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Hannu Järvinen wrote that he found it strange to think that banning driving and filling the center with construction pits would reduce people's desire to go there. He added that he would not have believed this would happen. https://t.co/vdkU1pQKga #autoilu #rakentaminen #kaupunkisuunnittelu (translated)

The Daily Bureaucrat asked whether bike paths should be built in downtown Helsinki, car lanes blocked, and palms planted. He wrote that the appeal of the city center had collapsed and that it was Pia Svensk's task to reverse this trend. https://t.co/L19cMrj3N3 #Helsinki #kaupunkisuunnittelu #pyöräily (translated)

Hannu Järvinen criticized the city planning in Espoo led by the National Coalition Party and claimed that the zoning regulations no longer required sufficient parking spaces for housing companies. According to him, the urban planning board led by Vuornos made the decision, where the interests of the National Coalition Party and the Greens converged. Järvinen assessed that the diminished parking space requirements benefited developers and complicated the daily lives of car drivers in Espoo. He wrote that, for this reason, Espoo was no longer an attractive place to live for private car-driving net taxpayers, and believed that the National Coalition Party had distanced itself from its previous pro-car stance. https://t.co/d2Opd0F9lz #Espoo #liikenne #asuminen (translated)

The listener podcast asked its followers for pictures of new buildings that they considered ugly, for an upcoming episode about the ugliness of construction. The podcast mentioned highlighting, among other things, expressionless box buildings and public buildings they described as resembling those in the Hunger Games. Along with the pictures, listeners could optionally mention the architect and other responsible individuals, as well as companies. The podcast also hoped for before-and-after pictures, where the urban planning visual differed from the realized environment. As an example, it mentioned Joutsenpuisto in Tapanila, Helsinki, describing it as horrifying. #rumarakentaminen #arkkitehtuuri #podcast (translated)

Tanja Aidanjuuri wrote that the plan in Helsinki to ban advertising of fossil fuels could, according to her, cost the city nearly 100 million euros in advertising revenue. She criticized the proposal as unnecessary and absurd and listed as examples of potentially restricted advertising gasoline and diesel cars, flights, cruises, synthetic clothing, plastic products, and fossil fuels. Aidanjuuri described that the Greens in Vantaa could, in her opinion, follow the same line and that advertising would then practically be limited to, for example, veggie sausages, rainbow flags, and new mosques. She also pointed out that taxpayer money would be used for the handling of the matter. Aidanjuuri cited a proposal stating that the advertising ban would be investigated in the preparation of the next outdoor advertising agreement for Helsinki's public areas and that the advertising agreements of Urban Traffic Ltd would also be taken into account. The assessment would examine, among other things, the legal boundaries of the ban, its climate and environmental impacts, effects on the city's economy, the city's own communication and marketing, as well as the media landscape. The proposal also mentioned the possibility of examining advertising's ethical principles more broadly and limiting outdoor advertising from entities considered to violate human rights and particularly polluting industries. #Helsinki #ilmastonmuutos #mainonta (translated)

Suvi-Anne Siimes wondered about the city council's decision. She noted that the city manages its own advertising spaces, but found it peculiar that the people in the city were treated, according to her, as subjects while the decision-makers made study trips abroad using fossil fuels. #kaupunkipolitiikka #ympäristö #kestävyys (translated)

Seida Sohrabi reported that her initiative to ban face coverings was passed by the Helsinki City Council. According to her, Helsinki will add a requirement for visibility and recognizability of faces in the guidelines for schools, daycare centers, and educational institutions. Sohrabi justified the visibility of faces with safety, identification, interaction, and the principles of a safe space. She also referred to the city’s commitment to supporting girls' equal learning and the goals of the city strategy to enhance the well-being of children and youth and the equal right to education for every child. (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for what he perceived as giving Timo R. Stewart, whom he describes as a Hamas activist, an unchallenged platform to present his book. According to Mäkäräinen, the article adopted Stewart's view regarding the destruction of Gaza, genocide, and Finland's responsibility due to trade with Israel, without hearing the opposing side. Mäkäräinen emphasized that, in his opinion, genocide does not equate to heavy war. He wrote that the International Court of Justice had not ruled on the case against Israel and that interim measures were not a judgment. In his view, civilian casualties can occur in urban warfare where Hamas places rockets, command centers, and tunnels among civilians without the intent of destroying the group. He compared this to the battles of Mosul, Raqqa, and Fallujah, claiming that Stewart began using the term genocide after Israel succeeded in its war against Hamas. According to Mäkäräinen, the Yle article also lacked the starting point of the war: the attack on October 7, in which he claims over 1,200 people died, and which involved rapes and kidnappings. He wrote that Hamas aims for the end of Israel instead of a Palestinian state. He criticized the figures presented by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the article—over 21,600 by December 2023 and over 1,400 after ceasefires—and claimed that the ministry was subordinate to Hamas and that its figures did not differentiate between fighters and civilians. In his view, the article also lacked Israel's perspective that a significant portion of the dead were fighters. Regarding the two-state model, Mäkäräinen wrote that its failure was not solely due to Israel. He claimed that Hamas had rejected the model multiple times and that the Palestinian Authority had turned down offers, such as at Camp David in 2000 and Annapolis in 2008. He added that according to polls, the majority of both Palestinians and Israelis had abandoned the model. He described the cessation of support for UNRWA as a reaction to an organization that, according to him, had ample evidence of connections between its facilities and personnel to Hamas. Mäkäräinen believed that Yle, as a publicly funded media, should not advertise a single essayist as an expert. According to him, the article could have included opposing researchers, Israel's official stance, or addressed Hamas's responsibility for hostages and the use of civilians as shields. He concluded by asking why this had not been done. https://t.co/sHriNitmMo #Gaza #Israel #Hamas (translated)

Lucia described the typical reader of Helsingin Sanomat as a 25–40-year-old, highly educated urban woman who lived in neighborhoods like Kallio, Käpylä, Kumpula, Pakila, Kalasatama, Töölö, or Lauttasaari. She noted that this woman would usually vote for the Greens, the Left Alliance, or the SDP and would frequent brunches, bars, and the Flow festival. According to Lucia, the woman she described might be in a relationship, live in a community garden cabin, and be the mother of one or two children. She listed names like Alvar, Oliver, Ariel, Kuura, and Kaura for the children. Lucia mentioned that the woman preferred public transportation but accepted her partner's expensive car, even if she suffered from climate anxiety and flying shame. The woman might also have a small dog. The author claimed that such a reader did not know any voters of the Finns Party and might consider her rural uncle, who had voted for the party at times, to be peculiar. She speculated that the woman worked in a field where she could aim to make the world a better place. Lucia called this a reader profile and target group for Helsingin Sanomat, whose interests and views, according to her, the paper's journalists anticipated. She wrote that HS did not aim for objective or neutral reporting, nor was it an agenda-driven media outlet. According to her, the paper's target group did not encompass all people regardless of their background, lifestyle, or viewpoints. She compared HS to a mirror held up by journalists so that the reader could be satisfied with what they saw, and concluded that the reader of the described profile was not the same as the writer of the piece. #Helsinki #ilmastoahdistus #lukijaprofiili (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that he wanted to correct the interpretations of an article by Helsingin Sanomat that dealt with nuclear weapons and said he remained uncertain about what the article ultimately claimed regarding Finland's security. According to him, Finland did not join the NATO nuclear deterrent with little discussion or unnoticed, but rather joined an alliance whose deterrence and defense had been based on nuclear weapons for decades. He described the strategic nuclear forces of the United States as a key basis for NATO's nuclear deterrent. Vanhanen considered that the bombing of Nagasaki was not an example of the current type of nuclear deterrent because Japan did not have a nuclear weapon nor the ability to respond to a U.S. strike. In his view, Nagasaki demonstrated the destructiveness of nuclear weapons and the human risks of their use, whereas the current deterrent was based on the assumption that an attacker had to consider the possibility of retaliation and uncontrolled escalation. Vanhanen assessed that Trump had increased uncertainty regarding the United States' commitment to the conventional defense of Europe and believed Europe would have to bear more responsibility for it. However, he distinguished this from the claim that the U.S. nuclear deterrent had weakened. According to him, the U.S. ability to use nuclear weapons had not diminished, NATO was not dismantling its nuclear plans or arrangements, systems were being modernized, and F-35 aircraft were being introduced into NATO's nuclear missions. Vanhanen stated that the NATO Nuclear Planning Group had confirmed in June that strategic nuclear forces, particularly U.S. forces, remained the ultimate guarantee of the allies' security and had decided to continue strengthening and modernizing the nuclear deterrent. Vanhanen considered it a central uncertainty whether Moscow would believe that the U.S. president would be willing to use nuclear weapons to defend an ally in an extreme situation. He reminded that the question of the U.S. willingness to endanger its own cities for the sake of Europe had been a concern throughout the history of the extended nuclear deterrent and there had been no complete certainty during the Cold War or at the present time. According to him, Finland's option was not a nuclear deterrent or a nuclear-free security environment, as Russia would have its nuclear weapons in any case. Vanhanen wrote that the crucial issue for the deterrent was that the Russian leadership could not be certain that the United States would defend Finland. https://t.co/3C8aAkuMwj #ydinaseet #Nato #Suomi (translated)

Palatakseni siihen alakoulun rasismikoulutukseen, johon siis lapseni ei osallistunut, niin eilen ollut ne koulutuskokonaisuuden tunnit ja kaverit jotka osallistuneet niihin, kertoneet että siellä on puhuttu mm. homofobiasta. Miten homofobia liittyy rasismiin? Ja kyllä, pyydän hanketyöntekijältä koulutuksen sisällön nähtäville ja kyllä, olen ollut yhteydessä Kouvolan kaupunkiin asian tiimoilta ja kyllä, vaadin että jatkossa koulujen on kerrottava selkeästi Wilma-viesteissä että tällaiset propagandaa sisältävät hankehömpät on vapaaehtoisia eikä niihin ole pakko osallistua ja koululla on velvollisuus järjestää niiden ajaksi korvaavaa toimintaa, koska näin itse asiassa asian laita todellisuudessa kuulemma on. #rasismi #homofobia #koulutus

Valtuuston syyskausi starttasi tänään ja mikäs tässä starttaillessa. Allekirjoitimme ryhmänä @ORostila aloitteen, että Hyvinkään kaupunki lopettaa perusopetusta täydentävän oman äidinkielen opetuksen järjestämisen mahdollisimman pian, viimeistään lukuvuoden 2027–2028 alusta. Kuinka narsistista onkaan ajatella, että jos esim perheeni muuttaisi Japaniin, Japanin veronmaksajien tulee maksaa minun SUOMEN kielen opiskelu. Kirjoitin juurikin tästä Suomen itsetuhoisesta empatiasta tänne: https://t.co/KfBEU4K6Ye Lisäksi jätimme valtuustoaloitteen koskien Ahdenkallionkadun liikenteen sujuvoittamista niin että kadun varteen rakennettaisiin parkkitaskuja. Nykyisellään katu on melkoinen pujottelurata pysäköityjen ja vastaantulevien autojen ja liikenteenjakajien lomassa. ...Ja muistutin virkamiehiä uuden HR hankinnan kynnyksellä siitä, ettemme hankkisi raskasta Apotti tyylistä konsultteihin ja toimittajiin sitovaa järjestelmää vuosiksi eteenpäin, vaan huomioiminen järjestelmässä ennenkaikkea AI integraation (kiitos @samimiettinen ja @MartinPaasi teidän tekoäly paasauksesta - alkaa tarttua 😅) #Hyvinkää #koulutus #liikenne

Olen saanut tänään 100 samansisältöistä viestiä eri lähettäjiltä, joissa vaaditaan että Lapinlahden sairaala pitää säilyttää kaupunkilaisten yhteisenä tilana. Mä sanon tämän suoraan. 50 miljoonaa euroa maksavan remontin jälkeen Lapinlahtea ei tulla antamaan hippien hengailumestaksi. Mä pidän parempaa huolta verovaroista. #Lapinlahti #verovarat #sairaala

”valehtelija”, ”rasisti”, ”keksit näitä päästäsi”, ”emme tunnista ilmiötä” Näin mulle vastattiin kun kerroin helsinkiläisen rehtorin tuoneen esille ongelman luokalla olevista yli-ikäisistä oppilaista. Nyt kolme viikkoa myöhemmin kaupunki tunnustaa, että tilanteita on ollut. Tapauksiin on vaikea puuttua koska toimivaa lainsäädäntöä ei ole. Tällä hetkellä lapsen ikää ei voi luotettavasti varmentaa. Siksi eduskunnan pitää ryhtyä toimiin ja muuttaa lakia niin, että perustellun epäilyn tilanteessa lapsen ikä voidaan testeillä vahvistaa. Totuus ei pala tulessakaan! 🔥 #koulu #lainsäädäntö #opetus