: Added Finnish Flowto my Resources for Finnish Learners 🗣️
: I talk about corporations as AI because I want to emphasise that we already live within complex, …
: I just made a new page for resources to help learn Finnish. I have been studying it now quite …
: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman 📚 A great adventure romp which immediately made we wonder why I haven’t read this before. I …
: I have been enjoying setting up some palettes of colors for a few projects this autumn and have been …
: We went to the Helsinki Design Market for the first time since Covid. We were regular visitors …
: Insightful article by a renowned Sci-fi author into the differences between humans and A.I. Our use …
: Misty Morning outside the house. The kind of strange and captivating light that is so hard to …
: Toward Eternity by Anton Hur 📚 In Toward Eternity Hur takes us on a journey where AI and nanobots take humanity through the next …
: I wrote about why even airports that are designed sustainably are not in fact sustainable. 𝔡
: The FT posted a pretty amazing graph Americans basically die earlier than Brits by about 5 years, …
: I took a look at Dormzilla a proposal for a student residence designed for UC Santa Barbara which …
: Watched The Skelton Twins (2014). The two central performances are captivating and much of the …
: Just Watched The Holdovers (2023). Honestly looks like a film not only set in the 70’s but …
: The Hansa Towns by Helen Zimmern📚 For our family holiday this year we went to visit the Island of Gotland for a week, staying close to …
: 📍 From inside the Lummelunda cave in Gotland.
: You Are Here By David Nicholls 📚 A gentle romance about two middle aged people who have had broken love lives coming together over a …
: 📍 Hanging out in a square in Visby this Summer. 📷
: we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, …
: Finished reading Status and Culture by David W. Marx A riveting read full of insights into how …
: 📍 A beach near Visby, Sweden. 📷
: Playing with Tagmoji I have been playing about a bit with search and tagmojis recently and realised that tagmojis can be …
: Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts - Friedrich Nietzsche ❝
: The Father (2020) 🎥 The Father (2020) directed and co-written by Florian Zeller sees Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman …
: Solar panels will soon have to be installed in all new buildings in Europe. Adding perhaps up to …
: For the first time Renewables overtake Fossil fuels in power generated on a continent. This feels …
: Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum 📚 Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism is a 2020 book by Anne Applebaum. Anne …
: A Quick Review of Oppenheimer ★★★★★ 🎥
: The Gift of Confidence In a short but lovely interview with the Author David Nicholls (of One Day fame) he said something …
: I really enjoyed reading whats in a name by @pimoore . I might suggest for anyone interested there …
: Last of the Winter Swimming…
: A Place To Read by Michael Cohen 📚 Michael Cohen has collected a book of his essays together which are about reading and a life taken …
: Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio 📚 I was excited to start this series having heard good things about it. Characterisation and dialogue …
: Obsidian But For Images I have been looking for an app that is a kind of obsidian for images. Something that I can browse …
: I made a list of Brutalist buildings in Helsinki.
: This Is How You Lose the Time War -by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 📚 A beautifully written book which starts off slowly if captivatingly but I found myself getting more …
: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany📚 A philospohical sci-fi book which in some ways is genre bending. How is reality and the language …
: System Collapse by Martha Wells 📚 This is the seventh installment of the murderbot series by Martha Wells and a follow up to Network …
: The Alienist by Caleb Carr 📚 Set in 19th Century New York. A Gothic whodunnit, and a kind of tribute to ripper and Sherlock …
: First dusting of snow this morning in Helsinki
: First Encounters and Thoughts on AI So I have been seeing the deluge of all things A.I. in the news and on my feeds etc for a little …
: 📷 Day 30: treasure (@agilelisa)
: 📷 Day 29: contrast (@gregmoore) #mbsept
: 📷 day 28: workout (@rom) #mbsept
: 📷 day 27: embrace (@mroutley) #mbsept. I still remember following my sons floorball team round …
: 📷 day 26: beverage (@annie) #mbsept
: 📷 day 25: flare (@matt17r) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 24: belt #mbsept I bought this Red army belt in 1992 from a soldier about to leave from their …
: 📷 Day 23: a day in the life #mbsept Saturday morning going for a run on a hill in Helsinki looking …
: 📷 Day 21: fall (Pedro / @pcora) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 20: disruption #mbsept
: Day 19: edge (Robert) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 18: fabric (Adam) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 17: intense (Rori) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 14: statue (Christopher) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 13: glowing (Anne) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 12: panic (Maique) #mbsept
: 📷 Day 11: retrospect (chadgmoore) #mbsept My daughters last phone the day before it was changed
: The Digital World Really Exists
: 📷 Day 7: panorama #mbsept Taken on my phone a few summers ago.
: 📷 Day 04 : orange A very old photo from my first year in Finland that I heavily processed. #mbsept
: Going Green Last Summer we put some solar panels on our roof (4.1KW). The aim was to be able to go 5 months of …
: My podcast app is Airr which is shutting down tomorrow! I mostly don’t need transcript …
: I posted on my main blog the story of Falu red if you are interested in the strange story of a paint …
: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚 The second book in Earth’s Past Trilogy by Cixin Liu. The Dark Forest takes up the story where …
: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚 The Three Body Problem is an unsloved physics problem and the key metaphor through which Cixin …
: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 📚 The Non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann starts with the story of Mollie …
: The Lost City of Z by David Grann 📚 A lovely book, at once a biography, a detective story, a piece of travel writing, and maybe also an …
: Yearly Theme 2023 - Push Push is my yearly theme for 2023. Push out a little past my comfort zone I have built up. Maybe …
: 2022 Yearly Theme Review OK so I posted My Yearly Theme for 2022 and thought I would briefly reflect on how it’s going! …
: My Microblogvember Thinking about how hard it might be to get a random word and make something of it I wanted a way to …
: The Koli Ice Road is one of the longest in Finland at 8km long. For safety the ice must be at least …
: I caught my first fish on lake Saimaa, one of many that day. We went back to the cottage in the …
: Finns have a strong relationship with nature. In Finland 72% of the land area is forested and there …
: RGB (128, 24, 24) The motivation for painting their barns with the red sludge that came out of the …
: The Baby Box started in 1937 Finland as part of a commitment to combatting social inequality and …
: The key ritual in a Sauna is the pouring of water onto hot stones giving steam or löyly The word …
: A great article about Finland’s school system explains well why Finland so often has great a …
: Human rights in Finland include freedom of speech, religion, association, and assembly. A 2010 …
: I feel like I have still only grazed the surface of the Finnish language but as they say here Ei …
: I remember the first time I walked out onto the sea. The ice was piled up on the beach like a broken …
: In Finland reading and libraries are a source of pride. One reason why Finnish children easily learn …
: Tove Jansson is best known as the creator of the Moomins but for me she was the better writer. The …
: Ugh I should be reading my new book about Zettelkasten but I am on twitter watching the meltdown …
: I tire of being told Finland is not part of Scandinavia. Sure technically that’s almost true …
: One of Finlands earliest Industries was the production of Tar for waterproofing boats. But as late …
: Between 2011-2016 The Guggenheim Museum tried and failed to set up one of it’s Franchise art …
: Walking to work this morning there was a bike beside the canal covered in barnacles. Someone must …
: Pasi Herranen of Aalto university has developed a greenhouse without any glass. A wooden box …
: An interesting map of Mastodon instances Mastodon Near Me Via The Map of the Fediverse
: Morning walk to work Ruoholahti 📷
: First, the actual journey, where everything happened by chance…following that a second …
: Matti Nykänen the greatest ski jumper of all time however could not adjust to normal life. An …
: 8 & 9 in Finnish are kahdeksan and yhdeksan, literally two before ten and one before ten. My …
: The Savoy Vase designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto was put on display for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. …
: A minister invented the pronoun hän for God and added it to the Finnish language to elevate God from …
: In Finland traditionally the Sauna is a seperate building within an enclosure of many buildings each …
: What was Finlandisation? Today’s consensus is that Finland was not really independent. It was a …
: A favourite insight of mine The Helsinki Bus Station Theory of creativity. This goes on all your …
: Helsinki’s Pitkäsilta Bridge full of traffic and life on any given day still bears the bullet …
: Every man in Finland is required to do national service, people from the Åland islands are exempt. …
: Admiration for Finland which drinks the most coffee per capita in the world at 26.45 lbs (12kg) per …
: In 1820 James Finlayson was granted a License for a mill by the banks of the Tammerkoski. The …
: A midnight sun paints dusk as a mirror image into the waters of Saimaa. We sit in a lopsided boat …
: All spoken languages are the same age, they have all changed from a past form and are all changing …
: Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang 📚
: I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means … …
: Started reading: Catalogue Of Shipwrecked Books: by Edward Wilson-Lee 📚
: Fingers Crossed a Review 📚 Madchester, Shoegaze and Grunge were a few of the scenes that I was introduced to in my first couple …
: § Book Index This is a list post of the short book reviews I have made here. Non-Fiction The Hansa Towns by …
: My Autumn / Fall Reading List 2022 📚 The Autumn is always busy so the list is even more unachieveable than normal! There is nothing yet …
: My Summer 2022 Reading List 📚 For the first time ever I made a summer reading list for myself in order to try and find some good …
: A Brief History of Equality - a Short Review 📚 With A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty’s new book brings his views on economics to …
: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 📚 Evocative writing, engaging story, well rounded setting, and not too forced twists meant for a …
: The Library of The Dead by T.L.Huchu 📚 Ropa is a ghostalker a young teenage dropout with a Zimbabwean background growing up in Edinburgh. …
: Neuromancer by William Gibson📚 Super influential he coined the term cyberspace in the 1982 short story Burning Chrome and later in …
: I just updated my mainsite to blot.im ditching wordpress. Looking for a more simple and streamlined …
: A Life Lived Remotely by Siobhan McKeown 📚 Part memoir, part philosophical journey into work in the digital age. Like a hypertext the very idea …
: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada 📚 Alone in Berlin By Hans Fallada (Rudolph Ditzen) is a look at the lives of ordinary working class …
: I love slightly burnt food…..my daughter thinks I’m insane!*
: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚 This is both hard science fiction and climate fiction, and a sobering but positive peak into the …
: Sans Musique by Sansibar is the first album I have bought this year. Really nice techno with a large …
: Hernesaari Shipyard Helsinki on my way to work this morning 📷
: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden 📚 Punchy fiction that takes place on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. Virgil Wounded Horse is …
: Music and Me 🎵 Photo by Grett Zheng In response to @Jabel writing about mixtapes here I thought to write my own …
: Currently reading: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden 📚
: Dark Waters 🍿 The film is based on the article The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare about the …
: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Review 📚 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami 📚 was OK. With simple and lovely …
: My Yearly Theme for 2022 - Consolidate My Theme for 2022 is Consolidate. I like having a yearly theme much more than a set of resolutions. …
: Last night I joined micro.blog and the snow fell. This morning the sun rose on our walk in the snow. …