They violate Finland's (and Sweden's and Poland's etc.) airspace with military aircraft every now and then. They violated Estonian airspace just two days ago and most of UK's airspace violations are by the Russians. It happens all the time.
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They violate Finland's (and Sweden's and Poland's etc.) airspace with military aircraft every now and then. They violated Estonian airspace just two days ago and most of UK's airspace violations are by the Russians. It happens all the time.
Well, it might put a bit of a damper on the likelihood of him winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Every morning I check a news site online. One morning the breaking news will be there.
if we want to talk about why so much outright inhumanit and evil has been totally normalized we could start with how much online platforms actively reward hostile and antisocial behavior with money and attention
These people wouldn't know creativity if it sat on their face.
It is very difficult for me to understand why people and institutions capitulate to him.
A reassuring statement. A positive outcome of all of this is that we are seeing bridges being built between other countries besides the USA. I'm sure the EU and Canada, for instance, will benefit from increased collaboration and trade between us.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve
12/15, an atheist.
How exciting to get a brand new studio set up! 😊 Always put (mental) health first and don't even think twice about it. I learned that the hard way... Looking forward to seeing you back on the server, whenever that may be!
In 2014, French weather program presented what would be the temp in August 2050 ( so peak heat). Below, the 2050 one and the Juillet 2025.
Even linkedin gets it
amazing q&a with paul krugman
Yep. I'm all for AI being used in weather forecasting etc., but to us "average" people, it's being sold as exactly what it should NOT be doing. AI should free us to communicate with friends more, to do more art and to think more deeply, not do those for us (sic) so that we can be "more productive".
That is incredibly depressing. And incredibly alarming.
Many thoughts about M*sk. None of them civil enough to post here.
How ironic that he supposedly fights against "conformity and oppression" by seeking to oppress those who do not conform (to his conservative worldview).
He has already been flagged with "Follow Farming" here on Bluesky, let's not give him any more attention...
Agreed. There is something slimy and opportunistic about him.
"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...
As the Brits rather effectively say: "Get in the bin."
Same here, in Finland.
my god, this is amazing. apparently from a NY Times interview with Neill and Goldblum. Resharing with alt text so everyone can enjoy
The GOP trifecta may ban states from regulating stuff like this for the next 10 years — if they push the reconciliation bill through.
Thanks - hadn't noticed that even being there. Disabled now. And I had just got my blood pressure back down again, too, after Adobe Acrobat AI kept suggesting me that I "create a summary" to "save time" instead of spending time reading a "long" 14-page doc. It's a crocheting pattern! 🤬
Y'all, it's REALLY close and the deadline is TODAY! If you're an EU citizen, please sign and share this petition to ban conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union!! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
The world needs more of this and less of most other things
ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered
Insane. Good luck trying to export American meat products...
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Canadian Association of University Teachers recommends that academics travel to the US "only if essential and necessary", and to be careful about what information we have on our electronic devices, especially if you fit into a fairly wide set of categories. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
My thoughts exactly.
This is some deeply unethical shit. Google removes news for 1% of users in some EU countries. Do they measure what impact that has on users' ability to do their jobs? To find accurate info? To their political beliefs? No. They only measure its impact on Google's profits. blog.google/around-the-g...
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
And that incredible scent that flows out of the packet! 🧡
No teaching languages either, with "gender", "trans" and "pronoun" listed there.
Maybe the worst outcome of this lunacy in the White House is that globally things stall and stagnate. A number of countries are wasting time and effort putting out fires set by the US Administration, when they could just be building their own countries and moving forward as per usual. Such a waste.
It makes my blood boil to think of the irreversible damage this man is doing, globally. And there is nothing we can do about it. The maliciousness and evilness of it all.
Same here in Finland. Blocked.
OK - we've got audio now. :)
Same here. No sound...
My lecture on Information Disorder and what to do about it will be livestreamed here tonight at 5:30pm CET www.youtube.com/watch?v=d051...
Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!
I remember how exhausting the last term was for someone who follows the news, even from across the planet. The unpredictability, stupidity & maliciousness of it all. This time the world is more volatile than last time too. Need to hold on to and remember the good things in life, amidst the worry...
That is... insane.
My letter in today's Guardian. Just asking, like. But I think we know the answer.
Among Us? 😂
And it's quite telling that it concentrates on what's been /received/ and doesn't mention reposts, likes, quotes or replies /given/ by an account.
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
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This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.
Apropos of nothing, here are some of the actual jobs Hitler's top guys had before he put them in charge of Germany: Von Ribbentrop - wine salesman. Added the 'von' to his name cos he wanted to be an aristocrat Goebbels: Bank clerk Himmler: Chicken farmer/ manure processing plant worker 1/2
this thread tho
And my old job where I worked unpaid overtime all the time and every single "quick call" on top of that took me closer to a breakdown that I still suffer from, years later...
14 million views.
That's beautiful! It's all a bit less fortunate in Finnish, though. "Kamala" means "horrible". :( (She absolutely has to win.)
Yet another one for the Cross Stitch Ideas List.
A voice from Finland: If you do not take your shoes off when entering someone's home here, THAT is considered rude. Bringing outdoor shoes indoors is a question of both comfort and of cleanliness. We don't want that residual spit/dog poo remnants/dust and grit in our living spaces, thank you.
It’s beautiful to watch the flow of an idea as it diverges over centuries of cultural exchange and interaction
Wow. I used that, back in the day.
I did as well. It made me really angry, for some reason! 😂
I know this probably sounds crazy, but I don't fully believe Johnson was ever actually very poorly at all, and I have trouble believing he was ever on a ventilator. At the time, it seemed to me that he got back to normal health way too quickly for that. He's an opportunistic showman, after all...
I was left speechless after reading that article. Heart-breaking, infuriating, frustrating, horrifying and more, all at the same time.
Just crazy how ubiquitous AI-generated imagery has become, even for generic corporate portraits! Was just checking out a relatively new Indian news outlet called BNN and was reading up about its founder when I caught of glimpse of his molten hands. bnnbreaking.com/about/
I’m 43 and I prefer YouTube to conventional forms as well. When reality TV started taking hold 20 years ago, I got rid of my TV and haven’t looked back. (There are a few TV shows I watch on YouTube, though, all British comedy panel shows.)
Orange marmalade. You could turn a few of them into liqueur as well - long term use in baking, for instance!
the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century
Please, no. Finland already has a right-wing populist party in government, we don't want things to get any worse! 😬
That is horrifying.
The amount of emotional work women do every day to manage and mitigate men's feelings... I would much rather spend that energy elsewhere.
Interesting that they put Finnish Marianne sweets there in the picture instead of something Swedish. I guess they remind people of candy canes or something!
Original article from the Finnish public broadcaster Yle: yle.fi/a/74-20059102
21 countries surveyed in Aug-Sept 2023. Least support for Trump re-election from Finland, Belgium, and France. Trump would get re-elected only in Israel, Turkey, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Across the countries, ca. 43% support for Biden, 23% for Trump.
Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701
As a Finn, I have to say that is an unusual name for a church in particular. "Piru" is Finnish for: the Devil.
Last night came around the corner to be faced with this situation:
Hello, craftsky 👋 - weaving my first rug ever is well on its way! 😊 Best decision of the year for me to join the course and begin weaving. Really enjoying it. I only hope I will be able to finish the rug by Christmas!
That pattern is beautiful, as is the colour!
Such a gorgeous kitty! 🧡
Cats have attained evolutionary perfection. Anjali Goswami explains how weird and awesome cats are from an evolutionary standpoint--and the meaning of evolutionary success--in this @sciam.bsky.social interview. (Ft my perfect cat, Kyle.) www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...
"X is now an app that forcibly puts abhorrent content into users’ feeds and then rewards financially the people who were the most successful in producing it, egging them on to do it again and again" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
It would be interesting to learn what specifically people get angry about in different countries.
Started a new hobby a couple of weeks ago - hoping to finish making my very first rug ever before the year is out! Actually sat behind a loom last night and got the work going, veeery slowly and with a good amount of insecure fumbling, I might add! 😅
Dream denied
I just found myself in a peculiar, unpleasant headspace when I read the news a moment ago and the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle ended their short article on the event with the sentence: "Joukkoampumiset ovat yleisiä Yhdysvalloissa." (Mass shootings are commonplace in the United States.)
I had no idea sauce whisks would be made for right-handed people. But then I bought one and watched it come apart whenever I whisked with it. Soon enough I realised it was because I was using the "wrong" hand to hold it. It works just fine if I (very awkwardly) use it with my right hand...
Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation among six online platforms studied by the EU. Fake news comes primarily from Russia’s disinformation operation, a "weapon of mass manipulation." www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...
I worry that people in my field (including me) are missing the real phenomenon. We focus on how people adopt disinfo and how to correct single pieces of info. But the problem is broader sets of knowledge; of belief structures. I know how people construct those. But how do we challenge, correct them?
I was pretty sure my works were in some of these LLMs, but it's still infuriating to see. I spent years developing my skills and creating my art, and these billion-dollar companies are just stealing all of it.
Citronos devouring his children (2022)
We still avoid the smile and go with mouth small and tight in Finland by saying "muikku" (= vendace, or European cisco). 😅
I feel that image viscerally.
How to start a conversation with a cat in different countries… 7. Pss-pss-pss (England) 6. Kiss-kiss-kiss (Finland) 5. Pish-pish-pish (Iran) 4. Mee-mee-mee (Myanmar) 3. Minou-minou-minou (France) 2. Ming-ming-ming (Philippines) 1. What’s new pussycat, whoa, oh whoa (Wales)
To think that they loved science enough to pursue a degree in it, dedicating several years to their study and then left science altogether. That is so sad. What a loss to the scientific community.
Thanks! I will definitely be trying out different recipe versions over time, too. :)