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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Invented by Hiroshi Horiuchi at the height of the 80's home robotics trend, Robie gave kids who wanted a little robot a much simpler treat - if you put a coin in his hand and pressed down, he'd wake up, look at his treat, gobble it down, and chomp with gusto before licking his robotic lips.

A yellow cylinder, with legs, two arms, green eyes, and a red tongue. The free hand is posable is just strong enough to hold a pen; the big palm hand lifts in order to put the coin into his mouth.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2.5 timer byvandring med ei venninne jeg ikke har sett på nesten 20 år. Litt av en dag 🙏😭❤️🎉

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🖌 Myandra sez: 🖍 Impeach the MF'er soon. We're waiting. @myandra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Poor Agatha!

One witch is asking the other why she is so sad.
She says she can't have children
The first witch says, "Allergies aren't the end of the world."

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh for god's sake

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine waking up to “Ukrainian troops entered Palistina” with absolutely zero geographical context.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please hire me as a Norway-consultant. I'm Norwegian-Canadian and can be trusted!

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If we're not getting fat Pikachu we could at least get dad bod Pikachu

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ikke at jeg er sååå bekymret over fremtiden, men vurderer å ordne meg Canadisk pass igjen. For sikkerhetens skyld.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

England just absolutely humiliating Scotland and Ireland with this

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vi pleide å hete Dankert Dankertsen Heiberg her i Norge, hva skjedde?

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Er det noen som kan tidlig 1800-talls norsk som vet hvilket F-ord det er snakk om her?

Bilde av et brev fra Jacob Hoel hvor han skriver: "Vi strøg strax omkring og traf følgende: *Sande*; vidste jeg ingen saae dette, da kaldte jeg ham en F-," og denne setningen er notert med "Han er bedre end jeg da ansaae ham for".

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Leser brev fra stortingsrepresentanter og lærer om belysning på midten av 1800-tallet.

"I Gaar tillavede han Gas; men alle Værelser bleve opfyldt med en Satans ond Stank"

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hvordan går det med Sverige og Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS?

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

💥🌊BREAKING: The first naval battle in history between two unmanned surface vessels has taken place in the Black Sea. A Ukrainian Navy Sargan 3000 USV, armed with a 12.7 mm Protector RWS, engaged and destroyed a Russian naval drone.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Om jeg har førerkort? Nei, jeg var ikke medlem av NSDAP mellom 1920 og 1945. Faktisk var jeg ikke en gang påtenkt i dette tidsrommet.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i saw some commentary on here about how one never sees Charlie Kirk anymore in a serious context, and it made me feel the need to take y’all on a short walk through the halls of congress one year after his death i only made it past about half of their offices bc I only had like 40 mins at lunch but

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Still cheaper than in Norway (by like ¢15/gal), but this is promising.

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galaktisk kjeleflikker @kaffekjele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ok, det er faktisk en real buzzlyd som kun kommer på om natten, av og på, i noen sekunder og det driver meg til vanvidd+ingen nattesøvn

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bourgeois and Engelsman? And their on the same team?? Who's the class traitor???

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

På samme grunnlag som med Norges litterære kanon er det umulig å lage en slik liste fordi vi er for bra til å lage kultur. Umulig å lage liste av det.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Everybody knows that the civilizing force on the British Isles were the Dano-Norwegians

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Nils Henrik @nilshenrik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Den kulturelle sekspakningen

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Anja @anjarolland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trist at Stortingspresidenten aldri har hatt en one night stand, men litt rart tidspunkt å annonsere det på

Screenshot fra vg. To overskrifter er så nær hverandre at det ser ut som det er én og samme sak. Bildene er av en krone på svart bakgrunn og av stortingspresidenten. Overskriftene skal egentlig være «aldri brukt» under kronen og «hastet hjem» under stortingspresidenten, men nå ser det ut som det bare står: aldri hastet brukt hjem

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spiser Kong Haakon konfekt, kaller det transsubstansiasjon

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Norge har ikke vært truet av krig siden sist vi hadde en Haakon på tronen🫠

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.

I am grateful to Rector Petra De Sutter for allowing me to stay at Ghent University. I look forward to continuing to work on the project, “The Future of Liberalism,” for 60% of my working time for the remainder of my one-year postdoc.

I wish to personally thank Ambassador
@BillWhiteUSA
. It was beyond my imagination that such a person would take an interest in the fate of a postdoc. The Ambassador responded with great support which helped to bring about a just outcome. Thank you,
@USAmbToBelgium
and
@StateDept
for defending American values. I am proud of my country.

After speaking with all parties, I am pleased to see that Ghent University and Nathan Cofnas have amicably reached an agreement to lift Mr. Cofnas' suspension, which will enable him to complete his one-year postdoctoral appointment. I look forward to working with Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter to continue the relationship between the university and the United States. I am grateful for her willingness to listen to voices calling for protecting academic freedom.

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Knut Figenschou🇺🇦🇵🇸🇦🇲🇳🇴 @knutepus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Norge har ikke vært truet av krig siden sist vi hadde en Haakon på tronen🫠

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Norsk Riksdrittkasting @volvo240.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Klarer rett og slett ikke se for meg et Norge uten Kong Harald. Og det kommer fra en republikaner i prinsipp, men monarkist i praksis, utelukkende på grunn av Kong Harald.

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