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Finlande (2) (3) (4) by Samuel Raison
Via Flickr:
(1) Kokkojärvi (2) Kokkoperä (3) Linaigrettes dans la tourbière. / Cotton grass in the bog.
#lakes#forest#water reflection#plantlife#cotton grass#flowers#river water-crowfoot#finland#north ostrobothnia#koillismaa
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Jahtikatu, Raahe, North Ostrobothnia, Finland.
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Räisälänmäentie, North Ostrobothnia, Finland
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Me looking longingly out of the window at the beautiful snow: Oh my dearest darling....our time together is nearing it's end...but for a moment longer, I shall pretend it is not so....*ignores the +9 degrees on the weather app for Monday*
#I hate it here#this is the one thing I miss in living more up north#and like. central ostrobothnia is not even north on Finland's scale BUT AT LEAST THERE ARE MORE PROPER WINTERS THERE#nooooooo I don't wannnaaaaaaaaa there's gonna be loskapaskapääkallokeli nooooooOOOOOOOOOOO#personal
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I love learning about regional differences within countries or even regions. It's an American internet so even I know that New Yorkers are on a whole 'nother level of exceptionalism and being from Brooklyn specifically Means Something. Tell me, how does the rest of Brazil feel about people from Rio? What sets the Quebecuois apart, aside from speaking French? Does South Africa have stereotypes about people speaking all the different languages they have? Does being closer to North or South America mean something in Mexico? Italy hasn't been one cohesive country for very long, how shattered is it still? Etc etc etc tell me about regional stereotypes in your dear homeland Ethiopia make it a fight if you have to. I want to HEAR
#venlapost#like try not to be outright racist (not that I'm an expert on that) but aside from that#the innocuous things#this was spurred by the differences between east and west in Finland#I've tried to be vague about where i live but it's probably not TOO distinguishing to say i grew up in the west and now live in the east#and it's a common idea that people from savolax and karelia (east) are friendlier and more sociable than ostrobothnia (west)#(there are three ostrobothnias. you still know nothing about me. moving on)#and now that I'm closer to the eastern border I've also been made aware of the differences between north and south karelia#and how strong confirmation bias ban be lol#like. if someone happens to come by when we're on a break we invite them to join#and to me that's like 'oh how nice the eastern Finland hospitality in action :)'#while. i mean. if that happened in my hometown. would they really NOT do that#it is easier to imagine someone getting up and taking them to another room to talk so the rest can finish their coffee in peace#but isn't that more about the personalities of the people present?#in high school i had a substitute teacher from savolax#(who decided to translate it into savolax in English anyway. why are there three extra letters)#and he said that when you invite someone over to your house where he's from you'll prepare a whole meal to eat together#while over here you take guests to the living room for an hour before giving them a cup of coffee#and MAYBE some dry leftover... sweet buns idk how to translate it#he thought we were SO inhospitable#and i thought 'that's not true my mom always bakes like three different things to offer evening guests :('#before remembering. my parents moved to my hometown as adults. my mom is karelian#and her behavior in general is. VERY in line with the stereotypes lol#and how in some ways i feel some details about daily life suit me better here where i live now#i may have grown up in ostrobothnia but my roots are in the east and most of my extended family live all around savolax#so. maybe topelius was right and we DO have different tribes here#this got. longer than intended. finnish portion over go argue about YOUR east/west dichotomy
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#Etelä-pohjanmaan vaakuna heräsi henkiin
voi elämäääää
pohjanmaan vaakunat on muutenkin riemastuttavia. halutko yhden kärpän, kolme vai kenties kuusi?
straight ahead draws of Stoat
#stoat#for those not in the know#South Ostrobothnia has a coat of arms with three stoats in ermine coats#North Ostrobothnia has six ermines#Central Ostrobothnia has a single badass ermine#anyway
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Congratulations to Pyhäjoki for winning the Finland City Flag Wars!
It seems that my followers can’t get enough of the goose on Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia’s flag! It defeated Raseborg with 55.6 percent of the vote. If your favorite Finnish city didn’t make it into the competition, they might get a chance with the Finland City Heraldry Wars, a tournament I will eventually hold. I will announce my next tournament soon, but I will be taking a bit of a break from tournaments before then and continue holding bonus polls in the meantime. Let me know if you think Pyhäjoki deserved the win and what flag or heraldry tournaments you would like to see in the future!
#flags#vexillology#finland#finland city flag wars#suomitumblr#suomitumppu#suomipaskaa#tournament#brackets#pyhäjoki
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Museum news from Finland:
Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia donates its Sámi collection to the Sámi Museum Siida
The Sámi Museum Siida is the national museum with the responsibility for preserving the material and cultural heritage of Finland's Sámi people. The Sámi objects in the Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia's collections were mainly acquired between 1900 and the 1960s with the last ones added to the collections in the 1980s.
The first part of the donation, which includes the textile items of the collection, will be transferred to representatives of the Sámi museum in the collection facilities of the Museum of North Ostrobothnia on Tuesday, 16 January 2024.
– As the new collection and exhibition facilities of the Sámi Museum Siida are now completed, this seemed like a good time to donate the objects of Sámi origin back to the Sámi community, says Pasi Kovalainen, Director of Cultural heritage work at the Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia.
– The Sámi objects and their return have a profound meaning for the Sámi community. The donation is a significant addition to the oldest part of the Sámi Museum Siida's collections. We thank the Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia for this important decision, says Taina Pieski, Siida's Museum Director.
The collections of the Museum of North Ostrobothnia that include objects of Sámi origin date back to the early days of the only professionally run museum in Northern Finland. The objects were collected by Samuli Paulaharju (1875–1944), a folklorist and museum curator from Oulu. The collection was destroyed almost completely by two fires in the museum buildings in 1929 and 1940. After both fires, replacement items were collected in Lapland.
The collection of approximately 400 items now donated consists of Sámi textiles and utensils, including a goahti (traditional Sámi hut) and several sledges. The oldest items include a cheese mould from Enontekiö dating back to 1797 and rare crossbow stocks, the oldest of which dates back to 1730.
As a large part of the Sámi cultural heritage is still held by museums outside the Sámi region, the transfer of the collection is important for the Sámi community.
The Sámi material culture is both practical and beautiful in its diversity, and the museum objects contain a wealth of intangible knowledge about their manufacture and use. This knowledge is best preserved in Sápmi by the Sámi themselves. Through the study of artefacts, it is possible to revive the old craft traditions and techniques of the Sámi community, knowledge of materials and the vocabulary related to the production and use of the objects. The revitalisation processes are a form of communal and intergenerational transfer of learning and knowledge, and they contribute to the transmission of Sámi material and immaterial culture to future generations.
The transfer of Sámi collections to the Sámi Museum Siida over the past decade is a concrete demonstration of genuine cooperation between museums and the increased understanding of the importance of cultural heritage for the Sámi community.
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Considering that Herald of Darkness is playing in my head on an infinite loop right now, I wanted to bring up something about the character of Ahti the janitor - first appearing in Control (2019) and again in Alan Wake 2 (2023): About the mystery of the weird shit that this man says.
The ones who have asked a native finn about the things Ahti says have probably heard the explanation that they're clumsy literal translations of finnish phrases, proverbs and sayings, that do not quite translate that well into english. Which brings us to the next question: Is he aware that he isn't making any sense whenever the proverb or expression doesn't translate? Or is his own english skill too limited to grasp that his best attempt to say what he means doesn't come through?
I'm going to be bold and say that he's definitely doing it on purpose. That's 100% something that a finnish boomer man who doesn't take himself too seriously would do. If we presume that he is an ordinary mortal human man, I would find it plausible that he started out doing his genuine best to express himself, but after it became apparent that he either cannot make himself understood, or the people around him don't respect him enough to try harder to pick up on him, he figured he might as well have fun with it.
Finns are generally stereotyped as blunt, timid, obedient to a fault and having no sense of humour at all, but if we assume that Ahti is natively from the region of North Ostrobothnia like his voice actor is, it's presumable that he would have the Ostrobothnian wry and dry sense of humour. A man like that would definitely think "well, you're all going to think I'm a weird foreigner who makes no sense anyhow, so weird and incomprehensible it is."
My favourite finnish expression, "ihmisiä pitää hämmentää ettei ne pala pohjaan" is a cooking pun as two of the words have a dual meaning. The less-literal, more abstract interpretation is "you must confuse people sometimes, so that they don't get burnt out in life", but I could picture Ahti saying the more literal meaning: "You must stir people sometimes, so they do not burn stuck on the bottom of the pot."
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Finland's housing market divide is worsening, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
The paper suggests many properties will never find a buyer, even if the economy improves.
According to HS, Finland has up to a million homes — both old and newly built ones — in areas losing population and demand. This represents about a third of all housing in the country. Many of these properties are unsellable, even in strong markets, and banks are reluctant to finance their renovations, the paper explained.
The situation is especially problematic since much of Finnish wealth and retirement security is tied up in real estate.
Qualified but unemployed
Hufvudstadsbladet looks at newly qualified midwives struggling to find jobs as Finland sees fewer babies.
"This is the first time that no one graduating has a job lined up," said Pernilla Stenbäck, who has been training new midwives for 15 years at the Arcada University of Applied Sciences.
Several smaller maternity hospitals have recently closed, including ones in Lohja, Porvoo and Raasepori.
Some of the new graduates HBL talked to said they were now looking further afield for work, including Norway. Finnish midwives are also fully qualified to work across the entire EU thanks to harmonised training standards.
"The craft is the same across all of Europe, but especially in the Nordic countries, the status of midwives is similar," Stenbäck told the Swedish-language daily.
Icy roads
Weather service Foreca and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) both warn of extremely poor driving conditions in most parts of Finland on Monday, reports Ilta-Sanomat.
Widespread snowfall is anticipated across southern and central parts, as well as from Northern Ostrobothnia to southwest Lapland, with accumulations ranging from 10 to 15 centimeters. Later in the day, snow along the southern coast is likely to turn into rain, further hampering driving conditions.
On Monday, daytime temperatures will range from -2 degrees Celsius to 3 degrees in the south and west. In the east, temperatures will be below freezing, ranging from -1C to -11C. In the north, it will be mostly -10C to -16C.
As the week progresses, colder conditions are expected to continue across Finland, with the mercury staying largely below freezing on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, along the southern coast, temperatures may rise slightly, reaching around zero.
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Finlande (2) (3) (4) by Samuel Raison
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Different tardigrade species have adapted to specific habitats all over the Earth, from mountains to oceans to ice sheets.
A previously unknown species adapted for sand dunes – and offer new evidence suggesting some tardigrades find habitats to colonize by riding inside snails.
The newly discovered tardigrade hails from Rokua National Park in the North Ostrobothnia region of Finland, where researchers found it living on lichen and moss in a dune forest.
Tardigrades are tiny, incredibly tough animals that can withstand a wide range of dangers, including many that would obliterate most other creatures known to science.
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i want to buy this book for my mom also but. 😭
WHY is it so
it didn't even have a sad ending or anything i'm just. so overcome with emotions. it's just so—so—
You have family, they leave you places. And you have to decide how tied you are to them. If you want to continue to be.
I will one day inherit forest in central Finland, where my father's mother was from, and I will inherit the lakeshore house in the municipality my father's father's family has so long lived. The lakeshore house and its lakeshore sauna are new, relatively speaking. My grandparents bought them, to have a house ready for their old days. The farm itself, that went to the oldest brother, and is on its way to his children in turn. And my mom's farm, the one her parents bought from the family who had long lived there, and still live on the surrounding plots around the main plot that now is ours? (Except for the back fields, those my aunt sold.) What my mom has will go to either me, or the middle brother. Middle brother would probably be best, because he has no father, in a practical sense, but that depends on if he is even interested. The rest of us will inherit things from our fathers, either way, so we have less need for the farm. Of course, the lakeshore house has no fields, but I'm not much for agriculture. Maybe a little garden—I tried growing things on my balcony. We added a heirloom strand of rhubarb from up north in the garden at the farm, that I had grown from seed on my balcony. The farm house has a stable, too, if I ever wanted to keep any animals. There's no room for animals at the lakeshore house, but it has a garden. Even if I think I like the one at the farm better. And I lived at the farm most of my childhood. The rest was mostly in Ostrobothnia, and here will my youngest brother have a farm from his father.
I'm definitely the sentimental sort. The houses of my great-grandparents that were sold, the places my mom remembers from her childhood, knowing that they're all gone, torn down or made their own by others, it's to me a shame.
... So the book felt very familiar. Personal. Even if I have no farm that's been in the family for hundreds of years through the famines and wars to inherit.
#sooty reads arvejord#the house of my grandparents which was sold#which was built by my grandfather#i do not so miss it#we saved so many things from there#fotos and furniture#my mom and i the most#the house to me feels only questionable to one's health#long story
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Star Stable Online - OC [Picrew]
Saga L. Ojanperä | 5th Soul Rider | Aideen Reincarnated
Nickname(s):
Shutterbug (by Imane Highcantle)
Horse Lady (by Xin)
Little Flea | Little Dove (by Ydris)
Bug (by Wynna Sunbeam)
Age: 21 DoB: 15th of April, 20XX Constellation: The Rune (Jorvik), Aries (West) PoB: Oulu, North-Ostrobothnia; Finland Resides: Valedale Village, Valedale; Jorvik Height: 197cm | 6'6" Weight: ~95kg | ~209.4 lbs
Family: - Timo Ojanperä ( father ) - Suusan Ahola ( mother ) - Unnamed biological father - 5 younger sisters - 2 unnamed paternal aunts - Jaakko Ojanperä (older paternal first-cousin) - Unnamed maternal uncle ( estranged ) - Unnamed maternal grandparents ( estranged )
Horses: - Starfinder [ Soul Horse | Jorvik Warmblood | Mare | 11 yo | 19.8 hh ] Personality:
[ TBA ]
Trivia:
- Was thought to have albinism, but after multiple visits to different Doctors it was concluded that she just ended up inheriting some dormant genes causing the lack of pigmentation in her skin, hair and eyes. - Her name consists of 1 name per parent's choice: [ Saga | mom who wanted to give her a name that isn't from her culture ] [ Loviisa | dad who wanted to honor his late maternal grandma ]
#ssoblr#star stable#longtime lurker decides to make her first post here#sooo...hi? I guess?#and yes I know I'm late for this#but hey better late than never right?#I also forgot my artistic capabilities somewhere so picrew it is!
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September 15, 2018. Somewhere on road in North Ostrobothnia, Finland. Olympus T-100.
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Kuusamo
Town in Finland
Kuusamo is a town and municipality in Finland. It is located in Koillismaa, the northeastern part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 14,961 and covers an area of 5,808.92 square kilometres of which 830.81 km² is water. The population density is 3 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Region: North Ostrobothnia
Sub-region: Koillismaa
Snow-covered trees in Kuusamo
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. Kuusamo is a major center for winter sports and receives approximately a million tourists every year. One of the largest ski resorts in Finland, Ruka, is situated in Kuusamo. Ruka is also the host of many international competitions in ski jumping, cross-country skiing, and Nordic combined. The 2005 World Championships of Freestyle Skiing was held in Kuusamo. Kuusamo Airport is located 6 kilometres (4 mi) northeast of Kuusamo's town centre.
The Church of Kuusamo, Memorial to civilians killed in the Second World War
View from the Iivaara hill towards Lake Iijärvi in Kuusamo, Finland
Kuusamo lies in the east of Finland in the Northern Ostrobothnia region on the border with Russia. The town of Kuusamo is only a small part of the municipality. The neighboring municipalities of Kuusamo are Suomussalmi in the south, Taivalkoski and Posio in the west, Salla in the north and Russia in the east. The nearest large towns are Rovaniemi, 192 kilometres (119 mi) northwest, Oulu 215 km (134 mi) southwest, and Kajaani 247 km (153 mi) south. The distance to the capital Helsinki is 796 km (495 mi).
Marshland near Liikasenvaara, The Kuusamo centre, Kuusamo Market Square, A cottage at the Rukatunturi fell
Ruka in winter, The Ruka village, National road 20 in Kuusamo, Rukatunturi ski jumping hill
Kuusamo is the venue of several international winter sports competitions. In Ruka skiing there is a stadium with the Rukatunturi-hill (HS142) and a smaller-K64 ski jumping hill and lighted trails and a biathlon facility. Since 2002, the World Cup kick-off in ski jumping and Nordic combined and cross country skiing World Cup races in Ruka Nordic Opening in late November at a joint event in Kuusamo instead. 2006's 16,000 spectators, the competition. Ruka in 2005, the Freestyle Skiing World Cup instead.
Kuusamo - Wikipedia
Kuusamo, Finland by Shaun Young
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