HOW ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THIS!!! HOW ARE YOU CELEBRATING. YOUR BREAD IS MISSING ITS BREAD!!!!! YOUR BREAD HAS NO BREAD IN YOUR BREAD!!!!
This guy says it has a “light and airy crumb” YEAH ILL BET!
@smallshrimphell
Like what kills me is that this is actually pretty impressive. Working with high hydration dough is difficult on it’s own but at 106%!? And to work it just enough to develop the gluten so it doesn’t collapse while also keeping all the gas is hard. Timing the proof would have also been difficult. Looking at that crust they must have a really good oven set up as well. Hot as hell. Probably done in a preheated dutch oven.
And all in service… of this. The texture of the bread must be terrible. No fluffiness to it, all tough, thin strands of bread. Crust is probably lovely, but a crunchy dark crust is only nice when it covers lovely light, fluffy, soft bread. It’s the contrast of those textures that makes it work. I like an open airy crumb as much as the next bread maker but this is ridiculous.
Sometimes, things that are more work to make… are worse
This is none pizza left beef but homemade bread edition
None bread center crust center air
This isn’t done for eating. This is done to see if you can do it.
This is the food Famine was serving at the Diner in Good Omens.
this thread is perfect
Obviously I have to reblog this. The contrast of the technical and the inedible is just too interesting. Just so long as I don’t have to eat it.
Every day those skeleton lesbians are on my dash beating the shit out of each other or making out or playing mario kart. I don’t even know what kind of media the locked tomb is. Is it a tv series? A collection of plushies? A webcomic? A limited edition beverage with an oddly detailed lore behind it? Perchance. All of these questions and more could be solved by a simple google search, yet I kind of like having something that I have no context for - or understanding of - cross my dash occasionally. Adds a bit of spice. McGriddle and Shark? I hope they get gay married. I hope this isn’t a queerbaiting situation or whatever. I hope they have lots of skeleton babies and their coffee shop continues to thrive. I hope they finally kill the onceler.
Every companion you romance as the dark urge says, I know this isn’t you. I know you’re not this creature.
But who did it first?
Enver. Gortash.
And he saw you at your absolute worst too. these bitches see you struggling with something uncontrollable. they tie you up and shrug. you’re not actually evil. it’s fine. they’re trapped with you anyway, by this whole mindflayer situation. so they have to hope you’re good, and they deny how serious it is very very often.
Gortash knew what you were from the start, but he still chose you.
He saw something other than a bhaalspawn when he looked at you.
He knew how you struggled to control your urge, but he believed in you all along.
We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.
Question.
I’ve rebogged bread.
What?
I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.
Where, where have you been sending it?!
I love how there are more reblogs than likes
This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.
i’m guessing at some point someone in charge must’ve been like “if there’s swords in the game then the currency is gold. if there’s spaceships the currency is credits. if you do otherwise i will kill you”
i haven’t played starfield yet but out of curiosity i had to check
Comic strip artists from the 40’s draw their characters while blindfolded
You are one of the top Problem Sleuths in the city. Solicitations for your service are numerous in quantity. Compensation, adequate. It is a balmy summer evening. You are feeling particularly hard boiled tonight.
I can’t pick a favorite
Some of these take on an impressionist quality. Eyes are important.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Unsettling update
Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder:
Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.
‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.
Oh hey, this is interesting (but a year old, idk if anything has changed):
if you want to say “shut up” in greek you say “skase” which is basically a command to blow yourself up. im pretty sure the idea is like, “hold in your words for so long that they build up inside you until you burst” but it doesnt translate well. because the other day my cousin was practicing english convos with me, and when i was poking fun at her she just says “Explode.”
it translates as more of a power move than saying “shut up” normally though
He had committed no crime. He was not suspected of any crime. Police saw him, a Black kid wearing a ski mask, and decided to murder him for it WITH THE HELP of paramedics. He was a sweet kid who literally played his violin for kittens in a shelter in his free time and he died apologizing to his murderers for not being able to breathe.
During the 2020 George Floyd protests, the anger, the protesting, and the rioting was at least as much about him as it was about George Floyd in the Denver/Aurora area. Local violinists showed up to a protest to perform in memory of him and they were tear gassed for it.
One of the cops was recently acquitted and got to keep his job and walk away with $200,000 in back pay.
People who wear ski masks aren’t the issue. Cops are. They will ALWAYS be the bigger threat.
i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now
Already seeing “BDS is actually antisemitic” posts on the liberal zionist side of tumblr and it’s funny how it didn’t even take them 2 whole months to go from “I would respect Palestinian resistance if it was nonviolent” to “actually every single act of Palestinian resistance and any global allyship to it are both evil and harmful no matter how nonviolent”
not even 2 months to drop the pretence that there is any form of Palestinian resistance that they wouldn’t condemn.
I’m telling you they hate Palestinians for real. People like this, there is no reason to interact as they genuinely do not see us as humans. What are they doing talking about how bds is “antisemitic” (oh nooooo theyre targeting big corps lol get fucked losers) when people are dying from disease and bombing.
I still can’t get over “Open your eyes is an antisemitic dogwhistle” like it’s very clear there is no form of resistance they find acceptable.
I gotta read stuff to get my adderall to kick in before I can do real work, so here’s my attempt at a primer on the Chinese writing system:
“How do they have a separate character for every single word??” They don’t: each character represents one idea, one morpheme, one unit of meaning in a word.
Unbreakable in English has 3 morphemes: un, break, and able, each adding meaning. In Chinese characters that word is 不可破, which each mean no, able, & break, individually.
Like break and -able, some characters can be their own words and some can’t.
Just as westerners often think that each character = 1 full word, Chinese people often don’t realize that each English word can be many elements smushed together. Someone learning English might see antidisestablishmentarianism as one insanely complex character, rather than 6 morphemes in a trenchcoat.
We need to make an Antidisestablishmentarianism character for the most insane stroke order ever conceived by man
Ok I went and googled, and “most complex character” has multiple claimants, just like “longest word” in English. I present to you:
Nàng - stuffed nose, 36 strokes. Claimed to be the biggest word in common usage.
Zhé - an archaic word meaning noisy, which is never used today. It’s also dragon 4 times, which I think is a great etymology. 64 strokes, but isn’t it really 16x4?
Biáng - a specific type of noodle from Shaanxi. Some say it’s “not real Chinese” or was just made up by a clever noodle seller. One wonders how anyone read it, if so. 58 strokes.
Finally, the word/character that has the antidisestablishmentarianism reputation in China:
Huáng - 172 unholy strokes. No one even knows what it means! Historians and linguists have tried to trace it back, but no luck yet. It might just be a nonsense “word” used as a charm, like the SATOR square. How does it even have a known pronunciation, if no one knows its meaning?
Practical Benefits of Creative Writing if You Need Some Motivation
Writing stories isn’t just a hobby. It’s a practice that sharpens so many skills. You’ll use these skills all your life, so write that silly idea and let’s start refining these talents that come from our work:
(Psst—this is where you should open that copy of your resume if you’re also applying for jobs!)
Communication: You know how to use words to convey complex and simple ideas.
Emotional identification (for personal benefit, not so much standard careers): You’d be surprised how many people can’t name or describe their emotions, much less make them something others can feel.
Thematic analyzation: You can find or create a common thread between wildly different people.
Community building: You can bring people together by making them feel things deeply.
Perspective shaping: You make others try on new perspectives through your characters and their challenge, which also points back to your communication skills.
Encouragement: You know how to make other people dream through your work.
Empathy: You remind readers they aren’t alone in their experiences—we are all going through different versions of pain together.
Typing: Let’s be real, every boss will think you’re amazing if you can type with more than two fingers at a time (or with two fingers really fast!).
Time management: You’re always finding ways to fit your writing into your schedule, even if it’s only once a month.
Commitment: because that 100,000-word fanfic won’t just appear on paper because you daydreamed about it.
Self-reliance: When you set a goal to write a story, you (mostly) finish it. All on your own!
A willingness to learn: Your editing and revising work keeps you open to growth opportunities, which is essential to being a good person/team member/employee.
Organization: Those folders with all your story ideas, character outlines, and plot arcs? That’s a skill, my friend.
Creativity: You’re in touch with your creative instincts, which brings vision to projects and team efforts that produce better results
if you’ve ever thought i’m standoffish, politely distant, or generally hard to befriend, know in your heart that i’m exactly the same in real life. my neighbours just showed up at my door drunk on Canada Day celebrations and told me how desperate they’ve been to meet me for the past few months and then tried to fix the water pump in my basement
one of the neighbours returned today with heavy machinery and gravel and fixed my driveway. i feel like a feral animal they’re trying to coax with little treats
they’ve told me the gossip which is that a few years back a 70 yr old man collapsed the bridge at the end of my road by driving his tractor over it, lost his tractor in the river, climbed back up the cliff unscathed, walked an hour home, and then the whole road fell into disrepair and all the campgrounds closed and the once popular waterfall down the road became obscure and secret. so like, be the change you want to see in the world. collapse a bridge to chase out the tourists. also you can lose widespread knowledge in under 10 years if one old man collapses a bridge
also i met this bridge collapsing old man on a walk a few months ago and he said to me “you should check out the river at the end of the road, there’s a tractor in it!” like he wasn’t the one who put it there
we have GOT to kill tiktok/twitter self-censorship i just witnessed a grown adult say the word “smex” out loud to our professor
my poor professor was SO confused that she asked them to repeat themselves and they went “you know, like, blank …” and kept just vaguely gesturing until she somehow connected the dots. i fucking hate art school
god i wish i was making the shit i witness at this place up. my life would be so much easier if i didn’t have to deal with my classmates seriously arguing about fandom discourse in the group project chat
the price you think you’re paying by going to art school: tuition, supply costs, etc
the price you’re actually paying by going to art school: having to put up with the most brain-rotting terminally online discourse imaginable in real life
I had someone argue with me that it was problematic for me to have watched Frozen with my niece because I was encouraging her to become an emotionally abuse codependent sibling. I’m a senior and I’ve had someone else doing their senior thesis ask, genuinely, if she was problematic for doing her thesis on domestic abuse, because sometimes domestic abuse effects rich white women and they’re privileged, so therefore her doing it on that is racism apologism. I’ve had to sit there and watch people say “unalive”, “SA”, “PDF file”, and my favorite, “marital relations” (it only happened once but it’s really funny) to professors who look at them in total despair.
Hamlet didn’t unalive himself, he killed himself. Our Crime Prevention class is discussing sexual assault and pedophiles. The implication of this paper we’re reading in Intro To Africana Studies is not about white settlers marrying and having gentle loving monogamous funtimes with slaves, it’s about rape.
I genuinely do not see how I’m supposed to take the people around me seriously. How am I supposed to believe you have incredible insights into something you can’t bring yourself to say? How am I supposed to look over your rough draft and not cross out the euphemisms and write grown-up words?
And I DO NOT go to art school! I go to Montana State! I’m in redneck country - remember when redneck meant tough enough to at least say words?! Not anymore!
While I don’t mind that languages change, that is natural, I do mind if it change because of censoring New Speak.
New Speak is made to limit the language so we cannot talk about negative issues. (Or it is made to sanitise racism and misogyny.)
My teenage friend group also used smexy 25 years ago,but that was just because we liked how it sounded. (Idk how regional it was, but at least in my area at that time, it was very popular to just say words wrong on purpose for fun. Much like how the internet used birb for a while)
we have GOT to kill tiktok/twitter self-censorship i just witnessed a grown adult say the word “smex” out loud to our professor
my poor professor was SO confused that she asked them to repeat themselves and they went “you know, like, blank …” and kept just vaguely gesturing until she somehow connected the dots. i fucking hate art school
god i wish i was making the shit i witness at this place up. my life would be so much easier if i didn’t have to deal with my classmates seriously arguing about fandom discourse in the group project chat
the price you think you’re paying by going to art school: tuition, supply costs, etc
the price you’re actually paying by going to art school: having to put up with the most brain-rotting terminally online discourse imaginable in real life
I had someone argue with me that it was problematic for me to have watched Frozen with my niece because I was encouraging her to become an emotionally abuse codependent sibling. I’m a senior and I’ve had someone else doing their senior thesis ask, genuinely, if she was problematic for doing her thesis on domestic abuse, because sometimes domestic abuse effects rich white women and they’re privileged, so therefore her doing it on that is racism apologism. I’ve had to sit there and watch people say “unalive”, “SA”, “PDF file”, and my favorite, “marital relations” (it only happened once but it’s really funny) to professors who look at them in total despair.
Hamlet didn’t unalive himself, he killed himself. Our Crime Prevention class is discussing sexual assault and pedophiles. The implication of this paper we’re reading in Intro To Africana Studies is not about white settlers marrying and having gentle loving monogamous funtimes with slaves, it’s about rape.
I genuinely do not see how I’m supposed to take the people around me seriously. How am I supposed to believe you have incredible insights into something you can’t bring yourself to say? How am I supposed to look over your rough draft and not cross out the euphemisms and write grown-up words?
And I DO NOT go to art school! I go to Montana State! I’m in redneck country - remember when redneck meant tough enough to at least say words?! Not anymore!
Do you know how stupid I feel that I couldn’t figure out that “PDF File” was supposed to be censorship slang for “paedophile”
I thought it was cool that gen z was inventing their own vocabulary to use online with other kids… But now the kids are full grown adults and using that language in a not ironic way, in professional settings. People using un-alive unironically is sending me into the ether lmao
That is kind of inherently the problem most people are having with this, it wasn’t them inventing their own vocabulary,like previous generation’s slang, it was forced changed by corporate influence.
bisan has just posted a video that israel has lit up the sky, signalling they will bomb tonight, and that she has nowhere to go. she is in khan yunis–the south, where she was told to go to.
you can hear planes overhead as she speaks.
she wants israel to finally admit the truth–they do not want palestinians to go to “safe” parts of gaza, they want people to leave entirely and recreate the 1948 nakba.
please spread the word, please keep bisan in your thoughts, and do not let this happen in silence.
Prepare for a radical acceleration in technological development. A Google Deepmind AI has achieved “an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity,” finding about 800 years’ worth of new materials with revolutionary potential.
The discovery of new materials with unusual properties can start technological snowballs rolling that eventually push society in new directions – but up to this point, it’s been a painstakingly slow process involving a lot of trial-and-error experimentation.
Inorganic crystal materials, for example, may show enormous promise once you first synthesize them, but all this potential could lead nowhere if the crystals don’t remain stable; it’s no good discovering that a new crystal could improve the performance of batteries or electronics if it’s going to fall apart and degrade.
And that’s where Deepmind’s Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME) deep learning tool has just made an announcement that promises to be enormously disruptive.
things that are angels: fungi. computer programming. bioluminescent creatures in the middle of the pacific ocean that have never been seen by people. a weird restaurant server late at night pouring coffee. overgrown things. androids and robots. etc
