Aleksi Stenberg

@saruwine
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Mostly goofing off in Finnish; occasional nature photos.

they/them (see pinned post for more)

Pöhkö mutta söpöhkö.

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Kiitos, mastodon.social, 2017–2025.
I can’t even imagine what Disney’s Aphantasia would look like.
Onnistuihan se. Kiriin tarvittiin lopulta vain neljä sarjakuva-albumia ja yksi lastenkirja. 😅

Is Santa Claus a myth?

Santa is indeed a myth. But only in the original and not the corrupted, modern sense of the word. To those of us who know better, myth ≠ untrue. Myth is the truest, most important thing in the world. Myth describes events that never happened, and yet are happening to us still. Myth tells us about individuals who could never have existed, and yet reach out to us even today.

Endeavor to live a mythic life!

If I add the triangles two and two into parallelograms I have now knitted 1000 parallelograms.
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This project feels kind of endless, but now there are only 65 more parallelograms and an edge left before all of the weaving in of ends...
Almost done.
#knitting #handmade

The EU will launch the digital euro as a 100% European digital payments system to replace reliance on Visa, Mastercard, and Apple and Google Pay, with the European Central Bank issuing a digital form of cash. It will be built entirely in Europe, have zero transaction fees, instant payments, and strong privacy, giving the EU full control over its payments infrastructure.

https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html

(https://archive.ph/ERzTA)

Digital euro: what it is and how we will use the new form of cash

It’s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will it work?

Irish Independent
Jakarta is now estimated to have almost 42mn residents, overtaking greater Tokyo as the world’s biggest city, according to the UN.

@prettyhuman Thank you for dropping me into an etymological rabbit hole.

Old English flet, flett: dwelling, from Proto-Germanic *flatja: floor, and *flataz: flat.

So an apartment is a dwelling, which is something that has a floor, and floor is, of course, flat in shape.

(Btw: that *flatja looks a lot like Finnish lattia… 🤔)

'Meal Gorm'. Once again I've included telegraph (utility) poles in frame for scale.