Helmet music challenge #3: "Music focusing on plants/nature/animals" is kicking my butt. If you have recommendations, please give me some!
I'm finding a lot of songs that have nature in them but only as metaphor for human stuff. GIVE ME AUTHENTIC NATURE. I want to disappear into the moss.

Helmet Music Challenge 2026: #2. Music featuring the winter season:

youtu.be/feQJfHLL7UM?...

#musahelmet

Not very impressed with this, honestly, but trying different stuff for a change.

Helmet Reading Challenge 2026, #2: The title of the book contains the word ‘star’:

"Wandering Star" by J. M. G. Le Clézio.

This one was a rough read. The fate of a Jewish girl in WWII and after, also of a Palestinian girl that had to leave her home behind forever...

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Helmet Reading Challenge 2026, #1: British classic: "Christmas carol" by Charles Dickens.
Has been sitting in my shelf FOREVER unread. SO happy to finally have read it <3

Helmet library movie challenge #1:

A film featuring a vain film star: www.imdb.com/title/tt3044...

Regretting not watching "Sunset Boulevard" instead :D
#helmethaasteet

OK so I love the Helsinki library challenges A LOT and will be spamming about my progress. Attempting on average one song, one book and one movie per week.

HERE WE GO, music challenge #1. A song wishing you a Happy New Year:
youtu.be/Ps4d0dWw5Yk?...

SURELY there's a compromise between "falls apart in 3 seconds" and "never falls apart"?? These can't be our only two options.

As a woman, it makes me angry beyond words that WOMEN are banned from WOMEN'S SPORTS.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Let me say it again:

Trans people deserve to play sports.
Trans people deserve health care.
Trans people deserve access to bathrooms.
Trans people deserve to be treated like human beings.

This Congresswoman loves you and will always have your back.

These are so freaking accurate. Still you encounter people who think they have you completely figured out after 20 years of almost no contact 😯

OK I suppose it's time to become more active here and kick the habit of Instagram, FB and other garbage. Preparing for Global Switch Day.

I think the historical context on this is really important to understand and promote because the reality is that there's no inherent aversion to trans people in our culture, it's one that's been cultivated by explicit right wing propaganda as another way to divide the working class against itself

Public service announcement.