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Ole Anders
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rikefranke.bsky.social
Swiss “Le Temps” not pulling its punches on the FIFA
ceremony (translation in Alt)
In a ceremony that was astonishing in its cynicism, where the grotesque vied with vulgarity, Gianni Infantino presented “on behalf of the billions of soccer players around the world” an imposing gold trophy representing hands joined together to lift a globe. After placing a gold medal around his own neck, Donald Trump said he was very honored. “This is one of the greatest honors of my life,” said the Republican leader, citing Congo, India, Pakistan, “so many wars that we have managed to end” or avoid. For a moment, viewers were entitled to wonder if the 2026 World Cup was being organized by North Korea... Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
oleanders.bsky.social
Ikke urelevant for om satsninger på mer olje og gass et godt stykke frem i tid er fornuftig eller ikke. (Altså rent økonomisk. For klima er det uansett helt krise.)
justinmikulka.bsky.social Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 18d
"[LNG]Imports for China this year are estimated at around 64.6 million tons, down from 78.27 million in 2024" Reuters (today).

Here is what that looks like for China compared to what was predicted by BloombergNEF in the middle of last year. So they forecasting mid 80s and it is actual mid 60s.
bar graph showing BloombergNEF's forecasted LNG demand from last year vs actual. Forecast was for mid 80 (in million tons). actual: mid 60s.
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
oleanders.bsky.social
Rent bortsett fra at jeg ikke skjønner hvordan dette er en nyhet, så må jo denne overskriften på nrk.no få en god del som ikke er helt sikre på den parlamentariske situasjonen til å tro at det er enighet om et budsjett?
Øverste sak på nrk.no. "Ap, Sp og Raudt enige om statsbudsjettet"
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
This is an issue I'm running into in my WIP novel set around the West Virginia mining wars: one antagonist is a self-made mine owner whose employees are threatening to unionize. A lot of research went into him; his dialogue is practically verbatim quotes from real people. He seems like a caricature!
zalmon.bsky.social Zalmon🌹ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · 21d
the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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paulandstorm.bsky.social
[P] goddammit
rydog.bsky.social Ryan Scott @rydog.bsky.social · 23d
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
oleanders.bsky.social
Og det er verre enn det. Selv om verden mislykkes fullstendig i klimaomstillingen så vil billig sol og batterier sørge for at behovet for olje går ned. Hva det vil gjøre med prisen er umulig å si, men godt mulig norsk olje anno 2045 vil være spektakulært ulønnsomt selv om klima går til *****.
jonasali.bsky.social Jonas Ali Ghanizadeh @jonasali.bsky.social · 24d
hovedproblemet med norsk oljepolitikk er at vi satser alt på at resten av verden mislykkes i sin klimaomstilling

dersom verden mislykkes i sin klimaomstilling er jo verden som vi kjenner den rimelig cooked med mindre du ikke tror på vitenskap

om verden lykkes i sin omstilling vil norge bli taperen
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
Panel 1. Scientist making a presentation to the board: "We have developed an exciting new technology that will allow the company to make a much better product at no extra cost!" Panel 2. Board member 1: "Could we use this tech to make our current product more cheaply?" Scientist: "In principle, yes.... And pass the savings on to consumers?" Board member 2: "Haha. No." Panel 3. Board member 2: "How about we make a worse product, with a higher profit margin and just use the tech to make it seem exciting and new?" Scientist: "Um..." Panel 4. Board members: "I'll take that as a yes!" "High five!!" Scientist: "Sob!"
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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xkcd.com
Service Outage

xkcd.com/3170/
Comic. Graph with x-axis is time and y-axis is productivity when a major internet service goes down, showing that after the outage begins the line splits, with one end trending down for people whose work relies on the service and with an upward boost for people whose work doesn’t rely on the service. Top branch of line has mini art of a person sitting at their computer desk thinking, “Aw man, the outage took down the Star Wars Legends Wiki.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
[Scene is JESUS sat behind a boss’s desk in his office on a cloud in HEAVEN] 1 JESUS [speaking into intercom] Hi can you send in Saint Nicholas please 2 SANTA [entering in full Santa garb]: Hi boss JESUS: Hi Nick 3 JESUS: Listen - about this ‘my birthday’ thing... SANTA: Ohh not this again boss 4 JESUS: Nick, it’s out of hand. *You’ve* got out of hand. 5 JESUS: I mean when I hired you, you was all humble, hiding under windows, lobbing in dowries… And now you’re like… 6 JESUS [gesturing disdainfully at Santa’s clothing]: I mean - what’s this. 7 SANTA: This is my get up! I’ve had this since the Coca Cola deal in the 30s JESUS: *That’s what I mean.* 8 JESUS: You’ve just gone too - SANTA: Oh no, oh no - 9 SANTA: Sorry boss but waaay back in the Reformation, right, Martin Luther said: “why don’t we have Jesus delivering the presents?”. And when he prayed to ask you, do you remember what you said? Eh? 10 SANTA: You said: “I ain’t going back there” 11 SANTA: If you wanna take over - JESUS: Oh yeah! Kids coming downstairs to find me resurrected in their living room going "I got you an Xbox"... 12 SANTA: You’re just feeling threatened cos I’m doing a bloody good - JESUS: *WATCH IT NICK*. [ends]
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
It’s getting cold outside, better prepare.
November 5, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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willnorman.co.uk
New data shows that since @mayoroflondon.bsky.social
launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen:
📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year

tinyurl.com/j3475ua3
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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getwired.com
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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stephenjudkins.bsky.social
An extremely high marginal tax rate on production of a socially desirable thing that there's a broad shortage of, no matter how that tax is spent, seems like... extremely bad policy with a huge deadweight loss
stephenjacobsmith.com Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · Nov 9
In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.
4freedoms.es Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · Nov 9
Cuando se ha aprobó esta medida dije repetidamente que iba a ser un fracaso y que no construirían nada de vivienda asequible. Se ha probado en mil sitios y no funciona.

Acerté. www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcel...
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jburnmurdoch.ft.com
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.

Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.

My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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olaspannar.bsky.social
Tillsammans med porrbotarna och nazisterna på plattformen X minglar en rad politiker, pressekreterare och borgerliga opinionsbildare. Det blir riktigt jobbigt när de sedan doppar tårna i verkligheten och ryggdunkarna uteblir

www.etc.se/ledare/moder...
Moderater måste tro att världen blivit galen
Får ryggdunkar på X – hånas av alla andra.
www.etc.se
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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nickfitz.bsky.social
Peak France 🇫🇷🍷
cbsnews.com CBS News @cbsnews.com · Oct 31
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer

1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else

2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Posting old halloween comics, #2
A comic from 2022 I think, Halloween week - here's the script: The scene is a darkened woods, at night. All is depicted in dingy blues and purples. In a lonely moonlit clearing we see a CABIN. its windows are dark, clearly unoccupied. A lone figure runs towards it, from the trees. Closer in on them now - we see they are terrified. The race for the door of the cabin, desperately trying to enter. They rattle the door, frantically. It is locked. They look behind them. We see the darkened, black trees of the woods. In amongst the forest, we see the black silhouette of a figure. It walks closer. Closer still. Closer - and now we see it is holding a chainsaw. It emerges into the light, slowly the shadow lifts from its face. It is wearing a mask. The victim silently screams in a rictus of horror. This can't be happening, no, no, no. Closer, closer now it lifts the chainsaw high above its head as it speaks: MURDERER: This murder is brought to you by MeUndies. VICTIM: What? MURDERER: If you're like me you'd kill for comfortable underwear - VICTIM: Sorry - VICTIM: Are you... doing a *podcast*? MURDERER: I knoooww... It's such a cliché Everybody's got one these days! VICTIM: But I thought you were trying to murder me? MURDERER: Indeed! I'm a true crime podcaster driven mad by having to change gear between horrific human tragedy and adverts for MeUndies. MURDERER: So just tap in offer code I'M BEING MURDERED with your bloodied, trembling hand for 20% off some pants! MURDERER: Now, back to the murder- [he revs up his chainsaw again] [ends]
October 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
oleanders.bsky.social
Mulig denne også er tingen for noen av de som følger meg. (Sound on!)
October 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
[Scene is a high school classroom. A teacher is writing on the whiteboard 'ACT 2 SCENE 3'.] TEACHER: OK class - open up Macbeth to Act 2 Scene 3... TEACHER: So - does anybody have any ideas on Shakespeares meaning behind the character of 'the Porter' in this scene? [A voice comes from off-scene, behind the teacher's back[. VOICE: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. TEACHER [turning round]: Sorry….. who are you? [We see a wider scene that shows it is the GHOST OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, hovering over the heads of the startled students] SHAKESPEARE: I'm the Ghost of Shakespeare and I've come back to say: this scene means *absolutely nothing*. The Porter is a funny drunk bloke I lobbed in to cover a costume change! I mean like, not everything I did was genius OK? Stop giving me the ick. TEACHER: So um...what do you suggest we study? SHAKESPEARE: The most important text in British culture! TEACHER: Which is...? SHAKESPEARE: 'Bollocks People Say on the Internet.' TEACHER: You think we should study... bollocks people say on the internet? SHAKESPEARE: Yes. TEACHER: But Mr Shakespeare... your Porter scene was a question in a past GCSE paper... We need to analyse it so the kids don't end up failing their exams... SHAKESPEARE: Yes, and I'm just suggesting you should analyse Bollocks People Say on the Internet instead, so they don't end up painting flags on roundabouts. [Silent pause] TEACHER: OK class - open up your phones to X... [ends]
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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weratedogs.com
This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)
October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way. Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto- Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen. Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic? Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all. Extremely realistic Green: Of course. Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion. Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag? Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
oleanders.bsky.social
Ikke veldig relevant for 🇧🇻/🇸🇪 (ennå), men har enorme konsekvenser for energimarkedet i verden. Og olje - og i mindre utstrekning gass - er solgt/prissatt på verdensmarkedet...
janrosenow.bsky.social Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Oct 13
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
October 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM