kechpaja
@kechpaja.bsky.social
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.
tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaH.
Fediverse: @kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.
tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaH.
Fediverse: @kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com
Account reactivated, for now at least. Still primarily on Mastodon, though.
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Account reactivated, for now at least. Still primarily on Mastodon, though.
Stupid question, but: what sort of personal and/or open source tech projects look best on a resume?
July 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Stupid question, but: what sort of personal and/or open source tech projects look best on a resume?
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DISvam qaStaHvIS turqu le'yo' boghoy SapwI' vIDa. tuch lupaQ SapwI'pu' 'ej tuch luneHbogh luDelmeH mu'mey puS ghItlh 'e' tlhobta' le'yo' boghoy DevwI'pu'. chaHvaD QInvam vIngeHta' jIH: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...
#pride
#TurkuPride
#turku
#lgbtq
#klingon
#pride
#TurkuPride
#turku
#lgbtq
#klingon
Turku Pride: tuch wIpaQ
puujalkavihrea.fi
July 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
DISvam qaStaHvIS turqu le'yo' boghoy SapwI' vIDa. tuch lupaQ SapwI'pu' 'ej tuch luneHbogh luDelmeH mu'mey puS ghItlh 'e' tlhobta' le'yo' boghoy DevwI'pu'. chaHvaD QInvam vIngeHta' jIH: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...
#pride
#TurkuPride
#turku
#lgbtq
#klingon
#pride
#TurkuPride
#turku
#lgbtq
#klingon
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I will be volunteering at Turku Pride this year. The Pride organization board has asked volunteers to write a few lines about what sort of future they would like to look into. I provided the following text: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
Turku Pride: Looking to the Future
puujalkavihrea.fi
July 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I will be volunteering at Turku Pride this year. The Pride organization board has asked volunteers to write a few lines about what sort of future they would like to look into. I provided the following text: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
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Toimin vapaaehtoisena tämän vuoden Turku Pridessa. Priden hallitus on pyytänyt vapaaehtoisia kirjoittamaan lyhyesti siitä, minkälaiseen tulevaisuuteen he haluaisivat katsoa. Toimitin itse seuraavan tekstin: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
Turku Pride: Katse tulevaisuuteen
puujalkavihrea.fi
July 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Toimin vapaaehtoisena tämän vuoden Turku Pridessa. Priden hallitus on pyytänyt vapaaehtoisia kirjoittamaan lyhyesti siitä, minkälaiseen tulevaisuuteen he haluaisivat katsoa. Toimitin itse seuraavan tekstin: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
#pride #TurkuPride #turku #lgbtq
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Hyvää Pride-päivää, Budapest! Ja hyvä kuulla, että ihmiset näyttäytyivät kiellosta huolimatta.
Ymmärtääkseni meidän puheenejohtaja @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi oli kulkueessa mukana.
yle.fi/a/74-20170069
#pride #budapest #lgbtq #vihreat
Ymmärtääkseni meidän puheenejohtaja @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi oli kulkueessa mukana.
yle.fi/a/74-20170069
#pride #budapest #lgbtq #vihreat
Hallituksen kieltämä Pride-kulkue marssi Unkarissa – järjestäjien mukaan osallistujia oli jopa 200 000
Budapestin Pride-kulkue oli lauantaina suurennuslasin alla, koska Unkari on kieltänyt seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöjen julkiset tapahtumat.
yle.fi
June 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hyvää Pride-päivää, Budapest! Ja hyvä kuulla, että ihmiset näyttäytyivät kiellosta huolimatta.
Ymmärtääkseni meidän puheenejohtaja @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi oli kulkueessa mukana.
yle.fi/a/74-20170069
#pride #budapest #lgbtq #vihreat
Ymmärtääkseni meidän puheenejohtaja @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi oli kulkueessa mukana.
yle.fi/a/74-20170069
#pride #budapest #lgbtq #vihreat
I've now switched from i3 to Wayland, and it was worth it: kechpaja.com/blog/2025/06....
#wayland #sway #i3 #linux
#wayland #sway #i3 #linux
Migrating to Sway and Wayland
kechpaja.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I've now switched from i3 to Wayland, and it was worth it: kechpaja.com/blog/2025/06....
#wayland #sway #i3 #linux
#wayland #sway #i3 #linux
Today is ten years since gay marriage was officially legalized in the USA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergef....
I just wish we could celebrate that in a more hopeful context.
I just wish we could celebrate that in a more hopeful context.
Obergefell v. Hodges - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Today is ten years since gay marriage was officially legalized in the USA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergef....
I just wish we could celebrate that in a more hopeful context.
I just wish we could celebrate that in a more hopeful context.
Possibly unpopular #StarTrek opinion:
Transporters as portrayed in the show are one of the biggest worldbuilding holes in the entire fictional universe.
Transporters as portrayed in the show are one of the biggest worldbuilding holes in the entire fictional universe.
June 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Possibly unpopular #StarTrek opinion:
Transporters as portrayed in the show are one of the biggest worldbuilding holes in the entire fictional universe.
Transporters as portrayed in the show are one of the biggest worldbuilding holes in the entire fictional universe.
@slotkin.senate.gov Hey! I — a constituent — appear to be subscribed to your newsletter using a deadname and outdated (gendered) honorific. What is the process for updating the name and setting a nonbinary honorific? There is no clear way to update subscription settings in the latest email.
May 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@slotkin.senate.gov Hey! I — a constituent — appear to be subscribed to your newsletter using a deadname and outdated (gendered) honorific. What is the process for updating the name and setting a nonbinary honorific? There is no clear way to update subscription settings in the latest email.
TIL (well, technically yesterday) that the Finnish word used to refer to a carnival ride is _laite_ — the generic word for 'device'.
Linguistically there is nothing weird about this, but I absolutely would not have guessed.
Linguistically there is nothing weird about this, but I absolutely would not have guessed.
May 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
TIL (well, technically yesterday) that the Finnish word used to refer to a carnival ride is _laite_ — the generic word for 'device'.
Linguistically there is nothing weird about this, but I absolutely would not have guessed.
Linguistically there is nothing weird about this, but I absolutely would not have guessed.
My kingdom for a queer and trans space that explicitly bans communist imagery.
April 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My kingdom for a queer and trans space that explicitly bans communist imagery.
If you're going to smoke, please do it somewhere other than directly below my apartment.
Some smells are genuinely intolerable.
Some smells are genuinely intolerable.
April 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you're going to smoke, please do it somewhere other than directly below my apartment.
Some smells are genuinely intolerable.
Some smells are genuinely intolerable.
If I go to sleep, is there still going to be a world when I wake up?
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If I go to sleep, is there still going to be a world when I wake up?
Klingon: *uses same word for playing a musical instrument and turning on a device*
English speakers: "oh, how weird and exotic!"
English:
English speakers: "oh, how weird and exotic!"
English:
April 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Klingon: *uses same word for playing a musical instrument and turning on a device*
English speakers: "oh, how weird and exotic!"
English:
English speakers: "oh, how weird and exotic!"
English:
I'd be interested in seeing analyses of mass social movements in countries without a deeply ingrained Christian tradition, and comparisons between them and analogous movements in heavily Christian-influenced cultures. Are there any obvious citations to follow here?
April 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'd be interested in seeing analyses of mass social movements in countries without a deeply ingrained Christian tradition, and comparisons between them and analogous movements in heavily Christian-influenced cultures. Are there any obvious citations to follow here?
Why is it that _literally every financial service_ now requires some form of two-factor login that cannot be counted on to work reliably?
It just isn't good enough to only _maybe_ be able to get into my own bank account.
It just isn't good enough to only _maybe_ be able to get into my own bank account.
April 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Why is it that _literally every financial service_ now requires some form of two-factor login that cannot be counted on to work reliably?
It just isn't good enough to only _maybe_ be able to get into my own bank account.
It just isn't good enough to only _maybe_ be able to get into my own bank account.
Me: Trans as in transatlantic
Them: But transatlantic is the Americas!
Me: Okay, but _I_ went the other way.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Me: Okay, fine, I'm Atlantic-fluid.
(The Atlantic is an ocean, though. Does that make me... salty?)
Them: But transatlantic is the Americas!
Me: Okay, but _I_ went the other way.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Me: Okay, fine, I'm Atlantic-fluid.
(The Atlantic is an ocean, though. Does that make me... salty?)
March 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Me: Trans as in transatlantic
Them: But transatlantic is the Americas!
Me: Okay, but _I_ went the other way.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Me: Okay, fine, I'm Atlantic-fluid.
(The Atlantic is an ocean, though. Does that make me... salty?)
Them: But transatlantic is the Americas!
Me: Okay, but _I_ went the other way.
Them: ...
Me: ...
Me: Okay, fine, I'm Atlantic-fluid.
(The Atlantic is an ocean, though. Does that make me... salty?)
Is there an open source equivalent of AWS (or other providers') serverless functions? As is, software that I could set up once on a VPS and then run serverless functions from it, similarly (if hopefully less overhead-y) to AWS Lambda?
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Is there an open source equivalent of AWS (or other providers') serverless functions? As is, software that I could set up once on a VPS and then run serverless functions from it, similarly (if hopefully less overhead-y) to AWS Lambda?
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How do you say "American Vice President, go fuck yourself!" in Kalaallisut?
March 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
How do you say "American Vice President, go fuck yourself!" in Kalaallisut?
In Finnish, I've heard people straight up use the word "gate", as an independent morpheme, to refer to a generic scandal.
Look, everyone, it’s been more than fifty years since Warergate. Attaching -gate to every scandal or potential scandal is just cringe.
Let’s call it: Signal Dome.
Let’s call it: Signal Dome.
March 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
In Finnish, I've heard people straight up use the word "gate", as an independent morpheme, to refer to a generic scandal.
Broke: naming your primary git branch master
Woke: naming your primary git branch main
Bespoke: naming your primary git branch /, with subbranches named as if they were filesystem paths, with each `git checkout -b` adding a level
(I'm only half joking.)
Woke: naming your primary git branch main
Bespoke: naming your primary git branch /, with subbranches named as if they were filesystem paths, with each `git checkout -b` adding a level
(I'm only half joking.)
March 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Broke: naming your primary git branch master
Woke: naming your primary git branch main
Bespoke: naming your primary git branch /, with subbranches named as if they were filesystem paths, with each `git checkout -b` adding a level
(I'm only half joking.)
Woke: naming your primary git branch main
Bespoke: naming your primary git branch /, with subbranches named as if they were filesystem paths, with each `git checkout -b` adding a level
(I'm only half joking.)
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My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
My US-based colleagues, FYI:
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.
By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
I don't understand how people can have positive feelings about childhood.
Sure, I have fond memories of living with family and not having to cook. But childhood itself? Being treated as not really a person yet, and denied even the possibility of agency?
I have no regrets about leaving that behind.
Sure, I have fond memories of living with family and not having to cook. But childhood itself? Being treated as not really a person yet, and denied even the possibility of agency?
I have no regrets about leaving that behind.
March 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I don't understand how people can have positive feelings about childhood.
Sure, I have fond memories of living with family and not having to cook. But childhood itself? Being treated as not really a person yet, and denied even the possibility of agency?
I have no regrets about leaving that behind.
Sure, I have fond memories of living with family and not having to cook. But childhood itself? Being treated as not really a person yet, and denied even the possibility of agency?
I have no regrets about leaving that behind.
I wrote a blog post detailing a little bit more of what I've been doing with the Katnae writing system, and linking to the (somewhat more comprehensive) documentation of that writing system and the phonology it describes: kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2025/03....
#conlang #katnae
#conlang #katnae
kechpaja.conlang.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I wrote a blog post detailing a little bit more of what I've been doing with the Katnae writing system, and linking to the (somewhat more comprehensive) documentation of that writing system and the phonology it describes: kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2025/03....
#conlang #katnae
#conlang #katnae