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MORE MISS HOLLOWAY <3

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Princess Leia by Travis Charest

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mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark

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Trump paused communications from all of our health agencies. He wants them reviewed.

You will be much less likely to know from now on during the early days if we have something like the current rising bird flu epidemic. You will be less likely to know about any illness epidemics. Even once things are confirmed and being reported in some media outlets, there's a non-zero chance that you are not going to see any urgency or any communication at all from places you are used to.

For the love of little green apples, please start masking again. Please be more careful with your health then you have been over the last 4 years.

https://wapo.st/4aqfN44

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So there's this feeling I sometimes get when I'm comparing the effort that I put into something with the absolute lack of effort that somebody else puts into it and I just get knocked flat to the ground.

Like one very minor example is reducing plastic waste, recycling, and composting. I make a pretty significant effort in my home to reduce plastic waste as much as possible, and to also reduce single-use products overall where I can, and I try to use every bit of food that I can in everything from vegetable stock to compost. And then I found out that one of my coworkers uses 20 ounce plastic bottles of water to fill his humidifiers and goes through a couple gallons of water a day like that, using up at least a flat of water bottles daily.

Just. An approach that is so alien to my perspective that I barely know how to process it.

ANYWAY.

Today I found out that one of our clients stores their company passwords in a table in a Word Document that's on the company sharepoint.

I am having so much trouble articulating the emotions I am feeling around this.

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can you guys watch my normal dog for a second I have to run to the bathroom

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surprising (to me) chocolate sauce recipe below

One of my myriad annoyances with the UK food situation is the virtual absence of unsweetened baking chocolate. The lack of this ingredient peeves me regularly, in particular re: chocolate sauce. The chocolate sauce recipe I use is from Fanny Farmer; I like it because it's made of ingredients I usually have around the house (ie, it doesn't use fresh milk or cream), or at least it WAS until I could no longer get unsweetened baking chocolate. These dire circumstances led me to create a slightly perverted version that I find extremely tasty, especially given its very basic ingredients. If you wish to taste it yourself, you will need:

dinky UK bag of chocolate chips (3.4oz) -- dark, milk, whatever you want your sauce to be

3-4Tbsp butter (unsalted, salted, whatever)

a big pinch of salt

1/2c of water

1 -1.5 tsp vanilla

Melt the chocolate chips & butter together (I don't use a double boiler, but you could), then take this off the heat and add the water, salt, and vanilla. Fanny Farmer's order of operations is slightly different, but this is my recipe now so I do what I want. Beat it all together with a fork or a whisk; the melted chocolate is wily so make sure to get it all incorporated. Put it back on the heat for ~5 min (you can finish beating it together there if you like). The sauce will seem ludicrously thin at this point, but don't worry. At no point in this 5-ish minutes of heat will it start to seem any thicker. Once you're sick of watching it do very little on the stove, put it in a jar and let it cool. A few hours later it will have thickened surprisingly and it will be tastier than you expect. It makes about a cup -- it's good on ice cream, smeared on cake, or eaten with a spoon. The water initially seems like it would be a little Depression-era compared to recipes made with milk or cream, but I actually like this version better.

(In case you're wondering, the FF version uses 2oz of unsweetened baking chocolate, 2 Tbsp butter, and 1 cup of sugar. I vaguely doubt there's that much sugar in the chocolate chips, but they definitely don't need any more added.)

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Did a big brave thing over the weekend and entered the daytime Afrovictorian ensemble in the Masquerade at Arisia

Guess what?

I won a Best in Show for both Workmanship and Presentation!

Hopefully they'll upload the professional photos soon but now I have to go plot for next year. I'm considering a riff on the Baddest Boss Babe in Bridgerton, Lady Danbury.

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Check out my new (to me) wheel!!

Louet S40 aka The Hatbox wheel.

These wheels are relatively rare and not in production anymore. I so badly wanted one for it's extreme portability and elegent engineering. I actually drove 7 hours to pick this baby up 🫠 worth it though, it was a great price and in perfect condition!!

It's call the hat box because it easily dissaembles (simply removing the flyer, which is very easy) and goes together into the wooden carrying case (pictured above with my hand for scale, and fyi I have small hands lol).

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Fun fact! This black glaze works like a chalkboard. I chose it so you could make yourself sad with baby minotaur drawings.

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Ooh good find! Anybody else who wants to leaf through the issue, it's embedded here (this project is pages 30-34): https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/woodworkers-journal-januaryfebruary-1983/

Okay spinning community. Don't let me down. I have this NoName wheel that I bought off Marketplace for $99.

We are mostly up and running but I need a few bits and bobs for it and I would like to know what kind of wheel this is.

I've looked all over for some kind of brand or mark, but nothing.

So far, all I know is that it's a double drive.

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Also btw trump recognizing only "the two biological sexes" harms intersex people too. I am a researcher of sex and it's affects on disease, and sex is far more complicated than "two sexes" and it always will be. Sex is multifaceted and there are far more than two binary sexes. Keep that in mind too. Don't fall into bioessentialism as you fight for trans people and intersex people.

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Now that they’ve made it to her, I can finally post pictures of @geese-in-flight‘s rather belated birthday present. 6 napkins, all woven on one (very) multicolored warp, each with a different combination of weft colors. They were really pretty on the loom, and I’m so happy with how they turned out!

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ICE raids happening in Chicago on Tuesday January 21st. Get organized and get prepared.

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mile 5: the sun was in my eyes the whole damn way south, but fell behind the pines when I finally reached them

within the pines was an unexpected new species of bird, the conifer-dwelling "golden-crowned kinglet". the males have another stripe of bright orange within the yellow stripe on their head, but they are tiny bouncy fidgety birds and it was nearly impossible to get any pictures of them at all

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usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'

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Naffy aka Naffy Illustration (Japanese, based Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) - Stay Warm, Mixed Media