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Today in obscure Doctor Who jokes:
Somebody on Twitter pointed out that the Big Finish companion Hex is canonically from the year 2021, so when he occasionally abbreviates the word "suspicious" to "sus," it's probably an Among Us reference.
The punchline is that this character was actually introduced back in 2004. It was made-up future slang that they happened to get right.
Pasta w/ burrata (x)
op turned reblogs off but this post must live. it must live and spread malignantly .
Weekend break
Listen to me I am sick of your dumb ass reincarnating as animals over and over again and coming to visit me at my house as a supposed "sign of your presence" I keep killing the things you come back as every time on purpose I do not want a dog to live here nor a cat nor a beautiful bird nor that which crawls beneath the Earth. We're THROUGH. The relationship ended when your life as a human did. I get that you want to keep this "Twin flame" soul mate reincarnation bullshit afloat but 1. I will not be returning to the cycle of death and rebirth due to my dark heart AND 2. Even if I did come back, good luck being born a human around the same time as me once more. Asshole. I'm salting the earth around my yard so that from the ground no plants may grow and from there comes no germs from plants, no bugs from germs, no birds from bugs, no beasts from birds. No you.
In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.
Sesame Street's official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.
As always, America, PBS has you and your kids' backs.
I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country. More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.
Fuckin iowa jesus christ. And fucking republicans in general
Please notice that the wording they use has shifted from "marriage between one man and one woman" to "marriage between one male and one female". This is not a coincidence. GCs and terfs have no excuse to not see the blood on their hands.
Today (19 Aug), I'm appearing at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. I'm on a 2:30PM panel called "Return From Retirement," followed by a signing:
It's a breathtaking fraud: SoCal Gas, the largest gas company in America, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby against our own survival:
The criminal scheme is spelled out in eye-watering detail in a superb investigative report by Joe Rubin and Ari Plachta for the Sacramento Bee, which names the law firms and individual lawyers involved in the scam.
Here's the situation: SoCal Gas is California's private, regulated gas monopoly. They are allowed to lobby, but are legally required to charge their lobbying activities to their shareholders, and are prohibited from raising customer rates to pay for lobbying.
The company spent years secretly violating this rule, in the sleaziest way possible: working with corporate cartels like the California Restaurant Association and BizFed, the monopoly paid BigLaw white-shoe firms to procure people who posed as concerned citizens in order to oppose climate regulations that are essential to the state's very survival.
Tiramisu Cake (x) Fluffy vanilla cake, soaked with coffee syrup, topped with luscious mascarpone cream and dusted with cocoa powder
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he got the dog to eat a pavlova
fucking son of a bitch
public service announcement that 90% of funny sourceless viral fantasy book excerpts on tumblr are from Discworld, including this one
[ID: portion of a 19th century whaling journal reading: ‘See that the cook has victuals prepared for the men in the boats, against the return of the boats, and if we get any whale, mix a whole bucket full of switchell for the men to drink. If we get no whale, they get no switchell. If as how you can do all this, Ben, we’ll have you for ship keeper’.]
My favorite old-timey vinegar drink of sailors & laborers that sometimes people recoil at when I share the ingredients, but ultimately end up enjoying because it is…THE TASTIEST if the ratios are balanced. You need ginger, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, lemon, and water.
[ID: photo of a bottle of maple syrup, a bottle of vinegar, and the mixture of them in a jar]
Here are my ratios:
1. Peel and slice fresh ginger. This is to taste, but I use 1/3rd of a cup. 2. Bring the ginger & 2 cups of water to a boil, remove from heat, and let cool 10-15 mins. 3. Mix ½ cup good apple cider vinegar and ½ cup maple syrup in a jar. I like dark maple syrup, but it’s whatever you want! 4. Add the ginger & boiled water to the vinegar-maple syrup mix. 5. Add the juice of half a lemon.
[ID: Photo of the finished switchel in a jar with ginger slices]
All done. Put it in the fridge. I like mixing 1 part switchel to 1 part seltzer when I drink it, and get about 3 servings out of this that way.
[ID: Photo of a glass of switchel cut with seltzer]
