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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉

@bjornar1.bsky.social

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Retired graduate student in international relations. Software engineer in training. Chronic idealist and hopeless cynic. Anticolonialist. Chaotic good. Mostly human (unconfirmed). He/him/"oy, you there!". Norwegian expat. Toronto, Ontario.

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 9h

Leave some smallpox in the tip jar.

Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 21h

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I assume that a Columbus Day sale means I can just walk into into a store and take whatever I want.

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 9h

The shit sounds like a really bad B movie...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 10h

Singapore is about as dissimilar to Idaho as you can get...

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 13h

Automatic filing is not a Carney accomplishment, it would have been absolutely Trumpian to cancel just because.

He's more a New Labour/Blair liberal. He happened to be head of the BoE during many awful austerity years and saw first hand the damage it was doing. And he's bringing it here anyway.

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 13h

Critiquing the aesthetics of protesting. Because the other side is so awful, our side must be absolutely pitch perfect, beyond reproof. And also pander to my sensibilities.

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 13h

L'etat, c'est moi.

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 13h

Gross. Soon there'll be a direct womb-to-killing-field pipeline. Mothers to get the choice of a 15000 rbl subsidy per birth or a new Lada.

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 14h

My OCD is currently torturing me over the spelling mistakes

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 14h

I was going to say exactly that 😋

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s next target.

A cartoon depicting two soldiers in military attire discussing potential target cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, while one questions the location of Oslo. An American flag is visible in the background.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17h

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 14h

While we're waiting for information on whether these are minerals are harmful of O3, I'm more concerned about the mind-boggling waste of it all. The earth's resources are not infinite - def not one where we want a habitable biosphere.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine the excitement of being sent to the US for training and ending up in Idaho.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15h

That’s not how you science.

Tweet from Republicans Against Trump says: “RFK Jr: There’s no proof that Tylenol causes autism. We’re doing the studies to make the proof.” Below is a photo of a White House meeting showing RFK Jr., Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump at a long conference table.

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Hegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social · 15h

I am An Old (mid 50s). My ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE I was promised a utopian existence where manual labor and drudgery were eliminated by technology so I could be free to read, write, draw, make music, or whatever. Instead the tech will do all that while I labor in the mines (Amazon Fulfillment Ctr).

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 1d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 5d

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 5d

But of course

Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 6d

Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 6d

Damn, was hoping it was Cambridge, Ontario, but no it was the real Cambridge.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 6d

A little odd that there's so much interest when I provided no context to show how significant these emissions reductions are! Here's some context:
robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...

Graph showing: Emissions from road transport: Norway

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 6d

If the pilot escaped from that I'm actually quite impressed.

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Bjørnar Egede-Nissen 🇨🇦🇳🇴~🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉 @bjornar1.bsky.social · 8d

With the exception of force absorbers, barriers should never be designed to be run over.

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Ivan Moore @alaskasurvey.bsky.social · 9d

A lovely quote from today's Guardian...

"The US government shut down on Wednesday, something that happens embarrassingly often for a country which supposedly has its shit together."

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