Dave Sayers
@davesayers.bsky.social
Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-7132
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Honestly the amount of research ethics bureaucratic paperwork universities are drowning themselves/staff in for projects that are mostly not dangerous/contentious at all and marketing teams are just flinging stuff up onto the Nazi Sexualiser 5000 no problem
January 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Honestly the amount of research ethics bureaucratic paperwork universities are drowning themselves/staff in for projects that are mostly not dangerous/contentious at all and marketing teams are just flinging stuff up onto the Nazi Sexualiser 5000 no problem
Here in Finland, Epiphany is a public holiday. And naturally, given its location (!) one's road home is a careful and confidential choice. My favourite Finnish expression roughly translates as ‘better to go a mile in the wrong direction than take a dangerous shortcut’.
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Here in Finland, Epiphany is a public holiday. And naturally, given its location (!) one's road home is a careful and confidential choice. My favourite Finnish expression roughly translates as ‘better to go a mile in the wrong direction than take a dangerous shortcut’.
When you're proscribing against prescribing, are you...?
(But maybe your user handle gives it away a bit.)
(But maybe your user handle gives it away a bit.)
December 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
When you're proscribing against prescribing, are you...?
(But maybe your user handle gives it away a bit.)
(But maybe your user handle gives it away a bit.)
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In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In the episode where Homer adopts a pet lobster it is called Mr Pinchy. In the European French version of The Simpsons, Mr Pinchy is instead called Homard Simpson (homard means lobster in French)
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December 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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