Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Unprecedentedly warm November day in eastern Finland, especially in North Karelia. Multiple monthly heat records, including Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C (shown with magenta in the map)

I dunno who you are, bunkeymunky, but you speak truth—even if it was a bit more than 25 years ago in my particular case! (Yikes!! I'm getting long in the tooth.)

Kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state

When you see 2-3 percent doing something costly like protesting, you figure there are at least 10x who would like to but couldn't, 20x who largely agree, and 5-10 percent who are undecided but really thinking about what is going on. The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.

3.5% would be about 12 million for the USA. #nokings is estimated at 7 million so getting there. But will it be enough? (The 3.5% rule is a concept that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.)

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä. Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.

Erityisen hälyttävää, että 16-39 v. ikäryhmässä varallisuuserot Suomessa EU-maiden suurimmat. 😬 #varallisuuserot 2/3

BONUS: Eurofoundin raporttiin pohjautuva lyhyt artikkeli varallisuuseroista tässä. www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Imagine living in a country that's such an utopia, with all the statistics to prove it, that like all of the medias around the world with a budget to do in depth foreign reporting wanted to write about it... And then having your countrymen going "lol, no 🤪" and vote to fuck it all up.

TÄSSÄ TARVITSEN apuanne ja ennen kaikkea jakojanne! Juho Saari tekee Ylen kanssa ison kyselyn: kerro meille, miten juuri sinä pärjäät tässä taloustilanteessa yle.fi/a/74-20179767

Olisipa sellainen hallitus, jonka edesottamuksia ei tarvitsisi seurata päivittäin; olisi vain asiansa osaavia aikuisia hoitamassa työnsä niin, että päätökset olisivat asiantuntemukseen perustuvia sekä oikeudenmukaisia ja inhimillisiä.

Kriisi- ja häiriötilanteiden riski on todellinen. Niissä sote-järjestöt tarjoavat mm.: vapaaehtoisten panosta, ammatillista erityisosaamista, tavoittavat haavoittuvimmmat, ovat linkki viranomaisten ja kansalaisten välillä. Tämä tarpeen kokonaisturvallisuudelle - samaan aikaan järjestöiltä leikataan.

Inspired by @ketilisaksen.bsky.social post, I did the same analysis for Finland. In terms of 14-day average temperatures, the 2025 heatwave in Finland did not quite surpass the well-known 1972 and 2018 heatwaves. This is based on 10 km gridded observations.

"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think." Happy 101st birthday to #JamesBaldwin! #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #humanity

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

22 days over 30C in Finland and the heat wave has now ended. Not looking forward to next summer.

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them. Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have this copy archived away somewhere 😄

Size estimates vary from 200k to +500k but considering Budapest area has a population of 1.8 million we are still talking about a lot!

Nykyinen hallituksemme on romahduttamassa sote-järjestökenttämme ideologisista syistä leikkaamalla järjestöjen valtionavustuksista. Hyvinvointivaltiomme on rakennettu kolmen sektorin, julkinen, yksityinen ja järjestöt, varaan itsenäisyytemme alkuajoista lähtien.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Neil deGrasse Tyson on who is the greatest scientific mind in history.

Drug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually transmitted infection, is considered an urgent health threat worldwide. The US has just lost its ability to detect it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

Älä ole kuin Wille Rydman, ole kuin Sanna Marin. "Suomi on osa Eurooppaa ja Euroopan unionia. Kun me toimimme, me toimimme tietenkin osana tätä yhteisöä. On valtavan tärkeää, että Suomi toimii osana tätä yhteisöä, eikä lähde sooloilemaan ja kuvittele saavansa voittoja jotakin toista kautta."

Teen Vogue: remains braver than almost any other news outlet at this time.

I interviewed the extraordinary Vladimir Kara -Murza, the Russian dissident released from prison last year. He also won the Pulitzer last year for the columns he wrote from jail. Despite everything, he remains an optimist Listen: pulitzerontheroad.pulitzer.org/podcasts/vla...

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...