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Dave Sayers
@davesayers.bsky.social
Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-7132
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In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Because it'll probably get cut, I wanted to post this footnote here for posterity
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What are your plans for Christmas?

Me:
December 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Oh my god…
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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AI ran our office vending machine for several weeks. It lost hundreds of dollars, gave away a PlayStation, bought a live fish—and taught us a lot about AI agents, writes Joanna Stern.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
on.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Stay safe out there y'all
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Amazing speech on the value of the arts. youtube.com/watch?v=ODSK...
Tim Minchin’s Full Speech at The Art of Tax Reform Summit 2025 - NSW, Australia
YouTube video by Tim Minchin
youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Become ungovernable
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Turns out Reviewer 2 is Ikea??
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Dr. Nneka D. Dennie 💁🏾‍♀️🇻🇨✊🏾
@BlkGrlBrilliant:

“before you send that email, ask yourself: is this a december problem or a january problem?”
December 14, 2023 at 1:42 AM
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When I got to grad school, this is one of the first things a PhD candidate told us during new student orientation. "Everyone got here by being smart. You distinguish yourself by being kind."
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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With alt-text.

I laughed.
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Next in the @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social 2025-26 English online seminar series, 12 Jan at 16:00 EET:

'Self-promotion, ideology and power in the social media posts of Nigerian Female Political Leaders' (Lily Chimuanya, Covenant University, Nigeria)

Register/abstract👇👇 Go go!
r.jyu.fi/engseminars2...
JYU English seminars - 2025-26
2025-26
r.jyu.fi
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I recently took a long journey with several trains. Lots of people coughing and sneezing. I wore masks. I didn't catch anything. It's not rocket surgery folks.
A respirator can help prevent...
When will the public understand this basic concept?
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Interesting correlations! (Not sure about causation.) A Reddit thread on this (www.reddit.com/r/Productivi...) suggests that volleyball is so bad because of knee injuries limiting later life. Sumo and mountaineering I guess are more obvious. 😬
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
My train is delayed. On a more positive note, according to the live tracking page, we arrived on time. 🙃
December 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
How your chocolate eclairs find me.
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Hyvää #itsenäisyyspäivä ä!

Olen isänmaallinen ihminen. Rakastan Suomea, suomen kieltä ja kulttuuria, sen luontoa ja vuodenaikoja.

Aggressiivista patriotismia taas vihaan ja olen vihainen siitä, että isänmaallisuus on omittu rasistiseen käyttöön.

Suomen leijona - kaikkien leijona.
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Before buying a Christmas toy for a friend or relative's child, imagine its tune or noise being played over and over and over and over and over...
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You know you're working in Finland when the room booking system includes a sauna - or indeed, a meeting room with a sauna!
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM