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Tero Suoniemi

@terosuo.bsky.social
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EU & Foreign Affairs for the Greens in the Finnish Parliament. Otherwise a proud gay geek. He/him.

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Katie @ohweebeasties.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Many good quote skeets of this one
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 7h
🚨 Bombshell in Germany: Police have just arrested August Hanning, the former head of the BDN foreign intelligence agency, on suspicion of espionage against the state, disclosure of state secrets, attempted treason, and working as a secret service agent.
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Germany's ex-spy chief arrested for espionage
August Hanning served as the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency from 1998 to 2005. According to German media, he is being investigated for allegedly passing on state secrets and working...
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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing
Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strongly against using terms like "honest" or "lie" or even "hallucinate" with respect to data retrieval systems, generative or no. #OpenAI don't want liability for a system they have not yet constructed to be sufficiently accurate or transparent that it can be used safely. #AIEthics #GPT-6.1Astra
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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unions and civil society organisations call on European governments and EU institutions not to grant contracts funded by public money to #Palantir Concerns are about tax avoidance, its values and it undermining democracy @etuc-ces.bsky.social @ituc.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social And many others
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120+ European campaign organisations and unions call on governments and European Commission to scrap Palantir contracts
Over 120 campaigning organisations and unions across Europe have issued a joint call to governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with the US tech company P...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A U.S.-based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from Russia has worked on EU-backed projects and sold its services to European law enforcement agencies, according to documents seen by POLITICO.
politico.eu
Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies
The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.
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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Orpon äärioikeistohallituksen aikana yhteiskunta on muuttumassa lähinnä päättymättömäksi Kummeli-jaksoksi.
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
Exclusive: Early this month, diplomats worked toward a treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons. But U.S. and Russian diplomats removed a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of AI in weapons, according to people familiar with the talks.
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/09/2026
The @stsci.edu posted this JWST image from 2023 earlier today—and I had to do the same. This is only a portion (about 50 lightyears across) of the Milky Way's centre. In this view, there's an estimated half-million stars. In our night sky, at a dark site, humans can see ~2,000 stars unaided.
From the source: "In a field crowded with stars, a funnel-shaped region of space appears darker than its surroundings with fewer stars. It is wider at the top edge of the image, narrowing towards the bottom. Toward the narrow end of this dark region a small clump of red and white appears to shoot out streamers upward and left. A large, bright cyan-colored area surrounds the lower portion of the funnel-shaped dark area, forming a rough U shape. The cyan-coloured area has needle-like, linear structures and becomes more diffuse in the center of the image. The right side of the image is dominated by clouds of orange and red, with a purple haze."
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is not AI agents going rogue, but OpenAI. This hack took the company months to notice and then they notified a public email address rather than the appropriate government agency. www.ft.com/content/5613... OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website
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OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website
AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As I told NBC this past weekend: "We have not seen AI go rogue. We've seen people be sloppy with their software and make mistakes." m.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAH... Via @timcrane.bsky.social
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Iran Government-Led Rally Sends Defiant Message to U.S.; How to Reset the AI Doomsday Clock
YouTube video by NBC News
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Atte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 24/09/2026
Tietomurrosta kiinni jäänyt ihminen saa syytteet ja tuomion. Saman pitäisi tietysti koskea myös firmaa, jonka AI-agentit puuhaavat vastaavaa. En tiedä millainen australialainen lainsäädäntö tältä osin on, mutta toivottavasti voivat laittaa vastuulliset vastuuseen. yle.fi/a/74-20247936
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OpenAI:n tekoälyagentti murtautui Australian terveydenhuollon tietokantaan
Tapaus lietsoo todennäköisesti entisestään huolta tekoälykehittäjien kyvystä hallita uutta teknologiaa.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 23/09/2026
So it's official. EU sanctions on Russia are no longer only for the benefit of Ukraine's existential fight against Moscow's invasion - they are now currency for EU capitals to trade for prisoners. Welcome to the Brussels bazaar.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I see Facebook/Meta is -still- at it, having banned ads for the Votes for Women board game for the same reasons more than two and a half years ago: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
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Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game’s new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” -
Votes for Women, the critically acclaimed card-driven wargame about the fight for women's suffrage in the US, stands to miss out on up to $60,000 of backing for its second print run after Facebook rep...
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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 21/09/2026
Majority voting allows groups of small member states to outvote the larger ones. National vetoes, on the other hand, entrench traditional power imbalances in favour of large states. But while member states were very aware of this in the past, it is hardly reflected in current #EUreform debates.
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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Momentum is growing for Europe to develop its own sovereign space capabilities, including satellite launches and human spaceflight. Story by me in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Europe pushes for space independence amid geopolitical rifts
The European Union is easing its reliance on US space infrastructure — and is seeking to grow its satellite and launch operations.
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Atte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 19/09/2026
Muistatteko tämän keissin? Tuli iso kohu ja luottamusäänestys, jossa hallitusrivitkin rakoilivat. Häkkäsen ministerivierailu Israeliin on nähdäkseni vielä paljon vakavampi asia.
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026
I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.
A series of high-magnification views of a seemingly smooth human heart valve, revealing the rough texture under extreme close-up.


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Zhaoxing Wang, Kunpeng Wang & Yan Xu (modified)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-56485-5

CC BY 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/09/2026
For too long, Canadians and Europeans been naive & complacent to entrust our democratic spaces to social networks controlled by American CEOs & Chinese corporations that have little stake in protecting democry. So glad to finally see a Canadian leader adressing #digitalimperialism.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting: Mark Carney says that Canada "welcomes" the offer to become an "associate member" of the EU but notes the "nomenclature" is for Brussels to decide. He prefers to frame it as a new alliance. He also says the final outcome will be put to a vote in the Canadian parliament.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Spain backs Canada's "associate membership".
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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Luddite Temple manifesto in a readable format.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now, beyond the hype: What does "associate membership" for Canada mean in practice? The legal status doesn't exist in the EU treaties. Not even Iceland and Norway, which are in the single market and have applied thousands of EU laws, have that status. So what now?
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16/09/2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today she would propose a new security forum for EU and like-minded leaders in response to escalating Russian attacks and fraying transatlantic relations.
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Von der Leyen pitches European Security Council in response to Trump and Putin
“This is even more urgent now, given the nature and scale of the risks at play,” says European Commission president.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16/09/2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants Canada to become the first “associate member” of the European Union, she said in her annual State of the Union address today.
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EU wants Canada to become ‘associate member,’ von der Leyen says
European Commission president proposes a new “Alliance for the Future” to build on existing trade EU-Canada trade agreement.
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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The same cover, but with the "say 'i am alive'" AI meme pasted on top of it after 10000 hours in MSPaint
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 13/09/2026
See that small bright object in the middle right of this image? That's the small icy moon Mimas. Floating in space against a backdrop of giant Saturn, the planet crossed by shadows from its rings.
A black swath of shadow crosses the scene from top left to bottom right. The background is various shades of blue and grey. A small, illuminated crescent is at upper right. The lower portion of the image is lighter grey/brown.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/09/2026
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) plan to introduce a bill that would immediately pause the development of advanced AI systems until the creation of a new government AI agency to monitor them for dangerous capabilities. wapo.st/4gNrXHI
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/09/2026
Breaking news: Gloria Steinem, celebrated author and activist who became one of the most influential voices behind the women’s movement through the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st, died at her home in New York City. She was 92.
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Gloria Steinem, lodestar of the modern women’s movement, dies at 92
"In my heart, I think a woman has two choices," she once said. "Either she's a feminist or a masochist."
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So, we need to be a bit more accurate here. The Leipzig drone case wasn’t a hybrid attack against Germany. It was a failed attempt at sabotaging a Ukrainian cargo plane carrying weapons.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/08/2026
Mysterious arson cases. Cyber attacks. Armed drones. Russia is expanding its hybrid operations against countries that support Ukraine — and Europe's been caught without a plan to respond. bloom.bg/4y3qsfz 📷: Gavriil Grigorov / Getty Images
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
not to be rude but this is the stupidest thing i've ever read in my life. Roko's Bureaucracy
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bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:
future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
3:14 PM • Aug 25, 2026
O Everybody can reply
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Maria Ohisalo @mariaohisalo.vihreat.fi · 26/08/2026
Öljyonnettomuus ei ole vain ympäristöriski, vaan myös turvallisuusuhka, johon EU:n täytyy tarttua nyt eikä vasta onnettomuuden jälkeen. Huonokuntoinen ja valvomaton tankkeriliikenne kytkeytyy laajempaan kuvaan siitä, miten pakotteita kierretään ja miten Itämeren alueen vakautta koetellaan.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Mark Carney walked away from Trump. Could the EU ever do the same? We explain why it could perfectly do it... and why it could never dare.
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Canada walked away from Trump. Could the EU ever do the same?
Canada's Mark Carney has shown the EU what walking away from Trump could look like. But would Brussels dare call out the US president and reject his demands that allies play by his rules? For Europe, ...
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Anya @heyanyahere.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I don't know if that's your thing, but the Ukrainian Games Festival is currently active on Steam, so it's your chance to support our developers who keep creating no matter what 🇺🇦
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Ukrainian Games Festival 2026
Ukrainian Games Festival 2026 is running August 17 to August 24!
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Atte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 17/08/2026
Varoitukset tekoälyn hallitsemattomista, jopa eksistentiaalisista riskeistä ovat riittävän hyvin perusteltuja siihen, että ne kannattaa ottaa vakavasti. www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a...
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Atte Harjanne: Koko ihmiskunta voi olla uhattuna – ”Tämä ei ole mikään huurupäiden juttu”
Vihreiden kansanedustaja on huolissaan kehityskulusta, joka voi pahimmillaan kääntyä ihmiskuntaa vastaan.
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Thad @tyranicus.net · 11/12/2025
For the billionth time, the transporter in Star Trek does not kill you and create a copy of you. The TNG episode Realm of Fear establishes that a person being transported is conscious for the entire process. Transporter duplicates like Riker and Boimler don't mean the original was destroyed.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/08/2026
President Trump signed an order authorizing select private companies to carry out government-sponsored cyberattacks against foreign criminal hacking groups — actions that have until now been the domain of U.S. national security agencies.
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Trump signs memo authorizing private sector to launch cyberattacks
The move marks a significant shift, as previous administrations barred companies from “hacking back” against foreign criminal groups for fear of geopolitical blowback.
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Africa’s longest-running board game convention is hoping to use its 10th anniversary to put more direct support behind the continent’s emerging designers, with plans for a new grant programme if its latest crowdfund reaches $20,000: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @nibcard.bsky.social
A mass of gamers playing at tables in a hall, at the AB Con African Boardgames Convention 2025.Logo for AB Con, the African Boardgames Convention, showing the letters AB above CON, with the hole in the A a paw, the holes in the B a pair of dice, and the hole in the C a circle containing the outline of Africa. The words 'Since 2016' are present at the bottom left.Nine photographs of people playing games around tables, people standing and chatting, and shelves full of board games, at the AB Con African Boardgames Convention 2025.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Verde @verdelehti.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Kolumni | Maailma tuntuu välillä ylivoimaisen monimutkaiselta. Yksi yksinkertainen nyrkkisääntö voi ohjata sekä arkea että politiikkaa: tavoittele aina enemmän elämää, niin määrää kuin monimuotoisuuttakin, kirjoittaa Oras Tynkkynen kolumnissaan.
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Enemmän elämää
Maailma tuntuu välillä ylivoimaisen monimutkaiselta. Yksi yksinkertainen nyrkkisääntö voi ohjata sekä arkea että politiikkaa: tavoittele aina enemmän elämää, niin määrää kuin monimuotoisuuttakin, kirj...
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
new political axis just dropped
gun ownership vs yoga interest by state
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