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Marraskuun kuoleman kahvilassa lähestymme aihetta taiteen kautta: taiteen muodot voivat ylittää ajan, kantaa sekä päättymistä että jatkuvuutta. Valokuva- ja videotaiteilija Vilma Pimenoff alustaa ✨ —> IG @vilmapimenoff

US urges global race for next UN chief in move likely to annoy Latin America The United States on Friday said it would consider candidates from around the world to be the next U.N. secretary-general, a move that could irritate Latin American countries who believe it is their turn to provide a leader for the world body.

Been sensing the shift around the United Nations SG rotation. It’s necessary to remember that rotation is our way to make sure global leadership genuinely is global. Nevertheless, the tension is here, and it’s worth keeping an eye on www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I’m having that on a T-shirt

Raw-dogging menopause 🤣 but also wtf Finnish doctor

KuKKuut-kollektiivin syyskausi alkaa kuoleman kahvilalla 🍂🍄‍🟫

🍁 Teemana on luonto ja kuolema.
Luonnossa elämän kiertokulku on luonnollista – miksi me ihmiset vierastamme kuolemaa?

Kuolemankahvila ei ole sururyhmä tai terapia, vaan tila avoimelle turvalliselle puheelle.

Kaikki tervetulleita!

I think we were way too narrow in communicating population ageing and focused on later life instead of the whole-of-society sea change. Looking back, it was probably a result of the development policy sector approach that hasn’t exactly encouraged system thinking

It’s good to see this. Demography has not exactly been popularised before and now there’s an urgent need for everyone to understand both the long arcs that have for us here and the
unforeseen futures of population development

Staggering… Greece! Collapse… China! Existential… Finland! Global fertility decline has been underway for centuries. The real shock isn’t the numbers but rather that we still act stunned and surprised

Honestly this demand for MORE BABIES! is like shouting at autumn leaves to turn green. The real work is learning how to live well with the new shape of our populations, more older people, fewer children, and longer lives. Who could possibly do that 🧐

Nice! Thanks for sharing 🫧

I’ve never known a summer so lush and so full of wildflowers 🇫🇮

I think about echoes between unrelated things a lot, and write them on my kitchen wall. Every few months I wipe it clean, keeping only what won’t let go.

This time: Surveillance aesthetics, nonlinear death, declining fertility,
carnevalisation in art

Never stop - this is brilliant! Thanks Essi 😍

🥰 I could live on demographic rants

Back from the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä. If I ruled the world everyone would have to go. A week of 24h daylight & films that rummage through emotional cupboards you thought were shut. So you flow from one feeling to the next, reminded that they all pass. My favourite? Love by Haugerud

🔥THIS🔥 The two things that will always get me going are life expectancy at birth (If you look at life expectancy at 10, the difference between Norway and Afghanistan is not that significant) and 65 as a marker for, well, anything

Britain Tax advantageous destinations are widely regarded by the wealthy as

Onko tälle oletukselle todennettavaa pohjaa? Useimmat Britannian superrikkaat tutkitusti eivät ole muuttamassa verojen takia. Kulttuuri, yhteydet ja elämäntapa painavat enemmän kuin veroprosentti; veropako-argumentti on suosittu mutta ei totta. Onko eri asia Suomessa? www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Can’t wait to read this book. Dan Hicks is brilliant. Also, wtf is wrong with us

What if we stopped aid altogether? The future of refugee aid work is that INGOs need to ditch their egos and self-interest, and work honestly and collaboratively with refugee leaders.

What if

Deathbots and Digital Avatars: (Re)animating our ancestors Automated Societies · Episode

Preparing for Friday’s Death Cafe (welcome if you’re in Helsinki!) on technology and AI around and after death, and this pod is super interesting! We have no established practice for the rights of the dead, but questions of consent e.g. building digital avatars of those we’ve lost are no doubt next

Tule mukaan KuKKuut-kollektiivin Kuoleman kahvilaan Helsingissä Tekstin Talossa pe 11.4. klo 17:30–19:30!

Tällä viikolla teemana teknologia:
Jääkö meistä kuoleman jälkeen digitaalinen kaiku?

Ilmoittaudu mulle KukkuuKollektiivi@gmail.com

Minna Canth -matinea Kuopion taidemuseolla 19.3. - Fingo Tapahtuma kokoaa yhteen erilaiset toimijat, joiden päämääränä on tasa-arvoisempi ja oikeudenmukaisempi yhteiskunta.

Minna Canth -matinea Kuopion taidemuseolla 19.3. klo 17 kokoaa yhteen erilaiset toimijat, joiden päämääränä on tasa-arvoisempi ja oikeudenmukaisempi yhteiskunta.

Mukana mm. @kaarimattila.bsky.social @rosiavento.bsky.social @lottavaattovaara.bsky.social @mikkonen.bsky.social. Tervetuloa!

#TasaArvo

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Definitely up for it! Am instantly thinking of forest bathing as well as the forest cover (metsänpeitto) as cultural concepts that we share with at least Japan

Chaos reigns

Our inferiority complex will get seriously twisted now. This is basically 🇸🇪 lamenting that somehow the backwater Moomins 🇫🇮 became the genius next door - no one saw it coming, but here we are

Olemme ihan todella iloisia, että tulet Minna Canthin ja Pekingin julistuksen 30v juhlailtaan @fingo.fi sekä Kuopion taidemuseon vieraaksi 🫧🎈

Tämähän on vain tällainen paikallaan tönöttävä peruspatsas; Turkmenistanissa osattiin sentään pitää Niyazovin patsaan kasvot aina kohti aurinkoa ☀️

What a brilliant idea! Thanks @essi-lindstedt.bsky.social 🎈

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