David Mac Dougall
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David Mac Dougall
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Journalist covering Finland and the wider Nordic-Baltic-Arctic region. #NB8+S ✒️Media columnist at Helsingin Sanomat.

Dog walker. Lapsed rugby player. Fennophile. 🌐 Fife - Uusimaa/Nyland.
It's so close... 🇬🇱
January 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Yes of course! Never ever be first, definitely don't say or do anything controversial and only ever make a move when there is sufficient crowd cover to do so, in the hope that nobody really notices. This is Finland's foreign policy mantra.
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
It brought the feels!
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Oh damn!
January 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
That's quite a quote!
January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Oh that's a surprisingly... robust... editorial line from HS!
January 14, 2026 at 11:39 AM
*Wind-ication?
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
I preface this by saying I am not a graphic designer... but I like the fonts!
January 12, 2026 at 8:41 PM
@seanferrick.bsky.social @trekranks.com @gaghyogi49.bsky.social I was spending all my free time in 1996 in the Startrekker chat room. I had a character and several alter egos for chatting about Trek! What were you kids doing back then? Sean wasn't even born he's so young and fresh-faced and Irish.
January 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Ah, here's @charles.capps.me who can vouch that I've been "a real Trek fan" since well into the last millenium. We were but teenagers, TOC! ☺️ Well, you were. I was older, but not in a creepy way!! 😂
January 12, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Dammit I have a busy Thursday morning in the diary!! But i'm free after lunch...
January 12, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I watched your review video. Was pleased to see it seemed fairly grounded and not only rose-coloured-glasses. All of the reviews right now seem to be decidedly mixed. I will still watch. Do you know if we get it in UK on Thursday or it's in the US first then streaming 24 hours later in UK?
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 AM
I think it's because "murder" is a specific legal definition while the stats include "manslaughter" as well so "homicide" is the one term which covers everything. At least, that's how I've always done it in the newsroom!
January 12, 2026 at 9:07 AM
The security guard handled it so gracefully and calmly and helped diffuse things. Kudos to that guard.
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
TBH I have some excellent contacts in Greenland and have been messaging them to keep up tp date with their thoughts on the situation as it develops but I can't really share their private info so had to come up with something!
January 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM