I'm thinking of leaving, or at least deactivating my account here for the time being. There's a lot of digging going on in far-right circles at the moment, people looking for revenge for the last 30 years now that "they" are in power. I'm not that worried for my own sake, my name has never appeared in any court documents or police investigations that I know of, nor have I ever published anything under my real name. Besides, I think I've managed to keep hubski separate from the rest of my online presence and political activities. But for my own peace of mind, it might be for the best to disappear, at least for a bit.

Just wanted to let y'all know before, so it doesn't get misinterpreted. Feel free to dm me if anyone wants to keep in touch by other means. Stay safe!

I got invited to bluesky, so far it seems to mostly be populated by journalists and the psychotropic left, but at least it's not twitter. Following the domestic news cycle after the elections last year feels about as exhausting as keeping up with the news during the Trump years. Just too much depressing shit happening on a daily basis.

My average for the last year has been three workouts per week, which I think is the most consistent I've been about exercise ever as an adult. Dropping the social aspect, going to the closest gym from my home and setting the bar low (getting to the gym, changing clothes and doing my warm up counts as a workout) has helped.

Capital raises rents

and the state housing benefits

so you can fiddle around a bit

with the iron law of wages

and even pay less in salary

than the price of food and rent

because the state is so happy to intervene

if the cost of living has become

all too expensive

I just remembered this thread for some reason.

I wonder what will happen to the Wagner operations in Libya and Sudan, if Prigozhin will be able to remain in control of them or if they somehow also will be absorbed into the regular army structure. Either way sounds like a headache for the Kremlin.

The deck has been reshuffled. I wonder what the fallout will be.

Not really related. The Stockholm housing shortage is - depending on who you ask - due to older rental properties being converted into housing cooperatives, rent controls, and a lack of investments, incentives and interest from the state and city authorities for construction of new rentals.

The hotel shortage is most likely a residual effect of the pandemic when many hotels went bankrupt. May is usually a month with many big events happening at the same time, which also contributed. Most commentators seems to agree that Beyoncé is innocent since the rise in inflation in the tourism sector was the same in other regions of Sweden. But it's a great headline.

1 year without nicotine!

Unlike Google, at least they're not trying to get their customers to wear their nerd helmets in public.

I've been trying to come up with a way it would be useful for me for the last week and I also keep coming up empty-handed. Worse for drafting as you've already pointed out. Almost all my design sketching today is done on paper and with physical models, to be able to easily manipulate real objects in space, sometimes in collaboration with other people who doesn't know AutoCAD/Rhino/Sketchup. Replacing it with virtual objects kind of defeats the purpose.

Which leaves representation and presentation. I can see how "immersion" can help sell a project to a client, but I also see hundreds of roof goats that will have to be put down at later stages. Working with plan, section-elevation and perspectives (even a digital model fly-through) allows you to direct attention to what you think is the design's strengths while hand-waving away the things you haven't had time to think through or talk to an engineer about. Plus, who the hell has time or money for it.

Went to Stockholm last weekend and had a great time. I haven’t really realized how many friends I have who lives there now and I’m toying with the idea of moving there if the right job shows up. Although the housing market there scares me.

That Boomfunk MC's beat is so good.

Out of the 20 F1 seats, at most 6 of them are able to win races. Unless you're a generational talent you will probably have a better time in Indycar, at least you will have a chance at a competitive car and race wins.

I try not to say things like ”lately i’ve been listening a lot to finnish shoegaze kraut” IRL but hubski is my safe space.

The shirts look dope though.

This is my 3-year old niece's favorite song and I can't get it out of my head.

Video NSFW

I'm digging the new Fever Ray album. This one had me going back to the Hannah med H soundtrack, one of the earliest releases by The Knife.

I’m so happy I’ve managed to lock myself out of my twitter account.

"Maybe the bank was too gay" is now also up there.

Pension giant Alecta announced that it was abandoning Handelsbanken and Swedbank to focus on niche US banks.

Just hours later, tech bank Silicon Valley Bank crashed - and Alecta lost billions of dollars.

- "It was a bit of bad timing," says Jacob Lapidus, press officer at Alecta.

According to the totally not political governor of the central bank price controls are bad and a form of market manipulation, unlike his non-political rate increases. Instead we need to reduce "the general willingness to buy food" to save the Platonic-Hayekian Idea of the Market.

I need to go back to ignoring the news.

Barely related, but a trans friend told me that a dude had slid into his DMs asking if he could send him some testosterone "cuz that workout would be SICK". Since then I think of bodybuilding as gender-affirming care for cis-males.

I don't really talk about my political activities on here since it's usually hyper-local or involves the kind of activities that you don't discuss in public if you want stay out of trouble and/or employable. That said, I feel like I'm burning out. Poet Athena Farrokhzad once said that "if Europe wasn't burning I would have wanted to talk to you about trees". Well, Europe haven't really stopped burning, and it doesn't look like it will for the foreseeable future.

I don't know where I'm going with this, but I guess I'm tired and want to talk about trees?

I began last year by watching every single marvel movie which killed my interest in movies for a while. I’m slowly recovering, but I have a bad memory and just recently started logging what I watch on letterboxd. You were never really here is Joaquin Phoenix at his finest, with great direction and editing. Triangle of sadness was alright, but I feel like Ruben Östlund peaked with Force Majeure. That said, rich people projectile vomiting is fun.

Oh no

Maybe the real NATO was the friends we made along the way?