alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
the thing is that there are a lot of men out there who can write really well, except they can't quite imagine what it's like to fully see women as people. so. pretty frustrating reading them when even their female characters don't actually recognize other women as people.
eggheads is a rather satisfactory quiz show
i'm not really sure i buy A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night being a western.
one of the many things to look forward to when we finally overcome sexism is that men will finally learn to write
what is the highest timer on a microwave or the like you would use the +30 seconds button repeatedly for?
oh hey brian cranston is in this murder she wrote episode
muy injusto que iain m. banks era tan machista aunque un escritor tan bueno
fue la única chuza de la partida :> (logré un spare en el décimo juego así que tenía una tirada extra)
i bowled very poorly just now but at least my last throw was a strike.
poképosting
my wife pointed out that dragonite has the face of a moomintroll
apparently some people say "pharmaceutical" with two hard Cs
poképosting
apparently zeraora isn't a primate?
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
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