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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Russia destroys a US-owned defence factory in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Nothing… US prosecutors allege a Russian intelligence plot to murder a dissident in Washington. Russia reportedly also supplies Iran with intelligence on US military assets. Nothing.. Putin gets an invitation to the G20 by Trump… WTF 🤷‍♂️

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

National Norwegian news by public broadcaster: The dog of recently deceased princess Astrid is now dead. Makes you think whether the whole monarchy thing is a giant Russian disinfo operation to distract from real issues. !?!?!?

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think that Ukrainian missiles and drones also wanted to cast a vote today in Russia. It is one of the few genuine votes in this fake parliament election.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

mikrobloggeovn (subst.,m.): et kjøkkenapparat som ved et enkelt knappetrykk koker opp nye, korte meldinger. Velg mellom BlueSky eller X.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

when JD Vance walks into he room

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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They’re sitting opposite a man who’s committed the most heinous war crimes, the darkest chapters of European history, torturing, executing POW’s in Nazi style filtration camps, stole children while holding Ukrainians to ransom over basic human rights.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It'll be an incredible memory for us all, to be fair: the time the US president sent two of his closest, if least competent, aides to flatter the autocrat responsible for an unprovoked war against a neighbour and the murder of many thousands of its citizens. In front of the world's cameras.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Jeans-environment interactions, a new research field I got to know about in Uppsala.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't help thinking Christopher Nolan made a big mistake in not calling his latest movie "Troy Story 2".

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Andreas Selliaas @aselliaas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Okey.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

MAGA 'expert' Macgregor, and his 'predictions' on Ukraine March '22 "In ten days, this should be completely over." September '23 "This could go on till Christmas." May '25 "Over the next month or two, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole picture changes suddenly." August '26 "This thing is over."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When Trump picked Hegseth, I said he wanted a defense secretary who would be willing to order the military to fire on American citizens. Hegseth is in the process of purging officers who won’t.

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Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens

The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones.

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If Serbia insists on burying Maladić with state honours, that is its sovereign prerogative. However such a move would be entirely inconsistent with being a candidate for EU membership, and the accession process should be formally suspended as a result.

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Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pretty good going from BBC R4's Today to talk for 15 minutes about the disaster in Nepal and not once mention the impact of climate change A massive chunk of glacier collapsed and fell 1.2km, reduced to 'flash flood'.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hereby have issued a personal executive order binding upon all people in all nations. Henceforth and herewith, the city in which I live shall be known as Paris, France. All cheeseburgers shall be free. Cats are now dogs. Golf never existed. I am the author of the collected works of Shakespeare.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just remembered the Dolly Parton bus.

The National Express 925 bus service between Woking Station and Heathrow Airport.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We have an election coming up in Sachsen-Anhalt, one of German's 16 federal states. The AFD—it's sadly no exaggeration to say that it has many Nazis as politicians and voters—has doubled its votes since 2022, and is projected to be the largest party. Possible they reach close to 50% of the votes :(

2022 to 2026, AFD party compared to other parties has increased in popularity from 20 to 40%

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Linux announcement is 35 years old today. Say a deep thank you to all the sysadmins of Linux systems out there that powers your internet, social media and workplace servers. <3

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Conway's Law: Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. Now think about sociology departments and their programs.

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Den norske hovedoppgaven -- masteroppgaven -- er død i møte med KI. Vi kan ikke fortsette som før. Alle tenkbare løsninger innebærer i praksis endringer så store at det ikke lenger er snakk om den samme oppgaven.

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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On 4/9 13:00, @oskarpettersson.bsky.social defends his dissertation "Genetics and Politics: Gene-Environment Interplay for Social Life Outcomes and the Normative Implications of Social Science Genetics"! Welcome to ext. reviewer @torkildl.bsky.social! Open to the public. www.uu.se/en/events/de...

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Oskar Pettersson: Genetics and Politics: Gene-Environment Interplay for Social Life Outcomes and the Normative Implications of Social Science Genetics – Uppsala University

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Terje Karlsen @terjekarlsen.no · 24/08/2026

Altinget legger ned. Snart er det ingen nisjemedier igjen. Medieøkonomien kollapser. Ytterlig flere journalister mister jobben og drives over i andre bransjer. Og norsk offentlighet blir stadig fattigere. #mediekrise www.journalisten.no/notice/680955

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Legger ned Altinget i Norge

Danske Altinget legger ned satsingen i Norge, melder de i en pressemelding mandag formiddag.Det er i ...

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Psychotic stuff.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Turned on the radio this morning and today’s headline news was Reform’s plan to cut £50billion from welfare spending, quoting Reform’s claim that the current system is “suicidal empathy”. The BBC is again calmly reporting fascist ideas as if they mainstream.

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Elon Musk’s comment on empathy is much worse than you thought

Musk has a clear understanding of the eugenic mission, and the ideological building blocks to its realization. It’s Nazism.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Many Europeans fail to recognize that reducing reliance on the US requires spending significantly more on defense to prevent Russian aggression. Current European defense budgets remain inadequate for this reality

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

2027, on the other hand, is going to blow apart the record for the warmest year. 🤷

GISTEMP data from 1980, with predictions for 2026 and 2027 (phew wot a scorcher...)

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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is not actually very surprising. The sad part is that it needs to be proven empirically.

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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...

A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution

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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

A town sign seen through a train window.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Great piece from @ghostpanther.bsky.social. I was particularly struck by this graph, which contains so much information about the past five years in it.

" I asked the people at my nonprofit media studio, Yellow Dot, to create a graph with two data points: mentions of climate on U.S. broadcast news and recent spiking global warming numbers. And this is what they sent me"

The graph shows a steady decline of minutes on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX since 2022 with the "temperature anomaly" rising from that period, only declining moderately from 2024 to 2025 (but well above the 2021 position)

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

*Schwarzenegger voice* I'll be Vac

BBC News headline: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The reality is that this is exactly what Trump wants. He wants to force Ukrainian capitulation and this is how he wants to do it.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

By the way, three lions died in a Tokyo Zoo because of the heat. LIONS!!!

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ten of thousands of people are dying because of high heat. Tens of thousands of people make a one-day trip to Cueta. Guess what European politicians are identifying as the main problem?

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking forward to the announcement that OpenAI's new model has solved ten long-standing issues in sociology.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!

Line chart titled "A first year above 2 C in the mid-2030s looks increasingly plausible". It shows global mean surface temperature from 1940 to 2050 as the annual anomaly against the 1850 to 1900 baseline, in degrees C. Data is ERA5 from Copernicus, running to 31 July 2026.

A thin gold line shows individual years, wobbling around a thick dark blue smoothed trend. Both sit near 0.2 C through the 1940s to the early 1970s, then climb steadily from the mid-1970s onward.

Three red dots mark the first year each threshold was passed. 0.5 C in 1980, 1.0 C in 2010 and 1.5 C in 2024. Labels beneath note the gap of 30 years between the first two and 14 years between the second and third. Everything above 1.5 C is shaded pink.

Two dashed lines run forward from 2025. A blue line follows the 15-year trend of 0.42 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2037. A fainter grey line follows the 30-year trend of 0.27 C per decade and reaches 2 C in 2044.

Two orange circles mark estimates for the developing El Niño, at about 1.5 C for 2026 and about 1.7 C for 2027.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I remember when right wing media regularly used to play the clip of Al Gore saying "the planet has a fever" during his Congressional testimony in 2007 to make fun of him. But the planet has a fever, and it keeps getting worse

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Totally wild! A sociology prof left an estate of US$5.2M!

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Jon Blund @jonblund02.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Håper nordmenn skjønner at offentlig redningstjeneste har noe for seg. «Hiker impaled by pole treks ten miles to avoid helicopter fee». www.thetimes.com/article/2d46...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather

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Torkild Hovde Lyngstad @torkildl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Family research often looks at effects of parents on children, but it's a two-way street! Check out our new paper in @pnas.org on evocative effects on family demographic outcomes in MoBa. Kids with much ADHD genes influence their parents' dissolution risk. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/x

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When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study | PNAS

Family demographic behavior is often studied as a response to structural conditions or parental characteristics, yet children may themselves shape ...

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