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Okay, I completely understand that getting time off work can be a Sisyphean ordeal these days, but every time I run into the whole "only rich people go on vacation" discourse I'm thinking surely I'm not the only one whose childhood experience of "going on vacation" was piling everybody into the car and driving for six hours to pay twenty dollars a day for the privilege of setting up some leaky tents on a fifty-foot-by-fifty-foot patch of dirt next to a mosquito-infested pond in a "private campground" whose only standout features were a. an outdoor miniature golf course that hadn't been maintained in twenty years, and b. a truly breathtaking fire ant population.
#my mom did this too#she stacked enough free timeshare incentives for a whole vacation#including free lodging
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A music teacher / conductor I worked with once told us "this sounds like cows!" and it took us a couple days to realize he meant chaos because we assumed he was just insulting our playing. Because it deserved the cow insult anyway.
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history is neither cyclical nor linear but a secret third thing
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Let's not forget that plenty of stuff seemed "humanitarian aid", even in the absence of religion, is colonialism. USAID may be a cute acronym but do you really think the US Agency for International Development is really providing assistance because the US government cares and wants to help?
Hint: this is on the front page of their website
USAID's work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity
still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.
the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work
the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:
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I got the questions from @dearwriters post:
My wonderful wifey @perpetual-lurker made me character sheets to help with keeping my thoughts organized while writing!
(that "backstory" section is going to fill up fast tho...)
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The best video game to ever exist. Available through basically any abandonware site now. The reason for my favorite movie (Of Girls and Horses).
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I'm watching a cooking + related homemaking tips show from 2005. Seeing the classic 2000s aesthetic that turned into the Pinterest aesthetic is nostalgic. But there's something else I've really noticed...
This show is aspirational (see: Pinterest style aesthetic), but the main focus is making it achievable. How to make it easier, little hacks to make stuff look fancy, just generally practical tips. All my beloved comfort cooking shows from the 2000s are like this. EMERIL is like this.
It's pretty well accepted among people I know that the tradwife aesthetic is intentionally out of reach - leisure class and all that. But it's not just the crunchy, I have enough time to make bread every day content that is like this! Every "easy" recipe on the Internet requires SO MUCH prep, and no one is giving tips on how to cut down on that. I searched "pantry recipes" and every single recipe required fresh vegetables - some only needed onions, but many required a whole list with no notes for how to alter the recipe for canned / frozen veggies.
My mom used to look up easy / slow cooker / casserole recipes and actually get those! No excessive cream cheese, no making a whole soup on the stove then just transferring it to a crock pot to simmer, no unrealistic prep time estimates, no assuming you already know shortcuts. Yes frozen veggies, yes canned tomatoes, yes including chopping in the prep time, yes recipe notes on substitutions.
I can't be the only person who is struggling because I can't handle cooking everything from scratch, but I also can barely handle searching for alternatives. Coming up with my own shortcuts is SO MUCH WORK. Why are there no tips for that any more?
How many other things am I struggling with because the "right way" is more complicated than it needs to be? I can't distinguish between someone being sanctimonious and someone being helpful except when it's particularly extreme, and even then it takes me some time. I've been in disability / neurodivergent groups where no one had tips between "do it from scratch" and "get someone else to do it". I just want to contribute and eat a balanced diet and have a clean house.
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The DMV is privatized where I live and it's definitely worse than where I grew up
People who claim private companies are more efficient than the government have never tried to talk to their insurance company
#you have to go to a different place for EVERYTHING#the licensing center near me split the process into tons if tiny steps#you wait less time between each step but SO MUCH MORE total
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If you are able to add HTML tags, you can and should use the lang attribute! This tells screen readers the language of the whole page and any different language on specific parts.
Do you know how screen readers deal with multiple languages, especially ones with different writing systems?
I just IDed an image that was mostly text, and had a relevant section in Chinese, which I can speak (though not fluently); so in the description, I typed the characters directly in Chinese, then said what it meant in English. Since I posted it, though, I've been worried it might break the screen reader, or just read as something like [symbol].
It depends a lot on the screen reader! VoiceOver, for example, will generally read anything with a unique script fairly accurately as long as it's mainstream enough. Things like Chinese, Japanese, Russian...VoiceOver seems to switch between that and English just fine, even mid-sentence. However, if the language is one that uses a roman alphabet just like English does, it's going to read it using English rules (since my screen reader's default is set to English, I assume) unless someone codes in a language property to the page.
In any case, I think what you did was the most accessible option. If I came across that, my screen reader would probably read it perfectly, even if I did not personally understand it.
Oh, and just for the record, this isn't necessarily just a roman alphabet thing. If it's something like Abjad, I think there is a good chance your average screen reader is going to assume it's supposed to be Arabic even if it's actually Farsi or something.
And of course, there are likely some screen readers that are not equipped to read any symbols except those of the roman alphabet, but I think it's important to preserve the language where possible.
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Also music sounds so much better on it. I feel like a weird vinyl hipster now but the equalizer on my phone is shit apparently.
It's Spotify wrapped season but this year I went back to using my iPod nano from 2008 because of Spotify wrapped
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It's Spotify wrapped season but this year I went back to using my iPod nano from 2008 because of Spotify wrapped
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Christmas Movie Theory
Why adults in Christmas movies don't believe in Santa even though these presents they didn't buy show up under the tree every year
Mom buys presents for kid(s)
Dad buys no presents
Santa brings presents
Mom thinks Santa's presents were bought by Dad & he is pulling his weight in the present buying department
Dad thinks Santa's presents were bought by Mom and dealing with Christmas presents are entirely Mom's job
Mom & Dad at no point communicate about this because they both think everything is working properly
Brought to you by: the only person I know whose parents actually split present duty (my dad was in charge of homemade gifts, my mom was in charge of tracking down weird shit on the internet that no one else would have, and they had a list of which stores they each went to)
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I finally figured out my mom's cranberry sauce recipe this year! Here it is, adjusted for shrinkflation (cranberry bags are only 12 oz now) and with more detailed explanations for the steps.
This cranberry sauce is significantly sweeter than canned cranberry sauce, but since it's strained it's just as smooth.
If you are doubling the batch, you will have to cook the cranberries (step 2) longer - I had to decrease the cooking time compared to the original recipe. For reference, the original recipe with 16 oz cranberries was 20 minutes instead of 15.
Serving suggestions: on turkey, on a roll, on a sandwich, with a spoon
If it doesn't gel properly, it's still really yummy & also you can use it in holiday cocktails!
Ingredients:
12 oz cranberries
1.5 cups water
1.5 cups sugar
Directions:
Boil the water in a medium saucepan
Add the cranberries, turn the heat to low, and cover. Let them cook for 15 minutes. Every time the cranberries bubble to the top of the saucepan, remove the lid, stir the cranberries, and replace the lid. (Notes for this step: This is how you cook the cranberries for long enough without burning them or losing too much liquid. The cranberries should pop pretty quickly - it sounds kind of like popcorn. Once the cranberries pop, the pulp will mix into the water.)
Use a mesh strainer to strain the cranberry skins/seeds (what you discard) from the pulp (what you keep). Do this just a little at a time, discarding the skins as you go to keep the strainer from clogging. Use a spoon to push the mixture through the strainer since it should be quite viscous.
Return the strained pulp to the saucepan & add the sugar.
Bring the mixture up to a boil. It will be a pretty gentle boil because of how thick it is.
Pour the sauce into the container you want to serve / store it in.
Let it cool to room temperature. The sauce should already be starting to gel.
Cover the sauce & place it in the fridge to finish gelling. Overnight works best.
#recipe#family recipe#cranberry sauce#cranberry bags have been 12 oz for a few years now#figuring out that I had to adjust the cooking time was the last piece of the puzzle#also the saucepan NEEDS to be covered while cooking the cranberries or they won't cook properly
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This is my mom's sweet potato casserole recipe. I will not eat any other kind.
The liquid should add up to about a cup, and I use half oj / half dark rum but you can use any proportion! It tastes good with only orange juice too.
If I make a half batch, it fits perfectly in my large rectangular pyrex so it's very easy to prep ahead of time. (Perfectly means room for marshmallows on top!)
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boil sweet potatoes (6 big) and then skin
food processor
1/2 stick butter
brown sugar 1/4 - 1/2 c
salt
orange juice
rum
chopped pecans / walnuts
By hand mix raisins
Marshmallows on top @ end
1 hr @ 350 F
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There's a bar like this near me except it's decorated ENTIRELY with ravens instead of crows.
It is overpriced and terrible, as you would expect from someone who cannot tell different species of corvid apart.
Mickey's sounds much better.
Trev/Mickey headcanon: They will eventually own their own bar! The Crow Bar (aka The Bar With All the Crows) that Mickey talked about opening in "Ambergris". They won't have actual crows there, because that would be a bad idea and Hugo and Ron would never allow it, but it will be decorated in all sort of crow related art and collectables. There will be a jukebox that only features songs by artists with crow in their name (Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, The Black Crowes, Old Crow Medicine Show, etc).
Ranger Matthew Danko and Tina Belcher (who will definitely be old enough to legally drink by the time these guys get their act together) are among the regulars.
#it also projects old horror movies WITHOUT SOUND OR SUBTITLES#that could have been the only redeeming quality#but these aren't silent movies so you just can't follow them#and the music sucks
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What concerns me is the "what people think other people think" line - 51% negative.
My mom's sister would describe herself as having positive/supportive views of trans people.
She basically didn't talk to my mom for the last 3 years of my mom's life because my mom told all of her siblings that they had to invite both me (lesbian) and my wife (trans) to all family events or else she would not come, because she could not attend events where we were not supported. This is because my mom's brother completely cut her off over this, and my aunt didn't want her brother to cut her off as well.
People will absolutely enable hate because they fear social consequences and "positive views" don't stop that.
Turns out the British public has more positive views of lgbt people than the British media would suggest. Cis lesbians are tied with cis bisexual for expressing the most supportive views on trans people
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