Americans and Finns have very different concepts of what is an appropriate amount of sugar or salt: kechpaja.com/usfi/2026/06... #usa #finland #america #usfi #culture

Alright! I am starting yet another #blog, about differences between Finnish and American culture: kechpaja.com/usfi/2026/06.... I make no promises about posting frequency vel sim, but will try to write things regularly. I certainly have a lot of relevant stories to tell. #finland #america #culture

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot saying "why should I let you spend an hour writing something I could generate in 30 seconds?" to a human face — for ever. (This is a post about #ai.)

Finland's right-wing government is currently raising healthcare fees. Not just implementing policies that raise the cost of medicine and private care — although that too — but raising fees charged for _public_ healthcare visits and procedures. 1/7 #politics #finland #ForAmericans

When I said No Kings, I meant you too, Charlie.

The idea of space colonization by sending frozen embyos to another planet to be gestated and raised by robots came up in a Discord I'm in, and now I want to write a story exploring what the resulting society would be like. But I also worry it might be so horrifying nobody would ever read it.

Uralicists playing _Iron Lung_: Elävä kala ui veren alla.

Okay, I suppose I'll reactivate this for a while.

How are we more than halfway through January already?

This is a fun thread! Bonus fun fact: the etymology of MINute is the same as minUTE, ie the first small part of an hour A second is the second small part, and before we had milliseconds we had thirds! www.etymonline.com/word/minute

Minute - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"sixtieth part of an hour or degree of a circle," late 14c., from Old French minut (13c.)… See origin and meaning of minute.

etymonline.com

Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer@kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Relatedly: one of my most profound social realizations — from a few years ago — was that in terms of pure numbers, basically every friends-and-family holiday party is significanntly more exclusive than the Met Gala vel sim. (Also read the thread.)

Howard Tayler@howardtayler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This whole, forked-but-wonderful thread. In many industries, including (probably) all the artsy ones, and lots of the "lettered" high-rise ones, it's not what you know, it's who you know, but you know them because you knew them BEFORE any of you broke in.

Account reactivated, for now at least. Still primarily on Mastodon, though.

Stupid question, but: what sort of personal and/or open source tech projects look best on a resume?

DISvam qaStaHvIS turqu le'yo' boghoy SapwI' vIDa. tuch lupaQ SapwI'pu' 'ej tuch luneHbogh luDelmeH mu'mey puS ghItlh 'e' tlhobta' le'yo' boghoy DevwI'pu'. chaHvaD QInvam vIngeHta' jIH: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t... #pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq #klingon

I will be volunteering at Turku Pride this year. The Pride organization board has asked volunteers to write a few lines about what sort of future they would like to look into. I provided the following text: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t... #pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq

Toimin vapaaehtoisena tämän vuoden Turku Pridessa. Priden hallitus on pyytänyt vapaaehtoisia kirjoittamaan lyhyesti siitä, minkälaiseen tulevaisuuteen he haluaisivat katsoa. Toimitin itse seuraavan tekstin: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t... #pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq

Hyvää Pride-päivää, Budapest! Ja hyvä kuulla, että ihmiset näyttäytyivät kiellosta huolimatta. Ymmärtääkseni meidän puheenejohtaja @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi oli kulkueessa mukana. yle.fi/a/74-20170069 #pride #budapest #lgbtq #vihreat

Hallituksen kieltämä Pride-kulkue marssi Unkarissa – järjestäjien mukaan osallistujia oli jopa 200 000

Budapestin Pride-kulkue oli lauantaina suurennuslasin alla, koska Unkari on kieltänyt seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöjen julkiset tapahtumat.

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I've now switched from i3 to Wayland, and it was worth it: kechpaja.com/blog/2025/06.... #wayland #sway #i3 #linux

Today is ten years since gay marriage was officially legalized in the USA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergef.... I just wish we could celebrate that in a more hopeful context.

Possibly unpopular #StarTrek opinion: Transporters as portrayed in the show are one of the biggest worldbuilding holes in the entire fictional universe.

@slotkin.senate.gov Hey! I — a constituent — appear to be subscribed to your newsletter using a deadname and outdated (gendered) honorific. What is the process for updating the name and setting a nonbinary honorific? There is no clear way to update subscription settings in the latest email.

TIL (well, technically yesterday) that the Finnish word used to refer to a carnival ride is _laite_ — the generic word for 'device'. Linguistically there is nothing weird about this, but I absolutely would not have guessed.

My kingdom for a queer and trans space that explicitly bans communist imagery.

If you're going to smoke, please do it somewhere other than directly below my apartment. Some smells are genuinely intolerable.

If I go to sleep, is there still going to be a world when I wake up?

Klingon: *uses same word for playing a musical instrument and turning on a device* English speakers: "oh, how weird and exotic!" English:

Wendy Xu@wendyxu.bsky.social · last yr.

"do not turn off the bus" is so fucking funny

I'd be interested in seeing analyses of mass social movements in countries without a deeply ingrained Christian tradition, and comparisons between them and analogous movements in heavily Christian-influenced cultures. Are there any obvious citations to follow here?

Why is it that _literally every financial service_ now requires some form of two-factor login that cannot be counted on to work reliably? It just isn't good enough to only _maybe_ be able to get into my own bank account.

Me: Trans as in transatlantic Them: But transatlantic is the Americas! Me: Okay, but _I_ went the other way. Them: ... Me: ... Me: Okay, fine, I'm Atlantic-fluid. (The Atlantic is an ocean, though. Does that make me... salty?)

Is there an open source equivalent of AWS (or other providers') serverless functions? As is, software that I could set up once on a VPS and then run serverless functions from it, similarly (if hopefully less overhead-y) to AWS Lambda?