Notices by Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social), page 3

Imagine telling someone in 1900 that yeah, we have sex without a thought about babies or marriage, and anybody can study to be an archbishop even if they haven't got any money. In Scandinavia, that is.

Hey Americans, did you know that in Scandinavia we don't even understand what "trust fund" or "putting our kids through college" means? Because everybody gets government-subsidised study loans, and there's no tuition fees.

#highered #socialism

@amszmidt
Javisst, men predatorer är också biologiskt värdefulla arter. För mig är det inget problem att de käkar rådjur.

@amszmidt
Minken är invasiv, så den skall bara bort. Det är inte nöjesjakt.

Men jag inser inte varför någon skall skjuta mård eller räv?

@amszmidt
Förlåt, jag förstår inte vad du frågar mig.

@JoWa
Varghatet drivs av att vargar dödar jakthundar, och folk uppfattar sina hundar som familjemedlemmar. Det finns mycket fler jägare än fårbönder i Sverige.

@JoWa
Det kan jag väl hålla med om ifall nöjesjakt är när man skjuter djur utan att någon äter dem sedan.

Däremot tycker jag att hushållsjakt på älg, rådjur, dovhjort, vildsvin, vildren, hare, orre och tjäder är bra. De har inte ett spår av det rovdjurstryck som ett balanserat ekosystem skulle ge. Och ur djuretisk synvinkel är älgkött ojämförligt mycket bättre än ICAs fläskkarré.

#jakt

Eventually the historians will find the evidence for him being a Russian asset since about 1980. But it's already too late now, of course. #Democracy means, among other things, that morons get to vote for crooks.

In the 1950s, 60 years after the only comprehensive campaign of excavations in the Roman temple precinct on the hilltop above #Terracina, some bastards knocked three wide holes for a road through the 1st century BC defensive wall and ran a major programme of reconstruction on top of the insufficiently excavated ruins. I bet it was the same fucker who had a spa hotel built up top next to the ruins.

#archaeology #Italy

My youngest was given an aggravatingly pointless exercise in her middle school nat-science class. It was labelled as a scientific experiment.

They gave her instructions for how to extract a clear viscous substance from grass. "And this", concluded the exercise, "is DNA!"

No theory was suggested or tested. They were just told to go through some motions and then believe an unsupported claim. A travesty of #science.

The children of poorly educated MAGA voters deserve good healthcare too. But they are the ones that are mostly going to be denied #vaccines and die needlessly of preventable diseases. Idiocracy.

#vaccination #health

Small interview study looks into why many immigrants to Sweden don't vote in general elections. One common reply was "I don't know enough about Swedish politics to make an informed choice."

That's admirable, but you know what? NO SUCH CONSIDERATIONS ARE STOPPING EQUALLY IGNORANT PEOPLE FROM VOTING FOR THE FASCISTS WHO WANT TO KICK YOU OUT.

https://etidning.etc.se/p/dagens-etc/2025-11-24/a/darfor-rostar-vissa-grupper-inte-i-de-allmanna-valen/4987/2046154/67680584

#immigration #fascism #democracy

Sweden is a multi-party democracy with proportional representation, so I've always lived with the idea that there are people who have very different political opinions than me. I never saw them as stupid or evil, just misguided.

With the rise of the #fascist party over the past 15 years though, I have come to a very different position. I'm violently disgusted by these voters and politicians. I don't want to be a citizen of the same country as them. They are beyond the pale of basic decency.

Man vet att det är en SD-representant som pratar när det finns en ambition om att använda ett gammalmodigt språk men de inte riktigt får till det. Bristande kulturellt kapital.

"... egenskaper som vi tror kommer vara till *stor gagn* för partiets fortsatta arbete ..."

/ Mattias Eriksson Falk, SD:s valberedning

#svpol #svenska

Again:

Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #Google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links and trusted sites, like in the 90s. I’m fine with that. You'll find my writing at my blog URL, as always.

#ai #llm #www

I run an office suite, a web browser and an image editing program. I had all the computing power I needed 10-15 years ago. You hear that, IT industry? There's a market segment that quit caring about your R&D 10-15 years ago. But being profit-motivated, you don't care about people who want to buy long-lasting stuff, right?

There's a Viking-themed version of the Mörk Borg RPG crowdfunding now. It's named RAGNA BORG. This is funny, because it's a woman's name. When I was a kid, an old lady might be named Ragna Borg. It's like the big Viking hero in Assassin's Creed, Eivor. Also an old lady's name.

#ttrpg

Come to think of it, you can do worse as a trans girl than grow up with a dad that sits the whole family down to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show when you're 14.

Funny thing -- I'm an unemployed middle-aged white man who will never make as much money as my dad did. And still I don't feel any attraction to #fascism.

Swords of the Serpentine #ttrpg