Odd thing: In Sweden you can call the 112 emergency number and request to talk to *a priest* between 21 and 6. Literally about anything, like suicidal ideation. Seems helpful but also questionable, doesn’t it block the lines? Also, what deal was made to have this instead of a more secular option?

yeah that witch, she is pure cancer

something feels off in this quill and nibs set… ”Log 039 I shoudumt haue eat...those [unintelligible] as the pain… Ihave no luck withmthe mishroom [unintelligible]ere.

Finns: noo WE are the tiny country at the edge of Europe

just some Lynchian personages from a 1980s Finnish game show called ”Hittimittari”, where ordinary people rated pop Songs. Popular meme content on the theme of ”people aged faster in the past” youtu.be/PhJwwqh10pc?...

"Olen tottunut kuulemaan politiikoilta tätä, ettei vaihtoehtoja ole, mutta se että ihan virkahenkilö sanoo näin, on mielestäni kummallista." No, VM on tottunut siihen, että se voi sanella "madonluvut", "reunaehdot" ja "välttämättömyydet". Sekä puolueiden että median epäonnistuminen demokratiassa.

for some reason this silly tune about two Norrbotten guys having a big night out in Capital and being confused by bartenders in Stockholm making fruit-based cocktails is/was a big children’s hit in Finland and Sweden

This year in land-based travel: a thread of miscellaneous observations. Family of four, Finland—Gotland—Norway in an ID.3. We started out by taking the night ferry from Turku to Stockholm. Boarding was straightforward, unlike 20+ years ago they only had to see our plates to check us in. 1/

lol one car alarm on the viking line car deck started bleeping and it spooked several other nearby cars, creating a chain reaction. Wonder if this is a deliberate feature?

i got very close to yeeting the app and driving out of the parking hall because it looked like just text fields. Then I noticed the Invisible Toggles. Amazing UI work, Aimo Park.

Vietetään jälleen vuosittaista ”ihmetellään, miten Soili Yli-Mäyryllä on varaa Hesarin etusivun mainokseen” -päivää

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

okay, seems you can *finally* borrow books for normal basic e-readers from the new Finnish digital library. Not as smooth as with Overdrive, but oh well. www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/e-library...

guys. we have a million better things to worry about than HVAC units making a little heat next to the compressor outside is large and heat island effect in cities is not because of a/c, it’s because cities are built of stuff that absorbs heat from the sun

This is interesting. I do have an internal voice, but as I experience it, it forms one part of my thinking, not the entirety of it. More like a tool that I use for verbal thinking. And absolutely not a persona, or a presence that would talk to me.

Mildly interesting: - Diapositive film is basically not made or sold anymore. Last time I bought film, uh, maybe 14 years ago you could still get it! They can still cross-develop it though. - B/W film isn’t horribly expensive, the cheapest was 7,5€ for a 36 exposure roll in Fotoyks Helsinki

as someone using three languages on a daily basis, one of which isn’t even in the same language family, this really makes a lot of intuitive sense. And the idea of some separate ”language of thought” feels like utter bunk. I think you’d noticed it by now? And if it isn’t accessible, why posit it!

The London underground is like a lot of things in the UK: amazing, first of it's kind, but also so old that upgrading it is really hard. I think most stations still don't even have lifts, let alone air conditioning.

Rare win for Helsinki? Apparently getting a public health center checkup booked for the same day is not something you usually get in Stockholm. The Omaolo health assessment system with integrated callback is also supposedly better that anything they have. Source: brother, who lives in Stockholm

Sagely: heat is stored in the organs, as pee is stored in the balls balls are organs, pee is heat

tempted to say that this just is every Kaurismäki film, although not practically like described here

Linnanmäki amusement park used to have an indoor rollercoaster where you put on VR helmets. This year they ditched the helmets, so now it is just a plain old indoor rollercoaster where you look at some foam asteroids painted in uv-fluorescent colors. Feels somehow topical.

With the current heatwave and the deserved criticism of media illustrations of people enjoying the sun, there is also the question of exactly how we should illustrate heatwaves with photography. Are there great examples of this? I know from experience that photo libraries can be lacking!

find someone who looks at you like this frogge looks at that maiden on this classic carousel decor painting at Linnanmäki amusement park

D’oh. Bought hearing aid button batteries that work for the light meters in my old Pentax film cameras. Turns out the meter in one is broken mechanically, and in the other it simply flips from maximum to minimum. So now I have 8 useless hearing aid batteries.

Analysis: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time ✍️ Written by @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org 📉 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/Heqn0QC

Onkohan Tokmannissa käyty läpi että slogan sananmuunnoksena on ”Oksun fista(a)misen puolesta”

fun that more have died than changed their mind about it, too

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Merman Helville

Vähemmän tunnetut faktat pyöräilyn säännöistä Suomessa: toreilla ja puistokäytävillä saa lähtökohtaisesti pyöräillä. #pyöräily

”The menu collection originated through the energetic efforts of Miss Frank E. Buttolph (1850-1924), a somewhat mysterious and passionate figure, whose mission in life was to collect menus.”

scandinavians know

Finnish Valio dairy company ice cream ad, the text is approximately ”soft ice cream goes hard”. Seems that until fairly recently ice cream ad design required the heaviest levels of innuendo

Remember, the temperatures we are given are *in the shade*... Ed Jones, an AFP photographer, has gone round Toulouse with a digital thermometer in the sun. Terrifying. From Le Monde.

Well this is one way to name your music institute album i guess

Being able to dump a shitload of confusing medical records & tests into something that can read them all quickly & provide some kind of context can be life changing for so many people! Also people are going to ask it for medical advice & it is going to do things that would be malpractice for an MD

▸"A surge in orders for electric motorbikes and buses assembled in numerous African countries" ▸“Nothing has paid the Trump tax more than diesel in this part of the world” ▸“It’s arguable that [Donald] Trump will inadvertently do more to accelerate the EV transition than any other US president”

The joker option is to go with Finnlines directly on the Helsinki—Germany route. Expect to pay 430€ during summer season for two adults with the basic cabin. The journey is around 30 hours. Disadvantage: the Travemünde connection is janky for foot passengers. www.finnlines.com/fi/reitit/he...

Maybe not enough people know about polarized sunglasses? They are significantly better than basic ones, and as a bonus you get real life ad block for most public screens

It’s time for another #Interrail trip! Yours Truly and @misaelisabeth.bsky.social are once again traveling from Helsinki to Italy by train, bus, and ferry. Follow along! 🧵1/

If any part of the UK hits 40C or near it this week, it will be a deeply concerning, record-breaking moment. 40.3C is UK's highest ever recorded temp - from 2022, in *July*, traditionally the hottest month. We could be about to see that record neared in *June*. Current record June temp = 35.6C.

Cycle plots! And counter-intuitive changes in climate! Two of my favorite dataviz things!

clumps,,,

whew! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_pit

this is me

The Black Hole is fascinating. Some amazing designs and some incredibly dorky stuff, the tone of it is really all over the place.

Dutch Hema selling stylish little packs of sham poo