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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking of the sosig again

EU: sausages must be meat based
HK Blue: the puppet monkey looking worried meme. HK Blue is a Finnish sausage with fairly low meat content

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 9h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 6h

The great tits (Parus major) are loudly knocking at the windowframes of the inlaws. Happens every autumn, apparently. They find insects there.

Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

lets seee if this thread gets deleted

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

the sirens in the Odyssey are of course also related, as in their song being a sensory input that produces an effect that the person exposed to cannot resist. Kind of fascinating that this sort of thing doesn’t really seem to exist. Maybe with the exception of epilepsia-inducing video?

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 7h

reminds me that Monty Python’s 1969 ”funniest joke in the world” also is a ”Basilisk”. Are there older examples of lethal memetic agents? Kind of feels like something that should exist in some esoteric traditions?

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 18h

The Macintosh PowerBook BLIT was definitely safe for looking at all possible images.

For a little while, anyway.

$A photo of a Macintosh PowerBook BLIT, with eight separate small and chaotically sized screens on its display where there would normally be one. Designed not to show all of an image at one time, it's showing some probably completely innocuous fractal-like design in part across the screens.$

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 9h

🤔

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20h

I find it impossible to make aesthetic judgments about Taylor Swift. There's a quality of candor in her delivery that bypasses the whole "art" thing and causes me to respond as if the song were a person (who I happen to like). I know this is itself a staged effect? But that doesn't help.

Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

The antiglobalization version is of course ”western foods arrive and destroy ancestral people”. The ethnonationalist version undeniably strips even more agency of the persons in question…

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

Never saw it applied like this in practice to food though!

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah true the ”people can only thrive in the ancestral home” is a popular notion of like ”academic ethnonationalism”

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

Haha, need to fit a bike boom box first

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

The ”keep the brown folks out to protect them from western food” is a new, one may say, even gourmet ethnonationalist racist take

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 10h

get in the muppet, jim

Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 12h

Muppet Evangelion

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t care if it’s cringe, suck it up and put on the fucking frog suit

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

Note on driving in the dark in Central Finland:
Seems like a light stripe across the hood is a near-mandatory design fad now? Also can’t remember a shift like this in cars, like ~four years ago you saw almost no EVs up here, now it is hard to notice a difference with Helsinki on the main roads.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

The Economist also points out the issues with ”tuned” e-bikes that go faster than the set limit (25km/h in Europe). This is a place where dedicated traffic law enforcement is needed! Saying this as a cargo biker:
The existing bike infrastructure doesn’t support higher speeds!

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

Prediction: opposing cycling is going to become even more a culture war thing, because the material arguments are shoddy

economist.com/internationa...

The third reason is a spread of bike-friendly infrastructure. Bicycles mostly died out as a form of transport in the mid-20th century not only because cars were faster and cushier, but also because cars made cycling catastrophically dangerous. In 1950 no fewer than 805 cyclists were killed on the roads in Britain—ten times the number killed last year. In 1987 P.J. O’Rourke, an American satirist, gleefully predicted that cyclists would “go extinct” as they were run over by lorries. Alas for bike-hating motorists (though happily for everyone else), he had not anticipated the invention of the separated bike lane.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 10h

We tried to listen to the new Taylor Swift album in the car and no, still not getting it.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 11h

We have energy/transport poverty in the family; it will be interesting to see what happens when used EVs are cheap enough for low-income rural folk. Guessing the issue may just drop. Poor don’t ”roll coal”.

I still don’t think cycling measures really are in a material way significantly anti-car.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 20h

I would still guess the tangential ideological reasons also are bigger. For one thing, motor vehicle sales and maintenance employ less than 2% of the work force. But yeah, seems plausible that this is a driver of support for the Finns in that segment for sure!

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 21h

Hmm, interesting point. I’ve actually never seen material reasons like that come up in Finns’ or Finns-adjacent folks’ statements about cycling. Most of the time it is just culture war fodder and the right to drive everywhere being an inalienable privilege.

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 21h

Hm yeah and it even does graphs. Very convenient on the phone especially.

support.apple.com/sv-se/guide/...

Arbeta med grafer i Matematikanteckningar i Kalkylator på iPhone

Du kan arbeta med tvådimensionella grafer i Matematikanteckningar när du använder Kalkylator på iPhone.

support.apple.com

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 21h

Nice interface desing for sure

Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve usually used either just the quick search bar for stuff like this or then some random Jupyter Notebook, rather than calculator apps (just normal Python in the terminal has been inexplicably broken for me since forever)

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 21h

Pretty nifty, even does functions

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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 21h

This is actually pretty neat? Just randomly found out that iOS notes can do math. You type an equals sign and it shows you the result, hit enter to output it.

Text in Notes app says

3569×2=7 138
99**2=9801
sqrt (4)=2

The Numbers after = are in an emphasis color

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