Lizy
@lizysimonen.bsky.social
Librarian (kirjastovirkailija) in Finland. Writes books. Speaks Finnish badly. All opinions my own. (she/her) Rep: Lina Langlee.
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Lizy
@lizysimonen.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hi, I'm Lizy, spoonie librarian and novelist near Helsinki, originally from Minnesota by way of Glasgow. I'm currently studying for Finnish librarian qualification.
I write Finland-inspired fantasy for adults and am working on a new project, #LucklessWIP. Rep: @linalanglee.bsky.social
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I write Finland-inspired fantasy for adults and am working on a new project, #LucklessWIP. Rep: @linalanglee.bsky.social
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Re: my last post, people ask where I'm from all the time because of my USian accent and have lived outside the US for over ten years. But where am I from? I can tell you where I was born, where I grew up, where my parents live, where I was happiest. None of these are in the same state.
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Re: my last post, people ask where I'm from all the time because of my USian accent and have lived outside the US for over ten years. But where am I from? I can tell you where I was born, where I grew up, where my parents live, where I was happiest. None of these are in the same state.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
Technically. For a given value of from.
Technically. For a given value of from.
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
Technically. For a given value of from.
Technically. For a given value of from.
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You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️⚧️
But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold.
So take care of yourself.
Your soul is beautiful.
But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold.
So take care of yourself.
Your soul is beautiful.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️⚧️
But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold.
So take care of yourself.
Your soul is beautiful.
But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold.
So take care of yourself.
Your soul is beautiful.
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Please do not feed personal information to chatGPT. Please do not tell it where you work and live and how to get money from you.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Please do not feed personal information to chatGPT. Please do not tell it where you work and live and how to get money from you.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
They know that TurboTax is easier than doing it by hand and cheaper (mostly) than going to an accountant.
That accountant had to sign ethical standards. ChatGPT can’t.
First snow first snow!
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
First snow first snow!
I am incredibly proud to have been a writer on CiS. The project produced a beautiful book, a unique gaming resource, and the most comprehensive explanation and exploration of the Picts ever published for the general public.
Please give some love to the incredible creators involved in this project.
Please give some love to the incredible creators involved in this project.
Carved in Stone is officially out!
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I am incredibly proud to have been a writer on CiS. The project produced a beautiful book, a unique gaming resource, and the most comprehensive explanation and exploration of the Picts ever published for the general public.
Please give some love to the incredible creators involved in this project.
Please give some love to the incredible creators involved in this project.
I think we've learned a valuable lesson this week. It's important to learn proper punctuation so that when your incriminating emails are released to the world, people can read the evidence without developing a migraine at your quite frankly illiterate usage of quotation marks.
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I think we've learned a valuable lesson this week. It's important to learn proper punctuation so that when your incriminating emails are released to the world, people can read the evidence without developing a migraine at your quite frankly illiterate usage of quotation marks.
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Public Transit should be a public service. All trains, buses, subways etc. should be free.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Public Transit should be a public service. All trains, buses, subways etc. should be free.
My wokest, most obnoxious opinion: The problem isn't trans people in sports, the problem is sports. Contact sports damaging people's brains, college sports deciding futures, gender essentialism and segregation (girls still can't play baseball!!).
How our society handles sport is Bad Actually.
How our society handles sport is Bad Actually.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My wokest, most obnoxious opinion: The problem isn't trans people in sports, the problem is sports. Contact sports damaging people's brains, college sports deciding futures, gender essentialism and segregation (girls still can't play baseball!!).
How our society handles sport is Bad Actually.
How our society handles sport is Bad Actually.
It's so beautiful 😍😭🥹
Carved in Stone is officially out!
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
It's so beautiful 😍😭🥹
All generative (so-called) AI and LLMs are always and forever a nope from me.
There are things we call AI which are of actual benefit. ChatGPT is not among them.
There are things we call AI which are of actual benefit. ChatGPT is not among them.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
All generative (so-called) AI and LLMs are always and forever a nope from me.
There are things we call AI which are of actual benefit. ChatGPT is not among them.
There are things we call AI which are of actual benefit. ChatGPT is not among them.
Celebrity deaths come on threes, right? That applies to white men in American politics, right??
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Celebrity deaths come on threes, right? That applies to white men in American politics, right??
If Squares Enix can strike a blow again OpenAI, I might forgive them for one of their many sins against me personally. One.
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If Squares Enix can strike a blow again OpenAI, I might forgive them for one of their many sins against me personally. One.
Saying this as a former devoted fan, it sucks that they're finally releasing the last season of Stranger Things. I'd hoped it would conveniently vanish without the final season and we could pretend it died honorably.
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Saying this as a former devoted fan, it sucks that they're finally releasing the last season of Stranger Things. I'd hoped it would conveniently vanish without the final season and we could pretend it died honorably.
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Why are Maryland public libraries spending public money to depress the wages of public sector workers? My latest for @truthout.org.
truthout.org/articles/lib...
truthout.org/articles/lib...
Library Admins Are Using Public Money to Hire Union Busters Against Workers
“We don’t want to be fighting for what we already agreed to,” said a Maryland public library worker.
truthout.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Why are Maryland public libraries spending public money to depress the wages of public sector workers? My latest for @truthout.org.
truthout.org/articles/lib...
truthout.org/articles/lib...
Wow...this is a grift I fell for hook, line, and sinker. How depressing.
Unfollowing this conman immediately.
Unfollowing this conman immediately.
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
wrd.cm
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Wow...this is a grift I fell for hook, line, and sinker. How depressing.
Unfollowing this conman immediately.
Unfollowing this conman immediately.
Heading to Helsinki Book Fair! I'm not sure I'll last very long because my stamina is crap, but I'm super excited to discover new books and get one of my recent favorites signed by the author!
October 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Heading to Helsinki Book Fair! I'm not sure I'll last very long because my stamina is crap, but I'm super excited to discover new books and get one of my recent favorites signed by the author!
I'll start watching baseball when someone subjects an entire stadium of Americans to Finnish baseball. Maybe the psychological shock would fix the nation.
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I'll start watching baseball when someone subjects an entire stadium of Americans to Finnish baseball. Maybe the psychological shock would fix the nation.
I'm done waiting for the Dems to finally stop Trump's tyranny and turning my hopes to the Lorax
October 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I'm done waiting for the Dems to finally stop Trump's tyranny and turning my hopes to the Lorax
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
Hey friends and #booksky Can anyone recommend books about asexual or aspec characters who are romantically inclined or even in a romantic relationship? The ace characters I can think of are pretty much all aroace.
Ideally something I can get from my library. I don't use Amazon etc.
Ideally something I can get from my library. I don't use Amazon etc.
October 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hey friends and #booksky Can anyone recommend books about asexual or aspec characters who are romantically inclined or even in a romantic relationship? The ace characters I can think of are pretty much all aroace.
Ideally something I can get from my library. I don't use Amazon etc.
Ideally something I can get from my library. I don't use Amazon etc.
People keep talking about Sora and I keep believing it's Kingdom Hearts 4 news.
AI really does ruin everything.
AI really does ruin everything.
October 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
People keep talking about Sora and I keep believing it's Kingdom Hearts 4 news.
AI really does ruin everything.
AI really does ruin everything.
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Tired of seeing AI on pinterest?
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Tired of seeing AI on pinterest?
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!
What am I not doing?
Writing 😞
What am I also not doing?
Using generative AI, you thieving cowards 😠
Writing 😞
What am I also not doing?
Using generative AI, you thieving cowards 😠
October 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
What am I not doing?
Writing 😞
What am I also not doing?
Using generative AI, you thieving cowards 😠
Writing 😞
What am I also not doing?
Using generative AI, you thieving cowards 😠