Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Balinares Hun, I don't mean to be contrary, but there's a local Senegalese chef who's made his version for Michelin-starred restaurants and just opened up a pop-up here amid rave reviews...

I realize it's a pretty unassuming food in general, though. Still. The single best thing I ate in my entire time in Seattle was a side dish of "ordinary" rice and peas from a Puerto Rican restaurant... It is, in the immortal words of Eric Clapton, in the way that you use it. ;)

@xinjinmeng @anthracite It's funny you should mention that...

Our neighbor kid told us today that the latest batch of kittens is ready to go outside. The Zerg Rush is imminent.

However, Thieboudienne is quite real and I desire it intensely...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieboudienne

Above-mentioned site is also having the pleasant lingering aftereffect of making me distrustful of any unfamiliar word I see that's longer than two syllables. I just got it while looking at an article about Senegalese cuisine. ^_____^

This site is fucking amazing. It's like an automated magical realist dictionary.

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

@Balina 😐​​

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If after all that you're still curious somehow... the Wikipedia article on the same topic is long but MUCH clearer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

@001zlnv (The diagram, not DC. Nobody understands DC.)

@001zlnv The really terrifying thing is I understand about 90% of it now.

@001zlnv It sure looks like the Tree of Life, doesn't it...

welcome to my life

(Chart of the Japanese postal addressing system. You'll definitely want to open it up in a separate tab and zoom in... or better yet, just continue with your life, happily unaware, dreaming of cities that are rectilinear and numbered in an orderly sequence. 😱​)

@anthracite see also https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rescue-knight-brain-games/id1494469420

@anthracite They're android, but...

just the pins: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rt.hook&hl=en_US

the actual people to dump stuff on:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herorescue.knight.pull.pin

both seem pretty well-reviewed though note that the second one especially is still an ad mill -- nonetheless most of the reviews describe it as "that fake game from all the ads except it's actually what they promise"

feel free to borrow my floam if there is no ios version!

@Soreth @anthracite Hey, Peg, was this the one that just came up on your iPad as "WATER?"

@joshua Oooh, how lovely!

@001zlnv Ohhhhh, no no, you want City Park for that, though they're mostly bird vs. toddler. >:D

@001zlnv Generally ya don't see crawfish running across the sidewalks, honey. ;p NOLA is a city with about 136 different biomes. :)

peg and i have a running joke where after you see your 3rd one you start stacking up Lizard Combo

i would be in a horribly foul mood today except there are adorably little skulky anoles everywhere you look in NOLA today and i just love em so much 💚💚💚 i would attach photos but theyre just too good at being darty so all i have are snapshots of empty pavement

@anthracite, eat yer heart out! ​