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Snowball effect

@toastwithhope-blog / toastwithhope-blog.tumblr.com

It has started, i hope it won't end soon
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elvensemi

Does anyone else have that one friend whose sleep schedule is like an ever-evolving mystery? One day they’ll appear to be asleep for the entire 16 hours that you’re awake, but the next three they won’t appear to actually sleep at all. Sometimes they appear to be on Australian time, other times their schedule has adjusted to somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean. (I call this Cthulhu time.) You go a week without seeing them and you have no idea if they’re just really busy, dead, or if their sleep has simply synced up to the exact hours you’re awake and online. The only indication that they’re still in this mortal coil is vague posts about grocery shopping that pop up on their blogs at 4:12AM. 

I’m horrified at myself because I randomly decided on 4:12AM for an obscure and horrible hour in the morning, but after I posted I glanced down at the clock and 

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did i just vaguepost about myself

There are two things I love about this post: 

  • the number of people who are, with apologies, That Friend
  • the fact it keeps getting splorts of notes every day at 4:12am
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leepacey

hey so it turns out that brian moylan, the journalist who outed lee pace and caused that whole situation, also wrote an article in 2012 titled “I don’t regret outing Anderson Cooper” 

and here’s what brian’s up to now (after lee had to clarify everything on twitter and defend his existence and desire for privacy):

so can we like. get rid of this guy

i’ve been trying to come up with something to add to this but i can’t. i have no words

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calderonbeta

Nothing about us without us.  Image description: [pale purple and yellow background with dark text] This April, don’t support an organization that harms autistic people. [crossed out logo for Autism Speaks] Support one built by autistic people, for autistic people. [logos for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Women’s Network]

Reblogging to spread the word, cause evidence shows that Autism $peaks are classic horror movie villains.

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therothwoman

Reblogging because I’ve always wondered who to support instead of AS.

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1863-project

To every friend of mine who reblogs this, thank you. It means I can trust you. <3

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“They think deaf people aren’t supposed dance or hear the music.”

Watch Shaheem prove them wrong.

I’ve watched shaheem and Kida dance for years. Their whole family is full of talent and inspiration.

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A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 
Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 
Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.
Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 
Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.
Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

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davetheshady

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

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Things we know:

• Griffin uploaded a demo of Game Maker studio 2 with Pat to Polygon, where he shows off two mostly functional games that he designed himself and programmed in about 30 hours

• Griffin uploaded the Adventure Zone as a filler episode for MBMBAM when Justin was on parental leave.

• In the Adventure Zone, when Griffin first started composing original tracks, he prefaced it with “I’m just starting out, so I’m not good at it…” These soundtracks raised over $10,000 for charity.

What I’m saying is that Griffin could basically make Undertale 2 over a weekend if he was bored. I’m not sure I can comprehend that level of power

This reminds me of Clint’s foreword in The Adventure Zine where he mentions that Griffin taught himself to read at 2 ½ years old because he would watch his brothers read Final Fantasy dialogue out loud and…

Everything about Griffin just make so much sense

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