#dr meat muffin

[talesfrommedinastation]

Muffin is the Bluey equivalent of Crosshair

SHUT UP. IT MAKES SENSE.

ALSO I'M DRUNK AND IT'S MY ANNIVERSARY. I LOVE U, TEXAS TECH, YOU DELIGHTFUL ENGINEERING DORK YOU. YOU REFUSE TO LOOK AT MY TUMBLR AND I REFUSE TO LOOK AT YOUR SEARCH HISTORY. IF THAT AIN'T 21ST CENTURY LOVE I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

NOW WHERE WAS I?!?!?!

Ah, yes. Muffin and Crosshair.

Not the initial star of the show? Check.

A spoiled entitled lil thing that has a volatile relationship with authority? Check.

Comes into their own after being an absolutely awful piece for a few episodes? Check.

Mean to their siblings when alone but helpful when it finally calls for it? Check.

A force of due vengeance and righteousness when needed? Check. I mean have y'all SEEN 'Grannymobile'?!

They both wear grey and black, check, DUH.

Naw fam. For real. I don't know why I'm talking like the students I mentor but I digress.

Muffin. Crosshair. Same character arc.

Now, someone give her a granny scooter so she can wreak havoc on the Empire or set Hemlock or fire or hit CX-2 with a purse, I don't know.

[thecoffeelorian]

"Crosshair is horrified that the Republic is gone, despite saying otherwise. You can tell that, even though Clone Force 99 lives on being different, they always have orders and support. Being on his own TERRIFIES him. So he bounces from person to person, desperate for security and a stable life.

Cody, of course, begins to deprogram him, and Mayday helps burn it all to the ground. Two of his brothers. People he trusts.

I really really really hope this is covered in the final season. It would be beautiful to examine something many men are not comfortable with: their own anxiety and insecurity. Taking one of the 'badass bad boy' types and digging into this (maybe through Omega) would be amazing."

@talesfrommedinastation

I really, REALLY appreciate written out takes like this...people keep insisting that the 'Tism is a "super power", but I just don't feel it when I have to rely mainly on the negative behavior patterns of fictional characters just to try and gage how they REALLY feel about the one character they've been avoiding (more or less) for this whole series.

Anyways!

Think I can safely agree to this, if not also adding...I hope they remember that the MCFREAKING Brain Fry Machine (much later revisited in 'The Mandalorian') kinda put a lot of this kerfuffle into place. It's been itching at my thoughts ever since August 2021, and I'm feeling really miffed lately that the fandom seems to have forgotten about it.

[batchedzine]

Fresh out of the oven! We're excited to introduce our outstanding OC Feature creators!

Poiby - @poibynt Wizardofrozz - @wizardofrozz KaijuSplotch - @kaijusplotch Captain Pheonix Pidge Ace Geniecat AmberOwl24 - @eclec-tech NikScribbles - @nikscribbles Mimse - @engagemythrusters ReneeoftheStars Not Dodecahedron - @not-dodecahedron Kelly Greeny Purplefangirl42 - @purplefangirl42 DraftHorseMath - @drafthorsemath Hannah - @porganas Wolviecat Nat - @coruscantguard Kazifrost - @kazifrost Divilu Dr Meat Muffin - @talesfrommedinastation Jasper Vin Maci SilverDragonoid - @silverdragonoid

🍪

These artists and writers are creating pieces that allow their original clone characters to shine, and we can't wait to have you see them all!

[wrenkenstein]

Hi there!

Weird question: your OC with Tech...may I use them for a potential 'fix the finale' fanfic?

I'm trying to gather all of the OCs that end up with Tech, and have them rip through time and space, make up a crack commando team, save Tech in the main universe, then smash Mt Tantiss to smithereens and save the other clones? Then dump him at Pabu.

I love studying all the various OCs with Tech, they're so much fun! Yours is, too :)

Let me know what you think!

-Dr. Meat Muffin

Not weird at all, oh my gosh! I'd be FLATTERED to have Juno cameo in that!! :D That sounds like a lovely fic idea and an absolute blast for everyone involved, haha. I love how all of his collective partners team up to fix this dang show xD

But yes, you may absolutely use Juno for that! Please let me know if you need any questions answered or information about her! Most of her documents are somewhere on that Juntech site, but they may be missing information which I will happily supply! ^^

Thank you so much!!

[banepenis]

I'm like a fucked up worthless good for nothing suckling pig for your friendship and I deserve to be locked away in the sty or the barn and burned it to the groung

THIS IS NOT BANEPENIS' 420th POST!!!

SMOKE WEED! MARAJAIANIA FUUUUUUUUCK 0faiupfajfoiejf gonna smoke you off buddy here we go lets go going down to the stooperbarket gonna byrcahse some items for you and me and we are going to run around with the shopping cart and your hgoin g tos it in it and you're going to make vroom vroom car noises and i' going to dift aound the corners like my favorite game dr robotnik's fuck cars and gets spoot boosts and many colors pick up items lemon lime for me lack of scurvey and then get some hmmmmmmm PEACHEs hummy yummy yummy uymmy and get some bappy diapys for the feasting mealworms that know what you are adn we are smoking rarujania becose of 320 massive weed funny smoke 69 sex potition and when we go around we pic up some bread that have nice testure for your tismus and we get some eggs 100 eggs all for me yummy yummy mmmmmm bursts and we get exactly 1 500 gram bag of pasta and approximately enough sauce and meat for other sauce to serve 7 billion people and we get yayyyy flou r sugar we get table salt rock salt kosher salt ummmmmmmmmmmmm yummy satl and we obtain some cakes and treat and treacle and some yujmym surrpy syirp and we have some honey and some otemeal and we ge tsome shampoot for the dog your fucking idiot dog your racist germand sheperfd dog that fucking hates you and me mostly on account of and we get some uhhhhhhhh tissue paper for all the spillage we do in the kitchen cooking up so many yumstasty and we ummm uhhhh uhauhuhuh aoaooooo starts creaming at the mouth ummmmm we hae to get some awuuuu and we have to get some cat food just in case i decide to euthanice yoru fuking moron dog or your dog girl "girl boy friend" with a totally unintereesting identity for the fact that its an identityh adopted to ostensibly be contentious with the world around it but its not anything really but and we go and get some nice cookies we get some honeys and some boneys and some bunnies and we get some cakes and we have some yummy jam and we can get some cream yum and we have to obtain some of our maple syrup and weeeeee i get some soda cola and i wake up and when we et some yumstus and we have to get some crackers and we get some chocolates and some little small biscuits adn we get some muffins and we get some english muffins and we get some english muffins and we get some meat and we get some burgers and we get some bead for the burgers and we have to go back ang get a WHOOOOLE spiced rotiesserrty dhicken shince you love to take care of that part but are too much of a wastrel to prepare the spice part of it yhou fucking ingrate and we have to go get soooooooooooome ummmmm we gotta get some sesame seed and we get some sunflower seed and we gets ome raisins and we get some strabeby and we gets some straw for the field and we have to go around and we get some fuel for the car and we get some fuel for the generator and we get some soap for the kitchen bathroom and we go and get some oil foor the pan we we can get some aluminum foil for the stuff we get some yeat for the cakes and we get some suigars and fwe get some crazy wafer and we get one hundred waffles and we get six cans of water and we get some chiocolate cakes. and we smoke it all

[downtoearthmarkets]

It’s time to think about all things dad as we celebrate and honor the important father figures in our lives this Sunday, June 16th. When Father’s Day was still in its infancy in the early 1900s, the holiday held a tradition of daughters handing red roses to their fathers during a church service. To this day, the rose remains the official flower of Father's Day, with red ones symbolizing a still-living father and white ones for the deceased. By all means, bring dad a bouquet of flowers, but the farmers market offers a cornucopia of edible gift ideas that are also sure to delight and make the shop for pop a breeze this weekend:

Cheesy Dad You know the kind of dad we’re talking about. The one that likes to crack silly dad jokes at every opportunity he’s given and hasn’t met a cheeseboard he doesn’t relish. Well, game on, because your Down to Earth farmers market is the perfect place to shop for all your cheeseboard essentials! Dad will be wowed when you present him with his ready-to-eat, farm-to-table cheeseboard that’s been carefully curated to suit his personal tastes. Here are the basic components to include using a variety of fresh, seasonal ingredients from our vendors:

Cheese: Look to feature at least three different types of farmers market cheese with different flavors and textures – creamy, firm, aged and soft. Depending on the type of cheese, you can include the entire piece or cut it up into smaller cubes or slices to make it easier to serve.

Something Sweet: Fresh fruit such as hulled strawberries from the farmstalls, squares of slowcocoa's craft chocolate, and SOVA Farms drizzled honey will add just enough contrast to the savory and salty flavor profile you’re building.

Something Savory: Small touches of savory items can include cornichons, olives, roasted peppers, as well as tapenades and spicy condiments. Dr. Pickle’s jars of stuffed green olives come in Bloody Mary, Bleu Cheese & Almond, Garlic & Jalapeno and Cream Cheese Jalapeno.

Crackers and Bread: The goodies on dad’s tasty cheeseboard need a delivery mechanism in the form of sliced Wave Hill Breads baguette, crackers, toasty slices of Badass Bagels or crispy pita chips—select at least two.

Charcuterie: Make dad’s cheeseboard meatier with slices of charcuterie from Goode and Local By Don Rodrigo. Choose from salami, pate, mortadella, hot coppa, iberico persunto, mangalitsa jamon and more.

Crudité: Throw in raw crudité to add refreshing color and crunch and counterbalance the heavier, sodium-forward meats and cheeses. Radishes, carrots, celery, peppers, broccoli florets or anything cut into bite sized pieces will work perfectly.

Pie Guy If dad loves dessert, we’ve got his ticket!

Pick up a pie from the farmstalls made with fresh fruit and other seasonal delights. Don’t forget to pick up containers of sweet berries from Caradonna Farms, Great Joy Family Farm and Norwich Meadows Farm as strawberries are in peak season currently, while raspberries and blueberries are now starting to trickle into the market. 

Babka Paradise makes Babka, Challah, Knishes, Kugel, Halva, Blintzes and other homestyle kosher foods and baked goods that are sure to indulge dad’s sweet tooth. 

Wave Hill Breads treats include cookies, muffins, scones, pastries and monkey bread.

Pasta Papa When dad gets hungry, nothing hits the spot like a hearty bowl of tasty pasta. Gift him some handsome boxes of fresh pasta and jars of sauce from That Pasta Club along with a bottle of his favorite wine. That Pasta Club is an artisan producer of fresh pasta made using local grains and seasonal flavorings. They specialize in handmade stuffed pasta, bronze die extruded pasta and small batch sauces. Their pasta menu rotates on a weekly basis in line with the seasonal, balanced and delicious ingredients they use in their dishes.

Of course, the farmers market offers many more gift options for every kind of dad, whatever his tastes may be. No matter what direction you decide to go in, you simply can’t go wrong with something locally produced, seasonally grown and uniquely yummy that will make both his heart and belly full this weekend. We wish you a wonderful Father’s Day and look forward to seeing you in the market.

[mediaevalmusereads]

Basics With Babish. By Andrew Rea. Simon and Schuster, 2023.

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Genre: cookbook

Series: N/A

Summary: In his widly popular Basics with Babish series, YouTube star Andrew Rea, who has amassed millions of subscribers, attempts, often fails, but always teaches cooking techniques for all levels of cooks. He’s explained everything from how to make challah bread and English muffins to Asian dumplings and homemade bacon. Now those classic, essential recipes (and many more) are compiled into an authoritative cookbook which contains hundreds of step-by-step photographs with tips and tricks to help you troubleshoot anything from broken butter to burnt bread to bony branzino. Basics with Babish isn’t just a kitchen Bible for a new generation of home chefs, it’s a proud reclamation of mistakes which encourages you to learn from your and Andrew’s missteps alike.

***Full review below.***

To be honest up front: I do follow Rea on his Binging With Babish YouTube channel. I'm generally a fan; I like the ease with which he presents his recipes and I like his sense of humor and the accessibility of his cooking. So my rating has nothing to do with being a fan or not.

First, let's start with the good. If you're a home cook and are looking to step up your game, this cookbook is a great way to learn how to elevate your recipes and make (as the title suggests) basics. Everything from pasta to bread to eggs to meat is covered so once you get a hang of the basics, you'll be in a good spot to expand and improve your skills.

I also think the directions are fairly clear and there are plenty of step-by-step photo guides to demonstrate trickier methods. I very much appreciated the introductions to each recipe, which not only include a blurb thay sounds very much like Rea's voice, but also offers some tips to rescue your dish if you've screwed it up. In that sense, this is a very forgiving book that openly encourages trying something new and being unafraid to make mistakes.

That being said, there are mistakes in this book, which is the main reason for my rating. I've made quite a few recipes out of here, and in more than one, I've found either a confusing typo or a step that seems to be missing. For example, in the recipe for donuts (under pastry cream), the ingredients call for 340 grams of whole milk while the instruction say to take 600 grams of the milk. I assumed this was meant to say 300 grams and it turned out fine, but still: something that could have been caught on review. Also, under the recipe for pappardelle bolognese, there is an instruction to remove the meat from the pot, but no me tion if or when it goes back in. Luckily, I was able to look up the recipe video on Rea's YouTube channel, but I still think these errors are the kind that could have been caught with more diligent editing and review.

TL;DR: Basics With Babish has some excellent introductory (basic) recipes and the encouraging tone it takes to try new things is admirable. However, multiple errors made for some confusing instructions.

[thedelilah75xl]

11/02/2024

Yesterday was an extremely painful day, I did go for my wax and nails but couldn't do anything else...

But on the lighter side my Master and I sent each other a video. I must say apart from our video together I saw a man I truly adore and want . I really missed him. But it will take a bit before I actually will see him face to face again. I'm not ready and will work harder to make it happen .

I'm tired today, and will only rest, I need to get more pain meds today. I will take my son for a new cover and protector for his new phone. I must say my cunt is actually feeling smooth after yesterday's wax. I think I got a new place.

I'm getting fed up with the old man and his messages and it's getting so out of hand that I feel like blocking him. I told him I'm not interested in him and he ignored me and carried on.

I'm not feeling like communicating with other men at all this week. Yes I will ignore messages and calls. I want this operation fixing the pain, and hopefully as they say I will be losing some weight after this operation. I then have to wait 4weeks and then I'll join the gym. I need to get my body into shape. I want to feel good when I see my Master again.

I just cannot figure out my stupid head. I was anorexic and weighed very little, and when I started eating again, I went overboard. Baked muffins daily, pancakes and I was totally obsessed with marshmallows. And I've put on weight so quickly and could not stop. The thing that actually stopped me was the extreme inflammation in my body. I was in so much pain. The Dr said it was fibromyalgia, and to ease pain I had to cut out sugars, gluten, eggs and red meat and coffee. Maybe that's also why I still have pain, I actually only drink coffee. But I did cut out the rest and most of the inflammation is gone.......

Shit getting old is not easy

[formeryelpers]

Beachwood Market, 2701 Belden Dr, Los Angeles (Hollywood Hills), CA 90068

There’s a cute cluster of businesses in Beachwood Canyon, near the entrance of Hollywoodland. I imagine a grocery store like Beachwood Market has been in that neighborhood for many decades. 

Beachwood Market isn’t a supermarket but it’s larger than a liquor store too. It has a staffed meat department and a pretty large liquor department. There’s also a deli with prepared salads, made to order sandwiches, and pastries.

The market looks like it hasn’t been renovated for decades. The selection is good but it’s not a fancy gourmet place. They do have some organic produce, heirloom tomatoes, British candy and cookies, a few imported specialty items like Greek cookies, chilled wine, and greeting cards. I wasn’t impressed with the ice cream or yogurt selection. They didn’t even have non-alcoholic kombucha.

They do not have an in-store bakery but they carry many muffins, cakes, bagels, and loaves of bread from Old Town Bakery in Rancho Cucamonga.

You can also pick up the latest celebrity gossip magazines. They have their own parking lot with a sign saying that it’s not for hikers.

3 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

[talesfrommedinastation]

a tiny but heartbreaking scene

From @beanabouttown

Echo gently touching the clone trooper doll tugged at my heart strings.

How he motions the arm with the scomp where his hand used to be.

Gently looking over the doll's features, it's complete helmet.

It's a little dirty, suggesting that it was previously owned and loved by someone else.

Who was that other person? Were they saved by a clone trooper? Occupied by them? Why was it made? Where are they now?

Omega is the one that finds it, and hands it to Echo. She recognizes it before he does.

While looking at the toy, Echo is dressed as a droid in disguise, right before being 'sold' by Hunter for credits. It's as if he's touching his past.

[alsjeblieft-zeg]

015 of 2023

Your protein: pork steak lamb chops hamburgers vegan burgers chicken nuggets chicken fingers tuna shrimp salmon oyster crab lasagne ravioli chicken soup

beef jerky slim jims bacon spam buffalo wings sausage ham turkey meat balls

Your dairy: milk soy milk skim milk raw egg boiled egg sunny-side eggs scrambled eggs cottage cheese cheddar cheese mozzarella cheese swiss cheese blue cheese cream cheese plain yogurt

Your vegetables and fruits: mushrooms tomatoes pickles olives carrots raw onion broccoli cauliflower green beans string beans peas black beans celery leek artichoke lima beans bell pepper asparagus spinach seaweed avocado eggplant zucchini corn cucumber squash/pumpkin/yam garlic ginger peanuts almonds sunflower seeds raisins bananas apples pears grapes oranges tangerines peach blueberries raspberries blackberries strawberries lemons pineapples coconuts apricot cherries plums cranberry kiwi watermelon melon pomegranate grapefruit lime guava mango papaya

Your starch: French fries baked potato scalop potato mashed potato fried rice white rice bagel white bread whole grain bread French bread corn bread sourdough pancakes spaghetti macaroni & cheese oatmeal

Condiments: wasabi soy sauce cranberry sauce marmalade grape jam strawberry jam ketchup mustard relish mayonnaise whipped cream honey mustard sauce Tabasco salt ranch gravy caramel peanut butter salsa pepper honey maple syrup hummus butterscotch marshmallows icing

Junk food: cheetos sour cream and onion chips barbeque chips vinegar chips wheat thins graham crackers saltine crackers cheez-its ritz tortilla chips Lunchables Milano cookies Twinkies popcorn fruit roll ups donuts ice cream sandwiches Poptarts pretzels Girl Scout cookies Oreos Nutter Butter Fig Newtons Jell-O rice crispy treats

Cereals: Cocoa Puffs Cocoa Pebbles Fruit Loops Cinnamon Toast Crunch Frosted Flakes Raisin Bran Apple Jacks Corn Flakes Cookie Crisp Cap’n Crunch Lucky Charms Cheerios

Dessert: brownies muffins cinnamon rolls cheesecake donuts chocolate fondue pudding apple pie pumpkin bread pumpkin pie chocolate chip cookies sugar cookies gingerbread cookies biscotti fortune cookies shortbread cookies oatmeal cookies Angel food cake carrot cake cupcakes fruit cake cream puffs flan custard Meringue sorbet s’mores

Asian: ramen cup noodle sushi miso soup kimchi teriyaki eggrolls orange chicken

Fast food and restaurants: McDonald’s Carl’s Jr Taco Bell Panda Express Jack-in-the-box In-n-out Chick-Fil-A La Salsa Dairy Queen Baskin Robbin’s Pizza Hut Papa John’s Roundtable Domino’s Johnny Rocket’s Cho-cho San’s Hot Dog On A Stick Coldstone California Pizza Kitchen Red Robin Ruby Tuesdays Chili’s Wendy’s Burger King Kentucky Fried Chicken Subway Tommy’s The Cheesecake Factory Arby’s Quiznos El Pollo Loco TGIF Applebee’s Wienerschnitzel IHOP Islands White Castle Togo’s Sonic Popeyes Orange Julius Jamba Juice Coffee Bean Starbucks Del Taco Chuck E. Cheese Baja Fresh Macaroni Grill

Candy: Red Vines M&M’s Snickers Hershey’s kisses Kissables Kit-Kat Nerds Junior Mints Twizzlers Tootsie Rolls Jelly beans Swedish Fish Skittles Starburst 100 grand 3 Musketeers Airheads Almond Joy Baby Bottle Pops Baby Ruth bottle caps Butterfinger Reese’s Cup Fast Break Twix cotton candy chocolate coins Dots Hot Tamales jaw breakers Jolly Ranchers Laffy Taffy Lemonheads lifesavers Mike & Ike Milkduds Milky way Mr. Goodbar Nestle’s crunch Payday pixie sticks pop rocks Push Up pops Runts Smarties Snow Caps Sugardaddy Sweet Tarts Tic-Tacs York Peppermint Patties Warheads

Non-alcoholic drinks: Rootbeer Lemonade Orange juice Grape juice Capri Sun Coke Diet Coke Diet Pepsi Pepsi 7up Sprite Mountain Dew Hawaiian Punch Dr. Pepper Apple juice hot cocoa Kool-Aid cappuccinos frappuccinos lattes espresso energy drinks Vanilla Coke Cherry Coke Fanta Arizona Green Tea Squirt Gatorade Iced tea Green tea Chamomile tea White tea Oolong tea Jasmine tea Chai tea Snapple apple cider

Alcoholic drinks: Wine Sake Shochu Vodka Bourbon whisky Irish whisky Canadian whisky Bloody Mary Rum Absolut Brandy Scotch Cognac Tequila Gin Wine cooler Smirnoff Marc Sidecar Tonic Pina Colada Martini Alabama Slammer Daiquiri Margarita Cape Cod Flying Horse Kamikaze Screwdriver Rusty Nail Cajun Strawberry Soda Mimosa Champagne Cascade Fosters Sam Adams Budweiser Coors Harpoon Milwaukee’s Bes

[your-dietician]

How To Keep The Heart Healthy With Lifestyle Swaps

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How To Keep The Heart Healthy With Lifestyle Swaps

The health of your heart can impact every part of your body, from the brain, kidneys and lungs to sexual function.

Slight diet and lifestyle tweaks can make a big difference in preventing heart disease, yet cardiologists keep seeing the toll it takes on Americans.

“Look at what happens to people when we get older: You work your whole life, you save your money and when you’re ready for retirement what do we look forward to? Heart attacks, strokes, peripheral artery disease, dementia, erectile dysfunction,” Dr. Andrew Freeman, director of cardiovascular prevention and wellness at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado, told TODAY.

“These are scary things, and the goal is not to be scared, but rather inspired to make those changes now to enjoy life.”

It doesn’t take a complete lifestyle overhaul to improve heart health — “it’s always best to make small incremental changes over time because it helps you to maintain them,” said Dr. Jayne Morgan, a cardiologist and executive director of health and community education at Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta.

The Harvard Health Blog recently listed a few simple swaps for better heart health and TODAY asked experts to add to the list.

Here are simple changes you can make now:

Swap an unhealthy breakfast for a healthier one — or just skip it

While the debate over whether breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day or not rages on, the typical morning menu — centered on sugary treats like muffins and cereal, and processed meats like bacon — sets most people up with an unhealthy start.

Too much added sugar is linked with a higher risk of dying from heart disease, studies have warned. Consuming red and processed meat is linked to increased risk of heart disease, separate research has found.

Morgan advises patients to follow their biological clock: If you’re not hungry in the morning and prefer to start eating later in the day, it’s OK to skip breakfast, she said.

If you do like eat it, go for healthy options such as fresh fruit, whole wheat toast or yogurt, she noted.

Swap the microwavable breakfast bowl for oatmeal, which you can also make in the microwave, and put some fresh fruit on top, Freeman suggested.

 “Try not to have the heavier, sweeter foods that are very common to the U.S. diet — we have sausage and waffles and pancakes. Save that for a special occasion,” Morgan advised.

Instead of cheese, have nuts or avocado

Cheese and red meat are the main sources of saturated fat in the typical American, said Elisabetta Politi, a dietitian at the Duke Lifestyle and Weight Management Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Eating too much saturated fat can raise the level of LDL, the bad type of cholesterol, which can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, according to the American Heart Association.

Instead of indulging in butter, cheese, cream, fatty meats, tropical oils and sweets, such as ice-cream, cookies and cakes, get your dietary fat from extra-virgin olive oil, avocados, nuts and omega-3 fatty acids, which have also been shown to reduce inflammation, Politi advised.

If you like savory snacks: swap cheese for hummus and celery sticks.

If you like sweets: swap a cookie for a handful of honey-covered almonds.

But remember that nuts and avocadoes are high calories, so enjoy them in moderation, both Morgan and Freeman said.

Swap 20 minutes of scrolling for a 20-minute walk

Once you start scrolling on social media, it’s easy to get sucked in, which can leave you anxious and isolated. Give yourself an exercise break instead, ideally outside — it’s good for the heart and the soul.

Morgan suggested starting a walking program by picking three days a week and walking for 20 minutes each time, which adds up to an hour of exercise a week. Build up to 30 minutes of exercise a day, Freeman added, and take the time to disconnect in other ways.

“Instead of swiping a handful of times on TikTok, spend some time listening to a metronome tick tock and meditate,” Freeman said. “Swap a few minutes of screen time for a brisk walk every morning, which will give you plenty of energy.”

Instead of avoiding the gym, take a virtual class

Many people pay for a gym membership, but then don’t go because they worry about how they look or whether they can finish a class. Ease into the wonderful health benefits of exercise by taking virtual classes, Morgan advised.

“You can rest whenever you like and no one sees that you stopped,” she said. “You’re not concerned with how you look or what people may think of you. You’re not comparing yourself to the person next to you who has been coming to the class every day for 10 years.”

Swap an animal-source food for a plant-based dish

“Studies have shown that just small swaps of plant-based foods for animal foods make huge differences in outcomes,” Freeman said.

Instead of beef, chicken or pork tacos, try bean or lentil tacos, he suggested. Top them with salsa rather than sour cream or cheese.

He also likes swapping egg products for bean-based products that look and taste like folded eggs used in sandwiches, but contain no cholesterol.

Swap a processed food for a natural treat

Instead of candy, have some beautiful ripe strawberries. For carbohydrate-based foods, get rid of the white processed carbohydrates — or “garbage carbs,” as Freeman called them — and go for whole grain, minimally processed, minimal ingredient options.

“So instead of having the super white fluffy bread, maybe have the dark brown thinner bread that’s made with just whole grain wheat, yeast and salt,” he said.

Instead of watching TV, get some extra sleep

Studies have found getting enough sleep — seven or more hours per night for adults — may be important for preventing cardiovascular disease.

“If there is one thing that we could do… it would be to sleep a little bit more,” Morgan said.

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[starr-fall-knight-rise]

HASO, “Milkshake.”

You guys seem to be enjoying it, so here is some more fluff with Eris .

Hope you enjoy!

Eris sat on the couch in the living room; the TV was on, but she wasn’t really paying attention as her eyes kept drifting towards the front window which looked out on the front lawn and the street beyond that. Jim was sitting across the room for her and Martha was working on another clothing pattern for Eris. She had really latched onto the idea of making clothing that was comfortable for her, which Eris appreciated immensely though she wasn’t sure if she'd be confident in wearing them.

People would think she was weird.

She glanced out the window again, hoping to see a car pull up.

He said he would be here today sometime in the afternoon. She knew it was only 11, but she desperately wanted to see him again despite her nerves and her continual feeling of isolation. Why did she care about this man so much? Yes he had saved her life, yes he had provided half of her DNA, but no, he hadn’t chosen to have her, no she hadn’t grow up the normal way with him as a father figure, and no he still wasn’t really in her life.

He was a busy man.

He was important.

And what was she to get in the way of that? 

Nothing, that was the answer. He was big, important and successful, and she was a violation of his privacy.

These thoughts rolled around in her head as she sat on that couch. She knew the vast majority of them were irrational, made by her own mind to make herself feel inadequate, but she just couldn’t push the thoughts away. She wondered when she had turned into this person, someone who wondered about their adequacy and worried about their appearance. Once upon a time she remembered being powerful and terrifying to the people who had wronged her and her little family.

She remembered being confident in what she was doing.

Perhaps it was the loss of her goals and purpose that had driven her to this.

Once the others started getting adopted and brought into new families her work had grown less and less, and she became obsolete and lost in a universe that was vast and unknowable. The others were being taken care of, but no one had returned for her.

No one had seemed to consider that she was just like the others.

She had been created against her will and had never been given time to grow up.

With all the responsibility of other people’s thoughts in her head.

What was she doing?

It was only then that a sudden thought from Jim jogged her from her spiraling self doubt. With his human hearing, he could make out a car pulling into the driveway. She quickly got to her feet and turned to look at the window as the car stopped and the door opened.

Her heart jumped in her chest as Adam stepped out into the early morning sun. He was a little different than she remembered. He stood straighter and held his head higher. He still wore the eye patch she remembered and still had the same messy hair, but there was something about him that changed in the months since she had last seen him.

Behind him, a large blue shape exited the vehicle as well and stepped onto the pavement.

It was him, Sunny, the little doctor named krill, and Adam’s dog.

The dog’s mind was very very strange, driven by impulses and instincts as she snuffled around in the grass, but when she turned back to look at Adam, there was such an intense feeling of love and admiration, Eris had to pull away.

Adam rubbed the dog’s ears and walked up towards the house as the other two followed behind.

Martha got up to grab the door and Jim turned in his seat.

The door opened, and the group of them stepped inside, waffles, the dog, running in to greet Jim, who she had an unusual affinity for.

Martha hugged Adam tight, “So good to see you.” She pulled back hands to his arms, patting them with a frown on her face, “You’ve been working out.”

He smiled slightly, “Thank the Neo-Spartans for that.”

He reached over and shook his father’s hand, as his arms were busy with the pile of dog that had scooted her way halfway onto his lap, “Looking good.”

He nodded to Sunny who stood behind Adam, “I heard about your Sainthood. Congratulations. That’s a big accomplishment.”

Eris felt the pride radiating from Sunny as she lifted her head into the air, “Thank you Jim.”

Martha nodded, “You’ve come along way since we first met.” She gave sunny a hug too 

Martha’s thoughts, once cold towards Sunny had warmed up over the past year. A small part of her even began to see Sunny as another daughter, thought that was the fact about Martha Eris had come to notice. She tended to adopt any little lonely thing she happened to meet; even the little doctor who walked in last.

She smiled, “Dr. Krill I see you haven’t died of complications relating to stress yet.”

The Vrul’s antenna twitched a little and he hummed his amusement, “Not for all of your son’s trying.” Despite how calm the little creature seemed, Eris could see in his head as a myriad of emotions flew through him. He thought that this place was a complete death trap, and had to constantly remind himself that humans were more durable than they looked.

In a way she thought it was kind of cute that he would worry about his companions so much.

Then Adam’s eyes turned to her.

She tried not to listen in on his thoughts, really tried. She didn’t like to pry into people’s minds. A lot of people didn’t like that when they knew what she could do, but she couldn’t help as the flood of strange emotions came pouring from the man’s head. He was a little different than other humans, he had a lot going on in there, and his thoughts and Emotions hit him hard and fast.

What did she expect.

Anger

Bitterness 

Betrayal 

annoyance 

She was invading his privacy, injecting herself into a family she had never been invited into. WOuld he resent her for that? 

But instead she felt.

Excitement.

and...

Nervousness?

What did he have to be nervous about.

The man walked over, and to her surprise picked her up into a crushing hug lifting her feet completely off the floor. She marveled for a moment at how strong he was, forgetting that humans tended to be on the strong side, second only to drev. He set her down smiling, and she felt a jenuine well of happiness wash over her tinted slightly with guilt, though he did a good job at keeping that to the back of his mind.

“You know what, I think you’ve gotten taller.”

She smiled, “Or you’ve gotten shorter.”

He laughed, “That is a complete possibility.” She continued to smile as he patted his chest, “I am getting old after all.” He looked over towards Jim, “Aging like my old man.”

“Shut up.” Jim harumphed, “I can still kick your ass.”

Martha frowned, “Are you implying that I am old Adam.”

He turned to smile at her, “Not a day past 21 mother.”

Martha crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow, “Someone is looking for brownie points.”

“That depends, did you make brownies?”

She rolled her eyes, “No, I did not make brownies.”

He frowned.

“But I did muffins.”

“Score.” He said flopping down on the couch next to Eris as Krill floated to sit in the chair next to Jim.

The two of them watched the game, Jim seeming to enjoy Krill grimacing at every play and screaming at the TV for letting the humans knock each other out. He especially seemed to enjoy the medical descriptions of all the horrible issues they were probably having from all of that running into each other.

“So, how are you liking earth.” Adam asked, draping one of his large arms over her shoulders. Eris was struck with how nice the gesture felt and looked up at him, his head tilted to the side.

She smiled slightly, “I like it, it’s so warm and bright, and you have good food.”

“You can eat human food huh?”

She smiled and nodded, “We haven’t tried everything yet, but I really like strawberry ice cream.”

He snorted, “Lord she developed David’s poor taste in cold flavored delectables.” 

For a moment she worried she had really upset him but was soon proven wrong when she could tell he was just teasing her, “So how are you a herbivore or a carnivore.”

Eris felt herself blanch a little bit. If her blood had been more visible through her marble Starborn skin, she might have gone pale.

“I uh…. I haven’t tried eating….. An animal yet.” She shivered at the thought. How could she? How could she eat something that used to be alive?

He smiled seeing the look on her face3, “Don’t worry, no one is going to force you too, though I dare say meat is good, your probably won’t regret trying it at least once.”

From across the room she could hear dr. Krill’s thoughts. He was more similar to a plant than he was to an animal, and the thought of consuming something that was living also baffled him, Though a part of him admired how “metal” It sounded. Eris frowned as she looked at the little doctor.

She had red the mind of Vrul before.

They had been strange to her, very alien in their processes, but Krill.

Well she might have thought he was just a very strange human had she not been able to see him.

The humanizing phenomenon perhaps>?

She couldn't be sure.

“So Eris, how about my offer from earlier, how would you like to go see where I grew up.”

She turned to look at Adam, who was staring at her expectantly. 

She shuffled her feet awkwardly, “I would like that.”

“I will show you all the great and wonderful places I got beaten up. It will be a grand time.” She looked inside to see that he was just joking again. He did have some bad memories associated with the town, though the vast majority of them were good. She could see and feel the vibrant joy of fireworks and colorful parades as they passed through his memory. She could see cold calm lakes and feel wind blowing through the forest.

She nodded.

Martha turned to look at Sunny, “I’d like to keep you and Krill behind tomorrow if you don’t mind.”

Sunny looked up from here she was staring intently at the TV yelling over Jim’s shoulder at the reff who, to her, had made a very poor call.

“Of course, what do you need us for?”

“Alternative clothing designs for aliens. I think there is a large untapped market, and I want to see what I can do with it.”’

Adam grinned across the room at sunny, “Ah, she has finally roped you into being one of her guinea pigs. Enjoy.”

“Adam was such a good little guinea pig, and looked so good in a dress.”

Adam snorted and waved a hand, “I rocked the regency period as I have said before and so I shall say again.”

Eris leaned her head against Adam’s side as she listened to the ongoing banter between the group of people.

She tried not to pry but couldn’t help soak up the memories that popped to the surface of his head. Warm sunlight through an open window, the sound of a sprinkler, and the yell of children’s voices in the distance.

For a moment she became jealous of it before hiding that away in the back of her head.

THere was no use resenting others for something that wouldn’t change.

She would make the best of what she had.

That night, Eris slept in the same room as Sunny, whose memories were remarkably less pleasant than Adam’s, while Adam got his old room back. He would have shared with Krill, though Krill didn’t sleep, and spent most of the night watching late night television, which he found both strange and haunting in ways he wasn’t so sure was good.

She drifted in and out.

She wasn’[t entirely sure if her sleeping patterns were normal. She needed to recharge like the humans did, but seemed to go into a trance rather than into real sleeping. She dreamed, but hose dreams were more hallucinations which appeared about the room around her. Occasionally, she learned that she was able to share the dreams of others, and so took a ride along with Adam as he was joyfully able to fly without the need for a jet or a jetpack.

The feeling was so vivid she jolted awake when it was all over, sure she was going to find herself hurtling through the air.

That morning they had muffins, which melted in her mouth and made her insides growl. They weren’t as vocal as human innards, but apparently the smell of the muffins woke something deep within her.

Sunny was presented with a bowl of dandelions Jim had picked from the backyard that morning.

He was a little nervous that it might seem rude or degrading, but Sunny definitely seemed to appreciate the gesture. Krill didn’t need anything other than a glass of water, though Martha opened the curtain on the back sliding door to let in the early morning sun.

It fell across both her and krill, and her body hummed with its energy.

Adam stood and turned to look at his father when breakfast was over, “Can I borrow the car keys.”

Jim looked over at him skeptically, “You… drive… I don’t know about that.”

Adam frowned, “Oh come on, I fly spaceships for a living.”

Jim snorted, “yet, somehow every time you get in a vehicle that has wheels on it, you turn into my granny with a led foot.”

“Promise I will be safe.”

Eris smiled,  his memories reminding him of all the jokes about being a bad driver .

Jim just rested his hand on his forehead and looked at Eris, “Lord knows I have never known a man with such poor command of motor vehicles. Ans you see if have seen this boy fly a jet in formation with seven other jets four feet apart and his hands are rock steady, but put him in a car, and he overcorrects into the ditch.”

Adam frowned, “That was my FIRST time driving.”

Jim finally relinquished the keys to him, “take the car, it’s an automatic. Everyone knows you shake her brains out if you tried to take the truck.”

Adam grumbled and took the keys, “Its the 41st century dad why do you even still need a stick shift.”

He crossed his arms, “If we are ever attacked by an EMP burst, that car is the only thing that is still going to be running, now get out of here.”

Eris followed Adam out the door, her little black cloak swishing behind her.. She hadn’t wanted to wear anything to obvious yet, so martha had grudgingly decided to at least make her something that looked better than her old ratty sweatshirt. It was a short cloak thing with a hood, and she thought it looked kind of nice,   though she kept the hood low over her face. Adam slid into the driver’s seat of the car and Eris got into the other seat clipping on her seatbelt as he turned and began backing out of the driveway.

They jolted a bit as he moved into first and he glanced over at her, “Don’t tell my dad.”

She smiled somewhat as he inched forward and then began to pick up speed. The look of concentration on his face, and the white knuckles of his hands almost made her laugh. She could see him flying in his memories.

But for a man who loved to fly, he sure hated to drive.

“I’ll show you around the two first, than we can get lunch and after that we will find places to get out of the car and take a look around. Does that sound good?”

She nodded, though she wouldn’t have argued with him if he wanted to ride in circles all day. It was nice being here with him. Since they had last met his thoughts had calmed down significantly.

In the back of the car, his dog waffles sneezed and then rested her chin on the console.

Eris looked sideways at her sensing that the animal was looking for attention. She reached out a nervous hand and stroked the dog’s ears. In the back seat her tail thumped against the upholstery, and she grumbled happily.

“And out your right side of the window is the local high school  or what I like to call the department of corrections against happiness. Eris winced, there was a lot of thought coming out of that building, and none of it very pleasant.

“Thank goodness I only went there for like a year.” he grinned, “I was flying planes after that.” He tapped his chin, “I can never decide if it counts as me dropping out of high school or graduating early, or transferring schools.” he shrugged and kept going, “That’s the middle school on the left, arguably just as bad as the high school but with younger people, and right next to that is the elementary school.”

“So many?”

He shrugged, “Yeah I have no idea why they do it this way, but that’s the way it has been done for a very long time.”

Eris had obviously never gone to school. She didn’t really need to.

She could know anything she wanted to know as long as someone else around her knew it. She could read and write and do math well enough. It was a little harder with muscle memory as that wasn’t something she could read. So, while she knew how to make most of the clothes that Martha could make, she might not be so good with a sewing machine.

“That’s the park. I used to like climbing up to the top of that tree in the middle, and down over there is the drive in movie theater. It’s one of the only ones left in this country, kind of more for nostalgia than anything..” he was able to lift his hand rom the steering wheel and point over at something else, “You have the grocery store over there and then that parking lot is where all the redneck kids used to go to get drunk.”

Eris leaned forward feeding off the memories those strange places gave him. He showed her little hidden spots down by the rivers where his brothers and him used to go swim. He showed her places of significance for the town, and even those locations where he had been sure he had seen an alien. The thought made her smile considering he had one in his car now.

Eventually he turned away and pulled into a small diner on the edge of the town.

He looked over at her, “Best place to eat in town, I know it doesn’t look like much, but trust me get yourself a milkshake at the very least.”

She nodded and nervously got out of the car with him, walking by his side as he made his way across the parking lot and to the little building. A bell dinged as they walked in,  and she found only a few people sitting inside this time of day. The two of them seated themselves at a booth and Eris looked around,

It wasn’t like the many other buildings Eris had seen. It was old with a checkered floor pattern, and red upholstered bar stools. All of it looked new enough and clean enough, though something about it just felt old.

There was a jukebox playing music in the corner, something that had been obsolete for almost two thousand years. No wonder Adam and Martha liked this place. Martha with her doctorate degree in the information age, and Adam with his obsession over turn of the century rock music.

They were greeted just then by a pleasant faced portly little woman with grey hair.

Hermemory was a vibrant one.

She had worked here for a very long time, a sweet southern bell moved up from the south and married to a man in town. She had worked at this diner for over three decades and seen everything that passed through. Adam remembered her as someone who had been a fixture of the town, and his memories were pleasant.

When he had been alone and hurting, he had come here just to be in a safe environment, and this woman had had pity on him and made him a milkshake for free before sitting and talking with him when her shift would allow.

He smiled up at her and she lit up in surprise.

“Why if it isn’t sweet little Adam!” She looked him up and down, “Not so little anymore, lord it was only yesterday you and your brothers were in here causing trouble.”

He smiled, “And you angela, looking as beautiful as the day I met you.:

She snorted and waved a hand, “Oh stop, I’m old and wrinkly.”

“Old, you don’t look a day over twenty five.”

She laughed again, “Your flattery won’t work here dear. I know you have a penthouse on the moon.”

He snapped his fingers, “Pity.”

She turned her head to look at Eris, “And who is your friend.”

He looked across the table, “I uh, this is Eris.” Eris hunkered down in her hood a bit, “She’s my…. Daughter?”

Angela looked skeptical, “Boy i’ve never seen you look at a woman sideways, so forgive me if I don’t believe you.”

Adam smiled a bit ruefully, “Well it’s complicated.

Eris slowly raised her eyes towards the woman’s curiosity and as soon as Angela saw her face she put a hand over her heart and held up a hand, “Lord have mercy!” Eris braced herself for the disparaging thoughts, but instead the woman sat down next to her, “Why dear, why don’t you take off that hood and show us your pretty face.” There we go, and look at that long gorgeous black hair. You know them fancy modeling places in the city might just eat you up.”

She turned to look at Adam, “Aliens? Really?”

“She was grown from my DNA, but…..” He paused mulling something over before deciding to speak.

“But I WAS dating a different alien for a while.”

Angela did not seem surprised.

“For a while? Something went wrong?”

“I screwed it up.” he sighed, “Still trying to see if I can get back in her good graces, but who knows.”

Angela just smiled and shook her head, “You were never going to be normal, Adam, but not that that’s a bad thin.: She stood and looked down at Eris, “What can I get for you.”

Eris cleared her throat and in a small voice, “A milkshake””

Adam nodded up at her, “Strawberry, that’s her favorite.”

She nodded, “And your usual?” 

“Yes please.”

She smiled at them and walked off with a pleasant wave. When she came back Eris learned he was right about their milkshakes. It was so good and filled her mouth with just enough flavor. He polished off a milkshake and a Hamburger, and Eris really had no idea where iit all went. He was a black hole when it came to food.

Angela gave him a hug on his way out, and even spared one for Eris before commenting on her hair again, which Eris would have blushed at if she could blush.

Afterwards he took her just a little out of town to the top of a tall hill. On this hill there was a tree and a tire swing with a picnic table. Clouds rolled lazily over the sun as he sat down in the grass and she sat next to him. She could hear dogs barking in the distance, and somewhere the elementary school was out for recess.

Adam closed his eyes and leaned back in the grass.

“Sometimes I get so wrapped up in my love for space that I forget just how much I love Earth.” He sighed and the two of them could smell freshly mowed grass and pine trees.

She lay back with him.

“I was thinking about maybe staying here with your parents for a while.”

“Your grandparents.” he corrected eyes still closed.

She felt her heart beat faster, “Yeah, if they’re ok with that.”

“I don’t see why not. Mom always liked having someone around to help her with her projects. She uses dad when she can and he suffers silently for her, but I think she'd enjoy your company.”

“You do?” Eris wondered 

“Well I don’t see how she couldn't. I enjoy your company.”

She felt a thrill through her insides.

He turned to look at her, “I AM sorry I can’t be…. more. “ his words didn’t say as much as his thoughts could, and it were those  that helped her understand what he really meant. He would offer to take her in any day of the week, but that would mean her being alone more often than not while he was away, and he didn’ want to do that to her. 

He thought she deserved better.

She wouldn’t argue with him about that, for she understood his reasoning and sentiment and tended to agree.

Both of them knew that his parents were a pretty great idea.

She could be happy here

[aiweirdness]

AI AI Weirdness

Now that GPT-3 is capable of writing entire personality quizzes (sort of), could it write an entire blog post for me?

I prompted GPT-3 with “Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today's blog post, I wondered what would happen if I trained a neural net to generate”, letting it complete the sentence and hopefully the rest of the blog post. Result: it has weird ideas about what would make an interesting post.

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Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today's blog post, I wondered what would happen if I trained a neural net to generate numbers in the range [-1,1]. As you might expect, the neural net started generating numbers that were more than a little odd: 0.9286401128496419 0.06491227721694329 0.9879906435756054 0.745677946535383 0.679450170988766 0.1065339560745793 -0.2977483969426606 0.05673549481890381 0.4304206725753945 0.7544217043730188 -0.8960721608636865 0.7224255864247317 -0.2139997613483644 0.0295771285597738 0.619233475195753 0.05578493537857566 -0.630712498931699 -0.0506476255464803 0.3256973044703828 0.0988207888549295

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Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today's blog post, I wondered what would happen if I trained a neural net to generate a page of text by printing the same word over and over again.

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Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today's blog post, I wondered what would happen if I trained a neural net to generate new examples of the British rail timetable.

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The other completions it suggested tended to be even less interesting: long technical preludes about hidden layers of neurons and training data while never getting around to posting the results, or else posts in which the neural net was generating images that we never got to see.

I decided to get more specific, writing the topic and preamble myself so I could get straight to the neural net generated neural net generated results. (Yes, this is meta enough that I’m beginning to get confused). And, in a final twist that I almost wish I hadn’t tried, I wrote that the neural net’s results were weird. (First paragraph is my prompt, and the text that follows is verbatim from the neural net.)

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Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today's blog post, I trained a neural net to generate new kinds of cake by giving it thousands of existing recipe names. Unfortunately, the neural net was terrible at it, creating totally terrible-sounding recipe titles. Half of them seem to contain non-food ingredients. Here's a list of some of the strangest titles:

Dump With Brown Ink Shot Show Ball Dr. Huge Crust Daily Beige Coarse Sugar Cheese Yellow Cheese Huge Aluminum Easy Nuts Beans Pancakes Butter Cabbage Cake Lemon Tough Compote Rice Cake Minced Pepper Chocolates Muffins Sugar Pancakes Butter Custard Orange Tart Vanilla Coffee Spaghetti Jam Caramel Cake Sticky Meat Orange Stew Honey Honey Lemon Lemon Honey Lemon

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I’m not sure how I feel about all this. Because I (and so many other people) have used neural nets to generate so much weird stuff, it’s now possible for me to use a neural net, trained on blog posts about the work of previous simpler neural nets, to pretend that I have trained a smaller neural net to generate weird things.

And it’s giving me weird things because I’m specifically asking for them. Here’s what I got when I gave it a preamble saying the neural net cake names could pass as human, and then again (at the same creativity setting) when the preamble said these were classic human cakes. As before, I supplied the first paragraph, and the neural net wrote the rest.

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Welcome to AI Weirdness! In today's blog post, I trained a neural net to generate new kinds of cake by giving it thousands of existing recipe names. It actually did a really good job! I wouldn't be surprised to see most of these on real recipe blogs. Here are some of the most interesting:

Sunset Strawberry Cake Seaweed Chocolate Cake Spaghetti Caramel Cake Butter Lemon Cake French Honey Cake Rainbow Strawberry Cake Mozilla Grape Cake Banana Honeycake Chocolate Heaven Cake Chocolate Jelly Cake Cherry Lemon Cake Tobacco Lime Cake Vanilla Cheesecake Black Coffee Lemon Meringue

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Welcome to Janelle's cooking blog, in which I look at the most commonplace recipes in American cooking. Today, I thought I'd list some of the most frequently-baked cake recipes, the ones that anyone in the Midwest has probably had dozens of times. If you want to blend in, look no farther than these recipe titles:

Three-Minute Cake One-Bowl Chocolate Cake Lemon Cake Mix Cake Golden Butter Cake Angel Food Cake White Velvet Cake Yellow Cake Moist Chocolate Cake Hot Milk Chocolate Cake Hot Milk Banana Nut Bread -- I didn't realize that this one fit the "extremely common" category, but it does, oh yes, it does. Calico Shortbread Ranch Shortbread Lemon Chiffon Squares -- Makes 8 servings German Chocolate Cake Seven-½ Layer Cake -- Need to make one now Cheesecake -- No sugar necessary -- makes 8 servings

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Although the neural net doesn’t completely succeed in creating realistic content, it’s clear that “neural net weirdness” is a writing style it knows how to produce on command. What does it mean when the neural nets are weird because we’ve asked them to be, not because they’re trying and failing to be ordinary? Maybe the creative work is now to figure out ways to nudge AIs into being weird and interesting rather than producing inane imitations of the most ordinary human writing.

After all, left to its own devices, GPT-3 would be writing A.I. Weirdness posts about numbers between -1 and +1. Neural nets have terrible taste.

Subscribers get bonus content: the favorite cookie recipes of famous Star Wars villains!

My book on AI, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why it’s Making the World a Weirder Place, is available wherever books are sold: Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Indiebound - Tattered Cover - Powell’s - Boulder Bookstore

[omnivorousshipper]

Mind if I bother you for some Doctor Luke and Nurse Deckard head canons?(10 bonus points if it goes from enemies to friends to lovers)

You most certainly can bother me friend!

-When Luke first transfers to his new hospital, he doesn't know anybody there. He's very fresh meat, but everyone falls in love with him immediately, except for one person

-Luke is a surgeon and only works with the nurses who help with the operations. Not usually the nursing staff who run the hospital floors

-So, when he does adventure out onto the floor to talk to some of his patients, he runs into several nurses. All of whom greatly appreciate Luke's humor and looks

-Which means he flirts back. He may or may not be distracting them and patients

-Which puts him on the head nurse's shit list

-Luke doesn't know why everyone scatters away from him all of a sudden. But when he turns around, he sees a man in scrubs eyeing him

-Luke immediately tries to put the charm on the guy, but he's having none of it and accuses Luke of waisting all of the nurses' time

-They both get into a heated argument with the nurse almost outright banning Luke from being on his floor

-Huffing and puffing, Luke goes right to the head doctor of the hospital and demands an explanation

-Dr. Nobody just shrugs and tells Luke to stay out of Deckard Shaw's way. He's the best head nurse Nobody has seen in years. Every patient loves him, along with all the nurses who trust him immensely. Nobody doesn't want to get rid of Deckard just because the newest surgeon is raising a stink

-Enraged, Luke makes sure to avoid Deckard at all costs. Which is a lot harder than you would think in a hospital as big as the one they worked in

-Luke finds his little niche with a few of the other surgeons and goes out drinking with a few of them

-Both Letty and Roman introduce him to their friends and partners, and Luke's a little shocked that Roman his hooked up with a world famous doctor, Owen Shaw

-Roman explains that if Deckard hadn't introduced them, then he doesn't think Owen would have given him the time of day

-This shines a new light on Deckard for Luke, who is also shocked to hear about all that Deckard has done for the nursing staff at the hospital

-He always sticks up for the nurses, making it so they weren't killing themselves with too many shifts, and that they didn't have to deal with any horrible patients, with Deckard personally taking those types of patients on himself

-The next time Luke sees Deckard, he compliments the smaller man's scrubs (which had kittens and puppies on them sense he had been working with a lot of kid patients that day) and he's glad to see Deckard blink in surprise and smile at him

-From there, Luke makes sure to compliment Deckard as often as he could, just to try and get him to smile

-One of the nurses let's it slip that Deckard loves sweets and tea. Cue daily gifts from Luke, and an always blushing Deckard, who tries to hide the gifts before gossip runs rampant

-It's not until a very long, and excruciating shift, does Luke find Deckard almost passed out standing up. Apparently Deckard had worked four shifts back to back just so his nurses could have some time off

-Shaking his head at the martyr, Luke offers Deckard a ride home and is overjoyed when Deckard accepts

-The next day, Deckard finds him and hands him a box of freshly made muffins, and asks if Luke wants to go on a date

-And the rest is history

Hope you enjoyed friend!

[talesfrommedinastation]

Someone hints they don't like Phee Genoa on the internet: "SOUND THE BANNERS! MARCH AT DAWN! PROTECT HER!"

Someone hints they don't like Trace and Rafa Martez on the internet: ::crickets::

As someone who works closely with the Latinx community in my city and is deeply involved in it as a neighbor and academic, I'm so incredibly disappointed that there is not the same amount of protection and defense for the Martez sisters. This is especially for Trace, who I think is adorable.

A curly-haired sassy bright working class gearhead who ends up accidentally being a hero? Come on. She's Caylee from Firefly. We need more people like her.