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Cake day: June 10th, 2025

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  • HadriscustoAskUSA@discuss.onlineHow SAD is your diet?
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    1 day ago

    Everything is expensive around here so I mostly buy what grows locally or what comes from Madagascar/SA/Réunion… we’re at the end of lychee season now but we’ve been having about a kilo a day for the past month. It’s reasonably cheap for what it is, between 4 and 7e/kg. Mangoes are ending also, haven’t had so many this year. I made juice from carambolas the other day. I gotta say I’m guilty of falling for a pastry once in a while, but luckily my wife like to bake so I know what I’m having is reasonably healthy. I must rank low on this sad scale, I guess.



  • My mom and I saw this film together when I was a kid, it starred Sean Connery… “Five Days One Summer” (1982). The french dub. At one point they’re climbing (the entire film is set in the Alps iirc) and the woman asks the man “what do we do with the picks?” and the man responds “we leave 'em” and this moment has such an uncanny vibe because the decision is rather inconsequential but both lines are acted with considerable pathos. So whenever my mom or I need to express that we’re not taking something with us -whatever it is- we go “we leave 'em” in the most theatrical tone. That’s as private as jokes go, nobody even notices













  • HadriscustoTrees@lemmy.worldIt's my birthday
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    2 days ago

    Hey happy birthday. One that comes to mind is a few years ago at a friend’s place, really neat place at the top of a centuries-old stone building in southern France. We smoke a fat spliff and somehow we get to talking about my friend’s job, which is botanist. He mentions he owns a binocular lens (like a microscope, but less magnifying, meant for observing plant matter), and we decide to take a look at the weed ! so we gather around his little desk which is on a suspended platform above/overseeing the living room, and we look at the weed : it’s fantastic. All shiny, glistening…, trichomes become giant claws of ice covering the leaves… it’s like peeking into a small, strange world.
    I have an idea : what if I tried to film this ? I try adjusting my phone’s camera through the eyepiece and sure enough it works -but there’s some weird parallax going on when I shift the camera slightly to one side or the other… it moves the round frame around the piece of weed we’re focusing on and it looks uncannily like a helicopter light moving over a wood at night, looking for an escapee or something. So in my best megaphone voice I go “get out of this weed, we have you surrounded!” and we laugh like dorks

    Good memory…