ErichV
@erichv.bsky.social
American living in Sweden.
Cis He/Him
Cis He/Him
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i just feel like america has no business starting fights with the country that makes ozempic
January 19, 2026 at 8:05 AM
i just feel like america has no business starting fights with the country that makes ozempic
I’m throwing a party this weekend that will be 65% coworkers and 35% friends and I think the last party I threw was in 2019.
Also, it’s a birthday party and the last birthday party I threw for myself was 1999?
Also, it’s a birthday party and the last birthday party I threw for myself was 1999?
January 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I’m throwing a party this weekend that will be 65% coworkers and 35% friends and I think the last party I threw was in 2019.
Also, it’s a birthday party and the last birthday party I threw for myself was 1999?
Also, it’s a birthday party and the last birthday party I threw for myself was 1999?
Vilken restaurang i Skåne har sådana här pommes?
January 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Vilken restaurang i Skåne har sådana här pommes?
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"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Det finns bara små och medelstora storlekar kvar i korvskjortan och jag tror att det talar om vad demografin faktiskt vill köpa en korvskjorta.
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Det finns bara små och medelstora storlekar kvar i korvskjortan och jag tror att det talar om vad demografin faktiskt vill köpa en korvskjorta.
Yesterday’s Fika Fredag was Apple donuts. I coulda eaten a half dozen of these, no problem.
January 17, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Yesterday’s Fika Fredag was Apple donuts. I coulda eaten a half dozen of these, no problem.
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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
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The plan is:
I buy Girl Scout cookies from a trans scout.
They send the cookies to my mom.
When my mom visits me in Sweden she’ll give the cookies to my wife.
Lots of places for this to go awry but the first and most important step is complete.
I buy Girl Scout cookies from a trans scout.
They send the cookies to my mom.
When my mom visits me in Sweden she’ll give the cookies to my wife.
Lots of places for this to go awry but the first and most important step is complete.
87. Alex:
Alex is in his last year of Girl Scouts and wants to use most of his cookie money on the younger scouts in her troop. It’s one last year of cookie sales, and Alex wants to go out with a bang. You can buy cookies from him here!
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/theda4...
Alex is in his last year of Girl Scouts and wants to use most of his cookie money on the younger scouts in her troop. It’s one last year of cookie sales, and Alex wants to go out with a bang. You can buy cookies from him here!
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/theda4...
Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The plan is:
I buy Girl Scout cookies from a trans scout.
They send the cookies to my mom.
When my mom visits me in Sweden she’ll give the cookies to my wife.
Lots of places for this to go awry but the first and most important step is complete.
I buy Girl Scout cookies from a trans scout.
They send the cookies to my mom.
When my mom visits me in Sweden she’ll give the cookies to my wife.
Lots of places for this to go awry but the first and most important step is complete.
Me, ruefully despondent, “Things are getting worse.”
Some online rando, smugly despondent “I guess you didn’t know they were always bad!”
Some online rando, smugly despondent “I guess you didn’t know they were always bad!”
January 12, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Me, ruefully despondent, “Things are getting worse.”
Some online rando, smugly despondent “I guess you didn’t know they were always bad!”
Some online rando, smugly despondent “I guess you didn’t know they were always bad!”
I had a snowball fight with the 10yr Old & her friend last night in the botanical garden. It was dark so I wore a light up LED band to help them track me. They were incredibly risk averse: keeping their distance, only charging in with their snowballs after I had thrown a mine & had empty hands.
January 9, 2026 at 6:26 AM
I had a snowball fight with the 10yr Old & her friend last night in the botanical garden. It was dark so I wore a light up LED band to help them track me. They were incredibly risk averse: keeping their distance, only charging in with their snowballs after I had thrown a mine & had empty hands.
In the US I volunteered myself as a professional photographer to nonprofits & advocacy groups, to build community & sublimate the feelings of anxiety produced by rising authoritarianism.
I don’t have the same opportunity in Sweden bc of my language deficit.
Any ideas for alternatives?
I don’t have the same opportunity in Sweden bc of my language deficit.
Any ideas for alternatives?
January 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
In the US I volunteered myself as a professional photographer to nonprofits & advocacy groups, to build community & sublimate the feelings of anxiety produced by rising authoritarianism.
I don’t have the same opportunity in Sweden bc of my language deficit.
Any ideas for alternatives?
I don’t have the same opportunity in Sweden bc of my language deficit.
Any ideas for alternatives?
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The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
Snatching Maduro was all about the spectacle
Kidnapping a world leader for online clout
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...
Met a jaunty snowman yesterday.
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Met a jaunty snowman yesterday.
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happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:
Something Abominable Is Happening on Elon Musk’s X. Everyone in Congress Should Be Ashamed.
An app the U.S. and U.K. governments use has devolved into a source of A.I. porn. Lawmakers are keeping dangerously mum.
slate.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
happy(?) new year everyone, for my first piece of 2026 I wrote about Grok's *still*-ongoing CSAM blitz and the troubling, embarrassing silence of lawmakers in the U.S. and U.K. who've spent the past year censoring the internet for the sake of "child safety" yet are saying and doing nothing about X:
Wading through the discourse and keep stumbling like this-
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Wading through the discourse and keep stumbling like this-
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Here’s me and The 13 Year Old in front of the Malmö opera house.
Since I try not share photos of my kids on the internet I covered her face with a sword and crown emoji to represent Macbeth being seduced by the idea of power.
Since I try not share photos of my kids on the internet I covered her face with a sword and crown emoji to represent Macbeth being seduced by the idea of power.
December 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Here’s me and The 13 Year Old in front of the Malmö opera house.
Since I try not share photos of my kids on the internet I covered her face with a sword and crown emoji to represent Macbeth being seduced by the idea of power.
Since I try not share photos of my kids on the internet I covered her face with a sword and crown emoji to represent Macbeth being seduced by the idea of power.
“Ena stunden spelar han med fjäderlätt elegans och studsar fram över scenen i tajts och ballongbyxor. I nästa stund är han som ett sprakande kraftfält. Få kan lika sömlöst växla mellan intensitet och lätthet”
Håller med
Det är dags för teater om galna autokrater
www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur/fredr...
Håller med
Det är dags för teater om galna autokrater
www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur/fredr...
January 4, 2026 at 8:42 AM
“Ena stunden spelar han med fjäderlätt elegans och studsar fram över scenen i tajts och ballongbyxor. I nästa stund är han som ett sprakande kraftfält. Få kan lika sömlöst växla mellan intensitet och lätthet”
Håller med
Det är dags för teater om galna autokrater
www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur/fredr...
Håller med
Det är dags för teater om galna autokrater
www.sydsvenskan.se/kultur/fredr...
I’m so done with people adopting cynicism as a substitute for wisdom. I’ll take angry, informed and striving for change, over that lazy cynical fatalism that seems so popular in the face of US imperialism.
January 4, 2026 at 7:29 AM
I’m so done with people adopting cynicism as a substitute for wisdom. I’ll take angry, informed and striving for change, over that lazy cynical fatalism that seems so popular in the face of US imperialism.
I went to Venezuela as a tourist in 2005 to watch the Caribbean World Seriesl. All the Venezuelans were so nice and it’s disgusting what’s happening to them.
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I went to Venezuela as a tourist in 2005 to watch the Caribbean World Seriesl. All the Venezuelans were so nice and it’s disgusting what’s happening to them.
8:10 AM
I love the inky twilight and the warm glow of the windows.
I had hoped this view would deliver many sunsets but what I will recall miss is this little gingerbread village whenever it snows.
I love the inky twilight and the warm glow of the windows.
I had hoped this view would deliver many sunsets but what I will recall miss is this little gingerbread village whenever it snows.
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
8:10 AM
I love the inky twilight and the warm glow of the windows.
I had hoped this view would deliver many sunsets but what I will recall miss is this little gingerbread village whenever it snows.
I love the inky twilight and the warm glow of the windows.
I had hoped this view would deliver many sunsets but what I will recall miss is this little gingerbread village whenever it snows.
Okay so maybe there were some important adults in the room in the first administration
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Okay so maybe there were some important adults in the room in the first administration
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They genuinely cannot distinguish between “this sounds based and gets us a lot of retweets from our neo-Nazi fan base” and “this is in reality a good idea.” They are pursuing lunatic authoritarian policies because the reward centers in their brain are tuned to social media likes and nothing else.
this admin is profoundly and absolutely detached from reality, in a directly internet and slop-enabled way that I do think is genuinely unique in history.
Yeah uhhhhhh I'm not sure there's any precedent at all for a war that literally just didn't have public buy-in, or a material effort at generating same? In like, all of American history??
January 3, 2026 at 7:39 AM
They genuinely cannot distinguish between “this sounds based and gets us a lot of retweets from our neo-Nazi fan base” and “this is in reality a good idea.” They are pursuing lunatic authoritarian policies because the reward centers in their brain are tuned to social media likes and nothing else.