One Day, Then The Next

Random Bisexual Dork {She/Her}

[the-jellicle-duelist]

i am about to bestow upon you the secret butter technique. i am sorry, but it is french. i am sorry again, this only works with cow butter. i am certain plant based butters wouldn’t work, and alternative animal butters may or may not work

has this ever been you: you have a nicely steamed vegetable, or maybe you want to make the best butter noodles, but you know that if you put butter on those it’ll just melt and you end with kind of greasy noodles or vegetables? don’t you wish it was instead a luscious buttery glaze?

introducing: beurre monté

you will take a small sauce pan, and begin heating it with 1-2 tablespoons of water (use very little water) and bring it to a hard simmer or boil

turn the heat down slightly, and add Butter. how much? however much you dare. (start with 3-4 tablespoons and go from there)

you are going to either whisk Aggressively or you can pick up the saucepan, still holding it over the heat, and swirl aggressively so the butter is skating around the sides of the pan

done correctly, you will have liquid butter that is still emulsified. you have made Butter Sauce. season it with a little salt, and toss whatever you want in it.

if you’re butter splits, i’m sorry. you didn’t agitate it enough to maintain the emulsion, and now you have melted butter.

you can use this knowledge to make other sauces by swapping out the water for another liquid. white wine becomes beurre blanc. red wine is beurre rogue.

you want to CUM? sweat minced shallot in a tiny bit of butter, add white wine and cook it out until it’s reduced by about half. then whisk butter in hard. a few flecks of minced thyme or fennel frond stirred thru, and you eat that with a nice seared fish? or scallop? or even shrimp? wow. you will Nut

your boxed mac and cheese game can also be elevated by cooking your pasta and making a beurre monté first, tossing your pasta in that and adding the cheese packet. wow. hey; you’ll cum

go forth now with this butter secret

[the-jellicle-duelist]

five notes?? this is why i don’t tell you all anything

[pancakeke]

got this comparison pic from America's test kitchen and it's apparently transparent lmao

[efeceojota]

[miyoriia]

average Seattle polycule living situation or something

[kaseboy]

fucking double decker couch

[gatheringbones]

[“A month into the pandemic, the Philadelphia Police Department announced they would delay the arrests and detainments of people caught for nonviolent offenses, including prostitution. Amid increased risk for many workers, the virus also made plain what we already knew, already dreamed up: the police could simply stop arresting people. They’re not going to, of course—at least not for any sustained period—but they could.

I read an interview Fran Lebowitz gave to Aperture in 1994, in which she described her friend, the artist David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992. Asked if he was political, Lebowitz answered, “Very. Very. Although not always in a direct way … But his basic take on things was an adversarial relationship between him and institutions, or himself and authority, and that’s a totally political way to look at life. You know, he hated cops. Not this cop, or that cop. Cops.” The interviewer clarifies, “Because of what they represented?” and Lebowitz answers, “Because they’re cops.”

Wojnarowicz sold sex as a teenager to survive. He raged against a state that had the blood of his loved ones on its hands, a state that would soon have his blood, as well. After his diagnosis, he told us, with everything he made, “fags and dykes and junkies are expendable in this country.” Fags and dykes and junkies and whores—criminals, each and every one of us.

I often think about what brought me here. There are plenty of other things I could do to make money, and plenty of practical and impractical reasons I’ve chosen sex work: lower time commitment than a straight job; insatiable curiosity about the sexual proclivities of others; inherited neuroses I have yet to work out in therapy. Lately, though, I’ve started to think I became a whore because I wanted to align myself with criminality, and in doing so, to solidify my societal position as materially anti-state.

I say “align myself with criminality” and not “become a criminal” because one cannot become a criminal, one can only be labeled a criminal by the state. And it is exceedingly unlikely that I will ever be labeled a criminal, because of my white womanhood and relative wealth and privilege. When police see me, they see innocence. They have historically committed, after all, their most heinous acts in the name of protecting women who look like me. Nonetheless, I disalign myself with them. I want decriminalization, but I never, ever want police on our side.”]

sonya aragon, from whores at the end of the world, from we too: stories on sex work and survival, edited by natalie west

[lilylilium]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a Croissant (🥐).

[hesbythecampfire]

🥐

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

The pastoralist fantasy of "modern life is too stressful so I should move to a remote area and do hard labor" is so funny

[dama-the-drama]

I have a theory about that.

I think that what people want, when they talk about a pastoralist fantasy is actually an anti-capitalistic fantasy: i noticed, even from my experience, that most people don't mind phisical labour if it gives them results: actual, tangible, results.

Once my boss asked me to copy every article from a website and paste them in the new one. It took me roughly four hours for three days to do and my soul was slowly leaving my body. It was easy work, i mean who wouldnt want to earn money to just click here and click there, rinse and repeat? But it was boring, ripetitive and basically useless.

But when I take some time and clean my house, i sweat, i am tired but... satisfied. I see in front of me the result of my hard labour and I am happy, or at least i don't think i wasted my time.

So the fantasy of working hard but at least getting something out of it is appealing: why do people work in kitchens? Or bakeries and wake up at dawn to make bread? Or any hard job like that? I knew a guy that had the possibility of having every job he wanted, but he opened a bar and couldnt be happier.

This is my idea, i'm not a student in sociology or anything but I hope i made a point.

[daitoshi]

I have two degrees, and my previous job was the marketing department head for an international biotech company. I was well-paid, but dreaded work every morning. The endless cycle of low-grade manipulation and feeling like “making money for someone else to pocket, HELPING no one else” felt miserable.

I left and now work at a garden center. I haul around plants and educate people about them, so they can make informed choices. I help people, and seeing the plants grow under my care is wonderful. My soul is flourishing, my heart is at peace. My coworkers are all honest (as far as I can tell), and there’s no push for upselling or pushing people to buy stuff if it’s not very suited for their landscape.

Even if my wallet is a lot lighter these days, so too are my worries!

[darthflake]

I worked IT in a city and fuck. People try to controll your every second. Faster! More efficient! You took a second too long to type that. You drove 56 kmh but could have gone 58 without getting caught. I messaged you a minute ago but you didn't reply so I walked to your cubicle to ask you. Also let's have an efficiency meeting. You are too slow. That's your feedback. How long will that task take? Can we somehow shorten that?

And all for what? To manipulate the user to buy product. Not to improve the website mind you. Whenever I suggested: hey, our website is not useable for the visually impaired/people with motor problems. I got back an: we don't care they're too small of a market value

So can you really blame me for fantasizing about a life where I can just plant flowers and vegetables and walk everywhere without the need of manipulating people and mikromanage my every second

[roach-works]

my current job is managing a plasma cutting machine, so i have to spend a lot of time dragging big chunks of iron on and off conveyor belts and i end up sore and filthy at the end of every shift, and usually a bit scratched up.

but it’s third shift and there’s no supervision whatsoever, so while the machine is running, i can type on my phone. i’ve written most of a novel so far with my thumbs, covered in grease and iron dust. and i also produced a lot of construction materials for bridges, dams, warehouses, and skyscrapers.

i really like my job.

[feuervogel]

This is Marx's theory of alienation.

When people are removed from the tangible results of their labor, they become distressed and dissatisfied - and this is the result of capitalist profit-focused processes.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I came to terms with the fact that my ex (best friend and boyfriend) doesn't miss me after he followed me around a supermarket begging to get back together while I was trying find Old Spice tampons.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[adz]

one time this nondescript guy came into my dunkin donuts and ordered a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot, and for some reason that peculiar order stuck with me so much that when, seven months later, i saw him in the parking lot walking towards the door, i quickly made a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot. he ordered it and i was already holding it. 

i would describe his demeanor that second time as “incredulous”

[honeylemony]

What the fuck who drinks that

[adz]

it’s such a perfectly bonkers order because like, most unusual orders are maximalist and sugary but this one just combines the most basic drink with the most incongruous little add-on. it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him

[phage-necro]

this post always makes me laugh. this guy has the weirdest drink order and he probably never goes to this dunkin’ if it took seven months for the barista to see him again. so think about a coffee shop you go to so little you’re not even sure if you’ve gone there before and you walk in and the barista hands you the drink you were about to order before you even ordered it. he will remember that for the rest of his life

[adulthoodisokay]

“it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him” gets me every time.

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[architeuthisducks-blog]

Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

[mythid-cryptid]

can't keep that in the tags

[lorencethecat]

[image id: a screenshot of tags from horodragon which read “#this is actually an extremely important thing to keep in mind in regards to being anti-death penalty and pro-prison reform #just because i personally think youre the scum of the earth doesnt mean my political stances suddenly shouldnt apply to you” /end id]

[librarychair]

As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.

[epilepticsaints]

[nonbinarypolitics]

None of those things have anything to do with each other

[spirulin4]

vice news writers have not been to college

[nonbinarypolitics]

Me either, but I still know how to write an article

[cancersyndrome]

Reading comprehension quiz

1. Why has the author chosen to contrast these two ideas in one sentence? What is the effect this contrast has to the reader?

2. Can we determine the authors opinion on Zuckerberg from the work? What impression of Zukerberg is this work meant to evoke?

[shadowmaat]

image: A snippet from an article on vice.com:

Zuckerberg, whose company has been blamed for enabling genocide in Myanmar because it did not bother to hire moderators who speak Burmese, for example, added that one of his life's biggest regrets is competing on the fencing team in high school rather than wrestling.

Since people don't seem to understand why those two things are together in a sentence, allow me to break it down for you:

Zuckerberg is the head of a multi-billion dollar company.

Zuckerberg's company, Facebook, failed to hire content moderators who speak Burmese.

Burmese is the main language of Myanmar.

Due to the lack of Burmese-speaking moderators, anti-Rohingya sentiment was allowed to flourish and spread on Facebook, unchecked.

The anti-Rohingya sentiment included calls for violence and virulent misinformation.

The Rohingya people are largely Muslim in their religion, BTW.

Facebook's algorithm insured that people expressing anti-Rohingya content were shown more anti-Rohingya content.

Facebook had reports that its algorithm could result in real-world harm.

It did nothing.

The Myanmar military, among other extremist groups, began to slaughter the Rohingya people with the goal of complete extermination.

That's considered genocide.

Tens of thousands of people have been tortured, raped, and killed.

Again, Zuckerberg's company had the tools and ability to stop the spread of lies and hatred but chose to do nothing.

When considering his "biggest regrets," Zuckerberg's lament was not choosing wrestling in high school.

Most people with an ounce of sympathy in them might consider "aiding a genocide" to be more important than "chose fencing over wrestling" in terms of regrets.

I could provide links to sources to "prove" what I'm saying, but lbr, the ones who would need it most are the ones with no reading comprehension. Even if they did bother to click on the links, it's questionable if they'd understand it. The rest of you can easily do a ten-minute (non-google) search like I did to find more info.

There's so much more that could be dismantled and analyzed in regards to Zuckerberg, Meta, and how US corporations manipulate politics, but this post is about how OP shared a snippet regarding Zuckerberg's misaligned priorities and at least two people missed it completely.

[disgustinggf]

[an-aura-about-you]

btw while people continue to fight the system don't forget about Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), a charity that buys and forgives medical debt. on average a donation of $10 will forgive $1,000 of medical debt.

[an-aura-about-you]

I'm fairly confident that this is now the one original post I've made that has gotten the most notes, and I honestly couldn't be happier. the more attention we give this, the higher the chances that someone will see this and donate. medical debt is both one of the most crushing things a person can deal with and one of the stupidest things humanity has invented. and if you live in the US, I have no doubt that you've had to deal with medical debt in your life, either for yourself or a loved one. even a small donation can do so much good, and now is the time of year when we are encouraged to think of others.

[animentality]

[thestarlightforge]

my sister said “one hundred women who will Never Make Up For Elphaba” 💀

[depsidase]

[skopostheorie]

(trying to win the masses over) imagine how easy a booty call would be in a walkable city

[blauelster]

30+k dead and 2 Million Subjekted to Starvation and Dissease that will likely have take their Lives by the end of this Year.

[kibumkim]

Have y'all seen this 😭

[apas-95]

genuinely very interested in what the people in the notes think the pilot was doing

[endcant]

this has to be what was going on yesterday bc i was 40 minutes early getting back and my homies were like hello i thought you were supposed to land at 6. and i was like. me too

[soyuzam]

Yeah I guess I’m obligated to say hiiiii. I fly airplanes. They’re so fucking safe it’s actually frustrating for us. I promise you that the administration who won’t even let hobby pilots fly for ten days after taking a Benadryl aren’t going to be letting commercial pilots do anything that will intentionally put you in danger.

The reason that flight times can be so different is mainly dependent on three things: the specific aircraft, the route, and the wind. I could go on tangents about all of these, but the point is that you can be flying the exact same plane on the exact same route at the exact same airspeed… and still get drastically different travel times due to the wind fucking with your ground speed.

(Ground speed = true air speed + wind component, if you care.)

And if you’re worried about pilots ramping that shit up to the maximum velocity… you would know if we did. Because we would have to point the nose down for the whole flight. The engines are already often operating at their maximum thrust any time you’re departing or ascending— but as my flight instructors have screamed at me since the day I started flying, “pitch for speed, power for altitude”. I’m not even sure you can hit the “never-exceed” velocities in a stable airplane without slamming the stick forward and nosediving that thang.

We also have this handy color coding on the air speed indicator! (And similar coding on the vertical tape versions in those newfangled glass cockpits.)

Lastly, almost every commercial flight is going to have two people up front. Even if the captain does something stupid, the first officer is there to say “hey, don’t do that” and make corrections accordingly. Even if they do agree to do something dumb, someone on the ground is going to tell them to cut it out. Nobody just gets to fuck around up there.

Flying is safe and fun. Mass transportation rules. Give me money so I can pay my Garmin Pilot subscription.

[krisy-ninja2]

Flying is way safer than driving people just don't notice car crashes as danger anymore