Back in 2016, I twisted my left ankle 270° and broke it in seven places. The damage was so bad, the Swedish doctors even considered amputating it. I spent two weeks in hospital and had extensive surgery. I paid $111 for a treatment which would've bankrupted me for life in the US.

It's been fourteen years, and I still can't write ‘simultaneously’ without hearing my dissertation supervisor going

‘Johan, really. “Simultaneously”? Again? If I have to read another “simultaneously” in this chapter, I will cry and refuse to continue to supervise you. Simultaneously’.

18 years ago, I had a breakdown over a German essay whilst at uni, said fuck it all, asked a friend if he wanted to go to NYC with me, googled things to do and found the cheapest tickets ever - we paid less than $200 for a roundtrip from Germany - followed by a frantic search for a place to stay.

'S urrainn dhuibh "an t-Eilean" fhaicinn air SVT Play a-nis, agus abair show a th'ann!

Nu går det att se BBCs första gaeliska högbudget-deckare på SVTPlay, där majoriteten av dialogen är på gaeliska.

www.svtplay.se/mordet-pa-on

Ingen borde egentligen vara förvånad, skriver @jesperbengtsson.bsky.social

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For those unaware, in 1933, the first major Nazi book burning was of the first 30 years of research into trans and queer people, far before the concentration camps.

Now, Trump has digitally burned the government's research on the same.

hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...

Det här har alla vi som undervisar i modersmål vetat länge.

Jag skrev personligen min egen lärarexamen om just modersmålsundervisning, och jämförde mellan Skottland och Sverige.

Året var 2006.

You can't complain about other children's bad behaviour when, at the same time, you're consciously or subconsciously contributing to a system where being xenophobic, casually sexist, and proudly homophobic is part of the norm.

A discussion about equality will never lead to anything substantial in a colonial society, until the colonial structures that govern the public and private sphere have been properly addressed, challenged, and actively dismantled.

We need to equip students with the tools they need in order to feel empowered enough to question systemic oppression.

The Swedish curriculum specifically states that all teachers should teach equality, solidarity and challenge discrimination on a daily basis.

Scottish Gaelic, the native tongue of Trump's mother, has a proverb that I feel sums him up quite well;

Amadan an dà fhichead bliadhna, cha bhi e ciallach ri bheò -

The fool of forty will never be wise

Tjállegoahte lea gudneguossi boahtte jagi girjedoaluin Göteborggas go Sápmi lea fáddan.

sverigesradio.se/artikel/sapm...

Det er flere saker, men Fosensaken er den groveste. Kommer Stortinget til å ta grep?

Hvis ikke - hvis regjeringa kan overse høyesterett vel vitende om at Stortinget bare lar det fare - hva slags land har Norge blitt da? Hvor er vi på vei?

On Sunday, I got to tell the world that next year's main theme at the Gothenburg Book Fair is Sápmi.

The Guest of Honour, in turn, is Tjállegoahte, the Saami Literature Centre.

Tjállegoahte was founded by Bágo in 2018, and has been a force to reckon with ever since.