#svenskheter

[skeppsbrott]

SVERIGEVÄNNER

Eller ja, ni svenskar som har en relation till Eurovision.

Här är dina stolpar för vad du ska skriva i ditt mejl:

Namn, ålder och ort

Ditt ärende (be SVT sätta tryck på EBU att stänga av Israel från Eurovision 2024)

Hänvisa till NGOs som Amnesty, Läkare Utan Gränser, etc., och deras uttalande om den humanitära katastrofen som just nu utspelar sig i Gaza (du kan länka till SVTs egna artiklar om detta)

Påtala tävlingens syfte (att främja fred och internationell gemenskap)

Påtala hur tävlingens trovärdighet och Sveriges värdskap kommer komma att ifrågasättas om Israel deltar

Påtala Sveriges ansvar som värdland och vår makt inom Eurovisionsammanhang

Påtala att Ryssland uteslöts just för att TV-bolagen utmanade EBUs beslut och fortfarande är uteslutna

Skriv något om din relation till tävlingen (hur länge du kollat, eventuella ritualer och traditioner, något kort bara)

Var tydlig i att du kommer delta i en bojkott mot Eurovision om EBU tillåter Israel att delta (det är också okej att vara tydlig med att du kommer vara ledsen över om så sker)

Var artig och vänlig men tydlig och bestämd

Undvik radikal politik - målet är inte att övertyga någon tjomme på SVT om att imperialism och nationalism är fel, målet är att övertyga dem om att det är en JÄTTEDÅLIG idé att låta Israel tävla och att vi är många som bryr oss om detta.

Här är mejladressen för kontakt med SVT: kontakt@svt.se

Här är en länk till EBUs uttalande om avstängningen av Ryssland 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220313071630/https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-russia-2022

@svenskjavel @dagenssvenska

[tjurenfrangubbangen]

Några "söta" valentin/alla hjärtans dag-kort att skicka någon du tycker om denna dag

[skeppsbrott]

ours doesn't exist anymore which is a shame because the friendly blue white profile is actually pretty banging /:

theres a popular brand in canada called no name brand and it manufactures everything you can imagine in a grocery store and it kind of makes me feel like im in a world no one bothered to do much world building for

[atsvensson]

Vad innebär det att vara svensk - svenskarna och Chicago

Det är vanligt att svenskar anser att den som bor i Sverige är svensk. En vanlig åsikt är också att den som pratar svenska är svensk eller att den som är svensk medborgare är svensk. Men förmodligen är det mycket mer komplicerat än så. Så vad innebär det att vara svensk? Det kan åskådliggöras med situationen i Chicago där svenskar, svenskhet eller svensk kultur är tydligt närvarande. I början av…

[skeppsbrott]

What a great excuse to share one of my favourite Stockholm photos! The Stockholm telephone tower!

Stockholm was very early with landline connections and had a proportionally huge amount of users. The telephone tower was only functional between the 1880s and the 1910s, but the construction remained into the 1950s.

My therapist: the Stockholm telephone tower is no more. It can't hurt you.

The Stockholm telephone tower:

(as you can see, these photos were taken during snowy days, which is why the lines are so visible)

Have been thinking a lot lately about how, when a new technology emerges, people who were born after the shift have trouble picturing exactly what The Before was like (example, the fanfic writer who described the looping menu on a VHS tape), and even people who were there have a tendency to look back and go "Wow, that was... wild."

Today's topic: The landline. A lot of people still have them, but as it's not the only game in town, it's an entirely different thing now.

(Credit to @punk-de-l-escalier who I was talking to about this and made some contributions)

for most of the heyday of the landline, there was no caller ID of any kind. Then it was a premium service, and unless you had a phone with Caller ID capability-- and you didn't-- you had to buy a special box for it. (It was slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes.)

Starting in the early nineties, there WAS a way to get the last number dialed, and if desired, call it back. It cost 50 cents. I shit you not, the way you did it was dialing "*69". There's no way that was an accident.

If you moved, unless it was in the same city-- and in larger cities, the same PART of the city-- you had to change phone numbers.

As populations grew, it was often necessary to take a whole bunch of people and say "Guess what? You have a new area code now."

The older the house, the fewer phone jacks it had. When I was a kid, the average middle-class house had a phone jack in the kitchen, and one in the master bedroom. Putting in a new phone jack was expensive... but setting up a splitter and running a long phone cord under the carpet, through the basement or attic, or just along the wall and into the next room was actually pretty cheap.

Even so, long phone cords were pretty much a thing on every phone that could be conveniently picked up and carried.

The first cordless phones were incredibly stupid. Ask the cop from my hometown who was talking to his girlfriend on a cordless phone about the illegal shit he was doing, and his wife could hear the whole thing through her radio.

For most of the heyday of the landline, there was no contact list. Every number was dialed manually. Starting in the mid-eighties, you could get a phone with speed dial buttons, but I cannot stress how much they sucked, because you had to label them with a goddamn pencil, you only had ten or twenty numbers, reprogramming them was a bitch, and every once in a while would lose all of the number in its memory.

All of the phone numbers in your city or metro area were delivered to you once a year in The Phone Book, which was divided between the White Pages (Alphabetic), the Yellow Pages (Businesses, by type, then alphabetic), and the Blue Pages (any government offices in your calling area (which we will get to in a moment)).

Listing in the white pages was automatic; to get an unlisted number cost extra.

Since people would grab the yellow pages, find the service they need, and start calling down the list, a lot of local business names where chosen because they started with "A", and "Aardvark" was a popular name.

Yes, a fair chunk of the numbers in it were disconnected or changed between the time it was printed and it got to your door, much less when you actually looked it up.

One phone line per family was the norm.

Lots and lots and LOTS of kids got in trouble because their parents eavesdropped on the conversation by picking up another phone connected to the same line.

A fair number of boys with similar voices to their father got in trouble because one of their friends didn't realize who they were talking to.

And of course, there were the times where you couldn't leave the house, because you were expecting an important phone call.

Or when you were in a hotel and had to pay a dollar per call. (I imagine those charges haven't gone away, but who pays them?)

Since you can't do secondary bullet points, I'll break a couple of these items out to their own lists, starting with Answering Machines.

these precursors to voicemail were a fucking nightmare.

The first generation of consumer answering machines didn't reach the market until the mid-eighties. They recorded both the outgoing message and the incoming calls onto audio cassettes.

due to linear nature of the audio cassette, the only way to save an incoming call was to physically remove the cassette and replace it with a new one.

they were prone to spectacular malfunction; if the power went out, rather than simply fail to turn back on, they would often rewind the cassette for the incoming messages to the beginning, because it no longer knew where the messages were, or how many there were.

Another way they could go wrong was to start playing the last incoming call as the outgoing message.

Most people, rather than trying to remember to turn it on each time they went out and turn it off when they got back, would just leave it on, particularly when they discovered that you could screen incoming calls with it.

Rather a lot of people got themselves in trouble because they either didn't get to the phone before the answering machine, or picked up when they heard who was calling, and forgot that the answering machine was going-- thus recording some or all of the phone call.

Eventually the implemented a feature where you could call your answering machine, enter a code, and retrieve your messages. The problem was that most people couldn't figure out how to change their default code, and those that did didn't know it reset anytime the power went out. A guy I went to college with would call his ex-girlfriend's machine-- and her current boyfriend's-- and erase all the messages. He finally got busted when she skipped class and heard the call come in.

And, of course, there's the nightmare that was long-distance.

Calls within your local calling area were free. (Well, part of the monthly charge.) This usually meant the city you lived in and its suburbs. Anything outside this calling area was an extra per-minute charge.

This charge varied by time of day and day of the week, which made things extra fun when your friend on the west coast waited until 9pm for the lower charges, but you were on the east coast and it was midnight.

Depending on your phone company, and your long distance plan, the way your long distance work varied wildly. Usually in-state was cheaper-- with zones within the state that varied by price, and out of state had its own zones.

Your long distance plan came in lots and lots of distracting packages, and was billed to your phone bill.

At one point, when I was living in North Carolina, a scammer set themselves up as a long distance company and notified the phone company that a shitload of people had switched to their service. They got caught fairly quickly, but I was annoyed because they were actually charging less than AT&T.

"Would you like to change your long distance plan" was the 80's and 90's equivalent of "We have important news about your car insurance."

Had a friend who lived at the edge of a suburb in Birmingham, and for her to call her friend two miles down the street was long-distance, because the boundary of the calling area was right between them.

[anderslindberg]

Får jag och Bojan plats i Anderssons svenskhet?

https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/O8maGw/magdalena-anderssons-sverige?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[skeppsbrott]

Det har rapporterats från anonyma källor om att möjligheten till egenremiss till transvården kommer försvinna. Egenremiss innebär att du som söker könsbekräftande behandling inte behöver gå genom annan vårdinstans för att kunna ställa dig i kö till transvården (en kö som i nuläget ligger på uppemot 30 månader beroende på var i landet du bor).

Det är alltid möjligt att gå ur kön, men att förkorta sin kötid är mycket svårare, så det kan vara värt att undersöka möjligheten till egenremittering ASAP för dig som känner att könsbekräftande behandling kanske ligger i din framtid (även om du i nuläget inte är säker). När den här förändringen skulle ta plats och exakt vad det innebär vet vi inte men risken är att det kommer gå väldigt snabbt.

@svenskjavel @dagenssvenska

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so the thing about Swedish is that while "flod" is indeed a term for a running body of water, it's also not a word used for any such bodies of water in Sweden. There are no "flodar" in Sweden. The Nile? The Amazon? The Mississippi? Flodar, all of them. Nationally, however, we have:

Bäck, å, älv and fors. Are they still rivers/flodar? Yes. Are they named as such? Absolutely not.

How do you say river in your European languages?

by european_languages_

[skeppsbrott]

Lite pinsamt att folk fortfarande tycker kungen är kul och meme-ig!

Kungen på transflagga är bara kul om man kan förtränga att han fortfarande är bitter över att Victoria är före Carl Philip i tronföljden, att han står utanför lagar och demokratiska fri- och rättigheter, att Lundsbergsskolan gång på gång utpekas som korrupt och med helt vansinnig elevkultur.

"Nej, nej jag kan faktiskt inte dra mig till minne att jag någonsin skulle ha varit på en sådan klubb".

Tror ni att ett kungabarn som visade sig vara homo- eller bisexuell skulle få leva sin sanning öppet? Ett kungabarn som råkade vara trans? Ditt enda jobb som arvinge är att se till att föröka dig. Ja, det måste vara ditt kött och blod, nej, det spelar ingen roll att släkten Bernadotte inte har någonting med Vasa eller kung Erik att göra.

Låt dig inte luras av Young Royals; för den som faktiskt är nära kungamakten nog att ständigt behöva förhålla sig till den, är en världsbild där vissa människor har mer medfödd dignitet och rätt till makt än andra, ett ofrånkomligt faktum.

Familjen Bernadotte lär vara bra reklam för Sverige men de som står i kassor och går rundvisningar på Slottet har sämre lön och arbetstrygghet än vad jag hade på samtliga mina resturang- och barkneg. Slottet har 1400+ rum och i enorma salar står små koppar som hört till Marie Antoinette undangömda bland tusentals andra ovärderliga och unikt magnifika föremål.

Om kungen var allierad på riktigt skulle han låta mig och alla mina vänner suga transkuk på silvertronen.

[liljakonvalj]

några till julaklendermemes, för att jag kan

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Fredrik Lyxzén förklarar Refuseds agenda i svensk TV någon gång runt sekelskiftet.

VI HÅLLER INGET VI LOVAR

KLASSKRIG

LIVET BLIR EN LEK

STÖRTA KAPTIALISMEN

LEGALISERA ???

AVSKAFFA PARLAMENTARISMEM

Eng:

WE KEEP NO PROMISES WE MAKE

CLASS WAR

LIFE BECOMES PLAY

TEAR DOWN CAPITALISM

LEGALIZE ???

TEAR DOWN PARLIAMENTARISM

[skeppsbrott]

Markoolio is the performing name of Marko Lehtosalo, who made a career in Sweden at the turn of the century making humorous, tongue-in-cheek and often crass rap music. Think eurodance - Barbie Girl is bubblegum pop but it also features the line "undress me anywhere". He comes from a pretty rough background and became a beloved public figure. His music is still played at after-skis and cheesy nostalgia parties all over the country, though he has mostly dropped the Markoolio persona, releasing his last full length record in 2012. The game seems to play mostly on his persona as party-crazy and kinda dorky Finnish guy. As you can see, it is also signed (:

I am old enough that his music is immediate nostalgia catnip for my pre-teen years, if you're interested, check out "Vi drar till fjällen", "Mera mål", "Rocka på" and "Värsta schlagern"

Sow this weird board game, i don't know who he is. (Price is 4.81 in usd)

[skeppsbrott]

En ultimate-jullåt -turné för dig som inte har tillräckligt med bråk i din familj denna helg.

[actual-howlinglikeaseaturtle]

Bitch jag kollar på en ö i havet som jag inte sett sen jag var lite och alltså...pique svenskhet tbh. Två flickor som fick fly för att dom var judar och tanterna dom stanna med ba: NI MÅSTE GÅ TILL DENNA KRISTNA KYRKA

Finns det nå mer svenskt än att tvinga invandrare/icke svenskar att överge sin kultur och assimilera sig till det svenska samhället 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃