First day on the Cleveland Way today. Beautiful weather, gorgeous Yorkshire, and Rievaulx Abbey was nothing short of stunning. Not a bad start!

In this NYT piece, Finland gets billed as Europe’s radical climate leader. Meanwhile the distance between promises and policy is growing. The story boosts the 2035 net-zero brand without asking if this cabinet is on course. Targets haven’t changed. Implementation has, and not for the better. 🧵

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

1) Hyviä uutisia! Nuoret kohtaavat väkivaltaa harvemmin kuin koskaan! Tuoreimman Kouluterveyskyselyn mukaan fyysistä uhkaa kokeneiden 15-16-v määrä on nyt mittaushistorian alhaisin. 2006-2015 keikuttiin 20 prosentin paikkeilla, jonka jälkeen tultu jo 12 prosenttiin. Vielä on matkaa nollaan.

been saying this for years: stop using academia[.]edu. This is real bad folks.

Need some gentle exercise? Want to do something fun and relaxing on Friday evenings? Come to our qigong beginners course in Käpylä, Helsinki!

Looking at incel forum discussions certainly makes much the toxicity of mainstream gaming discussions (for all its unpleasantness) feel pretty tame. I think even moving to reactionary gaming communities would be a step in the right direction for many of these guys.

Näinkin voi toimia, jos on esimerkiksi jokin muu maa kuin Suomi.

Taas lähti lappuja @koneensaatio.fi arpajaisiin! Jos ei veikkaa, ei voi voittaa jne.

It's the Cleveland Way in two weeks, here's hoping the weather will be at least half decent - I'll settle for it not raining every day! Haven't done much walking in the past year, but after the Pennine Way, this should be pretty easy. Surely?

Just don't post. Don't feel the need to weigh in on every issue all the time. Sometimes other people have said it better. Don't force yourself to chase trends, news, events, drama, and definitely don't feel like you have to be involved in everything that happens.

Is Warhammer 40k manly? Is it just grown men playing with toys? How does a wonderfully geeky hobby mesh with hypermasculine, ultraviolent fiction? Here's 18 minutes of me going "it's interesting and complicated". #gamestudies #miniatures

The Twitter folks posting angry shit about Bluesky are like a billionaire who's bitter because the guy he was hunting for sport escaped

If you’re an academic and you’re not worried by the sort of rhetoric then you’re not paying attention. You might think you’re insulated from this in the UK, but this sort of anti-academic propaganda is travelling over here.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

@jlaakso.bsky.social's Roleplay Letters is my absolute favourite tabletop blog. Excellent analysis of different RPGs based on actual play and years of experience in running, playing, and creating games. Highly recommended! #rpg #ttrpg

The world may be horrible and this may have been a super tiring and stressful week, but now it's Friday evening, and I've got junk food and MAFS Australia. All good!

way too many outlets reporting "Hey fascist! Catch!" without the "Up arrow, right arrow, 3 down arrows" part that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2 all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online

you know what? fuck professionalism. Red Box Games here telling you they don't want your business.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Media educators for 15+ years: "We have to understand that digital media is a major part of contemporary childhood and youth and has to be acknowledged in education and parenting." (Very little happens) Governments in 2025: "OMFG let's blanket ban smartphones and social media it's the only way!"

Kun kännykkäkeskustelua lukee, niin nuoret eivät saa käyttää kännykkää, koska se on epäsosiaalista, mutta eivät myöskään viestitellä keskenään puhelimilla, koska se häiritsee ja vie keskittymisen. Ei oo helppoa.

It's a beetle mosaic and you should thank us for it. #MosaicMonday

Wait, publishers sometimes pay authors? (cries in academic)

Anyone can be sexy biting their lower lip, but try doing it with your upper lip - that's the real test.

This guy's the celebrated alternative and counterforce to Trump? GJ USA.

Huomaako kukaan muu, miten hiljaa kokoomuksen ja RKP:n kansanedustajat ovat? Siis ne, joiden piti olla hyviä tyyppejä, johden piti vastustaa rasismia ja äärioikeistoa. Koko hallitus on muuntunut äärioikeistolaiseksi ja he ovat edelleenkin hiljaa, kiltisti sen tukijoina. Korviahuumaavan hiljaa.

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

Eli PS aikoo jatkossakin puhua maahanmuutosta "värikkäästi ja kovaa", mutta olla huolellisempi yksittäisissä sanavalinnoissa? Voi luoja tätä farssia, tätäkö varten nyt käytiin taas tuntikausia vakavaa keskustelua?

Every straight guy goes through a phase where they think that if they learn one skill like guitar or close-up magic that it will suddenly make them irresistible to women. When in reality the thing that truly makes one irresistible to women is Warhammer 40k.

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Viime aikoina olen huomannut tällaisen ilmiön. Kolumnissa jokainen kappale on yksi lause. Dramaattisen tehokeinon yliviljely vie siltä nopeasti tehon. Jäljelle jää kokoelma lauseita, ranskalaisia viivoja. Tekstistä ei muodostu kokonaisuutta. Loppukin jää latteaksi. Se ei yllätä.

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Do you think there are headlines back on the Predator planet that are like “Dentist Speared By Earthling He Paid to Hunt” and there’s a bunch of Predators in ties around a watercooler going “Lol RIP.”

Tänään takaisin Helsinkiin Thessalonikista. Kestänee hetki tottua siihen, että vitosella ei saa lounasta ja että 0,60€:lla saa bussilipun sijaan alle viidesosan bussilipusta. Kreikan tie jne.

Galaksin kokoinen aamen tälle. Satunnaisten nettikommenttien nostaminen uutisarvoiseksi ja siten ”kohujen” masinointi on roskaa. @oskarionninen.bsky.social kirjoittaa tässä kulttuurijournalismista, mutta sama toistuu muissakin aihepiireissä, kuten politiikassa. www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sYGocr...

Lapsi- ja perhejärjestöjen kannanotto hallituksen budjettiriiheen: Lapsilta ei voi enää leikata! Lapsi- ja perhejärjestöt odottavat, että hallitus lunastaa hallitusohjelmaan kirjatun lupauksensa edistää lasten oikeuksien toteutumista yhteiskunnan kaikilla sektoreilla. www.mll.fi/kannanotot-j...

Keskisarjan puheet edustavat syvän päädyn äärioikeistolaisuutta ja suoranaista fasismia, joten tietenkin Purra hyväksyy ne. Kuten hyväksyy muukin hallitus . yle.fi/a/74-20180196

Vanhempien tulee uskaltaa rajata lastensa älylaitteiden käyttöä, sanoo mediakasvatuksen asiantuntija Rauna Rahja Mannerheimin Lastensuojeluliitosta. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

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Four episodes in, Alien: Earth is an ok, entertaining enough scifi series, kind of like a clumsy YA Westworld. As an Alien thing it's rubbish.

1/8 🧵 GPT-5's storytelling problems reveal a deeper AI safety issue. I've been testing its creative writing capabilities, and the results are concerning - not just for literature, but for AI development more broadly. 🚨

I wrote about the magic circle and the importance of ritual in tabletop roleplaying games. #ttrpg #magic www.roleplayletters.com/2025/08/28/a...

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Hallituspuolueita PS poislukien varmasti hävettää, mutta kaikki ovat selvästi kuitenkin sitä mieltä, että rasistien kanssa hallituksessa veljeilyn aiheuttama häpeä on hyväksyttävä hinta siitä, että pääsee toteuttamaan hyvinvointia rapauttavaa hallituspolitiikkaa.

"Tilanteeseen on tietenkin monia syitä, joista merkittävin on pääministeri Petteri Orpon halu pitää perussuomalaiset hallituksessa hinnalla millä hyvänsä. Hänen kiistaton poliittinen saavutuksensa on rasismin normalisoitumisen edistäminen tässä maassa." @jannesep.bsky.social asian ytimessä.

Psychology be like "We wanted to understand the essence of beauty, so we combined standard, internally valid measures for beauty and essence, and the results suggests that beauty may or may not have essence and turns out it's somewhat complicated and pre-registration is the answer"