Gilrandir
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My favorite response to "hey, that's illegal!" people is to sing at them "it's only illegal if you get caught~"
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My favorite response to "hey, that's illegal!" people is to sing at them "it's only illegal if you get caught~"
You make a really good point about it being a brand rather than a movement... The sad thing is, it kinda makes sense that the only way to bring this many people together all at once (especially in this country) *is* through a blank-slate brand that people can take to mean whatever they want
June 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
You make a really good point about it being a brand rather than a movement... The sad thing is, it kinda makes sense that the only way to bring this many people together all at once (especially in this country) *is* through a blank-slate brand that people can take to mean whatever they want
Reminds me of this meme lol
June 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reminds me of this meme lol
I've eaten the outer red squishy bit of yew berries and they are indeed sweet and delicious :D
Someone also came up with a pie/tart recipe for them: fergustheforager.co.uk/recipe/yew-b...
Someone also came up with a pie/tart recipe for them: fergustheforager.co.uk/recipe/yew-b...
Yew Berry Tart | Fergus The Forager
If you know anything about the toxicology of yew, you might consider this recipe as being the plant-based wild food foragers version of the notorious Japanese Fugu or blow fish dish. Hence…
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June 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I've eaten the outer red squishy bit of yew berries and they are indeed sweet and delicious :D
Someone also came up with a pie/tart recipe for them: fergustheforager.co.uk/recipe/yew-b...
Someone also came up with a pie/tart recipe for them: fergustheforager.co.uk/recipe/yew-b...
My dad once took teenage me to a banquet with his all-male colleagues, and there was a dish of chicken testicles. I knew what it was, but out of a sense of mischief, I "innocently" asked what the dish was. Everyone hemmed and hawed, and then one man said, "Just eat it, it's good for your yang qi."
May 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
My dad once took teenage me to a banquet with his all-male colleagues, and there was a dish of chicken testicles. I knew what it was, but out of a sense of mischief, I "innocently" asked what the dish was. Everyone hemmed and hawed, and then one man said, "Just eat it, it's good for your yang qi."
So much of Chinese banquet food is just elevated starvation food.
May 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
So much of Chinese banquet food is just elevated starvation food.
I LOVE MUSHISHI
Ginko is one of my favorite characters of all time XD
Ginko is one of my favorite characters of all time XD
May 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I LOVE MUSHISHI
Ginko is one of my favorite characters of all time XD
Ginko is one of my favorite characters of all time XD
Fullmetal Alchemist (the manga, and the newer "Brotherhood" anime version, *not* the 2003 anime) has all of the above XD
The mangaka (Hiromu Arakawa) also did Silver Spoon which is a cozy Japanese agricultural high school slice of life/coming of age story (and also has an anime version).
The mangaka (Hiromu Arakawa) also did Silver Spoon which is a cozy Japanese agricultural high school slice of life/coming of age story (and also has an anime version).
May 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Fullmetal Alchemist (the manga, and the newer "Brotherhood" anime version, *not* the 2003 anime) has all of the above XD
The mangaka (Hiromu Arakawa) also did Silver Spoon which is a cozy Japanese agricultural high school slice of life/coming of age story (and also has an anime version).
The mangaka (Hiromu Arakawa) also did Silver Spoon which is a cozy Japanese agricultural high school slice of life/coming of age story (and also has an anime version).
Flip you around and you'd make a pretty passable Taiwan! (Image from this Reddit post, which is apparently a repost of a Tweet www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/com... )
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Flip you around and you'd make a pretty passable Taiwan! (Image from this Reddit post, which is apparently a repost of a Tweet www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/com... )
(Which is to say, everything you said above is extremely relatable to me XD )
April 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
(Which is to say, everything you said above is extremely relatable to me XD )
I've discovered that outside of the growing season, just standing in my yard passively soaking in the sun is surprisingly not as restful for my brain, because the active process of "unfucking my plants" is what makes my brain switch gears and engage with the world differently.
April 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I've discovered that outside of the growing season, just standing in my yard passively soaking in the sun is surprisingly not as restful for my brain, because the active process of "unfucking my plants" is what makes my brain switch gears and engage with the world differently.
*immediately sends this to my chemical engineering friend for his entertainment* XD
(He periodically rereads the "Things I Won't Work With" blog by Derek Lowe, for fun)
(He periodically rereads the "Things I Won't Work With" blog by Derek Lowe, for fun)
April 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
*immediately sends this to my chemical engineering friend for his entertainment* XD
(He periodically rereads the "Things I Won't Work With" blog by Derek Lowe, for fun)
(He periodically rereads the "Things I Won't Work With" blog by Derek Lowe, for fun)
I feel like conspiracy theorists have poisoned the messaging well because it's hard to raise any urgent alarms without sounding like a fucking crank =_=
April 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I feel like conspiracy theorists have poisoned the messaging well because it's hard to raise any urgent alarms without sounding like a fucking crank =_=
I feel like white people tend to especially fetishize The Law like this, which yes is "not how it works actually" but I also can't help but think about how much WORSE some of them could be if they weren't conditioned to think about it this way and realized all the things they could do with impunity.
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I feel like white people tend to especially fetishize The Law like this, which yes is "not how it works actually" but I also can't help but think about how much WORSE some of them could be if they weren't conditioned to think about it this way and realized all the things they could do with impunity.
This tweet is sadly perennially relevant
April 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This tweet is sadly perennially relevant
Same tbh
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The US has much more British heritage than it likes to admit. Yeah yeah you fought a ~*~revolution~*~ in the 1700s but also you just Brexit'd yourselves without even an EU to scapegoat.
April 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Same tbh
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A country where government officials can say, believe, and behave like this, and aren't immediately smacked down hard enough by reality.
(from www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m... )
(from www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m... )
![Tumblr post by dostoyevsky-official quoting an NYT article: "The [George W. Bush] aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." October 17, 2004.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mv5lwmxtr6iwgzrcguuhw6xi/bafkreihennf3pvlbr3kz7eo4pphun7gvthdrtzcycenwqly2y3aln5zuwy@jpeg)
April 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A country where government officials can say, believe, and behave like this, and aren't immediately smacked down hard enough by reality.
(from www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m... )
(from www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m... )
I think there's a spectrum of humanity ranging from "easily demagogued" to "not easily demagogued" in every country, but not many countries get to create their own hegemonic exceptionalism-ridden bubble insulated from the reality of "the rest of the world".
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I think there's a spectrum of humanity ranging from "easily demagogued" to "not easily demagogued" in every country, but not many countries get to create their own hegemonic exceptionalism-ridden bubble insulated from the reality of "the rest of the world".
That saying "good times make weak men" makes me think of this series of essays on "the Fremen mirage": acoup.blog/2020/01/17/c...
Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization
This week’s post is the first in a four part series (II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’m going to term the Fremen Mirage (a play on Le Mirage Spartiate, which we’ve…
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April 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
That saying "good times make weak men" makes me think of this series of essays on "the Fremen mirage": acoup.blog/2020/01/17/c...