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[vympr]

Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery

i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......

[sassytail]

also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.

[brunhiddensmusings]

oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated he then revealed that the original xbox logo...

is a sourdough boule

[redrook]

[modernbaseball]

Molly Brodack / Fleabag / Anne Carson

[foodffs]

[foodffs]

Easy Balsamic Baked Chicken Breast With Mozzarella Cheese

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[flowerytale]

James Baldwin, from Giovanni’s Room

[headspace-hotel]

Now for a comment on Online Discourse, which is going to be a windfall for the "pissing on the poor" crowd I'm sure, but i'm saying it anyway:

"Cottagecore" was right about marginally more things than y'all think.

It's not much. The tradwife stuff is bad, the thoughtless idealization of "homesteading" is bad, the romanticization of an imaginary "simple life" in the Past is bad, and all of that stuff attracts fascists—and the totally unrealistic "aesthetic" is, well, annoying.

but listen.

Farming land isn't inherently more linked to colonialism than doing anything else on land, and living in a rural area isn't inherently more linked to colonialism than living in a city.

Wanting to be connected to the land you live on, wanting to grow food for yourself, wanting to experience the natural world—these are, in themselves, good things. They are very fraught if you live on stolen land. But it seems way worse to live on stolen land and try to distance yourself from that land, while it not only takes care of your every bodily need, but needs you to reciprocate.

I am honest to god really worried about how many people are either 1) wracked with guilt over wanting a rural life or 2) convinced that rural life shouldn't, like, exist.

[headspace-hotel]

Like please consider that farming is where food comes from

The alternative to "individual people think farming is neat and grow food" is "huge corporations destroy the soil and water, exploit migrant labor, patent crops to keep people from growing their own food, and stock grocery stores with food from the same 4 destructive monocultures."

Also, farming is HARD, but treating farming like a uniquely miserable job that no one would want to do is just as unhelpful and insulting as treating any other essential working class job that way.

[torotillo]

Tiny hand sculpted fox with forget me nots. Instagram @tora_illo

[fullcravings]

Homemade Cosmic Brownies

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Painting by Jane Madgwick, Chalk Lane, Moonlight (2016)

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“In the night when the moon is large, the world spreads blue in every direction.” ― Lynda Barry, Cruddy

[Books Gleam]

[fantasywomanwarrior]

[nomorerealitys-blog]

Crimson Winds by Carlos Eduardo Loiola

[leonardcohenofficial]

“To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”

— Anthony Bourdain, in his final interview

[vybewitme]

It’s crazy how you have to be careful with how much love you show.

[catchymemes]

[peachyyykat]

‘phantom pains’, caitlin conlon // ‘what i could never confess without some bravado’, emily palermo // ‘i will’, mitski // ‘a self-portrait in letters’, anne sexton // ‘desperation sits heavy on my tongue’, @/tullipsink // ‘hunger makes me’, jess zimmerman // ‘coffee and cigarettes’, sade andria zabala

[geezerwench]

Let your garden sleep in. For the pollinators.

[radicalgraff]

"It doesn't have to be like this. We could have it so much better"

Calligraffiti in Chicago, Illinois

[she-waves-at-cats]

I think it needs to become common knowledge that "inability to read social cues" can show up as overcompensating.

You don't know how much misbehaviour is allowed, so you become the perfect child who never tests rules.

You don't know if someone is irritated with you, so you'll be extra generous and self-effacing.

You don't know how much is expected of you at work so you'll kill yourself in a minimum-wage job and not notice that nobody else is working like this.

"Hardworking and quiet" should be as much of an autism red flag as "ignores rules and doesn't know when to stop talking". Or why don't we just start using words to communicate so i can stop tracking everybody's eyebrow twitches, that would be great.

[maddieisnotreal]

the collected stories of colette by colette, translated by matthew ward // red bird by mary oliver // elegy by chen chen // don’t know // quote by charlotte eriksson // a pot of red lentils by peter pereira // days with frog and toad by arnold lobe // brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh