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Oh dear. Your real name is Happy Traveler? I didn’t intend to share that with anyone

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Non-native English speakers nonchalantly deliver the most devastating lines to me on the regular. Today in a shop the clerk asked if I was looking for something, and I said yes XYZ, and she said (w/o bitterness) Well there must be something wrong with the display because it’s right in front of you

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I told one of my colleagues I’m in Helsinki, a place he ostensibly knows I live part of the year, and he replied “sounds exotic!”

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ran into @ppallo.bsky.social in the center of Helsinki today. He’s gotten a new gig working for the coffee shop Arnolds at the central railway station. Congrats, Ppallo!

A giant, like ludicrously large, pink donut inflatable

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I hate when I’m at the spa and they put cucumbers in the water. What are they trying to do, make water-flavored water?

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Saturday is all about drinking your little coffee and playing it by ear

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can you guys imagine a life without Helsinki in it

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s my five year Helsinkiversary! Five years since I started my crazy bicoastal lifestyle and I’m still just in love with Helsinki as ever. Also my bf as well

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

now the hard part: finding someone named that

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your wife is anyone (including your “boyfriend”) who you’ve been dating for more than two years

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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Wow, thanks so much for showing me this "Art". Just what I needed - to be drawn more deeply into the World of Illusion.

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Ppallo @ppallo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No matter how much you hate my latest opinion piece in WSJ "I Lost The Love Of My Life To Woke" you won't hate it as much as my current fiancée does, so save your words.

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Most of the neighbors came in pairs but one came alone” I would be so mad if they put it in the newspaper that I came by myself

Suurin osa vieraista saapui Palmun luo kahdestaan. Yksi naapuri saapui paikalle yksin.

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

+ when the day arrived “my heart was almost beating out of my chest”

Sydämeni pamppaili melkein rinnasta ulos

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s worth running that one through Google Translate. A couple standout lines in my bad translation: “Helsinki resident Julia Palmu did something unthinkable for most Helsinkians: she invited neighbors she’d never met over for coffee and cake”

Helsingin Kalliossa asuva Julia Palmu teki jotain, mikä ei monen helsinkiläisen kohdalla tulisi kuuloonkaan.

Hän kutsui tuntemattomat naapurinsa luokseen kakkukahveille.

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I love that you aren’t home but had an available picture of your pepper grinder

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It’s a family website Wanda

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PARIS PEUGEOT BLACK PEPPER MILL 18 CM

boutique.peugeot.com/paris-peugeo... I have this one. Btw side note Finns pronounce “Peugeot” the way they do all words, like it’s spelled. it’s an amazing sonic experience. I have a favorite pepper supplier as well but they are US based and I concede you can prob find some in Canada as well

boutique.peugeot.com

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The country code for Finland is 358 because they were the 358th country to get phone service #finnfacts

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Grobian Syboe @grobiansyboe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All in some kind of nonsense language

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so apparently all of those kicks and punches are real, and causing real and actual harm 💔

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finland! The route I took to get to the bus stop

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What an awesome resource, thanks for sharing!

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This is what the vibes were like today

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I was on the phone with my bf and I sent him this picture and said it makes me feel 100 years old, like I’ve never heard any of these words before. And he said (completely seriously) Yes, it’s like Zendaya is kimchi

Openings & Closings:
Boston retail
Morandi, Elli Parr, It's For Now, Sweetish Fish are open at The Current
Brodenim is opening at The Superette
Bylt has closed in Back Bay
Skims is getting closer to opening in the Seaport
Norwegian Wool is open on Newbury St.

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