Warmup sketch

In between grant applications I got to read the coolest thing in ages. Apparently they’ve cracked the mystery of Johannes Vermeer. archive.is/2025.10.12-1...

Cover art for Jussi Seppänen’s upcoming short story collection.

Considering some Finns conversational prowess at parties, I’m delighted to hear that Finland’s main industry will now be icebreakers.

Just uploaded a bunch of art to the portfolio site. What do you think? www.vollewelt.com

An important message from the president of Antifa 😂 🤭

Altarpiece (sacred purification of the land) Triptych and side panels From the Nordic Art Colony, Kokkola summer 2025. Pictures by Emmi Hyyppä

Det er irriterende at hver gang Rødt er i nærheten av påvirkningskraft, dukker skrotvenstre opp. Det blir verdens verste miks av Stalin, en drita blitzer fra 1989 og Kari Jaquesson.

My illustration for this issue of Ny Tid.

Stem, folkens. Milliardærene som finansierer høyresiden har hatt knallår. De har råd. Fantasiene om folk som foretrekker trygd framfor jobb må slutte. Det er bedre samfunnsøkonomi å hjelpe folk opp og ikke la penga til Sveitsfiffen råtne i et Caymanfond. www.abcnyheter.no/stemmer/valg...

Just got an ad with an MMA fighter hawking supplements. For health advice, it seems my first port of call is the guy making a living getting punched in the face. Thank you algorithm.

With current domestic tragedies, I keep my mouth shut, because I don’t know the hows or the whats. My opinion or reaction is hardly essential or relevant. My heart goes out to the afflicted and I hope more people know to be quiet when that is appropriate and outspoken when that is necessary.

Stealth sketch workshop, arranged by The Nordic Art Colony, August 2025

I am, at this point, calling into question: 1. Whether Stargate ever existed, including the supposed $18bn-$19bn commitments promised by SoftBank/openAI 2. Whether SoftBank ever had any involvement with Abilene Texas or *ANY* OpenAI data center 3. Whether SoftBank actually gives OpenAI another dime

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

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Nazca is doing a one off gig in Kokkola 16.8 Get tickets here: kokemus.live?fbclid=IwQ0x...

Kanskje på tide å lette litt på sløret. Jeg og Knut jobber med en ny bok og vi kommer til Litteraturhuset neste tirsdag for å snakke om den. Sånn ser coveret ut. Eventlink i kommentarfeltet.

Can we agree that this international thing was a bad idea and return to the good old 790’s? Local jarls scuffling over fiefdoms? 15 guys with shields going over to the neighboring county to show them what’s what. No smartphones, people living in the moment, unless you were dying of typhoid fever.

Wrote morning task list. Called it set list. Made life a little bit more fun.

It’s interesting how ESC suddenly became so popular amongst fundamentalists. Maybe some of them will finally embrace their true selves. Perhaps some sequins and day glo at the next revivalist speaking in tongues event?

Så denne på feeden igjen. Kanskje praktisk som tullingmarkør, men disse folka gjør reell skade. Demografien som deler denne gidder aldri å lære norsk rettskriving, kan knapt finne Gjøvik på et norgeskart, prater ned landet og hater norsk kultur som pesten.

Sorry, KAJ. IDF’s genocidal campaign enters a new phase as they again enter Gaza with no intention of leaving. The crimes against humanity have been total and the people of Palestine has been given no place to flee. C’mon ESC, this is like allowing a Khmer Rogue contestant in the 70’s.

If I would start a casting agency, I’d call it First Stone.

A day at the Prime Minister’s Office - a strip I did for Ny Tid last autumn. Finally got around to translating it. Nothing has changed, except we see more results from the act of seppuku the Finnish electorate did last year. 1🧵

Når folk ansatt i kommunikasjonsavdeling i landets viktigste arbeidsgiverorganisasjon tar vurderinger som "illustratører, fotografer, grafikere, og andre kreative yrker er bullshit jobs, vi bruker heller en LLM til å lage materialet vårt" får det meg til å føle litt mindre på eget imposter syndrome

The rich are motivated by good salaries and will work better when their taxes are lowered. The poor are motivated by crisis and panic. Basic needs met after massive effort between multiple instances to double check the pittance they get (can be demanded back at random times, for arcane reasons)

I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

The future is micromobility combined with public transport.

Salt and bread. Markers on canvas board.

Way too many people hear “language model” and think the algorithm understands language. It does not. It reduces letters to numbers and looks for patterns in the numbers. That’s all it does. That’s all it can do. It does not derive meaning; it does not extrapolate consequences.

There’s chatter on the Norwegian side of my social feed about AI art. The main counter argument is ‘you can’t stop progress’. It’s not progress. It just isn’t. It’s pure regression. It’s the oligarchy taking back power. It’s how human society has been since Babylon. 🧵

Reminded me how that band name annoys me. Other bands go by NAPALM DEATH and GRIM PUTREFACTION. These guys? DISTURBED. They must have side projects like MILDLY INCONVENIENCED and IMPRACTICAL. Color me surprised that the band doing the worst Simon & Garfunkel cover by a mile are geno*ide fans.

Made myself as an action figure. No planet destroying, art flattening AI slop involved, even. Pick up a pencil, people.

Hey Helsinki - a Tory mayor? If the city has a massive budget surplus combined AND a massive recruitment problem - don’t get a guy who hates the idea of raising salaries for the lower classes.

Kinda funny to read of bewildered SFP candidates being kicked out of city hall. No mention of how their brand became garbage - they went into coalition with people who want to eradicate them. Kapo’s aren’t popular, Adlercreutz. You can still do the right thing. TL-DR: The leopards ate some faces.

If the first polls are anything to go by, I can enjoy a shot of whisky and the sight of Persuts melting away like Indiana Jones baddies.

Seeing Trump intentionally crash the economy reminds me the Finnish government has been doing the same for over a year. Crashes are bad for the plebs. For the upper crust they are a way to expand wealth. People lose jobs, sell houses cheap, houses snapped up, houses become rentals for jobless.

In this local election, please remember that Kokoomus as a party strongly opposed the EU Covid stimulus package. If EU had taken their lead, the current situation would have been beyond catastrophic.

In these absurd times, let’s have a break from the April jokes, ok? I took a lot of things as jokes five months ago and here we are.

Stupid sexy France with their stupid sexy actual consequences to politicians doing fraud.

Cover for the current issue of Le Monde Diplomatique & Novaja Gazeta - Netanyahu and Trump forcing Palestinians out of Gaza.

Trump and Bibi - from a forthcoming LMD cover. It’s been carnage for so long people get utterly desensitized. History will judge us harshly.

Your good news: Duterte arrested on an ICC warrant, Silicon Valley stocks plummet, UK unions call for stronger bonds to EU, Twitter down for the third time, Türkiey, fresh from ruining Russian ambitions in Syria proclaimed themselves a major pro Ukraine player…

It went boom. Good. Used to follow so many livestreams of experimental launches. Now the whole thing disgusts me. youtube.com/shorts/W7e62...

In the face of the abuse and utter disrespect he was given, he delivered quite a sick burn. Slava Ukraini.

Trying to stay calm about the German election. Conspiratorial musings:There’s been a chain of bizarre and shocking acts of random violence involving refugees that makes no sense unless you start wondering if FSB was involved.

Chief Trump strategist Steve ‘flood the zone’ Bannon heiled 4 times at conservative conference CPAC last night. 4 years ago, CPAC had their stage shaped as a white supremacist icon, the Odal rune.

Örebro - it now seems that the murderer was radicalized by fascist conspiracies. Can we please try to finally do something about the extreme right? They’re not ‘lone wolves’ or ‘having a personal crisis’ - they act out a script they have been given. It’s a movement and it’s a massive threat.

Der ble denne BT-tegningen fra ‘21 aktuell igjen, gitt.