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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Cats of Greece. Nipsu is a handsome boy nowadays. But I remember when he was tiny and loved a good cuddle.

JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

A few weeks ago we found a kitten with a broken front leg on the street, and took him (?) home, and provided with shelter, food, and care. Almost fully recovered now. And very keen to play!

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Quality time with the ol’ ball and chain ❤️

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

We provide IOC affiliated sports federations with the tools to turn every sporting title into an indexed declaration on @title.stream & every athlete perspective into an article on @sports-veritas.com Leave no title behind. Every champ deserves recognition! #sportsmanagement

Infographic titled "From a confirmed title to a public record" by NxtStride. A left-to-right process flow in five steps, on a dark navy background.

Step 1, Declare: the federation's event manager files the title or record.

Step 2, Approve: a second federation person checks the facts; the filer never approves.

Step 3, Publish, automatic: the page goes live on title.stream within minutes and the athlete is invited.

Step 4, Interview: the athlete answers in their own words through one emailed link, no account needed.

Step 5, Sign: a draft is assembled from the athlete's words and the federation's quotes, then a named reviewer edits and signs it.

An arrow labelled nightly edition leads to the outcome card: the number 2, for two federation roles that take a confirmed result to a permanent public record on two sites.

Volunteer officeholders can fill both roles. If the athlete does not reply, the title page still stands and only the article is skipped.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want to hold on to your top athletes they need recognition of achievement to feel they keep making progress. In many sports there's no media to hold up a mirror. So the sport itself needs to take care of this. You do it well and your champs stay in the game longer, you attract more youth.

Evidence map 01: What pushes elite athletes toward quitting? It maps one risk chain from a 2026 study of 235 German national-squad athletes in eight Olympic disciplines. A hypothesis card, "No verified record of achievement," points to the strongest measured risk: a sense of stalled progress. Five risks raise thoughts of quitting, ranked by strength: stalled progress, falling motivation, mental health problems, time and role conflicts, and poor training conditions. Not feeling valued and coaching style showed no effect. Supporting findings: effort without perceived success predicts thoughts of quitting, and distant star role models don't lift participation. The outcome to avoid: 49% of athletes thought about quitting more often within a year. One study, measuring thoughts rather than actual exits: an early-warning signal, not proof.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Today my kid, for the first time, jumped a four fence sequence! Every time she jumps I feel it in my stomach 😅 #showjumping

Show jumping practice field in Greece, with a young rider and her horse, and one bystander.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Finland today has completed the Nordic bloc of the European (viva la France! 🇫🇷) Forward Deterrence adoption. Force de Frappe can now deploy across the high North.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

An unlikely city branding success: I was in Sibiu, Romania, last month for one night. I parked on the street and installed the city’s parking app. Now every day when I scroll my phone I see the Parcare Sibiu app and I’m reminded of my visit 💙 #romania #sibiu

A street view of Sibiu, Romania, with a cathedral in the background

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Carbon capture is a mirage. It’s a broken promise, a bait & switch. It’s what Big Whatever goes for whenever they intend to do nothing at all.

ProPublica, "Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change" (June 25, 2026). Data compiled by researchers Rory French and Lindsey Gulden; CCS actuals from IEA's CCUS Projects Database, projections from IEA World Energy Outlook / Energy Technology Perspectives (Blue Map, Net Zero by 2050, Sustainable Development, Announced Pledges, Stated Policies scenarios). Solar actuals/projections also IEA WEO/ETP.

What the two panels show:

Carbon capture: Actual carbon storage (maroon) has stayed essentially flat and near-zero since 2010. IEA projections (blue), reissued nearly every year since 2008, repeatedly assume storage is about to take off — each new forecast starts from that year's actual number and then rockets to thousands of megatons by 2040. None have come close to being realized. ProPublica notes the 2008 IEA forecast alone called for ~1,600 megatons/year by 2025; actual global burial today is less than one large power plant's annual emissions.

The mirror-image failure mode. Actual solar output (maroon) has grown exponentially since 2010. IEA projections (blue) have, in nearly every edition, assumed near-term growth would flatten — and been blown past almost immediately. This is the well-documented pattern originally popularized by Auke Hoekstra (TU Eindhoven) starting in 2017, later replicated by Carbon Brief.

The same institutional modelers have been wrong in opposite directions on the two technologies that matter most for climate — chronically over-optimistic on CCS (a technology that lets fossil extraction continue) and chronically pessimistic on solar (a technology that displaces it). ProPublica frames this asymmetry as suspicious in direction if not necessarily in intent, quoting no claim of deliberate manipulation but noting the pattern is consistent and one-directional over nearly two decades.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s Saturday. The sand is hot. The beer is cold. Life is good.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

Moonrise over the Saronic bay on the Aegean Sea

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m attending a “panigyri” village festival in honor of St. Mary. I estimate there’s about 3000-4000 people here. In a village with a population of 1005. When I say religion can bring people together without any requirement of faith, this is what it looks like.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

I think my post from 5 months ago has aged relatively well.

News headline about the United States military considering pullback from Persian gulf completely in the aftermath of the failing War against Iran by the second Trump administration.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

That’s bad! I didn’t have any specific high risk detail, rather just the scale of it. I was on the second floor trying to put out the fire when the windows exploded and everything went to hell in an instant.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Orbital AI data centers sound cool until you do the physics. The radiators needed to reject heat from 1,024 GPU racks dwarf everything else. This is what it actually looks like. #SPCX Practically every pound of payload hauled to orbit will be heat radiators, not compute power.

Scientifically accurate orbital data center showing compute block dwarfed by vast radiator panels spanning hundreds of football pitches. Solar arrays visible but secondary. Earth in background for scale.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

I got into a discussion with a restaurant keeper whether they use real truffles or just the extract…. Well now I know 😅

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

First glimpse of the Aegean Sea after two months up north 💙🇬🇷

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Crossing the New Europe bridge from Romania to Bulgaria. Danube really is quite low on water.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

I think this graph is perhaps the most important to consider when trying to understand the failures of our energy policies.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026

Having dinner alone might not be exactly fun, but at least it can be delicious! Greetings from Sibiu, Romania. I decided to take a detour across Transilvania on my way back to Greece from Finland. Some 2200 km of driving done, another 1500, or so, to go!

A courtyard restaurant terrace in Sibiu, Romania

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

Also she’s not scared of heights 😄

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

Ritu is a pro traveler and knows the ferry shuttles have doggie toilets, and how to use them.

Siberian husky using a doggie toilet onboard a ferry ship

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

How does Ritu handle automatic Carwash? She couldn’t care less!

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

The long drive back home to Greece begins. Some ten countries and 3800 km to go. Ritu the Husky is already enjoying the road trip. #roadtrip

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

My $SPCX earnings beat prediction is not doing too well: by the looks of it, the beat will not survive even tonight. After market has pushed the price down -8%, almost wiping out the pre-earnings bull entirely.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

I don’t know about Crimea, as Ukraine doesn’t operate there directly, but elsewhere Ukraine has adopted MUL.E electric motorcycles. Swappable batteries which can be charged with any electricity you can generate + silent running and almost no heat signature make them useful.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

We’ve got many pieces of the puzzle already in front of us.

Moroccan police escorting immigrants to Spanish border near Ceuta

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026

Tämä tiedoksi kaikille Suomen hallituksen toteuttaman disinformaatiokampanjan uhreille.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Remote office of the day. I have a very passionate love/hate relationship with my Volkswagen Crafter. When it works == 💙 Remaining 97% of the time == 🫠 (Currently not fit for road traffic due to suspension and breaks….)

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s not a horrible remote office, I’d say 😄

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Anyone living in an older house with a disused fireplace can consider turning it into an energy battery with an electric heating element. A smart switch to turn it on when indoor temp is below comfort and electricity price approaches zero, for example autumn and winter high wind days.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

I think everyone should be required to play Railroad Tycoon (1990). In just a couple of attempts you will learn, for life, why allowing mergers to result in practical monopolies is bad. Borrow money, buy competitors, raise ticket prices == win every time.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

During next winter I will be running an experiment at our Finnish house, which is only visited occasionally by my parents. We have a 1250 kg reserving fireplace which I’ll equip with a 1 kw electric heater with a smart switch: reserve cheap energy as heat, release slowly when price hikes.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

A quick pop into Stockholm with kids and my parents over the weekend, a cruise from Helsinki. First time in Gröna Lund amusement park for me in about 35 years! Heja Sverige 🇸🇪

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Hanging around with my main man Karl Johan of Sweden.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Finland 🇫🇮 Sinuhe - The Egyptian, is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945. So far only Finnish book ever to be converted to a Hollywood movie, in 1954.

Sinuhe - the Egyptian, a book by Mika Waltari

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Some family portraits age better than others.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

That article is from October 2023. Worth reading in detail: essentially every prediction in it for 2030 is reality today. Solar power adoption is exceeding all forecasts as well as our ability to track it.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

My not-so-little-anymore girl riding a stallion for the first time. It’s going to be an important year for her, as she will now start working towards a competitive license in show jumping!

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026

Enjoying the Finnish nature (and the Everyone’s Rights to enjoy said nature) with Ritu and my younger daughter, today.

Siberian husky in Finnish forest in the summer

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s a decent analysis but doesn’t really address the structural problem that increases in quality come at logarithmic increases in cost. The ROI horizon then becomes a receding mirage. “We don’t know” sound a lot like a hedge for a16z

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026

I’ll take your word for that. My history with tesla doesn’t got that far back. I do have also an emergency window hammer & seatbelt cutters in the front and at the back. But these I already had in my old Passat; if the frame of the car is twisted any door can be jammed.

Emergency window hammer and seatbelt cutter

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

Nostalgia! Recently I asked for some advice here regarding board games. I was about to follow up on some of the recommendations I received, but once at the store I discovered Talisman has a new edition out! I used to play this game in the early nineties, so guess what: nostalgia wins! #boardgame

Talisman board game 5th edition rule book and game box

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

I had a somewhat eccentric high school writing teacher, Mr. Saarniemi, who was in a habit of making outrageous statements, such as claiming to be partially overlapping reincarnation of Jim Morrison. RIP, both of them.

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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

Quick lunch in a cafe made up of, I believe, old restaurant train cart furnishes. There were a couple of really delish toast skagens, which went the way of the dodo of so quick. #Turku

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