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Aki Siponen
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Retired floorball goalie and technology enthusiast. Still somewhat optimistic that technology can improve our lives if we develop and use it with discretion. BTDT.
Vantaa Hakunila still has some way to go, only 120 languages if I understood correctly.
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Ystävällinen muistutus:

#toimeentulotuki on viimesijainen tuki ihmiselle, jolla ei ole mitään muita tuloja, säästöjä eikä varallisuutta. Suuri osa näistä heikoimmassa asemassa olevista ei ole työkuntoisia.

Siinä ei "menkää töihin" -mantrat paljon auta.
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Lapsi kirjoitti joulupukille kirjeen ja laittoi sen postiin. Jotenkin liikuttavaa, kun hän on jo kymmenvuotias ja uskoo edelleen postiin.
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.

Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Uskon vahvasti, että huijarisyndroomasta kärsiviä ihmisiä yhdistää itsereflektiokyky. He kykenevät kritisoimaan itseään ja arvioivat siksi suoriutumisensa alakanttiin.

Sitten taas on kaiken maailman lehtosia, fjädereirä ja satosia, jotka eivät kärsi.

Vaikka juuri heidän kaikkein kipeimmin pitäisi.
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Elokapinalle ja muille luontoa, ympäristöä, ja elävää planeettaa puolustaville organisaatioille tulisi myöntää ne määrärahat, jotka haaskaamme parhaillaan turkistarhauksen tekohengittämiseen.
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The antifa terrorist marxists are out
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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No Kings Day 2.0!

We’re ready 🇺🇸
October 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Boomerit ja osa (tyhmimmät) x-sukupolvesta yrittävät estää tulevaisuuden suomalaisia elämästä ihmisarvoista elämää velkajarrumekanismilla joka myös samalla "opettaa" jatkuvaan talouskuriin joka on täysin epärealistinen malli millekään hyvinvointiin pyrkivälle järjestelmälle.
October 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Irlanti kulkee vähän eri suuntaan kuin Suomi tässä taiteen tukemisessa. Maa tekee kokeilun jälkeen vakinaisen järjestelyn taiteiljoiden kansalaispalkasta. Palkka on 325€/viikko ja sen piiriin pääsee hakemuksella. Tilaa on 2200 taiteilijalle. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations
www.irishtimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Kansallisia ikoneja. Odotukset korkealla.
October 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Luulin kauan, että Blockfest on joku MineCraft-kokoontuminen.
August 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”

And it has kept growing from there.

Leadership. #Paris
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Samaa yrittäisivät Suomessakin jos vain annetaan yrittää. Laitaoikeiston pelikirja on sama kaikkialla, ja se on ollut olennaisesti sama jo sata vuotta.
The right is trying to redefine “due process” into something nefarious to be purged from the system as they did DEI and critical race theory before this. All on the way to trying to rewrite the Constitution itself.
May 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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”Tavoitteitaan hallitus ei ole saavuttamassa. Samalla sen toimet lisäävät eriarvoisuutta sekä köyhyydestä nyt ja vastedes aiheutuvia ongelmia. Pienituloiset kantavat ison taakan sopeutuksesta, hyvätuloiset ja eläkeläiset eivät talkoisiin juuri osallistu.”
Kolumni | Orpon hallitus muutti linjaansa veronalennusriihessä
Hallitus ei ole saavuttamassa tavoitteitaan. Samalla sen toimet lisäävät eriarvoisuutta sekä köyhyydestä aiheutuvia ongelmia.
www.hs.fi
May 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & crush dissent. It’s a blatant attempt to bully & intimidate anyone who dares to think differently or stand up to their ideology.

We will NOT be intimidated.

We will NOT be silenced.

We will DEFEND our freedom.
May 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Last week, the United Nations convened to negotiate the #GlobalOceanTreaty — a multilateral agreement to protect marine biodiversity in the high seas.

The U.S. chose not to send any representatives, but Jane joined Greenpeace’s delegation and she made it plain: we can 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 fight for our planet.
May 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Heja Sverige - Buu Suomi.

Turkistarhat on korkea aika saada säppiin täälläkin.

www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...
Turkistarhaus | Ruotsalaislehti: Kaikki Ruotsin minkkitarhat lopettavat toimintansa
Ruotsissa on jäljellä 27 minkkitarhayrittäjää.
www.hs.fi
April 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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I might be totally wrong on AI, time will tell I guess.

But I think its immediate benefits to small businesses are nowhere near worth its costs in terms of environmental impact and ripping off writers and artists etc.

I just think it's really off that the whole system is pushing it so much here.
April 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I’m a simple man with simple principles. To reiterate
April 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM