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Protik Islam-Jakobsson
@protik.bsky.social
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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am.

Swedish dad, neurologist, giraffe rotator. PhD candidate researching atypical parkinsonian disorders and methods of procrastination.

Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets.

we stan Kant
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IF The Phantom Menace is "about trade" then that's both good and funny
Norman Rockwell painting of an annoying guy standing in a courtroom saying something annoying but true
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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we fight for freedom
Classy Warfare on Twitter: the war on Christmas cannot end until Christmas stops its illegal occupation of November
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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me, reading performatively
me days before my 18th birthday, sitting in my grandfather's chair in Dhaka, reading a book, wearing a cream-colored shirt and a blue diamond-patterned tie, with hair and sideburns that look like a hair piece. The colors have a 70s vibe ig?? but it's around the very end of 2003
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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me reading performatively
me days before my 18th birthday, sitting in my grandfather's chair in Dhaka, reading a book, wearing a cream-colored shirt and a blue diamond-patterned tie, with hair and sideburns that look like a hair piece. The colors have a 70s vibe ig?? but it's around the very end of 2003
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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the whole internet loves book guy, a guy who loves books
The internet has been having plenty of fun with the idea of performative reading, mostly because it seems to have been attributed to a very specific type of man: the sensitive, soft, solipsistic kind
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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My sixth father's day as a dad. i was instructed to imagine the carnation being yellow (my favorite although truth be told i love em all) bc she was out of yellow
father's day card from my 6yo daughter featuring the sun shining on a carnation
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Need I recount the atrocities for you? Need I reduce them to crude legibility? The children giving a press conference in English, begging not to die; the boy gathering his brother’s limbs in a backpack; the father sobbing over his entire family’s shrouded bodies; a little girl passing down her accessories in a handwritten will; a tiny voice crying on the other end of the Red Cross line. What use were all those words about progress if they could do nothing to stop this? In fact, in a sick twist of irony, those words had enabled and legitimized this genocide by putting the obscene weight of a “mental health hero” behind it. Today, nearly half of Gaza’s children are suicidal; 96 percent say death feels “imminent.” Mental health, I thought to myself on the worst days. What a joke.
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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ilLiberalerna - loggan är ett lodrätt blått streck
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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i say again
me: *clears throat* actually, Frankenstein WAS the monster
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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They knew. Of course they fucking knew.
The leadership was assessing whether or not there was appetite to go harder [in identifying troubling Israeli behavior]... what I saw being put in the pipeline was genuine questions being asked by the secretary himself as to whether what was happening constituted ethnic cleansing,” the former State Department official said. A separate senior Biden State Department official told HuffPost the phrase “ethnic cleansing” was by then being regularly used by agency
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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finally a message i can get behind
Zohran Mamdani campaign slogan: BIRYANI for EVERYONE
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Name your fav superhero that isn’t DC or Marvel
Granny Weatherwax on the cover of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "Lords and Ladies"
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Post you from a different era*

*downloading bootlegs 24/7 era
me in an orange shirt
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Wile E. Coyote tied to an ACME CO. missile, determinedly setting his own tail on fire with a match
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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aha kanske en förklaring till morgontröttheten
kapitelböcker som jag har läst lista på massa boktitlar/delar av boktitlar några fler böcker
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Google search for fire emoji where the first result is for the star emoji
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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FINE I guess I'll just live here then
green northern lights green northern lights
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT" leak the personnel files
INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Fear passes from man to man
Unknowing,
As one leaf passes its shudder
To another.

All at once the whole tree is trembling,
And there is no sign of the wind.

— Charles Simic
Fear passes from man to man Unknowing, As one leaf passes its shudder To another. All at once the whole tree is trembling, And there is no sign of the wind. — Charles Simic
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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@protik.bsky.social‬ 4yo comes out of the bathroom with a very serious look on her face. "I'm an ancient vampire. My mother was a gorgon. She lived in the... 90s 😔"
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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lol this reporter was enjoying himself
“I feel I don’t know what’s gonna happen to New York City. I mean, I have two grandchildren. I don’t know what they’re gonna expect with this guy, you know, with all these radical ideas that he had. Will they be safe?” Anthony T Jones was literally in disbelief as Mamdani was announced as the winner. “I feel wonderful. I think hope is still alive,” he said, as the words “Zohran Mamdani wins race for mayor” rolled across the TV screen. Informed by the Guardian that every major news organization had announced Mamdani as the winner, Jones snapped back to reality quickly, but remained defiant. “I’m not disappointed at all. No, because Cuomo ran a great campaign,” he said. Jones added of Cuomo, who is 67 years old: “He’s still a young man.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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@Eve_Barlow Follow I was a progressive. I believe in the rights of all, including Jews. The latter got me tarnished with labels. The antisemites went to lengths. They made fake tweets by me to "prove" that I'm a racist, a TERF, an islamophobe, an ableist. They gave me a hate name - Eve Fartlow.
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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how dare u catch us in the act
Netanyahu Says Gazan Detainee Abuse Leak 'Most Severe Diplomatic Attack Israel Has Faced The IDF reservists accused of abusing the Palestinian at the Sde Teiman facility held a press conference calling for their charges to be dropped and for the military advocate general who took responsibility for the leak to be prosecuted instead. Meanwhile, Israel's justice minister and attorney general continue to clash over the latter's jurisdiction to investigate the leak
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Failing and Flying Jack Gilbert Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last. Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist. Each afternoon I watched her coming back through the hot stony field after swimming, the sea light behind her and the huge sky on the other side of that. Listened to her while we ate lunch. How can they say the marriage failed? Like the people who came back from Provence (when it was Provence) and said it was pretty but the food was greasy. I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
November 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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oh my god she's doing the thing
Edith Jackson on Twitter: Nigel Farage hot pics delete delete tweets i thought I deleted this morning I was looking for him hot because of the weather not sexy hot
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM