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Karl Lyktberg

@swesteel.bsky.social
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I like some things, other things not so much. Taking guesses on how long til Twitter is shuttered. Swede but not the vegetable.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Subscribe here! youtube.com/@davejorgenson Our weekly show answers your questions about what you’re seeing in your social feeds.
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Jakop Dalunde @jakop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oerhört mycket folk i Vasaparken, för den stora klimatdemonstrationen. Detta blir nog en av de större klimatdemonstrationerna på rätt länge.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This site has helped me find a readership for these books after my ex-publishers ran off with many £1000s of my earnings and almost ruined my career. www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-guid... But why does it also repeatedly try to make me feel like I'm doing something terrible by finding that readership?
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A Brief Guide To My Books
Villager is where I'd advise you to start if you wanted to read one of my novels. It's also the one people most frequently tell me they reread. It's set on a fictional moor which just happens to be in...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My man looks like a Dick Tracy villain named Eraserhead
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Get ready for a detailed reenactment of honky on honky violence.
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Zach Soares @voxels.ca · 26/05/2026
I'm looking for work! - Characters - Environments - Animations Whatever your needs, I can do it 💪 I've worked on Teardown, Vampire Crawlers and many more! Feel free to DM me or email zachary.soares@zsinked.com
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The past is a foreign country? yeah no shit, that's why you need a pastport to get there
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Karl Lyktberg @swesteel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Good lord, what have I been missing out on?!
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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art. I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/04/2026
If you've played the House of Hikmah, the beautiful Arab-made narrative platformer about the grief of losing a parent - please do leave a review. It's really hard to make bespoke human games like this in 2026, and the team really gave it their all. store.steampowered.com/app/3451680/...
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Save 10% on The House of Hikmah on Steam
The House of Hikmah is a fully voice-acted, narrative-driven 3D adventure game exploring grief, legacy and the search for answers after profound loss. Solve puzzles, encounter historical scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, and uncover timeless lessons in a beautifully imagined House of Wisdom.
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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
why do we live in a $5 per taco world
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Karl Lyktberg @swesteel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Watch all of it!
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
From 2003 through 2024, the PEPFAR program prevented an estimated 11.0 million cases of tuberculosis and 2.1 million tuberculosis-related deaths. This administration has been blocking and withholding PEPFAR funds.
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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
holy shit
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The most important thing I've read today.
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Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"B-But if we don't use AI, how will we storyboard cutscenes--" MOTHERFUCKER MY WIFE LET ME USE HER CROCHET PLUSHIES, WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE
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Anisa Sanusi @studioanisa.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Turnbound will be out on Early Access tomorrow!! store.steampowered.com/app/3802470/...
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Turnbound on Steam
Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you bat...
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Fellow reporters, everyone really, make sure you do a good review of your digital security. End-to-end encryption wherever you can, if you have Apple gear it's pretty easy and robust.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If you haven't seen it, Bill Watterson gave a speech in 1990 to his alma mater, Kenyon college Full speech is here and it is absolutely worth your time: www.neil.blog/full-speech-... This is my favourite part
But having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/01/2026
Anti-ICE protest in NYC today
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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Looking for a job #PortfolioDay
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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
AND MY RESUME TOO. www.nessacannon.com
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NESSA CANNON
Experienced game writer and narrative designer available for commissions, assignments, and contract work.
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Steven Spohn @stevenspohn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
”X is a toxic media platform & (...) its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse,” news media The Guardian said in a statement announcing it would no longer be posting on the platform. Leave X Now #DeleteYourXAccount #BoycottTesla #Musskolini Thread 1/4🧵
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A reminder: the U.S. federal government is halting $4 million per year in funding to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC), an association of 15 academic centers and children’s hospitals founded in 1999. My op-ed @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
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The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
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Gideon Zhi @aeongenesis.net · 01/12/2025
Jobs. Still looking. Sigh. Really appreciate any internal referrals. SDE/SDM.
Hire me!!
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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Hey can you tell I'm sick of this bullshit? Cause I am. Don't ever try to get me on your AI grift. I will eviscerate you in ways you and your ChatGPT-ass brainrot could not comprehend.
Hi Alanna,
I came across DnA Creative while researching specialized lore-ops services. The fact that you explicitly list "Identifying plot holes and acting as narrative QA" as a service caught my eye immediately, very few people understand how critical that manual work is.
I’m the founder of Flawly. We build a "Narrative Linter" that digests scripts/docs and automatically flags continuity errors and timeline clashes.
I suspect you’re often doing this heavy lifting manually in Notion for your clients.
I’m not looking to sell you software. I’m looking for a partner.
I’d love to let you use Flawly on one of your client projects to see if it can help you spot inconsistencies faster and deliver even higher-value "Lore Audits" without the extra manual grind.
Would you be open to a 15-min chat to see if we can give DnA a "superpower" for narrative QA?


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Founder, FlawlyHello Egor,

It is astonishing to me that you have reached out with this proposal after "researching" my company, as both times I have written about us being "narrative QA" were in posts explicitly outlining the fundamental damage and critical uselessness of AI in my field and industries at large.

I cannot fathom how you read those posts and came to the conclusion that I would be interested in utilizing, let alone discussing, the very thing I so clearly condemned. Unless, perhaps, you didn't read the posts, and merely relied on AI to find you people worth reaching out to. In which case your own message has proven the value of human work and the countless faults in trying to replace that with AI.

"Flaw"-ly indeed. Do not contact me again.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 26/11/2025
Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X. “The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread” over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
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NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
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Clifton B @cliftonb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Getting dangerously close to not having a place to stay. I need to land some kind of work before that happens. I've been pitching my workshop and volunteering to help startups in the area while still applying to every job I find that wouldn't destroy my soul. But something needs to change soon.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever.  

At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. 

Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Leia Organa loved him. She loved the Hutt, even though she was his prisioner. She loved his eyes, “big as apples.” She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as the Sarlacc” could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his “particular complications and particular darkness.”
Black and white pictur of Princess Leia Organa choking Jabba the Hutt to death in the movie Return of Jedi.
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Meagan G @m00gart.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It's that time again, folks. I have been told I will be let go from Heart Machine next week. The people there have been amazing friends and coworkers and anyone else who has been affected deserves all the love and support. I will be updating my portfolio soon; any Env Art leads would be appreciated
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Hanhonymous @hanhonymous.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 27/08/2025
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/08/2025
Guess what DOGE cuts have impacted? Ant-smuggling. "It's getting out of hand," a black market seller tells us. "They realize the US market is a gold mine." Yeah... here's WTH is going on: 🐜🧵
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Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office. Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us. A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔
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Karl Lyktberg @swesteel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Lmao the first ”supporter” doesn’t even show his face.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/07/2025
Despite being the only white man in his 30's without a Substack, I still wanted to write something long-form about why I think the Trump administration's trade strategy is struggling to extract meaningful ransoms. Hope you find it interesting! www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...
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Trump’s Trade Threats: Why Isn't This Working? | ExplainTrade
KAMEHAME… huh?
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Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Andor Characters and Their Counterparts in ‘Allo ‘Allo 1. Dedra Meero and Private Helga Geerhart.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
looking to talk to game devs in the US here on visas. is that you? please get in touch! meganfarokhmanesh.76 on signal, open DMs, megan_farokhmanesh@wired.com
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