Torgrim Sandvoll
@torgrims.bsky.social
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Personal Knowledge Management, Mind Mapping and Learning.
Personal Knowledge Management, Mind Mapping and Learning.
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
January 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
What gets bigger the more you take from it? The lower class.
January 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM
What gets bigger the more you take from it? The lower class.
If you ever need to punish someone, hide in a giant horse, park it in their driveway, and wait until nightfall to unleash hell.
January 7, 2026 at 7:34 PM
If you ever need to punish someone, hide in a giant horse, park it in their driveway, and wait until nightfall to unleash hell.
"You’ll never catch me saluting a flag. I abhor all national flags. What are we saluting? I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it." (Anthony de Mello, Awareness)
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"You’ll never catch me saluting a flag. I abhor all national flags. What are we saluting? I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it." (Anthony de Mello, Awareness)
We got technology that promised connection but delivered isolation.
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We got technology that promised connection but delivered isolation.
In 8 billion years from now, the sun will turn into a white dwarf. You better be prepared.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...
Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In 8 billion years from now, the sun will turn into a white dwarf. You better be prepared.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...
I don't believe in karma, but life has a way to remind you when you've been an asshole.
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I don't believe in karma, but life has a way to remind you when you've been an asshole.
If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. Just a bunch of countries not talking to each other.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. Just a bunch of countries not talking to each other.
Once you were young and having fun, now you're predicting the weather with your bad knee.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Once you were young and having fun, now you're predicting the weather with your bad knee.
As I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death…
I remind myself that you can’t always trust Google Map.
I remind myself that you can’t always trust Google Map.
November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
As I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death…
I remind myself that you can’t always trust Google Map.
I remind myself that you can’t always trust Google Map.
We're not afraid of books being banned, we're in danger of no one wanting to read them.
October 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We're not afraid of books being banned, we're in danger of no one wanting to read them.
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
ourworldindata.org/much-better-...
ourworldindata.org/much-better-...
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
ourworldindata.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
ourworldindata.org/much-better-...
ourworldindata.org/much-better-...
AI won't take your job. It'll just make everyone insufferable influencers with unlimited flat content generation powers. Sorry i meant "knowledge workers".
October 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
AI won't take your job. It'll just make everyone insufferable influencers with unlimited flat content generation powers. Sorry i meant "knowledge workers".
IQ should be presented like the weather:
Actual IQ: 108
Feels like: 86
Actual IQ: 108
Feels like: 86
August 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
IQ should be presented like the weather:
Actual IQ: 108
Feels like: 86
Actual IQ: 108
Feels like: 86
I suggest that you work for a socialist form of government. Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on people nobody likes. [Kurt Vonnegut]
August 19, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I suggest that you work for a socialist form of government. Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on people nobody likes. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Way to go Texas....... 😢
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
www.motherjones.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Way to go Texas....... 😢
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Me: I’m really sad and depressed. I just don’t know where to turn. Can you tell me what the tallest buildings in New York are?
ChatGPT5: Here’s a visualization of New York’s tallest skyscrapers...
ChatGPT5: Here’s a visualization of New York’s tallest skyscrapers...
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Me: I’m really sad and depressed. I just don’t know where to turn. Can you tell me what the tallest buildings in New York are?
ChatGPT5: Here’s a visualization of New York’s tallest skyscrapers...
ChatGPT5: Here’s a visualization of New York’s tallest skyscrapers...
You can ask your mum or ChatGPT, but I know I’m right!
June 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
You can ask your mum or ChatGPT, but I know I’m right!
List of cruelties, crimes and dumb f*** things the Trump administration has done in the last few days...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
List of cruelties, crimes and dumb f*** things the Trump administration has done in the last few days...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/les...
"I’ve always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in." (Anne Tyler)
April 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"I’ve always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in." (Anne Tyler)
"Your brain will invent fake problems for you if you don't go out and find real ones." @dylanoa4.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Your brain will invent fake problems for you if you don't go out and find real ones." @dylanoa4.bsky.social