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ThomasW

@thwes.bsky.social
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A SF/F fan and an avid book reader, an occasional service designer, but working in the accounting industry doing projects, and a flightless traveler. Usually he/him (or hän in my native language), but they/them will also work.

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ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Reminder:
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
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Patrizio Lainà @patriziolaina.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Kovaa ja aiheellista kritiikkiä suomalaiselle elinkeinoelämälle Siilasmaalta: ”Uudistus edellyttää johtajuutta ja rohkeutta, jota monilta suomalaisilta yhtiöiltä valitettavasti puuttuu.” Väitän, että osittain tämä johtuu yritysten poliittisista investoinneista. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...
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60-vuotias | Suomi on tekemässä virheen, sanoo Risto Siilasmaa datakeskuksista
Suomen tekoälykehitys on harhateillä, jos maa rakennetaan täyteen ulkomaisten digijättien datakeskuksia, sanoo 60 vuotta täyttävä Risto Siilasmaa.
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ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The city I live in Finland already has pickup trucks that are too big for the city. Even bigger ones are just impossible.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2026
Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃
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David Shepherd @davesheph.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Not content with shooting children at school, America is now gassing them too! And some think Europe is failing!
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ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I just muted a certain 3-letter acronym of an US agency, and oh boy did it clear my feed… As i’m not an american nor do I live there, I do NOT want it to take over my whole bsky feed.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/12/2025
Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...
Auto-translation of news site: Storm Johannes overturned the Gävle goat. The Gävle goat has once again met an unfortunate fate.
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Dublin 2029 @dublin2029.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Stockholm here we come! We’re at #SMOFcon42 from 5-7 Dec, with bids from Portugal, Poland, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France & Germany. Ask #Dublin2029 questions at the Q&A (12.00 - 16.00 WET/13.00 - 17.00 CET on Sat) or join us at the International Party (from 18.00 WET). Will we see you there?
[ID: The Smofcon 42 logo. It is a stylised graphic in shades of green and yellow. In the centre is a flying saucer beaming up a silhouetted person stood on the ground. In the background is a large ringed planet, the outline of the planet encircling them. Across the top reads ‘Smofcon 42' and across the bottom upside down is ‘Don’t panic!’. END ID]
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ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Relevant, timely and thought-provoking (for me at least)
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The lesson of genAI has very little to do with genAI. The real lesson here is that as soon as your bosses found something that could approximate the worst possible worker in your team, they obliterated entry-level jobs. It's not coming alive. That's nonsensical. But your bosses are already alive.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.
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Nick Abadzis @nickabadzis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Ever have those days…?
Spock holds a tricorder. “This whole planet is bullshit,” he says. Spock (c) Paramount. Probably, in an IP sense, but maybe not culturally speaking.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
That flight tickets are often cheaper than the same trip with train. We need carbon taxes.
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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
SMOFCon is really good for those who want to know *how* to run a convention.
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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Everything feels like this now
Election meme: 50.1 Everyone gets a puppy, 49.9 diarrhea forever
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Finland almost coal-free four years ahead of schedule. Coal power has dropped to less than 1% of its energy mix. Wind energy has more than doubled since 2020, now supplying 25% of the country's electricity while reducing consumer priceshttps://buff.ly/MOTqcuf #ShareGoodNewsToo
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How Finland has replaced coal power with wind in less than 10 years
Wind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/04/2025
the magical thinking about testosterone + estrogen is off the charts these days. the gender anxiety seething beneath the new right is unreal. they are frightened of the modern world--and of themselves. they might not like what they felt if they looked inside www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...
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The New Gender Synthesis
To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being.
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Arturo Serrano @carturo222.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The next-next-next generation of #StarTrek will need to adjust to the fact that the Federation's model for "pluralistic democracy with moral authority" should now be the EU, not the US.
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Camestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The plan is working. Boycotting Tesla is making right wing dipshits so angry that they are buying electric cars to own the libs. 😊
Tweet by right wing dipshot actor Nick Searcy saying "I don't even want a damn electric car but you hateful Democrat bastards are going to make me buy one just to own you aren't you dammit"
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I see Hugo nominations are open and people are doing eligibility posts and … I think The Night Guest is eligible for the novella category? Anyway no pressure, just look at this pretty dog.
Uggi the dog and a copy of my book The Night Guest
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Now that corporations & entities are people, since you can run for US president if you were born in the US or were here when the Declaration of Independence was made, Canada is eligible to run for US president. So is Lake Michigan.
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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Somehow, Palpatine returned.* [*No irony]
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Camestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Inside me are two wolves: one thinks it is an ethics committee and the other wants a big nap.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Recent studies show that sea turtle populations are booming worldwide. Loggerhead nests off the northwest African coast: 35,000 from 500. Kemp’s ridley nests: 17,000 from 702, and a 2023 survey discovered 150,000 green turtle nests in New Caledonia. buff.ly/40AUae1 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
We've detected unusual activity from your computer network
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I see Yoon Suk Yeol has decided to move from the 'fucking around' stage of his failing presidency to the 'finding out'.
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ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I think U.S. is about to have a cultural revolution, though not a woke or progressive one, but one like China had during Mao era.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Reminder: during times of turmoil it does not matter if you aren't interested in politics, politics is interested in *you*.
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ThomasW @thwes.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Pikkujoulukausi alkaa. Pre-christmas season starting …
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Chris M. Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
🙄
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
If you're gen x or millennial, odds are you have known some people online for *decades*. Across multiple now-dead forums, across vast gulfs of time in internet years. You've probably got a friend group that outlived multiple sites.
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AK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com · 20/06/2024
Not really. It's just another walled garden. Eventually the owners will allow ads in to bring revenue, then the usefulness will be crushed under the increasing weight of ads until we have to find a new IRC clone.
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Prof. Nycteris, Whimsician @nycteris.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
And fond memories of Trillian! We need a service that connects across sites!
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
Which is interesting. Gen X and millennials grew up having to learn how to use computers, how to go online, etc. One of these skills later generations didn't learn, was how to reconnect outside walled gardens.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
If you're over the age of 30, your first internet friends were outside walled gardens, they didn't really exist yet. You found them, and then found them in half a dozen different places none of which were the really *important* thing. The important thing was they were there.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
And, weirdly, this same group of people are also the ones who also learned how to preserve their media the same way. Not *only* do they still talk to a person they met on ICQ 25 years ago, but they still have the same rip of a movie they pirated then too, or such.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
People who are much older, are busy oogling shrimp jesuses and big boobied centaur women on facebook. People who are much younger, only know 3 or 4 walled gardens and only maybe 1 has died on them so far.
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Jon Potter @rettopnoj.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Vote #1 Uggi for PM
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Slangword Scott @slangwordscott.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
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sunyi @sunyidean.com · 10/10/2024
This book placement at Heathrow airport
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Chris M. Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
I'm sorry, you're telling me the people who stole all the art in the world to make computer software that can't do basic arithmetic would tell a lie? futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...
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AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed
Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
Panel one:

Two small figures stand before a huge machine.

One says “Our startup has innovated the human writer out of the publishing process. This machine can write sixty-five books an hour.”

A conveyor belt at the front of the machine dispatches a continuous stream of books.

Panel two:

They walk across the workshop.
The second figure, who is reading one of the books, says “but will people actually want to read this stuff?”

Panel three:

They have reached a second huge machine. 

“The real beauty of our integrated system” says the first figure “is that it also frees companies from the tyranny of human readers”. 

A conveyor belt at the front of the machine dispatches a continuous stream of robot readers, happily consuming the content from the other machine.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
How is this different from what Big Tech is doing?
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Loved Alien Rehash. It's invigorating when we learn nothing new and get the same scenes watered down to shove into our memory holes. If they could add odd pathology that's squirmy and unbelievable shower scenes that'd be great. Also, charming backstory just prior to character death.
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Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Spotted in the bar at @glasgow2024.bsky.social - find them at easterconglasgow.org where there's a mailing list you can join! At least two other bids for future Eastercons are also in preparation - expect to hear more in October after everyone's had some post Worldcon R&R.
A flyer for a future Eastercon in Glasgow before the end of the 2020s
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Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @glasgow2024.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
The Glasgow 2024 Programme is live! You can explore the full programme from our website via ConClár at the link here: guide.glasgow2024.org (1/6)
ID: Shown is a graphic with a blue and purple galaxy background and the words "Programme is Live Now!" in purple lettering in the middle. END ID
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