Peedu Tuisk

15+ years in IT, design, and products. Sometimes I tweet about my projects, but mostly a voice from Estonia 🇪🇪 in the context of Baltic and Nordic countries.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@olgatokariuk Added subtitles.

Translation by @joelreymont and @SandiResistz .

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Looks like I'm not the only one. A project has emerged where Hannes attempts to speak in a way that is understandable to Finns and Estonians.

Super projekti Hannes Vaan, ta yritäb tehä kontenttii mis on selgee 🇫🇮, 🇪🇪 ja kõiki toiste kielsugulaste jaoks:
https://t.co/fkHGTsJxzA

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

This reminds me of an idea I had: to create an open-source project to find matching words in Finnish and Estonian. Then we'd have a dictionary and could maybe even use it as a common language.
App could be Tinder-like where you swipe words left/right if the meaning matches.🙂

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@RomeInTheEast Incorrect for Baltic. Estonia was (and still is) inhabited by Finnic people, not Baltic.
Latvians, Lithuanians, and Old-Prussians are Balts.
Estonians are Finnic, like Finns, and should be marked as "Finno-Ugric tribes" on the map, not Baltic, not "Ugro-Finic", whatever that is.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@vintagemapstore Back then Estonia was part of Denmark, the Teutonic order, and later Swedish Empire from 1561 until 1710 for ca 150 years. Why lump us in with the green blob?

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@Nordic_News 🎄Hüva jõulu 🇪🇪

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

See on naljakas, kuidas mujal maailmas peetakse küpsisetorti millekski ghettoks ja vanglaeluga kursis olevate inimeste kogemuseks. See kook on mu lapsepõlv. Eesti elu. 🙃

https://t.co/41y0aSRKlt

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Watching LOTR's Rings of Power series, it's fun to notice Finnic language influences on Elvish.

Sauron calls himself Annatar, the Lord of Gifts. "Anna" means to give in Estonian and Finnish.

Elvish words like terewa & rauta, pronouns like te & ta, etc.

https://t.co/b0q8Oc4wjp

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@duolingo Either I joined you guys before you launched or that anniversary number is not correct? 🙃

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Ancestry of US Presidents, up to ca 10 generations in the past. Countries not ethnicity.

Notice one from Estonia 🇪🇪: Franklin D. Roosevelt's ancestor Martin Hoffman (1625-1712) was born in what is now Estonia (then Sweden), likely a local Baltic German.

https://t.co/ofd8zg68MC

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Posted this map to r/Europe (6.6M users), woke up to over a thousand comments on how bad of an idea online voting is. 😀

I get the skepticism but we've also had it for 19 years already. If it was so easy to rig, we would've voted for Putin by now.

https://t.co/7sQyVjaGnz

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Estonia is different 🗳️🇪🇪

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@xruiztru We've had online voting for 19 years. We haven't voted Putin our emperor yet.

If it was that easy to rig, it would've already been rigged by now. I'm sure Russia would love to have their politicians in power here.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Väike sõnamäng, mis silma jäi @paivootele nimega. ✌️

Go vote(le)!

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Indrek Tarand @indrektarand is doing an AMA today on r/Eesti subreddit.

It's been interesting to grow the community to 86k members and into something where a politician is willing to have a public interview like this.

https://t.co/qRdpf0IiZK

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Kalevipoeg Gen Z Estonglish versioon, Eesti redditist, feat. chatGPT 👏

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Hah, found my name in the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design. 🎉 They have an exhibition on winners of the design awards over the years.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

It came from a need to distance us from Russia, actually. Many people thought of Estonia as Russia-lite, and that work quality matched.

As long as it stands, Russia will have an easier job conquering us, since the world won't panic too much if we've seen as "like Russia" anyway.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Today marks 10 years I've kept the https://t.co/WDS7fbPDrv site going. I gather random facts there about Estonia's mutual history shared with nordic countries.

Just so it would all be in one place and easy to find online.

One day I'll redesign it nicer, but it does the job atm.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Stuff like how Estonia is Finnic, how it's been longer ruled by Scandinavian countries than Russia and USSR combined, how Danish flag originates from here by legend and our coat of arms came from Denmark, how there were Estonian vikings, yule & semla celebrations, and so on.

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Hah, I just realized the logo I did for UCL's Huntington Disease Center a while ago is still in use – and even appears on walls and presentations. Very cool to see! Honoured to have provided something for the University College London. 🙏

@UCLHD

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

@vatnik_destruct Russia must be one of the few countries in the world where the president openly and routinely uses prison lingo in official speeches.

https://t.co/ob35NBwMNS

[Peedu Tuisk @peedutuisk]

Brilliant campaign. Awful Soviet buildings, built during an illegal occupation, displaying a possible attack by our violently expanding neighbor. It's like a layer cake of sh*t, showcasing what it is to live next to Russia. Only the gray weather is something we can't put on them.

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

Today, shocking billboards appeared in different parts of Tallinn - residential buildings were shown with clear signs of the Russian world - half-destroyed, burnt, and hit by a missile. The same buildings were standing in real life right behind the billboards safe and sound. A campaign aiming to show that the Russian world is a real threat and there should be no illusions about Russia's intentions.