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The Treachery of Tools
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source: https://www.tumblr.com/?page=3
tacofredag
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A plank of wood with 5 tacos on it. The taco shells are formed into small trays filled with meat, lettuce, pickled onion, tomato and cilantro.
"But there is room for creativity. Over time, Norwegians have adapted the taco to local tastes and ingredients. In the hunter-led northern reaches, reindeer and moose can appear in place of beef, while smoked salmon, shrimp and other fish versions crop up along the coast."
https://www.bbc.com/travel...
I am 100% in for Norwegian tacos.
Bonus: You know this isn't a niche anymore when your national statistics office has an official taco ingredients price index to track inflation: https://www.ssb.no/priser-o...
https://www.bbc.com/travel...
I am 100% in for Norwegian tacos.
Bonus: You know this isn't a niche anymore when your national statistics office has an official taco ingredients price index to track inflation: https://www.ssb.no/priser-o...
That looks like pickled red onions. Dang!
we noticed your vibe from across time and space
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vintage photo of couple in shiny close in a round bed lined with shelves of AV equipment
We-R-Hungry. R-U-Noon-Meal?
me_irl
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checkmate
Yes to this King
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Stephen King in a red t shirt 'Waiting for the big beautiful obituary '
The babe has spoken
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Went to a biodiversity museum yesterday and checked out a bunch of specimens. It was great. These eggs were such pretty colours and so delicate looking.
It felt really inspiring. I used to draw exclusively insects and collect them too. Kind of want to draw some of the creatures I saw yesterday.
It felt really inspiring. I used to draw exclusively insects and collect them too. Kind of want to draw some of the creatures I saw yesterday.
As I was getting into birdwatching, a colleague of mine gave me this incredible book on bird eggs from around the world. You might appreciate it.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp...
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"Public media should not lie."
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A TV in a living room with a message in Hungarian on the screen
source: https://www.theguardian.com/world...
"Hungarian public media outlets close to Viktor Orbán have suspended broadcasting, the country’s prime minister said as he hailed efforts to dismantle the longtime nationalist leader’s control over information."
The message on the TV reads, "Public media should not lie. We are sorry for doing it for so long. Public media now will be reformed so it will be independent and trustworthy. Our news program is currently suspended. Stay tuned!"
"Hungarian public media outlets close to Viktor Orbán have suspended broadcasting, the country’s prime minister said as he hailed efforts to dismantle the longtime nationalist leader’s control over information."
The message on the TV reads, "Public media should not lie. We are sorry for doing it for so long. Public media now will be reformed so it will be independent and trustworthy. Our news program is currently suspended. Stay tuned!"
Double Lambretta, 1953
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B&W photo of 1950s family, with man seated at a motor scooter with 2 front wheels
Lol my other car is a bikes!
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two Lambrettas at the same time, man.
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two Lambrettas at the same time, man.
(slaps fender) just think how many mirrors you could mount on this baby!
NO MUSELE SHIRTS
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photo of a sign outside an unknown establishment that reads:
NO WEAPONS ALLOWED
NO WEED
NO SAGGING PAINTS
NO MUSELE SHIRTS
NO WEAPONS ALLOWED
NO WEED
NO SAGGING PAINTS
NO MUSELE SHIRTS
source: funrbuwk
75 Hacks Chefs Actually Use
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This video features professional chefs sharing 75 practical kitchen hacks and techniques designed to improve efficiency, consistency, and food quality for both professional kitchens and home cooks. The hacks cover a wide range of tasks, from basic prep to advanced sauce techniques.
Key Highlights:
Food Prep & Handling:
• Handling Sticky Ingredients: Dip hands in water to handle mince or dough without sticking (0:29).
• Garlic: Soak bulbs in hot water for 25 minutes to make them easier to peel (3:18) or blend minced garlic with oil and lemon juice for easy storage (8:16).
• Ginger: Freeze ginger to grate it easily without getting fibrous strands stuck in the grater (3:46).
• Vegetable Prep: Use a vegetable peeler over a container for better stability (9:37) and cut peppers by removing the top, bottom, and inner membrane to flatten them out (6:26).
Meat & Fish:
• Steak: Use fine salt to create a superior crust compared to flaky salt (0:42) and always rest meat in butter paper to prevent overheating (14:36).
• Fish: Dry fish skin in the fridge for 6 hours before cooking for ultimate crispiness (19:39) and use a thin layer of mayonnaise on the skin side to prevent sticking (7:18).
• Lamb: Use string to clean lamb rack bones efficiently (12:15).
Sauces & Emulsions:
• Mayonnaise: Use a stick blender and add all oil at once for a quick, silky result (6:44). If it splits, whisk it into a new egg yolk to re-emulsify (11:36).
• Béchamel: Use warm milk to prevent lumps (5:35).
• Finishing: Always finish sauces with acid, like vinegar, to balance richness (15:03).
Advanced Techniques:
• Eggs: Poach eggs by sieving the thin albumen first for a perfect shape (7:42) and bake fried eggs in trays for high-volume service (1:44).
• Pickling: Use the microwave to soften cucumbers for instant pickling (4:23).
• Cartouche: Create a perfect parchment paper lid (cartouche) to protect sauces while allowing moisture to escape (33:05).
Key Highlights:
Food Prep & Handling:
• Handling Sticky Ingredients: Dip hands in water to handle mince or dough without sticking (0:29).
• Garlic: Soak bulbs in hot water for 25 minutes to make them easier to peel (3:18) or blend minced garlic with oil and lemon juice for easy storage (8:16).
• Ginger: Freeze ginger to grate it easily without getting fibrous strands stuck in the grater (3:46).
• Vegetable Prep: Use a vegetable peeler over a container for better stability (9:37) and cut peppers by removing the top, bottom, and inner membrane to flatten them out (6:26).
Meat & Fish:
• Steak: Use fine salt to create a superior crust compared to flaky salt (0:42) and always rest meat in butter paper to prevent overheating (14:36).
• Fish: Dry fish skin in the fridge for 6 hours before cooking for ultimate crispiness (19:39) and use a thin layer of mayonnaise on the skin side to prevent sticking (7:18).
• Lamb: Use string to clean lamb rack bones efficiently (12:15).
Sauces & Emulsions:
• Mayonnaise: Use a stick blender and add all oil at once for a quick, silky result (6:44). If it splits, whisk it into a new egg yolk to re-emulsify (11:36).
• Béchamel: Use warm milk to prevent lumps (5:35).
• Finishing: Always finish sauces with acid, like vinegar, to balance richness (15:03).
Advanced Techniques:
• Eggs: Poach eggs by sieving the thin albumen first for a perfect shape (7:42) and bake fried eggs in trays for high-volume service (1:44).
• Pickling: Use the microwave to soften cucumbers for instant pickling (4:23).
• Cartouche: Create a perfect parchment paper lid (cartouche) to protect sauces while allowing moisture to escape (33:05).
Some really good tips in there. Definitely using the mayo on fish skin hack next time I cook.
I was a little pleased with myself that I already did many of these but the one I most want to try is the dilute vinegar rinse for berries.
Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.
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This photo immediately made me nostalgic for state parks in the northern Appalachians in a way that scenic photos usually don't. Guess I'm not that outdoorsy of a person.
The WPA built millions of less impressive but very necessary outhouses across the southern USA. They are hilariously under-documented because it was seen as rude and embarrassing to take pictures of shitters.
mount
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A rocky mountain peak under a gray sky. Hovering directly above the peak, fixed in a beam of white light, is a 3.5 inch floppy disk with a white red-striped label. If you grew up in the 90s, you probably still have at least one of these somewhere. Slightly farther down, approaching the hovering disk, are several people wearing robes. One of them is holding a staff. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
“It belongs in a MUSEUM!”
—Indy Jones as he starts shooting the robed figures
—Indy Jones as he starts shooting the robed figures
[as the Nazis are opening the protective metal shutter] Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!
no, YOU throw me the floppy and i’ll throw you the whip!
... so it goes
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Newspaper front page with bikini babe, headline 'By the year 2000 every American will be born a bastard'
New gnome house
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a heavyset, apparently Latino man in cobalt blue t-shirt with a goofy smile stands hugging his elbows and scrunching his neck into his shoulders as if he’s chilly in front of a supermarket freezer labeled “FROZEN HISPANIC”
this whole set tho: https://www.tumblr.com/gingerha...
Cooling It In NYC
cuz i'm ez
well there’s your problem
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source and more info: https://www.tumblr.com/xponenti...
Way too many balls in the air.
Commence the jigglin'!
In contrast to Berkelium, with its laid-back hippy / social protest / gourmet food vibe
Akihiko Okamura
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Women crossing through British Army barricade, Northern Ireland, c. 1969
source: https://akihiko-okamura.ie
"From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, renowned Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) created a remarkable, compelling and largely unseen body of work in Ireland, north and south. After covering the Vietnam War, Okamura went to Ireland in 1968 and soon after, in 1969, he decided to move to Ireland with his family. From then on, he continually photographed the Troubles in the North and his life with his family in the South, until he suddenly passed away, in 1985."
"From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, renowned Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) created a remarkable, compelling and largely unseen body of work in Ireland, north and south. After covering the Vietnam War, Okamura went to Ireland in 1968 and soon after, in 1969, he decided to move to Ireland with his family. From then on, he continually photographed the Troubles in the North and his life with his family in the South, until he suddenly passed away, in 1985."
Wow.
This is an incredible photo.
So I've always found Irish history super fascinating and have read quite a few books about it; of course the Troubles loom large as part of it. (I particularly liked "The Troubles" by Tim Pat Coogan if one is looking.)
Now - I read hundreds of books a year (no kids + no T.V. for the win!) so for books to lodge in my head they have to be pretty special. But there are certain books that I can't get *out* of my head and I brood over them for *years* after reading them; such books I refer to as "books that changed my DNA". There aren't that many.
ANYWAY maybe 5-6 years ago I read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Raden Keefe, which on the surface (and also underneath - it's a masterful bit of storytelling architeciture) was about the murder of Jean McConville in 1972, weaving in the story of a few notorious Troubles era folks like Gerry Adams and particularly the Price sisters, who are most well-known for going on a hunger strike in prison. But really, it's about the most holistic coverage of the entire Troubles era I've ever read, and it's also about *Ireland*. (It also engages the reader with the problems of how to document certain kinds of history.) Just fantastic stuff.
And it just knocked my fucking socks off while also slapping me in the face. I would have read it in a day if I hadn't had to keep stopping and go take a walk so I could thinking about what I just read. I immediately re-read it and have several times since. And still, though it's been years, I regularly think about it - it was truly a book that changed my DNA. Tldr: read it!
*Cough* circling back, a huge part of the book - and one of the themes and he framed it that I've been unable to stop thinking about ever since concerns how protest and then radicalization happens, and especially how it happened in Ireland. It asks some very huge questions about violence - how it's framed & narrated; particularly the morality of (including *forgetting*!); and the spaces in which both condemnation and condoning occur and circle around each other. Which might not seem like new subjects but he definitely makes the reader ask questions of themselves in very interesting ways. (All of this very much hit home in the wake and then re-election of The Shithead.) And from that viewpoint this photo is *everything*. It's about half the book in one image. Incredible.
This is an incredible photo.
So I've always found Irish history super fascinating and have read quite a few books about it; of course the Troubles loom large as part of it. (I particularly liked "The Troubles" by Tim Pat Coogan if one is looking.)
Now - I read hundreds of books a year (no kids + no T.V. for the win!) so for books to lodge in my head they have to be pretty special. But there are certain books that I can't get *out* of my head and I brood over them for *years* after reading them; such books I refer to as "books that changed my DNA". There aren't that many.
ANYWAY maybe 5-6 years ago I read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Raden Keefe, which on the surface (and also underneath - it's a masterful bit of storytelling architeciture) was about the murder of Jean McConville in 1972, weaving in the story of a few notorious Troubles era folks like Gerry Adams and particularly the Price sisters, who are most well-known for going on a hunger strike in prison. But really, it's about the most holistic coverage of the entire Troubles era I've ever read, and it's also about *Ireland*. (It also engages the reader with the problems of how to document certain kinds of history.) Just fantastic stuff.
And it just knocked my fucking socks off while also slapping me in the face. I would have read it in a day if I hadn't had to keep stopping and go take a walk so I could thinking about what I just read. I immediately re-read it and have several times since. And still, though it's been years, I regularly think about it - it was truly a book that changed my DNA. Tldr: read it!
*Cough* circling back, a huge part of the book - and one of the themes and he framed it that I've been unable to stop thinking about ever since concerns how protest and then radicalization happens, and especially how it happened in Ireland. It asks some very huge questions about violence - how it's framed & narrated; particularly the morality of (including *forgetting*!); and the spaces in which both condemnation and condoning occur and circle around each other. Which might not seem like new subjects but he definitely makes the reader ask questions of themselves in very interesting ways. (All of this very much hit home in the wake and then re-election of The Shithead.) And from that viewpoint this photo is *everything*. It's about half the book in one image. Incredible.
^Uh, sorry that's so long, I'm very tired
Williwaw, London Falling is on my TBR list, and I’ve been meaning to read Say Nothing for ages.
public library pollinator garden
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some very tall bee balm and other plants in a small garden with a sign saying "All pollinators welcome here" with a butterfly on it. It's a bright sunny day
Getting back on my "try to visit all of Vermont's public libraries" project (despite someone already doing a speedrun of it on Instagram this past year). Library 66 was in Corinth Vermont, was my "local" when I first moved to Vermont and is now in the far side of my county from where I live. Too nearly an hour to get here. The brand new library director went to the same library school as me, in Seattle.
@misslivie and @trey May try coming to yours next week.
@misslivie and @trey May try coming to yours next week.
we're like a mile away. come say hi!
out today: "1331" | sad13
logging in
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the word "asshole" repeated on a vintage screen
10 PRINT "ASSHOLE "
'Cause I'm an assholeeeyoooleeeoooleeoleooo
Voice-to-text technology is amazing
Spokane
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scablands my beloved
My old stomping grounds - I used to bus from downtown Spokane to EWU in Cheney, through lands such as these.
Basil Wolverton
Getting tree work done so....
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A john Deere Tractor in my back yard near a small tree
This is my back yard. I woke up and it looked like this. Basically, I have a 40-50' tall dead spruce tree (not pictured) in my back yard. Tree guys were going to come today or, if they needed more time, tomorrow since they were doing other work in my neighborhood. I woke up to them cutting down a big tree in Doris's yard (my across the street neighbor) and then later noticed 1. they were gone 2. there was a tractor in my backyard with their logo on it. I *assume* that they left it in my yard because they had the flatbed out today and dropped it off so that they can bring the logs out to the road and either pass them along to someone for firewood or chip them with the chipper in the street. But it would have been nice if they'd let me know.
Pictured next to my sweet baby catalpa tree which is getting no work done because it is perfect.
Pictured next to my sweet baby catalpa tree which is getting no work done because it is perfect.
It is best they know how you feel about, your catalpa, before they turn the key on tomorrow.
Free tractor!
Sweet Baby Catalpa's is my favourite barbecue sauce.