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French toast with breakfast sausage and acorn squash for dinner.

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French toast with breakfast sausage and acorn squash for dinner.

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embracing the patterned ambiguity of gender and sex as more or less social constructs can grant you so much more precision in thinking about so many concepts in science.

like, if there was a study (and I'm just making this up as an example) showing women suffer from mosquito bites more than men do

you could do the ~"Gender Critical"~ thing and go "see!? mosquitoes get it!!"

OR

you could go "that's interesting" and start asking more questions, like:

is this data self-reported? controlled?

were they studying the women or the mosquitoes?

did the study use methods that would let you tell the difference between "being bitten more often" and "noticing bites more often"?

did the study include any trans people and were their results any different? if yes were they on HRT or not?

how similar were the men and women in aspects other than gender? do we know their social class, jobs, diets, blood types?

because in fact the study i made up just then could lead to a huge variety of conclusions. from my description above you can't tell the difference between studies that show:

mosquitoes are attracted to people with higher estrogen levels

mosquitoes are opportunistic and women spend more time near mosquito habitats for sociocultural reasons

every gender gets bitten about the same amount but men are socialised to pay less attention to physical discomfort so more of them don't notice minor bites compared to women (and by more we mean like 60-40, this is a bell curve thing)

we accidentally got heaps of women in the study that have the mosquito's favourite blood type and not so for the men, oops

mosquitoes are attracted to people with more x and y in their diets, which is currently mostly women for, again, largely sociocultural reasons

etc etc etc

you're just not going to understand actual Gender Science, and therefore reality, if you can't put "hmm, but what do they mean by woman this time" in your mental toolkit in a relatively neutral way.

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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

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was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality

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Sausage, spinach, cheddar Quiche!

My first time making pie crust from scratch too and it turned out fantastic.

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Lamb chops, baked potato, and zucchini for dinner tonight

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Crock pot cranberry chili meatballs over mashed potatoes

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Seasoned chicken breast with couscous. And some greens with olive garden dressing

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Marinated artichoke with poached egg over polenta, a relatively quick and easy vegetarian meal.

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More mandarin orange salad, but as a smaller portion and using some of the chicken for a chicken quesedilla.

As much as I'm enjoying this salad I know that salad alone 3 meals in a row is going to start burning me out on it.

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https://www.iheartnaptime.net/mandarin-orange-salad/

Easy orange salad dressing. It's lightly sweet, light, and refreshing. I personally like adding chicken to it to make it more filling.

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Bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich with a strawberry smoothie.

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Bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich with a strawberry smoothie.

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Chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes.

Every time I get a costco rotisserie chicken I break it down into snack bag sized portions and freeze it. Perfect for throwing a whole frozen bag into a pot of boiling broth for a quick comforting dinner.

Putting instant potato pearls in the bottom of the bowl and pouring some of the extra broth to hydrate them has become my preferred method lately. One less pan for potatoes and I don't have to worry about the noodles being in more broth than I wanted.

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Sirloin steak and mashed potatoes topped with way too many mushrooms and a sauce made by deglazing the pan with red wine.

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Hey this is starting up as a random blog to hold images and rough rescipes for different meals I've made. To serve as both a reference for cooking inspiration when I'm stuck, and as a place to dump all my random food pictures instead of bothering my friends with them.