BarthPosting

The one I use like a normal Tumbler blog. See @bvader95 for stuff I commissioned or wrote for.

[barthposting]

The service I'm using to learn kanji (WaniKani, would recommend) also has useful vocabulary intermixed with the characters you've already learned.

[barthposting]

I have spent too much time yesterday trying to format an SD card.

[thethirdromana]

The worst types of cookbook:

The Ottolenghi - it is vital that you use 1g of this very expensive ingredient. It comes from a 500g bag with a one-week shelf life.

The time machine - 15-minute recipe! First, leave to marinate overnight...

The dishwasher - one-pot recipe! Now decant your ingredients and wipe out your pot. And again. And again. And again.

The optimist - cook the onions until caramelised (2 minutes).

The kindergarten teacher - get one nommable little tree of broccoli and bosh that into boiling water. Delish!

The brand names only - ingredients: Ritz crackers, Philadelphia cheese, Cool Whip, orange Jell-o...

The 1950s palate - use one (1) clove of garlic and a small pinch of chili flakes (omit if preferred).

The why bother with a cookbook - to make beans on toast, gently heat a tin of beans and put on top of freshly buttered toast.

[thethirdromana]

#the overachiever: make this very time consuming ingredient from scratch even though it'll end up tasting worse than store bought

Amen to this @akasanata. "Now make your puff pastry from scratch". How about no❤️

[retro-rambling]

The machinist's cookbook - Requires twenty different pieces of bulky and expensive kitchen equipment that the author is inexplicably certain you own.

The multitasker - And while your water is boiling, your vegetables are blanching, your onions which you hopefully remembered to stir every 15 seconds are caramelizing and your sauce that will split if you look at it funny are cooking, get another pot ready and start chopping the vegetables.

[prokopetz]

We've had gacha RPGs about libraries and pharmaceutical companies as paramilitary organisations – I feel like the next obvious unexplored frontier is public transit. The player takes on the role of a route planning director for a puzzlingly well armed quasi-governmental transit agency. All of your agents have bus driver aesthetic.

[prokopetz]

You'd think providing free public transit would be a no brainer in terms of maintaining good relations with existing nation-states, but in practice a lot of them hate you because you provide bus service to places people aren't supposed to be able to leave. There's a whole quest line about keeping Route 666 to Hell up and running.

[pachelbelsheadcanon]

That route must cost a lot in road maintenance since you have to repave it using good intentions instead of asphalt.

[prokopetz]

You're working for an organisation that's willing to fight demons to keep a bus route open. Good intentions are not in short supply!

[youtubeminuscontext]

I'm not like other girls, but I am apparently a lot like several middle-aged women.

Rin Penrose

[barthposting]

Two general ways of naming weekdays

There are seven celestial objects we (as in, astrologists of antiquity) can see moving on the sky, let's name our days of the week after them in more or less direct ways

days one through seven

(yes, this is a simplification, consult this handy Wikipedia article for more elaboration)

[fairytypingg]

everyone go watch the rin penrose v.live unite performance it made me cry rly hard

(original image under the cut ↓)

[charlesoberonn]

Aperture Science Announcement Voice: “Congratulations, Homosexual! Your existence has been deemed profitable in the following regions: North America, Western Europe, and Australia.”

“To celebrate the occasion we have temporarily recolored all Aperture Science appliances in these regions to your favorite flavor of gay.”

“For further pandering on a wider area please continue fighting for basic human dignities and Aperture Science will be right there to celebrate your victory with you. Afterwards.”

[charlesoberonn]

[barthposting]

Words of wisdom from Rin Penrose 3D.

[damnhotpocket]

Gema.piano on instagram

Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭

[leroleroart]

Depression comic

[barthposting]

The unbearable frustration of having watched Peak and not being able to share it with your internet friends because it's a fucking 80s movie shot in your native tongue.

This is about Vabank and Vabank II, for the record.

[woodwool]

worst part of being an adult is how often youre forced to nag. you Have to be annoying or youre never getting anything done. which is unfortunate considering how common it is to teach kids to never nag and be annoying ever

[woodwool]

a professional i am paying money doesnt show up w zero communication and IM the one who has to feel guilty for having to call him and ask whats going on. because when i was a little kid i would get yelled at for nagging. joke world

[barthposting]

Shout-out to Tumblr for falling for one of the classic translation blunders of "oops, wrong homonym". What was meant to read "hi[gh score]" reads "hello".

[barthposting]

[carnival-phantasm]

[shencomix]

Actual account of a recent chess match of mine.