Teemu Saarelainen

a geek, a nerd, or whatever. i teach game programming and closely follow what's happening in the game business.

[Teemu Saarelainen @teemu_s]

@ElinaLappalaine @timomj @NeogamesFin Sitä pitää kysyä kehittämisestä vastaavilta tahoilta. Tosin kyllä me esim. Xamkissa edelleen panostetaan digitaalisen talouden yritystoiminnan kehittämiseen, mutta ihan oman (ylimaakunnallisen) strategiamme mukaan. Ja pelialan EU-rahoitteisia hankkeita tehdään - ilman klusteria.

[Teemu Saarelainen @teemu_s]

@ElinaLappalaine @timomj @NeogamesFin Alueet ovat itse vastuussa omasta kehittämispolitiikastaan, eikä siinä EU-rahat ratkaise. Pelialaa ja sen tuomia hyötyjä ymmärretään kunnallis- ja aluepolitiikassa hyvin vähän. Tietääkseni peliklusterit on maakunnista tapettu ihan tietoisesti.

[Teemu Saarelainen @teemu_s]

This is one of the dumbest and borderline inhuman thoughts on the war in Ukraine. We are witnessing a brutal massacre and illegal annexation of areas of a sovereign country in Europe. Putin must be stopped. Don't give an inch to him.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Ukraine-Russia Peace:

- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.

- Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).

- Water supply to Crimea assured.

- Ukraine remains neutral.

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

You need to watch this immediately.

—Sen. @GillibrandNY on Roe.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Republicans are getting very upset people keep retweeting this ad so I figured I would post for any of you who haven’t seen it yet and then I am going to retweet myself tonight.

[Teemu Saarelainen @teemu_s]

He did not. Or did he...? 🙄

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Have warned Finland & Sweden that if they join NATO I will be forced to sink my ships near their coast as well.

[Teemu Saarelainen @teemu_s]

Read the WHOLE thread - helps to understand the situation.

[cat buchatskiy @catbuchatskiy]

I just met a Russian who overheard me speaking Ukrainian and approached me.

He left Russia after the war, so this is one of the “woke” Russians. Yet even though he opposes the war, the lack of empathy for Ukrainians and general lack of initiative to end the war is shocking.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

If they were to watch this in the Kremlin 🇷🇺 they might start to understand what they are up against 🇺🇦.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Now it's Finland's turn.

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

It is time to isolate President Putin’s Russia completely. Stop all oil and gas exports immediately. Start the process of investigations into war crimes. The world cannot stand by and watch these atrocities without prompt consequences for the Russian government. #Bucha

[Teemu Saarelainen @teemu_s]

Eiköhän nyt olisi korkea aika katkaista kaikki suhteet Venäjään. Kauppa seis, rautatiet poikki, raja kiinni, diplomaatit kotiin. Katsokaa mallia vaikka Liettuasta, joka lopetti jo kaasun ostamisen. Mitä järkeä on rahoittaa sotaa?
#Ukraine #PutinWarCrimes #suomettuminen #moraali

[Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson]

Anyone who equivocates for Russia’s actions in Ukraine, or who argues that this war was always about NATO membership, or who questions the utility of arming Ukraine should take a long look at the photos from Bucha, followed by a long look in the mirror.

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

I cannot imagine how Ukrainians will be able to negotiate with these creatures, things or whatever they are. Certainly nothing with any humanity.

[Janis Kluge @jakluge]

If there is no reaction to this, then I don't know what values the West - and particularly Germany - stands for.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Finland should decide this spring whether to join NATO, says prime minister.

Finish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on April 2 that Russia's war against Ukraine had forced Finland to reexamine its security policy. "Russia is not the neighbor we thought it was," she said.

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Bucha massacre was deliberate. Russians aim to eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can. We must stop them and kick them out. I demand new devastating G7 sanctions NOW:

-Oil, gas, coal embargo
-Close all ports to Russian vessels and goods
-Disconnect all Russian banks from SWIFT

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Just fucking image how many people they have executed in Mariupol. In my Volnovakha, and all those cities and towns Russia razed to the ground.
One giant insane bloodbath, WWII-scale, for the sake of sick fantasies of “denazification” leaving thousands of dead bodies behind.

[Михайло Подоляк @Podolyak_M]

Bucha, Kyiv region. The bodies of people with tied hands, who were shot dead by 🇷🇺 soldiers lie in the streets. These people were not in the military. They had no weapons. They posed no threat. How many more such cases are happening right now in the occupied territories? (1/2)

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I was called a warmonger in 2014 when I said Putin would not stop with Crimea & E Ukraine. Now everyone admits that I was right, but wants to repeat the same mistake now. Letting Putin destroy Ukraine *increases* the threat of a greater conflict, including nuclear.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Putin is clearly making a nuclear threat, says Finnish President @niinisto. “I’m not scared,” he tells me, “but surely we are fully awake.”