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[inkfromalily]

I'm caught up on Dungeon Crawler Carl which means now I can listen to the asmr parody one of my YouTubers made

[byjove]

I think it’s difficult for someone who wasn’t raised Christian in a majority Christian area to understand how much Christians hate other varieties of Christians. Maybe you have an inkling of the centuries of bloodshed and discourse that has occurred between Catholics and Protestants but after that, different flavors of Protestantism hateeeeee each other. There are sects that are way more adversarial towards other interpretations of the faith (FUCK evangelicals) and others that are chill about it but one of the greatest enemies in the mind of a Christian is another Christian that doesn’t hate the things their own pastor told them to hate. Because you’re making a mockery of God if you don’t think exactly like they do, obviously, and you should know better because you have the audacity to call yourself a Christian.

[passionpeachy]

top 5 things that happened to me this year is the official teletubbies account sliding into my dms

[stealingpotatoes]

i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3

[inkfromalily]

Interacting with The Public is just constantly being confronted with the fact that most people haven't even heard of body neutrality.

[dramatic-dolphin]

people are so fucking weird about uncontacted tribes/peoples oh my goddddd you are not making it out of the colonialist mindset

[dramatic-dolphin]

fun fact uncontacted peoples are not ignorant they are fully aware of the "outside world" and are CHOOSING not to have contact because they (rightly) feel it would add no value to their lives and place them in an exploited position. it's voluntary. they are isolated on purpose.

[dramatic-dolphin]

sentinelese people aren't like some ignorant noble savages, or actual savages who are all about warfare and killing (wildly racist take i see very often), they are literally regular ass fucking people who have seen the exploitation of their neighbors (other andamanese people) AND the massive disease outbreaks caused by contact, and decided they want no part in that. they are literally regular people choosing to survive. that's it.

[dramatic-dolphin]

glad that this is getting traction, but if you're saying things like "yeah, and they are right! modern society is a curse! they are living The Right Way and are more enlightened have better lives than us!" you are also the people i'm talking about. sorry. they are regular people living regular lives. please internalize this fact and stop exoticizing.

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[bottleshark]

I can't stop reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

[nongunktional]

i really hate the way the "boobs vs butt" thing got broken down into this implicit idea that butt is the nobler stance. it's really stupid. personally im a woman guy. [realizes how that sounds] [purses my lips in thought] [nods confidently] im a woman guy

[pukicho]

Still rocking an NFT icon in this day and age is like seeing a confederate flag on the back of someone’s truck. You lost 100 years ago, fucker, it’s over.

[inkfromalily]

Cookbook Quest Masterlist!

I'm making all the recipes from the Stardew Valley Cookbook in their seasons and reviewing them.

Summer

Bruschetta and Baguettes

Maki Rolls

Fruit Salad

Tropical Curry

Lucky Lunch

Shrimp Cocktail

Crab Cakes

Fish Tacos

Mango Sticky Rice

Banana Pudding

Pink Cake

Blueberry Tart

Pina Colada

[inkfromalily]

Didn't say this in the last post and now I'm here so, favorites from summer: Mango Sticky Rice, Blueberry Tart, Crab Cakes

Fall - Favorite Recipe: Stuffing, Survival Burger

Radish Salad

Autumn's Bounty, Vegetable Medley, Red Plate

Pumpkin Soup

Shrimp Stock

Fish Stew

Bean Hotpot

Survival Burger

Stuffing

Super Meal

Salmon Dinner

Blackberry Cobbler

Pumpkin Pie

Cranberry Candy

[inkfromalily]

Winter - Favorites: Pepper Poppers, Poppyseed Muffins

Roots Platter

Strange Bun & Void Mayo

Fried Mushroom

Tom Kha Soup

Pepper Poppers

Eggplant Parmesan

Baked Fish

Seafoam Pudding

Spaghetti

Cookie

Poppyseed Muffin

Chocolate Cake

Triple Shot Espresso

[inkfromalily]

Spring - Favorites: Complete Breakfast, Rhubarb Pie

Complete Breakfast

Farmer's Lunch

Vegetable Stock

Chowder

Fiddlehead Risotto

Pizza

Carp Surprise

Stir Fry

Cheese Cauliflower

Salad

Rice Pudding

Rhubarb Pie

Ginger Ale

[inkfromalily]

Overall Review

These recipes are overall pretty good, it's a lot higher quality than I was expecting for a branded cookbook. Though a lot of the recipes use ingredients very specific to the PNW or more specialty ingredients, it's a specialty cookbook. I kind of expected it. A lot of the recipes include substitutions for more easily found items, and as I've continued to make others, I've found ways to keep the final product intact while cutting down on time and dishes.

The binding of the book however is pretty bad, after using it for a year to make every recipe, it's falling apart in multiple places. It's clearly meant for aesthetics over function, as we've seen with many of the recipes photos not being representative of the finished product based on how we're instructed to assemble things.

Overall a better cookbook than expected, not as good as a real cookbook though in terms of actually using it.

[inkfromalily]

Cookbook Quest Masterlist!

I'm making all the recipes from the Stardew Valley Cookbook in their seasons and reviewing them.

Summer

Bruschetta and Baguettes

Maki Rolls

Fruit Salad

Tropical Curry

Lucky Lunch

Shrimp Cocktail

Crab Cakes

Fish Tacos

Mango Sticky Rice

Banana Pudding

Pink Cake

Blueberry Tart

Pina Colada

[inkfromalily]

Didn't say this in the last post and now I'm here so, favorites from summer: Mango Sticky Rice, Blueberry Tart, Crab Cakes

Fall - Favorite Recipe: Stuffing, Survival Burger

Radish Salad

Autumn's Bounty, Vegetable Medley, Red Plate

Pumpkin Soup

Shrimp Stock

Fish Stew

Bean Hotpot

Survival Burger

Stuffing

Super Meal

Salmon Dinner

Blackberry Cobbler

Pumpkin Pie

Cranberry Candy

[inkfromalily]

Winter - Favorites: Pepper Poppers, Poppyseed Muffins

Roots Platter

Strange Bun & Void Mayo

Fried Mushroom

Tom Kha Soup

Pepper Poppers

Eggplant Parmesan

Baked Fish

Seafoam Pudding

Spaghetti

Cookie

Poppyseed Muffin

Chocolate Cake

Triple Shot Espresso

[inkfromalily]

Spring - Favorites: Complete Breakfast, Rhubarb Pie

Complete Breakfast

Farmer's Lunch

Vegetable Stock

Chowder

Fiddlehead Risotto

Pizza

Carp Surprise

Stir Fry

Cheese Cauliflower

Salad

Rice Pudding

Rhubarb Pie

Ginger Ale

[inkfromalily]

Stardew Valley Cookbook

Complete Breakfast

5/5

They say to serve it on three tiny plates but I hate dishes more than my food touching.

Each of these was delicious. The eggs are just kind of eggs but tasty. The hash browns taste great and this is the first hash brown recipe I've tried where the hash browns actually hold up and don't fall apart. I'll keep using it in the future.

The pancakes are the real star of the show though. The thick and airy batter makes the pile of the pancake really high, and the texture is great. Pancakes often are too dry for me, but I think the yogurt in this one keeps them moist. The rhubarb and blackberry (sorry, no salmonberry in CO) compote was delicious, and balanced out the sweet of the honey perfectly.

This was a really good one to end the quest on :)

[inkfromalily]

Stardew Valley Cookbook

Vegetable Stock

I forgot to take pictures, so the first image is of my current cast off stockpile. I keep it frozen in the fridge. The second is my frozen stock, that's about a cup left.

2?/5

This one is hard to rate because it's very dependent on your scraps. I've made three pots of this throughout the year, and while it makes a lot more than the shrimp stock, it tastes significantly weaker. It's a great low salt version of a store bought stock but like...the reason store bought tastes better is because of the salt. Maybe next time I'll just salt like crazy and update you on if it tastes better.

[inkfromalily]

I just realized that despite making the vegetable stock recipe for a bunch of the recipes I haven't actually posted it or taken a single picture for it. 🙃🙃

[inkfromalily]

Stardew Valley Cookbook

Carp Suprise

4/5

I think all of the straight fish recipes have been fine. Like the fish isn't really special, I preferred the fried fish or the stuffed fish, they had more flavor. But it's fish, it's still pretty good. The vegetables were really good and bumped this one up to a 4. I'd recommend prepping a batch of the vegetables, and then you can fridge or freeze them since that's the most time consuming part. Without all the vegetable chopping and stuff this would be a really easy and delicious weeknight dinner.

[inkfromalily]

Stardew Valley Cookbook

Salad

3/5

Okay I didn't like it. But! I think there would be a lot of people who do. I would serve this to my parents and they'd be thrilled. I think it's too much parsley. Overall easy to make and surprised it didn't taste the way bitter greens normally do. Dandelion is just regular bitter, and endive just kinda tastes like any other lettuce.