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Today's the day. February 28: ECONOMIC BLACKOUT. Zero purchases, if you can manage it; otherwise, locally owned businesses only. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311972/economic-blackout-february-28-explainer

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#amCooking did the crockpot chicken pot pie again (cf. https://wandering.shop/@NicoleJLeBoeuf/114049633461314317) same recipes, BUT Didn't want to wait to defrost the chicken breast, so, crock pot NO, #InstantPot YES! Place froze chx on wire trivet at the bottom. Add the Step 2 ingredients […]

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

[thoughts on Netflix SANDMAN 2] TV adaptations are one of the places where I can "separate the art from the artist" because there are so, so, so many more creatives at work than the original story's author. They work hard and brilliantly. They make the story theirs. Which is to say: I am […]

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#amCooking crock-pot chicken pot pie, because someone mentioned doing that and I thought, Damn, that sounds tasty. Going with this recipe: https://thesavvymama.com/slow-cooker-chicken-pot-pie/ and I don't have any packaged biscuits on hand, so I'll be making these […]

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I love my #rollerDerby crew I love that within the league we have a #bookClub I love that this Sunday we'll be discussing John Wiswell's SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN and I especially love that one of the attendees, inspired by the reading, will be making rosemary sourdough, or something […]

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

you know it's just one of those days when after every SINGLE THING taking longer than it has to you hit the road and THERE ARE GEESE CROSSING THE ROAD just like this herd of fifteen Canada geese walking across the street at casual goose-ambling speed and you will have to wait, or detour (honk)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

#rabbitsOfMastodon #BunniesOfMastodon #AI #LLMs So after the vet informed us there are other Oxbow Adult Rabbit Food varieties than Essentials (in case Holland was getting bored) I did some searches to learn more. I found this article on "rabbit care word dot com" (link munged for reasons […]

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The Friday Fictionette Project continues catching up on the January. Three releases down, one to go! Friday, January 17, 2025: "When a Unicorn Decides to Eat Your Cucumbers," it tends to make that which once was buried sprout anew. ebook: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121759476 audio […]

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The Monday Muse is late this week because everything is a lot. Here it is: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121684224 (public post) In which I lament and rage the state of things right now, suggest further reading for the constructive small-time activist, and also offer a writing prompt.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

#amCooking https://thewoksoflife.com/oxtail-soup/ Method variations: Roasted the oxtail in a cast iron dutch oven for 30 min. Added the onion and kept roasting another 20 min. before adding the 12 C water. Left it in the oven - it'll simmer there just as well as on the stove. Wild Pastures […]

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

[USpol: dem lawmakers fighting back] #USpol Signal boosting the stands our Democratic lawmakers are taking against {{all this}} https://social.demcast.com/toolkit/DemsAreFighting-b2b9 All items are easily shareable across most social media. (No plain-text links suitable for Mastodon posting […]

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Yikes. Just got an all-authors email blast from the publisher at Penguin Random House, expressing their support for authorial freedom of expression and explaining what they're doing to push back against censorship, including lawsuits against book bans. So this is all good stuff, right? […]

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

My spouse is well and truly sick and miserable (probably with whatever it was I had two weeks ago because he has literally been around no one else since I developed symptoms) I find myself wishing I could comfort him with fresh chicken broth and oxtail soup (I added oxtail to today's Wild […]

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

[#USpol: The financial coup continues, with terrible software engineering practices] #USpol Look, as a native USian who was taught about the U.S. Constitution and the system of checks and balances like it was the national religion, I'm obviously appalled. But I am also screaming as a […]

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

[USpol: federal funds and 2024 income taxes] So 2024 turned out to be the wrong damn year to Be An Adult And File Estimated Tax Payments For Once, leaving myself no option to join a general "I ain't payin' until law and order re: federal funds is restored" strike.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

[USpol: resistance] #USpol "Is Somebody Doing Something?!" --Jay Kuo https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-somebody-doing-something "It’s helpful to think of the response as falling into four distinct yet sometimes overlapping categories.... the personal, the political, the legal and the […]

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, a USPS worker came to our door, holding the awkwardly huge box of Off Guard Game books in translation that needed a signature upon delivery. The USPSer made sure I had a good grip on it before he let go, let me hand it off to @worldnamer before having one of us sign for it, and THEN […]

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

[USpol but focused on good news] #USpol If you, like me, need occasional doses of good news to help you weather the political dumpster fire and scrape up the energy to keep on keepin' on, Jessica Craves has you covered. Here's this weekend's "Extra! Extra!" […]

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I am unreasonably delighted that 1. Boulder restaurant El Rincón (formerly Rincón del Sol) has menudo on the menu! On the everyday menu! I remember several years ago dining in and asking after posole, and being told "No, I'm sorry, no posole, no menudo..." Well, still no posole, but they got […]

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Soooooo that Time article breathlessly warning us that AIs are now smart enough to strategically lie to us? and with all the anthropomorphizing language making Claude sound like a sentient being with malign intent? Probably worth reading the original paper: "Alignment faking in large language […]

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

[USpol] #USpol Someone who I thought was on my side, it turns out, reacted elseweb to Trump's inauguration with "I'm in tears! So proud! A new era of hope!" I wanted to ask them, "Hope for what? What precisely are you hoping for?" Someone commented, pointing out Trump's record as a rapist […]

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"Ms. X feels no need to police the boundaries of womanhood, because to her it is capacious and welcoming. It wants only equality; she has felt the world trying to shrink her for being a woman and has refused to shrink. Her hands are stained with ink; when she cooks, she uses too much garlic […]

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

[USpol] #USpol "Judge AliKhan Didn’t Halt Trump’s Funding Freeze Alone, Democracy Forward Did Too" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/29/judge-alikhan-didnt-halt-trumps-funding-freeze-alone-democracy-forward-did-too/ Yeah, I know, I just boosted this - but having read the article, I was […]

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments