The economy of the Moominvalley and especially not the Moomin family *obviously* not working implicates that there are essential bits that are left out in the original books. There are many indication of an outside economy existing, like beachcombed bottles of whisky.

From the cottage takes factory: The Moomins are high fantasy — alternate world — dragons — trolls — snorks are elves

Such a great Tom Gauld. But there's a serious point here too. Of course, there's no reason sales should reflect worth or quality. But the real issue is about what manner of cultural work a book is doing...

So, true...but also yes I absolutely want to see a movie with accurate bronze age arms and armor.

By my reckoning the Guardian 100 best books list doesn’t have a single work of obvious ”high fantasy”. What books of fantasy would belong on such a list, apart from the obvious Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Tasaisin väliajoin täytyy muistuttaa ihmisiä tästä.

Surprised to find I’ve read maybe 19 of these. Overlapping literary canons, speaking of the influence of British literature etc. Surprised by no Pynchon.

ELON: christopher nolin is desocrating Homer the Odyssey just to qualify for woke oscars award.. only thing he care is industy clout CHRISTOPHER NOLAN (looking at a bunch of clocks he's modified so they're all going at different speeds): haha yes.... hell yeah...

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There seems to be more and larger clams that what I remember from childhood. Something about changing conditions? On the same beach you would only find occasional tiny shells. Baltic clam, Limecola balthica. It doesn’t grow much larger than this.

turns out other countries did precisely this, the bridge concept might be originally French. Maybe Finns don’t use it because the only culturally accepted skipping of work is due to hangovers.

other countries need to borrow the excellent Spanish term ”hacer puente”, literally ”make a bridge”, to describe taking the day(s) off between a mid-week holiday and the weekend.

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in 2026. Maybe in 2025 too. Impossibly it gets funnier the longer it goes on.

Ja tämä. X:ä on lukuisissa selvityksissä todettu keskeisimmäksi disinformaation levityskanavaksi EU:ssa. Ja sen omistaja on natsi, joka postailee natsimeemejä samalla alustalla. Valtionjohto voisi yhtä hyvin käyttää VKontaktea, ja informaatioturvallisuus suomalaisille olisi about sama.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social thought you might like to hear that Johnathan Haidt (The Anxious Generation) spoke today at the NYU commencement ceremony, and was loudly and repeatedly booed by the graduates 😂 he tried to say that "NYU students are anti-fragile!" but far too little too late, dude

Georgian group Bzikebi inexplicably returned. Over 17 years ago they were responsible for this, an example of three minutes in music feeling considerably longer. It was lodged as an almost-false memory for me, from some 2009 afterparty. youtu.be/JSolwgGq5_A?...

Here's Henri Matisse drawing a portrait of his son. Watch his head and eyes, and how often they look back and forth between his drawing and his son. Why does he look back and forth so frequently—why can't he just draw his son from memory?
And where exactly is he looking? 4/

HSL:n hallituksen pj Mirita Saxberg ehdotti, että HSL:n tulisi siirtyä nykyisestä vyöhykemallista kilometripohjaisiin lipunhintoihin. Kaikki tarkan laskelman tekemiseen tarvittavat tiedot eivät ole saatavilla, mutta on selvää, että km-pohjainen hinnoittelu muuttaisi lipunhintoja radikaalisti. 1/12

Rainy cherry blossom viewing in Roihuvuori, before the crowds

Kävin lukemassa ihmisten kommentteja jutussa, jossa kerrottiin neljätoista laudaturia kirjoittaneesta ylioppilaasta. Toivottavasti niillä kommenteilla ei kouluteta mitään kielimallia. Oli siellä tosin helmiäkin joukossa. Esim. tämä

This is annoying, because it is _nearly_ real looking, but I think the image in the quoted post is ai generated. The eggs seem too flat, they overlap weirdly, and while most have seven spokes (rare in nature!) the number of spokes varies. Compare with this image: theinsectguide.net/mourning-clo...

A 2011 Nuforce Icon μDAC2 is now thoroughly obsolete, unless you have some old heavy-duty wired headphones. Also from this testing bout the differences between recordings tends to be way bigger than the difference between these. Technology is insane… www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/nuf...

Got the bike back. This is how the hub that was broken works. This is some insane mechanical engineering to work for thousands of kilometers of riding with heavy loads. youtu.be/6xY2S-9gjHI?...

Mildly interesting: when testing the old Nuforce μ2 external sound card vs just lightning adapter with the same Marshall IV headphones, I can hear very little difference. – internal soundcards have improved? – don’t have good enough ears? Reference song: Pionier IOO by Noto/Sakamoto on Qobuz

On one hand I'm waiting for the SNW episode where they switch their data storage over to small, painted wood blocks, but on the other hand I like the idea that all the bumpy foreheads are a universal translator biproduct to stop humans freaking out that aliens look like: (h/t @alexries.com)

fun fact for those who don’t know: English and Frisian are sibling languages.

Let's talk about the surprising world of trout vision & what it says about how these aquatic hunters find prey. We start with a literal 'fish eye lens', which in trout is spherical, magnifies objects on the edge of their visual field by 3X. Like inverse telescopes, magnifying /peripheral/ vision.

i am normally averse to "STEM vs The Humanities (TM)" arguments but occasionally they're valid. I sometimes do a thread where I talk about the problem of "fail states" in technical vs artistic projects...

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This would be a fun premise for ”first contact, but it is nothing like we expected” hard sociological science fiction. If anyone knows a book like this I’m interested!

Reading ”the Tainted Cup” by Robert Jackson Bennet (it is fun!) and because I’m that type of weirdo I start wondering about ordinary plants mentioned in the book (mint tea!), since it otherwise is set in a strange world with house-sized leviathans. Typically high fantasy has normal vegetation!

Man, two all-timers in the space of a month. Nice job, New Yorker cartoon editors. The idea of this one is brilliant, but the execution is maybe even more so—getting the figure in the coffin to read both ways like it’s supposed to is something.

I have been thinking about how happy this fish is for four days.

Our museum has about 5 million specimens. We think. Don't ask where that 5 million figure came from, no one remembers and it hasn't changed for decades. About 160,000 of them are in our digital database. Mostly at the resolution of "There is a jar of insects at Turku. It has the identifier XXX."

This idea of reducing to six typeface by Massimo Vignelli is to be put back in the context of the 60s-70s. Indeed, designing a visual identity in this period is having to guarantee typographic coherence while, according to the systems of photocompositions (Linotype, Berthold, Scangraphic, etc.) 1-2

The difficult thing about sea level rise is how much of it is locked in already: several meters, basically no matter what happens.

Jälleen muistutan: jos et halua tukea Andrew Tatea ja natseja markkinoivaa julkaisualustaa, voit julkaista blogiasi tai uutiskirjettäsi teknisesti ja bisnesmielessä aivan samanlaisilla alustoilla, joita on lukuisia.

I posted about these acting CDC director’s incompetence regarding the Hanta virus response, but I want to be careful not to cause undue alarm. Here is a very good epidemiologist, @billhanage.bsky.social in the Guardian. I largely agree with his assessment.

Oh lol, my mother had dredged up a 5th grade end-of-year essay, evidence of me being a quite intolerable on the spectrum little edgelord kid. The teacher’s commentary was still positive and supportive. Not great to think what could have been with a different teacher.

Since there is nothing for scale this looks like a person in a heron suit Miyazaki predicted everything

could we please not do another round of low info pandemic scaremonging around the hantavirus and the official response? feeling there is a risk of some subset polarizing themselves into there being a pandemic regardless what happens

Forget Barbenheimer. Hello Mortvil Wears Prombat 2.

hahah I’m not in Hamina you absolute dorks. the foreboding tone really doesn’t work on mobile web, right from the start the location is off by some 130 km

Koiran nenä voittaa historiallisen ottelun

That's the most irritating part: browser fingerprinting is a real thing. It's taking a number of innocuous or even beneficial bits of information & using them to build a profile Presenting it in the voice of a shadowy mastermind in some spy thriller does nothing to build understanding

weird Finnish at the dinner table: syöpä! (cancer) is not the same as syöpä! (do eat!) the latter is pronounced ”syöp’pä”, exhibiting the ghostly consonant doubling that is one of the rare examples of Finnish not being said as it is written

thinking about a Masked Musical Duo quad chart where this is on the opposite side from Angine de Poitrine

ai helvetti, kiitos random oululainen viikon parhaista nauruista, näin nerokasta parodiaa täysin autoaivottuneesta ulkokuntalaisesta en ole lukenut varmaan ikinä :D hyvä että pysyin pöntöllä lukiessa