Olle Björklund

From the first atoms after the Big Bang to consciousness, stars in our blood, and the search for meaning in an indifferent universe. Who are we, really — and why are we here? 🌌 Link to the essay in the replies below 👇

@pmarca Super)🤣💥🧠👌❤️

Make Technology Fun Again

@Labourheartland 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤮

Westminster has built a country where we spend more money on the planning paperwork for a single road than it costs other nations to build an entire mountain tunnel. This isn't a system accidentally strangled by red tape: it is a highly lucrative industry. A vast priesthood of consultants and lawyers is making a fortune they have no interest in the work being done. It is corruption by bureaucracy, and working-class communities are footing the bill for projects that never even see a spade in the ground. The absolute paralysis of modern Britain was laid bare in a recent parliamentary committee. A single witness gave them the truth with both barrels, exposing the administrative vampires sucking public money dry while the work goes undone. The details are an insult to every community waiting for homes, decent transport, and cheaper energy. Take the Lower Thames Crossing. The planning application alone has swallowed more than a quarter of a billion pounds. For that exact same amount, Norway actually constructed the world’s longest road tunnel. We spent it on paper, and we have not even turned a sod of earth. This is a permission state eating itself alive. Look at HS2, the most expensive railway line on earth. Part of the reason it cost so much is that we are spending £121 million on a specific "bat tunnel" to protect a few hundred bats living in a nearby wood, a wood the line does not even pass through. Look at Hinkley Point C, the most expensive nuclear power station in human history. For eight years, developers locked in a multi-million-pound wrangle with regulators over installing an underwater "fish disco", an acoustic deterrent to stop fish swimming into the pipes. 20 years ago, we built nuclear fleets at a fraction of the cost. Today, we sacrifice national infrastructure to the gods of endless compliance. The final absurdity is the plan to reopen just 3.3 miles of an existing railway line between Bristol and Portishead, a route already built but closed during the Beeching cuts. The planning application is 80,000 pages long. Over one thousand of those pages are about bats. We have created a system that trades in paper while the real economy rots. The working class pay the price for this institutional cowardice. They pay for it in soaring energy bills, missing homes, broken transport links, and a country that cannot build the future it keeps promising. Protecting the environment is vital, but drowning ourselves in paper is not environmentalism. A system that takes 80,000 pages to clear three miles of existing track is broken. It is not governance: it is managed decline with a clipboard. It's the bureaucratic vampires drinking the country's wealth...

@rohanpaul_ai 💥🫯❤️

A soft touch-safe robot that flies. It could change how we coexist with machines. This helium-filled robot "Cuddle-Fish" is going viral. Replaces rotor lift with buoyancy, so helium carries most of its weight. Small flapping wings handle forward movement and steering, while helium supplies most lift. Its soft envelope allows gentle bumps, shoulder nudges, and hugs without rigid impacts. In a 24-person study, people spontaneously patted, stroked, hugged, and touched the robot's cheek area.

#grok❤️💥🫯

New essay👇 olle1976.substack.com/p/staying-shar… 🧪🦠🍫☕️

After 50, energy becomes a full-time job. No mouse studies. No $500/month peptides. Just taurine, creatine, magnesium, coffee + dark chocolate — backed by real human RCTs. How I stay sharp without turning into a vegetable. #Biohacking #Longevity #After50

@davidasinclair My mom also passed away too early, even though she didn’t smoke or drink. These losses leave a deep mark.

@davidasinclair We can’t go back and fix our parents’ mistakes. But we can make sure we don’t repeat them. Thank you for sharing such a heartfelt and touching story, David.

My mother smoked constantly, including in the car with the windows rolled up and no air conditioning. As a kid, I dreamed of a world without cigarettes. That world now largely exists. Sadly, so does a world without my mom

#grok ❤️💥🫯

Unfortunately, the wave of communism is sweeping over America. God help us.

@elonmusk @chiproytx Unfortunately, the wave of communism is sweeping over America. God help us.

@elonmusk @chiproytx olle1976.substack.com/p/the-anatomy-…

False. Proof of Citizenship and cleaning voter rolls would expose Michigan and she knows it.

@elonmusk olle1976.substack.com/p/the-fracture…

@elonmusk Exactly. I researched this in my essay. olle1976.substack.com/p/the-wrong-tu…

Literally true

And as usual, thank you Grok for the help with editing and for the awesome illustration! 🧠🧬🗽🫯

Have you encountered peptides in your wellness routine or skincare? Drop the names of the specific compounds you are curious about—we will dissect their scientific backing in the next post!

@LoraWaverlyy Det är kanske AI men kul i alla fall.)))

would you cuddle me or nah 😏

@PeterDiamandis Det stämmer, verkligen.)

Every breakthrough is crazy and impossible until persistence and engineering make them real. That includes humanities first Dyson Swarm and Humanity’s conquest of space.