Shireen! Shireen! My tiny lizard queen!

Also, pottu (peruna 🍑), tomsku (tomaatti🍅), aplari (appelsini🍊).

This is really fun for Finnish learners. You learn a fuck ton of vocabulary at uni and then you do your Erasmus year in Helsinki and you suddenly need to learn another word for almost everything. It's fun and linguistically interesting, once your past that stage, but dear Finnish teachers of this world, would it have hurt you to include at least some part of this in textbooks and courses?

Hate hate HATE when your period pains kick in during the night so you miss your ibuprofen window to get ahead of the wave and then you get woken up three and a half hours early by the pain and then have to get up and take the ibuprofen and make a hot water bottle and it takes three quarters of an hour at least to make it stop and then you're super tired but can't get back to sleep. Biting and scratching and violence

I especially hate the time period when I'm awake and in agony, but not yet awake enough to realize why I'm awake and in agony and that there's something I can do about it. Just lying there suffering, until my sleepy brain figures it out.

finland has viking-themed restaurants where you can get tar-flavored ice cream. tastes like getting curbstomped

You don't have to go to a viking-themed restaurant for that. They sell that at supermarkets.

And it tastes like summer.

thanks I hate it

You Got a Friend In Horse 

YOU DO NOT HAVE A FRIEND IN HORSE

You Got A Lotta Friends In Horse

CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT THOSE ARE NOT FRIENDS IN HORSE

#smh at cassandra spoiling the mood as usual

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

Reblog if you got a Covid vaccine and are alive in January 2026.

I have like six or seven at this point. Remember to get your yearly booster, people!

I knew about Russian gauge (referred to as “broad gauge”) but Finnic, Iberian and Irish gauges are all news to me and also somehow broader than broad gauge? Why???

The gauge used in Finland is the original Russian gauge. The Soviets altered their standard and rounded it down to the nearest centimetre, which left Finland as the only place using the original imperial Russian gauge. Post-reindependence, Estonia decided to use the same standard as Finland - the difference is so small it doesn’t actually matter, rolling stock from both gauges can be used interchangably.

The one thing I love about Helsinki is the city centre tunnels. There's a shopping mall labrinth under the main hotspot area of the city so you can walk all the way from the central bus station to the railway station without stepping a foot outside even once. You also walk past two metro stations on the way so I don't even know the full extent of how far this network goes.

People that don’t live on fault lines have such beautiful and exciting opportunities for urban engineering

There's positives and negatives to all climates and regions. Some places have to plan their cities around the unpredictably inevitable occurrence of earthquakes, and some places have to plan their cities around the unpredictably inevitable occurrence of russian invasion.

kissing you on the forehead

with tongue?

with tongue. 🥰

World Heritage Post

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well I asked the fanatically religious talking mice that worship my family as gods, and they recounted the information as if it were sacred scripture. We are not the same.