Sweet Seals For You, Always
Peter Solarz
blake kathryn
trying on a metaphor
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we're not kids anymore.
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taylor price
almost home
will byers stan first human second
Origami Around
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if i look back, i am lost
Sade Olutola
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@silvertreble
And yet there are those who doubt him and question how he gets around the entire world in one night…
santa’s creed
this has been on queue since january 2nd and it was worth every minute
I’m queuing this on December 26th I’m ready for this
You better watch out
You better watch out
You better watch out
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
It’s winter, Santa is the master of parka-our.
Assassin’s creed: North Pole
If you don't get a child diagnosed, they won't grow up thinking "I'm a normal kid", they'll grow up thinking "it's my fault I'm not a normal kid." So don't think you're doing a child a favor by not telling them what they're going through. That won't prevent struggling - it will only result in them blaming themselves for their struggles instead of blaming the real culprit.
True. Fact.
Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
Orange Sweet Rolls
I was looking for a way to add a little love and luck into my week. What better way to bring in the warm fuzzies than orange sweet rolls? I made these entirely from scratch, so they were a little time-consuming, but it was totally worth it.
Ingredients
Dough
3 ½ - 4 cups all-purpose flour
¾ cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 package instant yeast
¾ cups almond milk
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 orange (about 3 tablespoons juice and 1 tablespoon zest)
Cinnamon Filling
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
¼ cup granulated sugar
Rest of zest
Orange Icing
1 ¼ cup confectioner’s sugar
Rest of orange juice
About two teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
Dough
In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt, and yeast together. Set aside
Heat almond milk and butter together until butter is completely melted. Stir in the orange juice, orange zest, and eggs. Combine wet and dry ingredients and mix until it forms a soft dough
The dough should not stick and should bounce back when poked with finger. If not, continue adding flour 1 tablespoon at a time until it’s no longer sticky
On a lightly floured surface, knead the dough for 1 minute. Place in a lightly greased bowl and allow to rest for 10 minutes in fridge.
After 10 minutes, roll the dough out in a rectangle. Mix softened butter, cinnamon, sugar, and orange zest. Spread over the dough as evenly as possible.
Roll the dough up tightly. Cut into 10-12 rolls and place into greased muffin pan or onto greased baking pan
Loosely cover rolls with plastic wrap or towel and allow to rise for about 90 minutes
Once the rolls have doubled, preheat oven to 375. Bake for 20 minutes, covering with tinfoil halfway through.
Glaze
Whisk sugar, remaining orange juice, and cinnamon together until smooth. Drizzle over rolls (or just double the recipe glaze recipe and drown them like I did)
Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen
“These artifacts were excavated by archaeologists from a burial site in the 1970’s. The remains were returned for reinterment” Okay cool, cool cool. So you just, like. Dug up the grave of a respected family member, stripped them naked, mailed their body back to their family and kept everything they were lovingly put to rest in. Like a graverobbing bastard
Reminds me of the time when of the elders from my hometown started touching a totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology out at UBC and got yelled at by the staff, only to tell him that the pole had been stolen off of the front of her bighouse when she was ten years old.
Museum collectors did the equivalent of kidnapping a family member when they were away fishing.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires all institutions that receive federal funding to repatriate remains and artifacts so if you can identify the source of something on display absolutely get a hold of that institute’s repatriation office
my emotional support rosemary thyme garlic loaf
recipe
3 1/2 cups bread flour
2tsp quick rise yeast
2tsp salt
1 1/2 cups cool water
2tbsp dried thyme
1tbsp garlic powder
2tsp dried rosemary
instructions
1. whisk together all dry ingredients in a large bowl then switch to a spoon as you slowly pour in the water, mixing as you go. keep working the dough and switch to hands as necessary. add extra flour or water as needed in small increments (depending on your environment) and turn out onto a floured surface to gently knead until you reach a dough that is soft and slightly sticky, it should feel a bit 'loose' but stable and shouldn't stick to your hands. this dough doesnt require intense kneading, just a couple mins until it feels incorporated.
2. shape into a ball and drop back into the mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap or a dishtowel at room temp to rise for 2-3 hours (precise temp isn't necessary). after 2-3 hours the dough should be roughly 2x the original size, stick to the sides of the bowl and have little air bubbles all over.
3. (optional) move dough to the fridge to rest overnight or for roughly 12~ hours. you can actually bake it after the 2-3 hours is up but it tastes best when left to rise for longer. longer rise = better flavour.
4. turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead for a min or two, just folding it on itself until it feels cohesive before shaping it into a ball again. plop it on a sheet of high temp oven-safe parchment paper and cut a large X slash in the centre with a sharp knife or scissors. cover gently with plastic wrap or dishtowel and let sit for 30 mins.
5. get out your dutch oven and place it in the oven with the lid on, and preheat oven to 475°F. the dutch oven will heat with the oven, we want it very hot when the dough gets placed in. once the oven is ready/done preheating, remove the dutch oven and place the loaf inside with the parchment paper included, close the lid and put it back in the oven.
6. bake for 25 mins with the lid on. remove the lid and continue baking 8-10 mins until the crust is golden. carefully remove pot from the oven, remove the bread from the pot and let cool on a wire rack for 30 mins before slicing/serving. the resulting bread should have a crispy crust but very soft inside. works best as a bread for soups, snacks, and on its own warmed up with some soft butter and cheese.
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it has become a big conspiracy theory among teens in Tiktok the idea that Helen Keller was fraud that didn’t exist, and the main argument to back this is “how could someone be both blind and deaf and still be successful and write books”. That’s plain ableism. This entire thing is just deeply ableist and the fact that an ableist conspiracy theory like this can spread so easily among kids is just scary.
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, fake news and bigotry are not a generational thing! It’s not a “boomer” thing, this is something that happens among all generations.
This. Is. Abusive.
Men need friends. Men need acquaintances. Men need peers. Men need people to cheer them on and notice their accomplishments and tell them that their hair looks good. Men need inside jokes with their coworkers and friends they can turn to after a hard day. Men need rich social lives and platonic hugs and emotional support from people they aren’t dating.
Men need to be treated like human beings who are capable of honoring their commitments, and not like misbehaving dogs who can’t control themselves unless they are carefully supervised.
As a culture, we’re pretty good about recognizing how important it is for women to have an emotional support network outside of their partner, but we’ve almost gone out of our way to deny that same social support to men. It’s socially acceptable for straight men who maintain close platonic friendships with women to be constantly accused of “cheating”, and yet straight men who form intimate and emotional bonds with other men are still accused of being “gay”. We’ve created a culture where many straight men rely only on their female partner for emotional support, leaving them nowhere to turn if their female partner becomes abusive, controlling or cruel.
A man who isolates his female partner and controls her social media is quickly marked as an abuser. A woman who does the same to her male partner is shrugged off as “just jealous” or even cheered on for “protecting her relationship”. And it’s wrong.
If the thought of your straight male partner having female friends makes you overwhelmed with jealousy, you aren’t ready for a relationship. If you can’t handle the thought of not having access to your boyfriend’s phone, passwords and social media accounts, you are not ready for a boyfriend. If the idea of other women following your boyfriend on social media or complimenting his appearance fills you with rage, you are not ready to date someone seriously. Loving someone means placing trust in them, and wanting to see them happy and supported in all areas of their life.
Love is not control.
the person who made that thing is very very abusive and would probably scream if the genders were reversed
My so-called “best friend” did this to me, my abusive cousin has done this. So many people in my life have done this that I developed a pathological fear of clingy and even affectionate people.
Like nobody talks about how “love bombing” kind of abuse messes up the other person. It makes them think every display of affection is some kind of trap or a sign the person is an abuser.
executive dysfunction be like *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels ba
I recently learnt that executive dysfunction can be broken down into two main categories: anxiety that your attempt won't be satisfactory, or confusion about where to start or how to break it down into steps. As much as we feel bad about it, it's extremely important to remember that it is NOT laziness and we in fact shouldn't feel bad.
hey reblog this instead
여어- 히싸씨부리 （ ɔ̸ᴉʇɐ͟N͞さんのツイート ）
“NAFTER NOON!”
Every. Time. Every single time. I always get so delighted by this picture set. And I always forget what it’s followed up by. And then I see the “NAFTER NOON!” and absolutely lose it. I’m so glad this post exists.
the scariest, most liberating thing is that it’s all up to you!
I suck at remembering this sometimes
Catherine wants to make people more aware about how important it is to be aware of these issues.
She knew him for 20 years. He worked as a police officer. 90 days as a punishment is such a pathetic sentence. Total rubbish. this guy is evil and who knows how many victims of his assaults have stayed unknown. What a scums serve in the law enforcement…
Please share.
Please share.
This!☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
Protect children by any means necessary!
Please spread the word
Please reblog this
Reblogging this
Time to make some maple caramel sauce to give to the fam for the holidays. Hopefully this pot is big enough to accommodate the lava bomf about to occur because I can’t be fucked washing two pots.
We’re less than ten minutes in and it’s already doubled. I think I may have made a mistake.
Panic, a visual study in three parts.
For reference, this is a 6 quart pot filled with molten sugar. And now I need to add butter to it. Fucking pray for me.
I lived, bitch!
By the magic of time lapses and a lot of flailing, we have salted maple caramel sauce. I did not attempt to record the chaos that occurred when I added the butter, but let’s just say I absolutely 100% needed a bigger pot for the portion size I made. I did not however melt the pot to the stove. This time.
Anyway, assuming you want to do this safely, here’s how you make a sane sized batch of maple caramel sauce.
Ingredients:
2 cups maple syrup (needs to be the real kind, will not work if it has corn syrup in it)
4 table spoons of butter
1/2 cup milk (if you want it to be really luxurious, use 1/2 cup heavy cream. I just used milk because that’s what I had and fuck going to the grocery store)
pinch of salt
Things you will need:
A medium to large sized saucepan with a heavy bottom. Pots with a lot of height are preferable, as this mother fucker likes to climb.
A wooden spoon or silicone, heat resistant spatula. Do not use plastic or nylon, they may will melt.
A candy thermometer.
Something to store it in.
Better self preservation skills than I have.
Method:
Imagine you are a maple tree
Take your maple syrup and put it over a medium heat. Do not start out on a high heat or you’ll burn the sucker. Gradually bring it to a boil until it is between the temperature of 225F - 230F.
Unlike my maple candy recipe, you do not want to go above 230F, because it will start to harden and you don’t want that. You also don’t want to stir as much, cause stirring causes crystallization and we want this sauce to be smooth.
Once it’s reached the desired temp, remove it from the heat and carefully add your butter. It may fizzle and seize, but that’s okay, just keep stirring until it’s melted in.
Add your milk/cream and stir in until blended.
Add a pinch of salt. Stir.
Pour into a heat proof jar, preferably using a ladle because handling hot sugar is dangerous (omg please be careful, don’t hurt yourselves), and allow to cool before refrigerating.
Don’t worry if it looks really thin, it’ll thicken up as it cools. Like so:
If it doesn’t thicken up, you needed to heat it longer. If it’s grainy, you over stirred it. If it’s melted to your stove you over heated it and possibly needed a bigger pan. Practice makes it easier, but generally speaking I find newbies to caramel actually find this easier than sugar cane caramel, largely because there’s no eyeballing involved.
If stored properly in the refrigerator this should last two weeks. Like most home made caramel sauces. If you freeze it in a freezer safe jar, it should last up to 2-3 months.
Enjoy.
[image descriptions: several photos of a large pot on a stove, filled with syrup slowly bubbling up to fill the entire pot and nearly spill over. then, a photo of the finished caramel sauce, stored in 4 glass jars. finally, at the end of the recipe, a gif of someone stirring the sauce in one of the jars with a spoon to show the consistency, which is a little thinner than honey.]
this looks amazing! how much does that recipe yield?
Thank you for the captions!
And the above listed recipe yields roughly 3 and a half 8oz jars. Maybe 4, if the sugar gods are with you.
What if, and hear me out, people DO love you
Your coworker who loves when they get to work a shift with you, even if you don’t talk
Your cousin who’s relieved when they see you at family gatherings, who thinks you’re “the cool cousin” but hasn’t said anything out loud
Your classmate who thinks you have great taste, even if they’re too shy to speak up about it in class
Your childhood friends who remember you fondly
The waiter you tipped during a busy night
That person you complimented on the street
The little kid you waved to
The old woman you made small talk with
People love you, because you’re lovable. And you’re worthy of love. Even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes
(Self depreciating comments will be removed at best, bluntly and remorselessly told to shut the fuck up at worst. Fuck around. I dare you.)
it's (almost) my birthday!
here's my paypal / ko-fi / wishlist
here's the charity of my choice
here's my most recent creative endeavor
and here's a link to radicalize your relatives over holiday dinner
;)
I just saw the link for radicalizing relatives. To those who haven’t checked it out, it shows wealth put into scale. And y’all it really SHOULD radicalize people. We hear all the time about wealth inequality but the link really puts it in perspective
seriously click the radicalize your relatives link. seeing the insane wealth really blew my mind
where tf can i buy a guillotine this shits crazy
i’m SO glad you asked, bc now you can 3d print one!
would the blade on it actually cut, or is it for show?
i perfer eating the rich when it isnt still screaming, thank you
Where’s the fun in that? I happen to enjoy the screaming. And the struggling on the way down isn’t bad either.
well not everyone is a 8 foot tall dragon, DOVE
Eighteen foot tall. But point taken.
Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.
i wonder what they are dreaming about
Changing colors duh
What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.
All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either
a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).
or
b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.
Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.
