alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
okay apparently this is not really etymologically correct although the latin dispar may have influenced its meaning.
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
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