Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺
@bhartoft.bsky.social
Retired IT nerd, M.A. English lang/lit, nerdy about literature & history, animal welfare, patient safety. I detest -isms, and do not tolerate discriminating behaviour justified by them.
It looks like it.
didn’t realise we were going to celebrate 250 years since the revolutionary war by doing it again
January 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
It looks like it.
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Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.
January 22, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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It has been truly stunning to watch over the last two decades as “the West” has gone about systematically forgetting everything it spent half a century insisting it would never forget about where it went wrong last time.
I saw the new film Nuremberg. It was based on the life of psychologist Douglas Kelly, who interviewed Nazi war criminals for five months before their trial. His book was not popular when he published it. Kelly's last chapter served as a warning from history, and this passage resonates with us now.
January 10, 2026 at 8:23 AM
It has been truly stunning to watch over the last two decades as “the West” has gone about systematically forgetting everything it spent half a century insisting it would never forget about where it went wrong last time.
Smukt
men du har delt det – og det virkede!
jeg tænker at der måske ikke havde været et billede at dele hvis det ikke havde været fordi ai havde gjort det nemt at lave.
det her tog mig lidt længere tid, og det er ikke lavet med generativ ai. brug det hvis du vil.
jeg tænker at der måske ikke havde været et billede at dele hvis det ikke havde været fordi ai havde gjort det nemt at lave.
det her tog mig lidt længere tid, og det er ikke lavet med generativ ai. brug det hvis du vil.
January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Smukt
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I Tyskland har de haft atomkraft.
Det har de ikke længere.
Alligevel går mere end halvdelen af miljøministeriets budget til opbevaring af og sikkerhedsforanstaltninger imod radioaktivt affald.
En billig og sikker energiform. 👍
Det har de ikke længere.
Alligevel går mere end halvdelen af miljøministeriets budget til opbevaring af og sikkerhedsforanstaltninger imod radioaktivt affald.
En billig og sikker energiform. 👍
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I Tyskland har de haft atomkraft.
Det har de ikke længere.
Alligevel går mere end halvdelen af miljøministeriets budget til opbevaring af og sikkerhedsforanstaltninger imod radioaktivt affald.
En billig og sikker energiform. 👍
Det har de ikke længere.
Alligevel går mere end halvdelen af miljøministeriets budget til opbevaring af og sikkerhedsforanstaltninger imod radioaktivt affald.
En billig og sikker energiform. 👍
A Christmas reminder!
24 December 1918 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Anna Marianna Grijsaart-Reens, was born in Amsterdam.
In December 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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📖 Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
In December 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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📖 Learn about the fate of Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A Christmas reminder!
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White men are 30% of the population.
They are also:
- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress
Forever oppressed.
They are also:
- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress
Forever oppressed.
December 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
White men are 30% of the population.
They are also:
- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress
Forever oppressed.
They are also:
- 98% of presidents
- 90% of CEOs
- 90% of billionaires
- 80% of Congress
Forever oppressed.
Agree.
Just occasionally, you feel that maybe some crimes are so grotesquely antisocial that you could, just for a few ringleaders, bring back hanging.
This is the biggest data harm case in the history of the UK and it just got bigger.
Because of a bug in Fujitsu system hundreds of postmasters were sued, jailed and bankrupted.
Now it's revealed THE POST OFFICE KNEW IT WAS A BUG AND NOT A FEATURE. And they continued destroying people's lives.
Because of a bug in Fujitsu system hundreds of postmasters were sued, jailed and bankrupted.
Now it's revealed THE POST OFFICE KNEW IT WAS A BUG AND NOT A FEATURE. And they continued destroying people's lives.
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Agree.
This is disgraceful
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This is disgraceful
My very irregular reminder. #NeverForget #NeverAgain
13 December 1933 | Dutch Jewish boy, Marc Lierens, was born in Haarlem.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
December 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My very irregular reminder. #NeverForget #NeverAgain
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Kun en ægte idiot eller et virkeligt modbydeligt menneske kan mene, at det at gøre ens land mindre indbydende, så færre mennesker ønsker at flytte hertil, er en præstation, som det er værd at prale af.
Så sandt.
Så sandt.
Only a genuine idiot or a nasty piece of work could think that making one’s country less welcoming and hospitable so fewer people want to come and live there constitutes an achievement worth bragging about.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Kun en ægte idiot eller et virkeligt modbydeligt menneske kan mene, at det at gøre ens land mindre indbydende, så færre mennesker ønsker at flytte hertil, er en præstation, som det er værd at prale af.
Så sandt.
Så sandt.
Samme fejl som danske politikere.
The thing which is so often glossed over about hostile anti-immigration policies is that they affect the whole country and not just migrants.
Labour's ill-concieved, and inhumane, anti-immigration policies will inevitably just make everything worse for everyone. #r4today
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
Labour's ill-concieved, and inhumane, anti-immigration policies will inevitably just make everything worse for everyone. #r4today
www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Samme fejl som danske politikere.
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
AI till støtte for poppulisterne
A friend told me that her American dad got in touch to talk about some news he'd seen on Facebook: there are riots in England over DEI, and the King dramatically burst into parliament to tell Starmer off, and then Prince William did the same to Sadiq Khan. AI really is inventing bold new universes
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
AI till støtte for poppulisterne
Humor 😂
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Humor 😂
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Think vaccines are not important?
Famous Individuals Who Had Polio: A Historical and Modern List
www.disabled-world.com/disability/a...
Famous Individuals Who Had Polio: A Historical and Modern List
www.disabled-world.com/disability/a...
Famous Individuals Who Had Polio: A Historical and Modern List
Comprehensive list of famous people who had polio, highlighting their achievements and the disease’s historical impact on society.
www.disabled-world.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Think vaccines are not important?
Famous Individuals Who Had Polio: A Historical and Modern List
www.disabled-world.com/disability/a...
Famous Individuals Who Had Polio: A Historical and Modern List
www.disabled-world.com/disability/a...
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"i use it for research" congratulations your research is now measurably worse and slower. all the parts you think are getting faster are just parts where you don't know what's being eluded and misconstrued.
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"i use it for research" congratulations your research is now measurably worse and slower. all the parts you think are getting faster are just parts where you don't know what's being eluded and misconstrued.
USA er på røven. Kan de mere ansvarsbevidste, demokratiske kræfter vente på næste valg, eller vil deres tålmodighed blot gøre ondt værre?
This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 AM
USA er på røven. Kan de mere ansvarsbevidste, demokratiske kræfter vente på næste valg, eller vil deres tålmodighed blot gøre ondt værre?
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They were kidnapped in international waters in an act of blatant piracy…
The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.
www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...
www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...
October 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
They were kidnapped in international waters in an act of blatant piracy…
True
Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
True
ICE = brownshirts
A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
September 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
ICE = brownshirts
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It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left.
And it’s not even close!
And it’s not even close!
September 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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