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Protik Islam-Jakobsson
@protik.bsky.social
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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am.

Swedish dad, neurologist, giraffe rotator. PhD candidate researching atypical parkinsonian disorders and methods of procrastination.

Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets.

we stan Kant
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ink sketch of a snake on a yellow background licking a boot, caption reads: *LICK*
January 21, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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quoting my post that reads "i hereby formally accuse Germany of engaging in weirdo behavior" in another post that reads "once again formally accusing Germany of engaging in weirdo behavior"
January 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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what's your sign?
me with a shaved head standing next to a sign pointing at me that reads "baldness"
January 21, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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@protik.bsky.social‬ 4yo comes out of the bathroom with a very serious look on her face. "I'm an ancient vampire. My mother was a gorgon. She lived in the... 90s 😔"
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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@protik.bsky.social‬ 4yo comes out of the bathroom with a very serious look on her face. "I'm an ancient vampire. My mother was a gorgon. She lived in the... 90s 😔"
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Dear English media,
Bernie, looking into the camera, saying, "I am once again asking you to be serious."
January 21, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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How to become elite in four easy steps:
sequence of photos showing a man putting on clown makeup and a rainbow wig
January 20, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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night sky on normal day: clearly visible full moon on any astronomical event: clouds, fucking clouds everywhere
January 20, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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This man could've had an incredible career in standup comedy
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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uncanny
white-haired bearded man sitting at a desk in front of a laptop holding a coffee mug while looking into the camera trying to smile but with a look of pain in his eyes
January 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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altered screenshot of a tweet by Alex Blechman: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Labour minister: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
January 20, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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ink sketch of a snake on a yellow background licking a boot, caption reads: *LICK*
January 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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pizza alla colla
youtube preview of a video titled "i let AI design my neapolitan pizza" by Miles Zero Kitchen, showing gloopy dough and a pizza side by side, captioned "from this to this".
January 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Think @anildash.com could raise a billion in a week for the resistance selling iron moms merch all over the world
The Iron Front flag, but it’s wine bottles
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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the ancient curse
tweet by "Justin Joque": it really is amazing what invading Afghanistan does to empires
January 19, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Hon läste ut den här i ett svep under nattningen och det kan man ju förstå eftersom boken verkar handla om henne?!

anyway jag kommer behöva lite boktips snart för snart har vi slut på Luna och Nelly Rapp-böcker
Barnboken Nelly Rapp och Frankensteinaren "med hjälp av list, lärdom, och lugn—och lite fotmassage—hade en livsfarlig Frankensteinare förvandlats till en from frälsningssoldat. Världen hade blivit en aning snällare."
January 19, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Coming from the tongue on a jackboot given human form, this post is actually kinda funny
Juniper, re machado pretending to hand over the piece prize to trump: this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible sohrab ahmari, man with the energy of a tongue licking a jackboot: She has no dignity.
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Wishing we could return to 36th December 2020
January 19, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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call me a brute if you like but this one's solid
bottle of langlois crémant de loire brût réserve
January 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Annoyed that this is the poem of the decade
Him Ah, there he is. That motherfucker.
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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folks relax it's gonna be okay
Chart identifying brassica oleracea vegetables including a lion and tiger
January 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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ink sketch of a snake on a yellow background licking a boot, caption reads: *LICK*
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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it's too early for this
one poster: I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead. another poster: Europeans are mostly losers for sure. That's probably not entirely true. But a lot of them
January 19, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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Full moratorium on uncritical interviews on evolutionary psychology and associated subjects
In a world where dating apps offer endless options and relationship labels continue to evolve, the question of whether humans are naturally monogamous feels more relevant than ever... In a world where dating apps offer endless options and relationship labels continue to evolve, the question of whether humans are naturally monogamous feels more relevant than ever. Alina, a Romanian living in London, found herself wondering the same thing after exploring polyamory – the practice of having multiple intimate relationships with the full knowledge and consent of all parties involved. "I recently met someone who is poly and has always been that way," she explains. "I just wanted to know: why did we settle on monogamy as a society?" One way to understand our evolutionary path is by studying our closest primate relatives and their reproductive strategies. "Gorillas are polygynous – one male mates with multiple females," says Dr Kit Opie, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bristol in the UK. "So, the offspring within the group are all fathered by the male but mothered by the different females within the group." But this is not an effective reproductive strategy, explains Dr Opie, as it leads to high rates of infanticide. 🎧 Hear more fascinating stories on CrowdScience: https://bbc.in/48SGmzQ "Infanticide is a pretty gruesome aspect of gorilla life," he says. "It's when a male gorilla kills baby gorillas that he is not related to, so that their mother will become fertile more quickly and he can then mate with them. Probably not an evolutionary strategy we'd want to emulate." But among other apes more closely related to humans - like chimpanzees and bonobos - the females developed a different evolutionary tactic. Females mate with multiple males, confusing paternity and reducing the likelihood of their offspring being harmed. Humans likely began with a similar system: multi-male, multi-female mating groups. But around two million years ago, things changed. "The reason for it was climate change," says Dr Opie. "In sub-Saharan Africa, where our ancestors lived, there was a drying and large parts became savannah. Early humans needed to be in large groups to protect themselves from huge numbers of predators. Brains got larger to deal with these large complex groups and therefore the lactation period had to extend." But with too many males in large groups, it became harder to confuse paternity. "Also, the females needed the help from one of those males to bring up their offspring. So, they switched to monogamy." According to Dr Opie, this shift was necessary not because monogamy was "better" but because it was the only viable option. Raising large-brained, slow-developing human infants required enormous parental investment, more than a mother could typically manage on her own. But although research suggests that early humans did evolve to be monogamous, people who choose monogamy often struggle to remain faithful to one partner. "There are species that stick with a single partner through the whole of their life, and they don't cheat, but they are quite rare," says Dr Opie. "Our closest relatives that are monogamous are the gibbons. But gibbons are separated off from other pairs and it's probably easier for both the male and the female to kind of police who's coming into their little patch of the rainforest and who isn't." "But when you're in a large multi-male, multi-female group like humans are, it's much more difficult to police that, to see whether your partner is cheating or not." Monogamy, in this light, is less a natural default and more a survival strategy - one that came with built-in flaws. So, what happens in our brains when we fall in love or struggle to stay faithful? Sarah Blumenthal, a neuroscience PhD student at Emory University in the US, studies prairie voles - small, furry creatures known for forming long-term pair bonds, similar to humans. Unlike their non-monogamous vole cousins, prairie voles have high levels of oxytocin receptors in the brain's reward centres. Oxytocin - often called the "cuddle hormone" – is a neurochemical released in the brain during physical touch and bonding moments. "If we experimentally mess up the oxytocin signalling in prairie voles, they are not able to form strong bonds, they spend less time around their partner," says Blumenthal. Humans have similar oxytocin systems, suggesting that our brains are built to experience bonding as rewarding. But another chemical – dopamine – may explain shifts in our desire for novelty versus commitment. During the early stages of bonding, dopamine floods the brain, driving attraction and openness. Once a bond is established, dopamine patterns change. Despite the evolutionary argument for monogamy, human cultures have always displayed a wide array of relationship arrangements. Anthropologist Dr Katie Starkweather of the University of Illinois Chicago in the US has documented over 50 instances of polyandry - where a woman has multiple husbands - across the globe, from Nepal and Tibet in Asia to parts of Africa and the Americas. While polyandry is statistically rarer than polygyny (one man with multiple wives), Starkweather cautions against viewing it as implausible. "Women can benefit economically from having multiple partners. If your primary husband dies or he has to be absent for very long periods of time - like was the case in some native North American groups - it really behoved you to have a backup plan," she says. In some cases, non-monogamous arrangements provided genetic advantages as well. "In environments where people get sick a lot and die from illnesses, you might be really doing well for yourself if you have multiple kids who have a sli…
January 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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"keep rootin for Putin" energy right there
Thomas Friedman: "If Russians believe they can be powerful on the basis of geoeconomics, they aren't going to surrender all their nukes or quest for influence, but the chances of their being real partners with the West will be much, much greater. So keep rootin' for Putin -- and hope that he makes it to the front of Russia's last line." December 23rd, 2001
January 17, 2026 at 10:42 PM