perahlberg.bsky.social
Per Ahlberg
@perahlberg.bsky.social
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Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. Views my own.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 43m
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 · 17h
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
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 5d
True. But then was then. Not everybody ages well.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 5d
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
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perahlberg.bsky.social
Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
I liked that movie. "He came, not to reward, but to punish."
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
No, that's Zelenskyy.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 6d
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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perahlberg.bsky.social
Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 7d
Is this now at the National Railway Museum in York?
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perahlberg.bsky.social
Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
"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 · 8d
Long hair and a beard as well. Quite like Conchita Wurst, only not as glittery.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 8d
Maybe that orange guy.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
😬😬😬😬
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
All those spirals must have been inspired (inspiralled?) by something.😵‍💫
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
"Roll out the barrel, roll out the barrel of pearsh..!"
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
See also: invention of alcoholic beverages.

"So they've gone off in storage, you say? Taste pretty good to me! Mind if I have another helping? Maybe we're onto something here."
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
Well, Russia is at war with the world.

The rest of us would have been happy to leave them in peace if only they had behaved sensibly like good (or just reasonable) neighbours, but as they are absolutely incapable of that we don't have much option. War it is.
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
VERY welcome news!
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 9d
Exactly! All their malevolent efforts, and all the money they spend, may not achieve so much after all.
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