Per Ahlberg
@perahlberg.bsky.social
Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. Views my own.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱
MAGAs gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Just like witches at black masses
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
MAGAs gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Just like witches at black masses
Narrator: "She couldn't."
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Narrator: "She couldn't."
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?
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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?
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.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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.
That's a brilliant image!
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That's a brilliant image!
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…
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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…
Lovely! What’s with the ribbons on the tails?
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Lovely! What’s with the ribbons on the tails?
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.
November 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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.
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.
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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.
Trump wanted to be king, and now he is one: King Lear.
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Trump wanted to be king, and now he is one: King Lear.
Defecting from the Judean People’s Front to the People’s Front of Judea.
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Defecting from the Judean People’s Front to the People’s Front of Judea.
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.
However, you have to get rid of the regime first.
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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.
However, you have to get rid of the regime first.
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.
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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.
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.
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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.
Brown children for the most part. He probably views it as culling the surplus.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Brown children for the most part. He probably views it as culling the surplus.
Don't knock it, that thing does 0 to 60 in three seconds when he lights the fuse.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don't knock it, that thing does 0 to 60 in three seconds when he lights the fuse.
Have you got pearlfish living up your bum? Well!? I think NOT!
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Have you got pearlfish living up your bum? Well!? I think NOT!
I would give this a thousand upticks, but you will have to imagine the other 999.
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I would give this a thousand upticks, but you will have to imagine the other 999.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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.
In accordance with British tradition, we ice and decorate it. Here's last year's version, decorated by our daughter Anna:
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In accordance with British tradition, we ice and decorate it. Here's last year's version, decorated by our daughter Anna:
@janetahlberg.bsky.social and I made ours last month, so it will have time to mature before Christmas. Here it is under preparation:
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@janetahlberg.bsky.social and I made ours last month, so it will have time to mature before Christmas. Here it is under preparation:
I always mute him on the TV. Can’t bear that voice!
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I always mute him on the TV. Can’t bear that voice!