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december 2024 • iceland

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Northern lights at Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe

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january 2025 • goðafoss, iceland

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rugged and beautiful, as far as the eyes can see

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Antarctica // Nick Bondarev

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The Gävle goat is getting a lot of attention around here, but I would like to make a case for a couple of other Swedish Christmas goats: The Kävlinge "Horny Goats".

It has been a Christmas tradition in the town of Kävlinge since 2015 to put up a pair of goats in a traffic circle. And for just as long, there has been a somewhat more inofficial tradition that someone will move those two goats into a mating position, giving them the nickname "kåtbockarna" (literally "the horny goats", a Swedish term similar to the English "horndog").

One year an unknown person even put up three smaller goats around the two large ones, to indicate that they've had children.

This year, however, the goats have been positioned in a somewhat less intimate position, simply kissing eachother:

Swedish television news did a short feature where they interviewed citizens of Kävlinge about this latest change, and most of them expressed disappointment, apparently preferring the "horny" version.

Considering that "bock" usually refers to males of the species, this means that Kävlinge has had a public display of gay sex each Christmas for several years, enthusiastically supported by its citizens. I think that's a Christmas tradition well worth celebrating.

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Stockholm City Hall, Sweden (by Fotonio)

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Stockholm, Sweden (by mohamed)

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Stockholm, Sweden

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Illuminated gravestones at a cemetery in Hafnarfjörour, Iceland

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Stockholm, Sweden by Stories

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Stockholm, Sweden

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snoopy of the day

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Återvändare

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We had a nice display of northern lights here in Stockholm last monday on october 7th. This was a couple of days before that big solar storm that I missed due to cloudy weather.