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submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Playing with dry ice and water.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 565 comments

the emotional logic of fascism

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 1 day ago • 562 comments

Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

okay, as a way of sort of gauging something for a potential project i am thinking about - if you’re a federal worker or contractor, and you’ve been impacted by doge, what would be the best way to solicit some information from you? not asking for your email or number, just asking a hypothetical.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Impromptu chili crisp day! Had some leftover chiles, so I threw some chili crisp together. This batch had fennel, star anise, black pepper, and Sichuan peppercorn. These spices worked well with the leftover fried ancho chiles and guajillo powder I wanted to use up + salt, sugar, & MSG to taste.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I decanted last week’s kraut today. 2% salt tastes much less salty than 3%. I’d let it ferment longer, but I think we’d run through the available sugars. It’s got a nice, brighter green color. It’s mild and crisp. I had a bunch on rice noodles with dill and sour cream—it was delicious.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

A thought provoking thread that eventually finds its way to a discussion of the famous Niemöller poem—that we don’t understand it properly because we don’t know he voted for and supported the Nazi party. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is incredibly stupid.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The video in the article is pretty disturbing. Some white dudes in plain clothes come and detain three people who are just trying to do their jobs. No papers, no badges, no uniforms. One “officer” is even wearing a mask. People are being disappeared.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Living in a Neal Stephenson novel is less cool than I thought it’d be when I was 17

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

This is a great explainer about "indirect costs" of research and why slashing them will bring scientific discover to a halt.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

New batch of sauerkraut started. Last batch moved to a smaller container. 1814 grams of cabbage with 36 grams of salt.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments