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How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism

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Re: “Got laid/meds/mold removal and I don’t have unhealthy fandom obsessions anymore”: I want to assure you from personal experience that you can be on mood stabilizers (and have a CO leak discovered) and still have interests. Hyperfixations, even. I’m cheerfully “obsessed” with a few things even as we speak. The key word there was “unhealthy.”

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A reminder that turning in assignments for partial credit is better than not turning them in at all. It is. Even if you think you’ve done a bad job and are ashamed of your work, or it’s way overdue, you take whatever you can get. Partial credit dramatically improves your grade over a zero, and I’m always astounded by how often even the smartest kids don’t really comprehend that. 60% is worlds better than 0%. Even 10% is going to help you. Letter grades are misleading and are not created equal. “F"s are mathematically valuable. Turn that late assignment in.

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I often think about this (the mercymorn animatic)

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I know that a lot of you are banking on having little to do with your nephews/neices as children and then becoming their "cool aunt" once they become teenagers, but I think that you will find, upon analysis, that a random middle-aged woman stepping into a whole-ass teenager's life and arbitrarily declaring herself to be a "cool aunt" is, in fact, the least cool thing it's possible to do.

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From the Thanksgiving trenches: I carefully calculated how long my bird needed to defrost and even put it in the fridge in plenty of time... but the fridge I used was a mini fridge and set too cold and when I went to take the bird out it was still completely frozen. That was last night.

At that point, I discovered I had two options:

1. Use an ice bath overnight. Slightly dangerous, as I couldn't monitor it continuously to make sure it stayed under 40 degrees F. Would probably work but might create a problem with cooking time.

2. Find a fresh turkey, the night before Thanksgiving at 9 pm.

I got in my car, with a plan to start hitting up stores in distance order. My wife used her wits and the internet and found a store that had fresh turkeys, maybe, and I zipped two towns over and found one that should be juuuust big enough for our group, and was even on sale and not $50. Today, I feel VERY lucky.

Finally, I did discover someone who says you CAN cook turkey from frozen. So, you know... I guess that would have been option 3.

Good luck to you today, turkey-cooking folks!

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I want to try this one.

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I may need this later, for cosplay reasons...

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You know when you get kudos on a 20-year-old story and you click the link and reread it for the first time in at least a decade — and it turns out that it’s still really good?

Yeah. That.

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One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

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My version of the wallpaper from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I took some liberties, but I tried to get both aspects of the pattern described in the book:

At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.

I didn’t realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind,—that dim sub-pattern,—but now I am quite sure it is a woman...

It is always the same shape, only very numerous.

And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.

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And... yeah I do realise it looks sort of kinky.

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SGKSGKSGK MA’AM

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BREAKING NEWS: Sources Say That Wicked (2024) Is THE Movie For Thirsty Bisexuals+

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because i love y’all, i’m sharing my family’s recipe for apple tea (traditional fall/winter drink in west asia, turkey, and many areas of the balkans)

it’s like a more delicate version of apple cider and i basically live off of this stuff when the weather starts to cool!

Apple Tea (for two)

1 large apple or 2 small, shredded (you can use a cheese grater)

3 cups water

1-2 cinnamon sticks

2-3 pc clove (optional)

honey to taste

1 tsp of lemon juice (add at end)

green tea (optional! the lebanese version usually calls for green tea but i actually prefer it without. up to you!)

throw it all in a pot and let it simmer on a low temperature for an hour or so. while it’s simmering, it will also make your home smell delicious! (if you make it with green tea, add the tea at the end, about five minutes before taking it off the heat so the flavor doesn’t become bitter from oversteeping). strain into your cups and enjoy hot.

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