justsayin59

Tonight I made a yellow cake with chocolate icing. It was my birthday, and I like making this cake; it’s the same kind of cake my mom would make every year for me as a kid. It’s easy, just boxed mix and canned icing. It’s comfort, nostalgia, but it never quite tasted the same.

Well tonight I made a few changes based off of a recipe I had seen going around, and wouldn’t you know it, the cake came out tasting exactly like my momma’s. So much so that it brought tears to my eyes when I took the first bite. There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t miss her, and the longer she’s gone the sweeter the feeling is when I find her memory again.

In honor of that, here’s what I did:

Preheat oven to 315 Fahrenheit (yes. I know that’s low. Trust me) while you’re preparing the ingredients.

Of course it helps if your wet ingredients are at room temperature, but if they aren’t you’ll live.

Using a yellow cake mix (we use Duncan Hines), ignore the ingredients list on the back and use

4 eggs

1 stick of melted butter

1 cup of milk

splash of vanilla extract.

Mix as normal. Pour into a 9x11 baking pan. Bake at 315 for about 35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Let cake cool completely. When cooled, melt chocolate icing in microwave at 15 second intervals until pourable (not hot, just enough to pour over cake). Pour can over cake and use a knife to spread evenly. Pop it in the fridge for at least 20 minutes.

req'd by @jouster-ari

god one day...

please do yourself a favor & watch this rock climbing–themed drag king/burlesque performance set to “roxanne” by the police with all the lyrics but “rox” edited out

Me:

basically, it was a fight between working class skilled labourers and early leaching capitalist industrialists and was one of the first pushbacks against what would eventually be called capitalism.

obviously and unfortunately, the luddites lost. and that's why mainstream history looks at luddites like they were a bunch of backwards low intelligence people afraid of technology. they weren't that at all! they were fighting for survival against the rising capitalist industrial revolution that enclosed and displaced people from their land forcing them to move to dirty overcrowded cities to work long hours in dirty dangerous factories for low pay and without any semblance of labour rights, and ya, capitalists just up and stole their way of life for the same reason we are in the shit position we are today: profit line must go up!

podcast recommendation: cool people who did cool stuff, the episodes about the luddites. don't remember exactly what the episodes were called but some combination of those words in your search should bring them up. cuz turns out they were pretty cool.