Today I learned about the beautiful island of Procida, its history and culture and, above all, food... SWEET LEMONS EXIST AND NONE OF Y'ALL TOLD ME!!!! Imma move to Italy now. Well, I'm gonna think about moving very strongly anyway 😑🍋

If I could, I'd live the 80's as an adult. I was a child back then, and all my memories are those of a child. I wanna experience that era with full consciousness and understanding. Maybe I'd like it, maybe not, but I want to know. I always want to know. That is pretty much the summary of who I am.

I'm still recommending it but... Names of shows are translated, and I can completely understand that. In original Swedish it's Hundarna (The Hounds) and, watching it in Finland, I see Vahtikoirat (Watch Dogs). But in English, it is called Burden of Justice. Where on Earth did that come from?? 🤔📺

Here in Finland we have a dish called "Summer Soup". Basically some veg - peas, carrots, green beans, cauliflower, etc - boiled in milk and fat. You may think it sounds good. It's not. It is the most revolting thing in the history of gastronomy and I can never understand how anyone can eat it 🤮

Botanic Gardens, Glasgow. Pic: Catriona Duggan

Running a marathon is a bit of a dick move 🤷‍♀️ The original runner ran all the way from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message, and then died out of exhaustion. So now people run repeatedly the same distance for no actual reason, and apparently feel better than ever. Way to rub it in his face 😳

The church of Borgund Stavkirke is one of the most beautiful in Norway 🇳🇴

You've watched those disaster movies right? A horror, action of scifi where the fate of the entire planet, billions of people, is depending on this one person? And that person abandons the mission to save the whole world for the sake of his personal life. The fucking world, all those people's lives

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

As a kid I browsed thru Dune books, wondering why Harkonnen sounded so finnish. Grown-ups said I was being silly so I always thought it was just childish wishful thinking. Until 5 minutes ago when I learned that Frank Herbert did in fact twist it out of a finnish last name Härkönen. I WAS RIGHT!!!

Tuo Lahti 2001 hiihtohäslinki on nyt kovasti pinnalla, kaiketi jonkinlaisena 25-vuotisjuhlana. Kaikenlaisia dokumentteja sun muita katsellessa rupesin miettimään että miten minulla ei ole siitä minkäänlaista muistikuvaa tästä "kansallisesta katastrofista joka koskettaa jokaista suomalaista" 🤔

Everybody seems to know about Nostradamus' Prophecies, but nobody ever talks about the cookbook he wrote. I personally haven't tried any of his recipes, but I'm told that his cherry jam is simply divine.

Think about a victorian in London boarding a train. Steam puffing, ladies in long skirts and men wearing top hats... You imagined the train painted black, didn't you. Majority of surviving old steam trains are painted black, and all the old black and white photos support this mental image.

I had a dream that I was learning how to use AI... My prompt was "Alan Rickman as a very angry baby" but it just kept giving me various pictures of the moon. 🌜🤔

All mammals have a baby-phase. Except giraffes. A newborn giraffe looks just like a fully grown giraffe, just smaller. I'm sure there's a reason for this 🦒🤔

Dreaming about bookshops is my thing. I usually buy something that does not actually exist, and sometimes begin reading it. Waking up before finishing my dream book is the worst! Why can't there really be History of Interior Decorating in medieval church latin?? 😖📚

Share a television show that raised you (When I was 8, I thought that Make It So was a common phrase in the english language. I still feel that it should be)

I've listened more of the music that feels like Me than I have for the past 6 months. It really is kinda sad that I can only my myself when I succumb to alcohol. It shouldn't have to be this way. I know I can't do anything about it but I'll mourn it now when I start to feel the alcohol evaporating

Time travel keeps coming up in my mind. If I did, and I changed something, how would I know to change it? The inevitability of time, there's something crushing and also something comforting about it. On one hand there's nothing I could do... But also on the other hand, there's nothing I could do.

I started thinking, what would I do if I went back in time. For whatever personal reason the first thing that popped in my head was that I'd save Peter Farquhar. Would he want me to save him? Well I'm pretty damn sure that he wouldn't want to be murdered! But why him? Well why the hell not him??

Suddenly not remembering the name of a band I've liked for 35 years 😅 Also, realizing that I've liked a band for 35 years! 😂 Also also, realizing that I've been alive to like something for over 35 years. Happily looking back on a life well lived, it doesn't get as much recognition as it should ❤️

Oh god I just realized why I drink I'm giving up on my life to take care of my parents in their old age. Everything I've dreamt of, everything i desire, even the little things every day, just so my parents don't have to be put into a nursing home. Everything. As small as orange juice in the morning

It's -24c with blasting winds, and I had to go to the shops! 😨 It was amazingly nice though. My new parka kept me so warm that I even sweated a little bit... It only cost me 50 euros! A good coat and good value for my money. Excellent for a lovely evening stroll in the South Pole 😄

Happy New Year!! (terms and conditions will apply when you least expect it...) I'm very resolute but not about anything specific. I've found that to be the best way.

A dream! I had a pepper grinder that made me travel in time... But each grind would only take me 15 minutes back or forth, so I had to grind like a lunatic just for one day. Waking up, I realized the joke. My subconsciousness is a total clown 🙄 #Grindset

Pope Leo seemed a bit nervous during his first Christmas Mass but who can blame him. I'd be a bit jittery too if I was performing live to over a billion people. That's more than 2 billion eyes, all staring at you 👀 It all went well though. 😊

Some books become seasonal for no reason. - Truman Capote only between January and March - Decamerone is strictly for springtime - Septembers are dedicated to Sherlock Holmes - John le Carré's Night Manager is a Christmas book There is no logic in this 😁📚

Winter Solstice. The ultimate darkness. Just a couple of miserable hours of daylight, dimmed by thick grey clouds. But tomorrow we start heading towards the light again. I love you, sun! I miss you! I hope to see you soon ☀️💝

Just noticed that was my first finnish post and now I wonder why. Even tho I master finnish better than the average joe I still use english on internet. And (sorry!) I can't help but notice that I master english better than average joe too. Not that it matters though. A lot of things don't matter.

Ukki kuoli kun isä oli vielä liian pieni edes tajuamaan sitä, ja koko elämänsä hän on keskittynyt tutkimaan sitä miten hän menetti isänsä. Mutta en voi olla ajattelematta että ukki ei erityisemmin arvostaisi sitä. Itse ainakin haluaisin tulla muistetuksi siitä kuinka elin enkä siitä kuinka kuolin.

This is a good time to list severely underrated actors that need more appreciation - Xander Berkeley - David Dencik - Timothy Spall - Ronald Möller - Samuli Jaskio Ok you might argue that Spall is already very much appreciated. But - and I genuinely and firmly believe this- he should have more!!

It's my grandfather's 111th birthday. (he's not here to see it, obviously) My father insisted we have a toast with the strongest alcohol I've ever come across. I'm hearing colors. Send help.

I searched #Brexit as the 10 year anniversary is only 6 months away, wondering if anyone is even talking about it anymore lol... Ok you guys are still whining 🙄 Look, you CHOSE to believe the Brexit Bus. All info was available, and you chose leave. You chose. It's been 10 years, move on already 🙄

Hang on, hang on... @nicksterj.bsky.social is it your birthday? And you never said! Happy birth!! 🥳🥂

Day 1 of snow: How lovely, this is just the thing, look at those pretty flakes dancing! 😊 Day 3 of snow: Ok that's enough of that, I'd very much like the summer back now, if you don't mind 😐 But not until next April... I know I can make it, but I won't like it!

Today I learned that there are people, lovely well-meaning people, who think that Madonna's Like A Prayer is about praying. They even go as far as singing it in churches Oh sweetie... We need to sit down, have a nice cup of tea, and then I'll tell you something that you might not be ready to hear

Xmas season is approaching and soon people are gonna be doing that "Rudolph had antlers so she must have been a girl lol" thing, and it has never stopped annoying me. Ok, kids, gather around. Reindeer physiology isn't all that simple. Yes it is true that bulls drop antlers and does keep them...

I love and hate the fact that we are used to seeing this. It's a view of another planet. Another planet! We're sitting in our cozy little homes on Earth and seeing what it's like on Mars. We've never been able to do this before in the entire human history. We shouldn't get jaded, this IS a big deal

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a GIF (More like 70 times... When I was a kid, I had it on video and I just couldn't get enough of it. I bet my parents were very confused 😂)

I've had a project for over a month now. I'm making an apple and a pear out of papier-mache. I'm in no hurry whatsoever. Maybe I'll finish them this year, maybe I won't. It's fun. I like fun. We should all have fun 😊🍎🍐

A vampire that isn’t Dracula. (Unless he counts as a wizard, of course 🙃)

What's the weirdest thing I think I've ever done? I searched how to send mail to prisoners coz I watched a documentary about a crime & I wanted to tell a prisoner how much he sucked. I mean,he's is such a waste of dna that it's just ridiculous. I never did send it but I still think I should have.

Yeah I'm fucking drunk. Ask me anything though, and I'll probably answer 😅

Actually i'll do a declaration. Hear me, Walking Dead fans! If/when zombie apocalypse happens. you will never be Rick or Michonne or any of the heroes. You will be Gregory. You will only look after yourself and betray anyone just for a couple of more seconds of life. And you know it. YOU KNOW IT!

Ok hear me out: David Dencik is amazing. He really is. I've never seen him do a bad performance and I've seen him in a ton of things. But you don't have to take my word for it, go and watch his stuff yourself Please, do go watch this stuff! I'm dying to talk to someone about Men And Chicken 😅🐔🐶🐭🐮🦉

What's it like inside my head? (if you can tell who that is without googling, you will win my undying 🤩)

Yeah... I knew this would happen. I can't keep the cork shut. This is what happens when you give a drink to someone who shouldn't have one. Stopping is so fucking difficult that I don't even know when I have the ability to try again. At least I still feel the shame, I suppose that's something.

Shakespeare rhymes perfectly. It's the English language pronunciation that has changed. Don't blame the writer, blame the time.

Ever think about how much we actually don't know about the past? Like, people think about the Stone Age and say that cavemen had names like Ug and Arg. But we don't know that. They could've all had 9-syllable names and we would have no idea! We can guess and keep guessing all day but we don't KNOW.

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.