Time to repost this since I've added a few new people to the list recently 👏

I don't know if there's ever been a better time to leave Meta's entire family of products than today.

Caribou is the best live act I've ever seen live and the race isn't even close. This Boiler Room set is incredible and doesn't even convey the sonic boom that is two drummers combining together with multi-instrumentalists in the way that Caribou does. I would LOVE it if they came to Helsinki.

I saw a dead body last week. I'm 45 and had never seen a dead body before. Thankfully she was face down in the water and I didn't see the face, but even so I can't stop thinking about it and feeling sad for her. Drowning in a dark sea, alone and confused. What a horrible way to go.

Swear to god, my kid is like a giant golden retriever that grew so quickly that it now weighs 30kg but thinks it's still 15kg and is as strong as a much older dog.

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I didn't have "will root for Harkkonen scum" on my bingo card for 2024 but here we are.

Roblox is fucking awful and should have a 13+ rating and you can't convince me otherwise. Similarly, Brawl Stars is awful and should have a 16+ rating and you can't convince me otherwise.

I could absolutely murder a keema naan right now but you can't get them in Finland like... Anywhere.

You have a chance to steal any ship from any sci fi franchise. What are you stealing and why?

Every day I message the after school club to tell them that I am there to pick up my kid, 20 minutes before I even get there. And I still have to wait 20 minutes for him to come outside...

I am strongly of the opinion that everybody forgot about Busta Rhymes way too quickly www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2j...

Randomly remembering this kids' TV show from the 80s. Basically D&D on TV youtu.be/eU5pdZOA9vc?...

I'm not often impressed by a movie trailer but this looks absolutely badass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcvL...

I don't have a conspiracy theorist mindset, but this really is disturbing. When his name was published all of his social accounts were still visible. For example I saw his Twitter profile when he only had ~1k followers. Now he has ~270k. They've done everything they can to shut down his message.

Crazy how quickly The Adjuster's social media and his entire digital footprint has been shut down. Except Twitter, of course...

Weekly mention of how good Dune Prophecy is. Desmond Hart is a 👌 baddie

Warm shoutout to the developers of Wobbly Life, who keep on pumping out awesome updates to the game for absolutely free, no DLC, just pure fun

Recently I moved from OSX to Windows 11 after 12 years and why is Windows so infuriating now? It's a constant battle just to stop it syncing everything to the cloud. I just want it all local, thanks! After a fight to remove the green OneDrive arrows, I now have a fight to remove the brown boxes...

I actually think that Civil War was by far the best film I watched in 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQ...

Mine was Metallica's Black Album tour in 1992. I was 13.

Just came across this account making beautiful rotoscoped animations from life in Helsinki. I wonder if the artist is on Bluesky also? Here's the insta: www.instagram.com/northandart

Man I'd really love to find the person at Google who coded this absolutely useless abomination and shake them. Shake their hand I mean. No violence on BlueSky. I just want to respect the person who coded that SO HARD.

To be honest I really like the direction that Dune Prophecy is heading in.

So I guess it's official: I'm working on a new site called Pogo (pogo.bio). The TL;DR is that it's designed to help you build a better reading habit, by massively improving the quality of recommendations. But it's also a warm and friendly community. Sign up! #booktok #booksky #reading #goodreads

Hot take: Goat Simulator 1 & 3 are absolutely perfect games for young kids. I would rather he spent a whole afternoon discovering and questing than play 5 minutes of Brawl Stars

There's a lot of new people in the starter pack, take a look and follow the new folk!

Kid is off sick from school so naturally we're playing Goat Simulator 3 at 07:45. After I helped him pass a quest he looked at me and said "thanks Papa... Papa NOOOIIRRR." and I feel moderately creeped out?

I was just daydreaming and two thoughts came to mind: 1. Finland has centuries of hard times. Why hasn't that translated into art in the same was as it has in other countries? 2. Why doesn't Helsinki have any proper book cafes? Akateeminen Kirjakauppa is not a proper book cafe.

You young whippersnappers have no idea how good life was before cellphones and the internet.

Bueller Bueller? Anyone?

I need a kick up the backside. Can someone please tell me to do the thing instead of putting off doing the thing?

What a wonderful concept: social proof. People are joining Bluesky because people are joining Bluesky. There's no stopping this ride now.

I'm paying for subscriptions to Apple TV and Max to watch Silo season 2 and Dune Prophecy respectively. Seems a bit of a waste. Is there anything else on those two networks I should look out for?

A small part of me wants to make a list of all the game industry folks I've come across on social media that are openly supporting Trump. Most of me doesn't really want to be involved. But some of me does. Know what I mean?

This is what ADHD looks like. Not being able to focus on work unless I have a game of risk happening in the background at all times.

I made a Starter Pack of people I found working in the Finnish game industry. Ping me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/QRM1C8k

AI-driven game development is just a race to the bottom and people will see through it very quickly. The premium bet will be on human-crafted games. I will die on this hill.

What are we calling these things? They're not tweets...

I spent years making free to play mobile games and often joked that I would need to repent by going to build a school or a well in a third world country. Now, I'm working on a new project to help people beat doom scrolling by building a reading habit. I'm always happy to talk with avid readers!

Apropos of nothing: I'm still constantly discovering how magical and scary and fragile it is to be a parent, even after 7 years. Experiencing how small gestures I make can affect my kid's mental wellbeing and seeing that effect last for days can't be replaced with any other feeling on earth.

I'm a former game industry entrepreneur now focusing on building better recommendations for book readers. I'd like to build in public, be open about my travails, and share my journey. Where's my crowd at? #booksky #mobilegames #entrepreneurship #buildingwithai