Beloved Snail (Turn Not Pale)

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A boat with white sails in blue ocean under a hazy blue sky.

View of the water, Costa Rica

Walked, watched monkeys, swam in the ocean, saw crocodiles, toucans, lizards and scarlet macaws. What a lovely place.

White-faced Capuchin clinging to a tree

Monkey

A large crocodile hangs out off a gravel bar in a river.

May skip swimming in rivers…

Huh. I bet it would make a good film.

So deeply stupid.

My entire senior year I played the Spike Jones catalogue repeatedly. I’m amazed nobody in my dorm strangled me in my sleep.

Good.

My other note from that tour is that the Catholic Church has a lot to answer for in Costa Rica.

I’ll look for it, thanks! He was kind of a joke in the US it seems. But not here.

My sources note it cannot be proved he caused the outbreak, but Costa Ricans believe it to be true.

With mercenaries, he invaded— among other places— Nicaragua— where he took control and relegalised slavery. Costa Rica, realising he would not stop, invaded Nicaragua to be rid of him.

He was defeated, but dumped bodies in the waterways and caused a cholera outbreak which killed 20% of Costa Rica.

Walker had the idea that to prevent the civil war, he had to move plantation slavery to Central America as colonies. 2/X

I took a history/art tour in San Jose yesterday. The young woman giving it was clearly far more passionate about history than art, but fair enough.

In one morning I discovered that William Walker existed (nothing we learned about in school) and his outsized impact on Central America.

🧵

I am an idiot. I fell asleep at 6pm without eating and woke up at 2:15

A Cook stands pensively next to a pot of beans and a pile of bread well behind her a happy customer enjoys the food

Central Market, San Jose

It was, sadly.

Aw, young dj

me in another decade. the hair! the chin! still got the 1210s mind.

not a 90s picture, but 2011, on a bright weekend when i was trying to get over a breakup and took myself to cowal for the weekend, and ended up spelunking through a 1970s workers' village that was never occupied

What a lovely picture. My lantern is still in storage. I was class of 90

It is almost annoying how quickly the whole cheer comes back. Sorry to intrude on your thread with Mawrtyr chat.

And whatever other flaws it had…

I’m really grateful for Bryn Mawr for that reason, however randomly I ended up there.

Geen gelul: dankzij gevonden receptenboek eet Den Haag straks weer gebak van Krul Tientallen jarenlang was het een fenomeen: de bakkerij en bijbehorende tearoom van Maison Krul aan het Noordeinde in Den Haag.

Begon te lezen in een leuk Haags culinair verhaal, en het eerste wat ik dacht was: hier zit vast @lizetkruyff.bsky.social weer achter! En inderdaad... 🤣

Getting to 2000 was so exciting

You in another decade. Am on the right pictured with Tom Araya from Slayer who we met before a show at the Apollo in Manchester in 2004.

If you want to see colonialism in the 21st century, look at West Papua: soldiers secure the land, companies extract the wealth, and the indigenous population is pushed aside.

I loved it. I wore it until it fell apart.