Profile avatar
tzma.bsky.social
Amused by life. Interested in everything. Aim to be funny and thoughtful, often fail at both. Violin, tennis, intl relations, languages. Did you know that there are no gendered pronouns in Finnish, only hän?
378 posts 191 followers 930 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 25 Comments 25

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 925 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 8 days ago • 3196 comments

For US followers, some UK cybertruck news. uk.yahoo.com/news/owner-c...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, the US in on this chart. Can you find it?

submitted 16 days ago • 59 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 6591 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 18 days ago • 807 comments

If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼

submitted 21 days ago • 281 comments

As a Brit living in Europe I am watching what is happening in the US and wondering whether Brit/EU/domestic checks and balances are sufficient to prevent a crazy despot taking all the levers of power on this side of the Atlantic. Because they don’t seem to be sufficient in Washington DC.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

submitted 22 days ago • 195 comments

It’s good. John Bird and John Fortune must be proud to see their work copied down under. m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6a_...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Got to love the Finns.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The Holocaust was legal. We had a law prof teach a whole course on this. Ppl who conflate what is lawful with what is right are easy to manipulate and control.

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

When the rail cars bearing the entire Bellevue Nikkei farming community pulled out of Kirkland on May 20, 1942, their early crops were nearing harvest and the midsummer crops were in the ground. Almost none of them ever fed anyone. 1/34

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

Road numbering in Britain

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I'm (re)reading the Odyssey to my daughter as a bedtime story, so I'm going to make a thread of all the best parts that nobody includes in the abridged retellings.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

I think about this joke a lot these days.

submitted 36 days ago • 41 comments

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

submitted 35 days ago • 51 comments

It was quickly becoming apparent that Nelson might have slightly overstated his qualifications on the job application.

submitted 41 days ago • 39 comments

This bag, designed by Rock Paper Scissors, was spotted by journalist Nader Al-Sarras on a Berlin subway. It says: "This text has no purpose other than to spread terror in the hearts of those who fear the Arabic language." And if you don't believe this, I checked it. It does.

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Someone else posted this and I've been thinking a lot about how we got here

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

You could take out the entire North Korean high command with a strong magnet

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food https://www.ft.com/content/26c56174-76ab-493b-9770-6d1ed4996505

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Read this

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

If you watch Jaws backwards, it’s really a beautiful, uplifting story of a shark overcoming his bulimia.

submitted 80 days ago • 59 comments

there once was a lady who hastened, to tell you that you would be chastened, if you’re out in the snow, and its 15 below, & your coat is not properly fastened oh goddamn the fucking English language😡

submitted 444 days ago • 2 comments