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@basbleu
French/Lebanese enthusiast of women's art/music/film/writing/history/sport/comedy and old-fashioned 1800s values like feminism, socialism, and veganism. #BuyFromEU
I have suddenly decided that it was a mistake being attracted to the sort of woman who cares about me owning an adequate amount of Le Creuset.
I was just talking to a French person about advancements in imitating French (good) cheeses and they asked what was decent now ... and I couldn't think of a single brand, even a bad one. Absolutely mad to have forgotten Jay & Joy.
youtube have added an AI wart to their search, which is easy to hit unintentionally and helpfully navigates you away from whatever you may be watching to show you another fake chat interface. What ... fun? Is this the future? Just a series of increasingly shit fake chats?
It is important that every American understand that the US government annexed half of Mexico and that at over 60 million speakers the US is second to only Mexico. It is extremely weird the way you guys treat speaking or learning Spanish not as an obvious choice but as some fringe minority culture.
I vividly recall standing transfixed, perhaps not even 10YO, at the fingers of her assailant pressed into Proserpina's thigh. Made more haunting in retrospect once I realised I had stood there all that time without noticing her tears.
What an utterly vexing book cover. Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 (A man lays on a bed reading a book indifferently, presumably this very volume.)
I heard you guys like breaking in new plates by tossing together whatever is on hand for a quick meal. (rice, lentils, onions, tomato paste, saté paste, multiple forms of garlic, cilantro, humus.)
In the south of France about an hour from Marseille there lies a cave in the face of a mountain, Grotte de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, where lie relics associated with Mary Magdalene. And this is what singing there sounds like. Part II ! (from @les_itinerantes on ig)
The next film from Rose Glass (Saint Maud, Love Lies Bleeding) will be an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation". Quite pleased, can't wait.
Why do these two pans from the same company have such different handles and why does it feel like an attack.
Stanley Tucci has a line of pizza ovens(??) and at first glance I was interested because I thought I was looking at a cute record player.
I don't need this ridiculous stainless steel colander but I am beset by temptation.
Gates McFadden as Old Lady Summers (Mother Askani/Rachel Summers) is simply exquisite. I am utterly unaccustomed to being pandered to like this.
Since all entertainment is soon available only in ephemeral forms, the illusion of ownership quickly dissipating, what are your favourite unlicensed media enjoyment devices? I have a Lenovo ThinkSmart View setup with 16- and 32-bit Sega games and a bluetooth recreation of the Sega Saturn gamepad.
Well, ideally I’d like a set with multiple shades of purple or some combination of purple and grey, but I am eyeing this “Wisteria” HHKB set.
The narrative arc of Supergirl is sadly relatable: pushing through survivor's guilt and disassociation to find the will to live and to do good, and I find it interesting that the screenwriter Ana Nogueira was immediately rehired for multiple films including Wonder Woman while the director was not.
Something about this bathroom stall bag hook seems off but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I saw Supergirl and … it was fine, mostly. Until it wasn’t. It has ideas and ambitions of layered meaning, which is more than most examples of the genre, but can’t or won’t actually commit to following through with any of its grim themes and abruptly declares an unearned happy ending.
李米的猜想 (Li Mi's Supposition) The Equation of Love and Death Starring Zhou Xun as Li Mi, a cab driver in Kunming, China who keeps and re-reads letters sent to her by her missing boyfriend.
Go watch Sasha Calle in "On Swift Horses" and have a cry, it will do you good. It is "Don't let your husband get in the way of meeting your girlfriend: the motion picture". She is also in but underused in The Rip and Wardriver. She is so fun and cool.
Add water, let sit for a few precious minutes: (In this case, a spicy vegan dish of noodles and vegetables. Next time will be rice and lentils.)
The worst part of the cursed Supergirl discourse is any of these assholes pretending they didn't hate the previous actor in the role, Sasha Calle, for being brown and queer. (I thoroughly enjoy her as a performer and will see anything she does, including this garbage.)
The utter incompetence of tech megacorps remains galling and staggering. This is viewing (or attempting to view) Instagram on my small notebook computer running linux. There is no "tablet app" to acquire or use. The "Open Instagram" button does nothing.