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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 · 3h
MAGAs gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3h
Narrator: "She couldn't."

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5h
Handing over Putin to Ukraine would work much better: the war would end and justice would be served. Maybe someone could suggest it to Trump?

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 7h
Glazes on ceramic typically don't fade; they are very different to paints in that regard and can give a curiously 'unfiltered' look at the colours of the distant past. Stained glass does the same: here, from Canterbury Cathedral, are original colours from 1180.
Medieval stained glass panel showing Danish vikings dragging a bishop onto a longship.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 21h
That's a brilliant image!

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Danish jam makers Den Gamble Fabrik used to boast that their jam was “boiled slowly in open copper kettles and filled by hand”; I imagined a filthy factory shed with spiders and cockroaches dropping into the kettles from the rafters, and unwashed staff scooping grubby handfuls of jam into jars…

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Lovely! What’s with the ribbons on the tails?

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Further thought: he's actually like a mash-up of the worst parts of King Lear and Ar-Pharazon the Golden. Not good. Really not good.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Except, of course, without the class, poetry and capacity for redemption. His is not a tragedy (that's reserved for his victims), just a horror show.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Trump wanted to be king, and now he is one: King Lear.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
Defecting from the Judean People’s Front to the People’s Front of Judea.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
I can see it becoming a central part of a damnatio memori of Trump. Demolish everything he built and restore the rose garden, but include in it a memorial to all victims of the Trump regime.

However, you have to get rid of the regime first.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 1d
My wife @janetahlberg.bsky.social works as a Save the Children volunteer in Uppsala, supporting Ukrainian mothers and children here, ensuring that the children get to play with each other and keep in touch with their Ukrainian identity while the mothers get some time off. We’ve got your back.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d
Most of us have no say; we are compelled to watch in helpless horror from our own countries. It’s on the US citizenry to sort this out.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Healthy oceans, safe future: stop the toxic shark trade
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now!
action.wemove.eu

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d
Brown children for the most part. He probably views it as culling the surplus.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d
Don't knock it, that thing does 0 to 60 in three seconds when he lights the fuse.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 2d
Have you got pearlfish living up your bum? Well!? I think NOT!

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
I would give this a thousand upticks, but you will have to imagine the other 999.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks! I had a brainwave when making the tree trunk: cocoa powder mixed in with the marzipan, but only slightly mixed so that swirly marbled patterns remained when I rolled it out.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you! But really the ephemeral nature of the object is part of the joy of it: you make it, record it with a photo, and consume it. It has something of the same light frivolity of spirit as fireworks, or a piñata.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
And here's one I made a few years ago, on the theme of the Twelve Days of Christmas carol, representing Day 1 when my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree.
A Christmas cake with marzipan decoration showing a partridge sitting at the top of a pear tree.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
In accordance with British tradition, we ice and decorate it. Here's last year's version, decorated by our daughter Anna:
A Christmas cake with marzipan decorations representing plaited straw hearts with red ribbons.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
@janetahlberg.bsky.social and I made ours last month, so it will have time to mature before Christmas. Here it is under preparation:
A range of different dried fruits in a bowl - raisins, currants, cherries, orange peel and so on - in the process of being made into fruitcake.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
I always mute him on the TV. Can’t bear that voice!

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
The right kind of Fox News!

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
The tech industry warning of a “dangerous precedent” is solid evidence that they have done the right thing. 👍

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that sting.🎶

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 4d
Totally. If there was ever a definitive portrayal of a character from literature, this is it.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 4d
Narrator: “When Brother Odo, a 15th century Cluniac monk from Brabant, reincarnated in late 20th century Britain, most of his past life was lost in the mists of forgetfulness. But not all of it; certain quirks and predilections survived, and would resurface in later years.”