Pleased to see that Walgreens has stopped texting "Hi! We've received a prescription. We're not going to do anything until we get a FILL reply back from this text. Hope your phone isn't in the repair shop this week! Reply THIS IS INCREDIBLY UNSAFE WTF to comprehend the situation better than we do!"
...But sometimes I also link to new posts over at the Food and Cooking of the Middle Kingdoms site. There's a really nice roast chicken recipe that's kinda late going up over there, and I'm tidying that one right now... foodandcooking.middlekingdoms.com
This weekend's project, for example, is not only about moving the Belgian waffle recipes over, but photographing this different Belgian one, involving REALLY THICK pork chops sizzled in butter and then cooked with apples and cider.
It'd be fair to say I do a goodish amount of foodposting over here, especially since @peter.petermorwood.com and I started moving our food writing off Tumblr and the old European Cuisines site and into mind-palate.com.
Seconding this, as a white dude who came up in the Mountain Music community:
I don't know how they did it, but between Rocky Road to Dublin, Go Lassie Go, and Pick Poor Robin Clean, the songs were *wrong*. Wonderfully performed, but unsettling in a way I can't quite put my finger on. 1/
Recognizing that not all criticisms are equally valid or need to be addressed has been a huge growth point for me
Yup. Buy whatever Brother laser printer is on sale. Never think about printing ever again. It Just Works.
Hey, re: those #keto waffles: I tested these earlier today. They're not bad. (I mean, they're a bit like eating air. But it was entirely-okay air.) πThe recipe made ten or so. gimmedelicious.com/keto-waffles/
Yes, we think by writing and we think by talking, for a start, and one shouldnβt classify βoffloading cognitionβ as immediately harmful just because something is happening outside the brain.
βThe snowpack is extremely low across much of the West, not because precipitation was extremely low β¦ but specifically because temperatures were record warm. That is the classic signature of a warming climate on mountain snowpack,β @weatherwest.bsky.social told @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social
A digital dawn sky (created in Terragen Sky). A caption against the clouds: "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken." And below, the hashtag: #GNU Terry Pratchett.
#GNUTerryPratchett
I've used a Brother printer for ages (8 or 9 years now). There are third-party toner sellers that are less expensive, and the Brother printer I purchased isn't precious about off-brand toner, so that's what I tend to use.
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
Ah crap. Kansas is presumably one of them - which others, if I may ask? (Asking for myself; I try to keep on top of this stuff but nowadays just searching for anti-trans bills get a mix of genuinely urgent new stuff and older things that didn't ultimately go through, so it's hard to keep track.)
(Also I totally coincidentally read this right after an Elizabeth Bear novel - The Machine, which was also really enjoyable - and both stories feature main characters with disabilities using & having complicated relationships with assistive exoskeletons, so that was interesting!)
I recently finished @nnedi.bsky.social's Death of the Author and I can 100% recommend. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing - it's two parallel/interwoven stories, about an author and then the actual story she's written, and both are great on their own and even better together.
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, for absurdly good Tang-dynasty-era historical fantasy. Kay often writes tragic characters; this is more of a tragic situation, and I have enjoyed finding the Wikipedia articles corresponding to the events & people therein. Ferghana horses, Li Bai the warrior poet...
Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education is fantastic, & the start of an urban fantasy/"boarding school" genre trilogy that is willing to actually do the work to ask why on earth wizards would send their kids to a dangerous school (i.e. the outside world is even deadlier). The audiobook narrator is great.
Le Cervin en Erebor, toile signée LePtitSuisse1972 (Kevin B.) La montagne suisse sert de modèle avec une belle façade, la ville du Val et une porte monumentale précédée de remparts. Elle se reflète dans une vaste rivière. Le dragon surgit au loin dans un ciel serein.
@tolkiendil.bsky.social
C'est ballot!
Pour l' #ArbrediTolkien ( #TolkienTrewsday) consacrΓ© aux ROYAUMES DES NAINS, j'avais l'intention de vous faire visiter plusieurs endroits,mais j'ai vu trop grand!
Je me contente donc de vous reposter plusieurs fils sur ce peuple remarquable en attendant mieux!‡οΈ
One of the gas stations near me jumped up $0.50 in less than 24 hours, whee.
Two red camellias and green leaves against the white siding of a house. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. March 2025. My garden.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African proverb.
π
Good morning!
Wishing you a wonderful Tuesday!
#Twosday
#dailyflowers π±
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
Two camellias from my garden.
As the article notes, FL did this and the gas stations/companies pocketed the difference. There was like one day where there was a notable difference.
Not that it needs repeating, but it does. Needs to be said and keep being said.
"Sinners" is a damn good movie.
A colorful sky appears above several large telescopes. Prominent in the sky is the band of the Milky Way Galaxy which arches across the frame. Orange laser beams connect one of the telescopes to the sky on the image right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
π Sky Glows over Paranal Observatory
Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten
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Which is to say, Iβm unbelievably thrilled to say this morning Iβve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
New interview with me & Dwarkesh Patel. Deliberately misleading start quote there, but I think itβs to draw people in. youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA?...
you wanna learn VFX?
The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything
grab it while you can
thevfxschool.com
Brooklyn has been graced with the appearance of a swan so rare that experts say there have been no recorded sightings of the bird in New York Cityβuntil now.
