Last year, the Swedish government decided to reintroduce civil defence service for rescue services and grid maintenance. Now, my local newspaper is reporting that the first "conscripts" for grid maintenance has arrived in my county for training.

“A Thousand Heroes for a Bright Sweden” -- The civil defence initiative to educate 1,000 electricians in wartime maintenance and repairs. "Going out to fight on the battlefield isn't really my thing," said a conscript. "On the other hand, I’ve always been interested in electricity and high voltage"

An article about the Swedish civil defence duty scheme in English:

Please notice the flag of Sweden, because the regime lashed out at Sweden today. Protesters in Georgia always display flags of partner countries, and especially when they feature prominently in latest events / are targeted by the regime.

Swedish word of the day: "Vargavinter", lit.: "Wolf's Winter". Old saying originally meaning a winter so harsh that the (otherwise shy) wolves approaches human settlements out of hunger. Today it just means harsh winter.

Your campaign for Nordic nukes is really getting some traction, @jmkorhonen.fi

As Karl Marx (not Lenin, apparently) said: There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen. quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/d...

Several units within the Finnish Defence Forces follow traditions from units raised by Sweden in the early 17th century. The Swedish-speaking Nyland Brigade (Uudenmaan prikaati) follow the traditions of Nyland and Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment, raised in 1626. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyland_...

Norwegian PM confirms he received this letter yesterday. www.nrk.no/urix/trump-m...

Thread as Hugo candidate for short story. (content warning: bleak)

It doesn't seem as if Donald Trump is aware that the EU countries have a single market and are a customs union. So if you impose tariffs on Danish goods, but not on Polish goods, you can just drive the goods to Poland and send them from there, thereby bypassing the tariffs.

Are we witnessing the birth of a new Scandinavism? Although the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has advocated the resurrection of the Kalmar Union, I didn't expect to see any Kalmar Union flags at the rally in Copenhagen today.

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Think of the most random tv show you can think of. Now post a gif of it.

Think of the most random TV show you can possibly think of. Now post a GIF of it.

It seems to have become a regular holiday feature in the Swedish newspaper SvD to publish long and dreamy articles about a Nordic union (they even got a name for it: Norden). Among the nice things we could have they list Jens Stoltenberg as a federal chancellor

Yup, this is my hometown, Lund, in the very south of Sweden. Notice the blue and yellow flag flying in front of the City Council Building in the background. It Ist’t the flag of Sweden but the flag of Ukraine. It’s been hanging there since February 24th 2022.

MAGA: Sweden is in the midst of civil war, on the cusp of civilisational erasure Swedes: on your paid holiday, please borrow some free skates so you can enjoy our public rink in the middle of the idyllic square in the heart of our walkable city.

In Stephen King’s 1978 post-apocalyptic novel The Stand, survivors of a lethal global pandemic finds Boulder, Colorado, largely empty of bodies as the inhabitants fled the city early on, because a conspiracy theory where NCAR was the source of the pandemic …

Ten applications for the three national FM licenses radioinsweden.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/t...

Tldr; Every country has an army - its own, or someone else’s.

2025-11-29 Sat: Read Krister Wahlbäck's magnificent overview of the "Finnish Question" in Swedish politics since 1809, "Jättens andedräkt: Finlandsfrågan i Svensk politik 1809-2009" (2011; translated into Finnish as "Jättiläisen henkäys", 2020). Necessary reading for Finns... and Swedes.

Civil defence service as a part of the Swedish Total defence duty and what it means in practice - a thread🧵

Civil defence service as a part of the Swedish Total defence duty and what it means in practice - a thread🧵

Som 80-talist är det svårt att förstå protesterna mot Öresundsbron. Eller, jag förstår såklart argumenten som var, men med tanke på hur naturlig bron är idag för oss skåningar är det ändå lite svårt att greppa. Men så är det ju, saker och tider förändras.

Call issued for all commercial radio licenses in Sweden radioinsweden.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/c... Ping @radioblog-eu.bsky.social @radio-world.bsky.social @radioszene.de

This thread is absolutely worth your time, trust me

The other day I noticed that 7th South Scanian Armoured Regiment in the very south of Sweden have virtually the same coat-of-arms as the 12th Bolesław Krzywousty Szczecin Mechanised Division in the northwesternmost corner of Poland, all be it with different colours. A coincidence? 🧵

Berlin is weighing bringing Sweden and the U.K. into the €100B project as tensions simmer with France’s Dassault. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Poland also issued a similar booklet on civic preparedness in case of war a few days ago. Good timing. www.gov.pl/attachment/9...

NATO’s newest members: How Finland and Sweden are preparing for Russia! www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Qw...

I feel that many political/civil service satires Get It Right. Although ‘Yes, Minister’ is almost 50 years old, I still recognize many situations in my daily work.

Pakistan ”created a "kill chain," or a multi-domain operation, by linking air, land and space sensors. The network included a Pakistani-developed system, Data Link 17, which connected Chinese military hardware with other equipment, including a Swedish-made surveillance plane”

From the local weekly free paper, in the area where we have our summer cottage: “Preparedness: Villagers in Södra Mellby ready to face crisis and war”. The article describes how the local (old) community inform newcomers (from the cities) on where water and common storages are.

Swedish summer dreams about recreating the Kalmar Union defensive alliance: ”Imagine a summer day: sausages sizzling on the grill, cream is being whipped for the strawberries, and ’Sommar i P1’ interviews crackle on the radio.” ”Then comes a push notification…” /1

After last night, England may be better at Football than Sweden but when it comes to budgets, we could still learn a thing or two. 🇸🇪⚽️

Having paper notes of dead kings, queens and other celebrities in your wallet, as a currency. Dead flies on the windscreen during summertime.

Quote this with your favourite anti fascist film

In the months since Sweden and Finland joined NATO, the "Nordic-Baltic Eight"—that's Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and now Sweden and Finland—have become the alliance's most cohesive and operationally capable regional bloc. Why that matters: www.thebulwark.com/p/nato-new-n...

All eight parties represented in the Swedish parliament, including the Left Party and the Greens, have agreed to reach the 3.5 % of GDP target on defense spending asap, and also agreed to reach 5 %, should NATO decide so in the future. www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

1) June 6 is #Sweden's National Day. I've lived here for a while now. Here is a list of things I feel make Sweden a good country: * Generous paid parental leave * Paid maternity leave (mother & father) * Subsidized daycare (cheap for all) * Subsidized pre-/after-school care

Today it's Uniform at Work day, where home guard soldiers wear their military uniforms to their civilian workplaces, including the school pictured here. (Guess the country based on the uniforms.) It's such a brilliant tradition. National security involves everyone, in different capacities.

The Danish Armed Forces are clarifying that Danish soldiers are meant to go to Ukraine for gathering experiences on drone warfare, not ‘training’, and that a final decision hasn’t been made yet.

The booklet in question isn’t new, it’s been issued in Sweden in one form or another since the Cold War. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/e...

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

BREAKING: 🇸🇪 Sweden to deploy 6 to 8 JAS 39 #Gripen fighters to #Poland 🇵🇱 for Air Policing mission - on #NATO request. Protecting #Ukraine 🇺🇦 military aid logistics hub. Gvmt press conf www.regeringen.se

Yes, Germany is politically divided, but it's too easy to attribute this to material causes. The first map is the winning party in each of the 299 single seat constituencies. The second map shows regional GDP pp adjusted for purchasing power (white=EU average, red=+10 % below, green +10 % above)

It looks as if Sweden took a cue from Finland, and boarded the suspected cable cutter from air, with special police forces. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

The Swedes are looking to find enough burial space for up to 500 000 people. In case of serious conflict. They seem to have an on/off, all or nothing relationship with defense. I for one of course would welcome the Royal Swedish Air Force becoming the fourth largest air force in the world. Again.

999 99 99 Some kind of synchronicity, I guess…