KSverre

@KSverre

Drummer, father of three, advisor at TRY Dig

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Joined April 2008

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KSverre @KSverre

about 1 year ago

Finely, a real meaningful push back to Trump: https://t.co/ZbgF79mlbg

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Melvin E. Edwards @edwards21228

about 2 years ago

This remains my favorite post ever that's not about my family.

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CALL TO ACTIVISM

@CalltoActivism

almost 3 years ago

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

$CalltoActivism's tweet photo. A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White$

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KSverre @KSverre

almost 3 years ago

I Europa er det kun Norge, Albania og Danmark som mangler skolemat i grunnskolen.

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Mats A. Kristiansen

@matsandre

CEO & Co-founder of Take Take Take

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TRY Creative Tech @TRYcreativetech

about 4 years ago

Fun with a Kinect 🕺 #creativecoding #touchdesigner #kinect By @syverlauritz

KSverre @KSverre

over 4 years ago

@ZelenskyyUa 🇺🇦!

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

over 4 years ago

Не вірте фейкам.

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KSverre @KSverre

over 5 years ago

😂

Brent O @OnlineDetective

over 5 years ago

@jaketapper Sooo...Giuliani plans media presser at a SHIT SHOP (fertilizer) next door to a DILDO STORE and across the street from a CREMATORIUM! Alrighty then...the optics: RUDY - DILDOS - SHIT - DEATH! So... when you (painfully) think about it, there is a sort of twisted logic to it.

KSverre @KSverre

over 5 years ago

@BBGRacks @realDonaldTrump Good for you - what took you so long?

KSverre @KSverre

almost 6 years ago

Nearly all Black Lives Matter protests are peaceful despite Trump narrative, report finds https://t.co/d0XAhs99Vo

KSverre @KSverre

over 6 years ago

@HKN_Hallingdal Kan bekrefte at stømmen er tilbake 👌

KSverre @KSverre

over 6 years ago

@HKN_Hallingdal 👍

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Anine Kierulf @anineki

almost 7 years ago

Kjære skolelever: Vi vil gjerne lære dere om demokrati og ytringsfrihet ved å vise at vi ikke respekterer noen av delene. https://t.co/yLp1WQS5qP

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KSverre @KSverre

almost 7 years ago

Nei @kjellingolf det tar ikke 1 minutt å smøre matpakker. @GratisSkolemat

KSverre @KSverre

about 7 years ago

Spot on @kjetilba 👌

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Logikksjekk.no @logikksjekk

over 8 years ago

Ukens #logikksjekk: Etterretningssjefens logiske bomskudd. Vi ser på Generalløytnant Morten Haga Lundes tilsvar til @jonwesselaas på @NRKDebatt. @Forsvarsdep @anineki @BakkeJensen @nrknyheter https://t.co/jNZAWhqUFs