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Raision kaupungin reaktio 👍

IS:n juttu, jossa puhutaan twiiteistä ja "transkohusta" muttei mainita että JKR tuki transvihamieliseen oikeuden päätökseen johtanutta kampanjaa 70 000 punnalla 👎

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...and on Jakob's favourite page today:

235 forever

I love YLE text-tv. Only they can make it look like a dallas win at the first glance.

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pls reblog <33

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CapyBARA BADA BASTU 🍊♨️

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

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Erika's comment 💅

Yeah, Stubb messed up. His office already responded:

"The president supports both Finnish artists at Eurovision and wishes good luck to both contestants. [He] thinks it's amazing to have two Finnish artists at the contest."

[Helsingin Sanomat]

The thing about Stubb is, he isn't great at considering all the sides of very complex, nuanced issues at all times. (Even his own party mates said so when he was running for president.)

By expressing support for KAJ, specifically while on stage in Vörå, Stubb was supporting members of his own linguistic and cultural minority. Fenno-Swedes often face prejudice and occasionally even harassment in Finland (see for example the Language Barometer survey from 2024), and KAJ are both empowering them and changing attitudes for the better now. This is also what Erika Vikman means by the president supporting "his own" (she is part of the Finnish-speaking majority).

However, KAJ are also men, who by the way have been hailed as very good, wholesome role models for young people. Erika Vikman is a woman who has received a ton of hate for singing about women's sexual liberation and pleasure. Her performance is meant to be provocative, but the haters of course find it indecent and inappropriate, especially for young people to see. There is no bad blood between KAJ and Erika, and the majority of Finnish people are genuinely rooting for both! But there are some people who support KAJ and hate on Erika, and I don't think Stubb (who is fiscally conservative but famously liberal on social issues) wanted to validate their views.

Stubb probably thought he was just supporting members of his own linguistic and cultural minority, but he neglected to think about it from an intersectional point of view. He was also a man supporting men and forgetting to support a woman. Even though the woman is actually representing the country he is president of, while the men are only representing our closest ally and neighbour! Thus, he accidentally came across as both unpatriotic and a wee bit sexist.

As to the question of patriotism, I do think Stubb is patriotic, but he is also quite "internationally oriented" (he himself has admitted that he never enjoyed domestic politics as much as foreign politics). That's another reason why he probably sees no problem supporting Sweden's entry. In an interview about KAJ's Melodifestivalen win, he said he was excited to see Fenno-Swedish music break through in Sweden while our own entry had German vibes. A clumsy way to include Erika Vikman, but very much in line with Stubb's international mindset.

So I genuinely don't think he meant to exclude Erika Vikman; he just got carried away being among "among his own", but she was still very right to call him out. I hope he takes the criticism on board!

Eurovision Fact #999:

President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, visited the home town of Sweden's 2025 representative KAJ in Vörå, Finland. While there with the band he said a win for KAJ would be a win for Finland. However, people on social media noted that he has not made any comments about Finland's own representative Erika Vikman. Some people online went as far to say that the President's actions were unpatriotic.

Vikman herself said she was unsurprised by the comments, or lack thereof, saying:

"It’s great that the president encourages his own...It’s not surprising to me. But it would be a joy to see that one day great men would also stand on the side of women like me..."

[Source]

"Erika Vikman vastaa nyt Alexander Stubbin kohukommenttiin," Iltalehti.fi.

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Glada Vappen

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Oikein hyvää vappua kaikille!

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how do you make your ao3 only accessible to members???

Edit your fic, scroll down and check "only show to registered users."

You should be able to bulk edit, if you have a lot of fics.

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Minor update: According to HBL, Jakob mentioned Kekkonen and said that Stubb was always welcome to fish in Maxmo ("there's a rod with your name on it"). Stubb on the other hand promised to invite KAJ to the newly renovated sauna at the presidential summer residence if they won.

The Vörå schoolkids had the best school day ever, and KAJ couldn't have had a more responsive crowd for Taco Hej (one minute snippet in the linked video) and Kom Ti Byin, you could hear them singing and screaming the lyrics. A five song gig after showcasing school bands, cheerleaders, interviewing the president and the band: Karar i Arbeit, Dågår åt böndrin, Kom ti byin, Taco hej and Bara bada bastu.

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Adding links to Yle articles about the event:

in Finnish in Swedish

To summarise the event in English (based on Yle, IS and HBL):

President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, is visiting Ostrobothnia today with first lady Suzanne Innes-Stubb, to receive an honourary doctorate from the University of Wasa, meet local people, and visit local industry. At his own initiative, he also attended a school concert in Vörå, with about 1,000 school children from the local area. It was the first presidential visit to the municipality since Kekkonen took a fishing trip to Maxmo in 1957. (It's also worth noting that Stubb is the first finlandssvensk president since Mannerheim during WWII.)

Stubb also answered some questions on stage and revealed that he got to hear Bara bada bastu before Melodifestivalen. The boys sent him a video clip filmed in a sauna about one day before the show, asking if he could come and watch. He was really excited about the song and thanked the boys for the invitation but regrettably couldn't make it. He said he was rooting for KAJ at Eurovision and that their win would also be a win for Finland and Vörå.

The kids were very excited for both guest appearances. They had made little Finnish flags, KAJ flags, and signs to hold up. As mentioned above, they eagerly sang along to the songs! A teacher said many people had been to KAJ's gigs before; the two girls interviewed by Svenska Yle liked Kom ti byin best today.

The Vörå schoolkids had the best school day ever, and KAJ couldn't have had a more responsive crowd for Taco Hej (one minute snippet in the linked video) and Kom Ti Byin, you could hear them singing and screaming the lyrics. A five song gig after showcasing school bands, cheerleaders, interviewing the president and the band: Karar i Arbeit, Dågår åt böndrin, Kom ti byin, Taco hej and Bara bada bastu.

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I watched this documentary and omg I love it. It's so cute that they had been friends for so long, and it's interesting to see how they make their music and what are their inspos

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For fic reasons, I'm wondering how familiar people are with the royal families of countries other than their own (and other than the UK). I have randomly selected Belgium as the subject of this poll so please DO NOT VOTE IF YOU'RE BELGIAN.

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See this reblog for a demonstration of a "vetted" account that was easily revealed as a scam!

Also wanted to add links on how the scams may relate to human trafficking:

Cyber Scamming as a New Destination for Human Trafficking Victims

follow-up: Cyber Scamming Goes Global: Sourcing Forced Labour for Fraud Factories

So not only do they scam you out of money that you could have donated to reputable organisations, they could also be involved in human trafficking. And it goes without saying that the trafficking victims forced to work on these scams won't see a cent of your money, it all goes to the criminal organisation. Potentially, the triads and other organised crime groups with roots in China and fraud factories around Southeast Asia.

Find a legitimate Gaza charity to donate to, instead.

sorry to have to tell you this but if a stranger comes to your inbox or slides in your DMs asking you for your money with some sob story, no matter how tragic and convincing the story is, they are a scammer — especially if the story is obviously copied and pasted, formatted in the exact same way as the other 100 bots in your inbox

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Only the real ones know that Väinämöinen vs Joukahainen was the og rap battle.

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Oh look, it's my favourite bit from Jakob's Lidret interview! 😂 the part where he had an age crisis at 25 upon realising that watching a game show at home every Friday night should not be the highlight of his week...and his solution was to stay at home with his fiancee but not watch the show.

Wholeheartedly recommend watching the interview on Yle Areena if you don't mind the lack of subs! It's lovely and gives you a really good glimpse of Jakob's personality. 💚

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are you easily clockable as queer