Avaruusseikkailija🚀Lucilla Lin

Finnconissa 5-7/7 ilmestyy kauhuvaikutteinen avaruusoopperani Maailma maailman yllä. Tarina miehestä, joka halusi sankariksi, hänen pojanpojastaan, joka halusi gangsteriksi, muinaisten sivilisaatioiden tutkijattaresta, joka... Luvassa rikollisliigoja, outoja rituaaleja ja teetä.

@Observatorium14 @fakehistoryhunt @itsexplained Funnily enough, public executions were considered educational for boys to keep them on straight and narrow. The attitude to public executions changed during 19th century

@fakehistoryhunt @itsexplained But I read a history book about a guy named Ned Stark and he chastised his wife for thinking his three year old wasn’t ready to watch him behead a prisoner.

The concept of childhood is historically recent. In medieval Europe children were treated as small adults from the age of 7. They worked, married, went to war, and were tried as adults in court. The idea that childhood is a protected developmental period requiring specialized education, play, and emotional nurturing emerged largely in the 18th and 19th centuries. Every assumption you hold about what children need, how they should be raised, and what constitutes a normal childhood is a cultural invention less than 300 years old. The way you were raised felt universal. It was recent. #itsexplained

@partakakipahis Itse asiassa nykyään suomalaisissa kirkoissa on nykyään muotia pääsiäisenä ”iloinen meininki” - esim sellainen juttu että saarnan jälkeen huudetaan ”Jeesus nousi kuolleista! Totisesti nousi!” Mua vaivaa tuo niin että menen tänä pääsiäisenä anglikaaniseen evensongiin

Miksi luterilaisille kristityillä ei ole mitään iloisia juhlia?

@kroquegg_overon @London__Smoke @VintageMrHobbes I grew up in another country and small town but remember never going to youth club because I knew that’s where the worst bullies hung out.

@London__Smoke @VintageMrHobbes Yes. It was the most feral, terrifying hive of febrile aggression I’ve ever encountered. 1. At least it kept them off the streets 2. It was Lord of the Flies with pool cues.

The motivational speaker said the line

@TitaniasRealm In Finland this mixed oddly with Orthodox traditions after WWII (when Karelians were evacuated to other parts of the country) so now we have kids dressing as witches going door to door, giving decorated willow branches and getting sweets in return.

The Swedish tradition of Easter witches, has its roots in the old folk belief that witches would fly on their brooms to the mountain Blåkulla on Maundy Thursday to celebrate sabbath with the Devil. The Easter witches were known for their love of coffee and it was believed that they would stop by people's homes on their way to Blåkulla, come down the chimney and brew huge batches of black coffee to bring with them to the sabbath. 🎨 old Swedish Easter cards

@ikeijeh @wil_da_beast630 Some people go as far as they are allowed to. In London that is surprisingly far.

This is not a black problem, children do not generally behave like this in Ethiopia. However, it would be foolish to ignore the fact that the majority of youths in Clapham's disorder seem to be black. If we're too afraid to ask why this started, we'll never find out how it stops.

@TantGrn1 @catalystcomett Must be, where I come from (Finland) kids were bullied if they were suspected virgins. That started as young as 15. Girls were literally coming up with imaginary boyfriends to pretend to be sexually experienced. I absolutely hated that. It never gets mentioned these days

@catalystcomett Was that an American thing?

in the early 2000s, little girls were promising their virginities to their father's for "safekeeping" at highly ritualized balls and women who had premarital sex were being compared to used chewing gum in public school sex education classes. thank god for millennial feminism.

Mainostetaan nyt täälläkin!

@Imlatris @Bharatpatekpji @FantasyWorldW1 People keep living vicariously racial melodramas of Anglo cultures all over the world

@Lucillalin3 @Bharatpatekpji @FantasyWorldW1 The guy posted this from India yet forgot Bollywood is a thing too

Star Wars actor John Boyega explained why he doesn’t watch Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones in 2017: “There are no Black people in Game of Thrones,” he said. “You don’t see one Black person in Lord of the Rings. I ain’t paying money to always see one type of person on-screen. Thoughts?

@Bharatpatekpji @FantasyWorldW1 Yet Japanese, Korean and Chinese drama is popular all over the world.

He’s highlighting a longstanding issue in mainstream fantasy and blockbuster media: representation matters. Seeing oneself reflected on screen isn’t just about inclusion—it shapes identity, belonging, and inspiration. When entire worlds like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones largely erase Black people, it sends a subtle but harmful message: “You don’t belong in these epic stories.” Boyega’s refusal to engage with that erasure is a stand for authenticity and visibility—a reminder that media should reflect the richness of the real world, not just one narrow slice.

Toisaalla somessa paheksuttiin kun sanoin että mun pääasiallinen syy olla somessa on mainostaa mun kirjoja, mutta oikeasti some on just paras tapa mainostaa omia kirjoja, se pitää vain tehdä informatiivisesti. Moni ei edes tiedä että suomalaista scifiä on olemassa

@GamewithDave Clothing was better quality than now. It was a low bar (textile quality had been declining decades before that) but now when 90s style is back in fashion you can see all your favourite dresses and tops again, but flimsier, with worse cutting and material.

People who actually experienced the 1990s: What is something you miss from that decade that just isn't the same today

@MrArkadin4 @DannyDrinksWine It’s based on a novel, written by Japanese Catholic author Shusaku Endo

@DannyDrinksWine Of course Scorsese made the Catholics/Jesuits the heroes in his version.

Masahiro Shinoda explains why it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion in Japan: "Interviewer: Is 'Silence' (1971) critical of the very fact of the Catholics coming to Japan and imposing an alien culture on the Japanese? Shinoda: Japan is an island surrounded by the sea. Many cultures from outside have come here. Japan could not refuse them. The sea current itself conveyed these foreigners to Japan’s southern shores. Japan’s culture thus consists of many, many foreign cultures in a mixture. Sometimes it caused us to lose our essential Japanese culture. I’m not even sure sometimes what Japanese culture is. In the sixteenth century Christianity and the gun were introduced into Japan. The introduction of the gun was a traumatic event and had a much deeper impact than did Christianity. The Japanese people were perplexed, but they are a realistic people and they made their choices pragmatically, giving up the metaphysical. We are empiricists, materialists. Interviewer: If I had made that movie, I would have questioned the right of the Jesuit priests to come to Japan and impose their ideas on the Japanese. Shinoda: No, it was impossible for the Jesuits to impose their religion on the Japanese because of the animism believed in by this insular, island people. It was not to be destroyed by so severe a religion as Christianity. Christianity destroyed the Roman gods, but the Japanese gods were protected by the softness of Buddhism. Buddhism is so soft that it was absorbed into the Japanese culture of the time. The Japanese people believed that Buddhism could easily marry with Shinto, and thus Japanese culture is a mixed breed of both religions. Then Christianity came, but by this time the native animism of Shinto and Buddhism were already coexisting in harmony. I think that there was no room for an additional religion. All Eastern religions are in accordance with a belief in the oneness of man and nature, whereas Christianity deals with the relationship between one man and another. When movies, or film culture, were introduced into Japan they were already based on modern Western thought. But Japanese culture influenced the kind of films that would be made here, despite the Western origins of the cinema. I must categorize the films of the world into three distinct types. European films are based upon human psychology, American films upon action and the struggles of human beings, and Japanese films upon circumstance." ('Voices from the Japanese Cinema', Joan Mellen, 1975)

@wil_da_beast630 Fruit patterns are a trendy 90s rehash, there’s really nothing deeper than that. Dodgy slogans are another thing.

She's getting roasted for this, and the fruit thing is...eh. But, it just obviously is the case that a lot of tween brands - "Hard Candy," "Juicy," "Love Pink," "Pink Cookie," "Slippery When Wet" as a t-shirt slogan - really do lean into porno-style sexuality pretty hard. You feel creepy noticing, but - I mean - I went to buy something for a friend's horse-girl daughter a year or two back and the #1 brand was "Horze." Come on.

@NutlawPete @wil_da_beast630 No they didn’t. It was a Victorian era joke about - Americans - being so Puritan they covered piano legs with frilly coverings. It was a popular gag in Victorian entertainment. Somehow flipped around during 20th century bad history writing.

@wil_da_beast630 Victorians famously put doilies on "legs" of chairs and tables so people wouldn't get aroused. x.com/NutlawPete/sta…

I love the Anglican communion, it’s full of this combination of extremely solid liturgy and extremely bumbling execution and kids and pensioners and biscuits and tea and love of God combined with slight embarrassment

@Tudi_rad @KunisueNorito Real racist could tell right away which one is Finn, look at the eyes!

@KunisueNorito Some racist asian somewhere, probably: "They all look alike!"

これはやばいな。スウェーデンとフィンランドの国防相。入れ替わってもわからんぞ。

@Madz_Grant @DanielJHannan I’ve seen increase in niqabs with youngish women living in here while Gulf tourist who -used- to wear niqab over 10 years ago when I worked in luxury sales now wear just hijab. In my work commute bus there’s always a woman in ISIS level garb - even eyes covered, black gloves

@DanielJHannan Fine, people may be using the term niqab & burqa interchangeably, but in London I see the niqab multiple times per day, every day. I’ve lived in the same area for 10 years and its prevalence is very obviously growing, suggesting little integration happening. Profoundly depressing

Be honest. How many times have you seen an actual full-on burqa on a British woman? It is extraordinary how much political energy is expended on an issue whose real-world impact would, to a first approximation, be zero.

@Owen_Kung4000 @StyledApe For most of history people have been against slavery only in the sense that they themselves didn’t want to be enslaved

@StyledApe I like how getting temporarily enslaved didn’t change anything for him but converting to evangelicalism did

The guy who wrote Amazing Grace was a slave trader, a slave, and then eventually an abolitionist.

@Stuckvisor Spengler oli tässäkin oikeassa - nousussa on ”toinen uskonnollisuus”, uskonnollisen tradition käyttäminen ideologisesti, eliitin hengelliset harrastukset, rahvaan taikauskoisuus

@Lucillalin3 Uskonto kuoli ja poliittinen ideologia kummittelee poismenneen nyljetty nahka yllään.

Kukaan ei enää muuten ole normaali uskonnon kanssa. Kaikki on joko ”tietenkin vihaan uskontoa” ateisteja, pakanalarppaajia, new age-sekoilijoita tai fundiskristittyjä. Tämä koskee sekä mun kollegoja että jopa mun lapsen luokkakavereita

@CAMELCASTOff @bandit_koochie If you want subculture partner with less drama go for metal or industrial guy/girl

@bandit_koochie Apparently, rave goers in the replies claim there is no drugs or alcohol and it's all about the music. Basically like a church and nothing weird happens. Ever. The bikinis are nudity is just for show.

One of my buddies a decade ago dated a rave girl. She would go off to festivals all the time with her girls(and one guy friend). My buddy obviously couldn't go because he had a job but he was never concerned. I asked him if she could be doing something nefarious. He said "she would never do that." I simply asked because she would talk about how she looked forward to all the drugs and alcohol. Drugs and drinks never lead to good decisions. Well long story short. She cheated on him with dozens of guys over a year and broke up with him for the guy friend who she went to the raves with.