I know in my heart that the cause I joined is just. I will be part of it. I side with people, nature and society.

I don't know if it is cool to be spiritual, but I've done everything I can for the world. The world sees you when you do that. It does not make life any easier, but being part of it, you cannot buy that, at least. So I am free.

I feel like being carried by the good people I will meet in these new circles, like when I chose to live for the rivers. People, nature and society. Not the first time I'm digging deep into these aspects of life

Meanwhile, joining the Left Alliance seems like the best move in years. I've been through shit all my adult life, and for once there is a tiny hope of things getting better for all. I'll post here now and then

Mom is out of the ER for now, and I've discussed some minor climate policy stuff on Threads, which feels lighter than taking it all in here in English.

Yeah, total social media break at least for July. I tried to discuss lighter issues on Finnish Threads, but the hell, Mom is coughing blood in the ER. Need to get to Helsinki pretty fast. I'll talk about sufficiency again, perhaps in September. This is some really difficult shit to deal with

Mom’s been the key person through all the things I’ve been through lately. She has been a major reason to keep going.

I know where I’ll be when I pass, on one of the hundreds of restored rivers. This is important. Not too many people in Modernity will have this experience of people, nature and society. #Sufficiency

When my Mom passes, it will be a hard time. I’m trying my best to prepare for it, taking care of my self physically and now trying to take more part in society by joining the Left Alliance.

It is heavy when I’m the only close relative left when my mom goes into ER almost every week. If I’m not posting here for a few weeks or months, you probably can figure out what has happened.

Intense fires drove a sharp rise in forest loss across Brazilian Indigenous territories. Indigenous leaders warn the destruction threatens food security and health, while climate experts fear an upcoming El Niño could worsen conditions across the Amazon Basin. @aimeegabay.bsky.social reports.

"Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion." #RestoreNature for #Defence www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

It is necessary to begin these discussions early, before the real hard summers when we make decisions between the data centers, electric SUV cars, electro-SAFs for overtourism and some people dying.

Thinking about my mom.

This is particularly depressing. French electricity has been one of the cleanest, least harmful to the environment *in the world* for *decades.* As far as Mélenchon goes, there are other indicators that he may not be bright, but he sure is credulous. Like his views about Russia and Ukraine.

If you're stuck in the heatwave and have the financial means to travel to Sweden and Finland by night train, you are more than welcome on my behalf. The locals benefit from functioning trains as much as the tourists.

"Tickets go on sale next Tuesday for the first Finnish cross-border train trips in more than five years – and the first to Sweden in 38 years." #Sufficiency yle.fi/a/74-20233368

Everyone should have access to safe, affordable and clean energy services including comfortable room temperatures especially at night during the worst heat waves. We have modern HVAC technology and clean grid power to enable that.

Mehr Bäume, weniger Blech! Dann klappt es auch mit dem Hitzeschutz. 🌳🌳🌳 #Hitzewelle #Verkehrswende

100% this take. Closing schools ignores housing inequalities and parents’ employment inequalities and puts the worst impact onto the children growing up in poverty.

Jeg er sur og varm

Wie viele Hitzewellen noch bis zur Geoengineering-Debatte?

My son has been sent home from nursery twice today. The first time as the nap room was too hot to be safe, the second as the whole nursery is closing early due to extreme heat. It blows my mind that some people deny the reality we're seeing before our eyes.

Kyllähän tämä _tavallaan_ hämmästyttää. Että miten tähän on tultu. Mutta toisaalta ei tiedeyhteisö kuitenkaan kovin hämmästynyt liene. Kun fasistinen puolue pääsee vallankahvaan, saadaan fasistista politiikkaa. Eli onko nyt aika huolestua? Ei, se oli jo kauan sitten.

If you're stuck in the heatwave and have the financial means to travel to Sweden and Finland by night train, you are more than welcome on my behalf. The locals benefit from functioning trains as much as the tourists.

Temperatures have reached 36.4°C at Yeovilton, provisionally making it the hottest June day on record, surpassing both the previous record set yesterday and the longstanding record from 1976 🌡️

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

This graph could be of so many technology discourses that emerge and get abandoned, only to come up with new marketing that does not require regulation and sufficiency, especially of the corporations, banks and high-emitting behaviour. #Sufficiency

European cities are set to lose up to 14% of their on-street parking by 2040 due to growing car size. Our new report with @transportenvironment.org shows how ‘right-sizing’ policies to get new cars back to 2015 levels could reverse this trend. Check it out 👇 bit.ly/3SRno6P #carspreading

"The younger generation dislikes right-wing political parties, the lack of job opportunities, and the use of AI at work." Smart, them youngin's. It makes sense to move left if the late-stage capitalism doesn't provide life prospects. yle.fi/a/74-20233302

"Tickets go on sale next Tuesday for the first Finnish cross-border train trips in more than five years – and the first to Sweden in 38 years." #Sufficiency yle.fi/a/74-20233368

"Car culture and motonormativity are so entrenched, it's too late for information and incentives to make the difference. 'Hard' measures are needed if we want to get serious about reducing car harms." - Absolutely.

23°C separates Brussels city centre (≈47°C land surface temp) from the nearby Sonian Forest (≈24.5°C). The urban heat island effect. 🌡️🧪https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory/publications-data/analysis-data/population-characteristics-in-areas-exposed-to-the-urban-heat-island-effect

"Finland's non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for people aged 15-74 also rose to its highest level this century — now standing at 12.7 per cent, compared to 10.5 per cent a year ago." Austerity doesn't seem to work, Exhibit C. The next government will be centre-left. yle.fi/a/74-20233070

At the time, Finns may already have been *the* most loyal subjects of the Russian Czar, to a large extent thanks to autonomy and rights his predecessor had promised and he respected. Civilians in Kokkola even fought and defeated a Royal Navy landing, and captured one of their boats.

Empires be empiring

"More than 44 million people in France, out of a total population of 67 million, have been under the highest red alert for heat this week, with daytime temperatures exceeding 40C in many places and staying dangerously hot at night." #ClimateHeating www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

A sweltering night in Cardiff has broken another new UK heat record as brutally hot conditions continue across England and Wales - “Europe’s savage heatwave is the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution" says UN climate chief #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

France officially recorded its hottest day on record yesterday, with the nationwide average temperature exceeding 30°C for the first time ever. Uncharted territory.

It’s less than a week since my radio was telling me that Britain needed to abandon net zero and drill baby drill because the Tories won a by election in Aberdeen Now it’s so hot the kids can’t sleep

"Net zero is not an arbitrary slogan. Rather, it is dictated by the laws of physics." Can't repeat that too much, or too loudly. Thanks, Sir Brian!

Local vinyl collector charged with leaving records in hot van

We have just witnessed France’s hottest day in recorded history. The severity of this heatwave is truly hard to comprehend. Over 50 millions people will be under red-level extreme heat warnings tomorrow. Sadly, what’s going on there is a foreshadowing of our future. Data: DWD/Météo France

While Russians in Moscow trying to cry on camera how they ‘just want to live in peace’ and ‘don’t want anyone to be killed’, this Monday Russian drone bombed a house in Ukraine. Just a house. At 4 am , when the family slept. It killed a man, his son and his grandmother. The boy’s name was

The UK has provisionally set a new daily maximum air temperature record for June, with 36.1°C reported at Gosport, Hampshire today. Read: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

A fuel shortage in Cuba brought about by a U.S. oil blockade has created a new crisis: garbage. Ed Augustin reports that trash has been piling up on streets as trucks are missing parts for repair and fuel to run, which is also raising the risk of mosquito-borne diseases spreading across the country.

Spiel ma 'Boden is Lava'?

Be polite, show respect to the River. You will get the fish eventually but it might take twenty years to learn. #FlyFishing

It is not art, a performance no son, it is in you by living in the Northeast. The same with being bothered with mosquitoes or thinking about meeting a bear in the forest. Once the forest is in you, things like this are like paying for a bus ticket in a city. A famous actor thinks about a bear.

It is about exposure through repetition, and learning from reconnaisance soldiers. It gets hard in the mid-winter months, but people can do it with some training.