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Olympic Chocolate Muffins! (since the recipe is paywalled on WaPo)

Cool the muffins and ganache completely before assembly, about 30-40 minutes

Makes 12 muffins

Muffin Ingredients:

�� cup (180 ml) whole or reduced fat milk

¼ cup (60 ml) water

2 teaspoons instant coffee powder

½ cup (50 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder

4 tablespoons (56 grams) unsalted butter, cut into pieces

½ cup + 1/3 cup (145 total grams) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chunks

2 cups (250 grams) AP flour

1 tablespoon baking powser

¼ teaspoon fine salt

½ cup (110 grams) packed dark brown sugar

½ cup (100 grams) granulated sugar

¼ cup (60 ml) neutral oil

2 large eggs, room temp

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup (60 grams) chopped milk chocolate, plus more for topping

Ganache Ingredients:

2/3 cup (115 grams) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chunks

½ cup (120 ml) heavy cream

1/8 teaspoon fine salt

Directions

Position rack in the middle of the oven, preheat 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a regular sized muffin pan with liners.

In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine milk, water, and instant coffee. Bring to a simmer, whisking occasionally.

Add cocoa powder and whisk.

Decrease heat to low, add ½ cup (85 grams) of the chocolate chunks and butter, whisk until melted and smooth.

Transfer to a large bowl and cool slightly

In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, and salt.

To chocolate mixture, whisk in brown sugar, granulated sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla.

Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture, whisk until incorporated

Add remaining flour, folding with a spatula until no streaks remain.

Fold in remaining 1/3 cup (60 grams) chocolate chunks and chopped milk chocolate, until just combined. Do not overmix.

Using a ¼ cup scoop or measuring cup, divide batter among 12 muffin cups, filling to the top of the pan.

Sprinkle additional chocolate chunks on top.

Transfer pan to oven, and immediately reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bake for 22-24 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Start on ganache now

Let muffins cool in pan for 10 minutes, then use a knife or piping tip to cut an approximately ¾ inch wide hole in the center of each muffin. (use the centers as ice cream topping or eat now!)

Let muffins cool completely.

GANACHE: in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, combine chocolate chunks, heavy cream, and salt. Cook, stirring frequently, until melted and smooth. Remove from heat and let cool completely.

Once muffins and ganache are completely cool, spoon or pipe ganache into the center of the muffin, until slightly overflowed. Serve immediately.

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Terfs are constantly tripping over themselves to show their fascist roots.

This post was ostensibly supposed to be an attack on surrogacy, but in it they choose to take a deeply anti-feminist line of attack in the process. This is the problem with cultural feminism. It always comes back to some mystical understanding of the female essence or whatever the fuck in a way that just repackages patriarchal ideas and harms women.

The fact that you're so desperate to attack gay men rather than stick to the actual issues with surrogacy (capitalism) that you would shame people for using formula, something that is necessary for many women? Absolutely disgusting. The ability to choose formula is so fucking necessary that I would absolutely 100% argue that attacking it is anti-feminist.

Have any of these people who have reblogged this even given birth? Absolutely any of them? Have any fucking one of them ever tried breast feeding??

Because breast feeding is fucking difficult. It is time consuming. It uses so much energy. It. Fucking. Sucks. Having the ability to choose formula allows you to actually be independent of your child at some point if you can't make enough breast milk to freeze (or if you don't have the ability to freeze and reheat your milk at a later time.)

You think it's feminist to shame someone for not wanting to be plugged into a machine like a fucking dairy cow for hours a day??? Really????

How about the women* who can't work because their job won't allow them to pump? Either because they don't have laws protecting them or their company violates the laws? How are they supposed to be financially independent?

You know why I stopped breast feeding? I was sitting in my kitchen, attached to my breast pump, as my ex stomped around the house in a fit. The scary part was, my mom was sitting right next to me. My ex was going through a full breakdown and letting the mask slip in front of my mom. I had the sudden realization that if these slips could happen in front of my mom, how bad was it going to be when she was gone?

I suddenly realized how vulnerable I was attached to this machine. If my ex wanted to start beating me while I was attached to it, I would have a difficult time getting away without breaking my very expensive pump (which I would also get beaten for doing). I have ADHD and serious memory problems, but I remember the exact fucking moment I decided to switch to formula because it was the only way to keep myself safe.

My ex did not want me to switch our baby to formula for the reasons OP listed above, but I somehow made it happen. Looking back I am actually shocked I got away with it.

The demonization of formula is fucking bad for women. We can talk about the ways in which companies like Nestlé use predatory practices in order to force impoverished mothers into using formula, but again a lot of these arguments are about capitalism itself. Formula in and of itself should be celebrated. It helps women be independent, it feeds babies who can't drink breastmilk, it helps children who are adopted... Etc.

I mean, what are adopted children supposed to do? What about babies whose mothers die in childbirth? Are they just supposed to die??

This is why I hate terfs so much. Cultural feminism is so deeply fucking unserious.

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"how can you be blogging about fun stuff while this horrible thing is going on?"

there's always horrible things going on somewhere. if you refuse to calm down until it all stops, all you'll do is give yourself a stroke

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Minecraft if it was awesome

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NO YOU DID IT TO ME

September 1, 1937 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

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WHAT THE FREAK

September 1, 1937 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

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:3

September 1, 1937 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

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No u :3

September 1, 1937 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

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rb to give the previous person a fucking break because life aint life-ing the way its supposed to life and it fucking sucks.

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"The left and social justice movement have a problem with pushing men away!"

Honestly, yes, but I think the left and the social justice movement have a problem with pushing everyone away at this point, just based on observation.

The # of times I've seen an ally try to jump in to defend trans people in a reddit thread being brigaded by transphobes only to get jumped by those same trans people because they aren't that educated and used a no no word like 'transgenders' over the past year or two is fucking insane. We're having a discussion over whether trans people should be allowed to exist, maybe relax a little on the people trying to help just because they didn't get their words 100% right. I've seen at least two or three people straight admit they just don't get involved in the threads and defend people anymore because they always feel like they manage to say something wrong and get yelled at by both sides instead.

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art by @christiansinglebabes

Urgent! Please help a father save his three young daughters from war

This family is very low on funds, with only €4,237 out of the €40,000 goal

I was reached out to by Ahed to make a post for his family. This fundraiser is vetted by Gazavetters, #229 on their spreadsheet

Ahed is a 33 year old father of three young girls with his wife Maisoon. Getting Ahed the funds to evacuate his family is very urgent because they have three children under the age of ten with them, who currently don’t have access to food, clean water, or medical treatment they need. They’re at risk of bombs, infectious illnesses, and starvation every day they remain in Gaza. every hour matters

Ahed’s daughters are the light of his life and his motivation to keep going, and he’s campaigning on here every day to keep them safe. In Ahed’s words, his daughter Fatima (9) is “the closest to my heart, and my little one.”, Iman (6) “The friendly, kind, and loving child who is loved by everyone”, and little Nour, only one year old: “Who did not live her life like other children, as she was born two months before the war”.

Imagine that you’ve just had a baby girl, and you look at her with so much love and imagine with excitement what a bright future she’ll have and how she’ll play with her siblings. And only two months later, your whole life is turned upside down, and you have to wonder every day how you’ll feed her and keep her safe.

This is what happened to Ahed and his wife when they should’ve been at their happiest with a newborn daughter, everything turned into a nightmare. Their apartment was destroyed in a bombing, they were displaced multiple times, and suddenly they were raising their beautiful daughters in a war zone.

Every hour in Gaza is dangerous. Please help get Ahed, Maisoon and their children to safety as soon as possible 🙏🏼 Every donation will bring them closer to a future where Fatima, Iman, and Nour can play together and go to school and rest and recover from what they’ve been through.

Please give Ahed and Maisoon peace where they don’t have to watch their children suffer from illness and malnutrition, the worst thing for a parent to experience.

Please let Nour experience what peace feels like.

Thank you for reading their story, if you’re not able to donate, please share so it can reach people who are able to.

Donate here to save their family

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Let’s do a Wild Hunt larp where we kidnap Jeff Bezos and release him in the forest and then give all the larpers (who are amazon employees) weird masks and motorbikes painted to look like fucked up horses and wolves.

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If this post gets a hundred notes I will draw more wolf memories with Leo and the family

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Or as Strunk and White said in Elements of Style (to the best of my memory), "Feel free to ignore everything in this book rather than write something inelegant."

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