Optimist Prime

[fenrismp3-hasmoved]

France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Shops To Chants Of 'Gas The Jews'

France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars. 

[fenrismp3-hasmoved]

please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please 

[givemealltheowls]

Listen.  I love my followers and my mutuals dearly.  You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’?  I’m talking about this shit.  I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time.  Please stop ignoring this.  This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.

[unicornempire]

This is the first I’ve heard of this, and I’m flabbergasted! If you go and read the article it’s even worse; “anti-Jewish violence is seven times higher than in the 1990s, and 40% of racist violence is against Jews, despite them making up just 1% of the population.” I mean, holy crap! I know Tumblr is very US-centric but this definitely needs to be heard about!!

[sleepcircle]

Hey, anyone who is reading this! I have been working on a webcomic idea for a while, and I’d like to start it now.

God willing, I will be able to tell the whole story. Very simply, it’s a story about:

Two kids who are asked to save the world.

I think you should read it if you enjoy reading very old books, or if you like fantasy, drama, mystery, people with accents, touches of horror, unlikely friendships, monsters of all sizes, weird environments, or a roster of characters who are as unique and individual as my skill will allow me to make them.

I have a webspace, but I don’t have the website done, so please follow my tumblr if you want to see the first pages of the story! I don’t plan to post much to my tumblr blog except for the comic, while I get it started, so I won’t clog up your dashboard with a bunch of Opinions and disconcerting shrek videos.

I only have a handful of active subscribers, so I hope I can rely on you—if you like the sound of this story—to subscribe or bookmark my tumblr, or reblog this post to let your friends know about a hypothetically cool upcoming comic filled with fantasy, drama, mystery, people with–etc.

I hope you will enjoy it, and God bless you.

(And special thanks to one of my best friends and one of my favourite human beings, @snowflake-owl, for agreeing to reblog this and for letting me talk her ear off about it far too often. )

[bluekomadori]

A commission of Bulbasaur & its evolutions for Carlos Araujo. Thank you!! :)

[kellyjacobsbooks-deactivated201]

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re going home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!! NOW HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE… Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can perhaps buy precious time to get themselves to a phone and dial 911. Rather than sharing another joke please contribute by broadcasting this which can save a person’s life! Be prepared and become part of the solution. Get your free next-of-kin notification card today. Click here: https://www.InCaseOfEmergencyCard.com/

[imgonnariverdance]

Reblogging cause this could save someone’s life

[livinglavidam]

This could save many lives, reblog

[mieble]

Toriel’s Cinnamon Butterscotch Pie

I saw another recipe floating around for Toriel’s cinnamon butterscotch pie, but I wanted to try my own version. To me, butterscotch is srs business, but I’ve never been super big on cinnamon, so my goal with this was to not only give each star ingredient equal billing, but to do so in a way that was complementary to each other. So here’s my take on Tori’s pie. If she makes it anything like this, it’s no wonder she was missed.

P.S. I’m a baker by trade, and do most measurements in metric, as they’re more accurate, but imperial units do sneak in from time to time.

P.P.S. This recipe is really, really, really super rich, and I cannot fathom eating an entire proper pie-sized slice, so I made three-bite mini pies, which are perfect~

Cinnamon Tart Dough

Ingredients:

156g AP flour

67g granulated sugar

5ml cinnamon

2.5ml salt

1 egg yolk

30ml ice water (the water only! don’t use the ice!)

10ml Fireball whiskey (or any other cinnamon whiskey)

114g cold, unsalted butter cut into 1/4″ cubes

Stir the flour, sugar, cinnamon, and salt together in a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the butter, and beat on medium speed until small pea-sized chunks remain.

In a separate bowl, whisk together yolk, water, and whiskey, then slowly add to the flour mixture, and continue to beat until the dough comes together/looks like one or two lumps/isn’t all crumbly.

On a floured surface, roll the dough out to an appropriate thickness — This’ll depend largely on the size of your tin, so just know the dough will rise a little and that it sets up on the firmer side, then ask yourself, “How do I feel about this being the bottom of a pie?” Since I made individual mini pies with mine, I cut circles out of the dough, and fitted them to cavities in my tart shell pan. If you’re wanting to make one big pie, drape the dough over your pan, and gently push it into the corners, trimming excess off the top. Dock the bottom of the dough with a fork. I would also recommend using pie weights, or the sides will sink like mine did, since I didn’t have any pie weight liners that would fit in my teeny pie cavities. Baw.

I had a ton of extra dough, so I cut little garnishes out of my scraps. You can reroll and recut this dough twice before the gluten starts getting too overdeveloped to hold its shape. Still tastes good and bakes fine, but proceed with caution.

Bake at 350°F (conventional oven, 325°F convection) for 8 minutes, rotate the pan, and continue baking for another 8 minutes, or until edges are light golden brown (the shell will be baked again, so err on the side of light).

Let the shell(s) cool completely.

Butterscotch Pie Filling

Ingredients:

170g granulated sugar

Enough water to saturate it (about 4 Tb-ish?)

60mL heavy whipping cream

Extra water and a pastry brush for brushing down the sides (DO NOT USE A SILICONE BRUSH UNLESS YOU WANT TO HAVE A BAD TIME)

107g dark brown sugar (you can use light, but the flavor will be less intense)

40g cornstarch

5ml salt

720ml whole milk

7 large egg yolks

57g room temperature unsalted butter cut into small pieces

30ml Fireball whiskey (if you want the cinnamon flavor to compete with the butterscotch, otherwise, do Buttershots)

2.5ml vanilla bean paste

Put the granulated sugar in a small heavy saucepan over med-to-med.-high heat, ensuring the sugar is completely saturated with water. Once the sugar’s completely dissolved, crank the heat up to high, stop stirring the sugar, and brush down the sides with your pastry brush dipped in water. You’re just trying to brush the sugar off the sides so it doesn’t crystallize; try not to let your brush touch the sugar water, or you’ll just be depositing more sugar on the sides. If you feel like the pan isn’t heating evenly and you just need to move the contents around, do it by carefully swirling the pan, and of course, always brush down your sides afterwards, and any time you see crystals forming. You’re wanting this to get to a deep amber color, and you may think it’s taking forever, but unless you know what you’re doing don’t walk away. This stuff goes from pale blonde to “oh, gosh, what’s that awful smell?” pretty fast, so watch it like a hawk.

Once you’re at the proper color, remove the pan from the heat, and whisk in your cream. Do not pour it in, and then whisk it. Whisk while pouring it in. It’ll bubble and froth up a lot, but don’t be scared. Just keep whisking until it’s smooth. Congratulations. You’ve made caramel. Now set it aside.

In another heavy pan, bigger than your caramel pan, mix together your brown sugar, cornstarch, and salt, gradually whisking in allll of the milk. Set the heat for … eeeh, medium-ish, and stir occasionally to keep a skin from forming, until the mixture comes to a boil, and starts to thicken. Depending on your stove, should be seven-ish minutes. Remove your thick starchy milk from the heat, and whisk in all that beautiful caramel sauce you made earlier. Whisk it ‘til it’s smooth and pretty. It ain’t over yet.

Now take all them egg yolks you painstakingly separated. Put them in a medium-sized bowl, and whisk them to break them. Gradually add the caramel mixture a little bit at a time, fully incorporating them. Now, slowly add the egg mixture back into the caramel mixture in the pan, whisking to combine. This is called tempering. If you just dumped the yolks in the hot caramel all at once, they’d cook before they could incorporate. That’s not yummy. That’s gross. Unless you like butterscotch egg drop soup or something (weirdo).

So now, put your pan back on the eye over medium heat just until it starts to simmer, then dump in your butter chunks, your liquor and your vanilla bean paste.

Remove from heat, and once cool enough to handle, put it into your prepared crust, filling to the rim (it won’t expand or shrink). Depending on how deep your crust is, there will probably be a lot left over. This isn’t a problem. Since you actually cooked the yolks, you either can eat it like a really rich pudding (after it’s chilled and set), or save it and make more pies.

My oven preheats stupid fast, so I didn’t tell you to preheat it way up there, but you know your oven. Set it to 275°F (conventional, 300°F convection). Now, the bake time here is gonna depend on your output format. Since I did little mini pies, mine took a total of 25 minutes (13, rotate the pan, then 12 more), but what you’re looking for is a minimum/lack of jiggle to the center. If it’s just barely there and very slight, the carryover cooking should take care of it. When the center(s) are set, pull them, and chill them, and get your topping working.

Cinnamon Mascarpone Cream

Ingredients:

115g mascarpone cheese

145ml. heavy whipping cream

¾ tsp. cinnamon

80g sugar

½ tsp. vanilla bean paste

With the whisk attachment, whip the mascarpone on medium speed with the sugar and cinnamon until it’s fluffy, scrape the sides well. Add the vanilla bean paste and, gradually add the cream, while the mixer it running. You want to take it to firm peaks, which basically means when you stop mixing, and lift the beater, the contents will hold their shape, and the tips of the peaks won’t flop over. There’s a really good description of peaks, and pictures of what they look like here.

Once that’s done, and your pie has thoroughly chilled, dollop it on top. You can do this any way you want. I piped fat caterpillars with a star tip in a pastry bag, but you can do quinelles or just spoon it on, or whatever strikes your fancy. Garnish with your (baked) extra dough scraps, if you did that part, annnd, yeah. Enjoy! This is my favorite thing I’ve put in my mouth this month, and again, I work in a production bakery.

[larmoyante]

When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via larmoyante)

[mildmoderngirl]

millennial goals and dreams are so minimal

“i want to drive a car that doesn’t break down all the time”

“i want to one day consider buying a place instead of renting”

“i’d like to not be in so much debt”

we are the least entitled generation but we get the most shit

[megcorbs]

The truth in this tho

[fuzzyb0nes-deactivated20150922]

The other day, I started thinking about all the things I would do if I had a ton of money. They were almost all about paying off debt, buying a house, fixing my car, and getting more education for a better job. The most frivolous thing was getting a dog.

[definitelyforsurenotbees]

People say that we act entitled - apparently it’s entitled to want to live debt-free and feel financially secure.

[growwingsandtakeoff-blog]

What a craAAaAAaaaAzy desire.  I want to live in a world where I am not begging for crumbs to live.

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Transcript of Sandra Bland arrest video [8:40-15:25]

FULL VIDEO

Cop: Ok, Ma’am. You ok?

SB: I’m waitin’ on you. This is your job. I’m waitin’ on you…

Cop: You seem very irritated.

SB: I am. I really am because I feel like what I’m getting a ticket for, I was getting out of your way. You were speeding up, tailing me, so I move over, and you stop me. So, yeah, I am a little irritated, but that doesn’t stop you from giving me a ticket.

Cop: Are you done?

SB: You asked me what was wrong and I told you. So now I’m done, yeah.

Cop: Ok. You mind putting out your cigarette, please?

SB: I’m in my car. Why do I have to put out my cigarette?

Cop: Well you can step on out now.

SB: I don’t have to step out of my car.

Cop: Step out of the car. [Cop opens the car door] Step out.

SB: No, you don’t have the right-

Cop: Step out of the car!

SB: You do not have the right to do that.

Cop: I do have the right. Now, step out or I will remove you.

SB: I refuse to talk to you other than to identify myself-

Cop: Step out or I will remove you.

SB: I am getting removed for a failure to-

Cop: Step out or I will remove you. I’m giving you a lawful order. Get out of the car now or I’m gonna remove you.

SB: I’m calling my-

Cop:[Cop reaches into the car] I’m gonna yank you out of here.

SB: Okay, you gonna yank me out of my car?

Cop: Get out.

SB: Ok. Alright. Let’s do this. Don’t touch me.

Cop: Get out of the car!

SB: Don’t touch me! I’m not under arrest. You don’t have the right to-

Cop: You ARE under arrest.

SB: I’m under arrest for what? For what? For what?

Cop: Get out of the car. Get out of the car! Now!

SB: Why am I being apprehended? Because you’re trying to give me a ticket for a failure-

Cop: I said get out of the car.

SB: Why am I being apprehended? You opened my car door-

Cop: I am gonna drag you outta here.

SB: So you’re threatening to drag me out of my own car?

Cop: Get out of the car!!

SB: And then you-

Cop: [Cop points his taser at her.] I will light you up!!

SB: Wow.

Cop: NOW!!

SB: Wow. [Sandra steps out of the car.]

Cop: Get out of the car!

SB: For a failure to signal, you’re doing all this. You’re doing all this for a failure to signal.

Cop: Get over there. [Cop points her over to the sidewalk, while pointing his taser at her.]

SB: Right. Yeah. Let’s take this to court. [Sandra continues to walk toward the sidewalk.] Let’s do this for a failure to signal. Yep, for a failure to signal. [Sandra is led out of the view of the dashcam video.]

Cop: Get off the phone.

SB: I’m not on the phone. I have a right to record-

Cop: Put your phone down.

SB: This is my property.

Cop: Put your phone down.

SB: Sir?

Cop: Put your phone down. Right now! Put your phone down.

SB: [Sandra puts her phone down on the trunk of her car.] For a fucking failure to signal, my goodness.

Cop: Come over here!

SB: Y’all are interesting. You feelin’ good about this whole thing?

Cop: Stand right here.

SB: You feelin’ good about yourself? For my failure to signal, you feel real good about yourself, don’t you?

Cop: Turn around.

SB: You feel good about yourself, don’t you?

Cop: Turn around. Turn around now. Put your hands-

SB: Why am I being arrested?

Cop: I’m giving you a lawful order. I will tell you-

SB: Why am I being arrested? Why can’t you tell me that part?

Cop: I’m giving you a lawful order. Turn around.

SB: Why will you not tell me what’s going on?

Cop: You are not compliant.

SB: I’m not compliant ‘cause you just pulled me outta my car.

Cop: Turn around!!

SB: Are you fucking kidding me? This is some bullshit.

Cop: Put your hands behind your back.

SB: Cause you know this is straight bullshit, and you full a shit. Full a straight shit. That’s why y’all are some scary fucking cops. South Carolina got all y’all bitch asses scared. That’s all it is. Fucking scared of a female.

Cop: If you would have just listened-

SB: I was tryin’ sign the fucking ticket. Whatever.

Cop: Stop movin’!

SB: Are you fucking serious?

Cop: Stop movin’.

SB: Oh, I can’t wait till we go to court.  OH, I can’t wait! I cannot WAIT ‘till we go to court! I can’t wait. OH, I can’t wait. You want me to sit down now?

Cop: No.

SB: Oh, you gonna throw me to the floor? That’ll make you feel better about yourself?

Cop: Knock it off.

SB: Ah, that’ll make you feel better about yourself? That make you feel real good, won’t it? Fucking ass. Fucking pussy. For a failure to signal, you doin’ all of this. In little ass Prairie View, Texas. My god. They must-

Cop: You were getting a warning, and now you’re going to jail.

SB: For what??

Cop: You can come read right- [Cop leads Sandra back over to the trunk of the car.]

SB: I’m getting a warning for what?

Cop: Stay right here.

SB: You just pointed me over there!

Cop: I said stay right here.

SB: Get your fucking mind right. OH, I swear on my life, y’all some pussies. A pussy ass cop pulls for a fucking signal, you’re takin’ me to jail. What a pussy. What a pussy. What a- you about to break my fucking wrist.

Cop: Stop movin’!

SB: I’m standin’ still! You keep movin’ me, goddamn it!

Cop: Stay right there.

SB: Don’t touch me. Fucking pussy, for a traffic ticket.

Cop: [Goes around the car and closes the front door. Walks back off screen to where Sandra is on the sidewalk.] Come read right over here. [He stands by the trunk of the car and shows her the written warning.] This right here says a warning. YOU started creating a problem. [Cop walks out of shot, toward Sandra.]

SB: You asked me what was wrong!

Cop: Do you have anything in your purse that’s illegal?

SB: Do I look like I have anything on me? This a fuckin’ maxi dress!

Cop: I’m removing  your glasses.

SB: This a maxi dress.

Cop: Come on over here.

SB: Fucking assholes. For a- you about to break my wrist! Can you STOP!? You are mother fuckin’ about to break my wrist! [Sandra makes sounds of pain.] STOOOPP!

Cop: [Sounds of struggle.] Stop! Now! Stop it!

Cop 2: Stop resisting, ma’am.

Cop: If you would stop then I would tell you!

SB: [In pain.] For a fucking traffic  ticket.

Cop: Now stop!

SB: [In pain.] You are such a pussy. You are such a pussy.

Cop 2: No, you are.

Cop: You were yankin’ around.

SB: [In pain.] For a traffic signal.

Cop: You were yankin’ around. When you pull away from me, you’re resisting arrest.

SB: This make you feel real good. This make you feel real good, don’t it? A female for a  traffic signal. For a traffic signal. I know that makes you feel good, officer.

Cop 2: I got her. I got her.

SB: I know it make you feel real good. You a real man now. You slam me, knock my head into the ground, I got epilepsy, you mother fucker.

Cop: Good. Good.

SB: I hope I-

Cop 2: You should have thought of that before you start resisting!

SB: Yeah, this is real good. Real good for a female. Yeah. Y’all strong, ooh. Y’all real strong.

Cop: I want you to wait right here. Wait right here.

SB: I can’t go nowhere with your fucking knee on my back. Duh.

Cop: [To Cop 2] I’m gonna open your door. [To man recording the brutality.] You need to leave. You need to leave. You need to leave.

SB: [inaudible] For a fucking traffic ticket.

Cop: For a warning. For a warning. You’re going to jail for resisting arrest. Stand up.

SB: If I could!

Cop: Roll over.

SB: I can’t even fuckin’ feel my arm!

Cop: Tuck your knee in.

SB: I can’t-

Cop: Listen, listen, you’re gonna sit up on your butt.

SB: You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?

Cop 2: He’s telling you to getup.

SB: I can’t even hear!

Cop 2: Yes you can.

Cop: Sit on your butt.

SB: You slammed my head into the ground.

Cop: Sit up on your butt.

SB: He threw my fucking head to the ground. What the hell?

Cop: Now stand up.

SB: All this for a traffic signal. I swear to god. All of this for a traffic signal. [To witness.] Thank you for recording! Thank you! For a traffic signal. Slammed me into the ground and everything. Everything. I hope y’all feel good.

[christel-thoughts]

Remember when we kept telling y'all, white tumblr, that “know your rights” and all those videos of y'all talking to cops however you please was only for y'all? That it was white privilege? Yeah.

[tashabilities]

I just read that whole thing without even breathing

[note-a-bear]

This was planned. This was planned from the jump, I have no illusions

[krxs10]

Picture taken of scene where Sandra Bland allegedly “hung herself”, moments after the body was “found” was just released. And of course, no one is buying it.

Police are claiming that Sandra took the trash bag out and tied it to the partition on her shower, and then used it to hang herself with.

Problems with this explanation:

Trash bags/cans are not allowed in jail cells because any lose items are considered a danger to the inmates. If it’s not bolted down to the floor, it’s basically not allowed in a cell

If the police are right and the picture was “taken right after the body was found with no changes made to the scene” then why did they replace the trash bag?

The bag she allegedly used was a “black industrial sized” trash bag, which was not only unlike the white one shown above, but it wouldn’t have been strong enough to hold up her body

The partition she “hung herself” from is shorter than her. Sandra was a little over 6 ft, and the partition was about 5 ft.

There were no lacerations or bruises on her neck consistent with a hanging.

#StayWoke

[spicymayonegg]

i didnt want to say the steven universe fanbase is getting as cringey as the homestuck/mlp fanbases because it was the actions of the fans that specifically drove me from being interested in those shows but honestly the steven universe fanbase is getting that annoying and gross… but fuck yall im not abandoning ship because i’ve been here way longer than all of you lmfao

[spicymayonegg]

Honestly I want to enjoy something and not have other people ruin it for me. I want to enjoy something while it lasts and not have it be an embarrassing phase for me in hindsight because of the way other fans behaved. Is that too much to fucking ask

[thebestoftumbling]

Asked for a scoop of vanilla, cold stone delivers

[typicalbitchybitch-deactivated2]

His face before he slams it

[youngijae-deactivated20160120]

[epsee]

super Grump adventure

[sixthhero-deactivated20230906]

I don’t give a shit you can badmouth Nintendo as a company all you like but when the WiiU was underselling Satoru Iwata stepped up to the fucking plate and halved his goddamn salary so he wouldn’t have to lay people off. Ask any other CEO to do that and they’ll probably look at you like you’ve told them the moon is made of purple goat yogurt or something.

Iwata went from being a game developer to president of the company he made games for and had a unique perspective because of it. He was a treasure and his loss is a tragedy.

[ghostanimenvy]

Facts everyone needs to know about Iwata:

He saved HAL Laboratories from going down under and was a key to Kirby’s creation as a series.

He reprogrammed the entire Mother 2 / Earthbound game in less than six months. He’s the reason it exists.

The last game he engineered was Super Smash Bros. Melee.. out of necessity. He re-coded that as well so it would meet its November 2001 release.

He cut his salary in half to keep Nintendo afloat rather than cut positions at the bottom.

He gave the speech titled “Heart of a Gamer” in 2005, a key time before the Wii’s release, which shocked the world in the following generation.

Designer first, executive second. One of the few, if not, the first and only president of a major gaming company who was a designer first and foremost.

He was the fourth President of Nintendo and the first not by blood relation to get the honors due to his previous years of leadership.

Iwata believed in open communication with the fans and the press. He believed in sharing his and other developers’ passion for video game design. Thus, he created a series called, “Iwata Asks.”

Overall, as president, he has helped carry Nintendo into the new millennium. He brought in the most memorable public face of gaming known as Reginald Fils-Aime, he orchestrated one of Nintendo’s finest, most shocking years in popular culture since the NES with the Wii, and shouldered the burden and took full responsibility of both the GameCube and the Wii U financially. A man with this much business savvy, personality, passion, and unselfishness… will surely, surely be missed in the gaming realm.

“Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we have different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us has the heart of a gamer.” - Satoru Iwata, Heart of a Gamer

[girlidiotdotcom-deactivated2023]

In addition to this!

He compressed Pokemon Gold and Silver so that the Kanto was able to be added to the games, he crammed an entire region himself.

He ported the battle code of Pokemon Stadium to the Nintendo 64 without the use of reference documents. 

His father ignored him for half a year when he entered the industry but he kept on going after what he loved.

He created games with an electronic calculator himself when he was in high school.

He truly was a man who loved what he did, he was an amazing amazing man :c

[rustyxiv-deactivated20150808]

Everyone shit talked Nintendo for their E3 and Iwata personally put out a statement that he’d make the next one better. He must have been really ill at that point too? Now he’s gone. This is really tragic.

[popiko]

Nintendo updated Iwata’s Miiverse

[jasper-rolls]

thats fucking legit