BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm
So we’re taking legal action.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
ECMWF forecast for Sunday 06 UTC showing strong windstorm over eastern Finland with snowfall and strong winds.
The boring weather pattern will end this weekend. The low pressure on Sat-Sun looks especially problematic, with all that snow and strong winds.
Although this spring has so far been free of cold spells, there’s never a spring without at least one return of winter!
Ah that bit isn’t finished then - I didn’t really notice it as there are hazards everywhere, so I’m used to riding over them
Jeez this is funny, I’m laughing so hard “some of these complex topics just go over the heads of the layman” www.msn.com/en-us/video/...
An epic bridge opening ceremony in #Helsinki on Saturday. So many happy people. #cycling #onelesscar #KruunuvuoriBridge
Hope the baby trend continues - from what I’ve seen, Finland has to be one of the best countries in the world to bring up a child yle.fi/a/74-20221459
The UK will meltdown if aviation fuel runs out; the ferries will choke under the load. I did laugh when I read Bear Grylls has his own apocalypse yacht, but it’s probably a good idea after all. www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
Sorry to hear that my old sparring partner Andy Kershaw has passed away. His eclectic taste in music and enthusiastic promotion of the artists he loved made him a brilliant broadcaster
Andy Kershaw RIP youtu.be/O0dn5UixkDc
Dunno if it’s Claude 3.7 and/or all the anti-hallucination memory configs I added, but I haven’t sworn at the machine for a few days. Spent the morning analysing network packets to debug some unexplained behaviour of a DNS tunnel. Claude was very helpful.
Helsinki's new Crown Bridges will fully open to pedestrians at 2pm on Saturday and to cyclists at 5pm.
I’ll just eat it straight from the jar 😋
💩 #Tesla electrek.co/2026/04/16/t...
“There is no alternative to a strong and constructive EU–UK relationship,” she said, pointing to shifting geopolitical realities as a decisive factor. #brexit inews.co.uk/news/the-uk-...
Who made this? 😤😤😤
No huhhuh. Neljä viikkoa aikaa tuhota todisteita ja ryöstää mitä voidaan.
"Esimerkiksi Unkarin kansallisen pankin johtaja on lennättänyt yksityisautokokoelmansa Arabiemiraatteihin" 🫣
Tuota korruptiosuota ei helposti kuivatakaan. Sinne voi jopa upota.
haven’t seen the programme yet, but this focus on chatbots used by crackpot humans isn’t going to be the biggest problem that #AI will create www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
was at an iOS meetup last night and the guy presenting from a company with a multi-million user base app says he hasn’t hand-written any code since last November #AgenticDevelopment
I guess I’m now an old guy who complains about young people’s music. I don’t get this Gelli Haha type of music at all. It is painful to my ears and I would’t be at all surprised if AI played a part in the production. BBC 6 Music loves this crap too.
The Bicycle as Rebellion: Inside the new film 'A Simple Machine' and the Radical Case for Wanting Less.
momentummag.com/the-bicycle-...
In 2016, Jeffrey Epstein wrote to Peter Thiel summarising what he saw as the political opportunity opened by the Brexit vote: “return to tribalism. counter to globalisation. amazing new alliances.” This, he concluded, was “just the beginning.”
Julian Cope, David Lynch, standing stones, forest fires and the sound of nature come up as the drone metal titans discuss their love of long walks. thequietus.com/interviews/t...
This cloud-free satellite image, acquired on 11 April 2026 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows widespread snow cover across Norway’s mountainous spine, northern Sweden, and Finland. The Norwegian fjords appear as dark, narrow inlets cutting through bright snow-covered terrain, while the Gulf of Bothnia and the broader Baltic Sea display deep blue waters, with residual ice visible along the northern shores. Southern Sweden and Finland show more exposed land, with muted brown and green tones indicating early snowmelt.
What a beauty 😍 - A cloud-free Scandinavia! My home 💙
Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery
Delete your substack. Alternatives exist.
Warm weather will continue, no widespread relief from the drought
Relative humidity has dropped down to 10% at some stations. Wildfire warning is in effect across southern and central Finland.
Finnish press release about the situation: www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/tiedote/0ZZc...
no idea, except they appear to have crashed. maybe they swerved to avoid that cyclist on the phone
cycling home yesterday evening; I see that even with dedicated #cycling infrastructure you're not completely safe from idiot car drivers
it seems the config needs to be in the Memory dot md file #AIBlackArts
I have to finance my cycling and analog photography addiction somehow
