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John Erik Riley

@postpacific.bsky.social
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Publisher, publishee. Photographer on the prowl. Managing editor for fiction and poetry at Cappelen Damm.

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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I don’t have much to say about Tarantino’s recent list. But I see his interest in adrenaline-pumping narratives and/or male melancholy as a rule. The lack of any stories like ‘The Zone of Interest’ or ‘The Lives of Others’ tells me that he is far removed from the rest of humanity. His loss.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Jeg har skrevet en sak om NRK og bokkritikken. Eller rettere, om mangelen på bokkritikk i november 2025. Og det som ser ut til å være en villet utvikling hos allmennkringkasteren. www.vagant.no/da-bokkritik...
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Da bokkritikken forsvant fra radioen
Når NRK fjerner bokkritikken fra eteren, samtidig som anmeldelser av skjønnlitteratur er unntaket snarere enn regelen, mister hele det lesende samfunnet noe vesentlig, skriver John Erik Riley.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Det er sikkert stas med en kongefamilie som vinker fra balkongen og greier, men kongefamilien i Stoughton kan i tillegg hjelpe deg med selvangivelsen. Gratulerer med dagen. www.stoughtonfestivals.com/royalty
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
«This coat here? Glad you asked. It’s a totally normal coat that I casually wear all the time. Just a coat to hang around and chill in, when I’m, like, threatening sovereign states with invasion and that sort of thing. Why, do you like it?»
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Speaking as someone who is accustomed to chilly climes: What the frak is going on with this jacket? Did mommy dress him?
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
«Hey.» «Hey.» «What’s up?» «Not much.» «War plans and chill?»
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New Signal chat dropped: Vance: Greenland next? Hegseth: Fuck ye-aah! Vance: Europe is dumb. Hegseth: Europe is PATHETIC! Vance: Is our operation operational then? Hegseth: The operation is fully operational! Vance: Let’s move! Hegseth: 🔥🇺🇸🍆 Vance: Huh? Hegseth: 🍸🦄✊ Vance: ? Hegseth: 🏓🏄‍♂️🥁🎻🚌🗽🚽📭❤️‍🔥🧸🔫💰🎲🎪
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Get your kicks on Route … (checks notes) … Get your kicks with Order 66.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The United States seems like a great tourist destination these days, especially if you want to catch the measles, have the contents of your phone scanned or shiver in a cage under a mylar blanket.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
When I watch Hegseth’s first response, on the tarmac, to the security breach, I am reminded of some of the Midwestern jock heads that I grew up with – arrogant, vindictive, always deflecting responsibility. «That’s not my keg.» «She/he/they were asking for it.» «Nobody was texting war plans.»
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It’s probably a tad more secure if you don’t toss prominent journalists into the chat.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Maybe just ask Hegseth for them instead?
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Zelensky cares more about Ukraine and Ukrainians, present and future, than about himself or what people say about him. This makes him incomprehensible to people like Trump and Musk, who care only about their personal power and image. He is a living rebuke and it’s one reason they despise him.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We have now entered the «shadowy-police-force-and-or-militia-ejecting-people-from-public-meetings» phase of the authoritarian shift. newrepublic.com/article/1919...
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This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign
Private, unidentified security personnel dragged a woman out of the event. It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent but about who gets deputized to do what.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Is the USA just an offshoot of American Express now? Does the gold card give you access to free wine and a buffet at the VIP Border Lounge?
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
DOGE: Department of grifting everybody.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Donald Trump just signed an executive order with a Sharpie enforcing that Sharpies are better than other markers and that Sharpies are the only writing utensil allowed in schools from now on.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Når anledning først byr seg, Kk, hvorfor ikke bruke overskriften «Støre Større Størst»?
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I unearthed a bookmarked article from 2016 randomly when I was looking for something else. Nothing special about it, but it shows what we must remember: The anger, the bigotry, the villifying of the press, the bubbling will to violence – were there all along. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Watch Donald Trump supporters pushing and shoving young black woman
It came a day after black student protesters were removed from two Trump rallies at universities
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
When you are a true genius at marketing you change the name of something to X and then end up with every media channel known to man still qualifying that name with «formerly known as Twitter» almost two years later.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Ettersom det er blitt så populært, innfører jeg herved toll på 25% på all vin som innføres av besøkende hjemme hos meg. Ekstra straffetoll hvis du liker trøffelolje eller ananas på pizza eller hawk sandwich. Alle som forstår sistnevnte referanse, får tollen redusert til 12,5%
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Headlines on just another Wednesday during the dismantling of the United States government.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Or put more simply: Winning the AI battle is more than some sort of 2020-era space race. It provides the administration with new tools for control – for reasons that, on the surface, can look benign, laudable even.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
An AI industry bleeding money and potentially in need of fresh capital/customers when a tyrant is amassing funds/gearing up for mass surveillance in accordance with his ongoing purges seems like a perfect storm of awful, to say the least.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
– I wonder what Musk was trying to convey when he raised his arm like that. – What a strange and awkward gesture. – His arm in the air was very ambiguous, almost indecipherable. – We’ll never grasp the arm’s true meaning. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany
Tycoon tells 4,500 people at campaign event in Halle to be proud of German culture in speech via video link
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Illiberal forces cultivate and alter the perception of the past to seize hold of and control the present. One of the grave dangers today is forgetting what happened before, ignoring the dots on the timeline. We need constant reminders, like this piece here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
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Opinion | I Prosecuted the Capitol Rioters. I Know Why Trump Pardoned Them. (Gift Article)
Trump’s pardons will encourage more violence.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
«Det er på tide at folk slutter å falle for denne typen blunk-blunk-radikalisme. Kamuflasjen av ironi og forvirring begynner å bli fryktelig blass. Kodene er knekt for lengst.» www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/komm...
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På tide at folk slutter å falle for blunk-blunk-ekstremisme
Kamuflasjen av ironi og forvirring begynner å bli fryktelig blass. Kodene er knekt for lengst. Dette er ikke et uskyldig spill, det er blodig alvor, skriver Lasse Josephsen.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Har selv vært med på dette, men det begynner å bli lenge siden sist, til tross for uttallige SF-turer de siste tiårene.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
De så mer ut som om de gledet seg til å få unnagjort sin protestantiske plikt og drikke en bøtte med vin.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
På Gran Canaria er det et turmål som heter Norskeplassen, og på vei dit treffer man bare nordmenn som hilser med hei og et nikk som om de befant seg i Nordmarka. Dette er det mest eksotiske jeg har opplevd på lang tid.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/01/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. We will keep fighting until this order is blocked for good.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Speaking of which, this sober summary is worth reading: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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The Normalization of Trump’s Extremism in Norwegian Media - C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
In the wake of Trump’s inauguration, we need to pay close attention to the ways in which media coverage of his politics may (inadvertently) contribute to normalizing racism, misogyny, transphobia and ...
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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Dressing up in my emotional support Hugo Boss uniform with my favorite Hindu good luck charm to go make some autistic throw my heart to the crowd movements in the town square. Hope no one does ableism against me
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Reminder: When dealing with fascists, there is no «yeah-that’s-bad-but-we-need-to-focus-on-the-other-thing-instead». Both things are likely part of the same agenda, which is to flood the political and rhetorical field with abrupt change and disrupt the synapses, thereby making resistance difficult.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’m guessing that some of the architects of tech will be the first in line. They’ve already airbrushed their images several times over – in the most cynical way imaginable, in accordance with shifting values – and will merrily do so again.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In the future, when this political era is over and the good people are tasked with cleaning up the mess, we’ll be seeing a lot of Albert Speer types attempting to wash their hands of what they created, pretending they didn’t enable the dread, trying to replace fact with performative regret and myth.
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Jonas Bals @jonasbals.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
En utvidet versjon av dagens tråd her på Bluesky - om Musk og all fornektelsen vi har sett utfolde seg i dag.
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Tilretteleggere, tåkeleggere og nyttige idioter
At så mange nå omskriver det Elon Musk gjorde i går, kaller det «obskurt» eller et utslag av glede (!), er illevarslende for tida vi går inn i.
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Steve Hill 🏴‍☠️📚 @handle.invalid · 20/01/2025
Editing your own book is an internal monologue of “This is soooo good, you are a genius” to “What is this shit, have you no shame?” back & forth forever.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I’ll be using what remains of my frazzled brain power on other matters, thank you very much – and not on wondering whether glorifying nazism is actually glorifying nazism.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you really want to deep read and muse about the complexity of things, go find a work of art, a film by David Lynch (RIP) or a literary masterpiece. Not this.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Asking people to spend time and energy «interpreting» the blatantly obvious or trying to see it from different angles is merely insulting. Sheesh.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump pardons nazis (see link) while Musk waves to nazis with his nazi salute. This is not something that needs parsing or deep reading. It is what it is. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/n...
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Enrique Tarrio, Pardoned by Trump, Helped Initiate Capitol Riot (Gift Article)
Until President Trump’s pardon, Enrique Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison term, the longest sentence handed down to any of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with Jan. 6.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So now that the Gulf of Mexico is going to be the Gulf of America, does that mean that New Mexico is New America now? And can we all move there for a while, and get a break from this nightmare?
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Not sure what’s happening in the news right now. But Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in any case. I hope the nation celebrates in a manner that is fitting, given his accomplishments.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Ikke dermed sagt at *jeg* gjenleste Against the Day av Thomas Pynchon. Men dersom det hadde vært meg, kunne det sikkert ha vært en fest.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Det var en del folk som leste bok på vei til Syden i dag, men kun én som gjenleste Against the Day av Thomas Pynchon.
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John Erik Riley @postpacific.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Tenk deg det: Ditt eget hjem brenner, slik at du må flykte til dine foreldres hus. Så går også det huset opp i røyk, i tillegg til huset til bestemor. 100 år med historie, nesten alt storfamilien eide, er aske nå. Vanskelig å fatte. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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'Is this real?': Three generations of Altadena family lose homes in Eaton fire
The Davila family found their dream home in Altadena. They hope to rebuild after the fire destroyed three generations of family homes.
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Tim Burgess @tim-burgess.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Kyle MacLachlan’s beautiful tribute to David Lynch
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Ragnhild Holmås @ragholmas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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