Adobe Acrobat has to be the most fun sounding/least fun to use of all programs

Had to take sick leave today. The flu that was brewing for almost 2 weeks finally broke out in the weekend + migraine. It’s weird though how incredibly fast a day goes by when I’m ”doing nothing”…

Working on illustrations for a historical book tonight. Nice to get back to drawing and listening to audiobooks (listening to Empire of normality by Robert Chapman). Audiobooks is my neurodivergent trick to keep my focus on drawing 😅 #illustration #audiobooks

This is totally unsurprising to me. And gives all the proof you need if someone claims patriarchy doesn’t exist or ”feminism has gone too far”. It’s like this ”at the top” and you just need to look at internet a bit to see it’s the same structure almost everywhere www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The electricity prices this year will cause a lot of stress to many. Luckily our costs are normally quite low, but the Jan bill was already double. So far at 7.2 the costs are already up to 75 % of a normal month. So i’m guessing it will end up being 3x higher in Feb 😖 #pörssisähkö

This just has to be shared.

I tried Claude today and made a meditation webpage with visuals and ambient sounds. I guess this is vibe coding? I'm not a programmer, but I've made an html page from scratch in 2003. This way was so simple.. and fun! Now I get the hype about how this will change programming as an occupation...

Pulling myself through this day with flu symptoms and migraine and a totally full schedule and organizing a public event in the evening. It will be fun I’m sure, and I really don’t want to miss it as the main organizer, but my body is like 🫠😓 Also not sure if my voice will last through the evening 😅

"Just gotta get through this week," he said, every week

I just realized what my theme will be for a next solo exhibition. I might have time to have one in 2027 😅 This year my artistic/freelance work will be mainly focused on illustrations for another history book. I'm just getting started on that more properly after some research done last year.

Today the winter weather has felt bitingly face hurtingly cold 🥶

Saturday 31.1, 12-15, I will be present at Mökki Galleria with Minna Scheinin and Riitta Hidén! I missed the opening, so this is my chance to hang at the gallery for a bit 😁 Kom och säg hej, tule moikkaamaan ja katsomaan meidän taidetta! #artist #artexhibition #painting #photography #sculpture

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Decided to try Affinity today and cancel my personal Photoshop subscription. Affinity seems like a perfectly fine substitute, and free. And vector, pixel and layout all in one program. Also, I'm tired of having to subscribe to everything. I still remember having Photoshop from a cd 😅

Täysboikotti kaikille USA:n karnevaaleille. Vahvasti kyllä alan epäillä, noinkohan siellä voi edes mitään kisoja järjestää jos maa ratkeaa sisällissotaan kuukauden sisällä.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Yesterday we were presenting our work in Vaasa, and a guy complimented the graphics I had done in a previous project and I was like ”thank you! 😌🙏” and then the guy also complimented me for taking a compliment well and not being like ”oh it’s nothing 🤭” which evidently is more typically Finnish 🤔

The madman speaks. His energy is erratic. The room is silent. The fact that his delusional personally tinged screed comes one day after Carney's lucid, eloquent and grounded messaging must be a much starker comparison to those in the room than it is to me. It's a Holy Shit moment for the world.

Iceland at Davos

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Davos on hiljentynyt kuuntelemaan Yhdysvaltain presidenttiä. On pitkä ilta edessä myös faktantarkistajilla. Jos tavallinen työntekijä pitäisi tämäntapaista sekoilevaa puhetta työpaikallaan, esihenkilöt eittämättä ohjaisivat kyseisen ihmisen hienovaraisesti mutta päättäväisesti työterveyteen.

I’m also extremely disappointed in the leaders who were there listening and sat quietly, gave him a standing ovation (?!) and then just carried on like there’s nothing wrong. It’s terrible wrong and dangerous that this kind of person receives any attention at all on a world stage.

Finland-Swedish political cartoon from 1938, by Tove Jansson the creator of Moomin. Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

After being mostly inactive on instagram for a year I can say it does feel a bit isolating. But at the same time it’s a relief to not think about what to post there. I still have to use it as part of work (communication&marketing). Sometimes I miss posting random photos and little life updates..

I think Oneohtrix Point Never is a new music favorite now. My kids introduced me to it by adding into our family playlist. The most recent playlist is currently 22 h 19 minutes long 😅😂 Btw we listen to the playlist together a lot too, and have nerdy music discussions. It’s heaven.

Broke my personal swimming distance record and did 2k today. Thanks to a technique video i found through the swimming subreddit i’ve been lurking in the past month! I improved my breaststroke so much in one go, that 2k suddenly felt easy 💪🏊🏻‍♀️🩵 #swimming

And today leaving Hyvinkää. My dad is doing a bit better each day, but he had (still has?) ICU delirium which is scary and weird. Probably I’ll be going more often to my birth town now as my parents might need more support after this recent health crisis. We’ll see.

Strange feeling to be waiting for your mom to pick you up from the swim center in the town you grew up just like it’s 1991 again.

Fasismi nousee USA:ssa, mutta myös meillä EU:ssa. Tässä tärkeä elokuva. Voidaan istua hiljaa vieressä ja katsoa, kun kaikki tapahtuu tai nostaa ääntä ja muuttaa suuntaa. ”Pahinta ei ole pahojen ihmisten pahuus, vaan hyvien ihmisten hiljaisuus.” -Martin Luther King areena.yle.fi/1-68431538?u...

And so my father is in intensive care today. He has many chronic illnesses so it’s not a surprise. He was hospitalized twice in 2025, and increasingly tired with more and more health issues. Let’s see what this week brings.

Saw the last ep. of #pluribus first season. Made me think of the increasing use of LLMs. Speaking to the "others" in Pluribus is a bit like conversations with Chat GPT? Anyway, not sure the analogy holds, but our increasing communication with AI could almost be seen as an invasion of our minds...

Took the fam to see my brother in Sweden, and we came back to -20 degrees. I barely took pictures, only of the full moon. The kids bought vinyls at Bengans on Drottninggatan and I took them to see the exhibition at Fotografiska. We barely slept on the boat so everyone was exhausted. Home sweet home.

Finished #strangerthings and I have to say the end hits pretty hard when you’re about the same age as the Holly character and played #roleplayinggames about 1990-2000. I’ve tried a few times to keep playing as an adult, but it’s been impossible to create time, place and a group for it…

Exhibition opening next Saturday! #art #exhibition #artist #painting #photography #sculpture

yle.fi/a/74-2019815... för att korallreven ska överleva måste medeltemperaturen hållas under 1,2 graders ökning. Vi är ju redan vid 1,5?

A while ago I finished Ursula K. Le Guin’s The word for world is forest. One of the few fictional works I’ve managed to read in 2025. I had heard a lot about it, for example how the Avatar movies borrow themes from it. And I’ve explored similar tropes in my own writing some years ago. #booksky

New Years Eve, -12,5 degrees #turku #finland #photography

Ois kiva jos joskus talousasiantuntijoina esiintyvät kertois miten psykologisen turvallisuudentunteen heikentäminen työelämässä toimii kansantalouden eduksi. Toki toimii halpatyövoiman maassa josta ultrarikkaat kerää voitot toisten selkänahasta. 1/

Happy New Year! I was out with my youngest child watching the neighborhood fireworks. It’s -12,5 degrees so now my face hurts 🥶 My kid said ”that’s part of life!”. She’s a wise one ❤️ Today I’ve been asking my fam what they are most happy or proud about from 2025. Was nice to hear their answers ❤️

The 2 last days of 2025 are sunny and cold. Also having 2 days migraine that’s not budging even with meds+swimming :( Yesterday I passed the 15k meters mark for December, a personal record 🏊🏻‍♀️ Will try to keep it as a monthly distance minimum for 2026 💪 #newyearsresolution #migraine #swimming

Julkista velkaa ei siis ole käytetty systemaattisesti kotimaisen tuotannon, teollisen kapasiteetin ja työllisyyden vahvistamiseen, vaan merkittävä osa varallisuudesta on kanavoitunut rahastoinnin ja sijoitusjärjestelmien kautta osaksi globaalia rahoitusmarkkinaa.

Having basic needs met is a huge factor in determining health If everyone had shelter, food, healthcare & a basic income…society would be healthier Instead the billionaires & corporations hoard wealth and blame us when we become disabled or homeless Poverty is a policy choice. Not a moral failing

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Walking around my parents’ house after an afternoon walk. Darkness was falling. The wind was picking up speed too. Evidently there’s a storm coming.

X-mas Eve extreme relaxation (thanks to my mom for amazing food and cheerful undemanding ambience). I’m knitting a beanie, made a new ambient music playlist and shared with the kids, watching a murder mystery on Netflix and my dad brought a book I was searching for (GEB).

My first day off from work today for the holiday, so we visited #ateneum on the way to my parents. I went to see the Klimts ofc, but I found some completely new favorites that surprised me. #art #artmuseum #painting

Midwinter solstice. Light will return again. I think I’ve seen the sunlight maybe 2-3 days the past month. There’s no snow so it feels very dark. Especially mornings are heavy. Here are some #painting details to celebrate :) #art #artsky #acrylicpainting

And the swim routine is going well, which is one of the things I'm most proud and happy about this year. I've been swimming 4 times a week every week in December, and I'm well above 10k m for the month. I was able to reduce my time for 1k with two minutes so far. And I've increased my VO2-max.

Typical emotional roller-coaster of "making art": Fantasize about a painting for weeks but don't have time for it. I reserve a weekend for painting. But when the time comes I get some emotional meltdown and just stare at the canvas. All the plans seem stupid, and I get frozen in deep anxiety.