Latest and greatest production of my suffering, now featuring two puzzles by @DemonArisen!
Enjoy, share it with your friends, and remember to not drink the water!
https://t.co/GBu7zv3wBc
Finnish lift maker Kone buys TKE to create one European giant, the largest lift manufacturer in the world.
Europe has just created another "Airbus", one that will be the most innovative and successful in lifts worldwide.
This DLSS 5 AI dogshit is actually depressing man.
Even worse is that a whole generation is growing up who won't even know this looks 'bad' or 'wrong' because to them it'll be normal.
We need to push back harder against it.
Tomorrow, 24 February, marks four years of russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.
Tomorrow also marks the day Finland has been free for exactly one day longer than we spent under russian rule.
We endured - and so will Ukraine.
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇫🇮
#PORPR400 -vuotisjuhlavuoden päiväjuhla kokosi eilen yhteen henkilöstön, yhteistyökumppanit ja perheet viettämään yhteistä juhlapäivää.
Vuosipäivänä palkittiin ansioituneita Porilaisia sekä juhlistettiin prikaatin kunniakasta historiaa. #Maavoimat
Let the people you love know that you love them, even if they already know. In this age of atomization, it's more important than ever to cherish the human connections we do have, and share the compassion we can.
Merry Christmas, take care of yourself, and happy holidays.
Finland’s first F-35A multirole fighter, designated JF-501, was presented to the public at a rollout ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s production facility in Fort Worth on 16 December. 🇫🇮
My mom is a brilliant engineer. She was born in occupied Estonia, but she never let the occupation take Estonia out of her.
She held on to the language and the culture in a quiet, stubborn way. She sang at every Song Festival held under Soviet rule. And she refused to join the Communist Party, even though that kind of “no” could follow you for years. She never took the partbilet, the party ticket that could make a career and a life much easier in occupied Estonia.
What she gave me mattered even more than what she built at work. I was born under the same occupation, in a world designed to reshape people’s values and memory. But she taught me something else anyway: Western values, not the ones the occupiers tried to drill into us. She taught them at home, through everyday choices, through what she refused to pretend to believe, and through the simple courage of staying herself.
She’s still a committed European at heart, and I can’t help thinking her life and career would have looked completely different if she’d been born in a free Estonia.
Finland has always had a special place in her world. She sees it as Estonia’s closest friend. She’s also one of those Estonians who taught herself Finnish the old-fashioned way, by watching Finnish TV in the 1970s and 1980s, catching words, phrases, and whole meanings through a screen that felt like a window to another reality, the one that is truly hers.
This Christmas, I bought her a classic Aalto vase. And when I held it, I suddenly remembered the early 1990s, right after the USSR collapsed. Estonia was free, but the country was in economic ruins. Everything had to be built from scratch, and there was so little, sometimes even food. I was just a schoolkid, trying to help in the only ways I could: doing small jobs, helping my grandparents, earning a bit of extra cash after school and on weekends.
Back then, that vase would have been unthinkable. It would have cost around four times my mom’s monthly salary and wasn't even sold here.
And now I can walk into Stockman, buy it without breaking the bank, and walk back out into a free, independent country. That contrast hits hard: how much has changed in one lifetime, and how much of it is thanks to people like her, who held the line when holding the line wasn’t safe or easy.
EUROPE MUST HOLD THE LINE.
IT'S NOT SAFE
IT'S NOT EASY
BUT IT'S OUR ONLY WAY
Don't let them take beautiful, free Europe away from future generations.