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For these who don’t know: The restaurant she worked at closed down but she left before that and opened her own bakery, that’s apparently very successful!

She has a youtube channel where she shares recipes and cooking advice!

thanks this is part of an even grander incomprehensibleness than I could have expected

I cannot believe that this is a website where you can ask “hey i think i saw a weird image once” and put a bad stick figure drawing of it and someone will be like “oh yeah that’s the first installment of a 12-part post-ironic apocalypse fever dream photoshop series” and just hand you a dozen of the most unhinged images you’ve ever seen in your life, that still have a better three act structure than most modern cinema

the idea that the british empire accepted their decline with grace and peacefully and willingly withdrew from all their colonial territories and took their loss quietly is commonly expressed as fact but it's very much untrue, it's a successful propaganda campaign for them to claim that this is what happened but they were busy committing war crimes throughout their colonial territories long after supposed "independence" & they continued/continue to maintain economic control over these regions and actively killed local movements that wanted economic sovereignty, land reform, nationalization of natural resources much like the united states did/does within their sphere of influence. i say this not to minimize the atrocities the us has committed but to make a point that the uk is also guilty of these crimes up to the present as much as they'd like to pretend this was an era that ended a century ago. british colonial violence isn't something that ended after ww2 it continued throughout the 20th century and still to this day if you look at the actions undertaken by the british military and their mercenaries throughout the former empire

for the past handful of years ive seen people say stuff like "well the british empire accepted their decline with grace and pulled out when they saw the ship sinking so why can't the us do that" and it's important that you understand that the british empire didn't actually do that and neither will their son lol

i know this is shocking to many of you but this is the mainstream belief in the uk + the narrative that is pushed at a state level, in school, by the bbc, etc. and i've heard it expressed by many canadians/americans/australians as well. "they quietly withdrew" is not just a media propaganda thing but a programme the british colonial office undertook to cover up their crimes, see operation legacy

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

to add to this: there’s also cases where a lot of people ARE legitimately abandoned by their previous support groups even when they do reach out and ask for help. or passively ignored when they’re obviously struggling. nevertheless, this does not make the bitterness and scorn good

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

when we started talking about getting a small-breed dog I was like, "I will NEVER turn into one of those people who treats their little dog like a doll or an accessory by forcing them to dress up in ridiculous outfits. Dogs HATE that. They should get to be DOGS, and that means not having to wear anything but a HARNESS and being FREE to ROLL in the MUD." and then I adopted a dog who throws a fit if you try to take him for a walk without letting him pick out a bow tie first. a dog who loves wearing pajamas so much that I'm about to spend a disgusting amount of money on several sets of linen ones for summer. a dog who watches me wave at him to follow me through a mud puddle and just stands there blinking up at me like, "are you fucking serious? and get my paws wet?"

why do closed captions keep pretending english is the only intelligible language? when a character speaks spanish what exactly is forcing your hand to transcribe it as "[speaks foreign language]" rather than "Si"

okay. okay here's my thing about "tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit." I like the post, the text has a compelling pace, it got over eight hundred thousand notes for a reason. it's from 2018, and the eco / folk / eldritch horror tumblr genre definitely did already exist then, but it was newer so the post felt more novel at the time. I say variations on the "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" line constantly, I like it, I really do. that isn't how fungus and decay works irl, but I understand the idea being conveyed and can appreciate the emotional effect it elicits, which is really all I'm looking for when it comes to horror media, including social media based horror microfiction. I find the way some people talk about the post nowadays as though it personally Ruined all creative writing circulated on this site Forever and like it is somehow solely responsible for artistic displays of hegemonic christianity to be, like, silly. that is obviously not the case, it's a very "great man" way of analyzing social media trends. this is one person's short horror-comedy prose poetry text post about bursting into tears while trying and failing to shoot a mushroom with a gun. okay. but now, Here. here is My Thing. that is not what "extant" means. like at all. and, again, I understand what it's trying to convey in the context of a punchy one-liner, I don't begrudge the post's author using a word incorrectly, but I think they probably meant auxiliary, external, exiled, or extrinsic. "extant" means "something that exists," what the line actually says is "decay exists as an existing form of life," and if you want to reference it elsewhere then you really neeeeeed to change up the vocab or else you're going to end up saying a line that makes no sense. okay that is all.

i think abt anne rice’s answer to “what are your work habits for a novel?” probably every single day

five notes?? this is why i don’t tell you all anything

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

This "allosexuality" thing is just a phase. You just need to have really bad sex, and then maybe you'll change your mind.