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[gripping the sink] perfectionism does not help me avoid embarrassment or shame. perfectionism is in itself a form of shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame. when i struggle with perfectionism i struggle with shame

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HEATHERS (1988) dir. Michael Lehmann

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One of the things I’ve been thinking about off-and-on today (and a bit inspired by @fancynewaddress and their comment about Mary Berry and her rising to the top of her profession at a time when it Wasn’t Done with women) and I’d been watching more Mary Berry videos (including one with Jane Grigson) and Fanny Cradock and Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson-Wright and reading Elizabeth David (and reading about Delia Smith and of course Nigella) and so forth and one thing that they all have in common is this sense of Authority and Firmness/Confidence (Fanny and Elizabeth more than Mary or Nigella, say, but still present) and it’s no wonder. Food writing and cooking is and was generally a very masculine-dominated area, with lots of pressure and energy and tension, and you’d have to be strong in order to just get by.

Elizabeth David wrote once about how an editor was aghast at her being paid 40 guineas for an article at another newspaper she wrote for which was going bankrupt and said “no wonder it’s folding” and when she went to the door he grudgingly said that she might as well get paid that much (she said no thanks and walked out, saying she’d had enough of bullies) and also would reference this older French chef who would badger and berate her in letters for YEARS over things she said or did with food because that’s not what true professionals or experts did (combining nationalism with misogyny very nicely).

I mentioned that Mary Berry became a food magazine editor at about age 30 (in the 1960s) and was afraid to take maternity leave because she could be replaced, and this was after years of being a PR and food writer and tester going around doing demonstrations and also after being Le Cordon Bleu trained, and that was after years of going to school in the UK for domestic science/home ec.

Fanny Cradock was abandoned/neglected by her parents who were constantly moving to avoid debt collectors and who generally left her with her grandparents and got married at 17 to get away from her family (she married four times in all, twice bigamously) and lived in poverty for various portions of her life, with her food writing and drive being the thing that kept her going and gave her the fame and career she ended up with.

I could go on about this even more but the main thing I wanted to emphasize is that they all had a more difficult run than any male has or had. They had to know their stuff and be uber-competent as they would be cut even less slack than their counterparts.

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JULIA CHILD JUST PULLED A GUN ON JACQUES PEPIN AND HIS FACE IS KILLING ME

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As of December 2024, The Cook Islands' Palmerston Atoll was declared entirely rat free. This was after significant eradication efforts and monitoring to confirm the rats were gone, both of which involved the local community. Removing the rats has helped to improve food security and safety for residents, as well as increasing the prevalence and numbers of native wildlife.

Arthur Neale, the atoll’s Executive Officer, says Palmerston’s rat-free status means the world to him and everyone else who lives on the atoll. “Rats infested the atoll for over a century. They ate our crops, invaded our homes and harmed local wildlife. We saw the rat problem becoming worse, with the potential to seriously undermine our resilience in the face of climate change impacts. “Benefits from the rat eradication are already evident. Our food security has improved massively. Fruits like guava, mango and star fruit are now abundant and free from rat damage. Our nu mangaro (a coconut tree variety) are thriving. Vegetables, especially cucumbers, have seen an astonishing increase in yield. “We’re very excited to see more native species now rats are no longer eating them. Seedlings of tamanu and puka are increasing and we’re seeing and hearing more birds. Wood pigeons and red-tailed tropic birds have returned to Home Islet. Crabs and lizards appear to be more abundant.”

Here's a cool video from a few years ago covering the work to remove rats and inclusion with the local community (Just a heads up the video does show dead rats a couple of times).

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Christofascism is given media double standard.

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the noise i made was not heterosexual

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yuni_yoshida #装苑 #連載 PLAY A SENSATION 🍎👄vol.32 GUEST #杉咲花 #lip #apple

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The Avon at Stratford, 20-01-2023.

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Recent FF6 drawings. Mostly... the clown...

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Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

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If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Dr. David S. Glosser is a retired neuropsychologist: formerly a member of the Neurology faculties of Boston University School of Medicine and Jefferson Medical College.

Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.

It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czar’s army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America.

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everyone look at this

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today marks the 500 days until midterm elections! we will get through this

We will get through this!!!

You heard it here first folks. 500 days til midterms and 1,309 days left overall!

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That we’re all endowed with a core dignity and are deserving of rights and respect and have to assume responsibility for ourselves individually and our collective lives. We all play a part. That historically has not been a, I’m repeating myself here, it hasn’t been a Republican or a Democratic idea. That is an American idea that everybody could tap into. If that ends up being our starting point for a common identity, if our starting point is these homespun values of, we don’t have aristocracies here, we don’t have rank, we don’t have monarchies. We have rule of law. All people are equal in the eyes of the law, that we all have a part to play in democracy, that we all have to take individual responsibility for our lives, but we also have to, as Lincoln said, do some things together because we can do it better together than we can do it apart. If that’s our starting point, then I think we’ll be okay, but that’s not where we are right now.