Janne M. Korhonen

A #MEGATHREAD : my threads about #Defence of #Finland & #NATO 's Northern/Eastern Flank. Bits of #History, #SecurityPolicy & #Strategy too - and archived Twitter threads from my archival account (@jmkorhonen-twitter.bsky.social), so you don't have to go to the Bad Place. In somewhat random order.

Norwegian bus operator Unibuss backed out of a purchasing deal with Chinese manufacturer CRRC, after security issues with other Chinese buses delivered earlier. They elected to buy from Polish manufacturer Solaris instead. Now CRRC/YES-EU has brought a lawsuit. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/av...

Don’t mind me just make yourself at home

And have joy. Show genuine joy. A friend of mine said she was optimist because the street demonstrations were sexy (she was fawning over a shirtless man who climbed a subway station). But there's music, there's dancing, there's joy. People went to meet people they already like or could like.

OTD in 1981 “whisky on the rocks”. Soviet submarine S-363 ran aground after “navigational error” in Sweden. My navy converts ships to submarines and submarines to ships. My trolls are not snowflakes about this.

"Helposti ajatellaan, että tarvitaan ruokaa, vettä ja terveydenhuoltoa, ja digitaalisuutta ja somea käsitellään uhkana. Mutta ne liittyvät pitkälti jaksamiseen, Hartikainen sanoo" Pärjäisitkö ilman päivän annosta somea ja digilaitteita? Entä viikon tai kaksi?

"The report found Israeli authorities and forces had continued to 'commit genocidal acts' even after the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, 'with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people'." No surprise that this got hardly any mainstream coverage. #GazaGenocide www.nine.com.au/world-news/m...

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Tämä. Israelin demograafinen tulevaisuus ei näytä mahdollistavan nykymuotoisen järjestelmän ylläpitoa. Israelin nykyinen järjestelmä kaatuu ulkoiseen ja sisäiseen paineeseen.

So ”Kalervo Kummola” is something like ”Norbert Oddington”

Them dastardly, dastardly Swedes

Stop the press: the equivalent of KALERVO in English might be NORBERT.

Every victory for #democracy is a victory for every democrat everywhere. That’s one good reason to celebrate the wins, even small ones - to encourage others you may never have even heard of!

Hungary is definitely an inspiration to those of us in @indivisible.org , too, we talk about them a LOT

Meanwhile, the fascist international ...

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

"Things are so bad even the introverts are voting."

I swear I'm not crazy… my reflection started it! #Cat #Caturday

Secret Panel HERE 💸 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/conflict-of-133825816

Congratulations to this lucky daddy cat! He gets to punch his #TNR ticket today 🎟️ I believe this is the daddy of the Cinder Block Babies & the most recent group of kittens in my neighborhood. Now we gotta get those little mommy cats 🐈‍⬛ #Cats #BlackCats #AdoptDontShop #Pets #Animals

Day 1706 of my 3 day war. Vucic lost in Serbia, Bolsonaro lost in Brazil and Donald couldn't rig a casino he owns, never mind the midterms. I remain a master strategist.

Night night sweet dreamies Never feel you have to hide the hurt you carry Your feelings are not a weakness, nor are they something to be ashamed of They are simply part of being human, and even on your hardest days, you are no less worthy of love, kindness and understanding.

Autumn leaves 🍂

Good evening! This week's theme is Mist and Fog. ------ 'The Old Curiosity Shop, Portsmouth Street' by George Hyde-Pownall (1866-1939) (Private collection)

Incredible scenes from Brazil after Brazilians saved their democracy.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

This resurfaces and again, highly credible and under-reported by the big political press: people.com/former-miss-...

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

somebody just needs to tell them a Black Harvard professor was involved

“For many people in the 21st century, freedom is a set of keys.” So said a druid protesting against traffic curbs in Oxford. Stuart Jeffries on the car as a symbol of identity:

friends & family tech support is even more annoying nowadays because i am literally just acting as a go-between that human-washes ChatGPT output for a luddite who won't touch AI

Reminded of Stallman having other people book his flights and do other admin tasks for him because he refused to use “nonfree” software but didn’t mind someone else using it on his behalf.

Whatever other merits the line did or didn't have, it was artisan crafted to land directly on this idiot's wavelength. Straight into his brain like elephant foot alpha particles

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

There is a very important point here, which is that housing (like money, labor and perhaps energy) is such a critical input to so many other (re)production processes that a partial equilibrium analysis that approaches it as just another commodity is going to get a lot of big things wrong.