Past The Edge of Reason

Din: No you don’t understand. I never set out to be Mand’alor. I only wanted to save my child from Moff Gideon.

Mandalorians: He took on one of most dangerous Imperials in single combat to protect his family! Praise the Mand’alor!

Din: Wait, let me explain. The child was a foundling under my care...

Mandalorians: He treats the foundling as his own flesh and blood! All praise!

Din: No! listen! He was threatening my Child with the darksaber, so I took out my pure beskar spear...

What was amusing to me was not so much the quality of the food as the fact that at every step I would have done something just slightly different. So I decided to make my Alternate Universe Cheesy Chicken Bake just to see what would happen.

It came out kinda watery and unappetizing but edible, I have to say.

Not one that's going in the recipe file, but I thought I'd share anyway.

I mixed caramelized onions, mashed potatoes, and pesto for the base; this did come out really well and I saved the extra for eating from a container with a spoon at some later date.

I topped the potato base with a mixture of cooked shredded chicken and red sauce, in this case some pizza sauce that had been in the fridge a while, and put it in the countertop oven to bake at 450 for 15 minutes, just to get it bubbling.

After 15 minutes, I pulled it out, topped it with shredded mozzarella cheese, and popped it back in for five minutes; I decided it needed a little longer but not quite 10, so I baked it for 8 minutes total and then let it stand for 15.

them: 

- https://www.skincancer.org/prevention/skin-cancer-and-skin-of-color

Today is a "keep your goddamn head down and get to work" day. I hate those, but they are occasionally necessary. At least I have a plethora of podcasts.

"He's anti-Brexit!" Good.

"He's anti-Trump!" Good.

"He's anti-establishment!" At this point I think you're just trying to make me like him more.

"His manager once called Farage a horrible cunt!" Well Farage *is* a horrible cunt, what's your point?

"He's making a joke of British politics!" Well that's very appropriate given that current British politics *are* a fucking joke.

"He's a left-wing liberal elitist!" I don't know if you can be all of those things at once, but I do know that Count Binface isn't the one getting millions in donations from cryptocurrency billionaires sooooooo...

Farage is the leader of the far-right Reform party, is a Putin and Trump simp, hates the NHS and wants it abolished in favour of US-style private healthcare (won't someone *please* think of the poor billionaire investors who aren't able to run the NHS for profit???) and was a major driving force behind Brexit.

He's a rich cunt but he's also a rich cunt who recieved a £5 million "gift" from a billionaire crypto bro which was not declared to Parliament. Which is not a good look as MPs are supposed to be open about their finances and funding to prove that there's no conflicts of interest going on. He's also recieved funding from a convicted fraudster.

He also criticised the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) for saving migrants trying to cross the English Channel instead of letting them drown, referring to them as a "migrant taxi service". Which is fucking abhorrent in the first place, but dipshit was apparently unaware that the RNLI is funded almost entirely by donations and recieves no government funding. Shortly after making this criticism, donations to the RNLI surged because fuck Farage.

Anyway, with increased public scrutiny on his finances, Farage decided to try some theatrics, announcing that he was resigning as the MP for Clacton. This triggers the byelection, because Clacton needs an MP. Farage is going to stand for reelection despite resigning, declaring that he would clear his name in the court of public opinion. Because if people still vote him in despite the financial fuckery then clearly the *people* support him, fuck you Parliament Farage is the rebel outsider who everyone loves.

The other mainstream political parties decided not to field candidates, because this was clearly just a publicity stunt. Unfortunately for Farage, Count Binface isn't a mainstream political party, he's an intergalactic space warrior who doesn't afraid of anything. (including milkshakes)

And it's looking like Count Binface might actually win, though now some other independent candidates have stepped up. Including a furry and a clairvoyant. The venerable Monster Raving Looney Party have also expressed interest.

They're finally making robot vacuums/sweepers that don't connect to the Internet and why did it take this long?

I paid extra to get a fridge without Internet. Wtf.

My printer tried to lock out the generic ink. I don't remember how I fixed that but Jesus Christ, stop that. My goddamn CPAP has a cell modem. I suspect if I disabled it in the first year the insurance company would have repossessed it.

I've lived in my house for 19 years. I think we're on our fourth fridge because There Are No Good Appliances Left. The ice maker quit working two years ago. We didn't get it fixed. The countertop version we got lasted less than a year. I replaced it with a bunch cheaper model because if the "name brand" failed that fast I might as well go cheaper, fuck.

Every time Windows updates I have to lobotomize whatever new ai has been stuffed into it and fix the taskbar. I terminate customized advertising tracking with prejudice. I dumped chrome and am thisclose to switching to Linux, and I have been in the Microsoft ecosystem since DOS days. I haven't voluntarily used Word in 20+years. The version we have at home is older than that, on my husband's old work pc, because he looked at the subscription model and said fuck no, I already own one. I used Adobe CS2 for a ridiculously long time because upgrading from a program that perfectly cromulantly produced scads of magazines and books for me seemed ridiculous.

My phone tries to install bloat every time it updates. Sometimes it succeeds, but it's at least more usable than the one Samsung I bought... That was garbage.

And now they're trying to make building computers at home unobtainable, thinking everyone will outsource their brains to ai agents on their phones. Revolting. How has my computer appreciated in price of components in 3 years? Nonsense.

The amount of work I have to do to just get basic functionality. I should not have to argue with my air purifier about it connecting to the Internet. It shouldn't be worried about the Internet at all. No, you don't get network access. You're an air purifier.

this kind of policing is why ao3 was created

remember, kids, the three laws of fandom are:

- don’t like; don’t read

- your kink is not my kink

YOU DO IT ON ONE OF THESE! OBVIOUSLY!!!

and that brown end? the hard bit? pencil sharpener. or sharpened with a blade. are you following me? now, attach six of those to a harpy.

free-to-use “the only ship that is bad is censorship” badge

—> “proship & proud” badge

how someone sets their boundaries has absolutely nothing to do with censorship.

censorship is when someone tries to control other people what they can or can’t create and consume.

censorship is not about a random person disabling their own comments section for whatever reason. censorship is not about people blocking other people on social media as their way of setting boundaries and curating their internet experience. censorship is not about disrespecting other people’s boundaries and censorship is not about tolerating it when other people disrespect you or your boundaries.