grug dont have to change!

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony’s opening BA-BA-BA-BAA is supposedly ”fate knocking at the door”, but to me it sounds like the composer is just clearing his throat.

Circle's Zopalki came out 30 years ago and Valerian is still one of the greatest tracks of all time. youtu.be/vegSHX00B4w?...

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Been listening this song on repeat for days. youtu.be/4olLgNu0hms?...

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

I'm 48 years old today. What am I doing with my life? Nothing much, I answer. At this rate, I'm going to do nothing much for the next ~20 years, then retire, and continue to do nothing much. I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do best is nothing much.

The most distracting thing about reading (good) fiction is when the story keeps missing obvious triggers into (in my opinion) even more interesting character interactions and my mind keeps trying to write fanfiction inserts.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

If you've been affected by any of the topics raised in our poem, please ask one of our staff for a free leaflet. Please exit through the gift shop. via Simon Evans

Wasn't there a mashup of Daft Punk's Robot Rock & WKUK's Sex Robot sketch called "Sex Robot Rock"? Is this a false memory or has search engines been enshittified so much that I can't find it? #DaftPunk #WKUK

I saw a dream that felt amusing even after waking up and wrote it down, but I don't know if it want's to be a poem, or a comedy skit, or something else.

Real life Steel Ball Run across United States from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 7. The narration & sprinkled historical details reminded me of Three Days In Twin Peaks video by Take The Ring, so I guess I need to re-watch that next. youtu.be/30bQ3HCcKnY?...

I’ve followed #OnePiece manga for decades now, so I knew that S1 of the live action would be just a long prologue (how the core crew got together) and S2 (when the overarching story kicks in) would the real decisive factor if the series actually works. Both S1 & S2 were okay. Looking forward to S3.

Wait, there's an actual published AI slop card game about Oulu 2026 European Capital of Culture? Not a good look for #Oulu after they were already criticized for using AI slop in their marketing. Here's the thing: if you use AI, clearly mark it as AI so that people can make informed decisions.

He's got no chance

Saturday morning idea: mashup the lyrics of Paradise Lost’s True Belief with R.E.M.’s Imitation Of Life. Charades, pop skill Wretched will, host of pleasure surreal Imitation of life Like a koi in a frozen pond Rise or fall at your master's request Trying to look like you don't try

Fallen pine branches on top of a recent snowdrift. No footsteps but mine. #haiku

Some sad scammer is using my name to send spam messages from "puheeenjohtaja99" email address (with 3 e's). Report, block, ignore.

I accidentally hit my elbow to a door edge quite hard and was pleasantly surprised when there was zero pain. Usually when this happens I hit a nerve just right and my whole arm tingles immediately. I started feeling dull, delayed pain only about an hour later.

A silly comic idea.

All the doctors telling this dude ”your cancer keeps spreading, you need to cut it out immediately and start chemotherapy”, but dude is still like ”nah, I'll try fasting and acupuncture again, I’m already feeling a bit better.” This post is about politics.

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Nobody wants to work anymore, 1894-2022.

Should get a tattoo of my name so that when future archaeologists find my body preserved in ice they don't name me Oulu.

Previously I said that I hate medleys. But a vtuber doing 5-minute DJ sets consisting of 15-second clips & snippets is something different. youtu.be/2ewZIsqEwiY?...

The slightest annoyance: music videos that use different music as an intro to the music video. Especially skippable if there's an old timey lofi radio effect.

Lots of these AI slop channels are seemingly run by one person or a small group of people. They all link to each other, spam each other with fake comments about how they are Ukrainian soldiers fighting insomnia and the video has soothed them. They publish hours of content every day

A cashier with a price tag in her hair, is she real or just made of air? La la la lalala. Full price or half price? 2,77 euros is not a bad price for a wig. (To the tune of Omega - The Girl With Pearls In Her Hair)

Got a call from the health center that my physical checkup has to be postponed a bit because the student who was on the phone made a mistake and reserved a time for a psychiatrist instead of a physician. At least they noticed their mistake early, this could've turned into a sketch comedy later.

The Way West (1967) is a pretty good film if you watch it like a session of a pen-and-paper overland dungeon crawl. Every scene is a random roll on an encounter table.

Everything is ready for a FINE weekend. #boardgames #cartoon #comics

Colosseum 1st edition. The winner of a four-player game was decided by the final dice roll. Rolled badly and lost the game by 1 point. #boardgames

Evening walk at Taivalvaara #Taivalkoski

I’m not starting anything new when Midsummer is just a few days away.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Neighbor was playing synthesizer chords at 5 in the morning. No songs, just random chords. I was able to quickly fall asleep again, so I'm not complaining, just saying. Previous neighbor often started using power tools at 7, so mellow synth pads at 5 is charming in comparison.

A term that just means being awake to injustices now has negative associations. The implication is fairly obvious: being asleep is the desirable quality. Being passive, unthinking, indifferent. The very act of caring becomes bad. There's already a term for that: Orwellian. Asleep is awake.

If he had done Marty's moonwalk from Back to the Future III and launched his board in the air, this would be 10/10.

The Weighing of the Heart She found out that I’m an atheist and offered to buy my soul to prove that I wouldn’t sell. But when I immediately agreed and even offered it for free, she got scared and walked away. Drop a feather on the scale, I have like thousand souls and they’re all for sale. #poem

Why do we always talk about an event that happened now 36 years ago? Because authoritarian regimes function in part by erasing or rewriting history. The Chinese government still deny the Tiananmen Square Massacre happened. It did and we have to keep on saying as much until justice is served.

Use funny spaceship names, but ignore post-scarcity and morphological freedom. All money, no Culture.

When I was a kid, some old person asked me “coffee or tea” as “kahvia jotta teetä”, which stuck to my mind because “jotta” means “so that”. So I have to drink coffee in order to to drink tea? Meaning “jotta” also means “and”? So if I say yes, I must drink both? Old memory triggered by this video: