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[charl0ttan]

🫵best flooring for bathroom in your honest to goodness opinion❓

ceramic or porcelain tile

laminate flooring

carpet

hardwood

engineered wood

bamboo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[charl0ttan]

🫵now bedroom❓

ceramic

laminate

capret

hardwood

engineered wood

bamboo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[charl0ttan]

🫵kitchen❓

ceramic

laminate

carpet

hardwood

engineered hardwood

bamboo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

[charl0ttan]

🫵garage

ceramic

laminate

carpet

hardwood

engineered hardwood

bambo

stone

vinyl

cement

Remaining time: 6 days 10 hours

[teaboot]

What up guys welcome to my carpeted garage

[hotvampireadjacent]

[socialistexan]

[three-semicolons]

Holy shit holy shit you know the picture?????

This one???? The “tearing up Gotham in my Batmobile >:)” one???

BRUCE DOES IT TOO.

WHO GOT IT FROM WHO?????

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

In the latest round of "Derin shares a random fact from their life and gets flooded with stupid advice they didn't ask for that assumes they have the life experience of a toddler", I am once again being reminded that food can be frozen, but nobody's told me to take half a slow cooker's worth of leftovers to the local food bank (which they know nothing about since they know nothing about my town) yet. So at least the advice is getting marginally less stupid, even if the assessment of my intelligence is the same. Hopefully this improvement persists.

[gpedia]

you should consider eating an entire slow cookers worth of food in one sitting next time

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Believe me I did my best

[tryan-a-bex]

Did u know food can be dried as well

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Wow, no way! Next you'll tell me that it can be canned or something!

[tryan-a-bex]

No no don’t start canning. It’s hot and dangerous and a lot of work and also one of those deep deep pits you can fall into like fibre arts.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I've refused to even dabble in canning for years because doing it safely just costs way too much money. Between the lower reliability of home canning than factory canning, the lids having a bit that you're not supposed to reuse for safety reasons and are expected to rebuy regularly, and the modern price of electricity, I seriously doubt that canning my own food would be any cheaper than just buying canned food, and the end product would absolutely be worse.

Everything I want to preserve is simply better preserved in a freezer, and I'm not good enough at gardening to have a bunch of excess produce to can anyway. If I grow too many tomatoes or too much spinach, I cook the extra into a meal and freeze it. And buying fresh stuff to can is a fool's errand; buying the canned version is usually already cheaper even before you take into consideration the costs of canning it yourself. We've already figured out canning on an industrial scale. It's about as efficient and safe as it's gonna get. Me doing a shittier version in my own house isn't helpful.

[kvotheunkvothe]

I've never gotten into canning for some of those same reasons, but also because it just takes ONCE to mess it up and get botulism poisoning, and I just know I'd fuck it up and end up a statistic

[apkes]

Ive gone into canning (using stuff from weck bc of lid and glass safety) but tbh, if youve got the freezer space, derin's approach is a lot easier and on days that you dont have time or energy to cook, you can still pull a nutricious meal from the freezer

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Canning probably makes more sense if you a) grow tons and tons of your own fresh produce, way more than you can fit in a freezer, b) have a tiny freezer and are in a scenario where you can't get a big one, and/or c) live somewhere where the electricity grid is unstable so freezing for preservation reasons is unsafe (canning takes more electricity given that you're likely running a freezer anyway, but a freezer's electricity needs to be constant). But as a bad gardener who owns a chest freezer and a desire to do as little extra work as possible, I just cook everything into stews or sauces, portion it, and freeze the portions.

[nekojamas]

Despite being well experienced in both cooking and freezing, portioning beforehand is consistently a step I forget to do. This is how I end up sawing at a block of pumpkin soup with a breadknife at 2 in the afternoon

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That is so funny to me. Frozen hands, bread knife, huge chunk of pumpkin ice, pure determination.

[attention-span-never-heard-of-i]

Maybe a stupid question, I have only ever seen home canning in videos. And it looks incredibly stupid to me.

However, where I live (Germany), lots of people here make their own jams for example, and to store the stuff the steps we take are:

Take now empty and cleaned jar with screw on lid (like you can get in any store) -> fill in hot stuff you want to preserve -> screw on lid -> turn glass upside down until cooled (to sterilize the lid etc using the heat of the food)

Afterwards you can just check if the stuff is still ok by feeling if the lid is still pulled in/if the vacuum still exists or if it smells bad

And I've done that with lots of stuff, and it's just so simple, so why would anyone go through the hassle of home canning? Especially with those weird, two part lids?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You don't have to be as careful with jam because the high sugar content acts as a preservative (and also the nature of jam makes it really obvious if you've fucked it up). For relying purely on heat, the two-part-lid design drastically reduces points of failure and lets you get everything including the food and lid properly, consistently hot. You *can* can other food using the jam method (people have been canning food for a very long time), but the failure rate is much, much higher, and when it comes to heat-serilised food a failed/contaminated batch might not be obvious before you eat it and can put you in hospital or, in extreme cases, the grave.

Jams, pickles and ferments are much easier, and are generally fine without the fancy lids because they are also chemically preserved.

[rcktpwr]

fill your body with cranberries so the horse that kills you gets a sensual surprise when he begins to feed

[ceeberoni]

i will give the  horse that kills me no such luxury

[fwippy]

interesting dates on this post

[heedra]

that does seem like something i might be interested in

[tonyalmeida]

[prokopetz]

Disco Elysium is so effective at putting you in the shoes of a mentally ill heart attack survivor who is currently experiencing withdrawal from Every Drug that when you level up and gain the ability to do something most people can do as a matter of course it legitimately feels game-breaking.

[viralfrog]

[strawberrydykke]

opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was

The Garment by Robert Cole

[bixbythemartian]

went to read the Ravelry and that was such a treat:

Let the Garment envelop you; experience its heft and splendor. The original Garment pattern was knit in the round, from the bottom up, and designed for someone six feet in height. A simple adjustment of the number of stitches you cast on will allow you to customize the length. Follow The Garment on Instagram: @HeftAndSplendor Update, Aug 9, 2026: Many thanks for all the Garment enthusiasm in recent days! In response to sensible feedback, I’m developing and testing two alternate versions of the pattern: one for children, and the other a top-down version. I’m not entirely sure why I chose to make the first The Garment bottom-up—it almost certainly makes more sense for sizing, etc., to make it top-down—although I will say that casting on 300 stitches for the bottom of a The Garment feels like quite a leap of faith into the great unknown. In any case, both new versions of the pattern will be included in the update and sent to everyone who’s already bought the original pattern.

The pattern for the Garment costs only five usd so if you are a knitter and you want to make something beautiful and baffling, there you go. I do almost want to learn to knit so I can make the Garment.

(Also there's more pictures of people wearing the Garment at the Ravelry page and they're all FANTASTIC.)

[sexhaver]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

been a rough couple days, gimme a compliment and also a fucked up animal fact please n thnx?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this website always suceeds in disappointing 🥰

[discoursedrome]

so "incubus" means someone who lies on top of something, and "succubus" means someone who lies underneath something, and the former also turns up in the word "incubate", which means to lie on top of an egg. To ensure closure we could therefore posit an analogous term "succubate", which would be something like this:

he is succubating.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[iwilleatyourenglish]

Do you not see why people believe astrology tho??

so i'm a custodian.

whenever someone does something cool like shit on the bathroom floor or get blood all over a toilet, i have to close the bathroom down by blocking the doorway with a CLOSED sign.

this sign is big and bright. it says CLOSED in four languages and has a do not enter symbol. it completely blocks the doorway. the only way to enter is to look directly at the sign and either move it or climb over it.

almost every single time i shut down a bathroom so i can suit up and clean a biohazard, someone will enter the bathroom with a dead-eyed, slack-jawed expression and try to wordlessly walk past me to use a stall.

and every single time, i have to block their path and say, "this bathroom is closed. there is one directly down the hall, marked by signs. please leave," and they either try to argue that THEY specifically should be allowed to use this one, as if they are god's most special little guy, or express shock even though they, again, had to contend with the CLOSED sign to enter.

often, i am standing there in the middle of cleaning up bodily fluids having to firmly repeat myself. they always leave angry or confused.

anyways, you clicked this button to send me an ask about astrology:

[zizelle]

ilove homosexuals i  love bisexuals  i love trans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yayy ayyayy ayy Weare all sooo ocool

[plum-soup]

your silence on fresh basil pesto is deafening.

[sarahseeandersen]