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TWO ASEXUALS SITTING IN A TREE

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...oh. Is this why some of my friends have been surprised when I actually show up to things we planned? They figured I was lying?

Yikes. The rest of the world needs to get their collective acts together.

I think that when people say "we should get together for lunch sometime" it should mean that they want to get together for lunch sometime. Instead of being a generic pleasantry that is said without regard for a desire to eat lunch together.

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I grew up 20 miles from "cranberry country," where neighbors who were self-employed or retired would take seasonal processing jobs at the plants that sorted berries to make Cranberry Space Goo.

Which meant we got PAILS of "cull" berries in trade for hunting or mushrooming access. The berries were fine, but not quite the right color or slightly underripe or just....excess, I guess. Several 5 gallon buckets, one year.

We TRIED canning sauce, but unless you're specifically going for lower sugar than commercial (in which case water bath canning is a must) or you can't find/afford that, it's not worth it. Freeze them & use them for cranberry-orange relish instead.

Lingonberry is close, but not quite the same. A little bit more blueberry-like than cranberries. I've not had the native European cranberry to compare.

Being an American living in the UK we like a cranberry jelly or sauce to go with our holiday meals. With your experience in jams and such, have you ever made a cranberry jam/jelly/sauce to save up and use or share with others?

I'm afraid I haven't - for one thing, I still firmly believe cranberry sauce is best like this:

so I've never been on-board with the handmade version. It's okay.

I also tend to make preserves to preserve things I have grown or collected an excess of, because it feels especially virtuous. Making jam is really more about the pleasing feelings than about it being better than storebought (it isn't) (tbh when something is half sugar, the finer points are frankly academic.) It doesn't work out economically to buy fresh cranberries (about £8/kg in season; season is short; not widely available) and preserve them yourself, with a shelflife of 2 years maximum, when this:

is 55 pence, available all year, and sufficient for the purpose.

It would be different if homemade cranberry was fabulously better, but I don't think it is, detectably. Also, if you need to elevate storebought cranberry sauce, then you can always scoop it out of the jar, place in a saucepan, add orange juice and spices or whatever, and cook through, if you want to. it's the same base material.

I tend to make jams because it uses up things that are Free, or excess produce that would otherwise spoil - so it would have to be materially different/better/more delicious to get me to make jam.

How to use up leftover cranberry product from a holiday meal for the future? Honestly, probably freezing it would be best - the handmade-from-scratch recipes are more watery and aren't designed with long-term preservation in mind.

However - it could make a REALLY cool little gift - so I wouldn't dismiss the idea! If you got onto a cheap reliable source of cranberries, it could be such a cool and different holiday present.

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I adore the disdain in "obnoxious creatures," too.

Ice suggesting a white woman remove the Mexican flag sticker from her car. Can they all kill themselves already

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oh boy i saw a Post that i know was at least partially a joke about how we should get to appeal people who've blocked us... i made the mistake of checking the comments. oops. lots of people who don't understand how people can be such meanies and block people over almost Nothing at all, or that blocks should expire after a year... and, well.

i have several people blocked for safety reasons/peace of mind, people i want to have the least amount of access to me as possible (harassment campaign, terfs, etc). i figure most people agree that these are good and noble reasons to Block. but i also have lots and lots and lots of people blocked for seemingly petty reasons (bad opinion, annoying to me). i have also found myself blocked by several people - some i know exactly why, some complete strangers i have never interacted with and cannot figure out the motivations of. so let's explore some angles here:

- Receiving An Appeal: i did actually have someone email me to ask if they were really blocked or if it was a mistake. i was put in the very fun position of having to find a nice way to explain that yeah, sorry, i soft blocked you several times because the commentary you kept adding to my posts was driving me nuts but it didn't stick so i had to hard block you. no hard feelings, you're fine, i just personally find you annoying but please don't take it personally. i mean i didn't HAVE to reply to that email, and maybe i could have found a way to tell that person to give me some space, but. the internet is so loud and so full of people and i have a threshold for how much i can handle, i do not have the capacity or patience to sit down with every person i find annoying and tell them to please repress their entire personalities for my sake. i don't WANT to do that! i want people to be their loud and vibrant self but sometimes i need to slam my door shut before i snap at someone. or everyone. taking care of myself is to everyone's benefit okay!!!

- Wanting To Know Why: look, i get it, it's frustrating to not know exactly WHY someone blocked you, but my honest advice is that... you probably don't actually want to know. maybe if it was someone you have a personal relationship to outside of tumblr, sure! that's a whole other can of worms to deal with. but you probably don't actually need to hear a stranger tell you you're annoying or that your headcanon sucks or whatever. there's a parallel here to wanting to hear the Exact reasons for why someone broke up with you and it's just gonna make you feel like shit regardless of what it is - except it's an online random who doesn't even know you probably. you literally do not need a stranger's approval to exist in a space and do your thing, and the stranger did the right thing by curating their space. i'm sure there's lots of examples where people get blocked for a "small" reason and the blocker forgot Why and could probably easily unblock them and carry on. But. do you really really really need access to This particular stranger online? maybe they have a really cool blog you enjoyed! but there's so many other cool blogs. you'll live!!!!!! i promise.

- Is Blocking A Declaration Of War And Ill Intent? no. it's just not. it's a tool for curating your internet space. nobody gets along with literally everyone else on earth and we were not made with extreme exposure to millions of other people worldwide in mind. maybe it seems extreme to yeet people out of your blog just for being a little bit annoying, but it's not so extreme if you have a larger following and lots of people making noise in your notifs. it doesn't have to be deeper than that!!

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This is also absolutely what I feel using a hammer, or a sword, or even a pencil. I "know" where the end of that thing is even if I'm not looking right at it, & how to move myself to make it do what I want. Driving feels very similar.

(When it comes to driving, I'm suspicious that a few years spent on tractors without power steering actually helped.)

HOWEVER: I do still find driving stressful, & I am always cautious bordering on anxious when doing so. Because with any of the other things listed, I run less risk of seriously injuring myself or someone else. Yes, even with a sword--to start with, I don't usually have to worry about someone who's completely sure they know where the sword is going stepping RIGHT INTO MY SPACE. And I DO have to worry about someone who shouldn't be driving for whatever reason refusing to signal, veering into my lane, etc.

(Also, I've never yet had a deer try to run between my splitting maul & the piece of firewood I'm working on.)

For most people, the problem is less the movements becoming intuitive & more the risk becoming too normalized. PAY ATTENTION.

truly wild how driving really does become like piloting a mech after a while. like it sounds so car-bro-y but the car genuinely does become like an extension of your body. your muscles are simply making the correct micro-movements to perfectly manouvre a giant piece of machinery through a constantly moving maze while your brain is busy singing karaoke. you can physically feel when a gap is too small for your car-sona to fit through, like a cat putting its whiskers into a crevice. your brain is suddenly able to do on-the-fly s=d/t calculations in a milisecond and tell you exactly how quickly you need to move to avoid an oncoming vehicle while turning across the road. why does driving unlock the unused 89% of my brain

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As a hydrologist, the idea is both exciting and terrifying...

In the common parlance, I have 99 problems, but , , ,

BUT I think sufficiently skillful telekenisis would solve about 92 of them. I REALLY. need to be able to lift live trees, modest-sized buildings, adjust underground hydrology, and casually move boulders around. Sadly,

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hello to all the beautiful exhausted intelligent resentful compassionate irritated women of the internet i love you

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it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.

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Over a year ago, National Public Data (NPD), a search site for people, earned a place in privacy infamy for a security breach that revealed the personal data of 3 billion individuals (that's billion with a "b"). Now, after disappearing, NPD is back. As ZDNET sister publication PCMag reported, NPD is open for snooping again under a new owner, the rather mysterious-sounding Perfect Privacy LLC.

Oh boy. Better head over to nationalpublicdata.com and see if your profile is there. Then follow the handy instructions in the ZDNET article to have yourself removed:

How to remove your information from NPD

Search your name on nationalpublicdata.com.

When you find your profile, click "View Full Profile."

Copy its URL.

Go to nationalpublicdata.com/optout.html.

Drop the URL into the "Your Profile Link" field and click "Request Removal."

Enter an email address, and the site will send you an email requesting that you click to confirm deletion. 

You'll need a separate email address for each profile you want to delete. 

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maarten inghels

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Ook

if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.