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nicole

If you don’t know what a popover is, or you’ve never had a good one, I weep for you. I’ve made them so many times that I don’t even need a recipe.

The same can’t be said for the cookies: the recipe my mother used came from her mother who usually sourced her recipe’s from her friends and her bridge club.

My grandmother passed earlier this year. I hadn’t spoken with her, or anyone else on that side for years. Originally, this was because of a legal battle over her estate, of which I was trustee for a time; in the final year, because I’d come out as trans, and that was a few bridges too far for their brand of 1950’s liberalism.

Thankfully, I was able to find a recipe online that lined up well with my memory of the key ingredients. I made them last night, and the results were deeply soothing.

Highly recommended.

goodlifeeats.com/recipe-exchan

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nicole

My father’s family was Jewish. If my mother’s family ever had a religion, they chose not to share it with their children. Neither of my parents were even the slightest bit religious.

Holidays at my parent’s house were crow-assembled: bits and bobs of different traditions—nothing sacred, nothing pure; nothing consistent from one year to the next.

So, when the holidays come up over the horizon, I don’t have a lot of rituals to cling to. The tidings I crave are really just two baked goods that were usually to be found in my parents’ kitchen around the end of the year:

1. chocolate gingerbread cookies (light on the ginger, heavy on the cloves);
2. popovers.

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David Radcliffe

May God grant me the confidence of a large language model.

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Sufficient Daisy

It's cool how we can talk about being women on here without randoms popping up every few minutes to ask what a woman is :P

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🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana

I once got literally 10 pages from the end of a novel, before the big reveal or whatever, realized I'd been unsatisfied throughout the entire book, didn't care about the main character or the outcome and despite the sunken cost and time investment to get to this point, it literally wasn't worth it to me to read another word.

So, I put down the book without ever reading through the rest of the pages, and I started another one.

This post isn't about transitioning, but it could be.

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Adam Hall :donor: 🇳🇿 🇺🇸

If your web/app won’t let me paste a password your web/app is shitty

If your Corp policy is to make me change my password every 30/60/90 days your security is shitty

If I can’t use passwordless and/or authenticator sign in, you’re making us both less safe.

Do the right things. #InfoSec

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Ten🏳️‍⚧️

When I was a kid, my dad got fired from his job as a road worker for theft.

I refused to believe he could do such a thing, but when I got home…

The signs were all there.

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Abby Normal

#Cats as #art.

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nicole

I won’t lie, I feel some pride whenever I come in to the office. 🥰

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🌈 Tilly Bridges ✨

we have started a #Fringe rewatch and oh hey HELLO there’s my crush on Anna Torv still going strong I see

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Mark Doyle

The obvious solution to AI-generated student essays is AI-generated instructor feedback.

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We need feet on the ground tonight! If you have people in Melbourne who can help out please send them this poster.

We can't allow these fascists to harass and attack queer artists and scar children who will be there for a show.

If you cant be there in person boost for someone who can.

UPDATE POSTED BELOW

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🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana

Meeting new people is wild when you're #trans. It's a weird game of mental roulette where you smile at each other while wondering if the other person is literally thinking about the methods they want to use to murder you, or feel excited that they've spotted a mythical being they want to befriend, or if they even notice or care that you're trans at all. And probably some other options, too.

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Violent 1970’s Japanese Action Cinema 

I’ve slowly been working my way through the Lone Wolf and Cub film series on the Channel.

It’s a sequence of six low-budget samurai produced between 1972 and 1974, based on the manga of the same name.

The conceit: wandering ronin assassin-for-hire pushing along a wooden baby carriage with his infant son.

I can’t believe I’ve never been made to see them before; I’ve barely even heard of them.

They’re _wonderful_.

They’re shoestring kinetic vignettes clocking in at around 80 minutes each, adhering to a simple narrative structure that feels like it was plucked straight from oral storytelling; it’s raw, gonzo, violent, lurid storytelling at its unapologetic best.

It’s been a minute since I’ve seen anything so comfortable with its own limitations, and so earnest in its telling.

criterion.com/boxsets/1217-lon

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Marcin ✌️:blobSmileSweating:

Woohoo, I'm a Pocket 1%-er again this year :blob_cat_dance: :blobParty: :partyparrot: :catJam:

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The Public Domain Review

Entering the US public domain in 2023: Fritz Lang's silent film science-fiction classic *Metropolis*.

More info behind window 6 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: publicdomainreview.org/feature #PDin2023 #film #metropolis

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Evan Greer 🏳️‍⚧️

Here's our STATEMENT on the #JCPA being removed from the #NDAA. Now it's time for Dems to deliver on their promise to rein in #BigTech. #AICOA and #OAMA are the only tech bills left standing. Schumer is out of excuses. Put them up for a vote! fightforthefuture.org/news/202

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Fossilized Tree Resin

You are not being lazy you are just practicing for when the forest comes to reclaim your bones.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.

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