alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
the word disparate literally just means uneven
incidentally, Anna Bruegel (one of those no-disambiguation-required painters, a daughter of Pieter Bruegel the Elder) married a different painter referred to as [name] the Younger.
the Bruegel family sure had a lot of painters
turns out "Bruegel the Elder" and "Bruegel the Younger" are actually ambiguous. because there was a Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Pieter Bruegel the Younger, a Jan Bruegel the Elder, and a Jan Bruegel the Younger. not counting all the other painters in the Bruegel family that aren't called "the Elder" or "the Younger"
food
i may have posted about this before but it's just such an amazing, wonderful thing.
food
i love the ubiquity and cheapness of bakeries here
you can get a kilo of french bread for the equivalent of like 3 US dollars. also there's bakeries every couple blocks
it is sometimes surprising which words with similar forms in germanic and romance languages are romance -> germanic borrowings versus germanic -> romance borrowings versus both separately inherited from PIE
the number of games that nintendo will sell you with "hentai" in the title is surprising to me
poképosting
absolCutely
a notable shared trait between @aescling and @wallhackio is that they both really respond to manners in which i address them
poképosting
is mareep named after Mary (the one with the little lamb)?
@aescling this podcast episode i'm listening to is interviewing somebody who's receiving a fellowship named after walter benjamin
apologies for catering to the straights
i approve of how often men go for, romantically/sexually, jessica fletcher in murder she wrote.
huh did the latest ios update change the like status bar icons? cell signal, wifi, etc?
family, legends
are you even allowed to be a legendary hero if you never unwittingly murder a close family member
type of woman who gets excited when a tv show uses an actual reserved telephone number in the North American Numbering Plan
ttrpgposting
now i need to figure what sort of one-shot i wanna run next month >.>
apparently european castles took quite a while into the middle ages to start being a thing. like 9th century.
finally watched princess mononoke
p good movie
cop tv
columbo the only police show in which innocent people are more likely to lawyer up than guilty people
there are a surprising number of movies titled simply "Hyena". more surprisingly, it seems like most of them and maybe even all of them don't involve (or don't centrally involve) a hyena
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