Artificial river/stream, in Stockholm, Sweden.

OC, but not ”my” photo. Posted with permission by the person who took the photo this morning.

Found this on the sidewalk yesterday. Probably (tastefully) arranged by someone, but as it’s late summer in the middle of a heat wave it stood out.

Taken from a Swedish news broadcast (a sad story about a father and his child who drowned when swimming in a river).

Eiffel Tower lit up to mark change, seen as way of protecting law that decriminalised abortion in 1975.

The French parliament has enshrined abortion as a constitutional right at a historic joint session at the Palace of Versailles.

Out of 925 MPs and senators eligible to vote, 780 supported the amendment, which will give women the “guaranteed freedom” to choose an abortion.

There was thunderous applause in the chamber as the result was announced on Monday; in central Paris, the Eiffel Tower was illuminated to mark the occasion.

The measure had already been passed by the upper and lower houses, the Sénat and the Assemblée Nationale, but final approval by parliamentarians at the joint session at Versailles was needed to effect constitutional change.

The prime minister, Gabriel Attal, told those gathered in the opulent Congress Hall in the palace’s Midi wing: “We are haunted by the suffering and memory of so many women who were not free. We owe a moral debt [to all the women who]

Ursprungligen postad på: https://lemmy.world/post/2288539, reviderad här:

Varningar och meddelanden | SMHI

Risk för skogsbrand

Gotland

Risken för bränder i skog och mark är mycket eller extremt stor. Utfärdad 27 juli

Östra Götaland

Skogsbrandrisken är stor eller mycket stor. Utfärdad 28 juli

Sydöstra Svealand:

Skogsbrandrisken är stor. Utfärdad 28 juli

Hur kan det påverka mig?
Stor eller mycket stor brandrisk och att eld sprids lätt i skogsmark.
Stor försiktighet bör iakttas vid eldning utomhus, ofta gäller eldningsförbud.

Just ran into a link to this article from another medium. While I realize this is speculations, it's still a summary of models that look at the risk of concurrent global crop failures.

From the article:

Abstract
Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global food security. Concurrent weather extremes driven by a strongly meandering jet stream could trigger such events, but so far this has not been quantified. Specifically, the ability of state-of-the art crop and climate models to adequately reproduce such high impact events is a crucial component for estimating risks to global food security. Here we find an increased likelihood of concurrent low yields during summers featuring meandering jets in observations and models. While climate models accurately simulate atmospheric patterns, associated surface weather anomalies and negative effects on crop responses are mostly underestimated in bias-adjusted simulations. Given the identi

I posted this previously in [email protected], but that community never seemed to pick up any speed, so I hope more people can appreciate this historic tidbit.

This photo (not mine!) is from downtown Stockholm. It takes place in the late 1980's.

To the right, outside of the field of the picture, is an iconic food hall for international cuisine as well as for Swedish fish and crustacean cuisine. To the right, visible in the picture, is "Sergelgången", which is an iconic street in Stockholm between "Hötorget" and "Sergels torg". Also to the left, outside the field of the picture, is the major concert hall (Konserthuset) with its iconic steps that have been graced by both celebrities and random rubes, for warming up in the sun on the otherwise chilly Stockholm streets.

The camera is focused on an iconic Hennes ("hers" in Swedish) store, that was mainly for ladies' fashion. The company that owned Hennes decided to branch out and bought *Ma

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1466619

Picked up a “sad veggies and fruits” bag at Lidl today for less than 3 €, and got a pack (more than 1 kg) of red meat (from another grocery store, but locally sourced meat) with a due date of tomorrow for less than 7 €. (And I had half of a sad pepper already)

This will be a wonderful stew that serves at least four, and there will probably be leftovers for lunch boxes that we can freeze in for when we start work after the holidays again.

In the “sad” bag from Lidl we also got organic bananas (which we sliced up and had frozen as prep for smoothies), limes, half a pack of grapes and then some spring onions.

Have a lovely weekend, lovely people!

Kai Tak was the official airport in Hong Kong until 1998. It was built on the Kowloon side, and the start and landing strips were built and then extended onto an artificial peninsula.

Approaching to land in Kai Tak was nicknamed "Kai Tak Heart Attack", as you came so close to the apartment houses in Kowloon that you practically could see into the apartment windows.

• History and more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport
• 12 accidents during the time it was in operation: https://www.baaa-acro.com/city/hong-kong-kai-tak
• A cockpit view of landing on Kai Tak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx3Ccs5tKfw

This is a cross-post from: https://lemmy.world/post/1384725, the original post will be amended and updated over time.

*This list is compiled from different people's suggestions and tips, as well as some asking and searching around. The original post is updated every now and then to remain current, weed out errors or add information. If you have suggestions, updates, comments or additions to this list, you're welcome to comment in https://lemmy.world/post/1384725. *

Worldwide (or available in several countries)

• Too good to go - App-based service that allows restaurants and stores to post unsold surplus food or produce. Very popular, even though the food or produce you get is often random and it can sometimes run out before you manage to pick it up. Currently available in: *Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and parts

I was reminded of this when I read a “Shower thoughts” post about clocks.

Where I live, there usually is free parking outside of stores and malls, but limited to a short time, such as 15 minutes or a couple of hours. People have parking discs that they rotate to show when they arrived, and put the discs up visible behind their windshields in their cars.

I have an automatic parking timer displayed in my windshield, that shows the time when I parked rounded up to the nearest half/whole hour. It’s a ”set and forget” thing, which auto adjusts to daylight savings. However, it speeds up 1 - 2 minutes a week, which I didn't see as it rounds up the time, but I found out after a few months.

Once after parking, I took a quick dash into the store, took maybe 5 minutes. When I got back I had received a fine for the equivalent of 80 € for ”parking for 23 hours in a 2 hour spot”. They apparently don’t have to wait five minutes to write out the ticket if the parking timer was so off.

I didn’t c

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1339087

Too good to go is a service that started in Denmark in 2015, and has since spread to more countries. Its concept is to reduce food waste from unsold surplus in the stores, and instead help the stores sell the produce to frugal/thrifty people at a heavy discount, pretty much in "surprise" bags.

According to Wikipedia it is available in mainly Europe and North America:

As of July 2023 the company Web site covered Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

I've seen this around in Sweden from the last year, but there are other similar services here as well, so I haven't used Too good to go yet (but I intend to do soon). I've used Matsmart a couple of times which allows me to pick the products I want, a

Not my story, but an adorable ex-coworkers adorable daughters. I witnessed it, though.

TL;DR: Take away entertainment, enjoy the store pretty much being down for 10+ minutes during rush hour..

So, she quit her job to open a specialty store with her husband. It goes fairly well, enough to support a family of four. Their two girls are around three and five years old, and they usually attend daycare during the week. The store has a part timer on Saturdays and the store is closed on Sundays so the parents can spend the weekends with their kids.

During the summer, daycare closes for four weeks. Which means that if the store is busy (as it usually is during summer time), both parents have to be in the store during the busiest hours, and the kids are there too during those hours.

Behind the counter is the charging station for phones and the kids play tablet. And if the battery runs out, or the kids misbehave, the tablet is put into the charging station behind the counter. Under th

Trash to treasure, finding/selling second hand, freecycling, or clever reuse. By being thrifty you are avoiding waste and saving money for the future. This community welcomes ideas, projects and discussion on the topic.

Link done three ways for compatibility:

• Thrifty
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Come here to be inspired or get ideas, join to give us your thoughts or projects for inspiration. I've seeded it with some posts and links so far, and will continue to do so.

This community crosslinks with related communities by topic in the sidebar. If you're interested in having your community with related topics crosslinked, send me a message and we'll have a look.

This is not a carbon copy of r/thrifty, I am not a former mod there either.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/771016

Not my post, just cross-posted. OP wrote:

I’m concerned

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1212039

Från artikeln:

Hyr du ut din bostad eller säljer grejer privat? Nu får Skatteverket bättre koll på privatpersoners extrainkomster. Anledningen är en ny lag som tvingar företag inom bland annat uthyrning, onlineförsäljning och gig-ekonomi att skicka vidare sina uppgifter till Skatteverket.

– Vi tror det kommer betyda att fler redovisar sina inkomster och att skatteinkomsterna kan öka, säger Johan Falksäter på Skatteverket.

Skattereglerna är samma som tidigare, det nya är att digitala plattformar ska skicka vidare uppgifter till Skatteverket om vad kunderna tjänar via deras tjänster.

Vilka företag omfattas?

Företagen som omfattas är digitala plattformar som förmedlar uthyrning av privatbostäder, personliga tjänster, försäljning av varor och uthyrning av transportmedel.

– Men det krävs att företagen känner till ersättningen mellan kunderna. Handlar det bara om en annons är de

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1212039

Från artikeln:

**Hyr du ut din bostad eller säljer grejer privat? Nu får Skatteverket bättre koll på privatpersoners extrainkomster. Anledningen är en ny lag som tvingar företag inom bland annat uthyrning, onlineförsäljning och gig-ekonomi att skicka vidare sina uppgifter till Skatteverket. **

– Vi tror det kommer betyda att fler redovisar sina inkomster och att skatteinkomsterna kan öka, säger Johan Falksäter på Skatteverket.

Skattereglerna är samma som tidigare, det nya är att digitala plattformar ska skicka vidare uppgifter till Skatteverket om vad kunderna tjänar via deras tjänster.

Vilka företag omfattas? Företagen som omfattas är digitala plattformar som förmedlar uthyrning av privatbostäder, personliga tjänster, försäljning av varor och uthyrning av transportmedel.

– Men det krävs att företagen känner till ersättningen mellan kunderna. Handlar det bara om en annons är det i

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1135956

Foto från Big Crowd Factorys hemsida.

Big Crowd Factory anordnar filmfestivaler med utomhusbio i tre städer i sommar, i Stockholm, Malmö och Göteborg. Jag har redan postat om de som körs i Stockholm, här kommer info om de andra två.

Deras evenemang är öppna och tillgängliga för alla, därför behöver du inte anmäla dig till festivalerna utan det är bara att dyka upp på plats. Det kommer att finnas utomhusbio (82 kvm bioduk), food trucks, DJs, artister & liveband, loungeytor, biokiosk.

Malmö

För andra året i rad arrangerar Big Crowd Factory sin utomhusbio i Malmö, närmare bestämt på Tallriken i Pildammsparken.

• 1 juli visades Triangle of Sadness
• 29 juli visas Mamma mia ‍

Göteborg

• Här kommer det första eventet att ske i [Azaleadalen den 15 juli