katajainen
@katajainen.bsky.social
Käännösalan mikroyrittäjä ja keski-ikäinen monialanörtti. Satunnaisia fandom-horinoita ja yleistä nurinaa maailmanmenosta.
Freelance translator, middle-aged multi-fandom nerd, medical history geek. She/her or they/them. Same handle on other platforms.
Freelance translator, middle-aged multi-fandom nerd, medical history geek. She/her or they/them. Same handle on other platforms.
Löytyipä tänään puolivahingossa hajamielisen teenystävän graalin malja: musta #tee joka ei kitkeröidy, vaikka haudutus menisikin epähuomiossa vähän pitkäksi 🖤
(Turun Tee ja Mauste myy nimellä "Gruusian tee". Ei ole sponssatru, vaikka kanta-asiakas olenkin 😉)
(Turun Tee ja Mauste myy nimellä "Gruusian tee". Ei ole sponssatru, vaikka kanta-asiakas olenkin 😉)
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Löytyipä tänään puolivahingossa hajamielisen teenystävän graalin malja: musta #tee joka ei kitkeröidy, vaikka haudutus menisikin epähuomiossa vähän pitkäksi 🖤
(Turun Tee ja Mauste myy nimellä "Gruusian tee". Ei ole sponssatru, vaikka kanta-asiakas olenkin 😉)
(Turun Tee ja Mauste myy nimellä "Gruusian tee". Ei ole sponssatru, vaikka kanta-asiakas olenkin 😉)
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
December 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
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Metsästyslain muutos sisältää perustuslaillisia ja EU-oikeudellisia ongelmia. Se on runnottu läpi täysin poikkeuksellisesti ja suden lisäksi mukaan koplattiin yllättäen myös muita lajeja. Jos laki tulee voimaan, Luonnonsuojeluliitto kantelee asiasta EU-komissiolle.
www.sll.fi/ajankohtaist...
www.sll.fi/ajankohtaist...
Laitonta ja törkeää metsästyslain muutosta ajetaan eduskunnassa läpi ennätysnopeasti
Ilveksen, karhun, suden ja saukon metsästyksen mahdollistava lakimuutos on tehty kiirehtien ja lopputulos on laiton.
www.sll.fi
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Metsästyslain muutos sisältää perustuslaillisia ja EU-oikeudellisia ongelmia. Se on runnottu läpi täysin poikkeuksellisesti ja suden lisäksi mukaan koplattiin yllättäen myös muita lajeja. Jos laki tulee voimaan, Luonnonsuojeluliitto kantelee asiasta EU-komissiolle.
www.sll.fi/ajankohtaist...
www.sll.fi/ajankohtaist...
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PHYSICAL MEDIA. OWN IT.
LIBRARIES. USE THEM.
save stuff so the future can watch or listen to the past's creativity. (in case AI destroys everything)
LIBRARIES. USE THEM.
save stuff so the future can watch or listen to the past's creativity. (in case AI destroys everything)
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
PHYSICAL MEDIA. OWN IT.
LIBRARIES. USE THEM.
save stuff so the future can watch or listen to the past's creativity. (in case AI destroys everything)
LIBRARIES. USE THEM.
save stuff so the future can watch or listen to the past's creativity. (in case AI destroys everything)
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We assumed that chunks in Roman cement were the mark of poor mixing. Turns out they're the key to the self-healing properties that have made the cement so durable. 🧪
(By @humbertobasilio.bsky.social)
(By @humbertobasilio.bsky.social)
Ancient Roman cement has stood for centuries and is much more durable than its modern equivalent. Now we know why.
Pompeii Time Capsule Reveals Why Ancient Romans Were Such Incredible Builders
Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now inspire modern engineers
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We assumed that chunks in Roman cement were the mark of poor mixing. Turns out they're the key to the self-healing properties that have made the cement so durable. 🧪
(By @humbertobasilio.bsky.social)
(By @humbertobasilio.bsky.social)
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Check out this awesome Defensive Baking art!
Hey @tkingfisher.com, thought you might enjoy the fruit of an illustration challenge centered around your Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. I believe the illustrators are mostly students or amateurs hoping to develop their skills, and the challenge was to focus on one character. From Facebook.
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Check out this awesome Defensive Baking art!
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I'm afraid I've got some bad news about Santa's Elves... ;)
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I'm afraid I've got some bad news about Santa's Elves... ;)
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
Just kidding, the elves are all perfectly fine, these aren't real!
Thread...
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control."
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control."
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
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Banning children from social media really means a push for adult digital ID. Tech giants failed at their first generation ‘real names policies’. This time, they‘ve outsourced the work to corporate-supporting politicians and useful idiots.
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Banning children from social media really means a push for adult digital ID. Tech giants failed at their first generation ‘real names policies’. This time, they‘ve outsourced the work to corporate-supporting politicians and useful idiots.
Pitävä rajoitus edellyttäisi käytännössä sitä, että kaikki somen käyttäjät - myös me ihan oikeasti aikuiset - todistavat ikänsä esim. pankkitunnuksilla, eli internet-persoonaan on kytkettävä virallinen identiteetti.
Ja mitään tietovuotojahan ei missään koskaan tapahdu.
yle.fi/a/74-20196305
Ja mitään tietovuotojahan ei missään koskaan tapahdu.
yle.fi/a/74-20196305
EU-parlamentti kannattaa ikärajoituksia sosiaalisen median käyttöön
Uutiset nopeasti ja luotettavasti.
yle.fi
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Pitävä rajoitus edellyttäisi käytännössä sitä, että kaikki somen käyttäjät - myös me ihan oikeasti aikuiset - todistavat ikänsä esim. pankkitunnuksilla, eli internet-persoonaan on kytkettävä virallinen identiteetti.
Ja mitään tietovuotojahan ei missään koskaan tapahdu.
yle.fi/a/74-20196305
Ja mitään tietovuotojahan ei missään koskaan tapahdu.
yle.fi/a/74-20196305
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Yep
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Yep
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
This reads like a modern take of a fairytale you've half forgotten - and one of the best sort, with the sharp claws and the dark bits all left in.
Also I have to confess that I have rarely related so much to a protagonist. I would die for Selena. Twice, if needed.
Also I have to confess that I have rarely related so much to a protagonist. I would die for Selena. Twice, if needed.
Today! Yes, on a Monday! The official release of SNAKE-EATER! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW4KNLR...
Snake-Eater
Amazon.com: Snake-Eater eBook : Kingfisher, T.: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This reads like a modern take of a fairytale you've half forgotten - and one of the best sort, with the sharp claws and the dark bits all left in.
Also I have to confess that I have rarely related so much to a protagonist. I would die for Selena. Twice, if needed.
Also I have to confess that I have rarely related so much to a protagonist. I would die for Selena. Twice, if needed.
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#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#PudgyHorse Lascaux Tribute 2. A companion piece to the first, following one of the other cave horses with a darker colour morph. Again, painted with pigments made by Mary Sanche from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar
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Researchers have marshaled ice core and tree-ring data to suggest that a previously unknown volcano erupted in 1345 and triggered climate changes that eventually led to the Black Death. 🏺🧪
(Thanks to @monicamedhist.bsky.social for commenting!)
(Thanks to @monicamedhist.bsky.social for commenting!)
Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find
A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval Europe.
www.livescience.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Researchers have marshaled ice core and tree-ring data to suggest that a previously unknown volcano erupted in 1345 and triggered climate changes that eventually led to the Black Death. 🏺🧪
(Thanks to @monicamedhist.bsky.social for commenting!)
(Thanks to @monicamedhist.bsky.social for commenting!)
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I Wish You Died Laughing
by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social
"A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social
"A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I Wish You Died Laughing
by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social
"A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
by Lio Abendan @lioabendan.bsky.social
"A handful of months after he died, we held a funeral for him. His body bucked inside the coffin; I remember the deadened thump of his shins striking hard against the wood."
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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It drives me nuts when people label my work as the "respectable" kind of queer art just because it's basically PG-13.
Bitch don't pull that nonsense, we stand up for porn in this house. Always defend the weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and cringe, because if we don't push boundaries we don't exist.
Bitch don't pull that nonsense, we stand up for porn in this house. Always defend the weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and cringe, because if we don't push boundaries we don't exist.
The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It drives me nuts when people label my work as the "respectable" kind of queer art just because it's basically PG-13.
Bitch don't pull that nonsense, we stand up for porn in this house. Always defend the weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and cringe, because if we don't push boundaries we don't exist.
Bitch don't pull that nonsense, we stand up for porn in this house. Always defend the weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and cringe, because if we don't push boundaries we don't exist.
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Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…
It's also very much about ideology - the current gov appears to think it's your own fault if you're jobless or unable to work full-time for whatever reason, and you'll stop being lazy and get a job if you're punished hard enough. And if you fall through the cracks, it's because you deserve to.
1/2 It doesn't make sense, and I think it's a thoughtless decision to make. It will cause some people to fall between the cracks as the municipalities try to figure out an alternative rehabilitative work program. Why change something that is working? Money.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's also very much about ideology - the current gov appears to think it's your own fault if you're jobless or unable to work full-time for whatever reason, and you'll stop being lazy and get a job if you're punished hard enough. And if you fall through the cracks, it's because you deserve to.
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
one of the grimmest things I’ve ever read, but happily it does contain the phrase “mysterious constellation of brutal practices”