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Mack

@honeybunches-of-goats

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i think part of the reason lost media videos are so fun is that it more ethically scratches the same itch as true crime. a bunch of people online being amateur sleuths and going down rabbit holes is a lot easier to enjoy when theyre looking for a cereal commercial from 1991 instead of liike bothering the families of murder victims

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crotchapple

Smart

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Recipe Roundup in Review

Last year, I posted a two-month series of recipes suitable for the autumn season, which everyone seemed to enjoy very much. I’ve been too busy this year to make up a new queue, so I thought I’d compile a big long list of links for anyone who’s looking for recipe ideas this fall.

Appetizers, Sides, & Snacks

Soups

Entrees

Baked Goods

Tea Table Goodies

Desserts

Beverages, Jams, and Sauces

Sources

  • Celtic Folklore Cooking (Asala)
  • A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook (Telesco)
  • A Witch’s Brew (Telesco)
  • Kitchen WItch’s Guide to Brews and Potions (Telesco)
  • The Kitchen Witch (Soraya)
  • Witch in the Kitchen (Johnson)
  • The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook (Gonzalez)
  • Favorite Meals from Williamsburg (Turgeon)
  • Holiday Fare: Favorite Williamsburg Meals (Gonzalez)
  • The Very Best of Irish Traditional Cooking (Lennon and Campbell)
  • An Irish Country Cookbook (Taylor)
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i learned that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show (x)

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r4cs0

If anyone deserves that “fish fear me” hat is this guy

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zybilna

Its honestly so funny how people who are mourning the queen's death are so pigshit stupid that they end up saying shit thats wayyyy more tasteless than all of the normal people making fun of her.

Mcdonalds putting up a branded menu variant about her funeral, some sextoy website having a funeral banner up, her funeral footage accidentally capitalizing the words "Among Us", crossfit including a minute of silence in their daily workout plan, people lining up for 30 hours to go look at a box that maybe has a corpse in it, Guantanamo bay putting the mcdonalds flag at half mast, the royal family fanblogs posting sad bitmojis and the thomas jefferson miku binder artist seriously arguing that she's gonna reincarnate as a horse are all infinitely funnier forms of mockery than I'd ever be able to come up with

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No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

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penrosesun

It’s not a paradox – it’s a different net.

When we were kids, the internet was a sandbox-style open world – full of dangerous things, yes, but also nearly unlimited potential – and we learned to be careful, and we learned fast, and we learned fairly well.

Now, the internet is a series of black box silos built by corporations to maximize engagement at the expense of everything else.

I may have seen Two Girls One Cup by accident and at the tender age of ten, but I never had to deal with companies using gambling-addiction-creating strategies pioneered in literal casinos to try and make me hand over hundreds of real dollars at the same age. I may have been exposed to vicious bigotry in anonymous and pseudanonymous messages boards, but I never had algorithms spoonfeeding me explicitly far right radicalizing content. The blithely unfettered access people of our generation had is just genuinely not the same as what kids with unsupervised access are getting today.

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people keep talking about how we “have to” go back to “normal” after covid because “we can’t live in fear with restrictions like this forever”

which is funny because I’d like to know when the same return to normal after 9/11 is happening, because it’s been over 20 years and none of the restrictions on freedom or privacy have eased even slightly

i wonder why

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“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

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