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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 06:24:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   What European languages other than Swedish don't call the Milky Way some variant of Milky Way?
   
   In Swedish it's "[Winter Street]", while the other Scandinavians follow the milk pattern.
   
   Finnish says "Linnunrata" and that has neither "maito" (milk) nor "talvi" (winter), what does it mean? Estonian has a similar word too.
   • Stoori Raisiolainen (stoori@polyglot.city)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 07:05:39 UTC Stoori Raisiolainen

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     @clacke it means bird track

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   • Eylul Dogruel (eylul@social.eyluldogruel.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 07:06:09 UTC Eylul Dogruel

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     @clacke
     in turkish we call it samanyolu. "the road of hay"

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   • despot of the freshwater (monsterblue@dragon.style)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 10:36:06 UTC despot of the freshwater

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     @clacke Winter Street is such a lovely name for it!

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   • Mystery Babylon (erosdiscordia@hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 10:48:20 UTC Mystery Babylon

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     @clacke "Winter street" is amazing.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 11-Apr-2022 10:48:33 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @erosdiscordia @monsterblue And now I need to listen to Wintergatan's Marble Machine just because of that. =)
     
     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
     
     www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8j…
   • Noch Nicht Hier (nnh@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Apr-2022 09:09:24 UTC Noch Nicht Hier

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     @clacke OT: I was at a Wintergatan concert, hoping to see/hear the Marble Machine. Turned out it was in fact too wide for the doorway, so it would not easily get out of the room where it was built. (It was later disassembled to get to a Dutch(?) museum.)
     
     Martin (band leader and machine builder) told us it was also unreliable. The video took several days to record, if I remember correctly, because the machine could only play parts of the song before failing, one way or other.
     
     The Marble Machine is brilliant work, anyway 😀 and the video may be the best way to enjoy it!
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