Martin Rundkvist

Archaeologist, table-top gamer, book worm, punster, science fan, blogger, Leftie, LGBTQ ally, Swede

#archaeology #ttrpg #boardgames #books #science #blogging #left #stockholm #sweden

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2026-04-03 13:32:53 UTC

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I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.
Instead it suggests that the US is an provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.
#science #nasa #artemis #space

2026-04-03 09:06:29 UTC

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NASA's use of Imperial measurements is similar to if US biologists started using species names in the Texas dialect instead of in Latin.
#science #nasa #artemis #space

2026-04-03 07:02:14 UTC

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OFFS "On the station, crews rely on more than 4,000 pounds of exercise hardware spread across roughly 850 cubic feet." 🙄
#science #nasa #artemis

2026-04-03 06:58:23 UTC

You know there's something wrong with US politics when NASA is forced to communicate in Imperial measurements.
"Orion’s main engine provides up to 6,000 pounds of thrust, enough to accelerate a car from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. At the time of the burn, Orion’s mass was 58,000 pounds and burned approximately 1,000 pounds of fuel during the firing."
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-day-2-orion-completes-tli-burn-crew-begins-journey-to-the-moon/
#space #artemis #nasa

2026-03-25 20:07:42 UTC

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@nprofile…xskq A.k.a. total dekadens

2026-03-22 21:17:53 UTC

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@nprofile…zqv6
Bit older than 1982, that horse (-;

2026-03-09 06:38:29 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq
Maybe bond-market actors do not have our best interests at heart.

2026-03-05 19:31:02 UTC

Is everyone using their Microsoft Encarta CD-ROMs a lot these days?

2026-03-03 09:14:30 UTC

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@nprofile…2cza
Det här påminner om den fullständigt obegripliga debatten i kommunerna om hur många idrottsplatser man behöver för ungdomarnas räkning. Ungdomar skall sitta hemma och läsa på fritiden!

2026-02-26 06:23:41 UTC

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@nprofile…8kn5
Vilka brottsrubriceringar?

2026-02-25 19:21:26 UTC

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Ni kan även boka @nprofile…2cza !
https://forfattarformedling.se/forfattare/ada-fredelius/

2026-02-25 17:43:55 UTC

Nu kan ni boka mig som föreläsare via Författarcentrum!
https://forfattarformedling.se/forfattare/martin-rundkvist/

2026-02-17 20:21:59 UTC

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@nprofile…8kn5
Hemsk sajt. För varje relevant jobbannons måste man scrolla förbi 20 ovidkommande inlägg för folk är hysteriskt entusiastiska över att de går nån kurs på sitt jobb. #LinkedIn är numera Facebook för tråkiga människor.

2026-01-23 18:34:52 UTC

@nprofile…e2pl , though a UK company, has really bad distribution to Scandinavian friendly local game stores. I wonder if they rely intentionally on mail order and download sales.
#ttrpg
@nprofile…s5kn

2025-10-19 20:01:21 UTC

Booked sleeper train to Hamburg and back for me and my wife. We're spending two of the dreariest weeks of Stockholm's year in my old buddy's from student days house in Latium!
#trains

2025-10-19 15:10:02 UTC

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I have made my friend David the gaming group's Chief of Military Affairs, because he's great at mastering combat rules and I am not. This means that the opponents in our #ttrpg fights actually behave competently! Every time the players get into a fight I give David the villains' stats and sit back, relieved. Highly recommended.
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2025-10-19 15:00:31 UTC

Swords of the Serpentine #ttrpg
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2025-10-19 06:57:46 UTC

#Goodmorning from cold, overcast Fisksätra. Today: prep scenario, vacuum house, cycle into town, gamemaster. And you?
#ttrpg

2025-10-18 19:35:30 UTC

Thundermother #rock #gig
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2025-10-18 19:23:59 UTC

Thundermother #rock #gig #Stockholm
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2025-10-18 17:51:09 UTC

Crown Electric #rock #gig
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2025-10-18 17:46:36 UTC

Crown Electric #rock #gig #Stockholm
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2025-10-18 16:36:35 UTC

In Scandy churches for centuries up to around 1800, dead members of the nobility and priesthood were often deposited in vaults under the church floor. The bodies decomposed in their coffins in these aereated spaces. The stench wafted freely up into the church itself. The congregation knew exactly who was stinking the place up during each service. People often vomited.
#archaeology

2025-10-18 15:22:32 UTC

#Stockholm
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2025-10-18 05:52:30 UTC

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@nprofile…4xgu
It's the lifestyle of heroes!

2025-10-18 05:45:51 UTC

#Goodmorning from hazy Fisksätra. Busy October Saturday:
* Cook Indian lentil soup with chickpeas
* Weed planting beds and trim bushes with neighbours on area cleaning day
* Feed neighbours soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
* Wikipedia meetup at café in town
* Nap and read at library
* Kebab
* Metal gig with Thundermother, and Crown Electric as openers
And you?

2025-10-17 13:49:27 UTC

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A realistic archaeology boardgame would be called "High Speed Railway Project".
#archaeology #boardgames

2025-10-17 12:47:35 UTC

Oh hey, here's a boardgame about #archaeology designed by people who have absolutely no idea!
I cannot begin to explain how extremely wrong everything about the tagline "Use archaeologists to collect relics from around the world" is. 😁
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/437101/the-royal-society-of-archeology
#boardgames

2025-10-17 12:11:56 UTC

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@nprofile…e3a9 What game?

2025-10-17 05:08:57 UTC

#Goodmorning from övercast Fisksätra. Today: online job interview, translate Stevenson, cycle into town, pub meetup with #ttrpg web forum. And you?

2025-10-16 09:51:59 UTC

Funny how Mötley Crüe, not exactly a chin-strokingly intellectual band, have such a literary, archaic name. Like something out of Elizabethan drama.
#metal

2025-10-16 09:06:47 UTC

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@nprofile…kml8 Dammit, had you already found a buyer for the scaffolding?!

2025-10-16 08:38:13 UTC

When you're like me, with parents who are first-generation university graduates who enjoyed *tuition-free higher ed* and *highly subsidised state student loans*, you come into the world with a rock-solid basic assumption:
*** If you are smart enough to be able to get a degree, and you don't, then you only have yourself to blame. ***
This completely determines our perspective on the post-1970s loss of jobs in manufacturing.
#highered

2025-10-16 07:10:25 UTC

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@nprofile…ytw6
Have you got a production contract for your play?

2025-10-16 06:16:20 UTC

Here's a really characteristic 1992 example of the great D&D cover artist Larry Elmore's style. Note the incomprehensible posing, where each figure looks reasonable on its own, but there's no interaction between them. Elmore always shows you the whole figure from the front, even though the situation would demand that one largely be behind the other or turned away from the viewer. Like amateur theatre.
#art #ttrpg #dnd
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2025-10-16 05:58:58 UTC

#Goodmorning from overcast Fisksätra. Today: translate, flip through gardening books, buy plants and soil for the remaining unrenovated 2 sqm of the planting box outside the gable end of our house. Because I already have eight rose bushes there. And you?

2025-10-15 09:22:48 UTC

Jehova's Witnesses just rang our doorbell for the first time in 18 years. I thought they'd quit doing that? I was super friendly and talked over them the whole time from the moment I opened the door, told them I lack the necessary spiritual talent and sent them on their way with a big sunny wave.

2025-10-15 09:09:02 UTC

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@nprofile…z7gr
Extremely low population density. No trespassing law. Rarely above 20 Celsius.

2025-10-15 09:04:49 UTC

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@nprofile…c680 "Horizontal at last": surely this means that you are celebrating your latest erotic conquest.

2025-10-15 06:22:59 UTC

When the history of the #climate collapse is written, it will be clear that the democratic countries couldn't do anything about it because of the voters and the campaign donors, and the autocratic countries didn't want to do anything about it. More generally, #capitalism had no incentive mechanism that would do anything about it.

2025-10-15 06:01:23 UTC

I opted out of #VR games. Now I'm opting out of #LLM text generators. You are welcome to join me with a cup of real tea at my real gaming table or on a hike in the real countryside on our own real feet.
The other day two of my friends and I hiked the woods, then had tea and played a simple boardgame at an outdoor table in the sun.
#hiking #boardgames #tea

2025-10-14 11:34:57 UTC

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@nprofile…uqy8
Borde inta alla disputerade jurister i SD-leden ha förklarat för dem varför det här är olämpligt? 😁

2025-10-14 07:02:47 UTC

Why is the Incredible Hulk wearing a Santa beard on the cover of this 1985 #horror solo adventure? They must have re-used this cover art from something else. But what!?
#ttrpg #comics
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2025-10-14 07:00:27 UTC

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@nprofile…c3f2
Du tror inte att byn bara flyttar ut ur schaktet i några sekler efter år 400?

2025-10-14 05:43:36 UTC

#Goodmorning from overcast Fisksätra. Today: translate, cycle, nap, maybe submit big job application. And you?

2025-10-13 13:16:10 UTC

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@nprofile…zdp7
Brindlewood Bay is an outlier in the category. It has very few and very general moves. The GM doesn't really *decide* when a player uses the Day Move or the Meddle Move. She may gently remind you to. Because that's how you do almost everything in the game.
#ttrpg

2025-10-12 19:59:03 UTC

För att alla tjejer skall förstå vilken spännande och farlig kille jag är så kan jag berätta att jag här om dagen skapade Wikipedia-artikeln PAPPSLÖJD.

2025-10-12 12:03:30 UTC

Nope, the grassy ribbons along the river did not yield any 1st millennium finds today. But the weather is lovely and the detectorists aren't too unhappy with the 19th & 20th agricultural scrap iron and brass waistcoat buttons they're picking up.
#archaeology
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2025-10-12 08:30:17 UTC

Metal detector collaboration #archaeology
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2025-10-11 12:26:37 UTC

I keep remembering the guy here on Mastodon with whom I talked earlier this year about a point of English usage, I think it was whether "a race" could refer to a family lineage. And the discussion ended when he told me that people who read pre-WW1 fiction are irrelevant when determining what is correct usage.

2025-10-11 12:24:08 UTC

Here's the selection I'm suggesting for #boardgames night.
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2025-10-11 05:18:28 UTC

#Goodmorning from golden-clouded Fisksätra. Today: vacuum house, cycle, grocery shopping, #boardgames night. And you?

2025-10-10 06:36:12 UTC

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@nprofile…skjy That in itself is a pretty clear sign of what's coming. The people buying gold have lost confidence in the bubble. This is the causal mechanism when bubbles burst.
#aibubble #ai #bubble #crash

2025-10-10 06:33:45 UTC

I am reading Dickens, downloaded from Project Gutenberg to my inexpensive Canadian tablet, which I mail-ordered online.
#books

2025-10-10 06:26:08 UTC

Wonder if I should buy gold or agricultural land or forest land to protect my life's puny savings from the AI crash.
#ai #crash

2025-10-10 05:06:56 UTC

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@nprofile…7pfn
There are many different machine learning techniques. I am a warm friend of the analytical ones where you e.g. show the machine laser altimetry models of 25 known charcoal production sites and then ask it to identify similar ones in a huge dataset. I am opposed to the use of LLMs to generate prose and answer factual questions. Because there is no intelligence there. It's autocomplete.
#llm #ai

2025-10-09 20:52:42 UTC

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Why should anyone care if the #AI industry is in fact killed? It's a technology that's explicitly intended to destroy jobs and enrich oligarchs. Fuck it.
#llm
@nprofile…pw7h

2025-10-09 20:21:53 UTC

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@nprofile…t3jf
Häng med nu! Det är till *Ungern* som det här regeringsunderlaget åker på studiebesök. Inte det demokratiska Tyskland.

2025-10-09 07:38:28 UTC

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@nprofile…pnpt
The Danish site is more like a source of references to physical registers. Fornsök has detailed information online about every grave mound in a cemetery and the finds made at a ploughed-over settlement site, geometry of a site's extent, and more.
https://app.raa.se/open/fornsok/
#archaeology

2025-10-09 07:35:09 UTC

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@nprofile…g6kk
Vi får tacka danskarna för att de tog på sig att finansiera och genomföra arbetet. 👍

2025-10-09 06:47:52 UTC

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@nprofile…hmet
Modern Swedish has EN SLIP with the same long i as in sliefen: a ramp at the shoreline for pulling ships or boats up for repairs.
#language

2025-10-09 06:28:47 UTC

There are only two points where Swedish #archaeology beats Danish archaeology.
1. Online national sites & monuments register is much more comprehensive
2. Rock art (because #Denmark only has rock outcrops on Bornholm)

2025-10-09 05:53:38 UTC

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@nprofile…hmet Tell us about your new entry, bitte!

2025-10-09 05:43:02 UTC

#Goodmorning from sunny Fisksätra where the leaves are changing colour. Today: work on job application, peer review manuscript, cycle. And you?

2025-10-08 17:32:00 UTC

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The people who wrote the descriptions of the Film Festival's movies have a completely different set of cinematic references than mine. They keep saying "This is similar to the classic 'Murky Budgerigar'" or "Clear influences from Nasturtia Wong", and I have no idea.
#movies

2025-10-08 16:39:38 UTC

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Red flags in movie descriptions:
DREAMLIKE
HYPNOTIC
MEDITATION
Zzzz...
#movies

2025-10-08 16:18:40 UTC

Checking out the programme of the Stockholm International Film Festival, just released. Here are my impressions of the 2024 festival.
https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/stockholm-international-film-festival-2024/
#movies

2025-10-08 07:58:51 UTC

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@nprofile…g6kk
Ett av de värsta problemen med LLMer är att de inte talar om hur stor sannolikheten är för att de skall skriva ett visst ord, och de vägrar aldrig att skriva någonting alls. Så man får en enda blandning av hög- och lågoddsare.

2025-10-08 07:18:52 UTC

Hehe. Millennials probably think they've got the wildest sexual practises so far in world history. 😄
#sex

2025-10-08 07:16:58 UTC

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@nprofile…g6kk
LLMen kan bara svara på en fråga: "Vilket är mest sannolikt nästa ord här givet de texter jag har tränat på?"

2025-10-08 06:51:18 UTC

My exam habits for archaeology 101 students are #LLM proof. I like to give them a sheet with 30 questions. You can get max 2 pts each. You are allowed to reply with max 3 sentences each. You do this with pen and paper, live in a room with your fellow students.
#teaching #academia

2025-10-07 18:33:37 UTC

Built-in human tribalism: religious people get way more angry if you tell them that their faith in particular is ridiculous than if you tell them that you consider all belief in incorporeal beings ridiculous.
#religion #spirituality

2025-10-07 07:06:47 UTC

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@nprofile…g6kk Hör av dig om det är något fynd du vill diskutera från Hyllie!

2025-10-07 05:55:48 UTC

#Goodmorning from sunny Fisksätra. Today: translate, nap, cycle, put notes in the neighbours' mail boxes about area gardening day. And you?

2025-10-06 11:18:00 UTC

Steal the Unemployed Swedish Archaeology Professor look #fashion
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2025-10-06 09:07:46 UTC

We're celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with lunch at an #Uigur restaurant. Do the math, Beijing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

2025-10-06 05:37:39 UTC

#Goodmorning from Fisksätra. Today: look for jobs, accompany wife to haematologist to see how her post-bike-crash thrombosis is doing, lunch at new Uigur place, translate at National Library, watch a new Thai movie. And you?

2025-10-04 13:47:47 UTC

Taught & played the #boardgames I brought, Pergamon & Tichu, plus the first 1/4 of a game of Catan, had a Thai lunch and a nap. Two hours from now I'm running Vaesen, but I've only got two players scheduled so we'll see.
#ttrpg #convention

2025-10-04 05:49:24 UTC

#Goodmorning from a bus. I'm headed for the small Baltic Coast town of Norrtälje, for a weekend of #boardgames and #ttrpg s at a gaming convention. Looking forward to meeting people and seeing how they interact with my Vaesen scenarios! And you?

2025-10-03 12:50:34 UTC

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@nprofile…7pfn
Cool! I've only read the 1st book, decades ago. They say it gets pretty weird after that. I hated the 80s movie, loved the two 20s movies.
#dune

2025-10-02 19:03:45 UTC

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@nprofile…jqth
Problemet är väl att de svenska politiska begreppen "borgerligheten" och "borgerlig politik" inte existerar nere på kontinenten. Jag är lika osäker som du på det franska ordets valör. Men jag tror att ordet är mycket mera nedsättande på engelska än på franska.
Idag är den svenska borgerligheten en rätt förvirrad kategori som verkar exkludera Centern men inkludera SD-fascisterna, vilka i stor utsträckning är lika lantliga som Centern.

2025-10-02 18:32:06 UTC

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@nprofile…paff They couldn't renew my contract because Ukraine invasion --> high gas price --> university's finances fucked. We parted as friends.

2025-10-02 18:28:33 UTC

I miss Poland.

2025-10-02 15:46:16 UTC

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@nprofile…4lyy You are a Jaguar Man!

2025-10-02 15:23:21 UTC

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@nprofile…4lyy Cool! What was your thesis about?

2025-10-02 14:32:24 UTC

Hehe, det här var roligt. När mikropartiet Borgerlig Framtid (numera Medborgerlig Samling) skaffade sig ett officiellt namn på engelska valde de "Bourgeois Future".
Det var inte alldeles fel, men man missade ordets valör helt. För "bourgeois" betyder på engelska vanligen ungefär "överdrivet konventionell och materialistisk".
RÖSTA PÅ OSS FÖR EN ÖVERDRIVET KONVENTIONELL OCH MATERIALISTISK FRAMTID!
😄
#svpol

2025-10-02 08:56:31 UTC

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@nprofile…qlah
Man blir inte biten i röven av sina regelbrott omedelbart.

2025-10-02 06:05:48 UTC

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A look at the top #boardgames about archaeologists. Not about the past.
https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/boardgame-review-pergamon/

2025-10-02 05:06:57 UTC

I'm bringing two games to this weekend's convention, Nördhelg Norrtälje. Come play Pergamon and Vaesen with an archaeologist!
#archaeology #ttrpg
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2025-10-01 20:34:28 UTC

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@nprofile…32ul He was middle management in advertising and industry until age 63, then became a carpenter!

2025-10-01 19:45:44 UTC

Demographic observation: the side of my family that doesn't do higher education produced four generations way faster than the side that does.
At heart, my dad is a passionate and talented carpenter who ran into a posh girl at age 19 and was then pushed to get a very hard-won BA.

2025-10-01 07:24:38 UTC

I see this newspaper article about second-hand clothes stores. And I think to myself, yeah, I should buy more second-hand clothes! Then I remember that I never actually buy any clothes at all. Just socks every two years or so.
#fashion #shopping #secondhand

2025-10-01 07:18:40 UTC

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@nprofile…g6kk Gratulerar!

2025-10-01 05:56:25 UTC

When I was a kid, my parents used to make me and my buddies get out of the house and take a walk in the middle of our day-long RPG sessions. Little did I know that I would one day take a long bike ride or even a long hike in the woods every day of my own accord.

2025-10-01 05:50:25 UTC

#Goodmorning from overcast Fisksätra. Today: apply for jobs,* translate Stevenson, give interview to archivist researcher, cycle, tea with old dad, laundry. And you?
* Not because there are any where my CV is useful, but because it's Oct 1, the #unemployment benefit demands that I apply for a given number of jobs each month, and I like to get this covered early.

2025-09-30 14:16:00 UTC

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@nprofile…w0xp
Way to antagonise your customers for no gain.

2025-09-30 14:12:30 UTC

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@nprofile…w0xp
What is the rationale behind apps that I'm not allowed to uninstall?

2025-09-30 13:00:44 UTC

Voicemail on my cell phone? NO! Certainly not!

2025-09-30 11:05:31 UTC

One of the first eight plant species domesticated in the Fertile Crescent is a cattle feed crop: bitter vetch, Vicia ervilia. Almost inedible to people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_ervilia

2025-09-30 06:40:56 UTC

Duvnäs #morning
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