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Per Ahlberg
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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
What’s his end game? I don’t see what this achieves except buying a very small amount of time.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h
Has anyone told him that the Insurrection Act isn't an Insurrection Enabling Act? I mean, given that he's plainly engaged in an insurrection against the United States?

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h
The Genesis version is a crashingly obvious knock-off of this story, probably inserted during the Babylonian captivity (in Babylon, everyone will have known this story, kind of like the Iliad in ancient Greece) to align the Hebrew origin with with what 'everyone knew' about the distant past.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h
The Flood is caused, not by YHWH, but by a conspiracy of the great gods Anu, Enlil, Ninurta, Ennugi and Ea. However, EA is a turncoat and snitches to Utnapishtim (whispering through the wall of his reed house), commanding him to build his ark. After the Flood, Utnapishtim is granted immortality.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h
...and in any case a flagrant copyright violation. This is an earlier version, part of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian, but even this isn't the oldest; the original is Sumerian. "Noah" is called Utnapishtim (or Atrahasis, or Ziusudra, depending on the text) and lives in the city of Shuruppak.
A broken clay tablet covered in cuneiform script, recounting the epic of Gilgamesh.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 23h
I love how the headline implies that there can be "not excessive" amounts of chemical munitions used against civilians. Teargassing your own citizens AT ALL is not generally a sign of a well-functioning democracy.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
This is correct.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
There are obviously the specific problems of the here and now, but I would add broader and more general point: in countries that have free and fair elections, gerrymandering doesn't exist. Period. They are literally mutually exclusive: fairness =/= gerrymandering. Ditto voter suppression.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Also a good illustration of how being evil doesn’t make you happy.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
If you have no soul to destroy I guess it doesn’t matter…

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
As a research group head, I am constantly surrounded by young colleagues born around the year 2000, but as a child I hung around with family members born in the 19th century. It’s disorienting sometimes.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Aren’t you thinking about CFCs in hair spray, and the thinning ozone layer? That’s one of the few planetary threats we have had some success in addressing.

In any case, the Apocalypse NEEDS rocker hair! Just watch any of the Mad Max movies.

And flame-thrower guitars, of course.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X_P...
Official Trailer ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES! (1978, John De Bello, David Miller, Sharon Taylor)
YouTube video by Trailer World
www.youtube.com
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d
Would you include the birth of the European universities as an example of this? Emerging during the 11th-12th centuries under the protection of states, but a source from the very first of both transnationalism and subversive ideologies.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d
Now, yes; but not long ago that party had space for the likes of Michael Heseltine. What the hell happened to them?
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
Interesting question: where does this stop? Given that they cannot allow the Epstein files to be released (because they themselves feature in them), how can they ever allow the swearing-in to go ahead? This may be the point where they simply pull the plug on Congress as a functioning body.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
Quite. For a Saturday morning brain-teaser, try identifying the well-known aphorism that contains these words:

Spoiling

Ship

Ha’pennyworth

Tar

and consider its relevance to modern society.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
True. But then was then. Not everybody ages well.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
Here's some good shit, singing about...other stuff. A paradoxically joyful despair. I lived this stuff as a teenager in London in the 70s; a huge privilege, a magical moment, as I realized even at the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrA...
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
YouTube video by SexPistolsVEVO
www.youtube.com
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8d
I liked that movie. "He came, not to reward, but to punish."
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8d
No, that's Zelenskyy.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8d
Yep. When I watched Back to the Future Part II at the cinema in 1989, I did not predict that the real-life timeline would lead us to BiffWorld-but-worse.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8d
Is this now at the National Railway Museum in York?
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
A beautiful warship with no engine noise. Stealth for the 21st century!
A three-masted sailing warship, the USS Constitution, firing a gun salute.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
national guard, but military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon, that’s a big city with an incompetent governor”.

And he goes on.

Just in case any of you had any doubt where this was going.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
we’re going to straighten them out one by one."

“And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within."

“I told Pete [Hegseth], we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
"President" Trump, speaking just now to the assembled generals of the US military, has just declared war on his own people (quotes from the Guardian's news feed):

Talking about Democrat-led cities like San Francisco, Chicago, New York and LA: “They’re very unsafe places and
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
Long hair and a beard as well. Quite like Conchita Wurst, only not as glittery.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
Maybe that orange guy.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 10d
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