Örjan
@cunobaros.bsky.social
I write words and code, wave swords around, and try to vacuum the cat.
Back in 🇸🇪 after 20 odd years in 🇬🇧
Back in 🇸🇪 after 20 odd years in 🇬🇧
Can confirm.
Source: grew up on a farm.
Source: grew up on a farm.
Yet again, I am going to ask everyone to look at the 'farmers' hands driving the tractors / being interviewed in this protest.
If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts.
Source: Grew-up on a farm.
If they have soft hands they are not farmers, they are tax dodging managers. Farmers have giant sausage fingers covered in cuts.
Source: Grew-up on a farm.
damn, well I'm sure the MET will come down on them with the same enthusiasm they have for arresting climate protestors
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Can confirm.
Source: grew up on a farm.
Source: grew up on a farm.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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The Viking culture was, in fact, an ancient form of the cat distribution system.
Orange fur showed up shortly before cats reached Scandinavia. You can track where, and when, the Vikings went by when the orange gene entered the local cat gene pool. They took cats *everywhere*.
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Viking culture was, in fact, an ancient form of the cat distribution system.
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Linux using folks - what might cause a spontaneous reboot when running 'systemctl start multi-user.task'? (When all the dependencies have already been started).
Booting a live-usb image on the same machine has no issues.
Booting a live-usb image on the same machine has no issues.
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Linux using folks - what might cause a spontaneous reboot when running 'systemctl start multi-user.task'? (When all the dependencies have already been started).
Booting a live-usb image on the same machine has no issues.
Booting a live-usb image on the same machine has no issues.
Who doesn't fondly remember the classic Sherlock Holmes story - set around Christmas - when a stolen carbuncle is stuffed down the gullet of a turkey?
FFS, turkeys are literally American not British. These assclowns are confused
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Who doesn't fondly remember the classic Sherlock Holmes story - set around Christmas - when a stolen carbuncle is stuffed down the gullet of a turkey?
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We live in interesting times, when the bonds market is further left-wing than a democratic socialist government.
UK government bonds sink after Reeves ditches plan to raise income tax on.ft.com/4nRg5px
UK government bonds sink after Reeves ditches plan to raise income tax
Dramatic U-turn ahead of Budget sparks sell-off in gilt market
on.ft.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We live in interesting times, when the bonds market is further left-wing than a democratic socialist government.
Such magnificent clouds...
Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Such magnificent clouds...
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This thread is highly misleading in two ways. Firstly, historically. It does not fit with the scholarship. Secondly politically. It implies we are living in some fragile Goldilocks bubble of freedom.
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This thread is highly misleading in two ways. Firstly, historically. It does not fit with the scholarship. Secondly politically. It implies we are living in some fragile Goldilocks bubble of freedom.
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So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project
…so there isn’t some department that is empowered to deal with this stuff that can just override the inevitable objections, I guess? rough, if so
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project
FFS, I've already seen columns asking if this will lead to New York leaving the United States.
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
FFS, I've already seen columns asking if this will lead to New York leaving the United States.
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The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946
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Editorial cartoon: Unsolicited Dick Fics.
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Editorial cartoon: Unsolicited Dick Fics.
Just finished What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com
It was very good. I'm finding the Sworn Soldier series curious in that there's clearly a lot of clever horror in them, but not in a way that puts a longtime horror-disliker like me off.
Also: I, too, practiced the Zippo trick to impress girls
It was very good. I'm finding the Sworn Soldier series curious in that there's clearly a lot of clever horror in them, but not in a way that puts a longtime horror-disliker like me off.
Also: I, too, practiced the Zippo trick to impress girls
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Just finished What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com
It was very good. I'm finding the Sworn Soldier series curious in that there's clearly a lot of clever horror in them, but not in a way that puts a longtime horror-disliker like me off.
Also: I, too, practiced the Zippo trick to impress girls
It was very good. I'm finding the Sworn Soldier series curious in that there's clearly a lot of clever horror in them, but not in a way that puts a longtime horror-disliker like me off.
Also: I, too, practiced the Zippo trick to impress girls
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"Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, & can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position - it is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism."
- Nick Cave to Stephen Colbert, Aug. 2024.
- Nick Cave to Stephen Colbert, Aug. 2024.
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, & can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position - it is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism."
- Nick Cave to Stephen Colbert, Aug. 2024.
- Nick Cave to Stephen Colbert, Aug. 2024.
TFW you're on a road trip through the foggy forested darkness, and your driver says "Want to hear something cool?" and sings the Queen of the Night aria perfectly, only one octave lower.
That was cool.
That was cool.
November 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
TFW you're on a road trip through the foggy forested darkness, and your driver says "Want to hear something cool?" and sings the Queen of the Night aria perfectly, only one octave lower.
That was cool.
That was cool.
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OpenAI put out a press release today addressing mental health concerns. I have many issues with it, but something super troubling:
They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.
They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.
Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations
We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care, and guide people toward real-world support–reducing responses that fall...
openai.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
OpenAI put out a press release today addressing mental health concerns. I have many issues with it, but something super troubling:
They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.
They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.
"Does the gentleman dress to the left or to the right?"
#RudeVegetables
#RudeVegetables
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Does the gentleman dress to the left or to the right?"
#RudeVegetables
#RudeVegetables
Heading home from the office Halloween party. Free drinks, alcoholic and non, and snacks, and a DJ handling the beats.
As I'm sure you can imagine, the results were predictable.
Yup. A group of middle-aged nerds playing Uno and Catan and having a very pleasant evening.
As I'm sure you can imagine, the results were predictable.
Yup. A group of middle-aged nerds playing Uno and Catan and having a very pleasant evening.
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Heading home from the office Halloween party. Free drinks, alcoholic and non, and snacks, and a DJ handling the beats.
As I'm sure you can imagine, the results were predictable.
Yup. A group of middle-aged nerds playing Uno and Catan and having a very pleasant evening.
As I'm sure you can imagine, the results were predictable.
Yup. A group of middle-aged nerds playing Uno and Catan and having a very pleasant evening.
I designed my first book[1] with a pirated copy of Aldus PageMaker 6.5.
I learned it years before, when my SO was at uni. They wanted to publish her thesis as a book for future students, and asked her to provide a PostScript file.
[1] Which had footnoted footnotes. Academic text was good training.
I learned it years before, when my SO was at uni. They wanted to publish her thesis as a book for future students, and asked her to provide a PostScript file.
[1] Which had footnoted footnotes. Academic text was good training.
The very first piece of Abode software I ever used, 35+ years ago now, was PageMaker, which was the software we used to layout the Chicago Maroon, the college newspaper I wrote and edited for. Of course, because I'm old, it was from Aldus then. But I also used it after Adobe acquired Aldus.
Did you ever work in Framemaker? It was a very nice, if slightly excessive piece of word processing+ software from earlier Adobe years that I swore by - up to a point.
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I designed my first book[1] with a pirated copy of Aldus PageMaker 6.5.
I learned it years before, when my SO was at uni. They wanted to publish her thesis as a book for future students, and asked her to provide a PostScript file.
[1] Which had footnoted footnotes. Academic text was good training.
I learned it years before, when my SO was at uni. They wanted to publish her thesis as a book for future students, and asked her to provide a PostScript file.
[1] Which had footnoted footnotes. Academic text was good training.
Yesterday, as we were heading out to lunch, my boss asked where I had bought my leather jacket as he was looking to buy one but hasn't found any shops selling them.
"It was a Christmas present," I said, "in 1998..."
Some seams have broken over the years, but I've had them repaired.
"It was a Christmas present," I said, "in 1998..."
Some seams have broken over the years, but I've had them repaired.
People are buying more clothes, but they don’t stay in closets for long. This fuels overproduction and waste.
An easy fix? Wear them longer. The planet will thank you!
More tips on #BeatWastePollution: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
An easy fix? Wear them longer. The planet will thank you!
More tips on #BeatWastePollution: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Yesterday, as we were heading out to lunch, my boss asked where I had bought my leather jacket as he was looking to buy one but hasn't found any shops selling them.
"It was a Christmas present," I said, "in 1998..."
Some seams have broken over the years, but I've had them repaired.
"It was a Christmas present," I said, "in 1998..."
Some seams have broken over the years, but I've had them repaired.
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I really hope this makes it out to the clothing historians of Bluesky. I was reading an account of the sinking of Lusitania from a second-class passenger. She said that she'd had a bath before lunch but hadn't had time to dress properly afterwards. The dress code for lunch was négligée (so that
October 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I really hope this makes it out to the clothing historians of Bluesky. I was reading an account of the sinking of Lusitania from a second-class passenger. She said that she'd had a bath before lunch but hadn't had time to dress properly afterwards. The dress code for lunch was négligée (so that
I think it was a misdirect story about the US president agonising over pressing the button (it was written in the 80s, if you were there you know), finally doing so, and then spending four minutes watching the clock count down and thinking of his wife and kids.
Then the microwave oven pinged.
Then the microwave oven pinged.
I was thinking about early writing recently and I'm curious—short fiction writers: what is the earliest short story you remember finishing that wasn't for a school project or anything?
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I think it was a misdirect story about the US president agonising over pressing the button (it was written in the 80s, if you were there you know), finally doing so, and then spending four minutes watching the clock count down and thinking of his wife and kids.
Then the microwave oven pinged.
Then the microwave oven pinged.
If the AI companies are pivoting to porn, will stripe and the other payment processors refuse to process their fees?
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If the AI companies are pivoting to porn, will stripe and the other payment processors refuse to process their fees?
While I was an immigrant in the UK, I taught local people how to fight with sword, axe, spear, and shield. Alone, as a skirmish unit, or in a shield wall.
I wonder how many points that would have earned me.
I wonder how many points that would have earned me.
Haven’t read the report yet but this looks to me like another example of adding yet more makework to the immigration process for unclear reasons other than possibly getting mentioned in Politico Playbook.
October 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
While I was an immigrant in the UK, I taught local people how to fight with sword, axe, spear, and shield. Alone, as a skirmish unit, or in a shield wall.
I wonder how many points that would have earned me.
I wonder how many points that would have earned me.
There's a burger van in the little town I live in, which regularly has a waiting time of over one hour (on Saturday, we ordered at 17:20 and were told the order would be ready for pickup at 19:15).
It's clearly not just us who think they're worth waiting for.
It's clearly not just us who think they're worth waiting for.
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
There's a burger van in the little town I live in, which regularly has a waiting time of over one hour (on Saturday, we ordered at 17:20 and were told the order would be ready for pickup at 19:15).
It's clearly not just us who think they're worth waiting for.
It's clearly not just us who think they're worth waiting for.