'A nightmare': Sansibar cancels Australia tour after alleged nine-hour interrogation at Melbourne airport (Resident Advisor, 27 March 2025).

ra.co/news/82470

For our May meetup (that's the one after the next one) we have @mariadb_org as a host and they are also organising a hackathon! There are a few €500 Verkkokauppa gift cards as prizes for the best use of their new vector extension to @mariadb.

Deadline for sign up is Monday (31st). Find out more details via their announcement blog post, and join up on our Discord via https://helsinki-python.github.io

Cute seagull, in #Helsinki, #Finland

There are a few hundred homeless people in Helsinki, 250 thousand square meters of empty office space, and I just received an alert that the city has opened a call to build more office spaces in Postipuisto.

#Helsinki is not a serious city, everyone who can should leave to #Vantaa

Suomessa vuonna 2024 kolmannes julkisiin IT-hankintoihin kuluneista rahoista meni Microsoft-lisensseihin.

Helsingissäkin olisi järkevää siirtyä käyttämään avoimen lähdekoodin ratkaisuja. Silloin myös kaupungin omistajuus teknologiasta kasvaa.

Olen tällä viikolla tavattavissa seuraavina ajankohtina. Tule moikkaamaan!

tiistaina 25.3 klo 17-19
Helsingin kaupungin asukastaloja puolustavan verkoston vaalikeskustelu Malmi-talon pienessä salissa

keskiviikkona 26.3. klo 11-12
Narinkkatorin vaalitorilla

torstaina 27.3. Klo 16-18
MetropoliAreena Helsingin kuntavaalitapahtuma Triplan tapahtuma-aukiolla

Arvind organizes "Let's walk Helsinki!" walks where a local Left candidate takes him for a stroll around an area of their choosing.

We walked in Hietalahti, Ruoholahti and Jätkäsaari for our walk!

The captions are automatically created and I will get to proofreading them later. Edit: The captions have been proofread! (Let me know if there any glaring mistakes.)

In the first video we talk in English (36 min 15 sec): https://peertube.wtf/w/9aKiB3QvtfT78aXxVTswWs

Great to see #Finland is the #happiest country for the eighth year... I think the #UK and #USA could learn something. Also I thoroughly recommend visiting #helsinki