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one of the saddest things is when someone in your family tells you you would've loved someone who died before you were born. like my mother has told me & my best friend that we would have loved talking to her father. that me & my brothers have the same humor as our late uncle & even look like him. everyone is everywhere & nowhere & here & gone & dying & coming back. it's as though you know them through their shadow or their ghost or your own actions, but you won't ever really know. haunts me, i guess

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Admit you were wrong. Apologize. Understand that you’re fallible. You make mistakes. You hurt people. Apologize. That’s growth; understanding you did something wrong and working towards making things right.

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bitches will see the words grief loneliness melancholy yearning nostalgia hope tiramisu and hit reblog

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My perfect mashed potatoes

The secret is in the water; literally, it’s IN the water.

See, when you boil potatoes, a lot of special starches and sugars and stuff leeches out into the water. When you drain the water before mashing them, you throw away a lot of good stuff, which is a big part of what makes mashed potatoes “dry” and bland, even when you add large amounts of cream and butter and things.

So don’t throw out any water.

Here’s how you do that:

First, cut your potatoes into smaller cubes than you probably do. (I’ve left the skins on for flavor and also, that’s where a lot of a potato’s nutrients are, like protien and iron and vitamins B and C, just to name a few)

The reason for cutting them smaller (besides avoiding giant peices of skin) is so that there is less space in the pot between each peice for water to fill, so you use less water to cook them. That’s important because you won’t be draining any water, so you can’t afford to have too much water! For the same reason, just barely cover them with water when they go on the stove.

But! Before you do that, put the pot on the stove with some butter, garlic, and seasonings; let the butter start to sizxle just a little then put most of a single layer of potatoes in the pan and let the brown and sear. Turn them, brown them on all sides, get ‘em fairly dark (I forgot to get a pic here because I was worried I’d burn the butter).

Ready? now throw the rest of the potatoes in right on top, and add your water, give them a stir. This way, you’re boiling in some of that lovely fried potato/french fry flavor.

Okay, so, as they cook, you may need to add a little water, not too much! ideally the very highest piece of potato will be poking just above the surface. Now, when your potatoes are really really soft, mash them directly into the water. Just pull them off the stove, leave all the water in, and start mashing. Trust me. At first you’ll think there’s too much water. If you get them mashed and they ARE a little too liquidy, just put ‘em back on the stove. You’ll have to stir often or constantly, but they will steam off additional water without losing any good stuff.

Now add some salt, and taste. Right?! And you haven’t even put in any cream or cheese or anything yet.

Speaking of which, you can use like, a third of the amount of butter or cream or anything, and they will still taste better than usual. So they taste better AND they are higher in nutrients AND lower in fats and salts! That’s a lot of win — enjoy your potatoes!

Fuck Columbus! Indigenous Rights! And happy Thanksgiving!

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yeah as soon as I wake up no longer fatigued for the first time in my life I'll be set

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good morning let’s hear it for Mildly Cool Outside a round of applause for Mildly Cool Outside

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The other day Hind Khoudary posted on her story about a woman who went up to the crew and started screaming at them for filming and broke some of their equipments saying "who are you filming for?"

I've been thinking about this a lot.

Literally everything we know about the dire situation anywhere in Palestine is because Palestinians, journalists or not, have decided to document and share.

Yet here we are. We are coming up to one year of this madness. One whole fucking year. We have had dozens and dozens of daily footage documenting this genocide. At this point, who is this footage for? If all of this didn't stop the world in its tracks, then what are they filming for?

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companies are delusional if they think consumers don't notice shrinkflation. less food in the package, less medicine in the jar, less whatever in the wherever, it doesn't matter where and it's almost always noticeable. like i just finished one box of medicine and we opened another allegedly identical one that we just bought and lo and behold, the four middle medicine segments were gone from the package. they took out four pills from the same sized box and sold it at the same price without any indication on the box other than the small number in the corner. ridiculous

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A windy day with a moderate temperature will make you feel like you got reborn into a world that really loves you this time

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answered a scam call today and had the most bizarre conversation

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When everyone seems to have a damaged, unhappy "inner child," it is time to examine and change the treatment of children on a massive scale.

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لا تجعل هماً واحدًا ينسيك ألفاً من النعم.

Do not let one worry make you forget a thousand blessings.

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But also, ice skating, which has been fun! But yeah, life is pretty uneventful in the day-to-day with horrors happening across the world. What a time.

“Haven’t seen you in awhile, what you been up to?”

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