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Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.

I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.

Personal (but public!) account; for Finnish politics see Kelvin Jackson (npub1wuk…8t8t).

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Website: https://kechpaja.com
Languages: en fi de ~hu ~ru ~eo ~tlh

Last Notes

2025-01-12 09:49:34

WRT #BlueSky: I know some people are getting a lot of mileage out of it, and I don't want to detract from that.
But whenever I log in after having been away for more than a couple of hours, I almost universally have to block a bot. Sometimes several. I feel like I spend more time blocking bots than interacting with humans.
And that's on top of the fact that blocking a user doesn't remove them from your followers list. At least, thankfully, they've started hiding blocked accounts on your publicly-viewable followers list, but this still artificially inflates follower counts. And there are still no polls, no way to increase max post length, etc.
Don't get me wrong, there are also some good things that Mastodon and other Fedi services could bear adopting (access controls for replies, quote boosts, etc). But still. Bots everywhere. Plus the fact that _here_ is where my posts actually get boosted, even on my other account with only 30some followers.
I'm not going to delete BlueSky, but for now, #Mastodon and the #Fediverse really are where it's at.

2025-01-03 01:44:44

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This is a wonderful thing, but it is absolutely not "post-scarcity" in any meaningful way. It's just people being kind and generous.

2024-10-19 13:26:19

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Okay, now I'm starting to see a lot of Christian iconography in a very different light.

2024-09-25 15:58:24

I have now officially voted for #KamalaHarris.
Or at least, the ballot is in the mail. But November is only a month and a bit away, and intercontinental postal service isn't always the quickest.
#politics #usa

2024-06-16 11:19:39

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Now I'm trying to think what the conversation with my landlord would be like if I ever asked for an exception to be made to the "no pets" rule for ants.
"What about a terrarium pet?"
"Oh, they're ants. But they'll be contained."
"Yes, I'm going to have to breed cockroaches too. But they will also stay in their container."