A photoshoot for my grape Powerade bread experiment

there's a list of reasons I promise you. Documentation of my experiment :)

Went to my local grocery store, saw the prices of a single bottle of Gatorade, and promptly went to the dollar store instead. Alas they didn’t have any Gatorade but they DID have Powerade!

I’m using the no knead recipe, following every step besides swapping the water with purple Powerade. The dough was far stickier than it usually is with this recipe which is interesting to note.

I added a few drops of purple food dye because, as my twin said, “If I go to eat some tasty bread and bite into one of your culinary abominations I’m banning you from the kitchen.”

Behold my dough. Time for this baby to rest for 18 hours, then 15 minutes, then 2 more hours, AND THEN WE BAKE!

Next morning and behold: it has risen

It’s meant to have bubbles underneath its surface now…

I decided fuck it and I’m starting with the 15 minute fold and rest and then will proceed to the 2 hour rest and then bake.

Usually the dough of this recipe is very dry and barely able to be folded and stick to the other half of the dough. This one is very sticky and moldable with far less air bubbles.

When I folded it the smell of grape Gatorade hit me like a TRUCK. That shit was incredibly pungent.

Even if this just tastes like sweet bread, I’m intrigued to see how the Powerade made the yeast not yeast as much.

BEHOLD! I simply have to wait for the bread to cool down, do a photoshoot of this magnificent loaf, and taste it!

well it took me about 2 seconds to reblog this

oh my god chills

this is the theme that plays during the final battle scene climax of the movie of my life

tlmetodance

This Chemical really doesn't want to exist and will look for any reason at all to decompose.

For the first experiment, I will add this cotton ball.

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Source: Nile Red

Dear parents

Pretending that your kid isn't disabled and getting mad at them for needing more help and support than your other kids and wanting them to "try harder" and also pretend that THEY aren't disabled by ignoring their OWN needs as well doesn't make them less disabled by the way

TWILIGHT (2008) | THE BEAR (2022-)

don't destroy his self-esteem 🐦😆

Years and years ago, I read a book on cryptography that I picked up because it looked interesting--and it was!

But there was a side anecdote in there that stayed with me for more general purposes.

The author was describing a cryptography class that they had taken back in college where the professor was demonstrating the process of "reversibility", which is a principle that most codes depend on. Specifically, it should be easy to encode, and very hard to decode without the key--it is hard to reverse the process.

So he had an example code that he used for his class to demonstrate this, a variation on the Book Code, where the encoded text would be a series of phone numbers.

The key to the code was that phone books are sorted alphabetically, so you could encode the text easily--picking phone numbers from the appropriate alphabetical sections to use ahead of time would be easy. But since phone books were sorted alphabetically, not numerically, it would be nearly impossible to reverse the code without exhaustively searching the phone book for each string of numbers and seeing what name it was tied to.

Nowadays, defeating this would be child's play, given computerized databases, but back in the 80s and 90s, this would have been a good code... at least, until one of the students raised their hand and asked, "Why not just call the phone numbers and ask who lives there?"

The professor apparently was dumbfounded.

He had never considered that question. As a result, his cipher, which seemed to be nearly unbreakable to him, had such an obvious flaw, because he was the sort of person who could never coldcall someone to ask that sort of thing!

In the crypto book, the author went on to use this story as an example of why security systems should not be tested by the designer (because of course the security system is ready for everything they thought of, by definition), but for me, as a writer, it stuck with me for a different reason.

It's worth talking out your story plot with other people just to see if there's a "Why not just call the phone numbers?" obvious plot hole that you've missed, because of your singular perspective as a person. Especially if you're writing the sort of plot where you have people trying to outsmart each other.

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.

he has that sadness in his eyes that you only see in eastern european gay porn

[Image description: Two panel redraws of Dick Grayson in his original Nightwing suit. The first drawing is of him in his tattered Nightwing suit. The costume is ripped, exposing his shoulders and part of his chest on the left side of his body. His hair is windswept and there is blood trailing down his nose. The second image is of him still in the tattered Nightwing costume, but the part of him that were exposed are mostly covered up by a leather jacket he's wearing. His hair is tousled and he has a reflective facial expression. /End ID.]

Not all venom fans are monster fuckers 😞 some of us are just aroace disasters who like the idea of a platonic soulmate who likes to murder annoying people for you, is that so bad?

Guys I’m part of the club 🥺

monsterqueerplatonic

We got you, OP.

#sex is weird as fuck might as well add tentacles

This is the dream, tho?

this is what fantasy scholars are irl

Wizards are not naturally immortal, in fact creating their own form of immortality is their graduate thesis.

“I have created a perpetual healing spell.”

“A classic. Congratulations.”

“If my soul leaves my body, this spell will keep it around and lucid enough to magic myself back together.”

“Effective. Next?”

“My spell feeds off the life force of microscopic things! When bacteria die near me, it adds to my total. Wiping down the sink with antibacterial cleaner gives me SUCH a buzz; I think I may have to dial it down a bit.”

“…I would be very curious to see your notes about this spell.”