Jussi Pasanen

@jopas.bsky.social

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A designer who would like to ensure that there remains a liveable world for our kids to enjoy @jopas@mastodon.social x.com/jopas

Laajojen maastopalojen synnyttämä savupilvi näkyi vastarannalta Lacanaussa, Lounais-Ranskassa 24. heinäkuuta.Kuva: Maximilien Lamy / AFP
'A polar bear cools down on a pile of ice cubes in its enclosure at the Prague Zoo on July 30, 2026, as temperatures were expected to reach at least 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit' [36°C] by Michal Čížek / AFP / Getty
'Advertising Today' by Warren Berger (Phaidon, 2001) Photo source: https://knihobot.cz/g/8248615
'Villagers collect spring water with bottles at Gunung Batur village in Cilegon… Indonesia, on July 17, 2026, after struggling to access groundwater at their homes in part due to the impact of El Niño, which has brought a prolonged dry season and triggered extreme drought, threatening food security' by Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty
Headline in the AFR: 'US troops to get testosterone treatment to make them big and strong'
'The Statue of Liberty stands at sunset as smoke from wildfires blankets the sky on July 16, 2026, in New York City.' by Yuki Iwamura / AP
'People stand in front of a coffee shop during a heat wave in the French Riviera city of Nice on July 6, 2026.' by Valery Hache / AFP / Getty
Gartner Figure 1: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2025 Source: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-09-10-gartner-unveils-top-emerging-technologies-to-support-autonomous-business
Samuel Alexander: 'The future of ecological civilisation may therefore depend less upon whether humanity can discover new technologies than upon whether humanity can rediscover reverence. This is not because reverence alone solves ecological overshoot. It is because without reverence, restraint will always feel like punishment imposed upon desire. Only when existence itself becomes worthy of love does limitation cease to appear merely as loss. Then, perhaps, humanity may finally learn not simply how to survive on Earth, but how to dwell here beautifully.'
Cartoon: 'Tom the Dancing Bug: A busy, busy day at the Freedom 250 celebration'
"Penguin Pose", photo by Mat Bell. Shortlisted for 2026 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition, 'Animals in Nature' category
'A man in a bear mask and dark clothing lies face-down on the ground, playing dead.' by Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
'Members of the Finnish men’s choir Mieskuoro Huutajat perform their repertoire by shouting at the opening of the “Theater der Welt” festival on Theaterplatz, in Chemnitz, Germany, on June 18, 2026. The choir does not sing in the traditional sense, but rather shouts, roars, or calls out.' by Hendrik Schmidt / DPA / Getty
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. (page 177)
'Fireworks erupt during the inauguration of the Tower of Jesus Christ by Pope Leo XIV at the Basilica of the Sagrada Família on June 10, 2026, in Barcelona.' by Dan Kitwood / Getty
Title: I think I can. Illustrator: Megan Herbert. @meganjherbert.bsky.social via The Age
'A brown bear rests on driftwood on a beach along the Sea of Okhotsk, in Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai.' –Spiridon Sleptsov / iStockphoto / Getty
'Advances in robotic farming, such as this AI-powered tulip-farming robot, will benefit from better soil science' Image credit: Getty Images
A banner saying "Billionaires ruin everything"
Photographer Britta Jaschinski's “Handprint on Sea Turtle” is both the winner of the Changemakers category and the overall winner of this year's contest. The image, taken at the Zoological Society of London Wildlife Forensic Lab in London, shows a human handprint on a dead green sea turtle that had been confiscated at Heathrow Airport. Experts at the lab are using fluorescent powder dyes and ultraviolet light to detect handprints and fingerprints on trafficked wildlife, as well as blood, gunpowder, and other evidence left by poachers and smugglers. Britta Jaschinski
CarbonBrief: 'Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time'
Hu Zhichao / VCG / Getty: 'A view of the Qicai Danxia Scenic Area, also known as Colorful Danxia Scenic Spot, at Zhangye National Geopark on May 1, 2026, in China’s Gansu province'
Chart: 'Trends in global military spending' 'Total military spending reached $2.88 trillion in 2025, with the top five countries accounting for 58% of global spending.'
'Fig. 3. Global surface temperature (relative to 1880-1920 base period)' inc. projected El Nino Peak
Staff members carry a humanoid robot that crashed after the finish line of the second Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon and Humanoid-Robot Half-Marathon in Beijing, China, on April 19, 2026. by Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Kawnat Haju / AFP / Getty A fireball rises from a building hit by an Israeli air strike in the area of Abbasiyeh, on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, on April 8, 2026. Lebanon’s army warned people against returning to the country’s south on April 8, where the Israeli military was still launching attacks, as Israel said the cease-fire with Iran did not include its conflict with Hezbollah.
'West, Central, and South Asia, Stories—Witnessing Gaza: Tamer Hassan al-Shafei and his family break their Ramadan fast in the remains of their home, in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip, on March 4, 2025. Food shortages meant that only basics were served instead of the usual spread. Story: In 2025, civilians in Gaza endured starvation, famine, and relentless bombardment as the death toll surpassed 75,000 and Israeli authorities severely restricted the flow of humanitarian aid. A cease-fire agreement reached in October has yet to bring meaningful relief. Palestinian journalists—who are living through the reality they document—are the world’s few witnesses to what a United Nations commission has concluded is a genocide. Israel disputes this. The photographer worked under immense danger, driven by a refusal to let the world turn away: “Even when everything around me told me to stop, I couldn’t—silence would mean surrender.”' by Saher Alghorra / The New York Times
Looks like the cast of Mad Max has traded in their V8 Interceptors for a more eco-friendly ride... a Lime e-bike! 🛵💨 Road Worrier by Australian stencil artist ELK — in Newtown, New South Wales.
Humanoid robots operate alongside workers at a tea garden in Huanggang, Hubei province, China, on March 22, 2026. by Wang Jiang / VCG / Getty
'Realization' 'Money is turning the natural world into more money as fast as it can'
'A police officer records protesters during an anti-government protest in Quito, Ecuador, on March 13, 2026.' by Dolores Ochoa / AP
The Amazing World of Tomorrow by Rory Blank Comics
Jakob Nielsen's LinkedIn post titled '40 Years of Being Right Become 40 Years of Being Wrong.' https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jakobnielsenphd_40-years-of-%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B4-%F0%9D%97%A5%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B4%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%98%81-become-activity-7434629393999876096-MmUF
PWC online advertisement: 'Moving tons of equipment to 24 races isn't a side story. It's a backbone of Formula 1® race operations. To keep pace with growth, Formula 1® turned to PwC, its Official Consulting Partner, to help deliver the Future of Race Operations program-and make each season smarter and more sustainable. Go trackside to see the transformation.'
Infographic: What makes up Micro Plastics? Source: https://www.madevisual.co/the-world-of-microplastic/
Figure 2. Overshooting 1.5 °C risks crossing Earth system tipping points. Illustrative temperature overshoot pathways, exceeding and then returning to below 1.5 °C (solid black line) and other stabilisation pathways (dashed black lines), dependent on uncertainties in future emissions and Earth system feedbacks. The depicted temperature overshoot pathway at least temporarily crosses several Earth system tipping points: whether tipping occurs depends on the peak warming, time spent beyond the tipping point and the element’s response timescale. Icons denote tipping elements (global tipping elements are shown with a solid edge; regional tipping elements are shown with a dashed edge; local tipping elements are not shown; best-estimate tipping points based on data from Lenton et al (2023), and in case of no updates, from Armstrong Mckay et al (2022)). Uncertainties of tipping points are shown as shaded bars. Current policies & Actions lead to temperature increases of 2.6 °C (Climate Action Tracker 2025), which is far from the upper limit of 1.8 °C where a return to 1.5 °C by 2100 appears feasible (Reisinger et al 2025).
Photo of a 'DO NOT SPIT' stencil at a train station, juxtaposed over a photo of a Bunnings staff member with a broad smile rotating a spit roast over a large barbecue
8 Theses on Collapse: 1. Collapse is a systemic phase shift, not a single event 2. Diminishing returns on complexity create brittle systems 3. Inequality is the primary social mechanism that erodes social resilience 4. Ecological overshoot and energetic constraints always result in biophysical boundaries 5. Interacting drivers accelerate systemic failure 6. Pathological leadership suppresses adaptive feedbacks 7. Global interdependence creates a planetary-scale panarchy 8. Navigating collapse requires cultivating capacity for just transformations Source: https://entangledecologies.net/2026/02/16/8-theses-on-collapse/
Cartoon (First Dog On The Moon): 'Incredibly the developers say they plan to completely recreate This endangered ecosystem right in the middle of another ditterent kind of endangered ecosystem (full of tuart trees). This is unsciency behaviour and is unlikely to work. You can't just buy a bunch of banksias from Bunnings and stick them in a hole.'
Spinal Tap's amplifier goes up to 11
Vintage dresser with five drawers and four curved legs
PNAS diagram: 'Stability landscape showing the pathway of the Earth System out of the Holocene and thus, out of the glacial–interglacial limit cycle to its present position in the hotter Anthropocene [and] the fork in the road' Superimposed with a silhouette of a footballer kicking the Earth onto the Hothouse trajectory.
FT: “Bitcoin falls below $65,000 to wipe out ‘Trump rally’”
'An aerial view shows houses perched along the edge of a cliff after a landslide in Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, on January 27, 2026.' by Danilo Arnone / Reuters
A building being painted in Melbourne CBD in January 2026
Illustration by RosZie on Pixabay
'X frame design patents' via onlinecyclemuseum.co.uk
A Google Maps car with a large array of cameras driving by