Aram Dulyan

Saw a guy at my gym winking and biting his lip at his own reflection in the mirror.

So I looked in the mirror and tried doing the same.

He's onto something. This is definitely a skill that requires practice to develop; I seem to be terrible at it.

Mark my words: besides diet sodas, everything is going to be moving to either sucralose or allulose, depending on their bulking needs.

Woolies already sells allulose powder, and products using it should be coming soon. It's good.

Sugar alcohols, erythritol especially, will be a thing of the past.

A composition using two photos of a 350g can of a product called "Stevia with Erythritol" by the Whole Earth brand, showing that it contains 99.5g of erythritol per 100g of weight, and highlighting the phrasing of "with" erythritol.

Stevia
...with erythritol

This product is labelled "stevia WITH erythritol"

I understand the relative sweetness of sugar alcohols vs sweeteners and the notion of a bulking agent, but I feel like we're past the ratio where it should be called "erythritol with stevia"

Yes, I feel that was implied. I'm testing to see how much the different kernel sizes of my favourite brands affect how long it takes to shell and eat 100 kcal of seeds, one by one.

I'm looking for ways to minimise the caloric cost of a dopaminergic activity. The toxicity, of our city, of our ciityy

I'm about to time myself eating 35 grams of a specific brand of sunflower seeds, because that is a normal thing that normal people do.

You know you're aging when you find yourself weighing food portions and supplements using the scales you originally bought to weigh illegal drugs.

A photo of half an apricot, with pit removed, on a scale reading 39.249g. The pit, some coins for scale, and another apricot of the same size in the background.

According to me, these apricots are very medium in size.

According to the AFCD, a "medium" apricot weighs 40g.

A photo of an unidentifiable person laying flat in the Herald Square fountain in Sydney, with water falling onto their body.

This is how hot it is.

Screenshot of "memberships" section on the Patreon sidebar, showing "If Books Could Kill", "The Know Rogan Experience", "5-4", "Maintenance Phase", "Conspirituality", and "Decoding the Gurus".

Before 2025, my podcast listening was limited to This American Life on road trips.

But in 2025, I started doing some car detailing work, some home reno, going to the gym/running, so I needed stuff to listen to, and now look what happened.

Photo of a malfunctioning Sydney Trains schedule display at Newtown Station, where the left one of the two screens is off, while the right one is showing the video feed that's supposed to span both displays, while also in an incorrect orientation.

Now I can't help but wonder how many displays are fed by a single computer at stations that have a whole wall of these.

Also, knowing that it's just showing a fullscreen browser window from previous glitches, I'm appreciating how responsive web design makes that the best choice for this purpose.

Many bouquets and other arrangements of flowers, laid out in a large circle on the ground in front of the Bondi Pavilion to commemorate the shooting.

I'm sure this flower tribute in front of Bondi Pavilion will be absolutely massive by the end of the day.

Many flowers, many people, many press, many police. But also children doing somersaults on the sand nearby, and surfers on the waves behind them. This is Sydney.

Photo of closed doors to a food establishment with poorly made signs advertising burgers, hot chips, and cola, clearly illustrated using LLM-generated imagery.

This is just chicken salt on the wound.

The "Foodie Max" place that took over the iconic Dean's Diner location on King St is using LLM-generated imagery for their food offerings (including on the screens above the counter).

— Hi, I'd like a bowl of beef phở, please.
— You want phở?
— Yes, a bowl of beef phở, please.
— Chicken or beef?
— A bowl of beef phở, please.
— In a cup, or in a bowl?
— A bowl of beef phở, please.

Why does this happen every time at every sort of establishment? Do I have a speech impediment?

The reason we have school zones isn't because children are precious and must be protected; it's because they are stupid and unpredictable and will run into the road.

Photo of four packets of cheese on a supermarket shelf, labelled "Le Cheddar", "Le Maasdam", "Le Gouda", and "La Mozzarella".

Types of cheese are masculine, because fromage is masculine, obviously.

However, if a cheese comes from a gendered language country, and is feminine in that language, it's feminine in French, e.g. mozzarella, ricotta, feta.

So if Dutch hadn't abandoned feminine gender, we'd probably have La Gouda.

A sign that says "wet paint" on a fence with old and peeling paint.

This is why I have trust issues.

If you're ever caught pleasing yourself with a chorizo, and wish to avoid embarrassment, simply claim that you're preparing to perform a magic trick where you swallow a chorizo whole and pull it out unharmed out the other end.

Take some 🇺🇿 plov (پلو‎‎),
Layer some 🇬🇪 lobio (ლობიო) over it,
Add a bit of 🇷🇺 smetana (сметана) on top,
Wrap it in 🇦🇲 lavash (լավաշ),
What do you get?
That's right, a 🇲🇽 burrito.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average...

A sepia photo of a 22cm plaster model of a nude male, modelled by averaging body measurements of US soldiers in 1921. Looks slim but unathletic and generally unremarkable by modern standards. Captioned as courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

"A visual representation of what eugenicists considered the degeneration of the white race", made by averaging body measurements of soldiers in 1921

Implying it's unacceptable for white men to look this bad

It's wild that you can't tell if I'm mocking eugenics, or lamenting a drop in our standards

It gives me weird satisfaction to be observed by strangers while I'm using a key to enter a building.

Yeah, that's right, I BELONG HERE. And you thought.

When boomers post memes like "let's give kids rotary phones or manual transmissions, and watch them struggle", it's a reflection of their own frustration at the world thrusting new and unfamiliar ways of doing things on them.

Table with columns labelled: Bible, year, μαλακοι, and αρσενοκοιται. Rows are as follows: Wycliffe, 1508, letchouris ayen kynde (lechers against kind), thei that doon letcheri with men (they that do lechery with men) Coverdale/Tyndale, 1539, weaklynges, abusers of them selues wyth mankynde Geneva, 1560, wantons, buggerers King James (KJV), 1611, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind Darby (DBY), 1890, who make women of themselves, who abuse themselves with men Jerusalem Bible (TJB), 1966, catamites, sodomites New International (ISV), 1978, male prostitutes, homosexuals Lexham (LEB), 2010, passive homosexual partners, dominant homosexual partners New International (NIV), 2011, men who have sex with men

Circa 50 CE, saint Paul decided to tell Corinthians about tops and bottoms, and English has struggled to express what he meant ever since.

An instructional image for housing orphaned wombat joeys illustrating a tub with a pouch, pad, and a wine cask bladder partially filled with warm water.

Of course the instructions for caring for wombat joeys include a goon bag. This is `Straya; who even owns a hot water bottle?

A cartoon child in a classroom asks "Můžu votevřít vokno?", which means "can I open the window?" in Czech, but with the unwritten prothetic V sounds that precede words starting with O in spoken Bohemian Czech explicitly written in the caption. In the second panel, a cartoon school principal from the meme where he is usually pictured saying "pathetic." is saying "prothetic." instead.

I enjoy coming up with jokes that require as much unrelated knowledge as possible to understand.

In-jokes for a group of one known member, but admission is open.

As many people have killed themselves after touching a gympie gympie plant as have killed a grown grizzly bear without weapons.

There's a story of it happening once, but we've no idea if it's true.

If we ever have a true global meteorological bureau, it should totally be called "BoM de terre"

What if I asked: how did the notion of daily recommended intake on nutrition labels come about?

Now what if I phrased it as: who might have first wanted to know the minimum effort they can expend to keep a person alive nutrition-wise?

Putricia's smell is best described as "decay", the kind you'd imagine coming across in a forest. There's a hint of cadaverine, but no elements of generic household waste, decomposing food waste, nor sewage. Not reminiscent of durian either.

Also, she had a hole cut out, presumably for pollination.

Blessed be the bloom
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