alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

@aescling nah we just felt like watching a science fiction movie

relatedly, my wife has pointed out that the Wachowskis sure have a thing about movies where a technologically advanced society consumed humans in a way that doesn't really make sense

jupiter ascending continues to be a very silly movie

@aschmitz yeah but the interaction model is just kinda very different. loke the reactions need to be sent as emails and even supporting clients seem to treat “somebody reacted to an email you’re CCed on” as warranting a notification. which does make sense since people don’t often look back at emails that they’ve already sent/read where they could see the reactions. but very different from what one would expect from chat systems with reactji.

@aschmitz gmail has it apparently.

they added emoji reactions to email???

pokémon black version is a bit heavy on story battles relative to ground covered (presumably also white version)

i guess that's just what new york city is like tho

violinist busker on the train home today. played hey jude and then i’m not sure what he’s playing now.

the glorious moment when one of the players figures out the clues to your puzzle

mmmm thick rice noodles

@Lady @aescling amusingly there are well-respected phoneticists who consider gemination in general as being not a lengthened consonant but two separate instances of the consonant! (well, strictly speaking the example i have to hand died in 2009, but probably he wasn't the only one)

i should probably start wearing my jean jacket before it gets too cold to wear it.

@Lady @aescling is this really physically impossible? it’s also attested in Klallam (for several non-glottal stops and affricates, including [t], though it instead geminates the glottal stop and all fricatives). i don’t see why it should be less possible than sequences of different stops? it certainly seems easy to pronounce e.g. [cæt.te] with the first t released briefly before the following one (though it is as always possible there’s some other sound sneaking in to separate them that i’m missing)

i also read kakeochi girl (run away with me, girl). very good but very emotionally intense. it does work out in the end but damn these women go through some stuff first

in yuri manga reading news:
i read superwomen in love! honey trap and rapid rabbit. my favorite part was when she said “It’s Yuri Time” and they yuried all over the place. (joke. that was not actually the best part, but it genuinely did happen)
more seriously it was fun. nice light break between some of the heavier dramas i was reading. it did also have a satisfying if a bit simplistic overarching plot.