The sun is low in Northern Finland at 2pm but it’s still there! #Oulu

⚡️Europe must stay patient as prospects for Ukraine-Russia ceasefire remain distant, Finnish president says.

Still nature

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

🇪🇺 United in action.    At this week’s European Council, EU leaders agreed on:  🇺🇦 Support for Ukraine  ☮️ Peace plan in the Middle East  🛡️ Boosting European defence  �� Competitiveness & green transition  🏘️ Affordable housing  🧭 Migration management  🇲🇩 Moldova’s EU path

Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA. Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements. The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.

OECD:n ratkaisu on kolmiosainen: – palautetaan progressiivisuus tuloveroihin ja omaisuuteen, – tukitaan veropohjan vuodot ja estetään verosuunnittelu, – ja rakennetaan globaalia verokoordinaatiota, joka palauttaa valtioille kyvyn verottaa pääomaa oikeudenmukaisesti.

I don’t know if everything will be okay on the other side of this but at least the No King Protest yesterday showed that people are not going to let the slide to fascism happen without fight.

I realized that the frame rate of my game was going down the more I played. Let's debug!

Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hands-on hardware with Nerves! Writing e-ink drivers in Elixir, learning SPI protocols with @gworkman.bsky.social .Build firmware, take home your board! Save your spot! codebeameurope.com/trainings/di...

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

EU's plan to phase out Russian energy clears first political hurdle reut.rs/43bFliP

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Ei se talouden ja julkisen talouden ennustaminen niin vaikeaa ole. #talous #politiikka #media ‼️ @ku.fi 10.9.2023 ‼️:

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

This is the President explicitly threatening to withhold federal funds from New York City if voters elect a candidate he opposes. This is an unlawful attempt to coerce voters through federal financial threats and a textbook example of voter intimidation to influence the outcome of a local election.

This is a dance of the dead movie created out of the dozens of woodcuts from the 1520 Munich print "Der todten dantz mit figuren vnd schrifften" www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b... #bookhistory #earlymodern

The fact that in our lifetimes, global temperatures could reach higher than ever over the past 3,000,000 years is hard to comprehend. The last glacial maximum, when sea levels were 134 m lower than today, was only 23,000 years ago. Figure from the latest IPCC report (AR6 WG1, TS)

The world’s largest carbon registry, Verra, has pulled millions of carbon credits from the market after they were scrutinized in my and Jonas Gerding’s @longplay.fi investigation (so far only available in Finnish, but more stories are coming up!) (1/4)

The report found Finland scored well on permanent residence and access to education, but poorly on the ease of obtaining citizenship as well as immigrants' political participation.

🇪🇺🤝🇮🇩 A new, game-changing chapter for the EU and Indonesia. We have finalised negotiations on a trade agreement that will open for EU exports a market of 280 million people to European businesses. We promised to diversify our partnerships. We are delivering ↓

Addressing the connection between animal biodiversity declines and the carbon stored in our ecosystems can help to make smarter decisions about aligning responses to the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis. 🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today I want to especially thank all our warriors who are inflicting truly significant losses on Russia. Losses at the front. Losses along the border. Losses on Russia’s own territory thanks to our long-range strikes.

💥🔥 The combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to September 14, 2025.

An effort to force the release of the files on child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein failed in a close vote in the U.S. Senate on Friday as Mississippi’s two Republican senators, Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, voted to block it. buff.ly/X8YoNkg

In my smallish all-electric London terraced house I don't pay any energy bills. In winter I get paid less & my consumption increases, but overall I still export to the grid in a year far more energy than I buy. I have solar PV panels, a battery, a heat battery for hot water, heat pumps, insulation

Not exactly news. But a summary. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/09/i...

Agentic Software Dev + Toddler Day Sleep

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

We did the thing. zed.dev/blog/claude-...

Despite the headline there is no new normal until our emissions stop. Until then we are just passing through current conditions on our way to something worse. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

A study from a few years ago might not be relevant due to the improvement in range and useability of e-bikes. The bikes I tried this week have a range similar to the first e-Golf car. As e-bikes get better, municipalities and cities should build and maintain dedicated infrastructure. #eBikes

⚡️ UK sanctions Kadyrov's mother, others over Russian deportation of Ukrainian children. The new sanctions target figures and groups accused of organizing or facilitating the deportations, including the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation and its president, Aymani Kadyrova.

Dear African People! #Russia is not your Friend! Russia is not in any ways "Antiimperialist or Antiracist" . It is the second last big Prison of Nations ( the other one is #China). In #Moscow PoC are ,regulary called "Apes, Serfs or plain:Slaves to Russia". Don't trust them!

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 
The critical evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Lingonberries generally have a more reliable crop than blueberries because the plant flowers later in the season.

1. The situation in Florida is growing more tense with the erasure of Pride crosswalks. After state officials painted over the Pulse Memorial sidewalk in Orlando, Florida Citizens painted them back. Now the state has sent 7 squad cars to stare at the crosswalk. Subscribe to support our journalism

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL 🔥⛽🌏💀 MAKE A SUBMISSION ! The Australian Senate now has a Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy investigating climate disinfo orgs & funders Due by 12 Sept 2025 here: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... Cont'd below 🧵 #auspol #NZpol #AtlasNetwork

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

⚡️EU's 19th sanctions package against Russia expected to be ready in September, Kallas says.

⚡️Russian gasoline prices hit record highs after drone strikes shut refineries. Russia, one of the world's largest energy producers, relies heavily on oil exports to fund its full-scale war against Ukraine.

Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order. Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

On these days where image search results are dominated by AI, it is a joy to find a heaven with high-quality real-life photo references. Joel Sartore's Photo Ark is a project documenting 17000+ animal species, with more than 60000+ photos taken during 25 years. www.joelsartore.com/photo-ark/

⚡️'Putin cannot be trusted' — Nordic, Baltic countries issue joint statement supporting Ukraine's sovereignty. "Ultimately it is Russia's responsibility to end its blatant violations of international law. Russia's aggression and imperialist ambitions are the root causes of this war."

5/6 Financial Times varoitti jo 2019 “rentier-kapitalismista”: pääoma kasaantuu omaisuustuloihin (vuokrat, monopolit, rahoitustuotot) sen sijaan että rahoittaisi tuottavaa kasvua. Se tekee järjestelmästä haavoittuvan ja lisää sijoittajien epävarmuutta. www.ft.com/content/5a8a...

He spends $200 MILLION of your💰on a ballroom and his family doesn’t deny making billions off his presidency. As you cheer for him caging brown ice cream men & kids, he invades DC to cover a child sex trafficking ring and trashes the constitution to cling to power. He laughs.