Torbjörn Björkman
@torbjornbjorkman.bsky.social
He/him. Swede living in Finland. Physics lecturer, violinist, genealogist, generalist, in that order, perhaps.
Posting will continue until morale improves.
Posting will continue until morale improves.
A different era indeed . . .
me and my sister are the children here, our great grandmother's in the middle, we're all standing in the middle of her vegetable patch ca. 1981.
me and my sister are the children here, our great grandmother's in the middle, we're all standing in the middle of her vegetable patch ca. 1981.
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A different era indeed . . .
me and my sister are the children here, our great grandmother's in the middle, we're all standing in the middle of her vegetable patch ca. 1981.
me and my sister are the children here, our great grandmother's in the middle, we're all standing in the middle of her vegetable patch ca. 1981.
Helpful advice to most people replying in this thread: If you read the article, the very first paragraph will tell you who's shocked.
But then perhaps you possess more in-depth insights into Hungarian politics than them, idk.
But then perhaps you possess more in-depth insights into Hungarian politics than them, idk.
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Helpful advice to most people replying in this thread: If you read the article, the very first paragraph will tell you who's shocked.
But then perhaps you possess more in-depth insights into Hungarian politics than them, idk.
But then perhaps you possess more in-depth insights into Hungarian politics than them, idk.
Spoken with the true sincerity of an "I don't want to say that I told you so*"
October 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Spoken with the true sincerity of an "I don't want to say that I told you so*"
![Plato talking with Aristotle at the School of Athens by Raphael.
[Plato, pointing skywards] "So stupid!"
[Aristotle, gesturing ahead of him with his open hand palm down] "So, so stupid."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kqabxmrubamo6uv7r2l7vpv/bafkreihoplm54e6ee2idm6mf6itufr3eofvjx6hnyqvrchyfmat62j2lmy@jpeg)
I currently have no bed lamp, because I bought a new one which said "dimmable" on the package, and had the dimmable bulb symbol. It turned out that meant "dimmable *exclusively* by connecting it to an app over wifi, it will, in fact, not work AT ALL in a lamp with a conventional dimmer".
October 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I currently have no bed lamp, because I bought a new one which said "dimmable" on the package, and had the dimmable bulb symbol. It turned out that meant "dimmable *exclusively* by connecting it to an app over wifi, it will, in fact, not work AT ALL in a lamp with a conventional dimmer".
When the Secretary of Health is a barking mad antivaxxer, the problem is pretty much exactly the reverse: The federal government needs to drastically raise its minimum standards of conduct and performance to benefit from a relationship with higher education.
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
When the Secretary of Health is a barking mad antivaxxer, the problem is pretty much exactly the reverse: The federal government needs to drastically raise its minimum standards of conduct and performance to benefit from a relationship with higher education.
Logging on, that looks like a tall order right now ... realizing I've been an occasional user for so long that my timeline is really badly curated atm 😩
I'll leave this post that I got on top now, just to keep spirits up. Oh, and follow @lana@beige.party if you don't know her already.
I'll leave this post that I got on top now, just to keep spirits up. Oh, and follow @lana@beige.party if you don't know her already.
October 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Logging on, that looks like a tall order right now ... realizing I've been an occasional user for so long that my timeline is really badly curated atm 😩
I'll leave this post that I got on top now, just to keep spirits up. Oh, and follow @lana@beige.party if you don't know her already.
I'll leave this post that I got on top now, just to keep spirits up. Oh, and follow @lana@beige.party if you don't know her already.
Helping my daughter to revise for an exam on EU's organization, and I have to say that it would be a lot easier if 1) not every effing treaty was named for some city, 2) every other acronym didn't start with "E", and 3) whatever the hell even is this
September 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Helping my daughter to revise for an exam on EU's organization, and I have to say that it would be a lot easier if 1) not every effing treaty was named for some city, 2) every other acronym didn't start with "E", and 3) whatever the hell even is this
September 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I see your vi and raise you an . . .
September 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I see your vi and raise you an . . .
September 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Bodmin, Bodmin, now where did I . . . ah yes, of course
![Picture from Douglas Adams' and John Lloyd's "The Meaning of Liff". Three dictionary entries are visible, the middle one of which is:
Bodmin (n.)
The irrational and inevitable discrepancy between the amount pooled and the amount needed when a large group of people try to pay a bill together after a meal.
[The ones before and after are:
Blitterlees (pl. n.)
The little slivers of bamboo picked off a can chair by a nervous guest which litter the carbet beneath and tell the chair's owner that the whole piece of furniture is about to uncoil terribly and slowly until it resembles a giant pencil sharpening.
Bolsover (n.)
One of those brown plastic trays with bumps on, placed upside down in boxes of chocholates to make you thiknk you're getting two layers.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kqabxmrubamo6uv7r2l7vpv/bafkreifc6gh3nsixbib7ixiurj4jci5s7dku6nfo6gjtr2oywyjcpsijmm@jpeg)
September 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Bodmin, Bodmin, now where did I . . . ah yes, of course
I blame the early divisions, the Hellthreaders, the Alfhogers, the Smug Inviters . . . there's only so much that a member of The Church of the Latter Day Invitees such as myself can do to clarify it all.
Nevertheless, in this thread I'll . . .
Nevertheless, in this thread I'll . . .
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I blame the early divisions, the Hellthreaders, the Alfhogers, the Smug Inviters . . . there's only so much that a member of The Church of the Latter Day Invitees such as myself can do to clarify it all.
Nevertheless, in this thread I'll . . .
Nevertheless, in this thread I'll . . .
Look, if you think that's bad . . .
September 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Look, if you think that's bad . . .
I'm as old as the PC, Moore's law and cheesesteak. Oof.
And . . . wtf?
And . . . wtf?
September 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I'm as old as the PC, Moore's law and cheesesteak. Oof.
And . . . wtf?
And . . . wtf?
I was thinking of going on with a shot of Kate and Leo from Titanic, but then when I did the search this came up and totally ruined it because that IS the English teacher and the gym teacher about to get married at the end of some completely different movie.
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I was thinking of going on with a shot of Kate and Leo from Titanic, but then when I did the search this came up and totally ruined it because that IS the English teacher and the gym teacher about to get married at the end of some completely different movie.
"civil (while criminal adjacent)" is a beautifully ambiguous phrase for a lawyer
August 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"civil (while criminal adjacent)" is a beautifully ambiguous phrase for a lawyer
I guess US foreign policy has been thoroughly in The Onion territory for a while now, but it's still something to see it in the wild like this.
August 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I guess US foreign policy has been thoroughly in The Onion territory for a while now, but it's still something to see it in the wild like this.
This word "woo" keeps surfacing on my timeline with respect to antivaxxers, and I'm going to need one of you guys to define it for me, because both my prior knowledge of the English language (≈Merriam-Webster), and the allmighty Urban Dictionary are being uncooperative right now:
August 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This word "woo" keeps surfacing on my timeline with respect to antivaxxers, and I'm going to need one of you guys to define it for me, because both my prior knowledge of the English language (≈Merriam-Webster), and the allmighty Urban Dictionary are being uncooperative right now: