Mainstream Italian cuisine is just popular because it’s all about the carbs, change my mind

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 4w ago

There is something hilarious about Italian Americans unironically talking about how every Mexican dish is the same, just remixed. Bestie? You know that pressing pasta into a new shape doesn't actually make it different, right?

Σαν childfree ενήλικας από επιλογή, το μεγαλύτερό μου θέμα με νέους γονείς στο περιβάλλον μου (Ελλάδα) είναι το εξής: Υπάρχει μια περιρρέουσα προσπάθεια να προστατευτούν οι εμπλεκόμενοι με αποτέλεσμα οι υπόλοιποι που είμαστε στην απ'έξω να αισθανόμαστε αποκλεισμένοι. Και θα το εξηγήσω.

Airbnb guests fried fish (!) in the apartment with all windows closed and a/c on. Smell permeates the whole room no matter what I do. What’s with North Americans and their inability to open a fucking window? Is this your first day on earth? Ffs

I’m so tired by the discourse i don’t know if I’ll even watch Odyssey in the cinema. The anglocentrism is what gets me. Why would I want to watch an Englishman’s take on the greatest fable my neck of the woods ever produced, don’t they have enough opinions of everything already, sheesh

Εδώ και χρόνια φωνάζουμε από την Κρήτη για τους λαγοκέφαλους, τώρα τους πήρατε χαμπάρι οι πανωμερίτες; Τι φάση;

This is your biannual #food reminder that hummus is not Greek. It's a Levantine dish. There is no Greek hummus. That's like saying there is Bulgarian or French feta. There is not. Only Greek feta is true feta, it's a PDO (protected designation of origin). Everything else is a white cheese.

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

This is your reminder to add a pinch of good quality cinnamon (I used Sri Lankan) to your homemade lattes. Trust me. TRUST ME.

Bullseye.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

Δεν υπάρχει χειρότερη γιορτή από τις Απόκριες. Μια σαπίλα όλα, η αισθητική, η μουσική, τα έθιμα, το κέφι με το στανιό, οι νεαροί καρναβαλιστές, οι πολυέστερ στολές, οι αφροί, το φαγητό της Καθαράς Δευτέρας αδιάφορο, ο καιρός σκατά γιατί είναι Φλεβάρης, ΟΛΑ ΜΠΛΙΑΧ

Κόλαφος. Πώς γίνεται να ΑΡΝΕΙΣΑΙ ιατρική περίθαλψη σε κάποιον, γαμώ τον όρκο του Ιπποκράτη και τα μυαλά σας μαζί www.news247.gr/magazine/rep...

Αμβλώσεις: 46 δημόσια νοσοκομεία αρνούνται στις γυναίκες τη διακοπή κύησης

Τουλάχιστον 46 νοσοκομεία στην επαρχία και τα νησιά της χώρας αρνούνται στις γυναίκες την πρόσβαση σε δωρεάν και ασφαλή άμβλωση, όπως αποκαλύπτει το ρεπορτάζ του NEWS 24/7.

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I started charging my phone in another room overnight. My reading time has tripled compared to last year's.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books

He is, in fact, a very good bunny

Ότι καταλάβετε ΤΙ με τις σαχλαμάρες τα ChatGPT memes, γελάσατε; Σας κολάκεψε; Μάθατε κάτι για τον εαυτό σας που δεν ξέρετε; Βρήκατε γκομενάκι; Πλήρωσε το στεγαστικό σας; Έκανε κάπως τη ζωή σας καλύτερη; ΤΙ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΑΤΕ νιώθω σαν την τρελή του χωριού να φωνάζω όλη μέρα για το ΑΙ γτχμ

a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near

ALT: a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near

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Poached eggs are literally the worst eggs™️. Why do people insist on having them when soft-boiled jammy eggs are RIGHT THERE

Third episode of The Studio had me howling with laughter. I haven’t laughed that hard at a series in quite a while.

Btw this question is one of my favourite litmus tests for both women and (especially) men: if they reply negatively, they're a huge red flag and should be avoided.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

If you want more proof that AI makes things objectively worse, look to customer support. AI chatbots are completely ineffective, you just cannot speak to a person on the phone anymore, most sites don't even have a simple email form (a CS staple). I hate this.

I’m not sure what else must transpire before there are full blown demonstrations happening en masse in the US. How can people not react (violently) to this? My Greek mind cannot comprehend.

I travel alone a lot. I like to think of myself as a collected, independent traveller who hates making a fuss. When a British bus driver noticed me covering myself with my jacket and asked me "are you ok there luv?", I almost cried in a National Express bus. Such a tiny, impactful question.

"Ας ξαναδιαβάσω καμιά ιστορία από το Γκιακ για να με πάρει ο ύπνος" Ξύπνια από τις πέντε, σχεδόν το τέλειωσα, σταμάτησα μόνο για δουλειά. Δεν γίνεται να το αφήσεις αυτό το βιβλίο.

I know the sensitive thing would be to advise you against watching the Minessota shooting video, but I won't do that. I would sit everyone on a chair Clockwork Orange style and force them to watch that video to truly see what's going on out there.

I could hear this video before I even unmuted it 🫡

Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 8mo ago

StarCraft (1998). First RTS I really got into.

Από επιτυχίες τελευταία, μου βγήκε καλό random τρίτο γράμμα για τον Προσωπικό Αριθμό και είναι πολύ εύκολο να το θυμάμαι 🙃

Why am I sure that Nine Blades from the #BaldursGate3 soundtrack has Greek lyrics? The cadence and intonation of what the choir sings is very similar to Greek, but I couldn't confirm it with a quick search open.spotify.com/track/5o8MYM... Kickass battle theme, btw.

Nine Blades

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I realised that what pisses me off about Pilates (apart from the fact that it’s mindnumbingly boring) is that most Pilates fans I know subscribe still, in the year of our lord 2025, to the idea of fitness = thinness. Purely anecdotal and solely based on my experience, ofc.

Finally finished Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. By God, what a cruel, cruel book, both to its protagonists and myself as a reader. If you're not a native English speaker you might want to invest in a translation. I've never used my Kindle Translate feature more 🥲

Αν θέλετε να αμφισβητήσετε ό,τι νομίζατε ότι ξέρετε για την κοινωνική πρόοδο, ρωτήστε το ευρύτερο περιβάλλον σας τη γνώμη τους για γυναίκες που κολυμπάνε εν μέσω της περιόδου τους

White Americans are some of the loudest, least self-aware tourists I’ve encountered in greek airports. Big main character energy. Super annoying.

I tried to build a simple workout tracker in Notion and I’m officially too stupid for what it can do now