Jonatan Hildén
@jhilden.bsky.social
Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
realized a while ago that Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is impossible to play on a Mac so that one
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
realized a while ago that Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri is impossible to play on a Mac so that one
LinkedIn is the Upside Down of social media, where you go to find out that someone you went to school with that hasn’t posted a thing on other socials for the last 15 years in fact keeps doing lengthy Thought Leader ™ insights on the regular.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
LinkedIn is the Upside Down of social media, where you go to find out that someone you went to school with that hasn’t posted a thing on other socials for the last 15 years in fact keeps doing lengthy Thought Leader ™ insights on the regular.
There’s a reason Slow TV was invented in Scandinavia. Every 6th of December like half of the Finnish population is glued to their devices, raptly observing the independence day reception, which includes this. Around 2,000 handshakes.
Wondering if it is the longest regularly televised display of shaking hands. Because the president and spouse shake hands with Every. Single. Guest. And this is all shown live on TV.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
There’s a reason Slow TV was invented in Scandinavia. Every 6th of December like half of the Finnish population is glued to their devices, raptly observing the independence day reception, which includes this. Around 2,000 handshakes.
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Fitting, since the circa 2016 Russian Facebook activity got orders of magnitude more traction in the Discourse than it did among regular people.
I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fitting, since the circa 2016 Russian Facebook activity got orders of magnitude more traction in the Discourse than it did among regular people.
Kids watching the 1st episode of the og Pokemon series and it struck me that here is a pretty big change compared to my generation. There must have been parents that were really into the same pop culture stuff as their kids, but it was definitely not the norm. Now entire families are Pokemon stans.
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Kids watching the 1st episode of the og Pokemon series and it struck me that here is a pretty big change compared to my generation. There must have been parents that were really into the same pop culture stuff as their kids, but it was definitely not the norm. Now entire families are Pokemon stans.
Do They Even Know It's Christmas?
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Do They Even Know It's Christmas?
iDraw, the temptation to spend all day doing op art butts instead of actual work
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
iDraw, the temptation to spend all day doing op art butts instead of actual work
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this blew my mind a while back,
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
this blew my mind a while back,
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it just didn't have the legs 😢
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
it just didn't have the legs 😢
when u go Hooooooo
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
when u go Hooooooo
I’m wondering when someone launches a camera that automatically watermarks all images for provenance tracing.
Image credits! No longer just a sign of courtesy, but the only way to tell whether an image is real, that it's worth remembering. Then another certified human ( @benjaminpope.bsky.social ) confirming that it's real (that it's their image!). Now you can finally enjoy it!
Welcome to a new world haha
Welcome to a new world haha
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I’m wondering when someone launches a camera that automatically watermarks all images for provenance tracing.
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Lol damn it secret car knowledge:
Manual says mirrors need to be turned in when using an automatic car wash. Does not say how. Only way I know is if it is locked from the key fob. This activates the alarm. Thus, washer starts, car screams and blinks. Can see no way to stop this.
Manual says mirrors need to be turned in when using an automatic car wash. Does not say how. Only way I know is if it is locked from the key fob. This activates the alarm. Thus, washer starts, car screams and blinks. Can see no way to stop this.
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Lol damn it secret car knowledge:
Manual says mirrors need to be turned in when using an automatic car wash. Does not say how. Only way I know is if it is locked from the key fob. This activates the alarm. Thus, washer starts, car screams and blinks. Can see no way to stop this.
Manual says mirrors need to be turned in when using an automatic car wash. Does not say how. Only way I know is if it is locked from the key fob. This activates the alarm. Thus, washer starts, car screams and blinks. Can see no way to stop this.
Suzanne Vega simply goes hard
tidal.com/browse/track...
tidal.com/browse/track...
Suzanne Vega - Ironbound / Fancy Poultry
Listen to Ironbound / Fancy Poultry on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Suzanne Vega simply goes hard
tidal.com/browse/track...
tidal.com/browse/track...
Partner found these flashback-to-Greece ”pastiles”
from last summer. They are αρωματικες – aromatikes, which means they taste exactly like the most common type of incense??
from last summer. They are αρωματικες – aromatikes, which means they taste exactly like the most common type of incense??
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Partner found these flashback-to-Greece ”pastiles”
from last summer. They are αρωματικες – aromatikes, which means they taste exactly like the most common type of incense??
from last summer. They are αρωματικες – aromatikes, which means they taste exactly like the most common type of incense??
you can still become an information designer although there really isn’t enough of those jobs to go around and demands a weird assortment of skills and experience
Also certain classes of people could self-select into professions that were compatible with florid unmanaged ADHD, in jobs that essentially don't exist anymore.
I keep saying this but it’s at least very interesting that many doctors didn’t think ADHD persisted into adulthood until you couldn’t buy Ritalin over the counter anymore and most people stopped smoking.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
you can still become an information designer although there really isn’t enough of those jobs to go around and demands a weird assortment of skills and experience
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the nofarts Joker is haunting me
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
the nofarts Joker is haunting me
This thread reminded me of the fact that rats at least in Northern countries are entirely reliant on dense human settlements. In a post-apocalyptic setting the rats will be gone. No warm basements, nothing to eat.
an interesting thing about our relationship with other animals is that it's a biological phenomenon, but it's also a story. and the biology is more complex and less hierarchical than the story.
we could start with "domestication". even within domesticated animals, we find complexity.
we could start with "domestication". even within domesticated animals, we find complexity.
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This thread reminded me of the fact that rats at least in Northern countries are entirely reliant on dense human settlements. In a post-apocalyptic setting the rats will be gone. No warm basements, nothing to eat.
Puzzled by people that ought to have nuanced views going extremely all in on the ”phones bad” discourse, when the subject clearly is more complex than that
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?
In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...
www.tes.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Puzzled by people that ought to have nuanced views going extremely all in on the ”phones bad” discourse, when the subject clearly is more complex than that
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Got to applaud the 11yo’s sense of design nuance for finding the animated Lego Friends show cursed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Got to applaud the 11yo’s sense of design nuance for finding the animated Lego Friends show cursed.
every day
really wish that Fridays on Bluesky were "everyone post your weirdest finds / shower thoughts of the week"
I mean, we could just do it
I mean, we could just do it
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
every day
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Real Ea-Nasir's cousin vibes here
My favourite part of this ancient Assyrian letter to an ancient Assyrian goldsmith, is the last bit where the writer basically declares that the “house where they purify silver” absolutely does not pass the vibe check.
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
“They are drunk and silver is stolen”
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Real Ea-Nasir's cousin vibes here
Had somehow never encountered the expression ”mind your Ps and Qs” before now, when reading Lord of the Rings in English. Interestingly there isn’t complete agreement as to what the Ps and Qs actually are!
Also, they are probably in the title of this song.
soundcloud.com/squarepusher...
Also, they are probably in the title of this song.
soundcloud.com/squarepusher...
Rat/P's + Q's
Listen to Rat/P's + Q's by squarepusher #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Had somehow never encountered the expression ”mind your Ps and Qs” before now, when reading Lord of the Rings in English. Interestingly there isn’t complete agreement as to what the Ps and Qs actually are!
Also, they are probably in the title of this song.
soundcloud.com/squarepusher...
Also, they are probably in the title of this song.
soundcloud.com/squarepusher...
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”Olemme tottuneet tietynlaiseen katutilaan ja ajattelemme, että autojen pitää saada seisoa siellä päivä- ja yökausia. Mutta ehkä pyhää autotilaa voi vähentää ja tehdä kaistoille vaikkapa niittylaikkuja ja istuttaa osaan parkkiruuduista puita”, Lehvävirta ideoi. 1/6
www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...
www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...
Kaupungit | Kartta paljastaa helsinkiläisten ankeat reitit luontoon
Susanna Lehvävirta tajusi, että moottoritie tai muu rakennelma katkaisee aina luontokokemuksen. Syntyi tutkimus, joka paljastaa, kuinka rikkonaisia Helsingin viherreitit ovat. ”Ehkä pyhää autotilaa vo...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
”Olemme tottuneet tietynlaiseen katutilaan ja ajattelemme, että autojen pitää saada seisoa siellä päivä- ja yökausia. Mutta ehkä pyhää autotilaa voi vähentää ja tehdä kaistoille vaikkapa niittylaikkuja ja istuttaa osaan parkkiruuduista puita”, Lehvävirta ideoi. 1/6
www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...
www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...