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Øystein

@tarkeel.eurosky.social
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Grumpy viking. Reader, gamer. Professionall data manager / hobbyist coder. He/him.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Increasingly, I am coming around to this position on the AI debate
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Øystein @tarkeel.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Når siste dagen i september er en av årets fineste sommerdager, vet du at været ikke er helt friskt.
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Libby 🎃Stink Gourd🎃 @libbystigaard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good 🧵. My conversations about consent with my kid were kicked off by him REALLY wanting to pet other people's dogs. He understood having to ask first, but wanted to ignore anything other than an outright no. ("He's not really friendly.") We had a lot of convos about recognizing soft no's and
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And I say I posit this as a trans man because I lived 44 years as a woman and have been in the room when no one intervened and have been the one to intervene as a woman and now have been the one to intervene as someone who looks like a middle aged heavily tattooed white dude with farm muscle.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.
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Aslak Borgersrud @enslask.no · 28/09/2026
Vil du mimre ned langs pirat-historien med meg? www.demodemo.no/historie/sry...
demodemo.no
Piratene er tilbake. Før kjøpte vi spill, musikk og film - nå leier vi dem, og selskapene kan skru av når de vil.
Før kjøpte vi plater, filmer og spill. Nå leier vi dem, og selskapene kan skru dem av når de vil. Samtidig heiser stadig flere nordmenn piratflagget igjen. Aslak, som selv har vært pirat, spør hva vi ...
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TrollkrittIda @trollkrittida.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lørdag 3.oktober blir det mulig å prøve seg på 40K-miniatyrspill arrangert på en gammel modell av Oslo 😁 Del med dine lokalhistorisk og/eller brettspill-anlagte venner! Og: ta kontakt om du har noen spørsmål.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The balloons fell to earth all over the city. Below is what Lake Erie looked like! They had to close both airports thanks to kamikaze balloons. A search for a pair of drowned fishermen was called off. The balloons dropped on highways causing accidents right and left. Total clusterfuck.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cannonball: Aileen Cannon Wears Two Hats! emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/c...
emptywheel.net
Cannonball: Aileen Cannon Wears Two Hats! - emptywheel
In this dummies version of my post explaining what some lawyers for FBI personnel tried to do in Trump's stolen documents docket, I explain why Aileen Cannon has too many hats.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This my favourite comment re the recipe
This has been my go-to brownie recipe for 30 years, even after going to baking school! I agree that using the best cocoa possible makes a difference. These days, I use Callebaut. In the 80s, an acquaintence in Germany to whom I brought some of the brownies, and who considered herself a great cook, asked for the recipe but was never able to get it to work. She kept asking me what she was doing wrong and I was never able to solve her problem. Eventually, she moved to the US and stole my husband!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads

matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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Ingeborg Sophie 📎 @lingeborgsophie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jeg driver med litt rar forskning noen ganger. Og akkurat nå vil jeg gjerne vite hvor godt du kjenner til betydning av ulike ord. Følg lenka his du vil hjelpe meg litt på vei: nettskjema.no/a/654105
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Familiarity7 - Nettskjema
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My main complaint here is not with Discord's newly rolled-out age estimation system (tho sadly it does perpetuate analysis of users' activity) but with the fact of age gating as a means to safety, rather than giving all users, including young people, the tools to create their own safe experiences.
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Øystein @tarkeel.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember Schneier: Attacks only get better, they never get worse. This is a field where surprises are bad.
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Odin @odin.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Eneste riktige svaret her er PISS Plagiarized Information Synthesis System
Split screen meme of disgusted girl/surprisingly interested girl.

Disgusted girl side says "Artificial Intelligence (AI)"
Surprisingly interested girl side says "Plagiarized Information Synthesis System (PISS)"
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🦇 🎃 Simen 🍁👻 @simonym.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Blabla lærerutdanning blabla status HOLD TÅTA. Mindre arbeidsmengde, høyere lønn, miljøterapeuter i skolen, øremerkede midler til læreverk, bedre økonomiske betingelser, mer ro fra politikere, flere folk på jobb. Sånn. Sånn fikser vi skolen.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!
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Tim Maytom @trivialad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@kierongillen.bsky.social Is this how you were created?
Screenshot of a Tumblr post by the user "roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it". The text of the post is:

I think I just gave a kid his first exposure to puns. I’m a preschool teacher and while the kids were playing in the sand box one pretended to cook some food for me. 

3 year old: “Here. It’s food. Uh… sand food”

Me: “like a sandwich?”

And then he got super serious and just stared at the ground for a long time. I thought he didn’t get it but then in the most dead serious three year old voice he went “that’s. really. funny.” and the rest of recess every so often I would hear him whisper “sandwich” to himself in awe.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit
arstechnica.com
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an important point. AI is not going rogue. It is behaving as it was designed to behave. The ones going rogue are the companies themselves who have violated norms, and are committing crimes daily from stealing IP to cybercrime. It did not have to be this way, but... Techbros.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Kine Kanel @sukkerslott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hei, gjengen! Jeg har lyst til å snakke litt om ARFID, selektive spisevansker. Dette er ikke en diagnose i Norge enda, jeg er ikke helsepersonell - dere skjønner greia; her er min erfaring. Det er vanlig å være kresen som barn, men ofte gir det seg. For meg har det aldri gitt seg, av uviss årsak.
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Øystein @tarkeel.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Konseptet "havbunnsmineraler" kan i stor grad spores tilbake til Glomar Explorer og dekkhistorien for Project Azorian. Således kan det faktisk kalles en av de opprinnelige konspirasjonsteoriene, og kunne fint vært en James Bond film.
en.wikipedia.org
Glomar Explorer - Wikipedia
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Øystein @tarkeel.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
Jeg trodde jeg visste hvor stygg CyberTruck var. I går hadde jeg gleden av å vli forbikjørt av en. Jeg trodde ikke det var mulig, men de er faktisk enda styggere i virkeligheten.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026
Every year the farmers would have to go back to Monsanto and buy those round up ready seeds. But still, something like 85%+ of the soybeans and commodity (not sweet) corn in this country is grown this way. A few years ago, they started having a problem. The weeds had mutated.
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Oda Rygh @odarygh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I morgen arrangerer jeg mitt første admin-party: Jeg har invitert mine venner som tidligere hat uttrykt interesse for konseptet eller har sagt de har en greier de skulle gjort til å sitte hos meg å gjøre admin. Med snacks.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you accidentally untick Historical mode on your Hearts of Iron 4 game.
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The current regime leans fascist, but even Donald Trump doesn't really want to create a society where women “will not be permitted to choose career over family” and men “will not be permitted to choose not to have a family.” The post-Trump GOP does. Erickson's an asshole, but I'm glad he's alarmed.
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Research on a fundamental vulnerability of LLMs to prompt injection: they use "role" tags to distinguish between trusted & untrusted input Except that they don't: when measured, it turns out the tags are largely ignored; dominated by the writing style of the input instead! role-confusion.github.io
role-confusion.github.io
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
LLMs can't tell who's speaking. We show they identify roles by writing style, not tags, and exploit this with CoT Forgery, injecting fake reasoning that models mistake for their own thoughts.
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Uglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Look for the furries." "But, I'm not a furry?" "Yes, but the presence of furries are like lichen. They are a sign of a healthy ecosystem."
Post from Mastodon by user Cat_Lefey@pagan.plus, with the text:

A straight white guy friend was complaining about not being able to find any gaming groups for WoW that weren't full of MAGA assholes. He said he keeps joining guilds with older (60+) casual gamers like himself because he can't keep up with the kids, and he'll start to make friends, but then they will reveal themselves to be Trump-lovers. He asked, "What am I doing wrong?"

I said, "First of all, your screen name is Russian. Leftys are gonna be wary of that, and the Alt-right loves it. 
Second, you should put some social signals in your bio, like pronouns."

"Okay, but how do I tell people I'm cool, but I'm not gay or trans?"
I explained to him what "cis" and "ally" mean. He had never heard of this before, which showed me what kind of online spaces he was landing in.

Next, I said, "Look for the furries."
"But, I'm not a furry?"
"Yes, but the presence of furries are like lichen. They are a sign of a healthy ecosystem."

This was about 3 months ago. Now, he tells me he joined a guild labeled as LGBTQ-friendly and has made several new cool friends. He says, "I thought they would be talking about sex all the time but it's just a regular group." He mentioned that there are many women and PoC in the group too, and "Everyone's so nice on dungeon runs, telling people they did a good job and being supportive, sharing loot." 

I didn't tell him that this is what the whole world would be like without patriarchal toxic masculinity, because I think he figured it out himself.
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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 16/09/2026
Explain AuDHD to me Ok
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/09/2026
Showing a co-worker what it means when an AI hallucinates imagery and cannot be relied upon for *any* information. Played NCIS ENHANCE ENHANCE ENHANCE from a pixellated construction site photo.
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QuiteBrief @quitebrief.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#booksky 📚💙 📚💬 A discussion with @wander-the-page.bsky.social brought up the idea of books I've read on title alone, so here are some and with my rationale (if any) Feel free to post any books that got you on the title alone. I'll start with:
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 15/09/2026
"Those who perform best in science are the ones who never, or almost never, use AI," explained Eric Charbonnier, an education analyst at the OECD, during the report's presentation." It is incredible how much AI has changed students habits and brains in such a short time.
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Øystein @tarkeel.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Merk at mye anti-semitisme ikke ser ut som du forventer, bl.a. fordi vi har blitt tilvendt en del av det. Sterke jødiske trekk har blitt forvridd til å bli klassiske trekk på skurker i fortellinger. Disse trekkene lever igjen videre sitt eget liv, så selv velmenende personer bruker de uvitende.
lifeisasacredtext.com
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
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Yells Incoherently @yellsonpolitics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
2026 edition
the xkcd "all modern infrastructure" comic but updated with a shark biting through a subsea cable, DNS holding up the bottom, cloudflare and AWS, AI jacking the thing up, a whole bunch of weird web stuff piled up, and and an Angry Bird flying towards it captioned "whatever Microsoft is doing"
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
sorry for screenshotting some twitter rando but you guys need to see this
The Hellenist @The_Hellenist . 19h
Men must go on sex strike.
Do not give women any of your love until they submit to patriarchy.
Feminist women are undeserving of love.
Men must therefore go on sex strike.

NO SEX UNTIL YOU ABANDON FEMINISM
STRONG WOMEN BUILD NOTHING.
SUBMISSIVE WOMEN BUILD CIVILIZATION.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bugs Bunny sometimes played baseball and sometimes performed in operas. He was still not an actor. If I made an animated movie about a talking mailbox, you could absolutely nominate the voice actor for awards. It would be a little strange if you tried to nominate the mailbox.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Everything that was true about "big data" is just as true about "AI". Is the biggest barrier to evidence-based policy or product-decisions a lack of evidence? Not usually. Will more data, faster add more clarity? Not usually and definitely not if you don't know what you need to know.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white Ruby Bridges today, photo in full color
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qntm @qntm.org · 08/09/2026
Uh oh, the AI-generated copy we made of you just testified against you in court
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Val @ BOO! Goes the Bride (of Frankenstein) @valwrites.ca · 07/09/2026
i always said "server farm" for storage and networking, and "data centre" for AI/crypto. One is a bunch of hard drives. The other is a bunch of GPUs running 24/7 at maximum capacity until they melt.
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Eivind HM. @eivind1984.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dag 1 i åpent landskap, i bygning som fortsatt er byggeplass. Jeg kan være en ok jurist, jeg. Lese, tenke, skrive. Men å tåle riggen rundt blir fader meg bare vanskeligere og vanskeligere. Lyder, bevegelser, andres blikk over skuldra, selvbevisstheten, den dølle livløsheten i felleslokalene.
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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm not sure how the UK can turn back at this point. The govt says almost nothing about hundreds of men in black blocking a port, police wait 17 hours to comment on racist mobs in Glasgow, and now we are burning building sites because they MIGHT someday house asylum seekers.
glasgowtimes.co.uk
'Wilful' tenement fire burns community development site amid 'disinformation'
A "wilful" fire in Glasgow has been deemed a "depressing act of self-harm" for the community, as a tenement block was ravaged by…
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AntiKristian Bløseth @kriloseth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hvorfor sier vi å drikke alene og ikke innagerende festing 🤔
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