iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In case anyone needs to hear this, "we tried to execute her twice and she survived both times" is literally starting a religion material, if you tell the story right.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Americans and Finns have very different concepts of what is an appropriate amount of sugar or salt: kechpaja.com/usfi/2026/06... #usa #finland #america #usfi #culture

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Sugar and Salt

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Alright! I am starting yet another #blog, about differences between Finnish and American culture: kechpaja.com/usfi/2026/06.... I make no promises about posting frequency vel sim, but will try to write things regularly. I certainly have a lot of relevant stories to tell. #finland #america #culture

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Introduction

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot saying "why should I let you spend an hour writing something I could generate in 30 seconds?" to a human face — for ever. (This is a post about #ai.)

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Finland's right-wing government is currently raising healthcare fees. Not just implementing policies that raise the cost of medicine and private care — although that too — but raising fees charged for _public_ healthcare visits and procedures. 1/7 #politics #finland #ForAmericans

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When I said No Kings, I meant you too, Charlie.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The idea of space colonization by sending frozen embyos to another planet to be gestated and raised by robots came up in a Discord I'm in, and now I want to write a story exploring what the resulting society would be like. But I also worry it might be so horrifying nobody would ever read it.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Uralicists playing _Iron Lung_: Elävä kala ui veren alla.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Okay, I suppose I'll reactivate this for a while.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

How are we more than halfway through January already?

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 17/01/2026

This is a fun thread! Bonus fun fact: the etymology of MINute is the same as minUTE, ie the first small part of an hour A second is the second small part, and before we had milliseconds we had thirds! www.etymonline.com/word/minute

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Minute - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"sixtieth part of an hour or degree of a circle," late 14c., from Old French minut (13c.)… See origin and meaning of minute.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Relatedly: one of my most profound social realizations — from a few years ago — was that in terms of pure numbers, basically every friends-and-family holiday party is significanntly more exclusive than the Met Gala vel sim. (Also read the thread.)

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Account reactivated, for now at least. Still primarily on Mastodon, though.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Stupid question, but: what sort of personal and/or open source tech projects look best on a resume?

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

DISvam qaStaHvIS turqu le'yo' boghoy SapwI' vIDa. tuch lupaQ SapwI'pu' 'ej tuch luneHbogh luDelmeH mu'mey puS ghItlh 'e' tlhobta' le'yo' boghoy DevwI'pu'. chaHvaD QInvam vIngeHta' jIH: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t... #pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq #klingon

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Turku Pride: tuch wIpaQ

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I will be volunteering at Turku Pride this year. The Pride organization board has asked volunteers to write a few lines about what sort of future they would like to look into. I provided the following text: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t... #pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq

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Turku Pride: Looking to the Future

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Toimin vapaaehtoisena tämän vuoden Turku Pridessa. Priden hallitus on pyytänyt vapaaehtoisia kirjoittamaan lyhyesti siitä, minkälaiseen tulevaisuuteen he haluaisivat katsoa. Toimitin itse seuraavan tekstin: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t... #pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq

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Turku Pride: Katse tulevaisuuteen

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I've now switched from i3 to Wayland, and it was worth it: kechpaja.com/blog/2025/06.... #wayland #sway #i3 #linux

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Migrating to Sway and Wayland

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Today is ten years since gay marriage was officially legalized in the USA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergef.... I just wish we could celebrate that in a more hopeful context.

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Obergefell v. Hodges - Wikipedia

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Possibly unpopular #StarTrek opinion: Transporters as portrayed in the show are one of the biggest worldbuilding holes in the entire fictional universe.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

@slotkin.senate.gov Hey! I — a constituent — appear to be subscribed to your newsletter using a deadname and outdated (gendered) honorific. What is the process for updating the name and setting a nonbinary honorific? There is no clear way to update subscription settings in the latest email.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

TIL (well, technically yesterday) that the Finnish word used to refer to a carnival ride is _laite_ — the generic word for 'device'. Linguistically there is nothing weird about this, but I absolutely would not have guessed.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My kingdom for a queer and trans space that explicitly bans communist imagery.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If you're going to smoke, please do it somewhere other than directly below my apartment. Some smells are genuinely intolerable.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If I go to sleep, is there still going to be a world when I wake up?

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Klingon: *uses same word for playing a musical instrument and turning on a device* English speakers: "oh, how weird and exotic!" English:

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'd be interested in seeing analyses of mass social movements in countries without a deeply ingrained Christian tradition, and comparisons between them and analogous movements in heavily Christian-influenced cultures. Are there any obvious citations to follow here?

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Why is it that _literally every financial service_ now requires some form of two-factor login that cannot be counted on to work reliably? It just isn't good enough to only _maybe_ be able to get into my own bank account.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Me: Trans as in transatlantic Them: But transatlantic is the Americas! Me: Okay, but _I_ went the other way. Them: ... Me: ... Me: Okay, fine, I'm Atlantic-fluid. (The Atlantic is an ocean, though. Does that make me... salty?)

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Is there an open source equivalent of AWS (or other providers') serverless functions? As is, software that I could set up once on a VPS and then run serverless functions from it, similarly (if hopefully less overhead-y) to AWS Lambda?

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

How do you say "American Vice President, go fuck yourself!" in Kalaallisut?

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In Finnish, I've heard people straight up use the word "gate", as an independent morpheme, to refer to a generic scandal.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Broke: naming your primary git branch master Woke: naming your primary git branch main Bespoke: naming your primary git branch /, with subbranches named as if they were filesystem paths, with each `git checkout -b` adding a level (I'm only half joking.)

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 27/03/2025

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I don't understand how people can have positive feelings about childhood. Sure, I have fond memories of living with family and not having to cook. But childhood itself? Being treated as not really a person yet, and denied even the possibility of agency? I have no regrets about leaving that behind.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I wrote a blog post detailing a little bit more of what I've been doing with the Katnae writing system, and linking to the (somewhat more comprehensive) documentation of that writing system and the phonology it describes: kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2025/03.... #conlang #katnae

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Boris @bmann.ca · 19/03/2025

"Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written" Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, President of Signal @signal.org

Screenshot of X post: https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1902383162065400296, part 1

BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes.

The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a backdoor by giving the government the ability to add themselves to any group or chat they like. In the name of (checks notes) fighting drug trafficking.

While those hyping this bad law have rushed to assure French politicians that the proposal isn’t’ ‘breaking encryption’ their arguments are as tedious as they are stale as they are laughable. For those catching up, let’s review the basics: end to end encryption must only have two ‘ends’—sender and recipient(s). Otherwise, it is backdoored. Whatever method is devised to add a ‘third end’ —from a perverted PRNG in a cryptographic protocol, to vendor-provided government software grafted onto the side of secure communications that allow said government to add themselves to your chats—it rips a hole in the hull of private communications and is a backdoor.

Indeed, the ghost participant proposal was roundly rebuked (humiliated, even) when it was first proposed in 2019 in the UK. The technical community was united, and it was never implemented in law or otherwise.

Screenshot of X Post, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1902383162065400296

We cannot accept any backdoor, however it’s dressed up. Communications don’t stay within jurisdictional boundaries. Which means a hole created in France becomes a vector for anyone wanting to undermine Signal’s robust privacy guarantees, anywhere. Instead of contending with unbreakable math, they only have to compromise a French government employee, or the vendor-provided software used to sideload government operatives into your private chats.

This is why, as always, Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written. At this moment especially, there is simply too much riding on Signal, on our being able to forge a future in which private communication persists, to allow such pernicious undermining.

We hope—WE HOPE—that this callow, dishonest attack will fail, and will be the last. We would love to get back to the work of maintaining and improving our core technologies, instead of fighting legislation which is distinguished in nothing as much as its refusal to listen to decades of expert consensus in its drive to imperil global cybersecurity and the human right of privacy.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I made a (draft of a) syllabary for my #conlang Katnae, which I have used for #Lexember a couple of years. This is the 13-syllable first line of a song I'm trying to write in the language. Romanized Katnae: Osil maqate Katnae soura Syllable-wise: o-si-li ma-qa-te ka-ʔ-na-e so-u-ra

Katnae syllables: o si li ma qa te ka ʔ na e so u ra <full stop>

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Could this precedent (www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...) be used to push all EU countries to recognize a third legal gender? I've always thought about it from a legislative angle, but a judicial approach may also be promising. Something to think about at least. #eu #gdpr #trans #politics

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A trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe

A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Am I being completely foolhardy by even thinking about trying to run my own DNS server?

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

How do you explain to people that revenge is never an acceptable goal, and is actively counterproductive to solving the problem that made them desire it?

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Even having grown up in the US, it's always weird to hear talk about "people who rely on public transit" as if that were a strange thing to do. I've literally never owned a car or had a drivers license. Yes, that only works because I live in the city, but many, many people live in cities.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 10/03/2025

As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life: Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO. I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

LRT: yes, I've repeated the "voting in Finland" thing a few times now, but I think it's worth repeating. Voting can be easy when you don't build your electoral system around keeping Black people from voting.

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Kelvin Jackson (Kei) @puujalkavihrea.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Something Americans should know: in Finland, if you are eligible to vote, you automatically get a letter telling you that you can vote, where and when to do it, and a brief description of the sorts of decisions made by the office you are electing someone to. #elections #voting #finland

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I never thought I would actually _enjoy_ distributing political flyers. Yet here we are. (It's still exhausting, though.)

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kechpaja @kechpaja.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Okay, my "trans as in transhumanist" bio line was originally meant as a way of playfully pushing back on reactionary transhumanists and the growing association by some of transhumanism-as-in-body-upgrades with social conservatism.

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