This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

Rest easy, Donna www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

What's happening to Finland's lakes and rivers? Urgent action needed to protect declining species, researchers say #conservation #finland #benthicecology #biodiversity yle.fi/a/74-20191697

I saw the Cure at Roskilde back in ‘85 🖤

The overall cost of the new train line between #Helsinki and #Turku could soar to 4 billion euros. If completed, it would save approximately 35-40 minutes' travel time between the two cities. #railway #finland #europeanrail #train yle.fi/a/74-20191665

10°C in the forecast towards mid-November. The Northern Pike fishing season continues unabated. I've skied deep snow in the forest on many Novembers in North Karelia. #ECWMF charts.ecmwf.int/products/ext...

Sound art, electronics, #folk and #jazz overlap and interact on DIY/experimental albums by Oiro Pena, @marjaahti.bsky.social, Jonah Parzen-Johnson and @launau.bsky.social #experimentalmusic #diymusic #indiemusic #soundart #finnishmusic #wejazz www.fmq.fi/articles/hea...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Somewhere received a Buffalo nickel in change, first time since probably the 70s. Last ones were minted in 1938.

Crackdown on kebab, pizza & Chinese #restaurants in #Finland finds €11m in unpaid taxes "All types of misconduct are clearly more common in foreign-owned companies," according to a director at the Finnish #Tax Administration. yle.fi/a/74-20191372

In Memoriam: Jack DeJohnette, 1942–2025 “When I play, I go into an altered state, a different headspace. I plug into my higher self, into the cosmic library of ideas.” #jazz #drummer #jackdejohnette #milesdavis #keithjarrett #downbeat downbeat.com/news/detail/...

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Adrian Younge, Ganavya and Knower fire up Helsinki’s inaugural Speak No Evil festival A tasty mix of #jazz adjacent new sounds and vintage hard bop at a #Finnish mini-festival, with a spiritual connection to Wayne Shorter #helsinki #finland #musicfestival www.jazzwise.com/review/artic...

When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America. momentummag.com/when-bikes-o...

Derry supports victims of #domesticviolence through #adulteducation #northernireland #derry #strabane elmmagazine.eu/learning-cit...

NPR: Why does family-friendly #Finland have the lowest birth rate in the #Nordics? www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

Budapest is turning out with massive crowds for freedom against Orban's illiberalism today. At last!!

How Lunar #Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth #nasa #apollo www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The future of solar power is bright, finds @tinymaddie.bsky.social *Solar panels are cheap, and getting cheaper *Batteries are good, and getting better *Economic case for solar will overwhelm political apathy In short, we're going to run the world on sunshine www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

This may be my new favorite sign. (Seen today while walking around Hechuan.)

Burning wood indoors is not a good idea unless you are in a sauna or visiting a remote hut in cold conditions. Poor combustion worsens air quality in built areas. #WoodBurning

There aren't many of us Wilfreds in this world but Limonious has to be one of the best ever #reggae #vinyl #albumcover #coverart #comicstrip #jamaica #wilfred enkismusicrecords.com/wilfred-limo...

Joining all the terrorists at the Hate America rally #NoKings

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

First frost #nordictoots #frost #suomi

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars 🫠

Trumpist Speaker of the US House of Representatives keeps elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva out of office, using the government shutdown as an excuse She can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

#NowPlaying #jazz #jazzsky #vinyl #vinylsky #vinylcommunity #musicsky Horace Silver, Song For My Father (1964) One of the very finest.

Hunter S. Thompson spent most of his RS years writing from Woody Creek or the road. You can't DO the kind of journalism they made their name on sitting in an NYC/LA/SF office. Insanity.

Wonderful resistance by Pentagon reporters walking off the job en masse rather than agree to Hegseth censorship. The WH press corps should be taking note

‘Which fonts do you want for the sale poster?’ ‘Yes’ #fonts #typography #museum #allthefonts @fontsinuse.com @themerl.bsky.social

World breaks renewable records - adding 582 GW of capacity in 2024 - but must nove faster to hit the agreed 2030 tripling goal. From @irena-official.bsky.social: www.irena.org/News/pressre...

Lula seems to be making the right moves on protecting the #Amazon and #indigenous livelihoods #Brazil set to host #COP30 with climate wins on deforestation f24.my/BUsf.BS

New York Times, AP, Newsmax, Washington Post, The Atlantic and Reuters refuse to sign new #Pentagon rules #censorship #pressfreedom apnews.com/article/pent...

"Hamburg voters have backed a citizen-led referendum that obliges Germany’s second largest city to step up climate action and reach climate neutrality by 2040, five years earlier than previously planned." #ClimateAction www.cleanenergywire.org/news/hamburg...

The UK government gave contracts for health and defense systems to this guy’s company 🙃 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This looks quite cozy: A village that lives on sand in #EastJava #Indonesia #interiordesign #architecture apnews.com/photo-essay/...

Curve Traces of Held Space ♡ ༄ dub.sh/hGgLYrz

#Renewables surpass #coal in global #electricity production, woo-hoo! ☀️🍃 #Solar and #wind outpacing demand growth, electricity emissions edging down ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Apparently some people are outraged that designer Haider Ackermann used this 1995 piece by Finnish #electronic duo Pan Sonic as the soundtrack for his new #TomFord collection #fashion #turntotheleft #TFSS26 @phinnweb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/NAPu4ol...

There's gonna be a European highway stretching from #Derry #NorthernIreland to #Kotka #Finland -- but you'll have to use your imagination (and/or some cargo ships) to do the whole 1,580 km route yle.fi/a/74-20186722

This goes deep into the bartender soul: we're trained to pick up on the layers below the surface of who people pretend to be (often exposed while drunk). AOC says: "Laugh at them! The risks are real but one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is to laugh at them."

Many people have to draft an apology form. Not me though, never doubted the power of idealistic girls hated by weird old men

A really good news thread.

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Wildfire burns more than a third of #Etosha National Park in #Namibia, home to lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, giraffes and cheetahs #wildlife #africa #bigcats www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

This looked cooler when Kash drew it in his Trapper Keeper after he went to the Slayer concert in 1992.