Worrying news today about #Northvolt laying off 1600 workers in three Swedish cities. #Skellefteå needs the jobs, and the world needs electrical cars made with green electricity.
American boardgame podcasters love to name-drop Ikea's shelf system Kallax, which is perfect for big designer boardgames. Few most likely know that it refers originally to a small fishing village near Luleå in #Sweden, home to a regional airport and a popular brand of fermented herring.
A friend of mine who suffers from crippling self-criticism has repeatedly asked me how I can write so much, get stuff finished and submitted and published. I always give her the same true but useless answer. The trick is that I'm just unbelievably conceited. I *love* reading my own stuff! 😄
@libreoffice Please, how do I get a shorter language list in the Character Alternatives box? I shift all the time between two languages only. The complete language list is useless to me there.
In Sweden, a larger proportion of women than men enter higher education. Now, here's something for the #immigration debate. 62% of women born in Sweden to two immigrant parents enter higher ed. Only 55% of women born in Sweden to two non-immigrant parents do.
A central proposition of the international #peace movement is this. The problem isn't their army and the solution isn't our army. The problem is armies.
Tänk att de kunde skriva den här artikeln utan att nämna samhällsklass en enda gång. "Vad märkligt, vi har upptäckt att fattigdom, kort utbildning, brottslighet, hälsoproblem och kvinnomisshandel hänger ihop på något vis!"
Having submitted a journal paper yesterday, I'm dedicating today to studying the new books about Luistari and Salme. These are important burial sites of the late 1st millennium in #Finland and #Estonia, to either side of the Gulf of Finland.