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@kalikatze / kalikatze.tumblr.com

I'm a chronically ill 37yo physicist who loves spinning, needlework, cats, books, tea and her sister. (grey-ace bisexual, biromantic demigirl; she/her)

Before I… crack them open?

....before you put them in here:

the water cup even comes with a little needle at the bottom for hole-poking purposes, see:

sorry i meant boil not cook

WHAT IS THAT

It's an egg cooker!

It's like a toaster and an electric kettle had a baby and ...the baby boils eggs.

Even better news about German egg related gadgets… the Eierköpfer (it also has a super long German name), for when you need a guillotine to open your egg neatly

No offence to Germany but why are you guys so fucking insane

nothing to see here. Just normal feelings about egg.

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I’m late to this party, but I’ve had one of these for at least thirty years.* (By which I mean the same one. These are nothing if not robust.) Here it is. ...Apologies for the schmutz on the lid.

The device as a whole is a perfect example of economically applied science.

First of all: why poke a hole in the egg? Because there's an air space in the more-rounded "butt end" of eggs, and if there's no way for the air to get out when you apply heat to the egg, that's the spot that's likeliest to crack. That crack may in turn run right down the egg, and let the contents out before they've had a chance to go solid. So, to prevent that happening: you poke that little hole in each egg's butt end.

Then you add water to the cooker. If you look closely at the little water-measurer, you'll see that it's got different lines pressed into it for the number of eggs you're cooking.

You fill this with water to the appropriate line, and dump the water into the cooker: then switch the cooker on.

Here, take nine minutes or so to watch the process.

...The cooker boils the water away until its internal sensor tells it the water's all gone. Then it buzzes for you to come turn it off. (The whole process is very energy-thrifty, because you're not heating more water than you absolutely need for the cooking process. It's definitely far greener than heating a whole pot of water on the stove.)

The cooker will do hard-boiled eggs perfectly (without the annoying band around the yolk that reveals the cooking process has broken sulfur bonds in the yolks, rendering their flavor less than perfect). And medium ones. (Which I've never done.) But where it really shines is when doing soft-boiled eggs, which are too delicate to eat "out of hand" without getting yolk all over you.

That's where the egg cups come in. You can see mine in the video: they're Portmeirion. I got a couple of them from the eponymous village, which we visited a decade or three back, and then added a couple more some years later.

And if you want to use an egg spoon: well, we're set up for that too. The maker on these is a German company called Mono Filio, who specialize in cool jazzy stainless steel and glass kitchenware. They don't seem to be making these any more, though. No telling where I spotted these: "somewhere over thataway" (waving vaguely at the continent just to the east) is as close as I can get at the moment.

Anyway, that's all I've got about eggs at the moment.

*It could be longer. I do remember noticing, back in the pre-turn-of-the-century days when I was in Switzerland a lot doing research for A Wind from the South and Stealing The Elf-King's Roses, that the soft-boiled eggs at German breakfast buffets were always perfect. Sooner or later I ran into a buffet where they had one of these gadgets put out on the buffet table so that people could do their own eggs rather than waiting for them to come out of the kitchen. Shortly thereafter, I bought ours. Absolutely one of the best buys ever.

Anonymous asked:

"Anarchist" but gets triggered when people voluntarily don't wear bicycle helmets.

Me when I know what anarchy is

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Gravity legally cannot hurt you if you scream "NO GODS NO MASTERS" immediately before impact

I'm so fucking tired of this bicycle helmet discourse. Bike helmets aren't going to do shit to protect you if you get hit by a car

Most of the time... Bike accidents.... Involve things.... Other than cars...... like the ground....also it's safety gear..... Wearing it is non negotiable.... You are one accident away from being permanently disabled..... You need to protect your brain

Not towards OP

Is OSHA and other safety regulations also cop behavior?

*sigh* The belief that OSHA and other safety regulations are cop behavior are common opinions that people have, anarchist or not. Wearing PPE is annoying and often uncomfortable, sweaty, and cumbersome. People also generally hate being told to be careful, because they believe that "be careful" is synonymous with "hey, you're too stupid to do that without hurting yourself".

But all it takes is one time for you to slip up and suddenly the grinder disk that would have gotten stuck in your safety glasses is in your eye, or you're getting treated for lung cancer because you didn't want to wear your respirator while you welded. These are decisions that you were free to make, but might seriously regret later on.

People will scream until they're blue in the face about how oppressive it is to have to wear a safety vest and hard hat on a construction site, but do you really think that the hammer that slipped out of your buddy's hand is going to take that into consideration when it collides with your skull?

No political theory will save you from an accident. You can either wear your PPE, or can die, unexpectedly, painfully, and slowly. The choice is yours. Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it.

Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it

@breelandwalker it is criminal to leave this scorching point in the tags

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a few points:

• every safety rule is written in blood

• OSHA exists so the boss can't force you to die for their profits. it was started as a result of union action, as a direct response to the triangle shirtwaist factory fire. OSHA is constantly fighting for worker's rights and protection. whistleblower laws protect any employee who makes an OSHA complaint against their employer, and anyone who reports is guaranteed anonymity and aggressive legal support against retaliation. there is also a separate health and safety administration for miners in the USA called MSHA.

• the people most likely to get hurt on the job are not apprentices or senior workers approaching retirement. the new hire is careful because they're green, and still learning, and still unfamiliar with the tools and the work. the old hand is careful because retirement is within sight and they want to make it there. the person who gets hurt is usually the journeyman at the peak of their career—in their 30s-50s, an expert at their trade, their tools feel like an extension of themselves, and they're so comfortable they forget to be careful. they've gotten lucky cutting corners or using something incorrectly or taking off a guard or leaving off some safety equipment 1000 times but one day they're tired or distracted or too comfortable or too confident and the luck runs out.

• some accidents you cannot just avoid with skill, or you have no personal control over them. sometimes you have to trust your coworkers with your life. the big blue crane collapse killed three ironworkers who were on an observation platform, doing other work, far from the crane, with no ability to prevent or escape the collapse. the crane collapsed as a result of being operated despite adverse conditions, despite the normal crane operator refusing to run the crane due to adverse conditions making it unsafe, and was filmed because a safety inspector was recording the violation and attempting to stop it. the operator of the crane got out safely, but three ironworkers who were hundreds of feet away, who didn't know the crane would be operating despite unsafe wind speeds, and who were trapped in midair anyways with no way to avoid or escape the collapse, and who above all just had to trust that everyone on the job site would be working safely and doing their jobs correctly, died. that footage has been used in every OSHA training i have ever been in.

• every safety rule is written in blood.

But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

one of my professors, a historian who has been interviewed as an expert in various documentaries, said that the secret to documentaries is saying something very obvious, as slowly as possible. for example, if you say “the romans…….. enjoyed their dinner parties” or "being a gladiator... was... very... dangerous" then the filmmakers can get that clip and immediately pan over some cool pictures of mosaics or something. this has forever changed the way i view documentaries

I have been sitting on the couch for two minutes now, just saying mindlessly obvious things in a faux-midatlantic accent in my head, imagining the sweeping camera shots that would accompany them in a pbs documentary.

The fireplace... Remains cold... In the summer months.

The blanket... Is the cat's... Favorite resting site.

This day... The hardwood floors... Required sweeping.

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gender symbols for advanced girl genders

reversed girl, like a tarot card

girl, but in a taurus way

kiki

demi girl. or pirate girl

girls who are squares. like if cringe was a girl.

girl mode but in the way 3 guys are

fractalgirl

double reverse spin quickstep girl

@is-the-snake-video-cute this is really cool! does it happen often/is it safe for these guys?

This is awesome, and it's just how snakes climb on surfaces with textures like this. Brick walls are super easy to climb for snakes. They climb by holding on to imperfections in a wall's surface, so the fall risk here is very minor, and they'll be able to tell if the grooves aren't deep enough to hold onto and get back to safety.

They can do this on walls with such minor grooves that it looks almost like they're hanging on by magic! But you can see in the picture below that the snake's body looks kinda squiggly, and that's just the areas where their muscles are tensed as they're holding on.

I’m sure all you Tumblr users have heard by now about the changes being made to Tumblr’s ecosystem so that the site can make more money. And I’m sure most of you are as uneasy as I am or, in fact, are angry about the proposed changes.

The reason they need to make more money is simple: Tumblr is $30 million USD in debt.

For this site to run and for them to pay employees, the site needs to generate revenue.

This place maybe a hellsite but it’s our hellsite. We are still here because we actually like it here. Besides, the other social media sites are crashing or will crash soon. Where else would we go?

Now, I did some research. There are at least 300 million users and over 500 million blogs. One of the cheapest things to buy on the Tumblr store is the crab package you can gift to another blog, which is $3 USD.

If each and everyone of us buys a crab package, we get to keep Tumblr alive and kicking. @oracleoutlook suggested that we make a holiday of it on July 29th. It seems to have resonated with people. Others have also asked for that to extend to August 5th, as some people don’t get paid til the beginning of the month.

Many people have already agreed to celebrate July 29th as Crab Day, a day of posting crab memes and gifting crabs to other users. And if you cannot afford to buy crabs, that is a-okay! Participate in the crab memes. Who would pass up the chance to make and reblog memes about crabs, after all?

This hellsite is ours. Let us remind them of that.

okay then lets do this.

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First cat video ever? 1899, colorized & speed corrected.

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I am always blown away by this. Like. This little girl was alive and laughing and wearing her little hat and in the sunshine over 100 years ago. And her cat was eating little treats from her hands and having a fun little time over 100 years ago. Like. Their existence in history is recorded as so much more than the moody and serious black and white Victorian family portraits. AND WE GET TO SEE IT AND FEEL AS HAPPY AS THEY WERE! I have so many feelings!