Sigh In A Storm

of COURSE there's been an emaciated wild wolf spotted twice today at our campground. Of course.

The park ranger came around to tell us about this and stuck around to hang out for a while, because we were easily the most chaotic and least troublesome campsite, and she went "I hope you guys aren't offended by this but you seem like the cast of a horror movie," and I gotta say...we've got that energy. Our main camping group consisted of:

She really couldn't figure out how we all knew each other, because we're such a random assortment of people. Which is fair!

We're going to be setting up wolf-watch into the wee hours of the morning and mostly just hanging out by the campfire telling old stories and seeing if we can't collectively solve an embezzlement case.

We made the ranger guess what each of us did and (in order of appearance) her guesses were:

Which is remarkably spot on; we're recommending she send in an application to the local psychic.

But…. How Do You All Know Each Other? You can’t just drop that kind of information on us without any backstory.

We have needs!

oh we all used to run a con together

Like a convention or like a heist? I feel like it could go either way.

Don't worry about it

Since we decided to keep the park ranger, I am able to update that the wolf was safely caught and will be relocated. Happy endings!

I am choosing to believe your group is keeping the park ranger in the same way people keep cats they find out in the yard. i.e. in a secure enclosure and extremely spoiled.

And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins

@moss-wizard of course this isn’t how we serve it!!

It has to be in a dish with much higher sides, so when we go to cut it and it tries to sliiiiiide away it doesn’t escape and blorp blorp blorp across mom’s nice tablecloth

SLICE YOUR CANNED BOGBERRY GOO INTO DISCS BEFORE SERVING, YOU FILTHY HERETICS.

NO. IT WILL BE SERVED IN PROPER CAN SHAPE, AND WILL HAVE ITSELF SCOOPED INTO WEIRD SHAPES THE WAY THE GODS INTENDED

YOU STAY OUTTA THIS, GOD-QUEEN-EMPEROR. AND TAKE YOUR CERVID STALKERS WITH YOU.

It's supposed to be served in can shape with two discs already sliced and laying tastefully in front

I have consulted the scriptures and this is variation is still within the bounds of orthodoxy.

Mash the can shape up. We giving the table what they want, chaos in a dish, with a serving spoon.

Not to derail the escalating heresy, but what do dolphins have to do with cranberry bogs?

cranberry is served in its can shape in the can direction, not on its side but on its cylinder

Right but you guys know that ocean spray also sells like. Cranberries. Which you can use to make an actually edible cranberry sauce on the stovetop in 10 minutes of unattended cook time

actual cranberries? ew no thank you. The unprocessed chunky stuff is GROSS.

Look, in my house, we mix it with whipped cream and freeze it in a graham cracker crust for dessert!

@oft-goes-awry

what the actual fuck?

@somethinginterestingithink

Behold, my grandmother's recipe for Cranberry Surprise:

For the crust, combine 2/3 cup crushed ginger snap crumbs (put them in a large plastic bag and crumble with a rolling pin, or a mug if you don't have one) with 2 T. of sugar. Press into a 9" pie plate.

For the filling, pour a half-pint of regular whipping cream into a bowl, and beat until stiff. Mix in 2 T. of sugar and 1/2 tsp. of almond extract.

In another bowl, take a 14 oz. CHILLED can of jellied cranberry sauce and mash it with a potato masher if you've got one, or a fork if you don't. (My mom bought me a potato masher specifically so I could make this dessert at holidays without having to borrow hers.)

Once the log is goo, fold the cranberry sauce into the whipped cream mix. Yes, it's supposed to be THAT pink.

Pour the pink cream-and-cranberry mix into the crust and freeze for at least 24 hours. Cut and serve immediately upon removal from freezer.

American Horror Food is one of my favorite tumblr post types.

(I make it from real cranberries but if I decide to go with Goo Log, I mash it like the unorthodox godkiller that I am.)

I can only add that I worked in a deep freeze warehouse for a little bit when I was younger. The cranberries would come in loose around Halloween. This big machine would clean, sort, and dump them into 1000 lb wooden bins that would be forklifted and stacked to freeze in the warehouse.

One time, somebody lost control of a bin and broke it open. I would like you to picture a dozen warehouse workers slip sliding around on frozen cranberry ball bearings for hours, trying to clean them up, while you play Yakety Sax in your head. It was a nightmare.

Doesn’t everyone have a special cranberry-from-the-can serving plate and slice-cutting tool! What, are you all just living live Neanderthals?!?!

Oh my ZOD I love that

my brother is a culinary artist. one year he made some amazing cranberry sauce that nobody touched. the next year he made the same sauce, added a thickener, and set it in a ribbed can (he reused a pumpkin can iirc), and it was a hit.

we like the vague can-shaped fruit gelatin. i personally like it even more when it’s home-made.

Ah, in my house we serve this standing up on a plate, and we call it Invisible Can. It is not a holiday dinner without Invisible Can.

Israel was forced to publicly apologize to Argentina for “infringing on her sovereignty” and was even requested by Argentina to pay reparations. Israel literally trialed a Nazi war criminal and was being made out to be the bad guys

https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1782169236657357193?s=09

Her mom doesn't earn enough to buy her food? Father can't chip in? Doesn't she have an uncle?

She was arrested and charged with criminal trespass for participating in a rally that had been told to disburse, as soon as they say you need to leave you need to leave or you're in violation of the law.

As a result of the arrest she was suspended by her school for 3 days same as some other students, as is what I'm guessing is a standard procedure.

Is the complaining congresswoman looking for special treatment for her child, does she think her kid is above the law.

Directly from the ACLU here

She's not covered by 1A here, not if you stay after you've been instructed to leave.

People used to actually go in prepared to go to suffer the consequences of their actions when it came to protests, maybe because they actually cared about the cause and not their image.

Gotta love this feature. Best thing Elon did for twater.

Welsh is an official language of Wales. This means, legally, it cannot be treated less favourably than English in any part of daily life. So we have bilingual signs and sometimes the translations are… well just awful.

This is a classic and made the news.

Welsh reads “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.

Welsh reads “Wines and ghosts”

Welsh reads “Warning workers are exploding”

In English these drinks are alcohol free in Welsh the drinks are free “Alcohol for nothing”.

Um- Welsh reads “Free erections” yes really!

This seems a tad harsh “Injure yourself now”

Wording is fine but the English and the Welsh disagree on right/left

The sign says “Parcio I Bobi Anabl” which is “Parking to bake the disabled” which I don’t think Tesco were going for.

@margridarnauds​

@teapotteringabout 😂

Oh god! I literally lost 20 minutes of my life trying to explain this to a Londoner. No we can’t just let some random person translate our stuff! Welsh is complex, Welsh is regional, and by god if you get it wrong you will make an absolute tit of yourself!

The return of Free Erections! A great week in the Cambrian News.

*snort*

This post made my day

if I forgot your favorite subgenre or misclassified a band feel free to argue in the replies 👍

Teamwork..................................................................................

Me, when they made the U-turn:

^ my exact reaction

The Bolshoi has nothing on this choreography.

There is. No. Unskilled. Labor.

why did this remind me of me and my dog

Tombstone from the Jewish cemetery in Yeghegis, southeastern Armenia, 13th century

I had to stop eating wheat in 2018, so I genuinely stopped for a minute and thought "this can't be true."

But I found sources verifying the numbers and now I'm going through a bunch of common items and their comparative prices.

Eggs in 2018: $1.76 ($2.26 when adjusted for inflation)

Eggs in 2024: $2.99 on average

Boneless chicken breast per pound in 2018: $3.14/pound

Boneless chicken breast per pound in 2024: $4.10/pound

Childcare in 2018: up to $10,408/year on average

Childcare in 2024: up to $14,760/year on average

Rent for 2bd housing in 2018: about $1250/month on average

Rent for 2bd housing in 2024: about $2000/month on average

Many of these are BIG jumps for just six years, and inflation really doesn't account for all of it. Even as aware as I am that things cost more now than they used to, it was jarring to see how MUCH more.

For an extra headfuck, this happened just after my salary doubled when I got my postdoc job. It was, uh, enraging.

The longer you've been alive, and the further back you can remember the cost of things, the more enraging it is to see price tags right now in 2024.

Cereal Eggs Chicken Thighs Soda Cat Food Rent Insurance Oil Changes Gas Car Washes Movie Tickets Concert Tickets Bras

EVERYTHING has skyrocketed up in price in the last 4 years to be sure, but they were steadily creeping up and up and up even before that. Less quality, less quantity, more money.... for the CEO and the shareholders.

It recently hit me (like a brick) how I've lived through multiple decades of our economy having never actually being good for people trying to live affordable lives.

My mother is doing her best to maintain her sense of humor. She was a child in the 1950s. My father was a child in the 1940s. My husband was a toddler in the 1970s. The four of us have had really really interesting conversations about living in and through the world.

When I was a kid a loaf of GOOD bread was 89 cents.

That was in 2000, by the way. Not that long ago.

Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

I PLAYED ONE OF THESE. It was amazing and also it sucked.

A Good Stump

Rock crystal dice, Roman, 1st-2nd century AD

from The British Museum

(my Thanks to the: @memories-of-ancients

The british museum should give this one away, specifically to me

Every time I see the British Museum I'm reminded of the time my sister and her husband went there and at the Sutton Hoo exhibit, my brother in law went "It's actually Sutton Whom" to a random lady he thought was my sister.

Rock crystal dice, Roman, 1st-2nd century AD

from The British Museum

“I can’t be antisemitic, I’m a semite!!1!1!”

“I can’t be transphobic, I’m a transfer student!!!”

“I can’t be racist, I’m a professoral race-car driver!!!”

“I can’t be sexist, I love sex!!”

“I can’t be a bigot, I’m 4’10!!!”

"I can't be ableist, I'm able to think!"

"I can't be homophobic, I'm homo sapiens!"

"I can't be biphobic, I have a bicycle!"

I mean... I met someone named Wendy. Does that count?

• Robe de Style.

Date: 1927

Designer/Maker: Jeanne Lanvin

Medium: Silk moiré, glass beads, pearls, metallic thread.