Sverige köper nya transportplan – ska ersätta trotjänaren Hercules Här är Sveriges nya transportplan som ska ersätta trotjänaren C-130 Hercules. Men miljardaffären är omstridd och har pekats ut för att vara byteshandel med Brasilien – för att sälja Gripen-plan. – Det...

The aeronautical partnership between Sweden and Brazil has a new milestone!

Need some help from Swedish academics: what are the basic books (in English) to understand Swedish politics with a focus on foreign policy and geopolitics?

Bolsas Literárias 2025-2026 - Penguin Livros Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Portugal lança um programa de Bolsas de criação Literária para incentivar a escrita em português e descobrir novos

É a grande novidade deste Dia Mundial do Livro: vamos lançar uma bolsa de criação literária, para garimparmos autoras e autores de língua portuguesa.
Juntem-se a nós.

Mais info aqui, valentes:

penguinlivros.pt/bolsas-liter...

Eu li isso e levei um tempo para entender que você estava falando de dinheiro. Achei que estava falando das literais coroas e de como a Noruega era o grande prêmio dos vikings ea Suécia e Dinamarca os primos pobres.

People from Brazil at least think arigatou (obrigado) is also a loan word, but I'm quite sure that's not true. Although, they do sound close.

Eu tenho quase certeza que o Renato Russo inventou essa gíria.

A minha filha chamava o triciclo dela de motoca!

Amei!

So the word came from Portuguese to Japanese and then back to Portuguese. I love this.

Kabocha is a great word too. It comes from Cambodia, from where the Portuguese brought the pumpkins to Japan. Then, this particular type of pumpkin was introduced to Brazil by Japanese immigrants and became known as abóbora japonesa or cabocha in Brazilian Portuguese.

Thanks, this was great!

My favourite nickname / slang term for a bicycle (especially an old one) is the Hungarian drótszamár. It means "wire donkey." I've also heard bikes referred to as "iron horses" in several languages (Welsh, Breton, Taiwanese etc.) Anybody got any other good ones for Luís?

Now that I'm finally riding my bike to work, I'm caught wondering if there's a fun nickname for a bike in Swedish like in Brazilian Portuguese.

We call it a "magrela" (skinny) or even a "camelo" (camel).

@adamcsharp.bsky.social ,do you have other names from different parts?

A passport is an internationally recognised form of identification enforced by conventions signed by Sweden. Just saying.

The only reason I need a bank account is to get the holy grail of bank id. Otherwise I could just use Wise or Revolut.

I waited a month to get any kind of Swedish issued id and managed to find a walk in branch (it's at least a month for an appointment) and still they'll take 2-6 weeks to let me know lf I can have an account.

I've been posted to 4 different countries before, this takes 30 minutes and a passport.

Loving Sweden so far albeit the cold.

But... Opening a bank account shouldn't be this kafkaesque.

Sometimes I miss Brasilia and its modernist landscape dearly.

(Highly recommend following my dear friend and colleague Emerson for more beautiful photography)

Calico cat posing in a sunbeam under dinner table. She's showing you her belly but beware, it's a clawy gnawy trap.

Freya says thanks!

Tack! I'll see if they have the stuff I need for the cats upon arrival. There's an Arken zoo close to my future office, maybe I can ask someone to go by and pick up my stuff.

Hej!

Is there a reputable online pet store that delivers in Stockholm? I'm moving there soon and would like to arrange delivery of some necessities for my cats. I have an address for delivery before I arrive.

The number one movie at the box office on your 10th birthday is how 2025 will turn out for you.

Sh*t!

Vou anotar aqui. Meu maior terror de estar me mudando para a Escandinávia é a terrível tradição da torra clara.

estava a ponto de perguntar se essa é a melhor marca de café para se comprar na Suécia.

eu uso o blip viratexto também mas, honestamente, preferiria uma opção de vetar mensagens de áudio em troca de não poder enviá-las (como já é possível com o indicador de leitura de mensagem e o last seen).

Grande Cine Brasília, patrimônio da capital que resiste a virar igreja.

Viva!

Nesta segunda (18), o Presidente da República lançou a Aliança Global contra a Fome e a Pobreza, uma iniciativa proposta pelo Brasil na presidência do G20, com a meta de erradicar a fome no mundo até 2030.

📸 Ricardo Stuckert

A little besides the point, but I really wish they'd add a native translate function. Every time I hit the button, when I come back to the app, I have to scroll down all the way to where I was.

Thanks for this though, very useful stuff.

That means he's probably using Brazilian provided data (being in Manaus and all). We always use football fields as a measurement to "translate" raw numbers to the public.

Brazil launches global anti-hunger alliance before G20 summit Brazil launched the Global Alliance for Hunger and Poverty on Friday at the G20 Summit in Rio, a Brazilian government official said, with an initial 41 participating members pledging to lift 500 milli...

You can follow the G20 global task force against hunger and poverty on Bluesky
@nopovertyhunger.bsky.social

Tack så mycket!