I mean, people often misspell and mispronounce my name, but this is a first

Bara så att alla är på det klara: Uppfattningen att människor som jag som gillar frihet & rörlighet är rasförrädare som borde ställas mot en vägg är ingenting som Jomshof bara råkade twittra om på fyllan. Det är en central del av Sverigedemokraternas ideologi, och något som människor röstar för.

Texas A&M's broad new policy censoring instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender has led to the removal of LGBTQ literature and history classes, a ban on the film Moonlight, and even censorship of the history of Fourteenth Amendment. We're suing.

'What Are We Even Doing Here?': New Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Race and Gender Topics at Texas A&M

Plaintiffs included four faculty members whose courses were canceled or not not offered.

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Finally saw The Odyssey 🌊 Story is pretty good 💯 This Homer guy will go far 👍

Sick and tired of journalists asking politicians how they *feel* about the Bad Thing that just happened. Ask them what they're going to *do* about it!

I find explaining myself to a curious and smart outsider to be an absolutely critical step in any writing / research project

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · yesterday

As a general rule: explaining something you know well to smart people who ask good questions but do not know the topic well is a really useful exercise. If nothing else, they tend to ask interesting questions which you hadn’t considered.

Jag vet att det finns anklagelser om korruption, men att behandla de här tre som gängkriminella känns ändå orimligt

I januari mailade jag Myndigheten för psykologiskt försvar <https://www.bliintelurad.se> för att fråga vad de har för inställning till desinformation, vilseledning och propaganda som härrör, inte från främmande makt, utan från regeringen och dess underlag. Jag fick aldrig något svar.

Funny little visitor in the yard today. It appears to be a Eurasian hoopoe (härfågel) which normally doesn’t live here

Whoever first described GenAI as digital asbestos was cooking

Local forest was full of ornithologists today, because of this guy: a great grey owl (strix nebulosa) chillaxing not far from our house. (Pls forgive the crappy iPhone picture.)

Nobody’s ready for the amount of gay sex this would entail: ’Elon Musk Claims Grok Imagine Will Create “Historically Accurate” AI Version Of The Odyssey’ deadline.com/2026/07/elon...

Elon Musk: Grok Imagine Will Make "Historically Accurate" 'Odyssey'

Elon Musk syas Grok Imagine will make an "historically accurate" AI version of 'The Odyssey' as his criticism of Christopher Nolan's film continues.

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More than 100 years ago, three of my great-uncles, all brothers, founded a football team (Kalmar FF). Only now did it occur to me to take the kids see the team play. It was fun ⚽️

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

And people say studying the humanities is useless, part 12346

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 3w ago

wait.

”Bevara Sverige Svenskt” är tydligen SD:s officiella linje 🤷

Sveriges migrationspolitik är ett hinder för innovation och entreprenörskap: www.dn.se/ekonomi/expe... Har länge undrat när näringslivets företrädare ska ta bladet från munnen.

Experter: Svenska regler försvårar för utomeuropeiska talanger

Experter dömer ut Sveriges invandringspolitik och de strikta reglerna för utomeuropeiska innovatörer som ogenomtänkta och skadliga för ekonomin.

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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Reminder, during the summer holiday season, that you can never pack too many books 📚

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 2y ago

Dude who tried to swipe my messenger bag was wholly unprepared for the weight. Truly, there is no such thing as traveling with “too many books”!

Took some time off from my time off to give a keynote address at the PPE Society meeting in London 🇬🇧 It’s such a pleasant and well-organized event: 10/10 would talk again 📷 Samuel De Canio

Anybody else on here scheduled to attend the PPE Society meetings in London? If you see me around, please do say hi.

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 4w ago

Just arrived in London for the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Society meetings 🫠

Just arrived in London for the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Society meetings 🫠

London & Southeast🔅@thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 4w ago

🥵 Expecting 35C even something a bit hotter tomorrow. Never in history of London meteorological history or indeed also true countrywide have we seen 35C (95F) in 3 consecutive months. Even non-consecutively it never happened... (1/2)

Trots regeringens påstådda respekt för universitetens självständighet fortsätter de att nagga den i kanterna: "Det är helt klart en form av direktstyrning av undervisningen som vi inte har sett tidigare", enligt statsvetaren Göran Sundström från @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Handelshögskolan fick mest – nu väcks frågor om regeringens urval

Kritiken växer mot statens fördelning av 56 miljoner till masterprogram i offentlig förvaltning vid tre lärosäten

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So much winning 👍 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Trump says ceasefire with Iran is over, calling its leaders ‘scum’

The president declared an end to the truce at a NATO summit in Turkey after the U.S. and Iran exchanged dozens of strikes overnight, raising the prospect of major renewed hostilities.

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Dunno what yinz are talking about: Mitch McConnell looks just fine.

Our puppy is the opposite of Theseus, who used a ball of string to find his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth, in the sense that he’ll use any piece of string to get himself hopelessly trapped in a ball of it 🧶

Ten years ago today – on Independence Day 2016 – my wife and I left our beautiful home in Fairfax Station, VA 🇺🇸 and moved our family of five to Sweden 🇸🇪. The timing could not have been better. We all miss the States, but it was the right decision.

Philosophy job in beautiful Lund 🇸🇪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #philjobs

Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy

We are seeking a candidate for a full-time permanent position as Senior Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at Lund University. Workplace and academic environment The Depa

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Not the most prestigious award, ok ok, but a photo of mine was selected for inclusion in the annual calendar of our local municipality (Borgholms kommun) 📷 #fujifilm #x-t10

Every international student has made a huge investment in the United States. Every one has worked for years and taken great risks and made sacrifices to get here. Their families have too. Trashing them without justification is cruel and anti-American. And countless people will never forget.