Per Ahlberg

@perahlberg.bsky.social

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Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. Views my own.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱

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Per Erik Ahlberg is a Swedish palaeontologist working with the earliest tetrapods. He took his Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Cambridge in 1989 under English palaeontologist Jenny Clack. He is currently professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, University of Uppsala. He has collaborated with Clack on a number of projects. .. more

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5h

Brown children for the most part. He probably views it as culling the surplus.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6h

Don't knock it, that thing does 0 to 60 in three seconds when he lights the fuse.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9h

Have you got pearlfish living up your bum? Well!? I think NOT!

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9h

I would give this a thousand upticks, but you will have to imagine the other 999.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks! I had a brainwave when making the tree trunk: cocoa powder mixed in with the marzipan, but only slightly mixed so that swirly marbled patterns remained when I rolled it out.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you! But really the ephemeral nature of the object is part of the joy of it: you make it, record it with a photo, and consume it. It has something of the same light frivolity of spirit as fireworks, or a piñata.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 12h

And here's one I made a few years ago, on the theme of the Twelve Days of Christmas carol, representing Day 1 when my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree.

A Christmas cake with marzipan decoration showing a partridge sitting at the top of a pear tree.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 12h

In accordance with British tradition, we ice and decorate it. Here's last year's version, decorated by our daughter Anna:

A Christmas cake with marzipan decorations representing plaited straw hearts with red ribbons.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 12h

@janetahlberg.bsky.social and I made ours last month, so it will have time to mature before Christmas. Here it is under preparation:

A range of different dried fruits in a bowl - raisins, currants, cherries, orange peel and so on - in the process of being made into fruitcake.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h

I always mute him on the TV. Can’t bear that voice!

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h

The right kind of Fox News!

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h

The tech industry warning of a “dangerous precedent” is solid evidence that they have done the right thing. 👍

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that sting.🎶

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d

Totally. If there was ever a definitive portrayal of a character from literature, this is it.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d

Narrator: “When Brother Odo, a 15th century Cluniac monk from Brabant, reincarnated in late 20th century Britain, most of his past life was lost in the mists of forgetfulness. But not all of it; certain quirks and predilections survived, and would resurface in later years.”

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d

Well, that’s a No then.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d

Mechaflipper

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d

Feeding ONE American, it would seem. Maybe she thinks of it as an incremental approach.

Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d

Makes me think of this.

a man with long hair and a beard is looking at another man

Alt: Grima Wormtongue whispering to king Theoden.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d

Also a very big part of Trump's appeal.

On a related point, these kinds of people always sneer at the concept of microaggressions, dismissing it as made up by sensitive snowflakes, but "it's just a joke!" is the archetypal microaggression: a precision dagger thrust envenomed with deniability.