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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Got my vote in a solid 35 minutes before polling closed. In my defense it was a hard one this time ‘round

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outstar 🧛🏻 in bloodlines 2 era @outstar.bsky.social · Aug 1

Absolutely amazing to see. Proud to have worked there with these awesome folks in the past. They keep on winning 🙏

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Aug 1

This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free.
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Join the 48-hour giveaway and stand for the freedom to buy games.

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Jun 27

Watching Poppy live at the Tons of Rock festival, and I’m probably one of the very few hearing her say «I am Poppy», and reacting with «She said the line!!»

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Jun 11

Welp, the official verdict is in, and my capacity for work has been deemed to cap at 50% employment.

No idea what to do with this information, but there it is

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Jun 10

No, *you’re* spending too much of your workday reading up on the PWHL expansion draft, instead of writing

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · May 22

Yearly FanLis conference uniform equipped. Very ready for this.

Info here: @fanlis.bsky.social

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · May 13

Swap "humanities scholar" for "librarian" or "educator" and you'll have an idea of what it's like right now in secondary and lower schools.

Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social · May 13

If I see one more humanities scholar offer a seminar about how other humanities scholars can harness the "efficiency and innovation" of Gen "A.I." I am going to personally throw them in a river.

"I've partnered with the bullshit machine to devalue my own labor and you can too!" I swear to God—

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · May 14

It should be illegal to write "new tech" posts without publication dates

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · May 13

Reviewing, and cleaning up my character sheets…

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · May 12

Finally

Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · May 11

Through the power of tidying up, I have transformed my previously cluttered surfaces into an even larger amount of cluttered surfaces

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · May 7

A teenage girl on the subway told me my jacket was cool, after staring at my buttons for a full minute. I’ve never felt so validated in my life

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Apr 24

HaXx 😆

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FanLIS @fanlis.bsky.social · Apr 23

Don't forget to register for our 5th online symposium if you're interested in #FanStudies and Library and Information Science! 📚💝🎂

#FanLIS #FanLIS2025

FanLIS @fanlis.bsky.social · Apr 3

Registration for #FanLIS2025 is now live! Check out our great programme of speakers at blogs.city.ac.uk/fanlis/fanli...

To celebrate 5 years of #FanLIS with us, make sure to register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fanlis-202...

🎉🎊

FanLIS 2025: Five Years of FanLIS

An interdisciplinary symposium exploring the intersections between between fandom, fan studies and library and information science.

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Apr 22

On the one hand I'm pretty sure I'm being scammed by a bot on Tinder. On the other hand, I need practice replying to messages on dating apps...

So I guess it can use it as a writing workshop?

Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Apr 19

Update: it did, in fact, not :p
Lost in the quarterfinals again

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Apr 19

Made the top8 for the Swedish Vintage M:tG nationals again. Let’s see if this year goes better than the last

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Apr 18

Why does the urge to rewatch long unfiction projects only come over me when I physically *can’t* so that?

Case in point, the massive need I feel to rewatch «Paranormal Paranoids» when I’m on a cross-border buss to a convention with spotty internet and no laptop…

Hypothetically

Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Mar 22

At the tender age of 41, I have just assembled my first desk chair to come from a box, and not a sidewalk.

Being an adult is going great y’all…

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Mar 13

I efficiently-packed too close to the sun. While the bag will 100% fit under the seat in front of me, it’s also so heavy that I can barely carry it <.<

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Mar 2

I am deeply aware of all we now know about Neil Gaiman, and I will never be an apologist, but that will never change the truth impact this single panel had on my life

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Feb 26

For the second time in my life someone’s first words to me were «you look like Brad Pitt» considering the last time was 12 years ago, I’ll take that as a compliment

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Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Feb 14

For the record, it’s a «stargazer» eyeliner I bought at Cyberdog in Camden on my way to Slimelight in November :p

Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’m true homage to the golden days, I will be doing my makeup for our Goth-clubs 30th anniversary in a McDonald’s bathroom

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