Dried kombu and shiitake are a perfect life hack for making super easy delicious dashi if you have no dashi powder or katsuobushi or want it to be vegan 😌

No matter how many toys we buy for Ponta, this smartphone stand thingy is by far his favourite

I got work for about two months! It's very much only part time, but I'm very happy to have at least some steady guaranteed work (and income) for a while.

Who needs foliage when you have snow

Pigeons hiding from the cold

I'm I stupid for not understanding which button I should press to equip my stuff back?

Henry is not a very good wingman

Ooh, a new Metric song! It's okay but not the most exciting single. Hopefully it'll be better in the context of a full album! www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmh...

It feels so luxurious to still see a little bit of light at 5pm :)

So my wife is going to study in Liverpool for three weeks this spring and I'm going to hop over for a weekend myself now that there's an excuse to finally visit UK for the first time. I've never been in an English-speaking country even though I'm an English teacher so it's long overdue.

Japchae!

How can you be this out of touch? nordic.ign.com/the-elder-sc...

Another teaser for the album I'm going to finish this year! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1i0...

Another teaser for the album I'm going to finish this year! :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1i0...

Ooh there's a new Poppy album out. I've been disappointed by her albums lately, but let's see if this one is better!

we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???

Usually dictators are more subtle about looting the treasury, because gross corruption is often a part of what gets them overthrown.

And to finish the winter adventure, we crossed the frozen bay to a craft beer place to have my first craft beer of this year! An absolutely delicious imperial stout from Masis that warms me up nicely and is making me feel cozy after the freezing cold!

We also found a penis on the frozen bay and naturally we had to make a bigger one. Unfortunately the left ball turned out too big.

This was as if white flowers were blooming

Winter picnic at -16°C!

The wrong Home Alone star edition.cnn.com/2026/01/30/e...

When you open KCDII, the start menu screen has an advertisement for horse armour DLC, and... I sincerely hope it's an intentional reference or a joke...

You know you've spent too much time in Japan when you immediately know that that pizza is definitely from Dominos.

I've played some Kingdom Come Deliverance II now, and I'm very early on it, but so far it's more of the same but far less janky or clunky and technically more impressive, which is all I could have wanted! Today I spent 30 minutes just being a blacksmith and now I need to find paint to paint a bull.

I have lived in this country for thirty years and today something that has never ever happened in my entire life here happened. Now, this might sound entirely ordinary to some of you here who live in countries other than Finland, but I can certainly assure you this was most peculiar to me.

Ooh this is pretty great! It popped up on my Youtube recommendations and this must be the first time I've heard Sean Lennon's music and thought it's much better than just fine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANiA...

It also wants you to not consume art and media that expands your world view or has anything to say that would criticise the world they want to create.

It's a miracle! There is an actually good ramen place in Helsinki! Even the tonkotsu broth was solid! I've certainly had better ramen in Japan, but I've also had worse ramen there too.

Winter morning vibe at a train station in Helsinki

Ah yes

I made tomato risotto today! It has three varieties of cherry tomatoes and sun-dried tomatoes! The bread is toasted crispy with olive oil to give the dish more texture.

Moroccan-ish chickpeas!

Isn't it the republicans who pass laws that make it absolutely illegal to guns anywhere? It's the law in Minnesota too. And these are the same people who treat Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero for purposefully bringing a gun to a protest and then ending up shooting people.

I watched Asteroid City. I, however, did not understand it.

I made my favourite curry dish in the world for the first time! Sapporo soup curry! The plating would look better if I had had a bigger pile of vegetables, and some of the vegetables I cooked to be just a little too soggy, but the flavour turned out exactly right! Like a restaurant in Sapporo!

I finished Silksong! I struggled with the final boss yesterday but as these things tend to go, when I tried it again today I beat it on the first try.

Speaking of Guns N' Roses, I had completely missed they released two new songs a month ago. This is like the most boring and sloppiest-performed Rush song I have ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmrb...

Why did Burnout Paradise use Paradise City by Guns N' Roses when Rocket Queen from the same album practically namedrops the title of the game?

Today's album is Jeff Rosenstock's HELLMODE, which is the most exciting, fun and energetic modern punk album I know! An absolute banger whole way through! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnax...

I told myself I would never put myself through the grind of getting every Warframe weapon again, but I checked the list I'm still missing and it honestly didn't seem too hard at all. They've made the new stuff from the past couple of years easier to obtain so I'm not even missing that much.

"Cognitive amplifier" is literally the opposite of the truth

This protest song from 1971 certainly has not lost its relevance, and in the past 55 years (oh god), and frankly in the post-truth world of AI and other shit, the song just sounds even more cathartic than it has ever sounded to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynM...

Today's albums are DragonForce's Inhuman Rampage (don't ask, I had a reason) and John Lennon's Imagine, which I'm sure many find corny in 2026, but the entire album is genuinely one of his best! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX7r...

I'm going to make a belated New Year's Resolution and try to make it a habit to listen to at least one full album every single day. Podcasts and other crap have started to occupy a far too large portion of what I listen to and I really need to redeem that.

We had to go to the vet with Ponta again today, but luckily it was actually nothing to worry about! And luckily this time it was an appointment, which sure beats waiting 7 hours at the pet hospital emergency room during the Christmas Day 😇

It's the season for my favourite Finnish seasonal treat! This time we added matcha and kinako to the cream to make different flavours of whipped cream.

When you want to wash up yourself but you are too sleepy to function

cool name why’s it called that