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Jackson Crawford

@norsebysw.bsky.social

Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube since 2016. Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. Second Edition of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out.

207 Followers  |  206 Following  |  38 Posts  |  Joined: 03.09.2025  |  2.3477

Latest posts by norsebysw.bsky.social on Bluesky

Thinking how Stephen Bannon got fired in 2017 because Trump got mad that people were saying he's the real president. Probably wouldn't work with Miller because they only feed Trump AI slop now. They got him in the Professor X rig watching videos of himself leading troops in battle

06.10.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3799    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 13

Post: Damn, salt really does make everything better πŸ˜‚

Reply: Really. What about the death of a loved one

26.11.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8098    πŸ” 710    πŸ’¬ 224    πŸ“Œ 46

Holy fucking shit grocery prices.

04.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 21

AI, brought to you by the people who brought you β€œyou liked a video about a swan so here are 45,261 straight swan videos” and β€œyou searched for and bought a couch so your ads are for couches until 2032.”

04.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 361    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0
Sleepy time bear

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

19.07.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8084    πŸ” 1490    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 79

TARIFFS PAYABLE ON DELIVERY

I WILL FEED SCOTT BESSENT TO MORBO’S GOOD FRIEND GODZILLA

bsky.app/profile/adam...

04.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

03.10.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 974    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 13

If the NFL sucks then how did the Bills produce this masterpiece?

03.10.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 12

Asking the barber for a Druid haircut and offering no further explanation

03.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

03.10.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10101    πŸ” 1644    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 78

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

03.10.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2759    πŸ” 752    πŸ’¬ 329    πŸ“Œ 166

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

02.10.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 14106    πŸ” 2682    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 104

I’m 53. Kaleb Horton was 35. I realize now that he’s gone that I was counting on him to both outlive me and save our culture from the abyss. Fuck.

28.09.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cool. My healthcare premiums went way up and my job has frozen wages

29.09.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Originally tweeted March 17, 2017

03.10.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He had the strength of ten men and the confidence of twelve morons.

03.10.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Rise of MAGA Christian Identity Plus: The crocodile comes to eat Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL.

"Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much Christian teaching. It has become another tribal association jockeying for power and pursuing grievances.

The problem is when religions devolve into identitarian movements, bad things happen."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

03.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1170    πŸ” 299    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 19

My guess is Trump's understanding of the chronology is so poor that he doesn't realize the 22nd Amendment was a *response* to FDR's 4 terms in office & he thinks it's something FDR somehow "got away with." And if there's anything that tempts him it's to get away with whatever someone else famous has

03.10.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re approaching this being real

03.10.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

I still have no idea what to tell people when they ask me how to gain Youtube subscribers but I do know how to *lose* them and that’s by posting videos

03.10.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

of course Vance is the drummer

03.10.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If someone is trying to do work in good faith, we should stand them up. The people doing work in bad faith not only have all the mutual support in the world, they also have all of the funding. If we can't even get each other's backs, no one's gonna make it.

03.10.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

03.10.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3833    πŸ” 1092    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 29

It’s 2037 and my microwave is prompting me to download the Hot Pocket Plus Pass for $9.99 a month

02.10.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1225    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 15

Someone gave my psychotic stalker an invite to Sora and he’s already making AI videos of me. Thankful that Sora has the option to block and delete unapproved content with my image. This is a dangerous man who runs hundreds (yes hundreds) of accounts dedicated to me.

02.10.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 315    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3
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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

02.10.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1230    πŸ” 688    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 194

Bullies don't win fights; they win forfeits. Show up, and they fold.

02.10.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Facebook found out I’m a Mets fan and now I’m getting content for the angriest, dumbest sports guys imaginable instead of anything else and I really do think the problem with America right now is that our phones are machines that run software that exists to make us angry. Being mad is the enemy.

02.10.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6
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I’ll be back at @boulderbookstore.bsky.social once again later this month for a short live in-person talk, reading, and signing of the 2nd edition of my Poetic Edda translation! Tickets at boulderbookstore.net/events

02.10.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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