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shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

letsboldlygomotherfuckers

I went on a date with a girl last night and I have purple hair and wore a purple top and purple eyeshadow and she has a green chunk in her hair and wore a green shirt and green eyeliner………soulmates

letsboldlygomotherfuckers

shut the fuck up shut the fuck up

@desinteresse

peppermintquartz

IATSE members have voted overwhelmingly to strike

Consumers (ie practically all of us) can help by writing to streaming services and put pressure on them to negotiate in good faith to agree to the IATSE's demands of better benefits and pay (esp for those on the lower end of the pay scale), safer working conditions, shorter working periods.

Support the IATSE.

afloweroutofstone

For those who don’t know, IATSE is the union for film and TV crews. Solidarity!

Are you sea anon? I know her tik tok is rambling toaster? I am confusion

Yeah, that’s me. I don’t use this blog like, at all anymore but it’s technically my main so I can’t delete it

Also for the future I use they/them ❤️❤️

mrs-k-cottage-witch

Midsummer Inspired Recipes

Honey Oatmeal –

Just like with Imbolc, honey is a great symbol for the season. Like @mistbetweenworlds said “While I don’t think it’s actually attested anywhere specifically in relation to Manannán, bees and honey have a lot of symbolism tied to cthonic gods, knowledge, the underworld, and the afterlife in Indo-European tradition. Also, honey was a traditional offering to the fae in a lot of places.” (I cant find the post!)

What you need -

Instant or Old Fashioned Rolled Oats

Hot water + pinch of salt (for the sea)

Milk

Butter

1 tsp to 1 TBSP honey (to taste)

Steps:

Make your oatmeal with the hot water and salt.

When ready, add butter to taste, then add your honey to taste. Stir well.

Add a splash of milk to cool down and add creaminess. Stir Well.

Eat and Enjoy!

Offer some to the sea (or body of water nearest to you) or on an altar for the sea for Manannan Mac Lir and to the fae.

Baked Apples with a Honey Whiskey Syrup -

What you need -

4 Baking apples

1 pat butter per apple

¼ cup of honey

½ cup Irish Whiskey

1 muffin tin (to hold the apples upright)

Steps for Syrup:

To a small sauce pan, add ½ cup whiskey.

Heat on low, until just simmering.

Turn off the burner and add the honey. Stir until it dissolves.

Steps for apples:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Scoop out the core from top of the apple, leaving a well. Do not cut all the way through.

Place the butter in the apple. Pour in your honey whiskey ‘syrup’.

Place in muffin tin or shallow baking dish and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, until syrup begins to caramelize and apples are tender.

Apple Corn Bread and Buttermilk -

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/gafm/gafm19.htm

A take on sour milk and crab apples that Manannan took with him when traveling and playing tricks.

Apple Cornbread -

1 cup cornmeal

1 cup flour

1⁄3 cup sugar

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

1 egg, beaten

1⁄4 cup butter, melted

1 apple, finely diced (I peel ours, but you can leave it unpeeled if you have organic apples)

Steps

Mix dry ingredients; set aside.

In another bowl, combine milk, egg, and shortening (you may want to warm the milk slightly to keep the shortening from clumping back up, but not too much or you’ll cook the egg).

Add cornmeal mixture to wet ingredients.

Add apple and stir gently; batter will be very thick.

Pour into greased 9x9" pan and bake at 425 for 20-25 minutes.

(To make sure it cooks through in the middle, since it is a heavier-than-usual cornbread batter, you may want to check about 20 min– if the center still seems uncooked, cover with foil to prevent overbrowning and increase cook time as needed).

*Cornbread recipe from http://www.food.com/recipe/apple-cornbread-112543

To Eat -

Place cornbread in a bowl once cooled, and add a cup of buttermilk! Stir and Eat! If you are like me and prefer ‘sweet’ milk, you can use that instead, as a symbol of the ‘sour’ milk.

Honey Ginger Glazed Pork or Salmon -

The pork represents Manannan’s pig that dies every night and comes back to life in the morning, or if you prefer, use a fatty fish such as salmon, that represents the bounty of the sea. Also the salmon could represent the salmon of knowledge.

Glaze Recipe -

(I never measure so this is a rough estimate)*

What you Need:

¼ cup honey

2 tsp ground ginger or 1 inch piece fresh grated ginger

2 - 3 green onions (or onion powder to taste)

2 tsp paprika

salt and pepper to taste

Thin the glaze with 1 - 2 TBSP hot water

*This covers roughly a pound of meat

Steps :

Prepare meat or fish as usual, clean etc.

Pat dry.

On baking pan lined with foil or other dish, drizzle the glaze over one side of the meat, then turn and glaze the other side.

Bake per directions (as usual).

Halfway through baking time add remaining glaze to top of meat.

Let rest after done cooking and enjoy!

These are all the recipes I have made or collected for Midsummer! Here are some suggestions for side dishes and other offerings.

Side Dishes/Other Suggestions

Grilled Corn on the Cob

Fire roasted/grilled bell peppers

Steamed Clams

Honey Lime Shrimp

Beer Braised Mussels

Beer

Honey Milk

Hot Totties

Apples and honey

Crab Legs

Summer Fruit and Wine Sangria

Fresh Local produce in a salad

Apple Oat Cakes

Baby Back (pork) Ribs in a whiskey bbq sauce

Happy Midsummer’s Eve Everyone!

mrs-k-cottage-witch

Yearly reblog of my midsummer recipes!

cagedlions

But institutional racism is imaginary, right?

Watch.

asongofsexandsociety

never stop reblogging this

batsandboba

nothing compares to the calendar on this site. flat fuck friday. the halloween post that always shows up mid july. you see four anime girls and immediately know what day of the week it is. on the ides of march we all wake up and clown on some guy who got stabbed two thousand years ago. last week we celebrated down with cis day. I can’t wait for ever given and nov 5th anniversary memes. anyways have a lovely neil banging out the tunes day

ms-demeanor

I was talking about a quilt piece I’d made that has sort of a squished shark on it and I was like “this is for sure a candidate for flat fuck friday” and the people I was talking to gave me a WEIRD look and I had to be like... “Does? Twitter not do flat fuck friday? What about out of touch thursday? REALLY? How do you know what day it is? Is it wednesday my dudes?????”

boxofpigeons

screamingay

these seem to be the most widely accepted weekly holidays <3

asswatthama

catchymemes

dogsuffrage

I could imagine seeing this in a class

sandersstudies

If you add a bunch of extra shit and symbols or your own comments or unreadable fonts to YouTube video captions I’m mad at you right now specifically.

sandersstudies

“Caption editor’s note” NO

Stop it with your dumb “keikaku means plan” bullshit and just write what is said, that’s it

sandersstudies

“Goat, standing on top of a barn, in response to the little girl: *screams*”

“*floodgates of his laughter finally open, laughing continues*”

JUST WRITE GOAT. JUST WRITE LAUGHS. This isn’t fuckin descriptive audio, it’s captions! Don’t write things that are visible! It’s not an essay with a 500 word minimum, it’s an accessibility tool! Don’t be a shit!

sandersstudies

“I wRiTe LiKe ThIs To ExPrEsS a FuNnY vOiCe!”

NO. DON’T. It’s hard to fucking read! Say *distorted* or *sarcastic* if it’s actually significant to know! Don’t make shit harder than it is!

sandersstudies

“(i agree uwu)”

Go to the FUCKING comments section if you have shit to say! It’s confusing to put it in the captions! You’re not fucking cute!

sandersstudies

Bringing this back because apparently y’all didn’t pay attention the first time! Captions are an accessibility tool for those who are d/Deaf, hard of hearing, non-native speakers, or have audio processing problems, they are NOT a place for you to dick around and add commentary. It is not funny or cute; it makes it more difficult to understand what’s going on. Quite seriously fuck you if you know you’re doing this and continue to do it.

averykedavra

Hope this is okay to add, but this also goes for image descriptions! They are descriptions of what is happening in a photo. They are not your place for commentary. Keep subjective adjectives or opinions out. Don’t try to make the image description funny or “endearing.” Just write what’s in the image.

All accessibility features are for accessibility. They’re not your personal megaphone. If you’re worried they’re “boring” then you don’t seem to get the point. You can write your comments after the facts. There are places for your personal opinions, and inside an accessibility feature isn’t one of them.

(Oh, and this goes for TL;DRs too. Tired of seeing “tl;dr: read the whole post lmao.” It’s okay to not write a TL;DR, but don’t be an asshole to people who look for one, okay? It’s not cool.)

idk-my-aesthetic

^^^^^

TLDR: accessibility accommodations should be easy to understand and accessible, not humorous

lovelylogans

like on one hand i understand that tumblr blogs are meant for your own entertainment and your blog should be what makes you happy etc etc but my brain just kind of goes

lovelylogans

this Mental State as i come back to this to see it has more notes than i typically expect for my original posts

tiktoksthataregood-ish

#NIXON???

void-milf

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

void-milf

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.

37womenwieldingknives

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

afraidofamericans

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

queeranarchism

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

anarchopuppy

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

mayflower-gal

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

chekplaysminecraft

Theory Time

The reason endermen don’t like it when you look at them is because they communicate telepathically with one another by locking eyes! Humans are absolutely not designed to do this so when we look at them we are accidentally projecting all of our thoughts into them at the same time and it hurts :(

ice-block

But like, since the player is not of the Minecraft world, the player is just what the use to explore it, what if it’s like:

Enderman: *looks at player’s eyes*

Player: 01010010 01100001 00100000 01110010 01100001 00100000 01010010 01100001 01110011 01110000 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01010010 01110101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101111 01101000 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101110

Enderman: oh ok *attacks player*