tranna karenina
@einegeniesserin.bsky.social
doll scientist
📍berlin
it's genuinely nice to hear this, as anyone who's lived here more than 6 or 7 years holds it as an article of faith that the exact opposite of these things is the case, and complains about it weekly
it's fancy-ass shit you absolutely don't need to bother with, unless you're either a high-end cocktail bar, or you need an excuse to get rid of them
had a left over egg white from baking so i made a whiskey sour with rye and maple syrup. it's...something
there was a guy working at the rehab i was in in 1995 (🫥) who was a recovering addict, also had a comically small head. we creatively came up with the name, "little head" for him, used to sing the bush song: "it's the little, heads that kill"
had dental work done this morning and my upper lip was still swollen lol
spent the whole damn afternoon pouting in dressing rooms across the city
When I see one that looks good, I grab at them like a 50€ bill laying on the sidewalk
I want to skew my TL more towards Europe, and preferably Germany, but 90% of the Germans here are completely unbearable
12 years in Germany now and I have phases where I can roll Rs really well, and phases where I can't at all, it's so weird...
Guy to me on telephone making an appointment: Und Sie sind Frau...?
Me: Ja.
Him: ehm, ich meine Ihre Name, bitte.
🫠
Ludwig Wittgenstein would have had a Joyce Carol Oates-esqe presence if he were on social media
also what people are doing now with NA cocktails is mind blowing. my wife - who's basically given up booze for health reasons - got one at a higher-end restaurant few weeks back, and it was astonishing how good it was. turns out alcohol is a blunt, subtlety-killing ingredient, who knew...
I'm the millionth person to say this, but what a blessing it is that they got so good at making NA beer over the last decade
even since 2018 there's been leaps and bounds improvement, in Germany at least. they figured out it could be a lucrative market and acted accordingly
I'm the millionth person to say this, but what a blessing it is that they got so good at making NA beer over the last decade
I have a compulsive anxiety about leaving my apartment without my keys and it's absolutely a sublimation of my anxiety about going outside trans
It'd be so funny to buy the NYT and Washington Post and turn them into strictly regional/city newspapers
serious question: has a plant become an influencer yet?
Truman Capote biopic film, framed as a triumphal, rags-to-riches, up-by-the-bootstraps tale. Directed by Michael Bay, Bradley Cooper in the titular role. Working title: "The Capote" (pronounced like "the boat")
the only animal I've ever wanted to be was the bird at the very beginning of the twin peaks intro
When I worked for the FU Berlin, it took them 10 or 11 months one time to pay me back ~500€ for conference travel
I've been thinking for a while about what the "whatever reason" is, but got nothing so far. If anyone ever figures it out, it'd make an amazing essay.
every Sunday I will find some twenty something doll living off monster, ramen, and discord. I will cook her a healthy, delicious meal, take her to a museum, then finally tuck her in to bed, telling her she's loved, and kissing her on the forehead before I finally go home.
I might be the only one on this site who gets this, but ultimately I post only for my own enjoyment
North Alabamians to coastal Alabamians: I feel sorry for you.
Coastal Alabamians: I don't think about you at all.
In like a week tops you'll have no idea how you ever even lived with those things
there's good fried chicken in berlin, but I also want the red beans and rice, mashed potatoes and gravy, the biscuits...
man, if we could just get popeye's too...
Krispy Kreme and Taco Bell are coming to Germany and I’m intrigued by how they will mess them up
undoubtedly true, but this is also true of a lot of human variation that is entirely benign. generally, the internet has allowed a flourishing of the marginal corners of humanity, good, bad, and everything in between
I am convinced that the worst thing about the internet is that it allowed people who historically would have been considered the worst person in town and totally ostracized for their perpetual bad vibes and opinions to find out that they have thousands of global allies and after that it was so over.
being able to show characters in psychotherapy was the greatest gift to lazy/inept scriptwriters
even within a group of inveterate drunks, a single person can get so bad that the rest get concerned and thinking about intervening. that appears to be where Joanne is now with transphobia
that reminds me i should do a PR to get my name changed on that thing
a feature i spent ~half of 2018 developing and adding into some open source analysis software i use has just proved to be really useful for something i'm doing now and i want to go back in time and give that sad dude a gentle kiss on his creased forehead