Was going to share a link to a news story, but every news site is such a mess of ads and pop-ups nowadays I don’t feel like giving them any more traffic
Imagine here a link to a story of France sending 29-year-olds a letter reminding them to have babies (WTH France!?)
Watching Superbowl half-time show maybe for the fitfth time already. I am amazed again how perfect, polished, and effortless everything looks. Doubtless tons of and lifetime of practice for everyone involved.
Some day I wish to give world something as perfect
I regret to inform you that Linkedin is even more Linkedin this morning than on a normal Monday. ”I asked cha”…. No
More TV series should come with: season x was the last good season of the series y (maybe also: ”episode z was the last good one). Case in point: the Walking Dead that started great, but lost its way somewhere
I like how people talk about Arsenal bottling it when everyone else is doing their best not to win: Manchester City not being able to defend a lead, Aston Villa just waiting to be as bad as their advanced stats, Liverpool, yes, did something in the summer and less after
Swindon’s Ian Holloway verbalizes everyone’s feelings about any football related software ever: youtu.be/rvNEuRx9e… (mildly NSFW rant behind the link)
If you ever tried to do an international transfer of a junior player using FIFA portal you know exactly how he feels 😩
I solved dynamically inserted podcast ads by signing up to NordVPN and setting my location to Denmark. I can tolerate ads I can understand 5% of – not annoying me the way Finnish ads do.
I wish iOS had a “configure app-specific VPN” feature. I probably will need to disable VPN occassionally
Currently reading: Sworn Sword by George R. R. Martin 📚
Ok, this was pretty, uhm, pretty. This sunshine ❤️
Video alt-text: I am walking on sea ice in Laajalahti, Espoo. Sun is laying low and I am walking among reeds
Starting an experiment in February: ”no browsing social media”. Only cross-posting occassionally and I will try to open Reeder every time I feel like opening Bluesky or Mastodon
Is there a way to add RSS feed of the site I opened in Reeder Classic’s embedded browser view to my subscribed feeds? This seems like an obvious feature and no, it doesn’t seem to be there at all?
I wish I had a night desk clock that would just glow red light during (configurable) sleep time and show time during other times. i could just glance quickly if I need to wake up or I can just turn over and sleep more. And not pick up my phone to check the time
Finished reading: The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin 📚
A quick and light read. Nothing much happens here yet but establishes the characters
I’ve started brewing the idea of building furniture myself. I have an idea for a custom night-table/shelf that had conduits for hiding extension cord and other cables inside the vertical parts. Only thing stopping me is knowing that I lack skills (or routine) to finish it they way I would want
There is an app that advertises itself as ”duolingo for anxiety”. I thought Duolingo was the ”Duolingo for anxiety”
I see quite often stories in media where someone outsmarts a scam artist online or on phone. Not sure this is something media should encourage in any way. Example here in Finnish: Mika Pöyliö jallitti ”Osuuspankin Annia”: Nauhoitus paljastaa yleisen huijaustyylin | HS.fi
At the best, you are wasting time of someone who is working on an absolute BS job (maybe even forced to do it). And you are spending your own life doing it
You are still interacting with a criminal organization, some day there might be a second type of attack by someone that knows way more about you than you know about them.
Watched: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms S1E1, The Hedge Knight 🍿
Yes, light-hearted and low-stakes GoT with likable characters. Comedy bits might not be for you (not a fan of 💩 jokes myself), but character building was good enough for me to want more
Currently reading: The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin 📚
Pilot of the TV series was a pleasant surprise and that lead to opening the book
I am old enough to remember “eight megabytes and constantly swapping” was supposed to be the severest of burns.
(as an old person I have told you this before, I guess, IIRC)
Finished reading: Polysecure by Jessica Fern 📚
Invaluable resource if you are interested, in the process or already in ethical non-monogamy. Translates attachment theory to ENM language.
I still think every book should come with:
A) a map of everything
B) (RPG like) contact cards for the main characters
For Tolkien worlds there is this Atlas
Watched: Severance Season 2 🍿
Finally completed this. So beautiful and tense. Only the final perhaps let me wanting something bigger but the plot was left in an interesting place
