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Finished reading: The Martian by Andy Weir 📚

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Exactly my kind of book like Project Hail Mary was. Loved every minute of the audiobook and got a bit emotional in the end when he is saved

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Watched: Taken 🍿

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Funny how old a 20 year old movie feels: Nokia phones, teenagers trying to get into a U2(!j concert. My Gen Z asked ”what is U2” and I answered: ”exactly”

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Silly plot but action goes fast and Qui-Gon Jinn kills 40 people

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Watched: Rosemary’s Baby 🍿

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Movie week continued with Rosemary’s Baby. For some reason I have never seen this before. Very efficient at building up the conclusion and the feeling of world conspiring against the main protagonist.

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Watched: Annabelle Comes Home 🍿

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Better than I expected. Very old-fashioned horror-movie but didn’t get bored

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Watched: Sinners 🍿

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One of the better movies I’ve seen in years. Tense and amazing cinematography

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@lmika Also: when to stop iterating. I’d say have taste for software engineering and some taste on design. But for instance making music I have no idea when to stop making changes. I think it is a sign I don’t really know my taste yet

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Thing that doesn’t make me laugh is the plan to sell a share of the FIFA World Cup to “investors”

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Every time I remember FIFA peace prize I just laugh, it is so laughably corrupt and odd I go past angry and just think “this is kind of awesome, like looking at a great artist working”. Their chosen art form just happens to be corruption

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Watched: The Odyssey 🍿

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First row of the IMAX screening. I am overwhelmed. I loved the Cyclops and Circe. Very much a movie I want to see a second time

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Retired dating apps to have a break. These are apps are great for meeting people you wouldn’t ever meet in real life but also, sigh, they are so tiring as well. After four years and meeting about 100 new people it is time to take an indefinite break and touch the grass

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To me the best football is played in July when qualifying rounds of UEFA cup competitions take place. I love seeing random matches between champions of San Marino and Gibraltar and forgotten giants of 1970’s.

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Another one of my experiments in web-app form: cavepad.com

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Video generation experiments: blog.timokoola.com

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Second news story from Finland just reminds us how clueless boomers most politicians (both ex- and current) are. Ex-minister lobbied for sports arena directly to prime minister and put all the actions he did in emails he sent. Even if there was nothing to see there it just looks extremely bad

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There is a weird dance going on in Finnish media about a story of well-known (but unnamed) artist grooming an 12 year old AND completely unrelated news of certain artists canceling all their gigs for the year. I can imagine legal departments of Finnish media houses working very hard these days.

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Silo, season 3 dropped. I had no idea it was coming now and I am very happy

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My Bloomsday 2026 project: blog.timokoola.com

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@jean Lovely photo and video!

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@Miraz this does look very yummy indeed, need to test this recipe myself

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If they ever pull the plug on the cloud and the frontier models, my backup plan is to ditch the watch too and go stand in a forest like some kind of animal. Truly the darkest timeline. Not

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Currently reading: The Martian by Andy Weir 📚

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I am lying in my hammock and reading a book. This is Summer

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Finished reading: The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi 📚

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Sadly, Marjane Satrapi passed this week and she will be missed by the whole world. This book is a master piece – powerful mix of personal and history happening around her

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Currently reading: The Complete Persepolis: Volumes 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi 📚

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@lmika yes, it is an “acquired taste” as they say. I think I was in my late teen years when it came to Finland and ever since I have had this every six month cycle of tasting

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I’ve been thinking for long how hard would it be to animate my ink doodles. Turns out it required a simple helper tool and a bit of patience and yes, these little guys walk!

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Video alt-text: Inked stick figures meeting on a hand-drawn country road; a small cluster of hearts rises softly above them.

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My Dr. Pepper relationship is like:

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“hmm, there is a can of Dr. Pepper in the fridge. I haven’t drank it in a long time”

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“Ah, yes, don’t like the taste, that is why”

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I wonder why Dr. Pepper taste is something that you forget

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Currently re-reading: Cibola Burn by James S. A. Corey 📚

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Finished re-reading: Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey 📚

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What can I say, I like Miller and Anna as characters. I had forgotten this quote that is awesome: ”She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.”

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Lutefisk đŸ€ą

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Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid is exactly the kind of drama the world needs

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@cdevroe Most people never attend a Teams meeting. Imagine that kind of life!

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@Miraz oh, lovely heron! I can’t wait for herons and egrets to come back for summwr

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@manton Back in the days of forced grid of icons people did this to create “holes” into the grid with widgets cut from the background image. Very cool indeed

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@lukebouch Yes! I am extremely aware of badges and unread counts and try to hide them by any means necessary. I do have hundreds of thousands of emails in my inbox but none unread 😅

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@manton this is very cool. I really like the tabs idea. Too many RSS readers are built for completionists and too few recognize that you can’t complete the Internet đŸ„Č

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@Miraz thank you
\nâ˜șâ˜ș

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@touqo.bsky.social TÀÀ just ja joskus kesÀpÀivÀnÀ on ollut kiva kÀydÀ stadikalla uimassa ja lintsillÀ syömÀssÀ ranskikset. Tai ihan vain kÀvellÀ alueen lÀvitse. EipÀ tule nÀitÀ enÀÀ tehtyÀ

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@olli.sulopuis.to :q!

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@teroterotero.bsky.social I think they should ban people from Oulu (or whatever) or make them speak proper Töölö Finnish

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@rom some people like UpCloud (their HQ is in Finland)

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UpCloud Products - Reliability Guaranteed

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@anneliljestrom.bsky.social Joo, luin sitten (vÀhÀn harmittaa nÀin alt-tekstiaktiivina etten huomannut) ja varmistui! Kirjat varsinkin oli mun suosikkejani silloin joskus muinoin

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@anneliljestrom.bsky.social VÀhÀnkö se harmitti kun sarja loppui kesken tarinan (jos nyt oikein tunnistan mikÀ tuo on)

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@lmika haha, yes! My dad was (he is still my dad but retired) a car mechanic and he absolutely hates cars. He is just very good at fixing them.

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I feel like I’ve come to a same point with software. Everything in the world is so sloppy and half-baked (and was before vibecoding). I yearn for quality

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@lauriojain.bsky.social Yksi asia, joka ilahduttaa: jotain voi tehdÀ sekÀ isolla rahalla, ettÀ hyvÀllÀ maulla. Tuntuu olevan todella harvinaista nykyÀÀn

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@lauriojain.bsky.social Olipa kyllÀ hieno <3

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@lmika Exit numbers or letters are also invaluable when there is an emergency. People or responders can be guided where they need to be without thinking who knows what about the surroundings or compass directions. Helsinki metro has letters for exits

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@lmika oh yes, Finnish trending topics were (and I guess still are) always in the tune of ”what now”. That would have been a nice trick to know then

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@tkoola dynamically inserted ads as a language learning tool. đŸ€”

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When Danes start annoying me, I will change to Latvia or Lithuania. Those language are impenetrable (to me)

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@help something wrong with book search? Seems I can’t get any results outside my library when searching

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@johannaursin.bsky.social (PyytÀjÀ tuskin tulee aika monen vuoden jÀlkeen ilmoittautumaan)

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@johannaursin.bsky.social PyytÀmÀttÀ ja yllÀttÀen, ei taatusti.

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Mutta kyllÀ multakin on pyydetty (etÀ)suhteessa. KieltÀydyin kohteliaasti

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