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Karl Lyktberg

@swesteel.bsky.social

I like some things, other things not so much. Taking guesses on how long til Twitter is shuttered. Swede but not the vegetable.

created September 29, 2023

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Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I can recommend Legoland in Denmark as an alternative, they have jousting in the summer of I remember correctly.

3/9/2025, 7:53:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I just want everyone to stop calling it AI until it asks of it has a soul.

27/8/2025, 7:58:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

The only way to enjoy a foot long.

27/8/2025, 3:30:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture šŸ’‰Josh Rubin, MD 🩺 (@drsandman11.medsky.social) reposted

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme
27/8/2025, 3:14:51 PM | 12055 3185 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I was told that I’m a dumb europoor that need to stop all the raping muslims from taking over. Also I’m overreacting.

26/8/2025, 8:45:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe of it was the Telegraph?

26/8/2025, 3:54:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Shocking.

26/8/2025, 3:53:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Right up until the bombs start going off.

26/8/2025, 3:38:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Rich coming from that guy.

25/8/2025, 6:02:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

My favorite swedish newspaper did a dissection, pretty much no wars have actually stopped thanks to Trump, but at least he hasn’t invaded Canada.

25/8/2025, 5:07:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to know less about the world now. Just completely fed up.

20/8/2025, 5:13:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

The best way to show love of your country.

20/8/2025, 5:07:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€Make moneys inn yuor spar tyme!ā€

20/8/2025, 2:21:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WIRED (@wired.com) reposted

Guess what DOGE cuts have impacted? Ant-smuggling. "It's getting out of hand," a black market seller tells us. "They realize the US market is a gold mine." Yeah... here's WTH is going on: 🐜🧵

20/8/2025, 1:57:06 PM | 259 93 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€I’m in the glove box.ā€

20/8/2025, 10:25:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture šŸŒ™Sonny RossšŸŒž (@sonnyross.bsky.social) reposted

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption ā€œI don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loserā€ with a severed hand with too many fingers
15/8/2025, 11:37:50 PM | 21782 7722 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why she stole Mrs Obama’s speech, she can’t write anything worthwhile herself.

17/8/2025, 1:30:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

No, her PR team, or the White House’s, sat down and inflicted this on the world because they remembered the First Lady should also do things sometimes.

17/8/2025, 10:12:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Same group of college dropouts that write Trump’s truths did this.

17/8/2025, 10:09:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

It doesn’t actually ask him to do anything, just a bunch of poor flowery cliches strung together.

17/8/2025, 10:07:01 AM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Bet Trump wrote that and they just add it in as clipart.

17/8/2025, 10:04:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, letting the harvest rot because the immigrants are afraid to work the fields also helps.

16/8/2025, 11:44:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 8:42:37 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

They know about England, not the conquered colonies.

13/8/2025, 8:49:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€Machine generated trashā€ doesn’t roll off the tongue…

10/8/2025, 9:46:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/8/2025, 7:23:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Geoghegan (@petergeoghegan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office. Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us. A Ā£6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. šŸ˜”

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7/8/2025, 7:30:38 AM | 473 180 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

It fit twenty years ago.

2/8/2025, 12:02:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

It is almost a qualifier in itself.

30/7/2025, 1:27:32 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to unsee this please.

29/7/2025, 4:23:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Still relevant: youtu.be/tIsXEkR5OVs?...

22/7/2025, 5:33:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

It is an eternal sorrow that some people didn’t get the kick in the fruit and veg they deserved.

19/7/2025, 6:32:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Half a miracle if he survives this.

19/7/2025, 6:17:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/7/2025, 6:15:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Ford Prefect counting aloud to remind the computers they can be replaced was a thing I read in the nineties and it is scarily prescient.

19/7/2025, 6:12:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Can’t wait for an AI driven robot holding a dying 78 year old’s hand. Who needs people anyway.

19/7/2025, 6:07:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€Abusiveā€ Male lead at that.

19/7/2025, 5:59:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€If I serve they’ll accept meā€ is a wild conclusion when the USA has deported a lot of veterans.

19/7/2025, 8:58:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

There enough red flags hold an old style USSR parade.

16/7/2025, 9:23:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

That lobby spent decades to ensure americans are the most unhealthy people on the planet, no way they’re letting the trophy stealer do this.

16/7/2025, 9:16:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

He isn’t wrong in a way, but I highly doubt the corn syrup lobby will allow this.

16/7/2025, 9:06:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social)

Lmao the first ā€supporterā€ doesn’t even show his face.

15/7/2025, 8:52:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Give it six months?

14/7/2025, 5:48:05 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Because facists can’t govern.

13/7/2025, 8:35:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dmitry Grozoubinski (@explaintrade.com) reposted

Despite being the only white man in his 30's without a Substack, I still wanted to write something long-form about why I think the Trump administration's trade strategy is struggling to extract meaningful ransoms. Hope you find it interesting! www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...

8/7/2025, 12:05:25 PM | 160 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol, lmao even.

11/7/2025, 5:38:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

The brilliant administration that tariffed penguins has yet another galaxy brain moment.

11/7/2025, 5:36:43 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Went from ā€rogue stateā€ to ā€conned the US presidentā€ in record time.

11/7/2025, 5:35:18 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Would depend on the bribe he’d get.

11/7/2025, 5:33:00 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

No, only the bad parts remember? At least they can’t fry our brains via implants just yet.

1/7/2025, 8:18:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I think Kathleen would do wonderfully in the current health Department.

1/7/2025, 8:10:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

They do carry right?

1/7/2025, 8:06:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean these judges?

1/7/2025, 8:05:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Facists always end up eating each other.

1/7/2025, 3:47:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone else would buy that company I bet.

1/7/2025, 7:47:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s just daring Trump to do it.

1/7/2025, 7:46:07 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Makes me think of super hero comics, which certainly has some connections to New York.

30/6/2025, 3:31:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Jake Tapper will explain how Nadler is actually an anti semite tomorrow.

30/6/2025, 3:20:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

*Talked and wrote

30/6/2025, 2:09:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Depressingly more likely to work than most.

30/6/2025, 2:06:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

What he really wants is a class of people that get preferential treatment in every way, and to be part of that class. Everything else is just noise.

30/6/2025, 1:20:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alan Stewart (@laikaalan.bsky.social) reposted

Andor Characters and Their Counterparts in ā€˜Allo ā€˜Allo 1. Dedra Meero and Private Helga Geerhart.

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Profile picture -šš–šš˜šš” (@moxiest.art) reposted

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

11/6/2025, 12:34:53 PM | 32985 10005 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€Are you suggesting we ask for police protection?ā€ -Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch

11/6/2025, 4:18:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture megan farokhmanesh (@megannicolett.bsky.social) reposted

looking to talk to game devs in the US here on visas. is that you? please get in touch! meganfarokhmanesh.76 on signal, open DMs, megan_farokhmanesh@wired.com

11/6/2025, 3:27:17 PM | 103 98 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

9/6/2025, 7:43:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I keep hearing ā€Sleep now in the fireā€ in the back of my head.

7/6/2025, 10:47:59 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luckless pedestrian. (@hitcher.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Jeremy Lindenfeld. Paramount CA skater flipping off ICE.
7/6/2025, 10:26:36 PM | 1367 165 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Met a skater from SF who at one point did a backslide on asphalt. They kind of don’t have nerves anymore after enough wipes.

7/6/2025, 10:44:15 PM | 69 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

New RAtM album cover looks lit.

7/6/2025, 10:42:01 PM | 238 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like this.

31/5/2025, 3:40:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never thought the ā€I made it tf upā€ meme would be official government policy.

31/5/2025, 3:38:11 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, but only during winter months.

30/5/2025, 8:16:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/5/2025, 8:12:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/5/2025, 8:10:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m fairly certain we mostly don’t see the US programming. Thank god.

30/5/2025, 8:09:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kenney (@kenney.nl) reposted

A few years back Make-a-Wish reached out to me. There was a kid whose dream was to create a game inspired by The Mandalorian. I invited him over, and together we built a game fulfilling his dream! ✨ (The game can't be shared, for legal reasons) Please be kind to each other!

28/5/2025, 7:51:16 AM | 1183 128 | View on Bluesky | view

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They know the facists in charge will try to punish them, we’ve had the american embassy trying to tell domestic swedish companies that they can’t do DEI.

17/5/2025, 4:32:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I want this in the next post apocalypse game I play.

17/5/2025, 4:29:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reality making art.

17/5/2025, 4:29:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Berrak (@berrak.bsky.social) reposted

hey friends/followers, I am still looking for some frontend/web CONTRACT work, I have immediate availability, 10+ years of experience with modern stack, including React, Vue etc., in addition to great CSS skills I recently completed a personal, open-source project funded by the German government

15/5/2025, 3:40:08 PM | 13 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I actually saw someone explain it as chinese manufacturers just lowering their prices. As if they have massive margins to eat with.

17/5/2025, 4:01:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Also ā€this is Biden’s fault.ā€

17/5/2025, 3:22:36 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

When you run for office, it's a given that people will spread lies about you — but this morning, Politico made a baseless accusation I take very seriously. So I wanted to address it directly.

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Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

I need a pro snarker to help me with this one.

16/5/2025, 11:30:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Farage just made his brilliant nonsensical net zero migration statement, and Labour still think they can somehow appease the voters who like that kind of idiocy.

16/5/2025, 10:41:03 AM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

Musk seemed very sensible until he fired his PR team.

16/5/2025, 7:49:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Might be the only way I’d ever listen to Ted Cruz.

16/5/2025, 7:41:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€Someone else skims them for me and then I talk to them about it. Also that ā€personā€ has no ability to critically think or reason. Sometimes they hallucinate.ā€

16/5/2025, 7:40:57 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why I hate the very terminology of this era; this isn’t ai, this is algorithms mirroring shit someone else has said and using the user to refine itself into better mirroring. There is no built in reason or thought, just white genocide in South Africa being very controversial.

16/5/2025, 7:37:16 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karl Lyktberg (@swesteel.bsky.social) reply parent

As the evergreen optimist I say: ā€Yes, it can always get worse!ā€ And so can they.

16/5/2025, 7:19:30 AM | 41 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Best I can do is a year’s subscription to marmelade of the month.

15/5/2025, 7:59:50 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I couldn’t say.

14/5/2025, 8:00:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He had to do unspeakable acts to get it to do this much.

14/5/2025, 7:18:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The real ā€winā€ for americans is that the UK exports pharmaceuticals to the US, and those would hopefully avoid Trump’s upcoming new pharma tariffs. Gotta love it when damage mitigation is the closest a win you can get.

11/5/2025, 9:35:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€The poor people are miserable, just like they should be.ā€

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