”Prime minister Dr. Evil will personally execute all the puppies in the courtyard of the cursed Senate building”

Bluesky leadership: ”waffles!”

And I want to say this separately: I think both Threads and Bluesky are fundamentally flawed and will eventually turn sour (and are already far along that path). Mastodon will be there but it is unlikely to ever get enough traction among the creative folks, scientists and the like

Yesterday I got nostalgic about Twitter circa 2012-2014 and realised there is never going to be anything like that anymore. Even if I treat it as a feature that we have multiple competing options now, I still miss the days it was fun.

I could treat Twitter as my personal Quora. With a decent amount of followers, I always got an answer for my questions. And it was fun like nothing ever was or will be for someone who likes to read and write. I got several clients from there and one job, couldn’t have asked more.

Now, talking about mostly Finnish text-form social media, we have a small crowd of nerds in Mastodon, but nothing like even close to being a critical mass, we have some of the culture folks and journalists in Bluesky, and Threads has turned into millennial Facebook where socially active people meet other socially active people.

All have their upsides, but none have the same feel either because of we didn’t get everyone migrated (Mastodon, Bluesky) or that people don’t want it to be Twitter (Threads)

Inktober day 4 ”murky”

#inktober

I dropped and lost my Downloads folder from the Mac dock and now I am too embarrased to even Google how to bring it back.

R.I.P Dame Patricia Routledge, the most popular comedic actress in Finland

Inktober day 3: ”crown”

#inktober

Second day of running my own company and I was on a call while on a treadmill at my gym talking about LOIs and MOUs out loud. Sorry, I have turned into a Linkedin person.

Inktober day 2 ”weave”. A detail

#inktober

Inktober day 1 ”mustache”. Ended up liking my one minute draft the best. There is a secret garden under a horseshoe mustache.

#inktober

Regular reminder that light-year is a measure of distance and not of time

Unexceptionally cool, crisp morning today.

I’ve been dreading iOS 26 as I am very sensitive to readability and contrast issues. And this seems to be… fine?

And looks pretty nice, I can see leather stiching and brushed metal coming back in not-too-distant future 🥰

”I can ink my fountain pen with my good clothes on” says he smugly

Fifteen minutes later: ”what is that shadow on my face”

Oh no

Exploring Gender and Trans Identity in the Worlds of C.J. Cherryh - Reactor is a really nice write up on C.J.Cherryh. I was sadly unaware of her works before this, but added these directly to my to-read pile

Espoo is the second biggest municipality in Finland. It has a lot of places like this

Video alt-text: camera spins around in a wet forest of pine trees, moss and lichen

Test. Please ignore

There is that band you absolutely despise but they have that one song you can’t resist. What is that song?

💡 I am going to start hustling in Linkedin soon.

🥺 Please don’t judge me.

🥲 It hurts me more than it hurts you.

🙏 Thank you for understanding

Saw Materialists (film) 📽️ yesterday and was surprised how annoyed this movie got me. As someone who has dated extremely actively for three years it apparently hit a nerve.

Warning: here be spoilers. If you wish to see the movie fresh, don’t read further.

First the good parts: the funny parts of the movie were actually really, really funny and witty. Glimpses into dating world of the professional and rich class of NYC was painful and funny to watch. Not my world luckily, Finnish dating isn’t quite this awful. Or at least in this particular, materialist way.

The bad parts: I don’t mind silly, but I want silly to be playful and not caveman romances or leg extension surgery on a super-rich guy that is still supposedly very likeable. Pedro’s character was weird and not believable. The plot was not paced correctly and the inevitable break up still seemed to come from nowhere. All and all, everything interesting in this movie happened around the main characters and not because of them.

Aside: the most fun and romantic scene was played under the end titles. Please, take that energy back to the whole movie.

And the awful part: movie depicts attack on one of the side characters. Handling that is sloppy and rushed and not believeable. Most importantly, it seems to exist in the movie only to make the main character to have her redemption arc. Don’t put stuff like this into a movie, if you are not ready to actually play it out.

In conclusion, this movie made me feel things. Sadly, mostly because it wasted the great movie inside it.

Humble Bundle has a Martha Wells (Murderbot diaries and more) campaign going on: www.humblebundle.com/books/mar…

Recommend me a romance book. Preferably fun and somewhat modern but any kind of recommendation is welcome

Trying to build up RSS reader habit (again) to avoid social media. First on my list is to add this ink review site to my “Pen Stuff” collection. What are your favourite pen, ink, stationery blogs?

Mountain of Ink

Mountain of Ink

What is a simple lesson you never learnt after all those years in the industry?

I still, after 28 years in work force fail this: “whenever you get an account or access to a system, test it immediately, you can’t trust it to work when you need it if you don’t test it right now”

I find it fascinating that Ron Jeremy managed for long to maintain this kind of cool, benign personal brand despite his industry and that his downfall became as a surprise to many (including me)

I started thinking this while going through the backlog of You’re Wrong About podcast that references him