🍀 any interests

[vapid vault]

there’s a lot of kinds of vlaai but the cherry one is my favorite by far

[crisp moss]

omg that is so cool it’s made with bread dough

(i was searching online about it and i need to forward recipe to my sister asap )

i don’t think i am familiar with coarse sugar maybe is not as common or maybe i never noticed it before but i’ll pay closer attention next time i go to the supermarkets 🫡

recently i learned about a kind of sugar called “muscovado”

i didn’t know about it untill i saw it used for a recipe my sister was making

[ornate mesa]

so many good ones idk if i can pick sometimes i like pies that are a slightly unusual version of a popular pie

like i had a pear blueberry that was slay, and usually my mom does strawberry raspberry rhubarb and i really like the addition of raspberries

or a very specific cherry pie

omg or a chocolate pecan pie (although it would not be my favorite pie, it was a big step up from regular pecan imo)

i love pie

[crisp moss]

so many good pies 🥧 as there are numbers in pi /silly

[crisp moss]

pear + blueberry 🍐 🫐 seems so interesting, i never though about the meeting of the two flavors before, i’m intrigued a lot

i also never had rhubarb to my knowledge

[ornate mesa]

as a kid my parents made this pear blueberry crisp that was really good and that made me want to try the pie

tbh i think pear + blueberry + streusel/crisp topping is enough, the pie shell is fun but it doesn't seem as 'important' for those flavors to have the shell

[crisp moss]

i think i’ve tried pecan and / or pumpkin pie at a thanksgiving but i don’t have vivid enough memories to remember if i might have had both or which one of them

streusel / crisp is like crumble ? /gen

[ornate mesa]

i think it's like butter and flour and sugar but some have oats or nuts

like the topping

[crisp moss]

there is a whole pie world out there i had no idea about /pos

[ornate mesa]

i usually prefer a streusel to a second crust on top

but maybe that's just because i often eat pies with a streusel

biased results

[crisp moss]

i think the closest thing to a pie concept here is crostata, but usually cakes are a lot more common

crostata can be very very popular so i think maybe it can still be a “strong” pie representation

[ornate mesa]

that's interesting /gen

[ornate mesa]

crostatas look really interesting/tasty /gen

[low wagon]

This reminds me of a pie like thing that I wanted to make 2 years ago when I read "Le Dieu du Carnage" because they mentioned a pear 🍐 calfoutis (well, they didn't only mention it) I didn't end up making it and completely forgot about it...

[craggy roost]

This is making me really want pie at 8am

[crisp moss]

so far apple pie is leading the data 🍎

[crisp moss]

very random but i need to share, i was looking at my bird of the day and listening to the sound… the sound waves look like birds

to me it looks like a lot of ducks floating 🦆

also the author of the sound aka my bird of the day

[craggy roost]

Omg this is so cool!

Such a cool thing to notice!

[craggy roost]

What a beautiful bird!

[vapid vault]

that is incredible

[crisp moss]

yes, i agree

compared to some of the other birds i’ve been getting ever since noticing about this feature in the merlin app, today’s one has a lot of sounds available to listen to: 16 in total and they were recorded from so many different places

something i find both cool and interesting i noticed is how much in the bird world they like to use the adjectives inconspicuous and conspicuous

could be a way to categorize all birds probably, they’re either really one or the other (the first time i encountered the adjective was when i was reading about the orange andean bird during birbfest)

[low wagon]

@vapid vault My dad saw wild geese

[vapid vault]

slay

[last perch]

OMG I CANT WAIT FOR THIS DAY WHEN I SEE THEM

[low wagon]

I wish I saw them too 💔 I've never seen any except for that one second that I saw one fly away in Werchter

[frozen violet]

a mini haul (had to restrain myself)

[subtle harness]

This is Ramón making his outfit for spellemanprisen love him ok bye

[vapid vault]

diva

[waxen ember]

I thought I would just share this here because that's genius I love her

[frozen violet]

miffy chalk bags @ornate mesa

[ornate mesa]

[daring maple]

I love maiking wallpapers

[vapid vault]

huge @ruby sequoia

[drowsy scroll]

OMG I NEEEEEED

[latent osprey]

OMGGGGGGGG

[crisp moss]

calendar turning moment

it’s by a brand that gifts calendar amd agendas in january ans usually always have nature and birds things themes. this year they also included the little like story format usually they just said the name of the different birds, landscapes, plants and insects etc

[ornate mesa]

ooo those are nice !!

are the april birds oystercatchers? /gen

[vapid vault]

ohhh these are stunning!

[crisp moss]

yes

i just noticed this year the common thread is seaside nature

usually they have the explanation at the beginning but this year was at the end

[crisp moss]

is specifically beaches and cliffs

there is like a poem at the end that explains amd connects all the months. i don’t know how i didn’t notice before

[low wagon]

that's so cool!!

[crisp moss]

i’ve made another discovery

apparently the illustrators has an instagram and i just saw there are some of my favorites from previous years

[crisp moss]

seagulls; robin; kingfisher and peregrine falcon from this year’s February

[ornate mesa]

ooh those are all so nice

[crisp moss]

i have them on my walls (except the peregrine falcon one that is still in the calendar )

if anyone else might be curious the illustrator name is: alfonso goi

[low wagon]

@signal leaf @subtle harness
My dad sent this article in the family chat Quite fitting after all the cabin talk haha. Is this a thing?/gen
www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260330-the-easter-crime-wave-sweeping-norway

[subtle harness]

Yes! Påskekrim is a big part of our easter

They even have a kids version each year

[signal leaf]

oh yes!!! i dont fully remember how it became a thing, but i think it had something to do with a person trying to promote a crime book around easter? and he did it in the newspaper! bookstores also heavily promote crimebooks before easter!!! last monday when i bought a book an older lady bought 3 thick crimebooks

[low wagon]

Yeah, they wrote that too in the article So interesting!! Woah

[kind hill]

Transporting weather instruments in a little shack back to the university after my field trip

LMAO

[wheat fern]

i was doing so well last night but now i keep making mistakes

[ornate mesa]

you have a rogue 6 i think

everything else seemed correct

[vapid vault]

woah i tried a 6x6 one this morning that was already very hard, this is so impressive

[craggy roost]

I’m so puzzled on how this all works 😭

[ornate mesa]

it is sudoku but in addition to the normal rules, you also have to match the sum in the smaller boxes! so in the bottom right, the digits have to sum to 10!

here's how it would look solved (i think)

[ornate mesa]

||so another example: in the top left, the digits have to sum to 13. 2+7+3+1 meet that requirement||

[craggy roost]

Ohh ok thank you Kendall!

[low wagon]

I just giggled at this. They know how to make lesbians buy merch hahaha. It is really cool merch too I have to say, but with the free carabiner

[old gull]

I can't believe you get a free carabiner because you couldn't buy one at the show 😭 i wanted one so bad

[vapid vault]

same

[low wagon]

Oh no, lesbiant !! 💔 That's so sad😔

[kind hill]

I originally put this in the going outside again chat but it fits better in here; here are some pictures from the eclipse that happened 2 years ago. As you can see the traffic getting to and from totality was completely overwhelming, we were in the same spot for hours on the highway. But during totality it was just absolutely amazing, the smell of the air is indescribably fresh, the birds start getting confused and fly all over the place, and it gets chillier and windier. Really awesome experience!

Approximately 30,000 people crammed into one tiny village where I saw the event

[kind hill]

I’m about to get hit with this storm stay tuned for updates

[vapid vault]

my friend on my chair

[ornate mesa]

omg tiny little guy

[vapid vault]

pine nut sized

[kind hill]

Snow squall!!

[kind hill]

Getting even more stormy now

[crisp moss]

i have a very random question: how do you refer to this object?

like the name in the language / area and i’m also wondering if and how much it is culturally common (?) idk if i’m making any sense

[ornate mesa]

is it for clothes? /gen

[crisp moss]

i will start: we call stendino and is very very very common, i think is almost certain every household has at least one.

[crisp moss]

yes

clothes and all kinds of things washed in laundry stuff in theory, very versatile

[ornate mesa]

i think i would just call it a clothes drying rack ? a lot of people have dryers so it's not extremely common

[crisp moss]

interesting!! /gen
also for example here it’s the opposite, is much more rare people have dryers

[old gull]

i call it a clothes horse!

we have like 3 lol

[crisp moss]

this is such a fun name 🐴 /pos

[vapid vault]

wasrek (wash/laundry rack)

[craggy roost]

I call it an airer

[daring maple]

Hey yall

Does anyone here watch anime

[kind hill]

I just realized I caught a UFO on camera like 5 years ago 😭

If that’s a star and not a ufo it’s still cool cause stars are usually not that “flat”

Definitely not a plane/aircraft

[fierce patio]

airer! although ngl for ages i just didnt refer to it in english because i only knew the word for it in spanish😭

[crisp moss]

what’s the word for it in spanish? /curious 👀

[fierce patio]

tendedero!

sort of like hanger

[crisp moss]

this has been very insightful /gen

and fun? idk if it makes sense but is interesting find out things about everyday items and how they’re called in other countries / if are common or not

also some things can also have multiple names inside one country alone

[crisp moss]

apparently stendini isn’t universal in italy can be also called stendi panni; stendibiancheria; asciugabiancheria;

i prefer stendino / stendini (plural)

[waxen ember]

depending on the region the name depends, but around here we call it un étendoir (a hanger)!! some others call it un tancarville which is just a random word lol

[low wagon]

Wäscheständer✨ We have two of them and always use them in summer/when it's sunny to dry clothes!

[vapid vault]

there’s a dead girl in the pool

[tulip gull]

Pesto, can you swim?

[frozen violet]

i went to a craft market and they had soooooooo many cute things but unfortunately a lot was expensive () so i just got this journal with a cover!

[ornate mesa]

omg cat button

so fun

[craggy roost]

Omg this is stunning

[low wagon]

omg that is adorable😭

[crisp moss]

this is very random but i found this while cleaning my camera roll and it’s about the painter Munch and the fact he mostly ate plant based food, i found it interesting so i’m sharing here

i took the photo at the munch’s museum last summer so there is double text of norwegian and english

[frozen schooner]

Woke queen

[kind hill]

https://klipy.com/gifs/gibberish-2

nothing is funnier to me than this gif

i love it so much

did you know that gifs were invented on june 15, 1987

[frozen violet]

what was the first ever gif

[kind hill]

I honestly don’t know

[frozen violet]

olivia rodrigo colin the caterpillar stan @vapid vault @craggy roost

[ornate mesa]

omg

this is huge news

[vapid vault]

omg HAHAHAH

that’s amazing

[craggy roost]

OMG 😭

I love this

[kind hill]

Northern Mariana Islands typhoon

[frozen violet]

@bright wedge

[ornate mesa]

i want to work in cheese but i am afraid to do lots of dishes devastating

[low wagon]

I just watched Leith Ross' 3 months without screens update...It really makes you think

[vapid vault]

i love them so much

it's so insightful and also super admirable to see a musician who technically has stuff to promote do this

[low wagon]

Yeah definitely! Like, that needs quite a lot of commitment.

And then again (no, that's not really the right expression because that sounds like I think what they're doing "isn't that hard" or something which is definitely NOT what I'm trying to say), but they are maybe at a point/position in their life where they can make such a thing possible. Not that it's easy or something and I think they actually addressed this in their first "article" about the project as well. But I feel like it would be impossible for me to do this with e.g. Uni. Of course one could also reduce screen usage, but I feel like, yeah, idk what my point is. But it does make me think a lot. Especially because I have those moments where I'm like "I want to throw my phone away, this takes up way too much of my time, my attention span is probably worsening and so on" more and more often. One of my friends has removed almost all of the colour from their phone and I think I will try that out too! And then there's still that stupid instagram thing...like, I'm so glad that I deleted Tiktok, I really only missed it for like 5 seconds ever since...So yeah. It's really impressive what they're doing!!

[crisp moss]

just saw something cool

omg

[vapid vault]

wait that’s so sick

[vapid vault]

[crisp moss]

i noticed there are some letters images that stays the same (i noticed G stays same for example) but for other letters there are many multiple options available

[vapid vault]

this is stunning

[crisp moss]

i have just found out there is an annual european seagull screeching championship

[low wagon]

Where? When? How?

[crisp moss]

takes place in a belgian town amd there were seagull imitators from 15 countries compete ( source reuters video)

[low wagon]

oh IMITATORS hahahaa I giggle

[crisp moss]

there was also someone from Norway in the video competing

they dress up

[old gull]

I've seen that on TV when I lived in Belgium

[crisp moss]

[old gull]

It's insane and very fun

[crisp moss]

i can imagine /pos

[old gull]

And people had very different interpretations for the outfit haha

Some went all out realistic and some just threw something together that was low effort

[crisp moss]

everything about it is honestly so impressive /pos

[old gull]

Yes! The people also sound SO realistic

[crisp moss]

it is honestly impressive because i can imagine it would require a lot of practice and dedication

and like have somewhere when one can practice becuase screeching is loud etc

added a function to my bucket list of things

[kind hill]

In 2025 the EF-5 drought ended with the Enderlin Tornado, an internet friend of mine, Alex, took the famous photograph of the tornado at its peak intensity

Alex has become, at this point, one of the best tornado chasers in the world

He has “intercepted” hundreds of them since the beginning of the 2020s

[kind hill]

https://www.alexreselwx.com/

This is Alex's website if anyone is interested

he is going to be on a Discovery Channel tornado show

[kind hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsCDIURt26E

this one is crazy

[kind hill]

https://tenor.com/view/reed-timmer-dominator-3-dominator-tornado-gif-2687546866637789507

https://tenor.com/view/reed-timmer-be-right-back-brb-tornado-gif-18580638

[kind hill]

https://tenor.com/view/reed-timmer-dominating-gif-25181687

[kind hill]

https://tenor.com/view/hop-on-twisted-twisted-roblox-storm-chasers-dow-gif-13846018675630294607

niche weather-related meme gifs are so funny

https://tenor.com/view/the-weather-channel-the-weather-jim-cantore-gif-9823029201806275167

[kind hill]

https://klipy.com/gifs/rick-roll-heres-rick-with-the-weather--k01KQGCK5FR2VPVN7RERRD4KV5E

[kind hill]

https://klipy.com/gifs/eas-weather-1--k01KQJN9MAXPZAFN0CMSBQSNDWH

[crisp moss]

today’s bird of the day is too pretty not to share here too

italian name is gruccione

has very nice soundings calls too (in my opinion )

[vapid vault]

omg amazing

[vapid vault]

i like that

[crisp moss]

it can also go by the names: gaulo, grottaione, merope (this connects to his bird family), and grucciòlo

[vapid vault]

i got curious about the dutch name and looked it up but it is just bijeneter

which is a literal translation of bee eater

i like your word more haha

[crisp moss]

in spanish is called “abejaruco europeo” or also just “abejaruco”

is very interesting look up / learn animals name in other languages. some i always remember about dachs 🦡 and waschbär 🦝 because of blueberry (/pos)

[ornate mesa]

ooo that has such good colors

[crisp moss]

the colors of the bird are giving discord levels colors /silly
(the blue like mods, the hemingway orange, the green from the first levels, etc)

[low wagon]

I saw this bird at a museum

Wait, didn't I even sent you a picture?/gen (I'm unsure if I did or not) But it looked so pretty (unfortunately not alive anymore though😭)

[low wagon]

@ornate mesa It was indeed 300'000 items in the lecture slides as well (Source: LA times from 2014) I'm guessing that's the same thing that you found when you looked it up.

[vapid vault]

us already having a crisis over 3000 and its MORE!

[low wagon]

(but the professor did say that it's probably exaggerated and that she does not trust this figure 100%)

But still...even if it's a third of it...

[ornate mesa]

yes i also saw the la times but i am curious how accurate that number is

[kind hill]

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

huacasville is a real place omg

and its very close to where my stim originated

HUACAS

i just put in a bid for a huge stamp album on ebay, i hope i win it

im not increasing my bid so let's see if i get lucky

[frozen violet]

tomato painting @ornate mesa

[low wagon]

@vapid vault Did you make the cat anti-ai meme? And if not, where is it from?/gen

[vapid vault]

i did not make it (wish i was that funny)

i fear i got it off pinterest or twitter or something

[low wagon]

I see, thank you!!🫶🏼

[crisp moss]

https://youtu.be/4AgUjcdSucs

i’m currently rewatching this and since seems very well made video, i thought i’d share here

[frozen violet]

stationery store haul! (the middle thing has a bunch of diff like prints but they’re paper to write on type thing idk how to explain it’s 2 am… 😭) (also i mainly got it bc of the me & my dog boygenius reference)

@ornate mesa @vapid vault

[old gull]

omg soo cute

[vapid vault]

AWEEEE adorable

[kind hill]

i can't believe in just 10 days my best friend is going to be chasing tornadoes

im a little worried for him, there have been a few intense storm chaser incidents over the past few days. thankfully no one getting in serious trouble but they've been just outside of some violent tornadoes (like 100 yards or less away from the storms). i think Justin will stay safe and not be stupid, he's had good judgement on all his chases. but im still worried lol.

justin has reassured me that he's gonna stay as far away as he can from the storms while still getting a good view of them but idk, everyone says that then ends up getting insanely close

he's going with some friends too who are lowkey into "getting the shot" to go viral so i hope he doesnt fall into the trap of peer pressure

[ornate mesa]

that is such a good haul !! everything is so cute !!

[frozen violet]

i saw this old ad for a stamp catalog at the transit museum lol @kind hill

[kind hill]

omgggg thanks for sharing this!!!

this is so cool actually

[kind hill]

did you know that humans are the most abundant species of primate? there are no other species of primate with as many individuals as us.

a primate is defined as having larger brains disproportionate to all other animals, hands that can easily grasp objects, and all primates have the ability to climb trees

[kind hill]

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

[vernal laurel]

yesterday when I go to vinyl record store found moomin vinyl so cool ✨

[ornate mesa]

such a pretty cover

[vapid vault]

so so stunning

[kind hill]

did you know that the largest worm in the world is more than 100 times larger than the smallest snake in the world

also, the largest bacteria species is visible to the naked eye

dont worry tho it only lives on mangroves in the lesser antilles so you won't see any bacteria randomly spawning

not sure about the other stuff tho but all the aforementioned things are extremely rare lmao

this belongs in this chat because i randomly search stuff like this

as a lowkey special interest to pass time while im bored

[vapid vault]

woah big moves

[vapid vault]

i lve a fun fact

[kind hill]

The Wikipedia page I end up on when I’m eating:

[vapid vault]

i rlly respect this vibe

good to be curious about things

[wheat fern]

i wish orang utan werent threatened

[vapid vault]

cant stop thinking about this i want it

its a zootrope record too

[vernal laurel]

This zootrope record vinyl is really cool, it has different patterns on both sides!!!
The overall design concept is very unique ✨
Especially the 80th anniversary , definitely worth collecting!!

https://open.spotify.com/album/36jQCZanXXgvBhTuOYfWac?si=UG5WPfKdTG6Vf05BNqCi3A

I discovered there are digital albums on Spotify

[frozen violet]

i forget what this was for but one time there were julien baker stamps @kind hill

[old gull]

Omg

Need

[kind hill]

Omg slaayyy

[low wagon]

[opal bane]

I love florks

[wheat fern]

i'm up to the last section of my killer sudoku book it's the "deadly" ones

[vapid vault]

Uh Oh

ive been stuck on a killer without having a single number for a day help

[ornate mesa]

omg fun

[ornate mesa]

can we try

[vapid vault]

oh please …. even if u just find one number and tell me how you got it

i can move on with my day

[ornate mesa]

i love killer sudokus

[vapid vault]

me too apart from this one

but sometimes it’s genuinely just one thing i’m missing that’d solve the whole thing

[ornate mesa]

this one is living up to its name /lh

[vapid vault]

i fear…

mureek found killed by sudoku

[ornate mesa]

yeah sometimes it is like that

[vapid vault]

kill the sudoku before the sudoku kills you

[wheat fern]

i’m too tired to look further but those squares need to be one of those who numbers. the 7&9s i worked out by the left 4 grids equaling 180

[ornate mesa]

sorry i was slow i had to go on a walk

so long sorry ||looking at the top 3 rows i filled in all of the numbers that could meet the sum, so 8 would be 1+7, 2+6, or 3+5. those are in white. then in the top right corner, it should sum to 45. 45-14-6-12=13, so the remaining squares should sum to that. other numbers crossed out in pink/purpleish. the 8 now can have its options reduced, crossed out in green. for the top middle square, 45-11-21-6=7, so the remaining squares should sum to that. other numbers are crossed out in blue. now the only place where 3 could be in the top middle cell is the top row (highlighted in red), so i crossed out 3 in the other cells in the top row, and combinations requiring 3 to resolve the sum. this means that the 5 in the top left must use 1 and 4, as 2/3 is no longer an option. in yellow, i crossed out 1 and 4 in the row and cell, and combinations requiring 1 or 4 to meet the sum (4 and 7 for 11, 1 and 7 for 8)||

||something else to note: the 21 in the top middle has an option of 4+8+9 as a solution. if this was valid, the 11 would have to use 5 and 6 as a solution. however, this would mean the 6 in that cell would not resolve, as solutions require either 1+5 or 2+4. so, the 21 cannot use 4. remaining solutions seem to be 9+7+5 or 8+7+6. either solution using 5 or 6 means the 11 cannot have 5+6 as a solution. the possibilities for 11 are either 2+9 or 3+8. if it was 2+9, the 8 in that cell would use a 3, and if it was 3+8, the 8 would use a 2. 2 and 3 are "taken" so the 6 must use 1 and 5||

||eliminating other 5s in the cell means the 21 must use 6+7+8. 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are now "taken". the bottom left number in that cell must be a 4. this now lets us solve the 8, as 45-21-11-6=7. 4+3=7. we can also resolve a number in the right cell by similar reasoning. 45-14-6-12=13. 13-5=8. also, because the 6 in the middle cell uses 1 and 5, the 6 in the right cell must use 2 and 4. crossing out things in the row using 2 and 4 (and combinations requiring those numbers - 4+8 for 12, 2+7 and 4+5 for 9) means the 9 will need 3+6. eliminating those options helps resolve the placement of 6 for 21 in the top middle cell||

[ornate mesa]

||tidying up yields this. i removed some numbers that we had solved for and combinations (11 must be 2+9, since 3 is already solved for). i highlighted numbers that can be solved. and the 3s for fun i guess. filling in those numbers helps resolve the 6 in the top middle as well. i also show the final version with those numbers filled in. hopefully this helps you solve the rest.||

sorry so long. idk if i explained well but hopefully yes

[vapid vault]

i SEE

this is a completely different approach to mine but actually that does solve things lol

i had a whole debate with my friend about this once

about the sudoku approach

[ornate mesa]

interesting debate so many different ways to approach a puzzle tho

[vapid vault]

he did a few sudokus in my booklet and left some half solved and i was going crazy trying to continue it from his notes

bc he also worked with writing down every potential number in a square and eliminating them

whereas i usually only take notes when there's 2 spots left for a number

[ornate mesa]

interesting

[vapid vault]

ur approach has distressing vibes to me also but my way did not get me anywhere so

[ornate mesa]

i giggle

surely there is a more efficient way to do it without writing as many numbers but idk how to explain it as well

“it is a three here because the vibes were right”

[vapid vault]

yeahh they do help to understand your approach!!

even if its evil

however i combined your first steps and worms first steps and got a few numbers so now im feeling good

[vapid vault]

im back i finished it

a mere 1.5h

with both worms and kendalls first tricks combined

[ornate mesa]

[kind hill]

Check out this beauty of a double overprint from 1860s St. Vincent!!

[crisp moss]

y’all

/pos

[ornate mesa]

omg i love them all

[crisp moss]

also apparently seals are turning red

the seals wanting to come for gir’s name /silly… /seally 🦭

my silliness aside, it is quite interesting video https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYS7okPPiD5

[crisp moss]

and norway was mentioned 👀

[ornate mesa]

that was interesting

[craggy roost]

Omg I just saw this on Pinterest I love this film so bad

[kind hill]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/comments/1taz6ja/sudden_storm_in_hechi_china/

that looks like a classic downburst

the valley creates a funneling effect with the wind too

[kind hill]

https://klipy.com/gifs/wikipedia-beloved

[kind hill]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Marie_(2014)

[frozen violet]

@crisp moss @kind hill

[crisp moss]

EMILIO STAMP

[ornate mesa]

omg you got them

they are great