Smalls

@shutupsmalls

Typical bicoastal—east coast of the US + south coast of Finland

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Smalls@shutupsmalls· 27d

From two weeks ago

Smalls@shutupsmalls· 27d

You know how whenever you leave your apartment for more than 3 days someone calls you in the middle of the night to tell you there’s been a serious maintenance emergency in your bathroom. This time it’s not sewage #blessed it’s just a partial collapse of the drop ceilings including some PVC pipe

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jul 12

The buses in Helsinki have TVs that show headlines from the local paper of record and that’s how I found out lol

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jul 9

In Helsinki. Yesterday I went to a bra store because I need a new one. I have the kind of chest where this is an ordeal. My bf asked if he should come into the store with me, I said nah, it's going to need to be a collaboration between me and the salesperson so I think you'd kinda just stand around. I went in, the salesperson in Finnish asked if I needed help. I said Joo, mut onko englanti ok? (Yes, but is English ok?) she said ? And I repeated myself. And she said Ei (no). Ok. Have you ever shopped for a bra in a language you don't speak. Every day a new and beautiful humiliation |

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jul 3

Finnish news: the bears are learning the principles of electricity to get into that sweet honey yle.fi/a/74-20234568

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jul 1

I’ve packed a portable fan as well but this is an act of faith and optimism more than practicality

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 30

Finnish romance

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 26

Yes, I love that stuff

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 24

Apparently Taylor Swift, the singer-songwriter and international popstar, and Travis Kelce, a Gridiron football player at the Tight End position of much renown, are most likely getting married next week at MSG.
3:08 PM
Genuinely you should be bullied
3:08 PM

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 24

I’ve read two excellent books recently

A big storm knocked it over by Laurie Colwin and my search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 18

Just sent a message breaking up with this psychiatrist. Obviously necessary but unpleasant to do

You will literally not believe the psychiatrist's excuse for being 15 minutes late this time

"Sorry, I was having trouble adjusting my brightness so that my screen didn't blind you!"
1:20 PM

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 5

I guess the airport gift shop may as well run through their supply

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Jun 1

Perhaps the most perfectly American paragraph I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/b...

Jill Sirianni met Jen Smith in St.
Petersburg, Fla., when she was living and traveling in an R.V. to cut expenses and pay down her $60,000 debt. During their first meeting, they bonded over the fact that Jen Smith, 37, and her husband had chosen the very bar they were in because it had free parking and gave out free shots at sunset, as they were trying to pay down their own $78,000 debt in two years.

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 31

(possibly apocryphal?) Jules Renard quote on the Amtrak website

Surround yourself with the natural wonders of majestic mountains, glacier blue bays, waterfalls and volcanoes. Explore rain forests and alpine meadows, lava fields and tulip fields. But leave time for lattes and microbrews, salmon and king crab. Amtrak Cascades invites you to indulge your senses with the sights, sounds and flavors of the Pacific Northwest's chic cities and magnificent landscapes.
"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."
— Jules Renard

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 22

At the bookstore today I spotted a book by a Finnish author and I checked to see if it was the same translator it always is and found out it was translated from Finnish to French to English

The Howling Miller by Arto Paasilinna
Translated by Will Hobson from the French of Anne Colin du Terrail

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 21

This is Bootsy

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 19

Work messaging

A teams message that says New Jersey is the smallest and most powerful nation on earth

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 18

Ok you guys got me

On the calculation of volume by Solvej Balle

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 10

I’ve inaugurated reading-on-the-quad season

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 6

Do you want to see some of the high quality work I came back to

A cabinet installed in the most inconvenient place possible, they had to cut into the baseboard when they should’ve just changed the side the hinge was on

Close up of the unbelievably messy and ugly way they cut into the baseboard, you can also see the landlord special paint job

I don’t even know. A wall that’s had tiles ripped from it? Some kind of seriously damaged wall

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 4

At least my suitcase is filling up with cool stickers

Smalls@shutupsmalls· May 2

My glass orange

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Apr 25

I had a completely inoffensive vegetarian pizza with olives, mushrooms, and jalapeños. (No one’s saying it’s beautiful!) You would’ve thought I’d put a piece of birthday cake on here. Honestly I would’ve been happy with just mushrooms but I never would’ve lived it down

A pizza with olives, mushrooms, and jalapeños, with one slice cut away

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Apr 21

I had such a beautiful lunch today and I can’t post it on Instagram bc I’ve been posting so many lunch pics on Instagram that everyone who knows me irl must think I’m an actual hog

Plate full of various Mediterranean salads and bread and a bowl of artichoke leek soup

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Apr 20

Huh. I guess it’s been a while since my last rewatch

Mark Corrigan is a character portrayed by David Mitchell in the TV show Peep Show. He believes that hard work, sweat, blood, and tears are necessary for achievement, and even takes pleasure in this belief.
When a famous movie star disappears, Mark, a film extra, is hired to impersonate her until she's found.
However, the extra is murdered while in Mark's Jeep, and he becomes determined to find the star and the person responsible for the murder. a

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Apr 18

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Apr 16

Basically I agree with this guardian review

Smalls@shutupsmalls· Apr 13

Another day another sibling…