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Nord Honey Cake

This traditional Skyrim honey cake is a staple for parties and get-togethers, and has a rich honey flavour that can't be beaten! This cake was the star of my wedding. However, the secret is in the aging process: be sure to bake your cake at least two weeks in advance for optimal flavour! Serves up to 20.

A little wedding gift from me to you on this special day and solstice. Thank you to my mother-in-law for this lovely family recipe!

You will need:

8 eggs

500g sugar

500g honey (preferably set, but runny is fine)

500g plain flour

1 tbsp bitter orange marmalade

1 tsp fine pepper powder

Method:

Preheat your oven to 150C/302F. Line a 30x35cm rectangular baking tin with baking paper.

Beat the eggs and sugar together until even, light yellow, and frothy.

Mix together the honey, pepper and marmalade, and spoon into the egg mixture. Beat on high speed until well combined.

Sift in the flour and continue to beat the mixture until an even batter has formed.

Transfer the batter to the tin, and bake on the middle shelf for 45 mins to an hour (this varies based on your oven, it can sometimes take over an hour) until firm throughout and pale golden brown. The cake will not rise rise much, and should be dense and moist when poked with a toothpick.

If you can't find set honey, that's fine! Any honey will do.

(There’s also PreP - Pre Exposure Prophylaxis, which is taking medication if you feel you are at risk of being exposed to HIV, whether through sexual partners or sharing injection needles)

There’s been a lot of progress in this. So long as you’re taking your medications (anti-retrovirals), it’s essentially become another chronic disease like diabetes or COPD etc. HIV patients nowadays are living into their 60s and 70s and are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease rather than opportunistic infections or AIDS defining illnesses. 

If the HIV viral load is undetectable, then your CD4 counts (your white cells that are affected by the virus) should normalise. Such that you’re no different to the general population when it comes to infection risk.

Yes, we should all still be precautious, but it’s no longer a death sentence. 

There are 2 replies to that tweet, by GEM @/Rozthecreator reading “the woman is hiv positive, she takes her meds which makes her count low, she can’t pass it off to her husband which makes her still able to live her normal life and reproduce. The stigmas of hiv has to stop, and as Blacks especially we have to educate each other.”

The next reply is by t a y l o r @/G14_Classified_, reading “people on this app talk about sex 24/7 but are completely ignorant when it comes to stds and how they can/can’t be contracted. Yikes”.

Yes, kids just say shit. They have no filter. That doesn't make it any less humiliating when your child sits near me on the bus and incessantly grills me on why I have a stick when I'm not old. Or laughs at us for things our disability causes. It doesn't take away the hurt when they bully a disabled classmate. For a large part these things could be avoided if you just taught your kids to respect us. It's really not that hard.

Fred Hampton would be 51 this year if police hadn’t executed him at age 21.

Ruby Bridges is 65.

MLK would be 91 (he was assassinated at 39).

Malcom X would be 95 (he was assassinated at 39).

Claudette Colvin (the first Black woman known to refuse to give up her seat AT 15) is only 80.

Mary Louise Smith is 83.

Fred Gray is 89.

EMMETT TILL WOULD BE 79 (he was murdered at age 14 because of a white woman’s lie).

Ask yourself how old your grandparents are. Hell, how old your PARENTS are. How old are the people in most government seats right now?

If you are in the US, tell your senators and congressperson to vote for this.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

The American Bar Association is staunchly in opposition to this discriminatory practice being used by legal defense teams. They published this helpful article last July that explains the legal ins and outs of it, its legal history, and some action steps to take if you want to get involved in making sure ALL STATES get laws on the books that prohibit the gay/trans panic defense.

Ableds don't understand how expensive being disabled is.

A good friend of mine implied that there was nothing wrong with a 2000$ cap on someone's bank account ("that's enough to live on!" She said). Nothing wrong with ripping benefits away if they got a penny more. That there wasn’t anything inherently wrong with denying married disableds benefits or taking benefits away when they got married, forcing the choice between marriage or in some cases living.

I admit I got heated. Getting on disability is humiliating enough (the process, not needing it ofc) but hearing someone say that the pitifully small benefits were the perfect amount?

Hospital bills, treatments, medications, mobility aids, and all the other things that come with disabilities adds up FAST and can cost tens of thousands a month in some of the worst scenarios. That's not even covering rent, bills, food, and other necessities, let alone luxuries that someone may want to be happy.

I explained this to her but she kept "well yes but..." over and over, trying to keep hold of her skewed, ableist view. She actually squirmed, she avoided eye contact, eventually she changed the topic entirely.

They don't understand how expensive it is and they hate being forced to see the truth of the price and the failing of what is meant to be our support system.