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police violence in finland.

court has ruled in favour of extinction rebels in a case where police force recklessly assaulted the protesters. for example, pepper spray was sprayed directly on peaceful protesters faces, while protesters sat in the demonstration.

#ExtinctionRebelion #eloKapina #policeViolence #finland #acab


I would like to hear some comment from Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates regarding this:

youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1NS1vEhS…

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #Finland


Where have you spotted, printed, #OpenStreetMap in the wild? Here is one of my favourites, #FĂśli bus stop information. They have been using it for years now. #turku #finland
@openstreetmap


So uhh...

Finnish Interior Minister, Mari Rantanen (PS), is suggesting we'd have "welfare-detectives"

Her reasoning?

The welfare system's own statistics say there's very little fraud/misallocation among those receiving benefits, so the system itself "has to be faulty."

In essence, she wants the state to send authorities to spy on the poor (kinda like how insurance companies do) just for the sake of them being poor.

hs.fi/politiikka/art-200001021…

#Finland #finpol #persut #kokoomus


I found some more traveling libraries! These are from the Finnish Seafarers' Union from the 1920s and are, I believe, to be brought aboard boats. From (yes I am at work today) Flickr Commons. #libraries #books #finland

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someone got me to read this article about S Group, a #cooperative group in #Finland that runs the biggest #supermarket chain there. The article is quite interesting, but I'd like to hear Finns' opinions on it if you feel up to reading and commenting on it: peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/…


They should do this here. Boosting Brent Toderian (BrentToderian): This is REALLY important.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.

#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
scoop.me/housing-first-finland…


So like...

Remember how Finland had #nazi minister #Junnila not too long ago?

Well, his replacement has made jokes about himself being a nazi while visiting a nazi memorial in Germany.

The guy's also involved in grooming and coercing of minors.

...And now the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is looking into him detailing classified details of the victims in his case in his book... In which he claims he's a martyr, basically.

Shit's bad.

#Rydman #Finland #perussuomalaiset


"I asked a group of Helsinki officials what role information technology has played in their success reducing crashes in recent years. 'Zero,' replied Palomaki. 'We simply slowed down the cars.'"

Finland also investigates fatal car crashes similarly to how we investigate plane crashes.

From October 2022: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

h/t @kdorse @robsonfletcher
#cycling #Finland #traffic


BREAKING NEWS!

❗️The US and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets as part of long-term efforts to strengthen Kyiv's security, — a senior White House official commented to NBC News
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Russian #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #Finland


Hyvä #Käärijä! Kakkossija on loistava! YleisÜäänillä olisit voittanut! Onnea Ruotsi! #Finland became the 2nd! Finland received the most votes from the public! Congratulations #Sweden! You won and were the favorite of the judges. @Ankian4 #euroviisut2023 #Eurovision2023


#Finland Olkiluoto #nuclear power plant block 3 is now going into full power after being first connected to the electrical grid in May 2022. The power capacity of the new block is 1600 MW and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) 42 EUR/MWh, even after all delays that plagued the plant due to changing legislative environment.

yle.fi/a/74-20027287


Elokapina - Extinction Rebellion Finland regrets and finds it shameful that the SĂĄmi Parliament Act revision was effectively killed yesterday by Constitutional Law Committee.

This makes Sanna Marin's government a third Finnish govt which fails to revise the current law. The law has been condemned e.g. by the majority on the SĂĄmi Parliament, the UN Human Rights Council and UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

More here:
euronews.com/2023/02/24/sad-an…

#Finland #humanrights #SĂĄmi


Currently pouring over a sample exam sheet set for Finnish highschool students in German as foreign language in 2020 to assess the accessibility of the exam solution. It's got everything an accessible test needs: a table of contents, a good heading structure, native HTML 5 media player with almost perfect accessibility, native controls such as radio buttons and edit fields to give the answers.
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
web.archive.org/web/2020012122…
#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German


“In #Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Make sure everyone understands this — It’s costing us far too much to NOT provide housing and supports to those who are homeless.

scoop.me/housing-first-finland…

#homelessness #cities #housing #HousingFirst


Polska drużyna Mistrzami Europy w #Showdown!!! 🇵🇱
W finale 31:27 pokonujemy Finlandię 🇫🇮
Co za mecz! Co za emocje! 😱

Zobaczcie to!
youtu.be/KXzOCM6I4Pc?t=7832

#sport #IBSA #Poland #Finland #Polska #Finlandia #POLFIN #Champions #European #Paris #blind #niewidomi #visuallyimpaired


#Winter is definitely coming and it's freezing where I am as I am trying to resist switching the heating on for as long as I can LOL.

But I thought I'd share this lovely wintery scene which I shot last winter in the #ArcticCircle in #FinnishLapland.

#Photography
#TravelPhotography
#TravelDestination
#Travel
#Finland
#Lapland
#Arctic


Westerners: “haha, we pulled one over on Erdoğan. Don’t worry, the Kurds are safe…”

Erdoğan: “these signatures don't mean the issue is done... Without our parliament's approval, this does not go into effect … The ball is in their court now.”

“Asked about the extradition of suspects, Erdogan said if the Nordic countries did not send these individuals ‘then we will do what is necessary through our institutions and units.’”

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#nato #finland #sweden #turkey #kurds


When in doubt, throw the Kurds under a bus.

Congratulations to Sweden and Finland for giving in to a genocidal dictator’s demands.

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#kurds #erdoğan #nato #turkey #sweden #finland #democracy #autocracy #europeanValues


“For as long as Tayyip Erdogan is the head of the Republic of Turkey, we definitely cannot say ‘yes’ to countries which support terrorism entering NATO”

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Well it seems like there’s a very easy solution to that problem… 🤔

Also, what kind of dickhead speaks about himself in the third person? Oh yes, that kind.

#erdogan #turkey #nato #sweden #finland


Your daily reminder that Erdoğan is an islamist autocrat and his regime has the largest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

(Hey, if I’m to be called “a terrorist” by these people and barred from visiting the country I was born in for speaking out against him publicly, I might as well continue to do my job diligently.)

Fuck Erdoğan. I realise Turkey’s geopolitical military value for NATO but just fuck Erdoğan.

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#erdogan #turkey #nato #sweden #finland


What does Turkey demand from the USA?

Precisely because these countries were not in NATO, the #CIA had parked the PKK people in #Sweden and #Finland.

Turkey is only using the #PKK as an excuse to say no directly. Rather, it is about lifting sanctions for acquiring #S400 defense systems and rejoining the #F35 program, acquiring modern #F16 fighter jets and that the #EU and #USA don't keep coming up with some new punitive measures.

So #Turkey is about erasing all repression.

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What does Turkey demand from the USA?

Precisely because these countries were not in NATO, the #CIA had parked the PKK people in #Sweden and #Finland.

Turkey is only using the #PKK as an excuse to say no directly. Rather, it is about lifting sanctions for acquiring #S400 defense systems and rejoining the #F35 program, acquiring modern #F16 fighter jets and that the #EU and #USA don't keep coming up with some new punitive measures.

So #Turkey is about erasing all repression.

...


I’m all for Finland and Sweden joining NATO but I hope with my whole heart it doesn’t come at the cost of throwing the long-suffering Kurdish people under the bus yet again. If there was ever a time to tell Erdoğan “sit down, shut up, or fuck off”, it’s now. In other words, the sultan has no clothes; call his bluff.

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#kurdishSolidarity #nato #sweden #finland #turkey #erdogan


In case you were still wondering, no, the islamist despot of Turkey, Erdoğan, has never been (and is not) your ally.

I may have been born Turkish but my solidarity is with the Kurds and their struggle for an independent, democratic, and egalitarian society. Sweden and Finland should be applauded for their support.

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#turkey #erdogan #kurdishSolidarity #nato #sweden #finland

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