Karl Lyktberg
LightNews LightNews
banner
swesteel.bsky.social
Karl Lyktberg
@swesteel.bsky.social
220 followers 240 following 1.3K posts
I like some things, other things not so much. Taking guesses on how long til Twitter is shuttered. Swede but not the vegetable.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
mskellymhayes.bsky.social
The most important thing I've read today.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
writnelson.bsky.social
"B-But if we don't use AI, how will we storyboard cutscenes--" MOTHERFUCKER MY WIFE LET ME USE HER CROCHET PLUSHIES, WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE
January 21, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
studioanisa.bsky.social
Turnbound will be out on Early Access tomorrow!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3802470/...
Turnbound on Steam
Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you bat...
store.steampowered.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
michaelsderby.bsky.social
Fellow reporters, everyone really, make sure you do a good review of your digital security. End-to-end encryption wherever you can, if you have Apple gear it's pretty easy and robust.
January 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
scientits.bsky.social
If you haven't seen it, Bill Watterson gave a speech in 1990 to his alma mater, Kenyon college

Full speech is here and it is absolutely worth your time: www.neil.blog/full-speech-...

This is my favourite part
But having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another. Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.
January 14, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Anti-ICE protest in NYC today
January 12, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
harriorrihar.bsky.social
Looking for a job #PortfolioDay
January 7, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
nessathewriter.bsky.social
AND MY RESUME TOO. www.nessacannon.com
NESSA CANNON
Experienced game writer and narrative designer available for commissions, assignments, and contract work.
www.nessacannon.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
stevenspohn.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
nickyschwenzer.bsky.social
”X is a toxic media platform & (...) its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse,” news media The Guardian said in a statement announcing it would no longer be posting on the platform.

Leave X Now
#DeleteYourXAccount
#BoycottTesla
#Musskolini

Thread 1/4🧵
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
josiegz.bsky.social
A reminder: the U.S. federal government is halting $4 million per year in funding to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC), an association of 15 academic centers and children’s hospitals founded in 1999.

My op-ed @statnews.com

www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
aeongenesis.net
Jobs. Still looking. Sigh. Really appreciate any internal referrals.

SDE/SDM.
Hire me!!
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
alannamode.bsky.social
Hey can you tell I'm sick of this bullshit? Cause I am.

Don't ever try to get me on your AI grift. I will eviscerate you in ways you and your ChatGPT-ass brainrot could not comprehend.
Hi Alanna, I came across DnA Creative while researching specialized lore-ops services. The fact that you explicitly list "Identifying plot holes and acting as narrative QA" as a service caught my eye immediately, very few people understand how critical that manual work is. I’m the founder of Flawly. We build a "Narrative Linter" that digests scripts/docs and automatically flags continuity errors and timeline clashes. I suspect you’re often doing this heavy lifting manually in Notion for your clients. I’m not looking to sell you software. I’m looking for a partner. I’d love to let you use Flawly on one of your client projects to see if it can help you spot inconsistencies faster and deliver even higher-value "Lore Audits" without the extra manual grind. Would you be open to a 15-min chat to see if we can give DnA a "superpower" for narrative QA? Egor Kapustin Founder, Flawly Hello Egor, It is astonishing to me that you have reached out with this proposal after "researching" my company, as both times I have written about us being "narrative QA" were in posts explicitly outlining the fundamental damage and critical uselessness of AI in my field and industries at large. I cannot fathom how you read those posts and came to the conclusion that I would be interested in utilizing, let alone discussing, the very thing I so clearly condemned. Unless, perhaps, you didn't read the posts, and merely relied on AI to find you people worth reaching out to. In which case your own message has proven the value of human work and the countless faults in trying to replace that with AI. "Flaw"-ly indeed. Do not contact me again.
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
skiles.blue
Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
skiles.blue John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Nov 25
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
bencoates1.bsky.social
A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X.

“The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread”

over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...
NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS
De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...
over.nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
cliftonb.bsky.social
Getting dangerously close to not having a place to stay. I need to land some kind of work before that happens.

I've been pitching my workshop and volunteering to help startups in the area while still applying to every job I find that wouldn't destroy my soul. But something needs to change soon.
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
donmoyn.bsky.social
This is...sort of brilliant.
Six years ago, after watching my circle of friends surrender one too many evenings to insurance wrangling and doctor portals and DMV confusion, I emailed them a proposal: Come over next Tuesday. Grab a six pack. And bring your bills, your credit-card statements, your school forms, the streaming services you need to unsubscribe from, the airline miles you need to manage, the expenses app you need to figure out. I’d be throwing the lamest party ever. At the heart of this party was a truth that has gone under-acknowledged in recent years: We’re all sinking. We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password. Disputing a charge means arguing with a chipper chatbot, or submitting to an hour of brain-melting hold music—call volume higher than expected!—only to be disconnected.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
karenattiah.bsky.social
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
aaronparnas.bsky.social Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · Nov 16
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
caioalmendra.bsky.social
Leia Organa loved him. She loved the Hutt, even though she was his prisioner. She loved his eyes, “big as apples.” She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as the Sarlacc” could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his “particular complications and particular darkness.”
Black and white pictur of Princess Leia Organa choking Jabba the Hutt to death in the movie Return of Jedi.
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
yourkyotowife.bsky.social
Hi everyone, I'm urgently looking for any work. I'm a writer and narrative designer, I offer game consultations and mock reviews, I localise between German and English, I can write copy. If it needs words, I'll do it! Here's some games I've written on in the past:
Wax Heads by Pattatue Games, coming 2026. I'm a writer on this game! The image shows a character, Tee, wearing a pink longsleeve and holding a vinyl she just pulled from its purple slipcase, about to putvit onto a record player. Tee has aqua hair with lime green bangs, she's wearing glasses and headphones around her neck. In the background, a man is looking through a vinyl rack. Oddsparks, released this year, nominated for the Deutsche Entwicklerpreis. I wrote on this game, too! The image shows your character, wearing a red cloak with yellow accents and holding a wooden staff. Under their arm, they're holding a wood spark, a tiny creature that looks like a tree stump with googly eyes. They're lookingvdown onto an assembly line from their vantage point on a cliff. Mars Vice, a queer visual novel. The image shows a woman of colour in an olive turtleneck holdingba to go coffee cup. She's quishrd between several anthropomorphic animals. She's looking grumpily up at her partner, a male lion. Mythwrecked! I'm it's lead writer. The image shows Alex, a woman if colour with a poofy bun of natural hair, shorts and a tankntop, in front of several other characters.
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
m00gart.bsky.social
It's that time again, folks. I have been told I will be let go from Heart Machine next week. The people there have been amazing friends and coworkers and anyone else who has been affected deserves all the love and support.

I will be updating my portfolio soon; any Env Art leads would be appreciated
October 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
hanhonymous.bsky.social
🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)
September 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Reposted by Karl Lyktberg
drsandman11.medsky.social
Dearest Martha,

The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.

Yours in glaze,
National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM