Tobjorn
@torbjornr.bsky.social
Software Developer by day, anxiety developer by night. He/Him.
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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I think part of the reason non-monogamy is so prevalent in TTRPG spaces is once you have to regularly schedule five adults to be in the same room at the same time, the idea of working around multiple people's schedules where they don't all have to intersect is way less intimidating.
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I think part of the reason non-monogamy is so prevalent in TTRPG spaces is once you have to regularly schedule five adults to be in the same room at the same time, the idea of working around multiple people's schedules where they don't all have to intersect is way less intimidating.
Happy International Men's Day to all the guys who'll think they're oh-so-clever and edgy for performatively asking about it in March!
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Happy International Men's Day to all the guys who'll think they're oh-so-clever and edgy for performatively asking about it in March!
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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I do think we’ll look back on this period of American history as producing - if not being exemplified by - several discrete, yet related (and maybe even mutually compounding) mass hysteriae.
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I do think we’ll look back on this period of American history as producing - if not being exemplified by - several discrete, yet related (and maybe even mutually compounding) mass hysteriae.
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Knowing the key to understanding right-wing politics in the US is understanding wrestling, they see government as kayfabe, I will ask my more wrestling-adjacent friends if this MTG/Trump break is a face turn by MTG (still a racist anti-semite, don't get me wrong) or a false break like Musk/Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Knowing the key to understanding right-wing politics in the US is understanding wrestling, they see government as kayfabe, I will ask my more wrestling-adjacent friends if this MTG/Trump break is a face turn by MTG (still a racist anti-semite, don't get me wrong) or a false break like Musk/Trump.
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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I guess I wanted to point out this guy was very clearly straight because…I mean it’s just important for there to be straight white representation in the “seeing the world as it is, not assuming it’s a conspiracy against the dominant culture, & easily acknowledging the struggle” cinematic universe.
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I guess I wanted to point out this guy was very clearly straight because…I mean it’s just important for there to be straight white representation in the “seeing the world as it is, not assuming it’s a conspiracy against the dominant culture, & easily acknowledging the struggle” cinematic universe.
Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.
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if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
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Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oreoboros
Man it's like the wealthy just lie to your face regularly to try to intimidate the working class into falling in line, knowing full well that none of their claims will actually hold water and minor gains from the working class won't really hurt them tangibly.
Weird.
Weird.
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Man it's like the wealthy just lie to your face regularly to try to intimidate the working class into falling in line, knowing full well that none of their claims will actually hold water and minor gains from the working class won't really hurt them tangibly.
Weird.
Weird.
Multiple Black Mirror episodes against this one, just ages of science fiction warnings about this particular Torment Nexus predating the horrifying subscription models of late capitalism, even...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Multiple Black Mirror episodes against this one, just ages of science fiction warnings about this particular Torment Nexus predating the horrifying subscription models of late capitalism, even...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
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crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
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and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"
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As I've said, we're in a federally mandated relationship with the worst person you know. That's fucked up.
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As I've said, we're in a federally mandated relationship with the worst person you know. That's fucked up.
Once again reminding you that if you just try to objectively report current events in an accurate context, you sound absolutely batshit fucking nuts to anyone who is still invested in pretending we're dealing with "politics as usual."
Reality is already farce.
Reality is already farce.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Once again reminding you that if you just try to objectively report current events in an accurate context, you sound absolutely batshit fucking nuts to anyone who is still invested in pretending we're dealing with "politics as usual."
Reality is already farce.
Reality is already farce.
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Let's fix the passive voice and the euphemism:
"[Donald] Trump 'spent' hours with [underage female] [VICTIM][of sex trafficking] at [notorious underage female sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein's] house."
"[Donald] Trump 'spent' hours with [underage female] [VICTIM][of sex trafficking] at [notorious underage female sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein's] house."
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him"
"hours"
"spent" "hours"
VICTIM "spent" HOURS
VICTIM "spent" HOURS "with" TRUMP
VICTIM "spent" HOURS "with" TRUMP at *Epstein's* house
"hours"
"spent" "hours"
VICTIM "spent" HOURS
VICTIM "spent" HOURS "with" TRUMP
VICTIM "spent" HOURS "with" TRUMP at *Epstein's* house
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Let's fix the passive voice and the euphemism:
"[Donald] Trump 'spent' hours with [underage female] [VICTIM][of sex trafficking] at [notorious underage female sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein's] house."
"[Donald] Trump 'spent' hours with [underage female] [VICTIM][of sex trafficking] at [notorious underage female sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein's] house."
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I will admit the thing that actually surprises me was when a child sex trafficker asks the writer “how do Ieverage the involvement of the guy who may be president in my child sex trafficking” and the writer gives advice, rather than “I should probably tell someone about this.”
I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I will admit the thing that actually surprises me was when a child sex trafficker asks the writer “how do Ieverage the involvement of the guy who may be president in my child sex trafficking” and the writer gives advice, rather than “I should probably tell someone about this.”
They can make so many bulk/wholesale purchases for the cost of your groceries, folks. I get the urge to make sure something doesn't go to waste, but never go buying food for an operation that can buy their own; it's simpler and more effective for everyone to give money anywhere you can do that!
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
They can make so many bulk/wholesale purchases for the cost of your groceries, folks. I get the urge to make sure something doesn't go to waste, but never go buying food for an operation that can buy their own; it's simpler and more effective for everyone to give money anywhere you can do that!
This would actually have solved like 90% of the stressors that burned me out on my last few jobs. Just being able to rely on other people to have their work fully complete to spec on time would have alleviated so much of my need to compensate and deliver perfection.
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This would actually have solved like 90% of the stressors that burned me out on my last few jobs. Just being able to rely on other people to have their work fully complete to spec on time would have alleviated so much of my need to compensate and deliver perfection.
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