeur a convoqué les parents de Bobby à la fin de la classe : « Votre fils ne respecte aucune autorité ! » se plaint-il, la main sur l’épaule du garçonnet penaud qui regarde ses chaussures. Puis d’enchaîner : « Est-ce ainsi que vous entendez élever votre enfant ? » Les parents se regardent, interdits : « Euh, y a un piège ? » Drapeau noir et sweat à capuche, ces derniers reviennent visiblement d’une manifestation anarchiste qui fleure bon la destruction de mobilier urbain, et de fait n’attachent pas nécessairement à l’autorité une valeur cardinale. [fin]
-- Vous constaterez que cette blague est très difficile à rendre amusante à l’écrit. J’espère que ça fonctionne un peu mieux avec les images.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To be fair, it's a natural reaction to seeing green goo.
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Letterkenny: To Be Fair Meme
ALT: Letterkenny: To Be Fair Meme
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Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm 15 minutes into watching Penda's Fen for Telefantasy Time Jump, and once again hit in the face with how today's telly is just so absurdly milquetoast compared to the anger of the seventies. "What is the ultimate question a government are left with when pondering matters of defence?
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I feel compelled to mention that there are Swedes called "Bror" (Brother).
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Guess Gheorghe Hagi is happy about the England v Croatia result. Means Romania didn't get the worst result of this round.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(Going through wikipedia's list of renditions, I'm guessing it'd be by Taj Mahal or The Cramps, with an outside chance of The Kelly Family popping up.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Given who you asked, I'm disappointed it's not a (thematically appropriate) version of "Shortnin' Bread."
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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@marthawells.com for sure 🤣
"ugh maybe should just change my pronouns"
even other nonbinary people won't use my preferred ones so what's the point"
"No.
it/its
pronouns are cool and you should keep them."
"MARTHA WELLS??????"
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know of at least two RPG publishers distributed by Diamond who can relate with the first half. Hoping they don't have to deal with the second.
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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"I know 90 pound female drone operators in Ukraine with more confirmed kills than smallpox. Your post goes hard if you don't know jack shit about modern warfare."
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sid @sidvicious.ca · 02/10/2026
i bring you love
a drawing of mr Burns as the alien in the Simpsons episode but in sids style
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heard from a bystander to a police officer during a Kurdish protest against the Turkish government in Sweden: "Why don't they do this in their own country?" It'd be funny if it weren't for the racism.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But... they're French!
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyway we already reached the pinnacle of what computers can add to music through automated artistry, and it was Winamp. Bring it back you cowards
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 01/10/2026
Oh my, I'd previously been thinking bout getting some miniatures to paint again, but not any of the big gaming ones may have come across some crackers to have a look at at least crooked-dice.co.uk/products/mum...
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Mummermen
Mummers dress outlandishly in a uniform comprising waistcoats, hats, long socks and various bells. They dance and caper about with sticks, bladders and handkerchiefs, and would be comical apart from t...
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Helpful diagram of Man City’s finances. Not entirely sure it’s helpful to the transparency argument
Spaghetti type diagram
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Music
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another day, another record. The globe just broke the record for the warmest Sea Surface Temperature anomaly. Thanks, #ElNino and Carbon pollution (Copernicus ERA data)
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am stressed out when I see Americans post they have complicated feelings about capital punishment. There's nothing complicated about it. Don't do it.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026
this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is in fact the best way to retain the information. (As long as one doesn't zone out, obviously.)
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now, if it were Mandrake he'd just have hypnotised the villain into thinking the gorilla had guns.
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeahhhh don't do this:
section stating: Biography
[Your name] is a writer based in Nigeria. [Add two or three sentences: where you live, what you write, and any publications or awards.] This is their first submission to Air and Nothingness Press.
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Jesper Haglund @jesperhaglund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mer Jumper vs Dr Bombay.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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