#this is so easy

[android-and-ale]

Do you have a crisper drawer full of dubious apples you know you'll never eat?

MAKE APPLE CIDER!

This is a technique, not a recipe. Don't stress about exact amounts.

It takes literally 4 minutes. Maybe 6 if you have a lot of apples and are really slow at cutting. All you need are apples, a crockpot, a knife, and water. Everything else is Nice To Have but not necessary.

It could not be easier. It's cheap. It's DELICIOUS. It makes your place smell amazing. Give it a try!

Grab your crockpot/slow cooker

Cut all the apples languishing at the bottom of your crisper drawer into quarters and toss them in. The more kinds of apples you have the better.

If you only have a few apples, pour in enough water to cover them by 3ish inches. If you have enough apples to mostly fill the crockpot, then fill it all the way up, leaving 1 inch of space at the top so it doesn't boil over.

If you have it, add a cinnamon stick, 3-5 cardamom pods, a star anise, and/or 1-12 cloves (I don't know you. How clovey do you want it?). Literally none of that is required. They're all Nice To Have.

Got any dubious citrus in your fridge? Don't waste the good stuff! Grab that shrunken lemon or orange, cut it into quarters, and toss it in, too. Again, this isn't required. All you actually need are the apples themselves.

Put on the lid. Plug it in. Come back in anywhere from 4-24 hours. Yeah, I've left mine overnight and not drained it until I got home from work the next day and it was fine.

Straining it is the only "tricky" bit.

If you have a wire mesh strainer, pour everything through that twice. It'll catch enough of the solids to give you a "full bodied" cider.

If you have a regular pasta strainer, line it with cheesecloth and pour the liquid through. It'll catch even more of the solids, but then you have to deal with the messy cheesecloth afterwards.

Throw away the apple mush afterwards and enjoy your amazing cider!

What's that? You don't want to throw away the apple mush? Okay. Fine. You CAN make applesauce too, but that will require minutes of actual work.

If you want both apple cider and cider spiced apple sauce then peel and core the apples before putting them in the crockpot. That's it. Once it's bubbled away, you strain the liquid from the solids and store them separately.

The apple mush will be much smoother than the applesauce you get at the grocery store. It's GREAT in baked goods or oatmeal.

Store both in the fridge for up to a week.

[xolaanii]

replaying a game i used to play on the ps3 way back when and by golly young me couldn't play worth a shit

[teaboot]

We gotta stop aiming for unique and interesting baby names we gotta start naming every single infant straight-shot middle-of-the-road ass popular common unisex names like Alex and Sam. By the end of 2031 I wanna see 100% of kindergarten children named either Alex or Sam and you know what, let’s make ‘em all Smiths and Johnsons, too. In an age of digital tracking give your baby the gift of total functional anonymity within the panopticon

[anotherpapercut]

I don't really think it's fair to dismiss the idea that that guy might have been framed for killing the CEO as like an unfounded conspiracy theory when NYPD has a proven history of planting/fabricating evidence on people. in 2011 there was a massive investigation of the NYPD and hundreds of cases against people were dismissed after a former police officer testified that they literally have a name for planting evidence on people: flaking. you cannot be out here acting like considering the possibility that cops who do this shit under normal circumstances might possibly also do it when they're under intense global pressure and scrutiny is the same as republicans thinking democrats run a secret pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant

[potofsoup]

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.) If you want an extra verification, find your state's election website and double-check there.

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

[emeraldlupin]

How to Format on AO3

Random thought that popped into my head, but sometimes, when I read stuff on Archive of Our Own (AO3), I see stories with extra lines between paragraphs. Have you ever seen that in your own work, those huge gaps? You don't need them, and it adds excess space to the work.

If you have seen them, then there's an easy way to get rid of them, and add a little polish on your story's readability. Here's how.

You'll need is access to Microsoft Word, whether it is the program you use to write your work, or if you use writing software like Scrivener where you can compile a Word document. Whether Google Docs works out with this method, I don't know.

Once you go to Post New Story/Chapter page of AO3, fill out everything you need, and then go down to the Work Text section. Then follow these steps.

Make sure the Work Text section is set to Rich Text Editor.

Copy your story's text from Word into the Work Text section. Do NOT post the story yet.

Switch from the Rich Text Editor to HTML

Select everything in the Work Text section (now in HTML form) and cut it out.

Open up a blank Word document and paste the text there. You will notice that between each of your story's paragraphs, there is a set of empty paragraph tags, or < p > < / p >. I had to put extra spaces inside the angled brackets to keep it from being invisible. I think there IS a space between the opening and closing tags. Copy one of these sets just to make sure you have it exactly.

In Word, go to "Replace" (You will find it on the top right). Use it to find all instances of those empty paragraph tag sets and replace them with nothing.

Copy the text and paste it back into AO3 (still set to HTML).

Those empty paragraph tags are automatically generated by the site. Once you get rid of them, you will reduce those excessive space between paragraphs into normal spaces, presuming you put a single empty line between paragraphs, which YOU SHOULD.

I know it sounds like a lot, but it's really quite simple and easy. It literally takes a minute or two. Trust me, I've done this a lot.

I should also add that there could still be a hiccup or two. Paragraphs that end in italics can result in a set of empty paragraph tags mixed with an italics tag, so you should give your story a quick readthrough to see if there are still any extra spaces between paragraphs, and fix those manually.

That is all.

[hawkpartys]

[brainrotcharacters]

When irl pisses me off, I rewatch the Honda Odyssey scene to relax

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Lae'zel's character and her entire situation at the beginning of the game becomes so much more funny when you find out she's 22. It makes so much sense. Imagine you're 22 and you're exposed to this dangerous toxin or chemical or something - but not to worry, you learnt that this can be easily fixed, you just need to dial 911 real quick. Common knowledge. Everyone knows that. You learnt that in kindergarten, it's up there with fire alarm drills.

But the people you're stuck with have no concept of modern medicine and when you say "let's go to the hospital" they will say shit like "i think they kill people at the hospital" and "we should ask this swamp lady" or "this guy over there told me about this homoeopathic healer kind of guy but he got abducted" or "this random bard wants to help" and "I'm not going to dial 911 because I don't want the government to know my home address" or "maybe we should consider a deal with Satan". And then a bunch of them KEEP consuming the chemical because it makes them "stronger". One guy might explode for unrelated reasons. You have a few days before this situation is getting critical and suddenly they're solving crime and doing general charity for the community.

And FOR SOME REASON you still try to help these idiots and you STILL want to help them get the cure even though they all keep insisting the "doctors" at the "hospital" might try to "kill them" and they don't have insurance. And you keep telling them to just. go. to. the. hospital. before the time runs out and you all die very horribly of a very treatable condition.

And also you're 22 in a foreign country and you're responsible for shepherding this gaggle of idiots who are all ranging anywhere from 24 to 240 years old.

[pepsimaxolotl]

[donnieisaprettyboy]

can we stop pretending like it’s so super easy for trans men to pass. “oh just put on a baggy shirt and cut your hair-“ it literally doesn’t work like that and I refuse to believe you actually think it’s that easy

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

[confield]

Straight guy looksmaxxing is so fucking funny dude they'll be measuring facial ratios and shit meanwhile the truth is that if you're medium ugly and have a good sense of humor you're guaranteed to bag at least one bisexual woman. They do not know this because they do not recognize women as members of the same species

[biocrafthero]

MizuEna canon as of December 2024