Today we had:

- puttu biryani
- kanji, kappa and chicken curry

Granted it wasn’t in Kerala (we were at a Kerala restaurant in Chennai) but it was very good

I am always a cat couch

Riding the Chennai metro

Alstom driverless trainsets

#Transit #Chennai #India #Trains

Achievement unlocked: pronounced Thiruvanmiyur correctly and auto drivers understand me

I’m so glad I exist in the same planet as good Keralan food

I mean it’s probably fine if you don’t know but then some people will ne so confidently wrong

‘Yes I like all southeast Asian food like Vietnamese and Japanese’

Always drives me crazy that people don’t know that difference between south and Southeast Asia

Have you had your face squashed lately? 🙌🏾

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.... I'd rather not.

Early 20s: come to Chennai, hang with friends, drink whisky all night

Early 40s: come to Chennai, hang with same friends, drink herbal tea

There are some styles of Tamil biryani that uses the short grain rice, seeraga samba, and that’s my fave kind

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113569996648036683

she was such a pretty baby

God I love my friends. I've got @skinnylatte posting about biryani flavored condoms immediately followed by @chozari saying 'Don't snort the bumbu seasoning from mi goreng noodles.' Edit: also me, supplying an extremely dirty interpretation to Walt Whitman's 'I contain multitudes.'

My friends in Chennai made me a spicy masala omelette with an log of cut chillies, and an assortment of hot sauce from around the world. This Cambodian one is lovely

#Food #Chennai #Madras #India

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117475165543844333

My friends in Chennai have informed me you can get biryani flavored condoms here

This is giving me ideas

Your reminder that here in Australia, disabled people who cannot work and are on benefits are not able to legally marry or have a de-facto relationship without their partner/spouse's income being used to determine whether or not the disabled person is entitled to keep their benefits. So often, a disabled person's benefit is cut drastically, and sometimes completely, leaving them completely dependent on their spouse/live-in partner, and stripping them of what little independence they may have left.

"Equal rights for all" isn't true until a disabled person who is unable to work retains autonomy, and is not stripped of benefits if they choose to enter a legal marriage or defacto relationship.

#Haiti #Ayiti

RE: https://scholar.social/@so_treu/117476859344008202

i always feel a little uncomfortable when i see folks holding the french up as the ideal revolutionary people. like, i'm not making a dig at the actual actions anyone is taking.. it's just, don't forget they're a colonizer nation

Basically, Tamil style biryani is one of my all time favorite food items and

I can eat one biryani daily and never run out of different styles

I think if you come from a country that gave southeast Asian and African countries homophobic laws you should criticize them and colonialism at the same time

But I also think TERF islanders shouldn’t feel too smug about anything