Smalls
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Typical bicoastal—east coast of the US + south coast of Finland
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Astonishing. According to this guy I just spoke to, there are no worries
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Astonishing. According to this guy I just spoke to, there are no worries
Just cracked open a new Finnish textbook. The first exercise involves reading a letter written to Consumer Magazine, presumably to make the American learner feel more at ease
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just cracked open a new Finnish textbook. The first exercise involves reading a letter written to Consumer Magazine, presumably to make the American learner feel more at ease
YouTube has recommended a playlist to me called Toilets
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
YouTube has recommended a playlist to me called Toilets
Recently in Paris visiting a (I had thought dear) friend he took me to a reading which featured an Italian author speaking in Italian and translated into French. Notably I don’t speak either language
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Recently in Paris visiting a (I had thought dear) friend he took me to a reading which featured an Italian author speaking in Italian and translated into French. Notably I don’t speak either language
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The stop sign makes a compelling point
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The stop sign makes a compelling point
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Everyone at the office has been telling me "Big Zach is gonna get you" for like two weeks. I don't know any Zachs, no one will explain further. I finally emailed HR asking them to help, but they just looped in Big.Zach and said "FYI BZ".
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Everyone at the office has been telling me "Big Zach is gonna get you" for like two weeks. I don't know any Zachs, no one will explain further. I finally emailed HR asking them to help, but they just looped in Big.Zach and said "FYI BZ".
If you don’t hear from me again it’s because I’m lost in the Paris philharmonie building. I’m sorry I don’t speak French you have a Finnish conductor
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you don’t hear from me again it’s because I’m lost in the Paris philharmonie building. I’m sorry I don’t speak French you have a Finnish conductor
I guess that’s probably true
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I guess that’s probably true
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The end of Daylight Savings Time marks, for me, the beginning of Dave Matthews Savings Time, in which I only listen to Dave Matthews Band songs to counteract the darkness that is slowly consuming my life until the sun starts setting at a later time in the spring.
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The end of Daylight Savings Time marks, for me, the beginning of Dave Matthews Savings Time, in which I only listen to Dave Matthews Band songs to counteract the darkness that is slowly consuming my life until the sun starts setting at a later time in the spring.
Mamdani win confirmed
November 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Mamdani win confirmed
Ok gotcha. Yeah that’s pretty much what I was thinking as well
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ok gotcha. Yeah that’s pretty much what I was thinking as well
Looking forward to drinking some gl0Ǒ f6gi this holiday season thanks AI
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Looking forward to drinking some gl0Ǒ f6gi this holiday season thanks AI
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i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.
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plover rings and a plover box for them 🐦 silver and mokume gane 🐦the box is carved from butternut ( white walnut ) 🐦
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
plover rings and a plover box for them 🐦 silver and mokume gane 🐦the box is carved from butternut ( white walnut ) 🐦
yle.fi/a/74-20191755 Finnish news
"I was speechless": Cow returns to Lapland farm after six months on the run – with a newborn in tow
A farmer in Rovaniemi was astonished this week when a heifer who ran away half a year ago reappeared with a newborn.
yle.fi
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
yle.fi/a/74-20191755 Finnish news
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Keen Smallsheads (747 and counting) may notice this has incredible similarity to a newsletter I wrote a few weeks ago. But only one self-plagiarized sentence
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Keen Smallsheads (747 and counting) may notice this has incredible similarity to a newsletter I wrote a few weeks ago. But only one self-plagiarized sentence
Dispatched from my 30s: I tried an heirloom apple (reine de reinettes) and it’s changed the apple game for me completely
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Dispatched from my 30s: I tried an heirloom apple (reine de reinettes) and it’s changed the apple game for me completely
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Candy does seven things—it relieves your hunger, quenches your thirst, fills your stomach, cleans your teeth, makes you sleep, helps you digest, and colors your cheeks.
March 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Candy does seven things—it relieves your hunger, quenches your thirst, fills your stomach, cleans your teeth, makes you sleep, helps you digest, and colors your cheeks.
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Glory be to God for pinto beans –
For beans of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon beans that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-beans; black-eyed peas;
For beans of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon beans that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-beans; black-eyed peas;
October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Glory be to God for pinto beans –
For beans of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon beans that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-beans; black-eyed peas;
For beans of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon beans that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-beans; black-eyed peas;
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Dreamt that I went to a very old natural history museum, and the plaque below the whale skeleton read: "An Fishe swoll'n beyonde Reason"
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Dreamt that I went to a very old natural history museum, and the plaque below the whale skeleton read: "An Fishe swoll'n beyonde Reason"
Easily the most psycho thing about me is when I get back to the US from Europe it’s always past midnight and I always unpack right away
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Easily the most psycho thing about me is when I get back to the US from Europe it’s always past midnight and I always unpack right away