#suqare

[digitalcockroach]

keeping a sharpie on u pays off when a couple lines turns a hate symbol into a random shape

[ghostacolytev2]

Legacy utility

[blckasf]

My friend from Malaysia who I knew from BBM since I was 13 hit me up to ask me how to make somali food

[morethansalad]

Suugo Suqar / Somali Bolognese (Vegan)

[edireviews]

Segue minha breve análise de Thief para XBox One!

[blazevillains]

i fuckinh love crow chey

[hattiestgal]

Oh, so that's where all the stress is coming from.

Y'know, I'm kinda scared outta my mind to suddenly be kinda made to uproot myself and go somewhere else, even though that's kinda just... my only option now. tumblr's a dumpster fire right now, and all my friends are at least starting to establish their presence elsewhere (which I don't blame y'all a bit about, this site is a whole thing, and I doubt that's gonna change), but I kinda got comfy here, y'know? I have a reasonably sized following that I enjoy interacting with, and a lot of my extra spending money hinges on selling commissions here.

And sure, cohost is fantastic, and I'm loving it already, but my name only goes as far as the people who already know me, and that's not a whole bunch compared to here. You don't really get popular on cohost. But the other option for notoriety is bluesky, and the right to content stuff in their tos is rather alarming. Plus, it's just more twitter, and I really don't wanna exist in that space, so I dunno. I just feel kinda lost right now. I'm not going anywhere on here till tumblr dies or kills my account or whatever, but I'm kind of worried for a future where that might happen, and I'm just dumped into the empty void and forced to start from suqare one again.

[londonlingo]

Arabic influence on Spanish/Portuguese

Did you know that 4,000 words in Spanish and 3,000 words in Portuguese come from Arabic? This is due to Arabic influence on the Iberian peninsula, the height of which can be seen between 711 and 1492 during the kingdom of al-Andalus. In this period large parts of the peninsula were ruled by Muslim leaders. Remnants of Arabic vocab can be seen more in some areas than others. For example, culinary vocab and agricultural vocab:

(SPAN-PORT-ARABIC-ENG)

-azúcar -açúcar -as-suqar -sugar

-alcohol -álcool -al-kuhul -alcohol 

Notably, many of these loan words begin with “al” as it is a definite article in Arabic:

-almohada -almofada -al muẖádda -pillow

-algodón -algodão -al-qutn -cotton

Other examples for the Arabic influence on Spanish include: 

-bairro-bairro -al-barri -neighborhood

-aceite -azeite -al-zayt  -(olive) oil

-atún -atum -al-tūn -tuna

-sofá -sofá -al-suffat -sofa

SOURCES: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/arabic-influence-on-spanish#:~:text=According%20to%20philologist%20Rafael%20Lapesa,modern%20Spanish%20come%20from%20Arabic. 

**Note I don’t speak Arabic, so please feel free to correct any mistakes that you may find.

[bracketsoffear]

A. Sphere (Flatland) "A 3-d being sent to teach the main character, A. Square, to be an "Apostle of the Third dimension", and teach his world (Flatland) about thr third dimension. Flatlanders can't see the third dimension normally, and refuse to beleive there are any more than two spatial dimensions. A. Sphere tries to convince A. Square of the third dimensions existence, & when Square doesn't believe him, he decides to bring A. Suqare into the thrid dimension himself, allowing him to experience it for the first time. When he's returned to Flatland, A. Square tries to convince the people of Flatland that the third dimendion exists, but fails to be able to explain what he had experienced. He is called insane by those around them, and thrown in jail by the ruler of Flatland for spreading lies.. TL;DR, A. Sphere changes a A. Square's entire world view by bringing him to another world in a way very reminiscent if eldritch horror, & A. Square is called "insane" for spreading this knowledge and is not believed by a single person."

Adam Smith (Torchwood) "Adam is an alien that can only exist through the memories of others, so he infiltrates the Torchwood team and makes them all think he’s been their trusted teammate for years when really it hasn’t even been two days. Adam uses this memory power to distract the team from discovering he’s not real by variously invoking memories of one’s long-lost brother, inducing false insecurities in one, making one in a relationship with him with all the non-con vibes that entails, making one forget her fiancé, and making the one who was closest to catching him believe he’d murdered three women and that Adam was his savior and accomplice. He wove himself so deeply into the team that the only way to get rid of him was to take amnesia pills to entirely erase those two days, leaving the team unnerved and uncertain of what they had done that was so bad they couldn’t remember it"

[bhawk-goose]

randomly decided to mess around in conway's game of life and found two interesting patterns.

Firstly, if you make a 3 by 3 square, hollow it out, and erase one of the sides, it makes quite a large pattern.

Then, I decided to put another, mirrored copy 2 tiles away so the missing sides were facing eachother, and that made a similar pattern, just with two.

Then, I decided to make 4. Instead of putting the squares 3 apart and making all of them face the center point like a normal person, I kept the pre-existing suqares in their spots and put the two other squares 2 tiles away from an imaginary center point, which was different for both.

In order to make this easier to imagine I'll use a grid. Starting with one square, I'll have 0,0 as the center.

0,0 and 1,0 are empty.

0,1 0,-1 -1,0 1,1 1,-1 -1,-1 and -1,1 are all filled.

That's one of the squares facing right.

now, if you place one square facing right centered at 0,0, then another square facing left at 5,0, you'll have the second pattern.

If you add another square facing down at 2,4 and a square facing up at 3,-4, you'll have the 4th pattern. The 4th pattern lasts quite some time before becoming somewhat stable, but after around 600 generations it creates two of the little rocket things that shoot off and do their own thing(they're the reason I say somewhat), and after around 100 more generations the main structure that isn't rocketing off to who knows where stabilizes and enters a loop.

[dracanianwyvern]

Alright, so it's triangle week now.

I'll only be doing sketches for this week until I finish all the suqares from last week.

Yes, this will continue until I finish everything.

AIGHT. NO MORE PLEASE. I STILL HAVE 3 SQUARES TO FINISH. (I don't plan on continuing untill it's time for my own crew. Sorry :( )

[mattohonbung]

kulan cafe

🇸🇴 somali

📍 skyline aka build america plaza in bailey's crossroads, falls church, virginia

📅 dinner; July 2023. 1st time

😋 overall: I literally have no metric for somali food but since it's the only one of its kind in the area, I hope it sticks around. I love getting surprise sides, and they know how to season their damn meat!!!! I'd come back in a heartbeat.

more food pix + detailed review under the cut!

🍵 not pictured is the tea we ordered, 1 cup each. it came out PIPING HOT so we had to wait a bit, but it was so wonderfully spiced (cardamom?). sweet too, but a little too sweet that it got a little cloying once it cooled down. at room temp, all the spices made it taste a little medicinal; reminded me of a natural cough syrup or something. I'd order it again but drink it while it's still hot.

🍚🐔 rice w/ chicken suqar - this was my fav dish! the chicken was soooo tender and well-spiced (not much else you can say about it when you can't identify spices that well lmfao all I know is that i loved every bite). the rice took up half the plate and then some! I loved that it came with raisins; it reminds me of afghan pulao.

I would SO get this again!!!!!!

🥗 didn't take a separate photo of the salad that came with this dish but it was pretty good. I liked taking bites of it in between these heavier meat dishes. the vinaigrette helped lift it! I'd get it again.

it reminds me of the side of salad that kabob places usually include. I wonder if salads are a western influence and what kinds of vegetables are native to Somalia.

🫓🐑 sabaya w/ lamb - it's always a gamble getting lamb or goat from restaurants but I'm so glad I did cos this lamb wasn't dry whatsoever and I loooved the spice rub on it. there were some chewy parts that I had to spit out but it was prob tendon so that's to be expected.

also I was drooling the moment I saw them bring out this plate cos the flatbread looked sooo flaky BUT it ended up being chewy and dry af 😔 it was difficult to pull apart 😢😢😢 I'm genuinely so sad about this cos it prevented this whole meal from being a solid 10

I wouldn't get a dish with sabaya again. I'd have a dish with lamb again tho! maybe I'll try their pasta next time.

🥘 unknown side that has potatoes, peas, and ??? - lol right after the cashier/server brought out the sabaya w/ lamb, he was like "I'm not done!!!" and brought out THIS DISH. and then he was like "NOW the dish is complete." thank god he did cos that sabaya needed moisture... badly

didn't even know that the dish even had sides so i'm not sure how to get it again... but I definitely want it again. I love tasting a delicious spice combination for the first time 🥰

they brought this out a little late into the meal but they also gave us a bowl of their house-made hot sauce, which was made of jalapenos. it wasn't that spicy (tbf the server told us that as he put it down) but its freshness helped lift some items.

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💲 price - $17-$20 for each plate, which I think is fair given the generous portion sizes. definitely stuffed 2 people, with some food left over (mostly carbs haha)

🗒️ other notes - it didn't taste salty or anything while I was eating but once I got home, i was SO THIRSTY i downed half my water bottle like a whale. 🐋

anyway the cashier/server was really friendly to us. after he asked us to rate the food, he made a point to tell us that everyone cooking this food is family and actually from somalia, not like "other restaurants" (who most likely have latino people working in the back).

this plaza feels like the ethiopian version of eden center. hoping i'm not cursing the place as I write this but I wonder when fairfax county will start drooling over the land as ripe for redevelopment and ethiopians will have to organise for anti-gentrification like viet folks are rn (if you're reading this, follow viet place collective)

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