This is a lovely thread for all of us with an interest in medical history and especially where it intersects with military medicine and various covert ops shenanigans.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d ago

Penicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.

The good old fast attack craft Ystad (R 142) is visiting Malmö, so I took my son along to take a closer look. I first saw one of these up close back in 1998 or so, when it was still in active service. I love how cramped they are, and the vertical ladders, like a classic diesel-electric submarine.

Playing around with the old 3D printer a friend gave me as thanks for helping him out with moving house. This one requires a fair bit of hands-on tinkering compared to more modern equipment, but that's fine by me, all the better to learn more about how it actually works.

My family celebrated my birthday by waking me up this morning with gifts and some juice and biscuits. My dog thought this was great fun and took the opportunity to stomp all over me and chew lightly on my arm while trying to steal my biscuits. My wife gave me a lovely hand-made umbrella from Milan.

Update: it took me more than 8 hours to figure out how to construct a working automatic airlock and a pressurized room with reasonable atmospheric parameters (the O2 is still way too high but the game is pretty forgiving in this regard). Just what I needed to unwind these past few days, wonderful.

Tony Ingesson@tonyingesson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Random Steam review: This game has a vertical learning curve and will force you to watch hours of tutorials on YouTube. Me: Say no more! *Clicks buy button*

Random Steam review: This game has a vertical learning curve and will force you to watch hours of tutorials on YouTube. Me: Say no more! *Clicks buy button*

Before we are banned from the society of civilized nations, I just want to point out that "popular" is quite a stretch. This abomination is frequently on menus (to lure the sickos into revealing themselves), but I have only seen people actually order it a handful of times in my entire life.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w ago

In fact pineapple pairs well with ham on a pizza. I would not combine it with sausage or pepperoni. That said, I would probably draw the line at the banana pizza allegedly popular in Scandanvia: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/banan...

I went with another Robert Stone novel, A Flag for Sunrise (1977), and just finished it. Just as good as Dog Soldiers. Very 1970s, just the way I like them. Bleak and introspective, with no heroes but plenty of villains (who rarely have to face justice). The rest are victims or bystanders.

Tony Ingesson@tonyingesson.bsky.social · 4w ago

I just finished Robert Stone's 1974 novel Dog Soldiers, which was pretty good. All the characters are quite flawed and unsympathetic, the story is bleak, lots of 70s sleaze (heroin, porn theaters) and the Vietnam War as a backdrop, i.e. what's not to like!

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

TorgnyF@torgnyf.bsky.social · 2w ago

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Took the kids to the railway museum in Odense, noticed this piece of textbook maskirovka.

I listened to Andy Weber talk in person in Warsaw a few weeks ago, he's got a lot of great (and very interesting) stories about the efforts to secure and neutralize WMD materials in the 1990s.

John Sipher@johnsipher.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scary stuff! youtu.be/BU6lbfQAvoQ?...

I decided to go on a trip to Odense with the kids, got this lovely old-school suite for a very reasonable price. Exactly the sort of place I can appreciate.

Saab Turbos, electro pop & the legend that is Raymond Baxter (Spitfire pilot, rally driver, F1 commentator & Tomorrow’s World presenter.. what a CV!) & of course @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - what’s not to love?? Happy Friday!

Ricardo Autobahn - Kick The Pedal To The Floor (album version) (official video)

YouTube video by SPRAY

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Spent hours last night assembling a prototype demo device, including going back and forth to the garage to cut/trim the plastic casing. Then, just as I was going to boot it up to test it at 10:30 pm I realized I'd broken the microSD card. Which of course had not been backed up.

Currently tinkering and I wanted to test how a circuit would work under different voltages to see how many batteries I will need to run it. Time to break out the old Nokia AC/DC adaptor that has been with me since I was a kid. Amazing quality. It worked flawlessly again, of course.

It's funny, all the stuff I've seen posted today just makes me like Sam Neill even more. I grew up with Jurassic Park, and he's had cult status here in Sweden for decades as a beloved actor because of Ivanhoe (don't ask me to explain). Plus all his other accomplishments, he left quite a legacy.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3w ago

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

New multidisciplinary achievement unlocked: an article just published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology cites an article where I was first/main author, which was published in International Journal of Intelligence and Counterlntelligence.

To avoid misunderstandings: I don't claim to have a universal solution, I realize that what works for me will not necessarily work for someone else working under different conditions. My main fear is that someone will decide "No more take-home exams!" and that I won't be able to continue with this.

Tony Ingesson@tonyingesson.bsky.social · 4w ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is not my experience, at all. I started restructuring my courses a few years ago, when all this started, to incorporate more experience-based learning combined with take-home essays.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is not my experience, at all. I started restructuring my courses a few years ago, when all this started, to incorporate more experience-based learning combined with take-home essays.

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 4w ago

For those outside academia who are curious: as someone who has taught for ~25 years, many of us now face an existential crisis in assessing student work. Anything you haven't viewed a student actually writing down with their own hand is basically suspect; it's a shitty feeling, to put it bluntly

Either the transcription engine failed spectacularly or someone had quite a bit of fun here.

I'm making the vibe coded script for pulling Bibtex data public in case anyone wants to use it. I've been using it fairly extensively for a few days now and it's pretty useful, at least for me. The code is a bit messy but it works. github.com/tonyingesson...

Between walking the dog, chores and yard work I've been going through audio books at a pretty brisk pace lately so now I've been exploring the selection that's included in my Audible subscription. Fortunately, there's quite a lot of good 1970s stuff to be found there.

Excellent Swedish dramatic bird rescue content, with English subtitles!

Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢@myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · last mo.

Det här är mitt Sverige

Currently listening to my cat's favorite song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHzf...

Living In A Box - Living In A Box (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Chrysalis Records

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In today's procrastination news, I got annoyed by the poor performance of the database lookup feature in the different reference managers I'm using right now so I vibe coded a Python script that works exactly the way I want to and runs entirely in a terminal environment.

@gteb.bsky.social Jag fick precis ett nytt parfymprov i brevlådan via prenumerationen. Denna var en trevlig överraskning. Egentligen mer av en höst/vinter-parfym skulle jag säga, men den kommer att komma väl till pass längre fram. www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Elis...

Extrait Noir Elisire perfume - a fragrance for women and men 2021

"Black sun. Bewitching. Mysterious. Grandiose.
Aromatic Herbs. Beaming Spices. Vapors of Patchouli.
Essentially black. Rebel elegance, radical and mystical. Dark desire. Magnetic look, deep a...

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Working with a colleague who prefers LaTeX for once, which is lovely. We use Overleaf for collaborative writing and by setting up automatic sync, I can use Vim for the actual writing again for the first time in 10 years. How I've missed it! All the muscle memory commands are still there.

I found a copy of this old classic in an online auction, bought for the whopping sum of €2. It was released in 1991, only a few months later the Soviet Union collapsed. Clearly the KGB heard the relentless sound of early 90s minimalist techno and realized the game was up.

The Linnaeus University (southern Sweden) is inviting applications for 5-6 fully funded PhD positions in the arts and humanities, including #history, #arthistory and #religiousstudies. International applicants without prior knowledge of Swedish are encouraged to apply.