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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 5h

Yay! These videos always make me so happy. Farting is never not funny

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 11h

Multa pyydettiin tätä kehystettynä 🥺

Sama piirros/maalaus kuin yllä, mutta kehykseen laitettuna

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 13h

(tyylilajina on 1900-luvun alun varakas herrasmies, joka yrittää löytää itselleen ehtoisaa elämänkumppania henkilökohtaista-ilmoituksella)

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 13h

Arvoisa vastaanottaja (käytä nimeä jos tiedät),

Ohessa hakemus X:n (jotain kohteliaita, mutta merkityksettömiä ylisanoja). Vastaan mielelläni aiheesta nouseviin kysymyksiin.

Aurinkoisin syysterveisin,
NN

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 14h

Tarkoitit varmaan: "igal päeval nüüd"

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 14h

Samaa aina miettinyt eestin kanssa, miten ei voi nähdä vaivaa opetella jotain, joka niin lähellä omaa kieltä. Jonain päivänä korjaan tämän

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 2d

No it doesn't.

A picture saying 'Nursery rhymes with Justin Fletcher'.

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 17h

On klikkiotsikoita (tämäkin muuten hesarin sivulta...) ja sitten ihan suoranaista valehtelua – epäilen, että jatkosopimuksesta olisi voinut otsikoida toisinkin

Otsikko IS-nostossa hesarin sivulla

Ilves teki kovan ratkaisun Tommi Niemelän kanssa

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 18h

Mä yritin muistella kuka ois ollut (oikean elämän ulkopuolelta). Mutta kyllä Babylon 5 Ivanovassa ja Star Trekin Deanna Troissa ja Seven of Ninessa oli sitä jotain, mutta en nyt ihan esiteini enää ollut tuossa kohtaa

Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 18h

Oliko se elossa vielä, kun poistuit paikalta?

fry from futurama is shown with a very serious look on his face

Alt: fry from futurama is shown with a very suspicious look on his face

media.tenor.com

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 19h

Ei pidä antaa sen estää. Piirtäminen on kivaa vaikkei mitään osaakaan. Aika pian osaa jo jotain. Vaikka vain siirtäisi ajatuksia tikku-ukoiksi paperille, niin silläkin voi olla arvoa ja tuottaa iloa. Nimim. piirrän joka päivä tikku-ukkoja paperille

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 19h

Inktober day 14: trunk

#inktober

Tree trunk lying on it side on the ground. There is grass on the foreground. The trunk is covered in marks of passage of time and some soft moss. There is a spot on top where sun hits the tree trunk and there is a tiny human couple kissing there. They have found a perfect spot for their Sunday picnic

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 1d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

He was such a terrible person that he was called back to Europe and punished. Even his own time knew he was awful

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, I can't control everything, especially against bad faith actors, but screenshotting at least requires a bit more effort

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

I am ok being like perhaps semi-public. I just wish never to go viral. I am not selling anything here and there is no upside.

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

As a "regular person", I hit this in Twitter already somewhere around 100 RTs. I wish social media had this option that I could block too many shares beyond my immediate circle of people. Maybe something like "only let people I follow repost this" and it would be on by default

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 13: drink (now with watercolour)
#inktober

A whimsical watercolor painting depicting a surreal landscape where an oversized glass of water with a bent straw towers over the scene. In the foreground, a couple of small people sit by a pond on the green grass. The background features a blue sky with a pale moon or sun, while scattered across the landscape are small trees in peachy-tan and rust-orange tones, along with red and blue flowers. The artwork has loose pen-and-ink outlines with soft watercolor washes, creating a dreamlike quality through its dramatic scale contrast between the giant glass and the tiny human figures.

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

HIFK

a little girl is sitting in a car seat and making a funny face .

Alt: a little girl is sitting in a car seat and making a funny confused face

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

Tätä virhettä tulee Blueskyssa välillä ja menee sit pois. Periaatteessa tuolta näytttää myös poistetut accountit, mutta sitten ei näkyisi yhtään mitään muutakaan eikä mikään toimisi sulle

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 13: drink (first draft, waiting for watercolour)

#inktober

Quick and faint draft of a summer scene: trees, grass, sky. A couple sitting by the pond. Pond is being formed by liquid dropping from a giant straw in a giant drink glass in the middle of the picture

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Timo Koola @timokoola.bsky.social · 2d

Prestige TV ruined watching TV before sunset. Why is everything so damn dark all the time?