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Jonatan Hildén
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Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
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this blew my mind a while back,
The term muscle is derived from the latin musculus meaning little mouse, perhaps because of the shape of certain muscles or because contracting muscles look like mice moving under the skin. Ergo… muscle boat: Little mouse boat. Illustration: A ceramic ill-looking mickeymouse in a little boat.
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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when u go Hooooooo
detail of a magazine photo of a car with fancy seats that look like people going HOOOO
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Partner found these flashback-to-Greece ”pastiles”
from last summer. They are αρωματικες – aromatikes, which means they taste exactly like the most common type of incense??
Classic Pastiles. Small pack of Greek pinkish pastels in yellow bag of VIAP brand
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Here's an attempt at a pie chart from a supplied table, in Myriad.
The numbers and sector sizes are as far as I can tell right.

The typeface is mostly right. It disregarded the composition instructions and did not leave out the totals.

Very questionable use, because checking numbers is hard!
Please make a pie chart in Finnish of the following tab formatted table. It is cereals production in EU in 2025. The chart should be clean on a white background and use the Myriad typeface. The largest sector should start at 9 o'clock and the sectors should go clockwise. The labels and percentages should be on callout lines. The totals are not shown. Määrä Osuus % Vehnä 141 617 49,6 % Maissi 56 768 19,9 % Ohra 55 933 19,6 % Kaura 8 879 3,1 % Ruis 7 426 2,6 % Muut 15094 5,3 %
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Testing Gemini 3 Pro Image.
This is a surprisingly impressive result. Prompt in alt. The typeface isn't exactly Garamond!
The Finnish translation is interesting, because the text was obviously done in a step separately from the graphics. Third pic both overlaid.
cc: @simonwillison.net
Generate an infographic of the Gestalt principles. It should show all of the following, with illustrations and short title captions. The style should be pencil drawing with accents in orange, "#fd4f00". The accompanying texts should be set in Garamond: 1 Figure-ground articulation 2 Proximity principle 3 Common fate principle 4 Similarity principle 5 Continuity principle 6 Closure principle 7 Good gestalt principle 8 Past experience principle Result mostly good, one duplicated headline. Can you make a version of the same image translated into Finnish (same diagram but in Finnish. There is still one oddly repeated heading and the wordings are off, like expected machine translation quality) Both images overlaid. It is clear that the graphics have been treated separately from the text, because they are nearly pixel-level identical
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Lol. Onko tämä Suomen ensimmäinen ”viranhaltija horny on main Threadsissa” -keissi?!

www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
Nyt täytyy heti korjata. Ne viestit eivät ole läheskään samanlaisia, minkä Karjalainenkin nyt uutisessaan toteaa. Ja ne eivät ole härskejä.” No miten itse kuvailisit näitä viestejä? ”Ne on viestejä. Threads-sovelluksessa on kaikenlaisia viestejä. Näitten kanssa sitten... Se on elämää. No miten sen nyt sanoisi. Sellaista ajanvietettähän se on.” Nämä eivät ole sinusta härskejä, vaikka täällä on puhuttu ejakulaatiosta? ”Minun mielestä se ei ole härskiä, kun vetää sen kontekstin. Katsopa, kuinka paljon siellä on, siellä on 1 200 kommenttia siitä viestistä. Siellähän jotkut toivoi anaaliseksiä, ja siellähän oli vaikka sun mitä. Onko nyt minulle eri säännöt kuin muille?”
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Seems it does do garbled text though, albeit more rarely, so presumably in the image generator then?
Detail where ”likes” is ”liklows” and a ”Merkie Search Tree”
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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The competition in funny names for nobility was decidedly international. Here's a German guy that served in the 30-year war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_zu...
engraving of Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen looking dapper with moustache and goatee and long flowing locks
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Self- or micropublished book by some Oregonian with Finnish grandparents. Maybe should have checked the title with a Finnish-speaker?

I would argue that ”Tales of the Lumipaikka (snow place)” is sillier than, say, ”Masters of Teräs Käsi”.
Softcover Book called Tales of the Lumipaikka. It Looks very self published and has a picture of a snowy mountaintop in reddish dawn or dusk light
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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thinking about that moment in 2021 when Pettson and Findus* briefly trended

* in the US they are called Festus and Mercury
Pettson and Findus meme, slavoj zizek talking "consider for a moment, sniff, popular Swedish children's book series about the idealized heartland farmer, Peltshon, and how it depicts the hyper realization of consumerist ideology in modem children. The anthropomorphic, androgynous feline hero of the story with whom we identify ourselves, as children in the care of the patriarchal, all-knowing and so on farmer, is named after a commercial brand of agricultural produce: Findus' green piss. This defining act of authority of Pettshon tells us that not only are we to accept industrialism into our thus far idyllic, pastoral, ideal situation, with Findus unquestioned arrival on the farm changing forever the lives of all the other hens, cows, neighbors, whatever We are also supposed to fully identily with and become, ourselves, the agents of change in the interests ofthe "playful and "progressive" capital, and so on and so forth."" another meme about stop glamorizing the grind and instead glamorizing pettson and findus eating pancakes in the garden and a third image where the titular characters are drawn as shady looking wojaks
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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2020 lasten suuri lelukirja meemi repost, koska tähän aikaan ajankohtainen
nukkeja. kuvateksti sanoo: Poopsie Rainbow on upea yllätysnukke (n. 35 cm) kauniilla kammattavilla hiuksilla. Mukana tarvikkeita liman tekoon sekä kosmetiikkayllatys. Lima voidaan säilyttää nuken vaatteissa! Saatavilla 4 erilaista. Maalaus Samuel Johnsonista lukemassa sanomalehteä tiukasti tuijottaen. Teksti toistettu. Samuel Johnson tekee ”mitä helvettiä nyt taas, voi saatana" ilmeen
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Myynti-ilmoitus facessa LOL pikkusisko-pallo Pasilassa, kulkeutuu oopperalle. Imoitus myos muualla
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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jörniä Ryhmykyrpä 4.5.2021 Olla sukupuoliyhteydessä. Sana tulee elokuva-alan vaikuttaja Jörn Donnerin nimestä. Donner keksi sukupuoliyhdynnän ensimmäisenä Suomessa ja opetti sitä elokuvissaan Suomen kansalle.
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Here’s a gallery of them

solaris.lem.pl/galeria/rysu...
ink drawing of a robot family, seemingly, humanoids with wheels in place of feet, two tall and one small, they have round heads with abstract faces. They are all holding sticks and the tallest one is doing a gesture of sharing their eyes. In the background there is a rocket rising on an exhaust plume
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Tolkien’s foreword to the second edition of the Lord of the Rings has a fun bit on reader reception.
The Lord of the Rings has been read by many people since it finally appeared in print; and I should like to say something here with reference to the many opinions or guesses that I have received or have read concerning the motives and meaning of the tale. The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them. As a guide I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving, and for many the guide was inevitably often at fault. Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. But even from the points of view of many who have enjoyed my story there is much that fails to please. It is perhaps not possible in a long tale to please everybody at all points, nor to displease everybody at the same points; for I find from the letters that I have received that the passages or chapters that are to some a blemish are all by others specially approved. The most critical reader of all, myself, now finds many defects, minor and major, but being fortunately under no obligation either to review the book or to write it again, he will pass over these in silence, except one that has been noted by others: the book is too short. As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical. As the story grew it put down roots (into the past) and threw out unexpected branches: but its main theme was settled from the outset by the inevitable choice of the Ring as the link between it and The Hobbit.
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Impressive how much this 1973 painting called ”Keskiaika” (the Middle Ages) by Mikko Jalavisto looks like a 1990s ”see the cool things you can create in CorelDraw” graphic
Painting of two Green cylindrical towers in a geometric landscape with a rectangular pond. It looks like vector gradient graphics but is a painting. There is a caption ”Keskiaika” (the Middle Ages) underneath
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Iznogoud, the scheming Grand Vizier of the Caliphate of Baghdad: Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!! Donald Duck, in bed: Kiva tietää näin kolmelta aamuyöstä ("nice to know at 3am in the night")
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Tämä lienee jo tuttu
Climate summit: What if it is a Big hoax and we create a Better world for nothing
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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if you had a time machine what would you go back and fix? me: Käsi ajaa kepillä varsieväkalan näköisen varhaisen otuksen takaisin mereen
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Kapteeni Haddock kiroaa: Minä olen tämän laivan kapteeni, senkin onnettomat käsnäjalkaiset! Laakkoeläimet! Madonharvasoluiset!!
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Nice Bike Parka in time for the sleet season. Fits in a fairly small pouch and covers the R&M Transporter 2 easily. ”Ripstop guarantee 3+ years in Full Shadow”
Cargo bike in a dark Green and black protective canvas cover with a large Bike Parka logo
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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when the bus card that the kid had a meltdown about not finding in the morning is found in a fairly obvious place when we get home, as i foretold
Stilgar from Dune says Lisan al-Gaib
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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First time seeing this large language model text notice on Wikipedia.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerryma...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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i have no mouth and All unknown
blobs: some unknown [no mouth] all unknown
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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I, however, do think they could have gone a lot harder on the criticism of this stuff. The zombie map is fun, kinda, but I am absolutely unable to glean any patterns from the faces.
www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/node...
Unknowns in the hazardous landscape. a 2017 map that uses zombie chernoff faces to show hazardous waste. it is nigh impossible to see any differences between the zombies at a glance. they all have Anton Chigurh haircuts.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM