Random curiosity poll! Do you know any Finnish people? Defined here as people of Finnish lineage regardless of where they live, and people who live in Finland and consider it home, regardless of their lineage!
Boost to reduce bias of everyone answering knowing me at least, should it please you. 😄
- I am a Finnish people! (8%, 159 votes)
- I do, indeed. (43%, 800 votes)
- If knowing you counts, yes? (3%, 59 votes)
- I used to, no longer. (14%, 259 votes)
- Not really, no. (30%, 552 votes)
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I think some of it must absolutely be the confirmation bias of me being Finnish, but it seems every day I go about on the internet and watch and read things and we're just absolutely everywhere! In articles, writing articles, doing stuff and being noted and remembered in general.
"Oh, I have Finnish friends!" says someone from Poland, and I just wonder how we get around so much. In 2024 there were 5 637 214 people in Finland. That's not a huge amount!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Wonderdog
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in reply to Wonderdog • • •Fred
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Fred • • •@Fredatron We do love our academic exchanges! I've had classmates who went to Germany for two months, and multiple who went to finish their studies abroad, because their specialisation had much better opportunities in Vienna, Glasgow, some small town in France that had a museum of something... It's really quite nice that they could just do that, and got support from the government for it!
But yes. Another tick on the absolutely everywhere column. 😄
Fred
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •StarSloth
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to StarSloth • • •@silhelm 1.7 million! That's a lot. That's... By my maths some third of the number of existing Finns inside Finland today!
Yeah, the 1500s are a bit far away for most people probably, though culture, customs and words will definitely be able to survive that long. According to Wikipedia (had to check) the finlandssvenska moved over here between 1100-1300, en masse, and have been moving in as families ever since whenever. But they're definitely still a different identity and whole other vibe even all that time later, even apart from the language. It's pretty neat.
StarSloth
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to StarSloth • • •@silhelm Maatalo and mökki design! It's cool how the basic farmer's or forest cottage is unique enough that though it's basically the same, they do feel and look different.
Whatever else has recently gone on with the world, I think the internet in general has made people much more aware and often accepting of different cultures. All the languages homogenising feels like a loss, though. I kind of know two different dialects, my local and the one my mother grew up with, and though the latter especially has a wide variety of words nobody else understands, my own dialect has sort of porridged together with every other one on TV and people on the internet. And that's just dialect, not a whole offshoot language!
My Joan Private Idaho 💐😷
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Years ago, I worked with a Finnish woman in a human rights organisation; not so many years ago one of our kickboxing club members was a woman from Finland (she hits hard - very hard!); and currently one of my classmates in a post-graduate course is a guy from Finland (of Swedish heritage) - all in Dublin, Ireland!
But it could be a bit like us lot - there's hardly any Irish people (4-5m million or so?), but we seem to be everywhere on the planet!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to My Joan Private Idaho 💐😷 • • •@clickhere I keep forgetting there's not that many Irish people, either! It does seem like there are more than that, but... Yeah. The 1800s were rough, and even thinking about how the potato famine was handled makes me want to time travel to punch an Englishman, and I'm not even Irish!
But yes. 😄 Multiple Finnish people in Dublin!
Blahmage
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Blahmage • • •Jim Daly
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I can't beat 4 but some years ago I spent Christmas Day here in Ireland with 3 Finns (2 Finns and 1 Sámi). It was my best Christmas ever.
There are about 1,000 Finns here in total. They gather for a big fair once a year in December at a Luthern church in Dublin. It's more a social than religious event. @Blahmage facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=98…
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in reply to Jim Daly • • •@psneeze @Blahmage Facebook is a terrible company and also doesn't let anyone not logged in look at its content! If you're sharing something from there, it would be better to take a screenshot, so anyone boycotting it can actually see what you're looking at. 😄
Anyway, that's a pretty solid amount of people, that's pretty much a traditional size Finnish village all on its own. Pretty cool.
Jim Daly
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Jim Daly • • •@psneeze Oh, that looks quite lovely! (And thank you for the effort to share the screenshot, too!)
A bit funny to me that rye bread is listed under delicacies as it's a staple food here, but I suppose it costs a lot lot more if the rye flour or bread isn't locally produced? I once dug up shopping details for a friend in the US, to see if she could even try the authentic local glögi... And it was a fully 40 dollars for a supermarket carton that is less than 3€ here. Delicacies, indeed. 😄
Jim Daly
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Rye bread has never been popular here at all. It is available in some stores these days but is sold as a healthy and/or organic food rather than a staple.
$40 versus €3 is an incredible price difference. I would love to be in the glögi export business. 😃
Sini Tuulia
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Mx Amber Alex (she/it) • • •@amberage 😆 Jyri, you statistical monkey wrench, you!
Gosh heck, anecdotally as a child every single child in my class had at least one pen pal in Namibia, sometimes three, because we did a pen pal exchange with a school over there...
Souvlaki Space Station
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Souvlaki Space Station • • •Souvlaki Space Station
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Ian Turton
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Major Denis Bloodnok
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •OutoftheBlueDD
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •When I visited Estonia, I met Finnish people who lived there, as well. The language barrier does not seem to be very high between Finnish and Estonian.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to OutoftheBlueDD • • •@OutoftheBlueDD I think it might be that the average Estonian is much better at Finnish than the average Finn is at Estonian, because good grief do we love to go vacation over there... Not just because it's cheaper, but also because it's beautiful and has a lot of history and culture! But also because it's cheaper.
Listening to spoken Estonian feels like your brain is a bit scrambled and you're just missing what people are saying, while feeling like you really should be understanding it... Reading it is like: "Oh! Oh I get why that word is like that!"
OutoftheBlueDD
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to OutoftheBlueDD • • •@OutoftheBlueDD My favourite Estonian word is "maasikakoorejäätis" aka "mansikkakermajäätelö" aka strawberry ice cream made from cream. It has some of the same sounds, but also "maasika" is earth pig aka wild boar in Finnish!
This amused me a great deal as a kid, and it just sounds nice to say.
I've only been once, but it was so pretty!
FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶 • • •FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •It was a long shot - a few hundred applications for a handful of slots. He got into second round of the application process which was a great success in itself.
Game design is very appealing to young men.
He got a place for a similar program somewhere else and is happy.
But the whole thing put Finland definitely on our travel list, so something good came from it.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶 • • •Janne Moren
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •My parents were Finnish but I wasn't born there so I'm not.
But, a colleague is Finnish!
refraction :verified_transgender:
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to refraction :verified_transgender: • • •Anne Deschaine
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Anne Deschaine • • •@aehdeschaine There have been multiple times when there was famine or other misery, and thousands and thousands of Finns moved far away... Or closer by, to Sweden especially. It's always fun to see the flags and such in different places, even so many generations later.
At one point I watched some Canadian man on YouTube talk about his Finnish heritage and about some festival/fair he and his family went to. He himself couldn't speak much Finnish, but looked as Finnish as a man can look, and the festival clips were just... Bizarre in a sort of "no but the trees are wrong??" way that messed with my brain before I got used to it. 😆
Anne Deschaine
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I bet!! I still remember first seeing my dad's extended family. My sister looks a lot like my mom, while I got more of the Swedish but with my coloring a bit more complicated. But I walked in that room and was like, holy hell, all these people are related and they are related to my dad and they are SWEDISH. It was wild, like a kneejerk shock into my bones.
It is funny, because by my gen, we were very Swedish-AMERICAN. Not sure our ancestors would recognize or not!
Anne Deschaine
in reply to Anne Deschaine • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Anne Deschaine • • •It's really pretty fascinating and complex and I have run out of words for now. 😆 I have internetted enough and must return to do more sensible replies a bit later! This is my personal bookmark of where I left off!
Anne Deschaine
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Nic Dafis
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •my cousin married a Rekikoski, they met on Guernsey, and now have three Welsh/Finnish daughters. Tolkien would be so happy about this.
I get to write tri-lingual birthday cards, which makes *me* happy, äääähh!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Nic Dafis • • •@nic Love that you can even guess at the original region where the family came from, because "reki" usually refers to a reindeer or horse drawn sled. 😄 Not as south as you can manage, then!
A happy Tolkien indeed. Gosh heck those kids have had access to two "cool secret languages" to switch to if they wanted to plot in earshot of someone who only speaks English...
The trilingual birthday cards is also adorable.
Nic Dafis
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Nic Dafis
in reply to Nic Dafis • • •My *other* cousin (this one’s sister) married a Cymro Cymraeg — a Welsh speaking Welshman, yes I know that should be redundant be here we are — and although he started with good intentions, and their two dauggters went to Welsh-medium nursery schools, they didn’t keep the language once they progressed to English-medium education, the most convenient local option.
Their eldest is now learning Welsh as an adult, and is a bit pissed off, let’s say.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Nic Dafis • • •@nic A little bit, I imagine! An effort should maybe have been made. 😅
I'm sure the kids are likely to learn at least a bunch of the swears in Finnish, if nothing else. You're generally hard pressed to not curse on accident, even when you try not to, and they're pretty snappy curses if not by meaning then sound!
webhat
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
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in reply to Irina • • •Plöp Plöp
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Otherwise my earth science teacher in 5th and 6th grade demanded we greet him in Finnish at the beginning of every lesson. To this day I don't know way, AFAIK he was not Finnish
Anna
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Anna • • •Vincent 🌻🇪🇺
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Vincent 🌻🇪🇺 • • •Vincent 🌻🇪🇺
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •We were outside the town, on a custom built stage on the edge of the lake in Paltaniemi. Beautiful -slow- sunsets over the water during the performance…
Anyway, having only been in the south of Finland once before, this was very exotic for me 😄
Arthur van der Harg
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Arthur van der Harg • • •@ArtHarg Even just beyond the basic level of "Oh yeah, that's Matti, I met him in a party once, a nice man" or "once went to class with this Finnish person who always shared their notes with me" applies here!
Even being aware of us is kind of remarkable since we're not incredibly numerous!
Arthur van der Harg
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Arthur van der Harg • • •Karen E. Lund 💙💛
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •About 20 years ago I worked with a woman of Finnish ancestry. At the time I was the administrative assistant in the IT department, so it was my task to request network logins and email accounts from the national office. When I received her information from HR I recognized her last name as Finnish, which surprised her; but I'm of Swedish ancestry and an ice hockey fan.
If we were allowed to check more than one item, I also know you virtually.
:NonBinary: ジギーくん
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Gaute ⚡ Mikrobloggen
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •My great grandfather emigrated from 🇫🇮 to 🇸🇪 and then to 🇳🇴.
He was from Honkavaara.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Gaute ⚡ Mikrobloggen • • •Gaute ⚡ Mikrobloggen
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Me neither.
As far as I understand they where extremely poor and had to send his niece to Russia as a maid, only 14 years old.
Julia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Julia • • •@jtheseamstress Here I am! I count!
People's lives can be online so much that I definitely count having conversations and interacting online as knowing someone, if there's enough of it. 😄 Heck, there's people I've known all my life in physical life that I've spoken ten times with and 20 times less the amount as many people online...
ilmari
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to ilmari • • •Jastrow
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Croc in a Froc (SuperGaytor)
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Croc in a Froc (SuperGaytor) • • •Croc in a Froc (SuperGaytor)
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •cybervegan
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to cybervegan • • •cybervegan
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Yeah, I know. Back in the late 90's when I started working for them, they appeared pretty "green", but in retrospect, it was mostly greenwash.
The Finns I worked with were interesting people though. I liked their directness and matter-of-fact thinking (I'm Autistic).
Sini Tuulia
in reply to cybervegan • • •@cybervegan Well. I guess they still are pretty green compared to a lot of companies, but that's a very low bar, and they could definitely do better.
I do wonder if there is something about the culture, that a lot of autistic and ADHD traits are seen as completely normal, at least culturally? In person you might find someone a bit strange, but in literature you'd not blink twice at a man who walks into the woods, knows all the birds, hates talking to anyone and looking them in the eye, and will get upset if you touch his things or make loud noises. And in the same story, that man is just left to do what he likes, and what he likes is sitting in the quiet of the woodshed and whittling all day! No fuss. 😄
Walop
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •In addition of being Finnish people, I know a person originally from Washington state in US who is of Finnish heritage. And from whom I first heard about the great traditions of Saint Urho's day. She was very confused when no-one else here had even heard of it and only after that found out how it became to be.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ur…
PS. She didn't stop celebrating St. Urho's, but keeps telling about it to everyone and inviting them over every year, because it fun.
fictional saint
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sini Tuulia
in reply to Walop • • •Schroedinger
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I say no, because there is nobody I know - as in have actually met in person - who I know is Finnish.
There are probably those who have some lineage that I don't know about. And there are people like you whom I "know" online. Although I didn't actually remember that you were Finnish - so if someone else had asked I would have said no.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Schroedinger • • •Mark
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Tekvsakdan
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Jim Woulfe
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •maloki 🍍:ghostbat:
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •3 of my grandparents were Finnish.
Sini Tuulia
in reply to maloki 🍍:ghostbat: • • •@maloki Yaay a Finn!
Lol, there's only a stable 25% of people responding who have never properly met a Finnish person, out of 850 people from all over. Wild!
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia I've met in person two Finns, in both cases we aren't really *in contact*, but sporadically interact online.
Neither of them lived in Finland at the time, nor in the same country I live in.
One of them is the one who taught me how to draft corsets (and gave me the right tips on how to make them), and a few years later sold me a significant part of my current stash of corset materials (thanks!), although this latter part happened through a mutual friend who did the delivery.
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Unknown parent • • •karvasmanteli
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Oloap :mastodon: :proton:
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Basil
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I don't unfortunately, but this reminds me of an amazing bit of radio gold.
A caller laments that a footballer he likes is never chosen to play for Scotland.
The radio DJ tells him the player doesn't play for Scotland because he's Finnish.
To which the caller replies: "He's not finished, he's only 28"
P∆sc∆l 🐢
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Charlotte Walker
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •fleischie 💯
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I have had the pleasure to work for two finnish companies so far. And I always appreciate the finnish culture and colleagues.
I am still looking forward to visiting Suomi. Yksi, kaksi, kuusi, kymmenen .. missät kissat on velhoa. 😸😺🧙🧙♀️
Katzentratschen
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
Unknown parent • • •I'd assume it's the free education! Anyone whose nerd heart (tone affectionate) desires it can go as deep into their field without going into debt if they want to!
(This used to be more true, also. They've really been trying to cut down on the student benefits, not raising them as living costs go up etc. But if you really really want to, you can still go through the entire process up to a doctorate and more without taking even the government supplied and backed student loan - and that's still for food, stuff and rent, never university fees.)
Sini Tuulia
Unknown parent • • •@Linza Yeah, sounds about right. In Helsinki the monthly rent for even shoebox apartments (may be in good condition, in a reasonable location and nicely run, just very very small!) is about double that a reasonable condition two bedroom apartment is where I live, and three times what it is for less desirable cities with smaller student populations. Everything else costs more, too.
My mother became a nurse on the basic student benefits, went to Stockholm to work for a year, and then got the student loan, saved it... And *bought* her first apartment with what she had from both work and loan. 😆 Absolutely not going to happen for anyone these days! Friends in academia like: "Yeah I'm using the student loan to buy a used bike and some beans."
Jigme Datse
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Jigme Datse • • •DoryTheFish🌌
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to DoryTheFish🌌 • • •I think it's lovely, but I also didn't have to intentionally learn it and all I had to do was get enthralled with the grammar at school!
DoryTheFish🌌
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •I tried to learn some basic sentences before going... it's HARD!! 😄😄
But I could listen to it all day. To me it sounds like tiny pebbles rolling in a fresh water brook. Rhythmic like a happy song... I don't know. Just lovely 🤗
Sini Tuulia
in reply to DoryTheFish🌌 • • •@DoryTheFish The syllable structure is pretty lovely and can be used to great effect in poetry. Have you ever listened to any of the old Kalevala poems read out loud, or sung? There's such differences in the cadence of the different dialects too, some very pronounced!
I think I read a comment once that said they listened to Finnish nature documentaries to sleep because the usually pretty monotone tone of voice was relaxing to them. Didn't speak any Finnish, of course. 😆
DoryTheFish🌌
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Thanks for the tip!
And also the nature documentary tip, it sounds like a great idea! 😄
Sini Tuulia
in reply to DoryTheFish🌌 • • •DoryTheFish🌌
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Indeed, just enjoying the sound might be reason enough? 🤷🏻♀️
I definitely will!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to DoryTheFish🌌 • • •Sini Tuulia
Unknown parent • • •EV not Petrol
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Jellyfriend :jellybin:
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Jellyfriend :jellybin: • • •David Weir :v_enby:
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Despite this, there’s still differences in who studies e.g. physical sciences; for example, uussuomalaiset and women are still seriously underrepresented in many areas, and that comes down to attitudes of teachers, parents and society as a whole.
@Linza
Sini Tuulia
in reply to David Weir :v_enby: • • •@davidjamesweir @Linza Yeah, absolutely. Culturally we're pretty egalitarian in many ways (and then not at all in many others) and I figure at least part of that has to be that at least pre-existing wealth as a requirement to exist and study isn't quite so absolute... But there's still all these other problems that we need to work on!
The current government is of course trying to make it all worse as fast as they can. It's really unfortunate.
Rasmus Kaj 🎼🦀
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Rasmus Kaj 🎼🦀 • • •Sini Tuulia
Unknown parent • • •Anecdotally a lot of people make it! My mother's family was farmers, my father's was one of those people who cleaned up and redrew blueprints before computers were a thing. (Edit: to specify, both are educated and in health care, dad a doctor with specialisation.) It was and is a fine thing to educate yourself... But when the current job market is what it is, and everything has gone down the drain, it's a fairly solid career move for a young person to go into plumbing instead of uni! If they're from an academically inclined Lukio Always family, they're going to get a lot more objection from their parents than if the family is working class.
There's a lot of disdain from academicals to vocational school goers - and some of it is due to the teachers and teaching, because good grief having seen both the latter is LACKING... But also the other way around!
It's not perfect, but at least until very recently if you were born Jaakko the son of a plumber of a lorry driver of a farmer... You can still go and get yourself a masters in philology. But mileage may vary to how difficult it is, socially.
David Weir :v_enby:
Unknown parent • • •@Linza These days, perhaps. But anecdotally many of my Finnish colleagues at work are from very diverse backgrounds and they are rightly proud of it.
It wouldn’t surprise me, however, if what you say is increasingly the case in Finland today (as it definitely is in the UK). Unfortunately it will take some very strong evidence to persuade the current cohort of the Finnish professional class that something needs to change.
@sinituulia
Linza
in reply to David Weir :v_enby: • • •@davidjamesweir I'm glad your colleagues made it but I'm still struggling to explain why the two tier education system is classist bullshit to people who think because their father was a tradesman that yliopisto isn't worth it for them.
And having seen how much Finland's professions are network-based rather than credentials-based, I can easily understand why they think that.
Ross of Ottawa
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Ross of Ottawa
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •scrolled through the comments and but don't see any other representation of the NW Ontario Finnish diaspora of Thunder Bay Canada. There are LOTS of Finns there.
Thunder Bay is home of the world-famous Hoito restaurant, which closed during COVID but seems to still exist in some form. (I haven't been up there in a decade). It was a big community hub and continues in some form it seems.
thehoito.ca/
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Ross of Ottawa • • •@ottaross It was a big migration! There was a lot of social and political restlessness and uncertainty, and after the Spanish flu a lot of people had also lost entire families and were looking to start again somewhere else. At least that's what I recall, might have been one of the many mini-famines, too? 🤔
It's always nice to see the community still existing after all that time (a 100 years, gosh) and with some fairly recognisable elements, too. 😄
Izzy Killeen
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in reply to helgenug • • •Dendari
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in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •André van Schoubroeck
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Rebecca Esther (they/she)
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Kris
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •OHAI, I am using Linux, worked at MySQL and I financed Iron Sky and was invited to the pre-premiere. I worked on December 5 and 6 (sic!) with a guy from Polar Electro on optimizing their database, and on Dec 6 we bought each other drinks at the Helsinki airport before flying home. Me south, and he north.
Do I know Finnish people? Well, yes.
Klare Kante
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •From my point of view finish people seem to come around a lot! ❤️
Lamaskier.wtf
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Lamaskier.wtf • • •Lamaskier.wtf
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •tyx
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •If Linus Torvalds counts (which I'm sure is true) then it's no wonder half of the Fedi knows at least one Finnish person. More surprising there are people answering "I don't know anyone".
Sini Tuulia
in reply to tyx • • •