CJ Håkansson
@cjhakansson.bsky.social
Swedish Horror Writer of Ill-Repute. Leftie Headbanger. Working-Class Scum. Former Metal-Cutter and Union Rep. Currently Editor at Means of Production and Writer for Jonstown Compendium. TTRPG/Boardgamer. S/Dom.
Wrote a chronicle for Xavantgarde about Jaws the novel, which I love, and Jaws the movie, which I hate. Mainly about class and consumer culture. In Swedish. The title means The Jaws of Consumption.
xavantgarde.substack.com/p/konsumtion...
xavantgarde.substack.com/p/konsumtion...
Konsumtionens käftar
Kulturkrönika av CJ Håkansson (#skräcktober)
xavantgarde.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Wrote a chronicle for Xavantgarde about Jaws the novel, which I love, and Jaws the movie, which I hate. Mainly about class and consumer culture. In Swedish. The title means The Jaws of Consumption.
xavantgarde.substack.com/p/konsumtion...
xavantgarde.substack.com/p/konsumtion...
Proof reading continues on "Uleria Loves You", the upcoming adventure for #runequest #glorantha !
At the same time, I've been writing an article about how much I hate the movie and love the book, Jaws.
At the same time, I've been writing an article about how much I hate the movie and love the book, Jaws.
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Proof reading continues on "Uleria Loves You", the upcoming adventure for #runequest #glorantha !
At the same time, I've been writing an article about how much I hate the movie and love the book, Jaws.
At the same time, I've been writing an article about how much I hate the movie and love the book, Jaws.
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These are not the times for new shit.
October 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
These are not the times for new shit.
I can't decide if this article is illuminating or terrifying. In any case, it's interesting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Golden retriever boyfriends and ick lists: gen Z’s dating rules are making them ‘constantly disappointed’
A steady stream of viral terms and online guidance is leading young people to reduce prospective partners to checklists
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I can't decide if this article is illuminating or terrifying. In any case, it's interesting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.
It won 51 seats - an outright majority.
Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.
A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
It won 51 seats - an outright majority.
Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.
A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
September 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election.
It won 51 seats - an outright majority.
Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.
A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
It won 51 seats - an outright majority.
Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership.
A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
Reposted by CJ Håkansson
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
I'm reading Stephen King's appreciation piece on De Maurier. Her openings, and others, were a direct inspiration for my own opening of Fjärilen från Tibet.
I read The Birds when I was about ten or eleven years old. It's haunted me since.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
I read The Birds when I was about ten or eleven years old. It's haunted me since.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier
From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I'm reading Stephen King's appreciation piece on De Maurier. Her openings, and others, were a direct inspiration for my own opening of Fjärilen från Tibet.
I read The Birds when I was about ten or eleven years old. It's haunted me since.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
I read The Birds when I was about ten or eleven years old. It's haunted me since.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Fake News is used here as a way to disagree. In an ironic manner.
A friend writes:
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Fake News is used here as a way to disagree. In an ironic manner.
YES!! Fuck your bullshit netflix cell phone scrolling shows, your military prop and copaganda assfuck brainwash crap. Not a single artist/director/actor/writer alive can hold a candle to their predecessors fifty years ago. Complete and utter divebomber decline.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?
The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our a...
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
YES!! Fuck your bullshit netflix cell phone scrolling shows, your military prop and copaganda assfuck brainwash crap. Not a single artist/director/actor/writer alive can hold a candle to their predecessors fifty years ago. Complete and utter divebomber decline.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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The fact that an influencer gets the American flag flown at half-staff while an elected government official does not is a pretty accurate snapshot of America right now.
September 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The fact that an influencer gets the American flag flown at half-staff while an elected government official does not is a pretty accurate snapshot of America right now.
Hur vet man var de tänker klippa gräset? Jag vill inte skita på fel ställe.
Nu har inte jag någon hund längre, att plocka upp, men absolut att jag kan skita där ni klipper gräset. Lova att inte gnälla se’n bara!
September 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hur vet man var de tänker klippa gräset? Jag vill inte skita på fel ställe.
Tonight is the full red moon!
Beware the Lunar Goddess, she brings... civilisation!!! #runequest #glorantha
Beware the Lunar Goddess, she brings... civilisation!!! #runequest #glorantha
September 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Tonight is the full red moon!
Beware the Lunar Goddess, she brings... civilisation!!! #runequest #glorantha
Beware the Lunar Goddess, she brings... civilisation!!! #runequest #glorantha
This is a page from Manhunter by two legends of comics - Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson.
I love how this page shows the speed and reflexes of Manhunter.
I love how this page shows the speed and reflexes of Manhunter.
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is a page from Manhunter by two legends of comics - Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson.
I love how this page shows the speed and reflexes of Manhunter.
I love how this page shows the speed and reflexes of Manhunter.
Wow!!!
Blind King's Hill in the Big Rubble for the next volume of P&BR Companion (this is a small file, the map in the book will be much higher resolution).
#Glorantha #Runequest #ttrpg
#Glorantha #Runequest #ttrpg
August 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wow!!!
I am there. Are you? Hook up! :D
After launching several months ago the Chaosium Discord server just hit 5000 members – wow!
There's so much happening on Discord, we invite you to come join the Chaosium tribe there:
discord.gg/phXSCzd7Sj
There's so much happening on Discord, we invite you to come join the Chaosium tribe there:
discord.gg/phXSCzd7Sj
August 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I am there. Are you? Hook up! :D
We're fighting a giant chaos horde to protect a bison cow giving birth under a giant block of truestone that is trapping the devil. It's dark season and my two wives and my mother are all pregnant. Chaos is coming for all babies. Only in #glorantha, people! #questworld #runequest
August 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We're fighting a giant chaos horde to protect a bison cow giving birth under a giant block of truestone that is trapping the devil. It's dark season and my two wives and my mother are all pregnant. Chaos is coming for all babies. Only in #glorantha, people! #questworld #runequest
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Mad TV was spot-on three decades ago.
August 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Mad TV was spot-on three decades ago.
Check out our August 20 Customer Update Newsletter! Includes three new P500s, Production Update, Shipping Details, An Update kit for Ardenne's 44, Art Samples, and More! Enjoy! mailchi.mp/89247efea108...
August 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Trettio år sedan mordet på John Hron idag. Han mördades av nazister och blev 14 år gammal. Vi glömmer aldrig.
August 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Trettio år sedan mordet på John Hron idag. Han mördades av nazister och blev 14 år gammal. Vi glömmer aldrig.
I want to see Commando 2, starring @schwarzenegger.bsky.social . John Matrix is retired in the USA, still mourning the death of Bennet.
His now adult daughter is kidnapped by ICE...
Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay.
His now adult daughter is kidnapped by ICE...
Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay.
a man holding a knife with the words let 's party written below him
ALT: a man holding a knife with the words let 's party written below him
media.tenor.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I want to see Commando 2, starring @schwarzenegger.bsky.social . John Matrix is retired in the USA, still mourning the death of Bennet.
His now adult daughter is kidnapped by ICE...
Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay.
His now adult daughter is kidnapped by ICE...
Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay.
One of my favourite actors. Sigh. Hope he had a good life and knew he was admired for his skills.
Terence Stamp, actor who played the arch-villain General Zod in Superman films, has died at 87
Actor Terence Stamp, who starred as Superman villain General Zod, dies aged 87
The Oscar-nominated actor shot to fame in the 1960s, going on to star in numerous films across a six decade career.
bbc.in
August 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
One of my favourite actors. Sigh. Hope he had a good life and knew he was admired for his skills.
This town...
I'm used to people crossing the street when they meet me. Here, I get bombarded by friendly questions from random strangers.
I'm used to people crossing the street when they meet me. Here, I get bombarded by friendly questions from random strangers.
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This town...
I'm used to people crossing the street when they meet me. Here, I get bombarded by friendly questions from random strangers.
I'm used to people crossing the street when they meet me. Here, I get bombarded by friendly questions from random strangers.
GMT is probably THE best producer of boardgames and conflict simulations in the world. Above all, it's privately owned with no stockholder crap, so it has business ethics and deals fairly with everyone.
My closets are full of fantastic GMT games that I play on a weekly basis.
My closets are full of fantastic GMT games that I play on a weekly basis.
Interested in GMT best-sellers? We always post our top 21 best-selling games from the past 12 months on our website. Check it out and find some cool games you might not know about! gmtgames.com/c-43-best-se...
August 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
GMT is probably THE best producer of boardgames and conflict simulations in the world. Above all, it's privately owned with no stockholder crap, so it has business ethics and deals fairly with everyone.
My closets are full of fantastic GMT games that I play on a weekly basis.
My closets are full of fantastic GMT games that I play on a weekly basis.
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The KARTAS podcast recently talked about the fictive countries that the US military used for operational training… here are some maps of the “Republic of Zendia”, used by code-breakers in the Cold War!
August 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The KARTAS podcast recently talked about the fictive countries that the US military used for operational training… here are some maps of the “Republic of Zendia”, used by code-breakers in the Cold War!