I (try to) advance knowledge on the politics of dictatorships, political elites, comparative politics, and 💵🏠 as Associate Professor at University of Oslo. I also collect loads of data on governments: https://bit.ly/whogov.https://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlsbkb4fv22tAlmost seems like Iran has more of its missile stockpiles left than the US https://www.ft.com/content/145eccf2-14d8-4819-bd75-5674a5818f7c?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/iran-missiles-us-intelligence.html14 May 2026 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsbkb4fv22thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlnxc273zc2oNo one can trust a country that has given so much power to this guy [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnxc273zc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlnenqynms2nIrankrigen er det rene idioti. Og det er dyrt. Både for amerikanerne og for alle andre på jordkloden. https://www.ft.com/content/145eccf2-14d8-4819-bd75-5674a5818f7c?syn-25a6b1a6=112 May 2026 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnenqynms2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlel3skhos24The US is a personalist regime take 8647 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlel3skhos24https://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlejx2zki224Paul Klee: Harmonie der nordischen Flora [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 20:09 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlejx2zki224https://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlbzcbhr422eA weird thing about Trump is that he keeps implementing really stupid policies that hurt the average American, such as tariffs or war with Iran. Had he stuck to building ballrooms, killing off US democracy, and being insanely corrupt, his approval rating would probably have been around 50 percent07 May 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbzcbhr422ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mlbfnhqhos22Somewhat curious about the one expert who rated China and Russia as perfect democracies [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbfnhqhos22https://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3ml4fr4kpkk27Excited to see this out in PRQ - it was a long time underway. The plot says it all: In democracies, finance ministers keep their jobs when the economy does well. In dictatorships, there is no such link. So, democratic institutions incentivize good performance! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4fr4kpkk27https://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mkzollzgv22nTwo things I appreciate about Bluesky compared to its competitors: It doesn't downrank external links, allowing me to get a much wider range of inputs, including from legacy media It generally doesn't uprank polarizing content, enabling me to focus on what interests me and stuff I can learn from04 May 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzollzgv22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mkt3g6pky226Thank you for helping me plan this, Claude!01 May 2026 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt3g6pky226https://bsky.app/profile/jacobnyrup.bsky.social/post/3mkt227qvfc26Not even Claude can do this [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:waoxtoj7342xkpen7phiidus/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt227qvfc26