Dave Sayers

@davesayers

Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮

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Dave Sayers@davesayers· 2d

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Dave Sayers@davesayers· 13d

I sympathise, Bluesky.

Bluesky banner with an automatic error message "Not Enough Resources".

Dave Sayers@davesayers· May 22

Dave Sayers@davesayers· May 20

In Finland, there are still a few shivering huddled scraps of snow. Here's how it works: - in winter, snow falls, and grit is spread on top - grit & snow are ploughed & dumped in huge mounds - in spring, snow melts, but grit doesn't! - grit insulates snow - snow melts ever more slowly under the grit

A wooded area with a small patch of snow a grit.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Mar 18

The three genders of bargain.

Josef Seibel website sections: Womens outlet, Mens outlet, Vegan outlet

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Mar 13

I think we're all overlooking a pretty obvious way to get the oil across the desert. It's been right there since at least 1990. www.imdb.com/title/tt0100...

Subterranean desert monster from the 1990 film Tremors.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Jan 4

A person on a beach, hands held up high, as a huge tidal wave looms above them. The tidal wave is captioned 'My email inbox'. The person is captioned 'Me after my holiday'.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 30

When you're proscribing against prescribing, are you...? (But maybe your user handle gives it away a bit.)

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 19

What are your plans for Christmas? Me:

Photo of a fish called The Black Swallower, which has eaten a fish much bigger than itself and is now hugely stretched at the middle.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 15

Turns out Reviewer 2 is Ikea??

An Ikea item with the label "Generic article".

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 7

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. 😬

Table showing increased or decreased life expectancy for about 35 different types of athletes. The biggest increases are for pole vaulting, gymnastics, and fencing. The biggest decreases are for sumo, volleyball, and mountaineering.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Nov 30

You know you're working in Finland when the room booking system includes a sauna - or indeed, a meeting room with a sauna!

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Nov 24

Picture of dead leaves with the caption: You know if you don't rake the leaves they turn into soil, right? They don't break into your house and drink all your wine or anything.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Oct 13

Timeline cleanse! Autumn in central Finland. 🍂🇫🇮😊

Sunset over lake Jyväsjärvi, as a boat sends gentle ripples across the surface of the water.

Tall trees in the early evening, with the warm sun shining on to their top halves, and a blue sky above with some white fluffy clouds.

Surburban houses with long stretching lawns out front, and rich autumnal coloured trees behind. Blue sky with white fluffy clouds.

Boats leisurely perched on the shore of lake Jyväsjärvi. Autumnal coloured trees around the shore in the background, and their reflection on the calm still water. Blue sky with white fluffy clouds.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Oct 7

If you're painting a ceiling and having to look up the whole time, I have two words for you: travel pillow.

A travel pillow that sits around the neck and supports the head.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Oct 3

Stock reply to anyone complaining about singular "they" and pretending it's just about standards and not transphobia. If that's really their jam, they should get back into using "thou". books.google.co.uk/books?id=YKQ...

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Sep 15

How your email finds me.

A truck that has partially fallen into a river after the bridge below it collapsed.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Sep 15

Without comment on this specific book / authors, I would note Routledge was downgraded here in Finland for MASSIVELY increasing their publication volumes, apparently at expense of quality. I've also seen lots of anecdotes about declining editorial standards there. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/re-e...

Graph showing publication volumes for major academic publishers 2011-2020. Routledge's output was already the highest but still increased fivefold in that period.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· May 30

Today I learned there is no Finnish word for 'overwhelmed'. That is all.

UN: Finland's the world's happiest country for the 5th year running!
Finns: [two photos of Finnish men not smiling even slightly]

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Mar 13

I think one of my greatest achievements in academic writing might be secretly squeezing in some terminology from A-Level Geology into an academic book chapter about language policy. Interdisciplinarity.🤘 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s–80s embodied a historic worldwide shift, a wholesale subduction of collectivist statism under the accreting prism of atomistic self-determination.

Geological diagram of an accretionary wedge, including the accretionary prism and subduction zone. Credit: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretionary_wedge

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Mar 6

My students imagining anything that happened more than about 4 years ago.

A diagram of geological time, spanning back 4.6 billion years.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Feb 24

Can you cut blue cheese with a cheese slicer? No. But is it fun finding out? Also no.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Feb 19

Someone graduated from the Rainier Wolfcastle School of Government. www.inc.com/kit-eaton/do...

News article: "DOGE Fired Key Nuclear Safety Staff, Triggering a Scramble to Find Them and Rehire Them

It would be funny in, say, an Austin Powers movie, but a mad, weekend-long race to rehire hundreds of recently fired security-cleared experts needed to keep America’s nuclear systems safe wasn’t a joke."

Then a screenshot of The Simpsons where Rainier Wolfcastle is leaning over looking at his shoes saying "On closer inspection, these are loafers", except "loafers" is replaced with "necessary to prevent nuclear apocalypse".

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Feb 14

Roses are red Just like my larynx And now that I think of it Also my pharynx

Diagram of the vocal tract from the lips to the esophagus, including the larynx and pharynx.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Feb 11

Scene from The Simpsons: bus driver saying "Don't make me tap the sign."

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Feb 6

I thought we were supposed to avoid research silos?

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Jan 4

Research: swallowing discarded cell batteries causes thousands of sudden, excruciatingly painful deaths every year. Capitalism: we, hah, we clearly haha we can't hahaha replace them!!1! But L00k! We'll make a *big compromise* and use really tough packaging! With a warning logo!

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 30

Earlier I mentioned the thick snow. These moves were done in all different conditions, from +30C to -20C. With the right tyres and clothes, and the right attitude, an e-bike + trailer can really perform huge feats. The bike really does most of the work.

A bike upside down with Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro tyres fitted, which have really big studs for gripping in Nordic deep winter conditions.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 30

Onwards, upwards, and widewards, to level 10 e-bike & trailer scale of ambition/riduculolitude. The crowning glory of my towing career. An entire bed (base + mattress). For this I took along a separate sackbarrow and tied it to the back of the trailer. Perfectly stable!

An adult size single bed + mattress strapped together on a sackbarrow, which is then tightly strapped at a horizontal angle to the back of the bike trailer.

Dave Sayers@davesayers· Dec 30

Next step up, is…. up! And this is where a two-seater trailer really pays off. You can really shoe-horn things in, and tie on pretty tall furniture. Welcome to level 9 in our scale of ambition/ridiculaction. You’ll also have noticed the heavy snow. More on that later.