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Last time I finished a short story I submitted it as homework

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So I fell into a new fixation and wrote a novella in the past two weeks uh where does one put original fiction on the internet these days?
Last time I finished a short story I submitted it as homework

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For Australian residents!
A House of Representatives petition has just been filed. Unlike other petitions, this one will be presented to the House and requires a response from a Minister.
Elbit Systems, the Israeli defence contractor responsible for much of the weaponry currently causing devastation in Gaza, has just been awarded a $917 million contract with the Australian government.
The demand of this petition is to remove all contracts and deals between Australia and Elbit Systems.
Again, this is more than a change.org petition - this is a government petition with a certainty of being tabled before the House of Representatives. This is just one step of many that this country needs to take in ending Australia's support for the genocide of Palestinians.
Please sign and share the petition here. And don't forget to confirm your signature via the email afterwards.
The deadline is April 17th - make sure to sign before then.
No contracts with the Israeli war machine.

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Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.
Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?
Me: I am going to eat you
lololol "does too"
does it? not for women after childbirth
does it? not if you want to see an effect size of greater than 1 kilo (2.2lbs)
does it? not if you'd like to see a maintained loss greater than 3.3% of your body weight
does it? not for people with type 2 diabetes
does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.
I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords "weight loss" and "exercise," and I'm tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I'm right, and you need to adjust your worldview--ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It's good for your blood vessels, it's good for your strength, it's good for your brain.
But it won't make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that's about it. If you're looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight--but the effort will almost always result in your body going "oh shit, we're living in a famine" and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.
#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?
Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.
Lotta people going “the authors say different things about their data than you do!” Yep. Doesn’t mean I’m wrong. Means the authors have an axe to grind and they’re ignoring the implications of their own data. Back when I worked as, you know, a coordinator for an Institutional Review Board for an R-1 institution, checking that was my job. So you need to be able to look at data and understand things like confidence intervals and effect sizes. It’s not enough to let researchers tell you what their data mean; they may have lots of reasons to come to conclusions their data don’t actually support.
This is, by the way, one of the most frustrating parts of experimental psychology, which was my background before medicine. People like to believe that they would change their mind based on evidence, but in practice, once you make someone pick a position, they’ll defend it long past the point at which it would make sense to switch. This is why it’s important to repeat and repeat and repeat things: I didn’t believe that exercise doesn’t cause weight loss the first, oh, probably half a dozen times I heard it. I had to get to a point where I was in medical school watching a professor talk about all the data on weight loss and slowly feel it dawn on me that he was saying one thing when he was explaining the data, and then saying THE EXACT OPPOSITE THING when he was drawing conclusions. It was so clear to me that what he had just said was “there is no widely scalable weight loss program that works” and then he said “but we should still be encouraging patients to exercise and eat less to lose weight” as if those weren’t DIRECTLY CONFLICTING.
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WOW
TFA
MLM
WWW
PWP
OSU
DP
World of Warcraft
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Multi-Level Marketing
World Wide Web
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Oat Treats
2 cups rolled oats 1 cup puffed buckwheat (or wheat) 1/8 cup white chocolate chips 50g butter, divided 8 giant marshmallows
In a cold frying pan, add 1tbsp of the butter (aka, a good bit) and the oats. Turn the heat up gently, and toast the oats until golden.
Take the oats out into a large bowl, and mix in the wheat and chocolate chips.
Put the rest of the butter in and the marshmallows. Melt over a low heat until an even consistency (just like rice crispy treats).
Pour the hot melted marshmallows over the oats mix. Mix it all up. Form it into balls or bars as you like; I make balls and squish them into silicone cupcake moulds for ease of storage.
Vanilla Cordial
250g sugar (use 1 cup if you don't have scales) 250mL water (ditto) 1 tsp natural vanilla essence
Mix the water and sugar in a small saucepan. Put it over a low heat, stirring gently until all the sugar dissolves (but only just!). Take it off the heat, and let it cool for a minute. Then stir in the vanilla.
Pour into some kind of bottle or jar. You want about a finger thick in the bottom of a glass for a non-fizzy drink, but add a bit more if adding sparkling water.
Are you getting déjà vu? Nope, this is the same as the lemon cordial but with the flavouring swapped out. This one tastes a bit like a brown creaming soda.
Lemon Cordial
250g sugar (use 1 cup if you don't have scales) 250mL water (use 1 cup if you don't have scales) 1 tsp citric acid 1 tsp ascorbic acid
Mix the water and sugar in a small saucepan. Put it over a low heat, stirring gently until all the sugar dissolves (but only just!). Take it off the heat, and let it cool for a minute. Then stir in the acids.
Pour into some kind of bottle or jar. You want about a finger thick in the bottom of a glass for a non-fizzy drink, but add a bit more if adding sparkling water.
If ascorbic acid is too hard to find or too expensive, you don't need it, it's just trying to cram a vitamin into this sugar water. I used to drink it without vitamin C as a kid all the time, and look at me I turned out just fine.
Carob Sauce / Hot Chocolate
½ cup white sugar ¼ cup carob powder A pinch of salt ¼ cup cold water ¾ tsp vanilla
In a small saucepan (on the bench), whisk the sugar, carob, and salt to get rid of any lumps. Add in the water and whisk until evenly wet. Then turn on the heat, but go gentle if you've got a hot gas stove. Bring it up to the boil, then take it off the heat. Stir in the vanilla.
I keep this in an old salsa jar in the fridge.
To turn it into hot chocolate:
2 tbsp carob sauce boiling water milk of choice
Put the sauce in the bottom of your mug. Pour freshly boiled water on it, until about 3/4 full. Stir to make sure the sauce is mixed in. Then top off with milk.
There will be a grainy residue in the bottom when you get there, that's just how carob is. Maybe you can use it to tell your future?
Mayo
1 egg ½ tsp salt 2 tsp 5% citric acid ½ cup canola oil
Using a stick blender with a whisk attachment, blend everything except the oil. I do this in an old pickle jar.
Put the oil in something with a pouring spout. Then pour the tiniest stream of oil you can, into the mix. Keep blending! You will need three hands, if you don't have three hands (I don't) then just be very gentle moving the blender around and stop the oil often to get your jar back in place.
This makes a mayo about the thickness of kewpie mayo. I'd guess it makes about a cup? I just leave it in the jar I made it in. Seems to last about 2 weeks in the fridge, but I don't really know anything about food safety so ymmv.
Dear Americans, use pasteurized eggs or locally sourced backyard free range eggs. Your supermarket eggs are weird.

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Main Post: Food Sensitivity Diet Recipes
@miloscat has been going through a food sensitivity diet, so I've been trying to make nice stuff for them to eat with a limited set of ingredients. I thought maybe this might help someone else so I'm going to try and post the recipes I've used/adapted/made up.
Please don't take any of these as diet advice! This is being done with a licensed dietician. But if you're going through something similar, these might be useful for you?
Background & Weird Ingredients
I've been using the immersion blender's beater attachment for the first time. I've also had to buy a few odd ingredients, so I thought I'd document that.
Carob powder. Got this from a health food shop online, used to make carob / chocolate sauce which is used as a base for hot chocolates but could also be put on icecream
Ascorbic acid powder. Got this from a health food shop online too. Not the sodium or potassium salt, but the acid. Adding this in to cordial to make it more "healthy" and to try and cram as much vitamin C as possible in to life.
Citric acid powder. This you should be able to find in the baking isle of the supermarket. Make into a 5% solution for a lemon juice sub, and also used in cordial.
Eggs. Okay, this isn't weird, but we're going through so many more eggs.
Textured vegetable protein. I got this before the diet started, but it's been super helpful. The stuff we have (from the supermarket) is un-flavoured and unseasoned and unpreserved (It's just soy protein), which means it actually works with the diet which is great because most mince meat doesn't.
So much garlic. We get it in jars, if we were using fresh the garlic press would just live in the sink.
Green onions. These grow really well where I live, all year around. It just so happens that about six months ago I bought a bunch of green onions and planted the white bits, and they've been going gangbusters. Really great when you want to add just a little green onion.
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Mayo
Carob Sauce / Hot Chocolate
Lemon Cordial / Lemonade / Lemon Syrup / Lemon Soda
Vanilla Cordial / Creaming Soda
Oat Treats
Coming Soon (Hopefully)
Lentil, potato, cabbage soup
Scrambled eggs
Creamy chicken pasta with leek
Dumplings
Lemon garlic roast chicken breast with brussel sprouts
Okonomiyaki
Burgers
Garlic dipping or stir-fry sauce
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