Torb
@torb.no
Front-end developer and UI designer.
Interested in the tech, web, programming, design, creative coding, photography and gaming among other things.
Humanist. Bi. Trans non-binary.
Married to @dea-renate.no
www.torb.no
Interested in the tech, web, programming, design, creative coding, photography and gaming among other things.
Humanist. Bi. Trans non-binary.
Married to @dea-renate.no
www.torb.no
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Torb (@[email protected])
729 Posts, 156 Following, 482 Followers · Front-end developer and UI designer.
Interested in the tech, web, programming, design, creative coding, photography and gaming among other things.
Humanist....
hachyderm.io
More active on Mastodon/fediverse than here: hachyderm.io/@torb (@[email protected])
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A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
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Okei okei okei, her kjem ei historie frå lærarkvardagen. Vi hadde seksualundervisning og eg sa "gravid person" og så sa ein elev "kvifor seier du gravid person og ikkje kvinne eller mor?" og så sa eg "fordi ikkje alle som er gravide er kvinner eller er eller blir mødre" og så sa eleven "okei. PK?"
Det. Er. En. Veileder. "Ansatte rådes til". Rådes. Råd.
Pål Morten Borgli ut mot Bufdir-råd om kjønnsnøytralt språk: – Det er bare forvirrende
Myndighetene mener at veilederen er helt nødvendig for å hindre diskriminering av barn og unge. Nå kan det gå mot et flertall for å legge den helt ned.
www.nrk.no
January 9, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Okei okei okei, her kjem ei historie frå lærarkvardagen. Vi hadde seksualundervisning og eg sa "gravid person" og så sa ein elev "kvifor seier du gravid person og ikkje kvinne eller mor?" og så sa eg "fordi ikkje alle som er gravide er kvinner eller er eller blir mødre" og så sa eleven "okei. PK?"
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This was a running thread if you followed the BLM movement, that many police shootings of Americans are followed by said police not allowing the victim to receive medical care, and in a number of cause celebre cases observers believed they would have survived if medical help had not been obstructed.
"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A Deadly Shooting in Minnesota
A federal immigration agent’s killing of a woman driving an SUV fits into a tragic pattern.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
This was a running thread if you followed the BLM movement, that many police shootings of Americans are followed by said police not allowing the victim to receive medical care, and in a number of cause celebre cases observers believed they would have survived if medical help had not been obstructed.
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AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
December 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but bad people deserve human rights too, bad people deserve to live too.
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but bad people deserve human rights too, bad people deserve to live too.
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Redesigning my website I really enjoyed dipping my toes into CSS view transitions. Here's how I added some snazzy animations to my static website!
giacomocavalieri.me/writing/effo...
giacomocavalieri.me/writing/effo...
Effortless animations with CSS view transitions
Designing an appealing web page is always a bit of a challenge for me. But this time around I actually had a really good time, and really enjoyed dipping my toes into CSS View Transitions. Here's how ...
giacomocavalieri.me
January 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Redesigning my website I really enjoyed dipping my toes into CSS view transitions. Here's how I added some snazzy animations to my static website!
giacomocavalieri.me/writing/effo...
giacomocavalieri.me/writing/effo...
Always a sad time when I find a record I want not available on CD (either because it was never pressed or too rare to track don a copy). 🥺
January 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Always a sad time when I find a record I want not available on CD (either because it was never pressed or too rare to track don a copy). 🥺
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I really don’t know how to explain how absurd it sounds to «buy» Greenland.
Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. It can’t be bought or sold.
I don’t know how to explain it. Maybe it’s like selling Hawaii to Japan or Puerto Rico to Russia or Native American reservations to… Mexico?
It’s ridiculous.
Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. It can’t be bought or sold.
I don’t know how to explain it. Maybe it’s like selling Hawaii to Japan or Puerto Rico to Russia or Native American reservations to… Mexico?
It’s ridiculous.
January 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I really don’t know how to explain how absurd it sounds to «buy» Greenland.
Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. It can’t be bought or sold.
I don’t know how to explain it. Maybe it’s like selling Hawaii to Japan or Puerto Rico to Russia or Native American reservations to… Mexico?
It’s ridiculous.
Greenland belongs to Greenlanders. It can’t be bought or sold.
I don’t know how to explain it. Maybe it’s like selling Hawaii to Japan or Puerto Rico to Russia or Native American reservations to… Mexico?
It’s ridiculous.
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Tenk at sjøløver er ekte. De kunne vært funnet opp av en fireåring med livlig fantasi og en tegnebok, men nei, de finnes, helt på ekte. Seler, generelt, egentlig. De er som havfruer, bare hunder, hunder under vann. Dette er en sjøløver appreciation tweet.
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Tenk at sjøløver er ekte. De kunne vært funnet opp av en fireåring med livlig fantasi og en tegnebok, men nei, de finnes, helt på ekte. Seler, generelt, egentlig. De er som havfruer, bare hunder, hunder under vann. Dette er en sjøløver appreciation tweet.
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Vaccines save lives.
That’s it. That’s the post.
That’s it. That’s the post.
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Vaccines save lives.
That’s it. That’s the post.
That’s it. That’s the post.
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Saw a gen AI video that made me so angry I now want to learn how to draw out of spite
January 6, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Saw a gen AI video that made me so angry I now want to learn how to draw out of spite
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Love when iOS updates make the interface less usable, like making the text under icons thinner and thus harder to read, in a way that can’t be reverted without also fucking with everything else in the interface. 🙃
January 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Love when iOS updates make the interface less usable, like making the text under icons thinner and thus harder to read, in a way that can’t be reverted without also fucking with everything else in the interface. 🙃
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Got my copy of @dtemkin.bsky.social's Forty-Four Esolangs, which I think is a must-read for anyone interested in programming languages and art.
It's basically Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities for code
It's basically Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities for code
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Got my copy of @dtemkin.bsky.social's Forty-Four Esolangs, which I think is a must-read for anyone interested in programming languages and art.
It's basically Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities for code
It's basically Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities for code
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I started up drawing 15-second drawings of pokemon. Let’s see if I can draw them all before I go insane.
December 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I started up drawing 15-second drawings of pokemon. Let’s see if I can draw them all before I go insane.
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A message for you all to carry through the year
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
A message for you all to carry through the year
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2/ I feel like this distinction is completely lost, that one can think that Maduro is a piece of shit and a dictator who stole an election, but also think that the United States has no right to take over the country.
January 4, 2026 at 12:57 PM
2/ I feel like this distinction is completely lost, that one can think that Maduro is a piece of shit and a dictator who stole an election, but also think that the United States has no right to take over the country.
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May your 2026 be filled with cats who actually comes when you pspsps
January 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM
May your 2026 be filled with cats who actually comes when you pspsps
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1/ Story time.
Back in 1999 I was living in a small fishing village on the northern pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The culture was quite conservative at the time, and women would rarely be out at night without a chaperone.
So I stood out.
So I became friends with a Nicaraguan woman.
A sex worker.
Back in 1999 I was living in a small fishing village on the northern pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The culture was quite conservative at the time, and women would rarely be out at night without a chaperone.
So I stood out.
So I became friends with a Nicaraguan woman.
A sex worker.
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
1/ Story time.
Back in 1999 I was living in a small fishing village on the northern pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The culture was quite conservative at the time, and women would rarely be out at night without a chaperone.
So I stood out.
So I became friends with a Nicaraguan woman.
A sex worker.
Back in 1999 I was living in a small fishing village on the northern pacific coast of Costa Rica.
The culture was quite conservative at the time, and women would rarely be out at night without a chaperone.
So I stood out.
So I became friends with a Nicaraguan woman.
A sex worker.
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Starter nye året med å skitne til den rådende pristine feminismen med de ekle hore-hendene mine. For har dere lagt merke til hvor mange som trekker grensa ved terfs men samtidig ignorerer eller sågar koseprater med swerfs? Som om swerf-ideologi er ubetydelig, og ikke arnestedet, i kampen om kropp?
January 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Starter nye året med å skitne til den rådende pristine feminismen med de ekle hore-hendene mine. For har dere lagt merke til hvor mange som trekker grensa ved terfs men samtidig ignorerer eller sågar koseprater med swerfs? Som om swerf-ideologi er ubetydelig, og ikke arnestedet, i kampen om kropp?
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It's okay if you got up late. It's okay if you've only gotten one decent meal down you today, or any food and water at all. It's okay.
The thing that matters is doing something that gets you further up the mountain, and it's okay if that something was just to survive.
Keep going. ♥️
The thing that matters is doing something that gets you further up the mountain, and it's okay if that something was just to survive.
Keep going. ♥️
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
It's okay if you got up late. It's okay if you've only gotten one decent meal down you today, or any food and water at all. It's okay.
The thing that matters is doing something that gets you further up the mountain, and it's okay if that something was just to survive.
Keep going. ♥️
The thing that matters is doing something that gets you further up the mountain, and it's okay if that something was just to survive.
Keep going. ♥️
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Kanskje politikerne heller skulle granske sin egen manglende evne til å bevilge budsjettrammer som tar høyde for uforutsette kostnader? www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/RjRpn...
Fornebubanen skal granskes etter ny kostnadsøkning
Oslos kommunerevisjon skal granske Fornebubanen etter at en ny kostnadssprekk ble kjent i november.
www.aftenposten.no
January 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Kanskje politikerne heller skulle granske sin egen manglende evne til å bevilge budsjettrammer som tar høyde for uforutsette kostnader? www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/RjRpn...
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Huge shoutout to the Every Layout book, got a ton of mileage out of it. Never thought about this approach but it actually makes so much sense, I'm finally feeling somewhat satisfied with the CSS I'm writing 😁
every-layout.dev
every-layout.dev
Relearn CSS layout
every-layout.dev
December 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Huge shoutout to the Every Layout book, got a ton of mileage out of it. Never thought about this approach but it actually makes so much sense, I'm finally feeling somewhat satisfied with the CSS I'm writing 😁
every-layout.dev
every-layout.dev
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Time to wrap up the year, let’s look at some numbers 🤓
But before we do: thank you everyone for supporting Gleam's journey in 2025!
Huge thank you to every contributor, sponsor, supporter, to all the Gleamlins and Gleam-curious people. You rock! ⭐
But before we do: thank you everyone for supporting Gleam's journey in 2025!
Huge thank you to every contributor, sponsor, supporter, to all the Gleamlins and Gleam-curious people. You rock! ⭐
December 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Time to wrap up the year, let’s look at some numbers 🤓
But before we do: thank you everyone for supporting Gleam's journey in 2025!
Huge thank you to every contributor, sponsor, supporter, to all the Gleamlins and Gleam-curious people. You rock! ⭐
But before we do: thank you everyone for supporting Gleam's journey in 2025!
Huge thank you to every contributor, sponsor, supporter, to all the Gleamlins and Gleam-curious people. You rock! ⭐