@magdalenaandersson.socialdemokraterna.se Troligen hänger du inte här fortfarande Magdalena men om du gör det så läs den här analysen.

”If you, as the far right, know that your centrist opponent is committed to trying to give you what you want, you just keep asking for stuff.” Briliant analysis! Nails it!

Here’s a nice detail of the frontispiece of W. H. Ryff, New Kochbuech fuer die Krancken (1545). Hagströmer library, collection of the Swedish pharmaceutical society. Cooking for the sick and infirm in the 16th C!

Another milestone in the (still too slow) clean-energy transition: Wind and solar produced more of the world's electricity than fossil gas for the first time ever in April ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

During his talk at RBS, James Malin—not on Bsky—showed this title page from a 19th-century catalog for Alfred Nobel’s Nitro-Glycerin Company I’d like to nominate this image for the most metal cut in print history—we need to make something with it for Halloween @skeuomorphpress.org

Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2026/05/viki... great research by @medivalist.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social #medieval #Vikings #Abbasids

A Japanese oil tanker has crossed the Strait of Hormuz after paying transit fees to Iran in Chinese yuan, according to official Iranian media.

I'm obsessed with this! From the incomparable Bette Midler . . . 🤩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj5...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...? A researcher at Gothenburg U made up a skin problem caused by too much screentime, and uploaded a popular science piece and "preprints" online. Soon, LLMs would treat the condition as real, and the fake study cited in real medical papers.

”I went to a French restaurant accompanied by four very well dressed poets. We all ordered steaks with pepper. When the steaks arrived, we rubbed them all over our clothes, soaking ourselves in the sauce. Once this was accomplished, we ordered the same thing again and repeated the act. … ”

Leeches! By Per Boström. Tonight’s lecture at the Hagströmer Library. Don’t think we ever had as many questions as we did this evening.

By the way, tomorrow #Finland will have been independent for longer than we were a part of the Russian Empire. Finland had been part of Russia for a total of 39,526 days. It will be 39,526 days since independence on Monday, February 23, 2026. suomenkuvalehti.fi/mielipide/ol...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

UNKNOVVVN CLOUDS at HoboBar, Stockholm tonight.

This piece by Rebecca Solnit is one of the most deeply moving explorations of what tech takes from us, how it transforms us, how it demands we become more like it and less human, that I've read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Yes, this is my hand holding a real unicorn (narvahl) horn!

Today I’m giving a lecture on the continuation of alchemy in the 18th century. Come and listen if your in Wroclaw, Poland. If not you just have to miss out! hist.uwr.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration https://theonion.com/diplomatic-talks-break-down-between-trump-motion-activated-ghost-decoration/

A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.

This may been the best climate news I have ever seen. Chinese greentech manufacturing investments utside of China, that is industrial infrastructure, not sales, now equals Marshal Plan. Investments are ”straightforwardly good for climate” and focuses on Global South.

”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.” William Morris, How I Became a Socialist (1894).

BREAKING: Ireland will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year if Israel is allowed to take part, RTE has announced news.sky.com/story/irelan...

45 mins of deep talk about alchemy with the briliant Per Faxneld. I just wish I hadn’t been hungover.

Note the quote by Mark Twain. Book release by historian Anders Ottosson tonight. An interesting story of how American and English medical actors invisibilized the Swedish origins of chiropractic and osteopathy.

Reading the Swedish National Library’s copy of Jacqueline Van Gent’s marvellous book ’Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden’ and find that a previous reader has made a marginal annotation referencing my work!

"generera en bild av svenska kungalängden"

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: buff.ly/BsB17aj It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

You Are Getting... Generous! Go support LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology (which was just on fire!!) and get deeply odd swag like this levitating lenticular homunculus (?). Read about the museum and fire here: lawrenceweschler.substack.com/p/july-17-20... Donate/join here: www.mjtgiftshop.org

My sock got toe teeth!

Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social discussed the shift in focus from sensory experience and sensory-derived, embodied knowledge, towards an approach that prioritised the kinds of knowledge derived from analytical chemistry. Embodied knowledge is crucial for Preservare as well. #14ichc

Daniel Sabater Salabert, _Eso es progreso humano_. Detail. At the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.

Även i Valencia påminns man om existensen av Borås…

Lukas J. Meier, Our Hagströmer fellow of 2025 lecture on Icepicks, brains and Nobel Prizes: the history of lobotomies in Sweden. Briliant stuff.

Har använt word sen början av 90-talet. Snart troligen helt oanvändbart pga enshittification med påtvingad värdelös AI-funktion. Som att ha en demon som sitter på axeln och låtsas hjälpa en, men som egentligen försöker lura en till helvetet.

The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of-the-khawalat-urges-us-to-rethink-how-we-preserve-trans-histories/

The board of Uppsala University has called on the Swedish government to condemn Israel’s actions, to resume funding UNRWA, and take all available measures (including trade sanctions against Israel) to prevent a genocide in Gaza (see: www.uu.se/en/news/2025...). I urge Lund University to do the same.

Visited the Ytterby mine today. Eight chemical elements (rare earths) were discovered in mineral specimen from this site. The site is beautiful but very low key like most heritage sites connected to Swedish history of science.

Vilka amerikanska kulturuttryck kommer man sakna o vilja hålla fast vid nu när USA gör sig allmänt omöjligt i världen? Blå canvasbyxor? Hackebiff serverad i fralla?

Auzoux model made from papier mache (late 19th C.) A recent addition to the Hagströmer library collections courtesy of the Friends of the Library.

Outside Tesla in Manhattan

On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape the Soviet Union and the communism that brought only suffering and poverty. This power stretched 600 km. Last days of USSR

An interesting thing for me as an European is the present US self-destructionism. Do Americans realize how fast the US can become globally insignificant when it can’t project military power anymore? Cultural and industrial influence goes next. Bye bye global hegemony of blue jeans and hamburgers.

Anyone else who feels like this today?