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20, 42, 52 :)

20. what is your favorite song at the moment?

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I've really been feeling Pat's later stuff recently. I never really got it when it first came out. I was a dumb teen and still vibing hard with the Johnny Hobo and Wingnut stuff. Now I'm behind my peers in my late 20s and trying to get my shit together for once in my life, so it's like, "huh."

42. favorite books

Where do I start?

"Nevada" by Imogen Binnie. The protagonist Maria is literally me in every single possible way, in the worst way possible lmao. She goes on a road trip after her life falls apart and meets a depressed young man in northwestern Nevada who is blatantly a repressed transsexual. CW for drug abuse, autogynephilia discussion, and one mention of BDSM.

"Little Fish" by Casey Plett. Amazing book. It's about a Mennonite-raised trans woman in Winnipeg who has to get back into prostitution to make ends meet. CW for sexual violence, alcoholism, suicide, etc.

"Sovietistan" by Erika Fatland. The author travelled through every country in Central Asia around 2010 and wrote about her experiences in each of them. Some of the anecdotes are insane, and she treats her subject matter in a very human way (which is unfortunately not common in writing about the region). Definitely worth reading.

"Orlando" by Virginia Woolf. I must've read this 10 times my freshman year of college. A teenage Elizabethan nobleman gets transformed into a woman (happily enough) by spirits and lives that way for 400 years.

"The Man Who Spoke Snakish" by Andrus Kirivähk. This is a fantasy story about a dying pagan community during the Christianization of Estonia. They talk to snakes and live in the woods, but the youth keep running off to live in Germanicized Christian farming communities. This book has all kinds of stuff. There's magic, snake-human cultural exchange, culturally-pagan irreligious people who hate the high priest, vicious polemics against bread and porridge, and remnants from another human species who live in the trees and tame lice. There's some weird stuff about women marrying bears instead of men (i swear it came out before the tiktok thing lmao) and some really brutal war scenes, but it's definitely my favorite fantasy book of all time. Better than The Hobbit, and I love the Hobbit. It's so good. It's so so so so so good.

52. something i'm talented at

Im a decent cook! here are some photos:

(clockwise: general tso's tofu, surinamese moki alesi, a japanese version of mapo tofu, and my favorite swedish pizzasallad)

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Wait you're squid ink?? I thought i just randomly started following someone named melonsnap 💀

New name new me

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Is gfuel safe?

Okay so my uncle who is a health professional says that anything with any amount of lead, even the slightest or just a trace should not be consumed as lead is quite a dangerous chemical to be consuming and it doesn’t leave the body. G-FUEL says on the back of the tubs that it “Can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to cause birth defects and other reproductive harm”. I know they put that on there because legally they have to or whatever, but like cmon that doesn’t sounds very good at all. I’ve heard on websites and other sources that ‘The California Prop 65’ is very broad and gfuel is way under the FDA limit in terms of lead. I’m not really sure what i should be trusting and I need someone’s help on this and i’d like to find an answer. Please only reply to this if you are 100 percent sure of what you are saying.

Thanks.

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technically a weed edible?

this motherfucker colonized my empty thai basil pot over the winter

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I've been on an east Africa/Indian Ocean kick lately. There's some really good cookbooks out there ("In Bibi's Kitchen" by Hawa Hassan and "The Island Kitchen" by Selina Periampillai) but I've been figuring things out with YouTube too.

This is a Malagasy dish I made called Vary Amin'anana. It's beef and rice with mixed bitter greens. I did a combo of Selina Perimpillai's recipe and the one from lemurbaby on YouTube. Super simple and good. I want to eat more from Madagascar.

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same lmao

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New pc!

the windows 11 setup made me feel a bit upset and anxious so I followed an online guide to make it look like XP with free software.

it's not a one-for-one copy but it's close enough to make me feel comfortable using it.

I still want to change my desktop icons and figure out how to get the file explorer menus to look like manila folders again because it trips me out that they don't!

I used OpenShell and RetroBar from github, not Windows Blinds. If anyone knows a trustworthy site to download the extracted Shell32 icons for XP, please let me know! I might just homebrew my own pixel art icons

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yesterday, i assisted an elderly man who was having trouble paying for parking. He said merci and gave me a package of indian cookies from the back of his suv

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i took this photo when I was high. it was really funny at the time

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based

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getting into foraging

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gf and i

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work was so dead i sat down in the walk-in and peeled all the labels off an entire box of apples lmao

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this fucking stupid lmao

I guess a gazebo was cheaper than a new casing, or maybe it was overheating and a gazebo was cheaper than getting a new one