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today I used the phrase “breasting boobily” in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil’s sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn’t god
“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book
Hey, @copperbadge, fellow super taster. Can you explain red velvet cake to me? Because I can taste the food coloring in it I don’t understand how the chocolate flavor is supposed to dominate over the food coloring the flavor. Have you ever had it? Does it taste like chocolate? Or does it taste like burning chemicals like food coloring does?
I’m given to understand that the original red velvet cake is a bit of a mystery but did not use food coloring – it was brown sugar or maybe a combination of buttermilk and chocolate or possibly beets (though this seems to have been a later invention during sugar rationing) that gave it a deep red hue. Red food coloring was a later development probably touted by food coloring manufacturers considering how much it uses. I know a lot of people who don’t like it for that reason.
I generally don’t have it because if it’s on offer there’s usually something better-looking also on offer; I honestly can’t recall if I’ve ever had it because I’ve eaten a LOT of food that I’ve tasted additives like food coloring in. :D I generally don’t eat iced grocery store cookies or even some bakery cookies because I know I’ll get that odd aftertaste. I do use food coloring sometimes but very sparingly, and usually only to color-code food for others (“the green pizza bites are vegetarian, the red have pepperoni, the purple are no-tomato.”)
I’ll have to pick up a slice next time I’m at the grocery store or a bakery that sells it and find out.
OH! I know this one! Bear with me, please, because it’s a combination answer.
Also, you don’t really need to read the itlicized stuff unless you’re like me and into food history.
we need to remind people that the central, pivotal plot point was
a secret A.I. tracked everyone by their social media,
including identifying targets *before* they did anything to oppose,
and then launched missiles at them. on domestic soil
watch the film. it came out as military excess/surplus flowed into local police / national guard hands, which is how many BLM protestors were targeted with facial recognition *back then*.
On a fractionally brighter note, the entire end of the movie was about how it wasn’t Captain America that slowed stuff down and resulted in a victory. It was a scared little guy who chose to do the right thing with a gun pointed at his head. Steve said that it was about every individual and the choice they made.
That movie was the only Marvel movie that didn’t have military funding. Because the US military didn’t like the message that it was filled with corruption and that any average citizen has the power to fight back.
I’m not in any position to do much. All I can do is remind the people who might be that every single battle against fascism is fought mostly by the cogs in the machine. Workers who refuse. Who chose to quietly, and sometimes loudly, hinder anything in their power. From forced factory workers making dud bombs to bureaucrats who forged papers that got people to safety, to soldiers who just said “fuck this” and joined the antifascists.
It’s just a movie. But it’s a movie with an accurate message. One based in history and hope.
And dear sweet gods, I think this is a moment in history where we need to remember the hope part.
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
i’m listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a “habitat restoration”. when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.
later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.
then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner’s garden.
This quote really got me: “The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design. But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them.”
ALT
