Linda Eklöf
@lindaokapi.bsky.social
Educator, activist, feminist, gardener. Online since 1990. She/they. 🏳️🌈
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
“According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake | The Verge
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM
“According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Amazing analysis of Arctic climatic changes off data 1950-2022.
As expected, depressing reading but superinteresting.
As expected, depressing reading but superinteresting.
Hot off the press in the journal Science Advances:
A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new paper was published today!
A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new paper was published today!
A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic
Long-term climate data suggest that the Arctic is entering a new era of bioclimatic extremes threatening cold ecosystems.
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Amazing analysis of Arctic climatic changes off data 1950-2022.
As expected, depressing reading but superinteresting.
As expected, depressing reading but superinteresting.
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And the ship was transporting sanctioned goods from the big asshole country (Russia) to small asshole country (Israel).
Finnish police forces have boarded and seized the 132-meter-long Russian shadow fleet cargo vessel Fitburg moments after it destroyed 5 submarine telecommunication cables between Finland and Estonia by dragging its anchor on the seabed. www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...
Tämä tiedetään | Venäjä tarjoaa apua kaapelirikosta epäillyn laivan miehistölle
Koostimme lyhyesti yhteen, mitä keskiviikon kaapelivaurioista ja epäillystä aluksesta tiedetään.
www.hs.fi
January 1, 2026 at 11:23 AM
And the ship was transporting sanctioned goods from the big asshole country (Russia) to small asshole country (Israel).
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Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.
December 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.
A peaceful Yuletide to all!
Joulurauhaa
(Tove Jansson’s drawing for Unicef from 1981)
Joulurauhaa
(Tove Jansson’s drawing for Unicef from 1981)
December 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A peaceful Yuletide to all!
Joulurauhaa
(Tove Jansson’s drawing for Unicef from 1981)
Joulurauhaa
(Tove Jansson’s drawing for Unicef from 1981)
Now this is how you apologise and communicate on your ethical stand. Bravo!
Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward.
Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward
The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw
www.timeextension.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Now this is how you apologise and communicate on your ethical stand. Bravo!
This is perhaps the saddest story today. ”Only you know if we did it.” (And if we didn’t there may not be anyone reading this in the future.)
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is perhaps the saddest story today. ”Only you know if we did it.” (And if we didn’t there may not be anyone reading this in the future.)
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Since it is Finland’s Independence Day today, here’s probably the most famous Finnish patriotic painting ever. My favourite too!
Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law.
The rule of law.
“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.
Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law.
The rule of law.
“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Since it is Finland’s Independence Day today, here’s probably the most famous Finnish patriotic painting ever. My favourite too!
Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law.
The rule of law.
“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.
Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law.
The rule of law.
“The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.
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Tänään alkaa YK:n #oranssitpäivät, jolloin nostetaan esille ja vastustetaan naisten kokemaa (seksuaali)väkivaltaa.
Suomen tilastot ovat karua luettavaa (kuva kirjastani Mitä tapahtuu huomenna- megatrendit nopealla silmäyksellä). Suomi ei ole naiselle turvallinen maa.
#UNWomenFinland
Suomen tilastot ovat karua luettavaa (kuva kirjastani Mitä tapahtuu huomenna- megatrendit nopealla silmäyksellä). Suomi ei ole naiselle turvallinen maa.
#UNWomenFinland
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Tänään alkaa YK:n #oranssitpäivät, jolloin nostetaan esille ja vastustetaan naisten kokemaa (seksuaali)väkivaltaa.
Suomen tilastot ovat karua luettavaa (kuva kirjastani Mitä tapahtuu huomenna- megatrendit nopealla silmäyksellä). Suomi ei ole naiselle turvallinen maa.
#UNWomenFinland
Suomen tilastot ovat karua luettavaa (kuva kirjastani Mitä tapahtuu huomenna- megatrendit nopealla silmäyksellä). Suomi ei ole naiselle turvallinen maa.
#UNWomenFinland
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Unprecedentedly warm November day in eastern Finland, especially in North Karelia.
Multiple monthly heat records, including
Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C
Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C
Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C
Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C
Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C
(shown with magenta in the map)
Multiple monthly heat records, including
Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C
Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C
Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C
Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C
Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C
(shown with magenta in the map)
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Unprecedentedly warm November day in eastern Finland, especially in North Karelia.
Multiple monthly heat records, including
Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C
Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C
Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C
Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C
Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C
(shown with magenta in the map)
Multiple monthly heat records, including
Tohmajärvi Kemie 11.8 °C
Liperi Joensuu airport 11.1 °C
Juuka Niemelä 11.2 °C
Lieksa Lampela 10.9 °C
Nurmes Valtimo 10.8 °C
(shown with magenta in the map)
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I dunno who you are, bunkeymunky, but you speak truth—even if it was a bit more than 25 years ago in my particular case! (Yikes!! I'm getting long in the tooth.)
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I dunno who you are, bunkeymunky, but you speak truth—even if it was a bit more than 25 years ago in my particular case! (Yikes!! I'm getting long in the tooth.)
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Kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state
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When you see 2-3 percent doing something costly like protesting, you figure there are at least 10x who would like to but couldn't, 20x who largely agree, and 5-10 percent who are undecided but really thinking about what is going on.
The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.
The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.
Just saw an extremely dumb post about how this is not what democracy
looks like because only 2% of the population turned out, it's what freedom of assembly looks like, and what the bleep do people even think democracy is? Freedom of assembly being part of democracy is elementary school civics.
looks like because only 2% of the population turned out, it's what freedom of assembly looks like, and what the bleep do people even think democracy is? Freedom of assembly being part of democracy is elementary school civics.
October 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
When you see 2-3 percent doing something costly like protesting, you figure there are at least 10x who would like to but couldn't, 20x who largely agree, and 5-10 percent who are undecided but really thinking about what is going on.
The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.
The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.
3.5% would be about 12 million for the USA. #nokings is estimated at 7 million so getting there. But will it be enough?
(The 3.5% rule is a concept that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.)
(The 3.5% rule is a concept that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.)
Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
3.5% would be about 12 million for the USA. #nokings is estimated at 7 million so getting there. But will it be enough?
(The 3.5% rule is a concept that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.)
(The 3.5% rule is a concept that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.)
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AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
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Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä.
Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
September 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä.
Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
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Erityisen hälyttävää, että 16-39 v. ikäryhmässä varallisuuserot Suomessa EU-maiden suurimmat. 😬
#varallisuuserot
2/3
#varallisuuserot
2/3
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Erityisen hälyttävää, että 16-39 v. ikäryhmässä varallisuuserot Suomessa EU-maiden suurimmat. 😬
#varallisuuserot
2/3
#varallisuuserot
2/3
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BONUS: Eurofoundin raporttiin pohjautuva lyhyt artikkeli varallisuuseroista tässä. www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publicati...
A picture of wealth inequality across EU Member States | Eurofound
Wealth inequality across EU Member States has important implications for access to education, healthcare and housing, as well as for people’s ability to actively participate in society.
www.eurofound.europa.eu
September 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
BONUS: Eurofoundin raporttiin pohjautuva lyhyt artikkeli varallisuuseroista tässä. www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publicati...
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Imagine living in a country that's such an utopia, with all the statistics to prove it, that like all of the medias around the world with a budget to do in depth foreign reporting wanted to write about it... And then having your countrymen going "lol, no 🤪" and vote to fuck it all up.
September 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Imagine living in a country that's such an utopia, with all the statistics to prove it, that like all of the medias around the world with a budget to do in depth foreign reporting wanted to write about it... And then having your countrymen going "lol, no 🤪" and vote to fuck it all up.
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TÄSSÄ TARVITSEN apuanne ja ennen kaikkea jakojanne!
Juho Saari tekee Ylen kanssa ison kyselyn: kerro meille, miten juuri sinä pärjäät tässä taloustilanteessa
yle.fi/a/74-20179767
Juho Saari tekee Ylen kanssa ison kyselyn: kerro meille, miten juuri sinä pärjäät tässä taloustilanteessa
yle.fi/a/74-20179767
Suomalainen hyvinvointivaltio on nyt isossa murroksessa – tutkija Juho Saari kaipaa sinulta tietoa siitä, miten pärjäät
Yle uutiset kerää yhdessä tutkijoiden kanssa kokemuksia tavallisten ihmisten elämästä. Tämän jutun lopussa pääset kertomaan meille, mitä sinun elämääsi kuuluu juuri nyt.
yle.fi
September 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
TÄSSÄ TARVITSEN apuanne ja ennen kaikkea jakojanne!
Juho Saari tekee Ylen kanssa ison kyselyn: kerro meille, miten juuri sinä pärjäät tässä taloustilanteessa
yle.fi/a/74-20179767
Juho Saari tekee Ylen kanssa ison kyselyn: kerro meille, miten juuri sinä pärjäät tässä taloustilanteessa
yle.fi/a/74-20179767
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Olisipa sellainen hallitus, jonka edesottamuksia ei tarvitsisi seurata päivittäin; olisi vain asiansa osaavia aikuisia hoitamassa työnsä niin, että päätökset olisivat asiantuntemukseen perustuvia sekä oikeudenmukaisia ja inhimillisiä.
Kommentti: Orpon hallitus alkaa olla vuosikymmenien floppi – ehkä jo onkin
Kun hallitukselle aletaan nauraa, se on menoa, arvioi politiikan erikoistoimittaja Timo Haapala.
www.is.fi
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Olisipa sellainen hallitus, jonka edesottamuksia ei tarvitsisi seurata päivittäin; olisi vain asiansa osaavia aikuisia hoitamassa työnsä niin, että päätökset olisivat asiantuntemukseen perustuvia sekä oikeudenmukaisia ja inhimillisiä.
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Kriisi- ja häiriötilanteiden riski on todellinen. Niissä sote-järjestöt tarjoavat mm.: vapaaehtoisten panosta, ammatillista erityisosaamista, tavoittavat haavoittuvimmmat, ovat linkki viranomaisten ja kansalaisten välillä. Tämä tarpeen kokonaisturvallisuudelle - samaan aikaan järjestöiltä leikataan.
Sote-järjestöihin kohdistuvat leikkaukset heikentävät myös Suomen sisäistä turvallisuutta, sillä järjestöjen tarjoama tuki ja toiminta ovat osa kansalaisten turvaverkkoa.
"Jos haluamme yhteiskunnan, joka kestää kriisit ja häiriöt, emme voi romuttaa sote-järjestökenttää."
#budjettiriihi
"Jos haluamme yhteiskunnan, joka kestää kriisit ja häiriöt, emme voi romuttaa sote-järjestökenttää."
#budjettiriihi
Lukijalta: Sote-järjestöjen osaamista ei saa hukata – leikkausten myötä osa ihmisiä jäisi ilman apua
Samaan aikaan kun sote-järjestöjen merkitys tunnustetaan, niiltä leikataan rajusti, kirjoittavat Anita Hahl-Weckström ja Anne Knaapi Soste Suomen sosiaali ja terveys ry:stä. Valtiovarainministerin esi...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Kriisi- ja häiriötilanteiden riski on todellinen. Niissä sote-järjestöt tarjoavat mm.: vapaaehtoisten panosta, ammatillista erityisosaamista, tavoittavat haavoittuvimmmat, ovat linkki viranomaisten ja kansalaisten välillä. Tämä tarpeen kokonaisturvallisuudelle - samaan aikaan järjestöiltä leikataan.