alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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Joined May 2022
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eventually i may do a more proper intro post, but as a placeholder for now:
hi, i’m alyssa, or lyssa, or alice. or a bunch of other names if you know me well.
i don’t know yet what i’ll about yet, but possibly my daily life, or things i read or watch, or write.
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entiendo cómo se puede disfrutar las batallas de D&D, pero no entiendo cómo se puede disfrutar mirando o escuchándolas
(esta queja es específica a D&D, hay muchos otros juegos con combate que parece más emocionante para escuchar)
parece que en la lista de países por número de hispanohablantes, estados unidos es el segundo (después de méxico)
muy gracioso que Cicerón escribió uno de los malos poemas más famosos de la literatura romana.
él quise que otra persona escriba algo celebrando sus logros pero nadie lo haría. tuvo que hacerlo él mismo y ni sus admiradores fingieron que era un buen poema.
oh that's why i always confuse Eric Hobsbawm and Benedict Anderson.
one's the invented traditions guy and the other's the imagined communities guy.
house really is a terrible doctor
we tried opening the window in the bedroom and it blew the comforter nearly off the bed
it's so wimdy
get out is a really good movie but it might also be the most pro-TSA movie ever made
my wife found out today that probably all senses of the english word "yen" are from languages that write with chinese characters. the currency from Japanese, of course. the desire being uncertain but probably from Cantonese (meaning "craving", because of yk, opium)
alyssa
boosted
women will literally have multiple spreadsheets open at once
historical nazi mention
«[British quiz show Mastermind's] creator, Bill Wright, drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II.»
why would you do that? do you really want to make more people feel like they're being interrogated by the gestapo.whyyyy
reminder that scientists are exploring the seafloor of the Mar del Plata canyon via remotely-operated submarine and livestreaming it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcM82Srz8TE
there is a livestream of a CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, of Argentina) research expedition studying an area of the ocean floor. it's neat seeing the seafloor and the living things there
food, rec request
what are some good fruits to eat with the skin?
ladybugs are surprisingly non-round
seems like people in prehistoric western asia liked to fenestrate their bowls (maybe only for ritual purposes/when using them as grave goods?)
i'm pretty sure repeatedly encountering the notion of "fenestration" in a book i'm reading shortly after my wife talked about the word is a genuine coincidence and not just a frequency illusion
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