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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A patent lodged in 2016 by Boeing for an fire control system comprising an artillery shell full of fire retardant that gets fired at a fire. Designed to be fired by existing 203mm guns, i.e. howitzers.

Image from a patent for an fire control system showing artillery firing a shell full of fire retardant at a fire.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Deeply misguided to talk this way. Casting wildfires as an enemy has been the M.O. for governments and insurers for a very long time - fire has always been a force to be 'fought'. Many surplus WWII aircraft went directly into service for forestry agencies.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Remote sensing in Georgian England. From Airopaidia, a narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester by Thomas Baldwin, 1786.

An image from “Balloon-Prospect”, featured in Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia from 1786, showing clouds and the countryside directly from above.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In hindsight it is very obvious that as models improve and the simulation of (and even attribution of agency to) wildfires becomes possible that this data would be immediately become the basis for gambling. www.wired.com/story/predic...

wired.com

Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Turning the wheel, circling back to windward

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SeaNews @seanews.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

#Breaking It appears that several cruise ships are attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz at this time.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Vibecoding your way out of a war zone

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Heatherwick here suggesting that if you run out of 19th century industrial buildings to turn into shopping centres, just start synthesising them.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Ships are so often prostheses; see the Bibby Stockholm as an extension of the British immigration-carceral system; Carnival cruises ships at APEC 2018 as as extension of the fortified hotel compound; the aircraft carrier as four acres of 'sovereign' US or British territory moved to a theatre of war.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Wild that large vessels like this are still deliberately scuttled and then called "reefs", as if by being sent beneath the sea they suddenly start to accord to a natural order

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Gesturing wildly: "—are you supportive of these onesies?"

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Between @tavlin.bsky.social's n+1 article on the Typical Netflix Movie (TNM) and @lizpelly.bsky.social's Harper's article on Spotify's Perfect Fit Content (PFC), it's looking bleak folks

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Thinking about the fact that as mapmaking developed maps started to show less information, not more.

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