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I was on r/oldrecipes and someone just found the perfect vintage cookbook for this time of year:

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Saw this on Twitter. What 3 potions would you drink?

I would take brown, white, and yellow!

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Cornelia Parker — Cold Dark Matter; An Exploded View (otherwise known as "The Exploded Shed", is the contents of a garden shed exploded by the British Army at the Army School of Ammunition in Warwickshire, 1991)

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There's a labyrinth. In the middle of it, a minotaur is making waffles.

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A bread is one of the most vulnerable animals on earth of all time. It can die in a number of different ways, which include being smashed, being old, being rottened, being crumpled up, getting too hot, having water put on it, and having water not on it but being in the air a lot (the water (mist)). The bread’s favorite way to die is being eaten, but the world is a complicated place, and it does not care for what the bread wants, and so it dies in a variety of ways which are not the preference of the bread.

Humans are considered the bread’s natural predator, and also, are the bread’s mommy (make/give birth to the bread). Humans are a large species of ant or plant or ele phant with two grasping appendages which they use to give birth to the bread. They also have one hole which eats the bread, and some other holes, which the bread is not allowed near, generally.

Some bread can go in the fridge. Some bread has fruit in it. Scientists don’t know why, as putting fruit in the bread is considered yucky, and scientists have difficulty imagining an organism that likes yucky things.

There is the anteater, which is an organism that likes yucky things, but scientists do not need to imagine it, because it is real.

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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

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i made Vanessa Stockard's cat Kevin in spore [2008]. please look at her paintings of this thing

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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New vocal stim just dropped

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Yesterday when I got to the textile center there were 4 visitors kinda crowded around my loom looking at it and like leaning over and examining how it worked, so when I came up and was like "hello!" and took a seat they were like "oh!! Is this your loom? Can we ask you questions about it??"

So of course I was like "yeah sure!" and the one lady goes "where does the color come from??? How does it get between the white threads?" At which point I was like OHHH their baseline knowledge is like. Zero. So I got to show them how the bobbin goes in the shuttle, and how the treadles raise the different shafts to let you pass the shuttle through, and how the pattern depends on the way the loom is threaded and the order you raise the shafts, etc etc etc and they were SO engrossed. I loooove when people ask me questions about how it works cus it's so fun watching them be like :0!!!!

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For the past few months I’ve been thinking about the Dove of Peace Quilt at the MFA Boston.

The quilt was made in the 1860s by a Pennsylvania woman named Sarah W. Bound. She was a part of the Moravian church (who are strict pacifists), and given the date of the work, you can imagine all the ways that choice of motif might have been meaningful to her.

I visit it every time I’m in the museum (which is often), but I always fail to take good photos of the work… mostly because I can’t help myself but stare at it. It’s really intricate (stitched by hand!) and beautifully made - a masterpiece if you ask me.

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I love Queer Housing listings where you can immediately tell it's about a week from descending into complete hellish chaos

the more therapy-speak is involved in defining the house's Values and Mission As A Community, the more I can already tell why the departing housemate is leaving

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Me and my cousin have an ongoing bit where we pretend we made "slightly better" versions of things where we'll be like.

"That was a pretty good movie, but not as good as my movie, House of 1001 Corpses," or "I guess this song is okay. Kind of reminds me of a song I'm working on called 'Faster Car'."

Never once has it been funny or made anyone but us laugh.