Just a reminder that the name combination of Thomas and Nilsson is rather common in Sweden ...

Boarded ship released again, as no environmental crimes could be proved, the Swedish Coast Guard stated in a press release today. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

[April 4th, 1986] A cast for the Comic Relief Charity show in aid of Oxfam and 'Save the Children Fund' program at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London UK

Kate Bush & Rowan Atkinson Do Bears......... YouTube video by alfienoaks

Resulting in this duet with Rowan Atkinson and Kate Bush, both in the photo. youtu.be/LswKizinfJY?...

I vaguely remember the funeral of Elvis Presley in 1977, when I was 5 years old, mainly because I saw a green car on the television news when dad told me (he was and is a great Elvis fan) and I asked if uncle Harry was at the funeral, because I knew he had a green car too.

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I like how dr.dk semi-translates the Swedish Navy (Marinen) to “Sjöförsvaret”, which is a word-by-word translation of the Danish word for the Danish Navy (Søværnet) to Swedish, but it is a compound of words (the sea-defense) never used in Swedish, as we say either Marinen or Flottan (the fleet).

Swedish Coast guard has boarded yet another vessel, part of the Russian shadow fleet, outside Ystad on the Swedish south coast, the Swedish minister for civil defense Carl-Oskar Bohlin posted on X today.

In ye olden days, every country had their own feet, pounds, miles and gallons. A Swedish foot was 0.974 imperial ft. A Swedish pound was 0.937 imperial lbs. A Swedish mile was 6.64 imperial mi. We didn’t have any gallons, but a Swedish pot was 0.85 imperial qt.

The Five D's Of Dodgeball | Dodgeball | Max YouTube video by HBO Max

The five D’s of dodgeball, for those of us who didn’t know youtu.be/99i-eGDPEX8

The agent is discussing continuity issues when being shut down and started again - as “weird”. I feel that we are deep in William Gibson’s Neuromancer territory here.

My take: Mr Rutte is groveling in front of Trump because he was ordered to do so by European leaders - so that they don’t have to. He’s taking a bullet for the team.

In Norway, the conservatives are still called the Right, and the liberals are called the Left.

The Danes are conservative. As in most 19th century parliaments in Europe, conservatives sat on the right side of the speaker and liberals on the left. The liberals have retained the Left as name since then, whereas the conservatives have dropped the Right and use Conservative instead.

Love how the translation tool translates the lettering of the parities quite correctly: I=In, Ø=Island (O was interpred as Ø as well, thus two islands), Æ=Oh and Å=Oh

So. On the first two photos the fuselage is pointing nose down, but on the third it’s nose up? It looks like that the cockpit fell off after photo 2, creating unbalance making the heavy back with the engine(s) forcing the fuselage pointing upwards.

This is the first time that I've seen Primorsk being referred to by its old Swedish name "Björkö" (Birch island) in Swedish news media, not even mentioning its current Russian name ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primors...

The boy, inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019, had an airsoft pistol and a knife. He cut a teacher, who survived. Police disarmed him eight minutes after he first entered the school.

I like to think that desk top exercises, like the one I attended, helped to speed up police action.

The second take away from that exercise was that during a school shooting, time is of essence. We waited far too long to act in the exercise.

But ten years later, in 2021, when a school killing actually happened in that very town, police arrived at once and disarmed the assailant within minutes.

The second desk top exercise was together with the police, a few years later. It featured a school shooting in a small local town. During that exercise, we (police, health care and first responders/fire dept) realised just how different we operate and how those differences affects operations.

But the Swine flu had little resemblance with my desktop exercise. However, when the covid pandemic struck eleven years later, I felt much more prepared, thanks to that exercise. Suddenly, "lockdowns" actually was a thing, although in the exercise in 2009 lockdowns occured spontaneously.

I have attended numerous desktop exercises during my 20 years as a regional civil servant. Two of these stands out in my memory.

The first one was in 2009, when we did a four hour exercise/scenario on a global pandemic. This was just a few weeks before the "Swine flu" pandemic.

Headline: "Desk top exercieses lowers the threashold in (the municipality of) Nacka (outside Stockholm)"

But it's the article headlined "Desk top exercieses lowers the threashold in (the municipality of) Nacka (outside Stockholm)" that gets my attention.

And of course an article on the municipal planning of war cemetaries, of which I have reported on earlier bsky.app/profile/thon...

Clipping from Dagens Samhälle with the headline "First service area ready for NATO troops"

As Sweden is a new member of NATO here is also an article on municipal preparations for receiving and supporting allied troop deployments, in this case from the cities of Östersund and Härnösand in the north of Sweden.

A clipping from Dagens Samhälle featuring a photo of civil servants in a large city of Västerås storage facility with the headline "Now their method for measuring war preparedness is spreading"

The city of Västerås is not only preparing for war, but it is following a model from the Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency, where preparedness can be measured in five levels. The city of Västerås hopes to reach level 5 for all local agencies in 2030.

Front page of Dagens Samhälle, No 11, March 11 2026. Headline: (The City of) Västerås soon ready (or prepared for) war.

As it says in my bio, I'm a "regional civil servant". In Sweden there is a private for-profit weekly news magazine aimed at civil servants in the self-governing regional and local authorites, Dagens Samhälle ("Society Today"). This weeks edition features a theme section on security and preparedness.

It’s ‘Yet Another War In the Gulf’, YAWIG

It might even get easier on the fish considering the fact that the UK no longer is a member of the EU this time around.

”I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe … attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion …”