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Fuck “gunshots or fireworks” the real challenge is “woodpecker or extremely prodigious stoner”

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52 Recipes in '25 - #1

My resolution this year, like last year, is to cook at least one new recipe every week. This year I also plan to document it, so I actually remember what I made and what's worth going back to.

Anyway shoutout to the Richmond DPU for the week we didn't have water and the hassle of getting back to normal, but I'm finally starting this year's 52 new recipe goal with the 9 Layer Scallion Pancake from Woks of Life!

(I'll be tagging these #tuesdaycooks, for your blacklisting and my own organization)

I followed the recipe pretty much to a T, omitting the 5 spice powder and subbing a drop of honey when I realized I was out of sugar for the dough.

Definitely should have rolled the dough out thinner, they came out less crispy, more chewy, but I think my house is too cold for me to be working with dough at all so I might try starting it with warm water rather than room temp next time. Some googling says that can help the gluten development.

But there probably won't be a next time. I'm glad I made it once, but the effort-to-payoff rate says this'll probably just be a learning experience.

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Crazy deer 🤯🤯🤯

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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You've been cast into a fictional setting, and you don't get to pick your genre. This wheel picks it for you.

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I will never write even (more than?) the barest of outlines for this fic but Mandy/Amy +/- Josh Lyman have bizarrely strong Wicked Political AU energy and I can't stop thinking about it

College roommates in the same major, had a weird moment that almost could have been something once but never spoke about it before they graduated and moved to opposite sides of the country.

Mandy's the Glinda (it's about wins and losses and chess pieces are there to be sacrificed) so when her couldawouldashoulda-almost-ex shows up dating her real life actual ex (extremely suspect timelines but it's too complicated to think about) and she's got Pyrrhic Victory tattooed across her knuckles even though she just.. keeps losing?

The only way they can be happy is for both of them to quit prisoner's dilemma style but neither of them could live with themselves if they did that and

(Josh fundamentally cares about the game, it's not learned it's innate, so he's not a perfect Fiyero figure, but I don't have to figure that part out!)

(there's no Oz, and not really a Morrible either, The Public and The Press are close but too amorphous however similar their roles are)

Idk there's no way it ends well for them, but in a different way, because TWW is a liberal fantasy where neither of their worldviews can possibly win and Oz is a fascist regime where Glinda can only hope to navigate the fallout but whatever happens they run into each other at a fundraiser 10 years down the line, both unhappily married, and Don't Talk About It

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WERE YOU GUYS SUBJECTED TO SEA SHANTIES EXTREMELY OFTEN AT A YOUNG AGE OR IS THIS NOT A UNIVERSAL WHITE EXPERIENCE… bc like ur man knew all of drunken sailer at age 5

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Anita Bryant just died and I haven't seen one crab rave gif on my dash yet... Come on people

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so many untold stories languishing in my notes app it brings a tear to the eye

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The decade you’re given is the decade to which you’re transported. Your geographic location doesn’t change; only the time period changes. “Equivalent QOL” means a qualify of life that approximates the life you have now and anticipate being able to have in the future.

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HAPPY SHREW YEAR

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Kneading bread dough is the most grounding thing for me. So I decided to make some rolls to relieve some stress and make something nice.

@stealingyourbones has made some delightful food abominations, which taught me I can replace the water in bread with almost any liquid.

So I tried Miso.

The yeast loved it and frothed up super fast. Mixing miso broth with the egg and oil smelled funky. The dough didn’t rise any fluffier than usual but the texture feels good. Then I decided to roll in some black garlic and green onion. I’d add nori crumbled up but I ran out.

Now we let it bake.

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Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).

Lmaooo peak white feminist antics.

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"Sorry I have a boyfriend" is of course a time-tested and reasonably reliable no-fault rejection strategy. But what many tacticians may not realize is it has an even more powerful counterpart, the preemptive boyfriend name-drop. This is when a conversation with a stranger veers into high-alert territory and you make up a guy named Raphael (my boyfriend) who you mention due to his extremely-relevant interest in the current topic of conversation.

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yeah ok

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