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iju

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𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗙𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛: Finnish sociologist, and speculative fiction nerd.

𝗦𝗨𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗞𝗦𝗜:
"𝘒𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘩𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯 (𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴) 𝘬𝘺𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘶𝘯, 𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘫𝘢 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘬𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘶𝘯.” ¹

Työhyvinvointiin erikoistunut sosiologi (BBA+YTK+YTM), ja muodollisesti pätevä yhteiskuntaopin & historian opettaja.

Harrastuksiin kuuluu spe-fi, sarjakuvat, valokuvaus, opiskelu, varttipolitikointi, ja pyöräily.🖖🏻

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¹ ɪʜᴍɪɴᴇɴ, ᴡɪᴋɪᴘᴇᴅɪᴀ ꜱᴜᴏᴍɪ. ʜᴀᴇᴛᴛᴜ 4.1.2016

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RustyBertrand, to random
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"Today is the 50th anniversary of the Skylab strike, the first labor strike to occur in space. Astronauts protested micromanagement, employer spying, and long hours. They demanded a day off, regular breaks, and greater workplace autonomy, but NASA refused. So they shut off the radio and took the day off, floating around, enjoying space, and taking photos of Earth. NASA gave in to their demands after one day."

iju,
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@cuibonobo @RustyBertrand @davep

Keeping those astronauts on orbit was/is expensive. Just getting the calories to the orbit is expensive, not to mention everything else. Sitting there and doing nothing is just as expensive as japanese public transportation strike where they come to work but let people ride free.

iju,
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@RustyBertrand @cuibonobo @davep

I think you missed the point I was making.

Anyway, doing better than the previous "150% crew" made me think that if there wasn't a strike, there should have been.

DrakkenZero, to random
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iju,
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@tb @DrakkenZero @hypebot

I don't know.

Godwin's Law (the first) helped me develop my debate skills. When I couldn't just say "this is like Hitler" but instead had to resort to things like "it's hard to find any good things with these policies... poverty will rise, among other things".

Even as fascism is on the rise, I find it more helpful to speak of the results of these policies instead of referring to shorthand, as pop culture has mixed the actual Nazi policies with fictional stuff.

iju,
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@boud @tb @DrakkenZero @hypebot

While true, these clarifications came out about 25 years after I started arguing online :)

QasimRashid, to random
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Right wing media is again demonizing migrants and refugees for "having cell phones." Look ya'll—never take seriously those who ridicule migrants & refugees for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re refugees how did they get an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape violence, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

iju,
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@QasimRashid

I mean, you're right. But you're also missing the point. Of course they're critizing on having an iphone. After all, they're also critizing stuff that you can find for free if motivated enough.

Observe:

danielpunkass, to random
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The failure of American education over the past 80 years is we taught everybody to reject fascism, but neglected to teach anybody to recognize it.

iju,
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@danielpunkass

Doesn't really help that fascism is mostly just "colonialism at home". Makes it hard to recognize, particularly when Hitler was basically just copying USA without democracy (such as it was), and now republicans are seeing the US democracy (such as it is) as a problem.

(Killing minorities is optional in fascism, not one of the criteria. The minimum is just to keep them in the closet, be the gay or socialist.)

jaoler, to midjourney
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V6 is epic.

Ai woman
Ai woman

iju,
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@jaoler

Se on jännittävää kuinka kaikilla midjourneyn naisilla on tuollainen saksalaistyylinen kapea ja terävä nenä.

iju,
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@jaoler

Haluaisin nähdä käskyn molempien kuvien takana, jos sinulla on ne mahdollista hakea.

johl, to random
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Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved.

The general assembly of Wikimedia RU decided to disband after it was made clear to the president of Wikimedia RU, who used to work as an assistant professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, that he was to be classified as a "foreign agent" and had to resign from his post at the university.

Closing Wikimedia RU was done to protect the (now former) members of the non-profit organization that supports Russian Wikipedia.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8&oldid=134968726#%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%A3_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F

iju,
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@johl

Does this mean wikipédia RU will go down, or will it be upkept by the other wikipedias?

There's a lot of information there, and a national perspective that will never be regained if the files are removed (even as internet archive probably has an incomplete copy).

henrik, to random Finnish
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Kerrankin hyvä tekstaripalstan viesti.

iju,
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@henrik

Kai ne haluaa kuskiksi jonkun informaatio-alalta valmistuneen jolla on c-kortti. Voi olla pienemmillä paikkakunnilla haastavampi combo.

iju,
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@villetakanen @henrik

Kirjastot maksetaan kunnallisverosta, kun taas ansio- ja arvonlisäverot menevät valtiolle.

Yleisesti ottaen uskon ja tuen ruusujen kehää, mutta tässä se ei toteudu ainakaan näin suoraan.

Toki kirjastot (ja kirjastoautot) voivat tuottaa muita kautta pääomia paikallisyhteisölle (ja laajemmalle yhteiskunnalle), mutta tämä ei ole niistä yksi.

iju,
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@henrik @villetakanen

En ymmärrä kysymystä, mutta ansiovero koostuu kunnallisverosta, jota maksetaan siitä osaa tuloista joka ylittää n. 16 000 euroa. Sen jälkeen kunnallisvero on tasavero. Sillä maksetaan paikallishallinto, koulut, kirjastot, ja kadut. Kokoomuksen paikallisosastot pitävät tämän matalana pitoa merkittävänä kilpailuetuna asukashankinnassa.

Valtion osuus on progressiivinen. Tästä valtio maksaa kunnille (pl. Helsinki) valtionosuutta, jonka Purra muuten hetki sitten kirvelöi.

iju,
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@osma @henrik @villetakanen

Kiitos tarkennuksesta. Piti sanoa aiemmassa viestissä etten ollut päivittänyt tietojani hetkeen, mutta ehkä se tuli ilmi kun viittasin ettei "syvintä asiantuntemustani" ja aloin haukkumaan yhteiskuntaopin kurssien sisältöä.

iju,
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@osma @henrik @villetakanen

Jos teet niin laita cc-lisenssi niin tallennan jotain powerpointtia varten:)

GottaLaff, to Georgia
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See how heartfelt they are? You can almost hear their regretful snickers, er, tears... 🤦🏻‍♀️

Via Tamar Hallerman:

Two of the apology letters in the Trump case - from Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell and obtained by the AJC - were handwritten and just one line long.

Sidney Powell's apology: "I apologize for my actions in connection with the events in Coffee County."

iju,
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@GottaLaff

While the shortness implies a lack of understanding (and the use of chosen paper hints on not valuing the message past the base function of keeping the ball rolling), I'd at least argue that handwriting makes it personal in a way that using a print-jet would not.

Every time I see a "personal" message coming from a typewriter etc. with just the signature with a pen, I assume secretary work to the point of not even reading the signed message.

jojalonen, to random Finnish
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Kirjastolehteen kirjoittamani kolumni päätyi referoiduksi Hesarissa. Varmaan ihan helvetin vaikea arvata, ketkä olivat mielessäni kun tuota kolumnia rustasin.

https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000010044790.html

iju,
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@jojalonen

Kun kirjastolehden kolumnit on melko lyhyitä ja puolet tuosta linkittämästäsi tekstistä on suoraa copypastea, niin olisit mielestäni ansainnut nimesi toimittajan rinnalle.

jhilden, to literature
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Random question that came to mind after re-reading Lord of the Rings. LotR started a lot of fantasy tropes, but the magic as depicted in Tolkien’s work is generally pretty indirect and subtle. Gandalf lights fires and Saruman has his commanding voice. The One Ring’s invisibility is perhaps the most straightforward magic effect depicted.

So, historically, what books ramped up the level of fantasy magic? Or did it rather happen in D&D?

iju,
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@jhilden

Interesting question! I'm not an expert, but I think I can say something worth saying.

While Tolkien is an important cornerstone for modern fantasy, it's not the only one. There's the "Weird Tales" -gang (sword and sorcery; Howard, Aston Smith et al), to whom magic was common, but usually a sign of a pact to some unspeakable evil.

Then there's Moorcock's stories from starting 1960s, where magic was more neutral, but still came from elemental (or worse!) pacts.

½

iju,
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@jhilden

While D&D magic had its roots in Dying Earth, it wasn't terribly common in that either (afaik; and magic in BG3 owes more to Thieves' World from 1978). LeGuin came from (afaik) the wiseperson-bg, and I'd say the influence a subtle one.

My personal suspicion is that wizardy got more acceptable as academic education became more common starting the early 1970s.

But I do believe D&D was what made wizardy a more value neutral profession, not a curse or a sign of bad character.

2/2

iju,
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@jhilden

As a sidenote: I find it interesting how the info-age has made us more ready to symphatise with geeks -- that wizards usually are -- over jocks in popular culture.

This isn't something that's limited just high fantasy: consider how "Revange of the Geeks" -series had intellectual hobbies as rather unpleasant counterculture (even as they were protagonists!), but by early 2000s geeks had became the sidekicks (Die Hard-series), and later the co-protagonists, as with Person of Interest.

juergen_hubert, to folklore
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If someone has messed with the supplies in your attic, it might be a wild animal.

Then again, it might be a dragon!

France @france @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/domestic-dragons-68243047

iju,
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@juergen_hubert @france @folklore

So if you take the thaler and use it to prepare a feast for the dragon, you have it made for good?

GottaLaff, to random
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Whoa!

#DerekChauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering #GeorgeFloyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona

https://apnews.com/article/f24cde6aa28877d034530c2dc40ef7ea

iju,
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@GottaLaff

It wasn't just law enforcement that's broken, but prisoner safety systems as well.

KissAnne, to random
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The "Blue Goose" or "Plaster City Limo" was a double-ended 1953 Chrysler that transported workers to a quarry accessible only by rail. Plaster City, California

iju,
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@KissAnne

Anything to not have a proper public transport.

antti404, to random Finnish

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    iju,
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    @antti404

    Suuri osa kirjasta löytyy muuten osoitteesta

    https://keidenkaupunki.com/

    Sheril, to random
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    “You have enemies? Good. It means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

    • Victor Hugo
    iju,
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    @Sheril

    (or you were just extremely annoying while trying to be social)

    flexghost, to random
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    Tesla getting owned by Swedish workers isn’t the story.

    The story is that 90% of the Swedish workers belong to a union

    And only around 11% of American workers belong to a union

    The story is the message

    What the Swedes have done by blocking delivery of Teslas will reverberate worldwide with workers showing the power of collective action.

    iju,
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    @Teop_Versant @DavidMHarlan @flexghost

    I got that you're a person that has uprooted themselves several times. As such, limiting your responsibility to your family is natural.

    But please note that this isn't universal. E.g., compare to a normal person in Latin Europe, that refuses to move farther than 20 km (12 miles?) from their place of birth, as they find their societal bonds more valuable than financial gain a move might gain them.

    (you might want to google "imagined community")

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