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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The case of the USS New York recalls the Vendôme column and its use of the melted down cannon of Austerlitz ... warship as itinerant monument to death.

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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 · 24/08/2026

Okay I did some digging and it looks like you can ride the scooter regardless of whether you pass or fail the test :///

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

The e-scooters here in Norway have some kind of reaction-time drunkenness test which kicks in at 10pm. They also shut down completely at midnight. But I'm not sure the companies would be inclined to run the tests earlier, say at rush hour, even people are still absolutely on the sauce by then.

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

It ignores the pretty problematic warlike approach to fire that partly got us here, and fails to acknowledge how profoundly damaging to the Earth system war itself is. To say war is the only thing that can mobilise a population is total imaginative bankruptcy.

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

I understand the urgency and horror of the author's position. But framing fire as an enemy force - rather than an intrinsic part of the Earth system - just serves to further alienate our relationship with it.

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

After bad wildfires, pollies love to say they're buying airtankers, or helicopters, even though fire brigades are usually be better served by better PPE or training or even just a working a black and white printer - because a 'wartime mindset' is the only kind of optics they can countenance.

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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 · 17/07/2026

Thanks for the article, Zeke. You point to the fact that ignitions are overwhelming coming from lightning, but is there not a direct relationship between thunderstorm likelihood/severity and atmospheric warming, the latter of which we know is anthropogenically forced?

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

Mike Davis's Incendiary Other ... as gambling platform.

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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 · 23/06/2026

Hi Melissa this is amazing and urgent work. I'm working in this exact same space, especially re bushfire - I wondered if we could have a chat? Let me know!

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

Turning the wheel, circling back to windward

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There's something so conspiratorial to this feeling - the idea that Disney has it out for the real fans, has only contempt for the golden age - which is at odds with the fact that Star Wars was from its beginning an ad hoc, narratively inconsistent means to sell toys

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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 · 26/11/2025

Your child is making sand castles (unreconciled nostalgia for the feudal project). My child is sketching Marx's face in the sand. We are not the same.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Incredible. Wasn't the Green only refurbed a couple years ago?

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The SS United States in axonometric projection in the Hermann Bollmann map of New York City, 1963

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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 · 10/04/2025

They've made it almost shrine-like

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Can I get a subsequent prayer emoji

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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 · 10/01/2025

Agree, no slow down in accretion of data. Just 0s, not Nulls.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

But the speed at which we now demand digital maps, especially in journalism, means that cloud obscuration is back - there's no time to wait for a clear day. Just today, in a map representing the damage from the LA fires, the NY Times has placed a label not unlike the ones at the top of this thread.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today, clouds have almost disappeared from the stable, seamless 'mosaics' that are the background layers for platforms like Google Maps. This is a function of blending thousands of images together. But there were moments, especially in earlier versions, when clouds appeared out of place.

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

But the throughline seems to be the industrialisation of content that no-one actually pays attention to - at the expense of everything else

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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 · 30/12/2024

You've never needed a last minute pneumatic log splitter?

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes use of the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which really sets the scene for misplaced spiritual voyages.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Schroeder skewers his colonials, who trick themselves with a kind of hippie truth-seeking until it is too late. But this critique is not really extended to the film itself, which repeatedly dislocates Indigenous people and their language in the service of spectacle.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Shame about the permanent mourning veil on the tower though

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Can't DM you directly! Might need to change a setting

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Would you post to Norway? Can cover the fee and any strange taxes they add over here.

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Oskar Johanson @ojohanson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes heavy use of Peter Zinovieff's EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which supplies a decaying drone well suited to misplaced spiritual voyages.

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

Once such gap is the subject of Barbet Schroeder's strange and cynical 1972 film La Vallée, in which a group of bourgeois New Agers journey through the Papua New Guinean bush in search of what they believe to be one of the world's last scraps of the 'unknown'.

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