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Svenska högtider och vanor @svenskavanor.se · 5d

I dont care what ChatGPT told you about literally anything.

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 6d

Tycker det räcker bra med att konstatera att deras hittepåfack heter förak(t).

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 7d

A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 8d

Japp! Låter väldigt gott. stoppa i en bit choklad kanske?

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 15d

This may been the best climate news I have ever seen.

Chinese greentech manufacturing investments utside of China, that is industrial infrastructure, not sales, now equals Marshal Plan. Investments are ”straightforwardly good for climate” and focuses on Global South.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17d

As the US withdraws from green tech industries & pressures its allies to follow suit,Chinese firms are stepping in to power the whole world’s green transition
I interview Mathias Larsen, lead author of our new Hopkins report. A BRI 2.0
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24d

the amount of Chinese investment in green manufacturing plants around the developing world is mind boggling.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · 21d

”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.”

William Morris, How I Became a Socialist (1894).

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27d

BREAKING: Ireland will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year if Israel is allowed to take part, RTE has announced

news.sky.com/story/irelan...

Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel is allowed to take part

Eurovision Song Contest's director Martin Green has said he would "respect" the decision of any country which chooses not to participate in the competition.

news.sky.com

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Sep 6

här en intressant bieffekt; om man smörjer sig med hypnol attraherar man mygg 😁

Acetophenone is one of the most exciting players in skin microbiota manipulation by vector-borne parasites from animal-feeding insects.

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Sep 5

Inte särskiltfarlig tydligen men sen var det det där med dos då…

Traveling across Life Sciences with Acetophenone—A Simple Ketone That Has Special Multipurpose Missions
by Fedor I. Zubkov 1,*ORCID and Vladimir V. Kouznetsov 2,*ORCID

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nu är jag såld på det här. Borde återskapas! Är det receptbelagt/förbjudet på något vis?

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Sep 4

Inte alls. Låter väldigt gott! Men vad gör acetofenon, undrar jag?

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Sep 1

45 mins of deep talk about alchemy with the briliant Per Faxneld. I just wish I hadn’t been hungover.

Alchemy as Science and Art | Per Faxneld & Hjalmar Fors | Academic to Academic

YouTube video by Axess Television

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Aug 28

Note the quote by Mark Twain. Book release by historian Anders Ottosson tonight. An interesting story of how American and English medical actors invisibilized the Swedish origins of chiropractic and osteopathy.

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olalarsmo.bsky.social @olalarsmo.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reading the Swedish National Library’s copy of Jacqueline Van Gent’s marvellous book ’Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden’ and find that a previous reader has made a marginal annotation referencing my work!

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Leif Nixon @nixon.now · Aug 14

"generera en bild av svenska kungalängden"

ChatGPT-genererad bild med 55 generiska manshuvuden som ser ut som kopparstick. Namnen och årtalen är mestadels oläsliga.

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · Aug 1

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: buff.ly/BsB17aj

It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Jul 23

You Are Getting... Generous!

Go support LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology (which was just on fire!!) and get deeply odd swag like this levitating lenticular homunculus (?).

Read about the museum and fire here: lawrenceweschler.substack.com/p/july-17-20...

Donate/join here: www.mjtgiftshop.org

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Jul 1

My sock got toe teeth!

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Jun 17

Yup. Downgrading humans, it has been going on for a while. To me, AI doesn’t look impressive at all compared to well- cultivated pre-IT human intelligence. (Which used to be remarkably common.)

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social discussed the shift in focus from sensory experience and sensory-derived, embodied knowledge, towards an approach that prioritised the kinds of knowledge derived from analytical chemistry. Embodied knowledge is crucial for Preservare as well. #14ichc

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Jun 11

Provat Qwant? Europeisk sökmotor tycker den funkar ok.

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Jun 10

Daniel Sabater Salabert, _Eso es progreso humano_. Detail. At the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.

Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Jun 8

Även i Valencia påminns man om existensen av Borås…

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Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social · Jun 5

Lukas J. Meier, Our Hagströmer fellow of 2025 lecture on Icepicks, brains and Nobel Prizes: the history of lobotomies in Sweden.

Briliant stuff.

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