#Finland farmers

[homokeiju]

i've now got a reputation between some coworkers of hvin lockpickin be part of my supposed skill tree cuz i kno how to decode the four-number combination locks our company uses in less than a minute cuz w/ a flashlight u can see between the discs n see the codeable notch just below the number opposite of the right combination, then just rotate the number five times, n voilà, lock opens. i've saved the company dozens of euros in locks by openin locks that were coded wrong/were malfunctioning n we didn't hve the combination for. this is what hvin the sort of autism that makes u watch hours of lockpicking videos on youtube can give u in life

[thydungeongal]

One of the more annoying impulses of nominally leftist people living in the Global North (and I say this fully knowing that I have had this impulse in the past) is that they'll see a person from the Global South articulate some pretty obvious fact, like how the current gap in wealth between the two global poles isn't a natural state of affairs but actually the relative privilege of people in the Global North is maintained through exploitation of the Global South... they'll take it personally.

Like, you'll see someone articulate the fact that "hey so actually the fact that people in Finland can have cheap bananas all year round is actually indicative of global inequality and Finnish people's relative privilege over people in the global South" and people will draw the conclusion that the only reason that person would be saying that is because they want to call you a bad person. Therefore, because they called you a bad person, they're actually being mean. And when you think about it by being mean they're actually being the oppressor, and it's only natural that you respond by becoming Megahitler.

Anyway this is another indication of how sometimes people on this site play reactionary opposite day. It's a whole "actually masculinity is demonized" but with global inequality. Like those farmers in South America are the ones who are oppressing us by making coffee so dang expensive. How dare they actually.

[wanderrealms]

I remember reading about a witch trial in Finland (can't for the life of me remember what century). A farmer thought his grain was being stolen so he hired a witch to help.

The witch cursed the grain to give the thief a hernia.

A farmhand got a hernia and the witch accused him of stealing. The farmhand accused the witch of witchcraft.

If I remember correctly the judge was annoyed and gave both a fine to make them go away.

[stillunusual]

The word "Nazi" has a specific meaning to normal people, but to vatniks and tankies it has five basic meanings…. "anybody I don't like" "anybody who disagrees with me" "anybody who's a citizen of a country that Russia wants to invade" "anybody who opposed or simply didn't want to live in one of the tyrannical regimes I simp for" "anybody who was oppressed or killed by one of my favourite mass murderers" EDITED TO ADD: a tankie clown reblogged this post and made some typically asinine comments, so I thought I'd elaborate a little bit…. Tankie clown: @well1x is either referring to the fact that a lot of the "deaths under communism" listed in "the black book of communism" (which gives us the 10 million number or whatever) are quite literally Nazis in WWII, or they're referring to the fact that the only people who have been made to deliberately suffer under communism have been literal Nazis and fascists (generally speaking)

Joining the tankie cult requires you to live in a delusional clown world and believe in a shit ton of made up (and often contradictory) nonsense that requires a considerable repertoire of mental gymnastics (and lies) to maintain….

@well1x is literally trying to claim that all victims of communism are "nazis and facists" (sic), which - back in the real world - is a very obvious lie. It's also a blatant example of victim blaming. For example, most of the millions of men, women and children who were robbed, raped, imprisoned, sent to the gulags, tortured, starved to death, executed or ethnically cleansed by Stalin's henchmen were not Nazis or fascists, and many were innocent of any crime. The vast majority of the population in Stalin's Soviet Union also had to put up with crippling poverty and backwardness, the brutal suppression of their religious and community life and the total lack of freedom.

Based on his comment, I doubt if the tankie clown has ever read "the black book of communism" and I'm also not sure why he mentions this book in particular, when there are thousands of others that thoroughly document the numerous crimes of the regimes tankies insist on being the useful idiots for, and I think it's safe to assume that he hasn't read any of those books either (in fact, I doubt if he's ever read any book whatsoever)…. Tankie clown: Karina then shows an image of (presumably) some kids in the Ukraine famine. This is completely unrelated though because this famine was not manufactured by the USSR as say the Irish famine was by the English. Can't really attribute natural disaster to "muh communism"

Again - a typical genocide-denying tankie lie.

Tankies generally start by saying that the holodomor was Nazi propaganda, and when you debunk that they claim it was just a natural disaster, and when that doesn't work they make up some bullshit about how millions of farmers who barely had enough to live on were wealthy kulaks who burned crops and slaughtered cattle (and therefore deserved to die). And when you point out that the red army actually broke into their homes and confiscated all their grain, every cow or chicken or any other food they had, and that the Soviet authorities blacklisted villages, sometimes purely for containing relatives of Ukrainian independence fighters, and prevented the villagers from leaving, shot them for even collecting ears of grain from the fields, and watched them starve to death - tankies will just deny it, or laugh, or pretend that millions of holodomor victims were all rich landlords (and therefore deserved to die) etc etc….

I've also never seen English people pretending that the Irish famine never happened, or claiming that the victims deserved it, or that it was a good thing, or that Britain should re-conquer Ireland. On the other hand, it's difficult not to notice Stalin's smooth-brained groupies swarming all over social media every day denying or justifying the holodomor and other crimes of Russia and the USSR, and hoping that Russia not only re-conquers Ukraine but also Finland, the Baltics, Poland and other countries it has invaded and occupied in the past.

There's no point trying to reason with tankies using facts, logic or common sense - and appealing to their sense of decency while they're simping for their favourite mass murderers is a complete waste of time. Tankie clown: Karina then says @well1x is defending imperialism(???), defending ethnic cleansing (which …what??), dreaming about labour camps and mass shootings (for Nazis yes plz), and does not do any praxis (based on?).

Yep - most tankie clowns claim to be communists while simultaneously embracing Russian fascism, supporting the imperialism of Russia’s mega-rich ruling class, mindlessly repeating the Kremlin's propaganda and cheerleading their war crimes. These morons seem to have no idea that the Russian Federation is an empire made up of many conquered states that Russia invaded, occupied and colonised in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, or that Russia's war against Ukraine is a brutal attempt to reassert control over one of its former colonies. Russia's history of imperialism is at least as bad as that of any western country - and they're still doing it in the 21st century.

And I have seen countless examples of tankies speaking openly of wanting to mass murder their ideological enemies (or people they don't like) - because they also delude themselves into believing that if their revolutionary dreams ever came true, they'd be the ones doing the arresting and killing, despite the fact that in a real revolution they'd be about as much use as a fart in a spacesuit. They also have no idea how their small dick energy is somehow going to bring capitalism to its knees, which they'd inevitably end up crying about if it ever actually happened in reality.

Most of them are complete losers who spend the majority of their time sitting in their bedrooms huffing their own farts while reading tankie fan fiction online. Tankie clowns also claim to be against western imperialism and capitalism, despite living comfortable lives in western capitalist countries and owing everything they have to capitalism, including the freedom to use their capitalist smartphones or laptops to post anti-capitalist tantrums on social media platforms owned by western capitalists (thus helping these western capitalists to maximise their profits).

This is generally the sum total of a typical tankie's - ahem - "revolutionary" activity.

The vast majority of tankie clowns wouldn't dream of ever giving up the comforts of capitalism to move to one of the authoritarian shitholes they stupidly simp for, because then they might not be able to play their favourite capitalist video games anymore….

It's also a fact that Russia and the USSR have ethnically cleansed millions of people. Tankie clown: OP takes this insane train all the way to the station, and says @well1x is talking about anyone they don't like which… no. They're talking about the traditional Nazis.

No - they're falsely claiming that all victims of communism are Nazis and fascists. Learn to read…. Tankie clown: But also let's break this down. Who does OP think is being called a Nazi? "anyone I don't like" I mean I don't like Nazis, but I don't think everyone I don't like is one lmao. Funny tho, dude throws around the word tankie until it has no meaning.

In my experience, if you disagree with tankies about anything, they will pretty soon call you a fascist or a Nazi. It's they who throw around words like "fascist" and "Nazi" until they have no meaning (and most of them hilariously claim to be opposed to fascism while simultaneously supporting it - if it happens to be Russian). Tankie clown: - "anyone who disagrees with me" if you disagree that all human beings deserve to live a dignified life regardless of race/sex/gender identity/sexual orientation/age/disability/whatever then yeah you probably are a Nazi

Straw man. See above….

It's also amusing to observe the doublethink of somebody who apparently believes that "all human beings deserve to live a dignified life" while simultaneously thinking that when his favourite mass murderers oppressed and/or killed huge numbers of people it was perfectly OK…. Tankie clown: - "anyone who's a citizen of a country that Russia wants to invade" why the fuck are we talking about Russia? Believe it or not OP, USSR does not stand for "United Soviet States of Russia" lmaoooo

We're talking about Russia because most tankie clowns support Russian imperialism and mindlessly parrot the Kremlin's propaganda about how Russia's latest invasion of Ukraine is some sort of special de-nazification operation (see above). Tankies are generally so ignorant, gullible and stupid that they will literally believe anything the Kremlin tells them…. Tankie clown: - "anyone opposed or simply didn't want to live in one of the tyrannical regimes I simp for" tyrannical regimes lmao. These were only "tyrannical regimes" for people who actually were in fact Nazis.

Again - this is the kind of reality-denying nonsense I'd expect to hear from a tankie clown. One thing that really appalls people in the central and eastern European countries that experienced the reality of being occupied by the USSR and/or Russia, is the staggering ignorance and stupidity of western useful idiots who have no idea what it was actually like, and are not only dumb enough to join the tankie cult, but insist on westsplaining to the victims and their descendants about how the horrors they and their families suffered (usually for doing literally nothing) either didn't happen ("cuz the CIA made it all up") or claiming that they somehow deserved it ("cuz they were all Nazis/fascists/kulaks/slave owners").

Back in the real world, these were tyrannical regimes for tens of millions of ordinary people who had done nothing to deserve being subjected to tyranny…. Tankie clown: - "anyone who was oppressed or killed by one of my favourite mass murderers" yeah basically that's what I've been saying.

Thanks for proving my point….

And please note that smoking weed on your mum's sofa isn't actually going to bring the world revolution closer.

That was just a joke…. 🤣😂

[wizardmilo]

It's been years since i've had my commissions open to the public, so let's see how this goes! Read below if you're interested.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE:

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WHAT I WILL NEED:

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An explanation of what you'd like, pose ideas, the more examples the better!

Payment

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Some patience

I work retail and keep a weekly scheduled webcomic. These are mandatory in my schedule and commissions will be worked on during my free time.

PROCESS:

Send me a DM! We will discuss what kind of commission you'd like and I will set a price for it.

I will sketch out your ideas and send them your way. This is the moment when I will also make your requested changes.

Once you're happy with the sketch, I will accept your payment and get to finishing the piece.

I will send you the finished piece via Email.

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You may use the pixel portrait personally, as well as on social media. I don't need to be tagged anywhere unless you want to. But don't hesitate on sharing my profile if someone asks for it!

You're not allowed to use the commission itself for making money, but it can be used, for example, in YouTube thumbnails, stream icons... etc.

You're not allowed to edit the pixel portrait by yourself or commission another artist to edit it. I can do these changes for you, so don't hesitate to contact me again.

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I have zero tolerance for AI and if I receive any AI creations as reference material, I will run away with your money.

I have the right to post finished commissions online (watermarked with noise texture)

NOTES:

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[loveerran]

There have been some (if I may) very nearly groundbreaking positives at recent General Conferences. Here is Elder Dale G. Renlund calling on the the saints to be saints. Begin quote:

“before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left (Matthew 25:31-46).”

Those on His right became heirs in His kingdom, and those on His left received no inheritance. The distinguishing characteristic was whether they fed Him when He was hungry, gave Him drink when He was thirsty, housed Him when He was a stranger, clothed Him when He was naked, and visited Him when He was sick or imprisoned.

Everyone was perplexed, both those on the right hand and those on the left hand. They asked when they had, or when they had not, given Him food, drink, and clothing or helped Him when He was vulnerable. In response, the Savior said, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

The message of the parable is clear: when we serve others, we serve God;… The divine impulse to serve others is illustrated in a poem written in the 19th century by the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. My siblings and I repeatedly heard the poem “Farmer Paavo” throughout our childhoods. In the poem, Paavo was a poor farmer who lived with his wife and children in the lake region of central Finland. Several years in a row, most of his crops were destroyed, whether through the runoff from the spring snowmelt, summer hailstorms, or an early autumn frost. Each time the meager harvest came in, the farmer’s wife lamented, “Paavo, Paavo, you unfortunate old man, God has forsaken us.” Paavo, in turn, stoically said, “Mix bark with the rye flour to make bread so the children won’t go hungry. I’ll work harder to drain the marshy fields. God is testing us, but He will provide.”

Each time the crops were destroyed, Paavo directed his wife to double the amount of bark that she mixed into the flour to ward off starvation. He also worked harder, digging trenches to drain the ground and decrease his fields’ susceptibility to a spring runoff and an early autumn frost.

After years of hardship, Paavo finally harvested a rich crop. His wife exulted, “Paavo, Paavo, these are happy times! It is time to throw away the bark, and bake bread made only with rye.” But Paavo solemnly took his wife’s hand and said, “Mix half the flour with bark, for our neighbor’s fields have frosted over.” Paavo sacrificed his and his family’s bounty to help his devastated and destitute neighbor.

The lesson of the Savior’s parable of the sheep and goats is that we are to use the gifts we have been given—time, talents, and blessings—to serve Heavenly Father’s children, especially the most vulnerable and needy.

[portraitsofsaints]

St. Eric IX, King of Sweden

1120-25 - 1160

Feast Day: May 18

Patronage: Sweden, Farmers

Saint Eric IX (Erik) was born to nobility yet kept his virtue by fasting and prayer. He was a father and servant to his people by codifying the laws called King Eric Laws (Code of Uppland). Eric defended his kingdom against a Finnish invasion, then persuaded St. Henry, Bishop of England to evangelize Finland. On the feast of the Ascension, anti-Christian nobles beheaded Eric after Mass. In 2014, at the Cathedral of Uppsala, his reliquary was opened to do tests on his remains to learn more about him.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Bill Day, Florida Politics

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𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 :: @politicsusa46

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler. How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor. He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities. Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war. For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them. You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing their mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others. The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America. As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[doctor-rosch]

Bit of a personal question but-

Do you remember your family? Your parents, siblings, uncles, do you remember them? If you do, how were they like?

Oh yes, I remember. That’s one thing I can always count on. Relationships. Many things in my mind fade with time, disappear. I’m thankful that at least- …. ah well. You get the gist.

My father’s name was Lars and my mother’s name was Chalott. Although I always called them mor and far. Born in 1775 and 1776 respectively.

I am an only child! But my mother had siblings. We spent time with her side mostly.

My grandmother on my fathers side immigrated to Sweden from Finland before he was born. You may have picked that up from my last name. Kakkelakka.

Dad was a hard worker. A real handy man. The strongest man in our whole town! But um- don’t fact check that.

He worked on digging Göta Canal, a man-made canal that runs through Sweden still today! Beautiful route, if you ever visit Sweden you should go see it..!

My beautiful mother was a seamstress. She wasn’t allowed to run her own shop, being a woman. But she made money by sewing from home and helped out in a general store where she sold sewing equipment.

Mor also worked quite a lot for our neighbor who was a farmer! Repairing clothes, milking cows, collecting eggs. I even got to help out there as well! I would often accompany her and we’d get some produce in return. Sometimes even fabrics or meat!

The farmer and his wife didn’t have any children of their own. I think they spoiled me a little because of it.

One year one of their piglets was stillborn, and they- heh- they gave it to me! I ran home so fast! We roasted that thing. Such a delicious meal. I remember I was a bit sad for the piglet however…

Hm. Far never really understood it when I took to books and science. He was a man who worked with his hands, although I don’t doubt he was an intelligent man who would have done well as a scholar.

He was worried about me I suppose. Never seemed to quite grasp what my field was. I told him I grew plants, but never had any to show for it. Plants- to him- were supposed to feed a family.

When I finally took him to my acres, and showed him the vast landscape of tomatoes that could withstand frost, potatoes that always grew large and those sweet, big strawberries…. He smiled at me and patted my shoulder. Telling me in the only way a father can, he was proud of me.

[brandonwritesgames]

Check out Dieselpunk 1921 here!

The Kingdom of Finland

The alliance with the Central Powers was seen as a crucial step in recovering territory annexed by the Russian Empire, yet for all the promises of support and arms Finland saw little beyond hollow platitudes and symbolic donations of arms and striders - both largely unfit to be used in the thick forests and cold winters of Scandinavia. The unpopularity of the war, and the fallout of failing to retake Finnish territory has seen armed popular uprisings against King and Parliament – most calling for the abdication of Friedrich Karl, with some calling for the establishment of a Worker's Republic. A sharp split in territory defines Finland, with the Finnish Whites in the South holding territory with the aid of Livonia and scattered Russian monarchist factions, while the Finnish Radicals shoring up strongholds in the north. Finland, still divided by Trenches and Strongholds, has become a Great War in microcosm, the desperation of both sides increasing as ammunition and supplies become more and more scarce.

Finnish lives have changed very little since the beginning of the Great War, save that more Finns now see the fighting first hand. Where once the countryside was home to serene sights of farmers tilling their fields or herds of reindeer, the landscape is marred by intense fighting between factions desperate to conserve their ammunition as they struggle for food and territory. No more are small towns filled with the sounds of joyous gathering, rather neighbour turns on neighbour.

Professionals find themselves able to do what few others can; travel through Finland while finding work and food. While being paid in Markka is a rare occurrence, trading in food and shelter for undertaking jobs ranging from smuggling food to rescuing captured radicals. While some professionals dedicate themselves to pursuing the radical aims, there are those willing to betray their morals to serve the Finnish Whites and their promise of wealth and power.

[ifindus]

unpopular opinions (in terms of the hetalia fandom) from the perspective of a norwegian:

1. the way norway treats/talks to Iceland should be directed towards sweden instead, our countries have a tighter bond and we consider ourselves brothers in real life, often when referring to sweden, norwegians tend to say "we're going on a trip to our sweet brother"

2. Sweden and finland should switch personalities, or at least make finland the more qiet one

The way Europeans see Finland and the way Japan sees Finland is vastly different, and the Hetalia version is def based on the Japanese stereotype of Finnish people. Also, I know we have the stereotype of a party-swede, but Swedish people are true nerds still 👀 Hetalia Sweden reminds me of those Stockholm Swedes.

I've touched upon the Norway and Iceland relationship several times as well, along with how Norway and Sweden should be closer. Sweden is definitively the nation Norway is the closest to in the Nordics, and both bully and tease each other all the time.

Recently saw a picture where someone in Trøndelag (region in Norway) had put up an official looking sign by the Swedish border to Jämtland with "East-Trøndelag" on it instead. Also some farmers in Trøndelag keeps moving the border stones one meter east every year to "reclaim" Jämtland and Härjedalen 😅

[wokealqaeda]

Matti Haapoja (born September 16, 1845 in Isokyrö, Finland, died January 8, 1895 in Turku, Finland) was a Finnish murderer, much covered by the press at the time of the murders.

The exact number of his victims is unknown. He was convicted of two murders and was scheduled for a trial for his third murder trial when he committed suicide in his cell. He can be linked to seven other identified murder cases, but most of those happened during his exile in Siberia and are poorly documented, so his involvement is not certain. It is claimed that he confessed to 18 murders, but there are no details about this supposed confession, and the figure should be regarded as unreliable. Some sources estimate his total number of murders as 22-25. He also non-fatally wounded at least six men in knife fights.

Haapoja started his criminal career as a brawler, graduating quickly to stealing horses. His first known murder happened on December 6, 1867, when he stabbed his drinking partner Heikki Impponen in a drunken brawl. He was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison at Turku for his murder.

During the next 10 years he escaped from prison four times, spending months at large on each occasion. Around this time he gained great notoriety as a jailbreaker and a thief. His fame as a robber started to grow after the newspapers reported that he had robbed and shot at Esa Nyrhinen on August 12, 1876. Later it was found that Nyrhinen had been hiding Haapoja at his home and the men had had an argument.

As a result of his escapes and continued thievery, Haapoja was sentenced to life in prison in 1874. After his last escape, he petitioned for his sentence to be changed to an exile to Siberia. This was accepted and he was sent to Omsk oblast in 1880. During his stay there, he is reputed to have killed a man in 1886, after which he was exiled to East Siberia. Folk stories claim that during this time Haapoja killed two other famous Finnish criminals, Anssin Jukka and Kaappo Sutki, but these tales are likely false as they offer no conclusive proof.

Around 1889 Haapoja decided to escape Siberia and return to Finland. He later claimed that he intended to emigrate to America. He raised money for this escape by committing a series of robberies and murders. He probably killed at least three men and participated in the murder of a fourth. He also obtained a passport that belonged to a Russian man whose fate remains unclear.

Haapoja returned to Finland in September 1890. A month later he murdered and robbed a prostitute, Jemina Salo. He was captured at Porvoo a couple of days later and recognized. At his trial Haapoja behaved arrogantly, confessing to this murder as well as to one of the murders he had committed in Siberia. He hoped that he would be sent back to Siberia but instead the court gave him a second life term in prison.

On October 10, 1894, Haapoja tried to escape from prison yet again. During this attempt he killed a guard and wounded two others. When he realised that he couldn't get out, he attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself, but the wound was not fatal. However, as soon as he had recovered from the self-inflicted stabbing wound, he hanged himself in his cell on January 8, 1895. His skeleton was kept in the Museum of Crime in Vantaa for a long time, until he was finally buried in Ylistaro in 1995.

Writer Kaijus Ervasti wrote a book about Matti Haapoja called Murhamiehen muotokuva - Matti Haapoja 1845-1895 ("Portrait of a murderer - Matti Haapoja 1845-1895").

The list of Matti Haapoja's victims

The three certain victims of Matti Haapoja were:

Farmer Heikki Antinpoika Impponen, who was stabbed to death on December 6, 1867.

Prostitute Maria Jemina Salo, strangled on October 8, 1890.

Prison guard Juho Rosted, stabbed on October 10, 1894.

In addition, he likely killed seven other persons:

Farmers Matti Heikkilä and Hermanni Hautamäki who were clubbed to death by an unidentified man at Hämeenkyrö on November 15, 1869. Haapoja was in the area at the time and years later he confessed an unspecified murder "that had happened in November 1869".

An unknown man who was killed in Siberia in 1886.

A convict identified only as "Jaakko H." from Alajärvi, Finland, who was killed in Siberia in 1888.

Estonian barkeeper Rugis was killed by Haapoja and another convict "Rich-Matti" Kuivalainen in Tomsk in 1889.

"Rich-Matti" Kuivalainen, who was killed in Tomsk in 1889.

Estonian convict Gustaf Sepp vanished without trace in Simonjovka, Siberia, in 1889, after he was last seen in the company of Haapoja.

It is possible that there were more victims, but only these ten cases be identified as certain or probable.

In six cases, Matti Haapoja wounded someone:

Brawler Juho Tenkku who was stabbed around Christmas, 1866.

Farmer Hermanni Hösö was stabbed on December 6, 1867.

Farmer Esa Nyrhinen was shot three times (twice in the leg, once in the face) on August 12, 1876.

A farmer identified as "Koivuniemi from Vähäkyrö" who was stabbed when Haapoja was apprehended after his last prison escape in January 1879.

Prison guards Juho Jernvall and Sven Nyman were stabbed during Haapoja's last escape attempt.

During his last escape he got a chance to attack one more guard, but did not, because this guard had always been nice to the prisoners.

[mikamikapodcast]

The Drowning Serial Killer

Pekka Tapani Seppänen, born in 1965, was for years known as a reclusive cattle farmer in the remote areas of North Karelia, Finland. Outwardly, he appeared to be a quiet man living off agricultural subsidies, fond of cows and rural life. But beneath this rural exterior lay something far more sinister. Today, he is known by one of the darkest titles in Finnish criminal history: The Drowning Serial Killer.

In 2017, Seppänen was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison for two counts of murder, three attempted murders, aggravated manslaughter, assault, pimping, and alcohol-related crimes. The court found that he had systematically drowned — or attempted to drown — victims during boating trips staged as accidents on Lake Viinijärvi, next to his summer cottage. His victims were often socially marginalized individuals suffering from addiction or intellectual disabilities, people Seppänen had drawn into his circle and sought to control.

Initially, the early deaths raised no alarms. They were recorded as accidents, despite several victims being heavily intoxicated and unable to swim. Boat capsized after boat — but only Seppänen ever returned dry.

A third drowning in 2014 finally prompted a deeper investigation. Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation began to connect Seppänen to a series of suspicious deaths. He was arrested in November 2015. Although initially released due to insufficient evidence, growing witness accounts and evidence led to formal charges and a trial. Court proceedings revealed chilling details of Seppänen’s sadistic control, manipulation, and violence.

The investigation and witness testimonies painted a grim portrait of a man who used fear, medication, and alcohol to dominate his victims. Multiple stories followed a disturbing pattern: Seppänen drugged, sexually abused, and assaulted his victims. One particularly horrifying case involved him inserting manure into the unconscious body of a woman he had drugged — a deed the court ruled as calculated and driven by a desire for revenge.

His victims were too afraid to turn to authorities. Known for his vindictiveness and violent temperament, Seppänen’s presence instilled deep fear. Many testimonies were given from behind screens in court.

In the true crime podcast Sarjahukuttaja (Storytel, 2023), Seppänen is linked to as many as 13 mysterious deaths, eight of which occurred while he was known to be present. He allegedly told several people that he had killed his own father in 1994 — shortly before inheriting the family farm. Officially, the father’s death was ruled accidental.

Many victims were either romantically involved with him or had recently tried to escape his influence. Jealousy and a fear of losing control emerged as recurring motives.

"He laughed at his victims’ graves and bragged that he would never get caught," the podcast reported.

Seppänen was a master manipulator. He built a closed circle around himself, luring in individuals with addiction issues and offering them alcohol, drugs, and a false sense of safety. These people, rejected by society, became utterly dependent on him — and he exploited them in countless ways. His summer cottage by Lake Viinijärvi became the scene of many of these crimes. Meanwhile, he continued running his farm and receiving thousands of euros in government and EU agricultural subsidies.

In 2015, animal welfare authorities intervened at his farm due to the inhumane conditions his cattle were kept in. Just days later, he was placed in custody as a murder suspect.

The Eastern Finland Court of Appeals upheld the original 14.5-year sentence, ordering Seppänen to serve the full term in prison. A psychiatric risk assessment concluded that he posed an extreme threat to the life, health, and liberty of others.

Criminal law professor Matti Tolvanen called the case unique in Finnish legal history. The precedent-setting aspect lay in how the court treated passive intent to kill — in other words, allowing drownings to occur without direct physical violence.

The case of The Drowning Serial Killer is a chilling reminder of how horrific crimes can hide behind the façade of an ordinary life for decades — and how dangerous a person can be when their crimes are only taken seriously after too many bodies have surfaced.

Sarjahukuttaja – Pekka Seppäsen synkkä rikoshistoria

Pekka Tapani Seppänen (s. 1965) oli tunnettu karjatilallinen Pohjois-Karjalasta, mutta hänen taustansa paljastui järkyttäväksi. Vuonna 2017 hänet tuomittiin 14,5 vuoden vankeuteen kahdesta taposta, kolmesta tapon yrityksestä ja muista vakavista rikoksista. Oikeuden mukaan Seppänen lavasti Viinijärvellä toistuvia soutuveneturmia, joissa uhrit hukkuivat – usein päihtyneinä ja uimataidottomina – kun taas hän itse selvisi aina vahingoittumattomana.

Uhrit olivat syrjäytyneitä, kehitysvammaisia tai päihderiippuvaisia, joita Seppänen kontrolloi pelolla, huumeilla ja alkoholilla. Esitutkinnassa paljastui myös seksuaalista hyväksikäyttöä ja sadistista väkivaltaa. Monet uhrit eivät uskaltaneet hakea apua, ja oikeudessa kuultiin heidän kokemuksistaan sermin takaa.

Storytelin Sarjahukuttaja-podcast yhdistää Seppäsen jopa 13 epäselvään kuolemantapaukseen, joista kahdeksan sattuivat hänen läsnä ollessaan. Hänen väitetään jopa tunnustaneen isänsä tappamisen saadakseen maatilan itselleen.

Seppänen loi ympärilleen riippuvuusverkoston ja käytti ihmisiä hyväkseen samalla kun pyöritti maatilaa ja sai yhteiskunnan tukea. Vuonna 2015 hän joutui tutkintavankeuteen pian sen jälkeen, kun eläinsuojeluviranomaiset olivat puuttuneet hänen karjatilansa oloihin.

Itä-Suomen hovioikeus piti tuomion voimassa ja arvioi hänet erittäin vaaralliseksi. Tapaus jää rikoshistoriaan esimerkkinä siitä, miten vakavat rikokset voivat pysyä piilossa vuosia – ja kuinka sarjamurhaaja voi kätkeytyä arkielämän kulissien taakse.

[saa-na]

my boyfriend lives in an area where they grow most of the vegetables in finland so i don't get how the vegetables here are just so bad. i don't think i've bought a bell pepper that hasn't either been moldy or gotten moldy overnight here. and the farmer's market is only open on like thursdays 12.00-12.30 so that's out of the question for us. and the apples here... i get that maybe that's more of a southern finland thing but back home i can choose from like 5 types of locally grown apples even in the winter. here it's either honeycrisp or granny smith. imported!

[mybeingthere]

More about Enni Id (1904–1992) who was born in Finland, to a tenant farmer family and had numerous step-sisters and step-brothers. When she was young, she ran away to learn animal husbandry, then went on to work in her aunt’s dressmaker’s shop in Helsinki. She married twice but had no children, her husbands died.

At last the widow had the freedom to paint day and, particularly, night on hardboard ordered from the local co-op. Her brush also worked over the entire house, doors, floors, furniture, jars and baskets included. She would sit in the decorated rocking chair and, holding the board on her lap, paint pictures of various harvest chores as well as illustrations of the local legends.

Enni became a local legend, although even many of those closest to her thought she was odd. She changed her image with the cunning of a proper countrywoman, depending on who she was with.

She only became known to wider audiences at the age of 70 when her work was chosen to be displayed in an exhibition of naïve art at the Kunsthalle Helsinki in 1973.

Enni Id’s paintings were exhibited well into the 1980s. She spent her last years until her death in 1992 in a old-age home and remained active and cheerful, and she continued painting even in those circumstances. She bequeathed her ornate house to the local council; the house is now open to the public during the summer months.

http://spacesarchives.org/.../search-the-online.../enni-id/

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Holidays 6.4

Holidays

Apple Computer Day

Audacity to Hope Day

Banker Day (Moldova)

Battle of Midway Anniversary Day

Born in the USA Day

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Day (Estonia, Finland)

Carnation Day (French Republic)

Cavity Prevention Day (Japan)

Children’s Day (Vietnam)

Day of Remembrance of the Children Who Died as a Result of the Russian Federation’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine

Demise of Imam Khomeini (Iran)

Devon Day (UK)

Dunkirk Evacuation Completion Day

Emancipation Day (Tonga)

Epsom Derby Day (UK)

Fat People’s Day (Aleutian Islands)

Festival of the Sticky Penis (Queens, NY)

Finnish Defence Forces Day (Finland)

Freedom and Civil Rights Day (Poland)

Gies A Scots Phrase Day (UK)

International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression (UN)

International Spoiler Day

Killdozer Day

Knob Day (San Vansterdam)

Lassie Day

Luilak (Lazybones Day; Netherlands)

Minimum Wage Day

Mom’s Equal Pay Day

MS St. Louis Voyage of the Damned

National Christian T-Shirt Day

National Civic Day of Hacking

National Clean Beauty Day

National Day of Mourning for George Floyd

National Day of State Symbols (Kazakhstan)

National DRAM Day

National Punk Day

National SAFE Day

National Troll Day

National Unity Day (Hungary)

Old Maid's Day

Pulitzer Prize Day

Shopping Cart Day

604 Day

Solar Eclipse Day

Superventricular Tachycardia (SVT) Awareness Day

Tiananmen Square Protest Memorial Day

Trianon Treaty Day (Romania)

World Day for Assistive Technology

World Day of Fertility

Food & Drink Celebrations

Applesauce Cake Day

National Cheese Day

National Cognac Day

National Mexicue Day

Roquefort Cheese Discovery Day (1070)

Nature Celebrations

Damask Rose Day (Beautiful & Radiant Face; Korean Birth Flowers)

International Corgi Day

International Seaweed Day

National Hug Your Cat Day

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Flag Day (Estonia; Finland)

State Symbols Day (Kazakhstan)

Tonga (from UK, 1970)

1st Wednesday in June

Clean Air Day (Canada) [1st Wednesday]

Global Exhibitions Day [1st Wednesday]

Global Running Day (a.k.a. National Running Day) [1st Wednesday]

Hump Day [Every Wednesday]

National Tailors’ Day [1st Wednesday]

Power of Youth Day (UK) [1st Wednesday]

Wacky Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Website Wednesday [Every Wednesday]

Wheat Beer Wednesday [1st Wednesday of Each Month]

Wilderness Wednesday [1st Wednesday of Each Month]

Wisconsin Heat Awareness Day (Wisconsin) [1st Wednesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning June 4 (1st Full Week of June)

Wheel of Cheese Week (thru 6.9) [Always begins 6.3]

Festivals On or Beginning June 4, 2025

Happy Harry's RibFest (Fargo, North Dakota) [thru 6.7]

Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain) [thru 6.8]

South Orange Downtown Farmers Market (South Orange, New Jersey) [thru 10.29]

Stockholm Early Music Festival (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 6.8]

Sydney Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) [thru 6.15]

Tribeca Film Festival (New York, New York) [thru 6.15]

World Pork Expo (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 6.5]

Feast Days

St. Benedict (Positivist; Saint)

Betty Lou’s Mommy (Muppetism)

Bream (a.k.a. Breague; Christian; Saint)

Burian of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Cougar Day (Pastafarian)

Day of All Things (Unification Church)

Edfrith (Christian; Saint)

Festival for Hercules Custos (Ancient Rome)

Filippo Smaldone (Christian; Saint)

Francis Caracciolo (Christian; Saint)

Iris’s Day (Pagan)

Jarila’s Day (God of Sun/Fertility; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Metrophanes (Christian; Saint)

Nenooc (Christian; Saint)

Optatus of Milevis (Christian; Saint)

Petroc of Cornwall (Christian; Saint)

Plynteria (Festival to honor Athena; Ancient Greece)

Quirinus of Sescia (Christian; Saint)

Ramendan begins (Pastafarian)

Saturnina (Christian; Saint)

Vandrilles (Christian; Saint)

Vincentia Gerosa (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Walter (Christian; Saint)

Well-Dressing Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Werner Klemperer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 9 (Jia-Chen)

Day Pillar: Wood Dragon

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Close Day (閉 Bi) [Inauspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Aesop (Literature)

Mabel Lucie Attwell (Art)

Bruce Dern (Entertainment)

Freddie Fender (Music)

Fontaine T. Fox Jr. (Art)

Robert Fulghum (Literature)

Natalia Goncharova (Art)

Joe Hill (Literature)

Robert Jacobsen (Art)

Angelina Jolie (Entertainment)

Leigh Kennedy (Literature)

Fernand Leduc (Art)

Val McDermid (Literature)

Wendy Pini (Art)

Rosalind Russell (Entertainment)

Socrates (Philosophy)

Ruth Westheimer (Psychiatry)

Heinrich Otto Wieland (Science)

Noah Wyle (Entertainment)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [29 of 60]

Premieres

Along Comes Mary, by The Association (Song; 1966)

Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (Animated Film; 1999)

Born in the U.S.A., by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1984)

Bowery Bugs (WB MM Cartoon; 1949)

Buena Vista Social Club (Documentary Music Film; 1999)

Butterscotch and Soda (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1948)

Charlie Chan in Egypt (Film; 1935)

The Devil’s Advocate, by Taylor Caldwell (Novel; 1952)

Dud's Greatest Cirkus on Earth (Paramount-Bray Pictographs Cartoon; 1919)

A Fink in the RInk (Roland & Rattfink Cartoon; 1971)

Flagellatenzug, by Karl Bleyle (Symphonic Poem; 1904)

Give a Little Bit, by Supertramp (Song; 1977)

Hanky Panky, by Tommy James and the Shondells (Song; 1966)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Film; 2004) [#3]

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, boy Carson McCullers (Novel; 1940)

In the City, by The Jam (Song; 1977)

Julien (a.k.a. The Poet’s Life), by Gustave Charpentier (Opera; 1913)

Julius Caesar (Film; 1953)

Jungle Blues, recorded by Jelly Roll Morton (Song; 1927)

Katz is Katz (Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs Cartoon; 1920)

Killers (Film; 2010)

Leonora, by William H. Fry (Opera; 1845) [1st U.S. grand opera]

Let Go, by Avril Lavigne (Album; 2002)

Load, by Metallica (Album; 1996)

Miracle on 34th Street (Film; 1947)

Mr. Ima Jonah's Home Brew (MacDono Cartoon; 1921)

Mrs. Miniver (Film; 1942)

The Nutty Professor (Film; 1963)

Ohio, by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Song; 1970)

Otto Luck in the Movies (Paramount-Bray Pictographs Cartoon; 1917)

The Ouija Board (Out of the Inkwell Fleischer Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs Cartoon; 1920)

Piano Jazz (Radio Series; 1978)

Poltergeist (Film; 1982)

Porky the Fireman (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Pulitzer Prizes (Journalism, Arts & Letters Awards; 1917)

Rabbit’s Feat (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

The Reivers, by William Faulkner (Novel; 1962)

Room and Wrath (Chilly WIlly Cartoon; 1956)

The Scared Crows (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1939)

Scrappy's Music Lesson (Scrappy Cartoon; 1937)

The Sea Chase (Film; 1955)

The Silent Passage, by Gail Sheehy (Book; 1992)

Skipping the Pen (MacDono Cartoon; 1921)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Film; 1982)

Such Is Life in Mon Petit Paris (Travelaughs Cartoon; 1922)

Surfing’ Safari, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1962)

Sweets For My Sweet, by The Searchers (Song; 1963)

Sweet Tooth (TV Series; 2021)

Taxi-Turvy (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1954)

Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry (Novel; 1975)

The Three Lives of Thomasina (Film; 1964)

To Sir, With Love (Film; 1967)

To Spring (Happy Harmonies MGM Cartoon; 1936)

The Tuba Tooter (Tom & Jerry Van Beuren Cartoon; 1932)

Tweety’s Circus (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean, by Jimmy Buffett (Album; 1973)

Woodpecker from Mars (Wood Woodpecker Cartoon; 1956)

Today’s Name Days

Christa, Iona, Klothilde (Austria)

Kvirin, Spomenka (Croatia)

Dalibor (Czech Republic)

Optatus (Denmark)

Toivo, Tõivo, Tõivot, Tõivotu, Tõivu (Estonia)

Aadolf, Toivo (Finland)

Clotilde (France)

Christa, Eva, Iona, Klothilde (Germany)

Martha (Greece)

Bulcsú (Hungary)

Isabella, Querino, Quirino (Italy)

Elfrida, Frederika, Gaigala, Sintija (Latvia)

Dausprungas, Deimena, Kornelijus, Vincė, Vincenta (Lithuania)

Heid, Heidi (Norway)

Bazyliusz, Dacjan, Franciszek, Gościmił, Karol, Karp (Poland)

Atal, Camasis, Filip, Zotic (România)

Lenka (Slovakia)

Francisco, Noemí, Rut, Ruth, Saturnina (Spain)

Holmfrid, Solbritt, Solveig (Sweden)

Martha (Ukraine)

Cora, Coral, Coretta, Corey, Cori, Corina, Corine, Corinne, Corrigan, Corrin, Cory, Homer, Kori, Korey, Korin, Korrigan, Kory (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Rosalind Day

National Socrates Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 155 of 2025; 210 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 3 of Week 23 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Ren-Wu), Day 9 (Jia-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 27 Bashans 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Ash (May 25-June 3) [Day 10 of 10]

Hebrew: 8 Sivan 5785

Islamic: 7 Dhu al-Hijjah 1446

Julian: 22 May 2025

Meteorological Summer [Day 4]

Moon: 64%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 15 Saint Paul (6th Month) [St. Benedict]

Runic Half Month: Odal (Home, Possession) [Day 7 of 15] (thru 6.12)

Season: Spring (Day 76 of 92)

SUn Calendar: 5 Blue; Fryday [5 of 30]

Week: 1st Full Week of June

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Gemini (Day 15 of 31)

Sidereal Zodiac: Taurus (Day 21 of 32)

Schmidt Zodiac: Cetus (Day 24 of 26)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Aries (Day 22 of 39)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Aries (Day 22 of 37)