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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.

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)

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i bowled very poorly just now but at least my last throw was a strike.

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my wife pointed out that dragonite has the face of a moomintroll

apparently some people say "pharmaceutical" with two hard Cs

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apparently zeraora isn't a primate?

okay apparently this is not really etymologically correct although the latin dispar may have influenced its meaning.

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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.

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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.

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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

a notable shared trait between @aescling and @wallhackio is that they both really respond to manners in which i address them

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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.

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