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Jim the viking

@jimtheviking.bsky.social
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Jim, 42, former viking, former museologist, current freelance proofreader and editor

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think a lot about how we currently live in the utopia imagined by the dreadful midcentury lawmakers who wrote codes like this—dominated by cars and highways, neighborhoods sapped of people and commerce, everything segregated to oblivion—and how we can and should put all their ideas in the trash
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 02/10/2026
The Overton Window has shifted so far to the right that the Pope is now a dangerous leftist.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If I did not want to be blamed for the state of things, I simply would not have spent a century smashing, assassinating and pillaging my way across the globe in the single minded pursuit of the anticommunist goals of my religious fanatic leadership class.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 24/09/2026
Tweet by merman_melville: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of people said a lot of things about the ineffectiveness of production limitations for generating greenhouse gas reductions and speeding up renewable adoption for the past decade which were clearly false. May "keynesianism means we have to keep building oil and gas infrastructure" finally die
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.
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John Neary @jddneary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a content expert, but this seems like an extremely unserious response from Health Canada. If there were unsafe practices at that site (and I suspect there were), then there were likely unsafe practices at many other sites, which remain open.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Solidarity with Madrid anti-eviction movement! #MariCarmenSeQueda #StopDeshaucios
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They are shipping F35 parts with UPS
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Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries @dnlnwmn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
not wrong
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 19/09/2026
Fascinating!
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Carney is anti-labour and that was obvious from the start.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13/09/2026
Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I bought this sign a few years later at the going out of business sale of a locally owned restaurant in, I think, North Haven CT.
metal sign with stick-on lettering reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE/"GOD BLESS AMERICA"
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This happened in 2013, lest anyone think the whole "freedom fries" thing was just a temporary hiccup
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Read this thread:
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pure Canadian culture. If Carney weren't such an international capitalist, billions would be poured into stuff like this rather than war.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There are people who believe that conservatives gave us Obergefell and there are people who believe that liberals struck down Roe (because it happened on Biden's watch) and we should all remember that, as we talk about Supreme Court reform, a lot of public opinion here is nonsensical
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marc liam @vellichoro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
FDR knew that you push to the LEFT and give people real, material benefits if you want to neutralize a rising fascist threat. Sadly, contemp centrists in the US and Europe have not learned this lesson.
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Yes, now that you mention it, 'Mustn't condemn or punish fascist action; it might cost us the fascist vote,' does sound like a pretty naive and self-destructive way to conduct and safeguard liberal democratic politics. Nevertheless,
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Who is the fool if he is not pitied?
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great to see the Narwhal do the kind of journalism that literally all Canadian pubs should be doing right now.
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:
PC Gamer headline: "Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'"
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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
made this edit in a fit of rage
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 27/08/2026
I always think of how the Barenaked Ladies were ignored as a silly comedy band for like a decade until the moment they scored a US top 10 single and it instantly became “CANADA’S OWN BARENAKED LADIES” because our country’s inferiority complex and need for American approval is apparently bottomless 🫤
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Reflector Lich 📡 🇵🇸 @eccentricks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For many years people have said that politicians should wear uniforms with the logos of those who give them money, and here we are.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. Carney was ready to sign a deal with someone who can’t be trusted. He was prepared to pay for the illusion of certainty. This broke down over price.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Me, though on supply management.
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?
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Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue
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Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Give it a couple years, we’ll get there.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
a guy digitized some old 80s Italian ambient tapes and one of the guys who made the music saw it and swung into the comments to say thanks for doing this, we loved making music back then maybe we’ll do it again & man that’s a good feeling youtu.be/2XwkPbBtiAQ?...
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TERRA DELLA SERA - 1980's ITALIAN AMBIENT SYNTH TAPES collection - 6,5 hours long
YouTube video by Jeroen van de Sande
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A strike that is being fought out on the very frontlines of the struggle against austerity. #OPSEU
Community service workers' strike enters 11th week.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
One of those 'STOP DOING X' memes, ripping into archaeology. It has images of soil stratum, a trowel, and a flint shard. The text mocks archaeologists for digging for pottery sherds and saying everything has a 'ritual purpose'.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highly usable post from last year
@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
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Not THAT Cydd @notthatcydd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yup. And guess who hasn’t resigned yet. This piece of shit of a human is my mpp. He’s shut down comment sections. No accountability. He’s working as if nothing happened. Assaulting someone with a deadly weapon should have been an automatic gtfo
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reminder below
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