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I’m gonna say something….. controversial

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Ewa Kuryluk — Chair with a Knife (from the installation “Chairs”, raw cotton and a seagull skull, 1982)

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Some photos from my garden. Too many different mosses to name individually.

Check tags for ids of the plants I have put them in order.

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‘volatile-2′

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In case you were having a bad day, here’s a photo of Nichelle Nichols covered in tribbles.

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I turned my Berry Gary Busey art into some wall pattern atrocity. I went against every "rule of art" with this and I'm pleased.

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George Holz

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*classic midwestern style OPE!*

my gender…? I was supposed to bring my- ? *grumbling* no one told me I was supposed to bring a gender to this thing

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I just made some really good instant steel cut oats and I thought I'd share just in case people wanted to know how to make some oatmeals food.

1 serving

½cup of oats

One spoon of brown sugar

Small bit o butter

The vanilla

Spoon of cream or creamer or whatever milk product you like

Put the kettle on. Stir all together very well smoothing the butter around all the bits. I use a coffee mug so I feel like it's more food.

Add hot water until it reaches the top of oats. A spill more is ok but I like them a little lumpy. Stir until all covered. Smoosh down flat with spoon.

Wait one minute.

Get dark chocolate and break off a few pieces. Jam those shards of chocolate right into the center and cover again with oats.

Wait one more minute.

Consume the lava chocolate cookie flavored oatmeals food.

Yes you can use the coffee instead of water! Just has to be VERY HOT. Yes you can add nuts! I suggest crushed walnut. Other sugars are fine, but I have not tried it with artificial sweetener yet. Candy coated chocolate makes it colorful!

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The best relationships are those that share endless "useless knowledge". Such joy in these.

people who know random things are so platonically attractive to me like yes let me be your best friend tell me about the history of liquid soap

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paper folding | strawberry box | candy box 

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And now I know why I've been crying for 30 years when that movie... *sobbing* plays... *uncontrollable sobbing* me for a fool.

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François Daudin – Scientist of the Day

François-Marie Daudin, a French zoologist, was born Aug. 29, 1776, in Paris.  

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It said "everything you need is in the box."

Seems its missing one part though... motivation.

And obviously water.

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There is an original transparent tamagotchi digi pet on my B.C. Warlock bronze case as a zipper pull. As it should be.

coming back to the things you loved when you were younger feels so special 

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I haven't seen this because I live my own version of this. I plan on seeing this though.

The "help" I get is basically just enough to keep me living, but barely. The check I get is like a broom sweeping me under the rug. Jobs could* get a fuckin tax break for hiring me, but they won't. If they do, they demand more hours from me than my person and mind can offer.

The public questions WHY I need my SD, and are pushy, employees follow me if they're not loudly reacting to the presence of a dog in their work place. I am forced to explain things to multiple people and the world isn't that accessible even though I have an able body (for the most part.)

When I seek doctors, they dont take the insurance and when docs would, it's for elder issues- I am 35, not a dementia or alzheimers patient but my insurance implies to the them that I would be due to it being medicare affiliated. They ask if could get Medicaid, but Medicaid only covers after I've spent X amount to docs I dont have.... medicaid itself claims "I make too much money to be covered" I am on social security disability. I wouldn't survive without a partner living with me. Not alone, and not with the small amount I get. I cannot afford living expenses AND medical care AND meds AND therapy. I can only afford living expenses, barely. I would not call that living.

They dont care. The world doesnt care. And the only people I have to talk about this is other people with disabilities, often states or countries away. I have no peers within my real life. My able friends are frankly tired of accommodations I need to the point that I have stopped making myself open to invitations-specifically requesting they just dont invite me anymore...

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020), dir. James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham

[ID: Six black and white images of disability rights activists during the section 504 sit-in of 1977. The first image shows two people sleeping on a mattress at the foot of a set of stairs, with a wheelchair sitting in the foreground. The rest of the images are close-up shots of individual activists in their wheelchairs or sitting on couches during quieter times in the protest.

The narration from activist Corbett O’Toole reads, “It’s like the world always wants us dead. Disabled people know that every day of our lives. The world doesn’t want us around and wants us dead. We live with that reality, so there’s always gonna be, uh, “Am I gonna survive? Am I gonna push back? Am I gonna fight to be here?” That’s always true. So, if you wanna call that anger, I call it a kind of drive. You know, you have to be willing to thrive or you’re not gonna make it.” /end ID]

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Preliminary Bread Bowl Data

From left to right: zurek in Poland, bean soup in Romania, garlic soup in Slovakia, tomato soup in the US, goulash in Hungary.

Yes, we have bread bowls here (regardless of how common they are.)

United States

Slovakia

Hungary

Poland

Romania

Russia

Australia

I know what a bread bowl is but I've never seen one.

Canada

What the fuck are you talking about?

Germany

England

Spain

The Netherlands

Mixed data:

Ireland: One has never heard of them and one person had eaten one in a restaurant in Ireland.

Czech Republic: One has never heard of them and one has eaten them several times.

If you are someone you know would like to contribute to the bread bowl data, please chime in, and even if you don't consider sharing this post. I'd like to hear from people from additional countries as well as individuals who agree disagree with their country's placement in the above list. It's also cool to know what soups you usually eat in a bread bowl and how common it is! A couple people have brought up historical info on the bread bowl which is very appreciated as well since when we aren't discussing bread bowls this is actually supposed to be a fantasy/history blog, lol.

Together we will unlock the worldwide cultural mysteries of mankind's greatest culinary invention: The Bread Bowl.