A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.

This genuinely might make me cry. I already deeply appreciate King Arthur for making the best GF 1 for 1 flour. And having good recipes. But an article posted by them from someone with disabilities about how to do the thing even with disabilities? That’s just genuinely lovely. I know that my bad there is low, but it’s low for a reason and hopefully stuff like this can continue to raise that bar for disabled people like me.

I love to see this! Another of my favorites is the baking with arthritis post.

King Arthur Flour is great flour with an even greater website. (I say this as someone who is expected to make their pumpkin bread for the family every Thanksgiving.) 

Not needlework related, but this is a very good resource for people who need it.

system of a clown. if you even care

@superstuporblog @woody112704

love this

[ID1: A painting of Greek philosophers talking labeled "Talking about harm reduction and drug policy with drug-users" across from a picture of an adult showing a toddler a toy labeled "Talking about harm reduction with non-users."]

[ID2: Tags reading "thank you to every person who has painstakingly held my hand to explain it to me."]

This is why I love the “Covid is faked” conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism

Look up the manhattan project you dipshits

You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?

The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?

The one that had so many close calls to they’re working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?

THAT Manhattan Project?

The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?

That Manhattan project?

We’re talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?

And that was still just one government using the fullest extent of their power to try and keep just one secret in a time before cellular phone cameras or the internet. Imagine thinking multiple, rival governments agreed to fake a virus to fool just some of their citizens into staying home from work, while also agreeing to pay billions of dollars to compensate them for it.

Some people have never had to work on a company computer and use company software and it shows. It won’t do its REGULAR function much less secret second functions.

If you think three companies could develop vaccines with chips in them and the same system could be used to talk to all three chips, you’ve never been in a household with two brands of phone

OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE

This is what we mean by systemic racism

oh my god this New Yorker article about the Titan holy fucking shit fuck???

Some notes: 1. the electrical system was designed by engineering undergrads who were working as interns. 2. because it is illegal to take passengers on an unclassed experimental submersible, they called the passengers "mission specialists" & instead of buying tickets they made donations. 3. the satellite beacon was held onto the outside of the sub with zip ties. 4. when Lochridge (the whistleblower) quit, Stockton Rush asked HIS FINANCE DIRECTOR if she wanted to be the pilot and she was like "sir I am an accountant" and the experience of having her boss ask his accountant to be the pilot made her so freaked out that she ALSO quit the company 5. the carbon fiber used to make the hull was bought from a deep discount from Boeing because it was past its expiry date for use in airplanes

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

if you want to know why the sub imploded it's because this guy stubbornly refused to listen to literally everyone with any amount of expertise telling him not to build the hull out of carbon fiber because it hurt his feelings (and would allow him to sell fewer tickets at a time to do that)

It should be noted that Boeing is steadfastly denying having sold this company expired carbon fiber. And while it is definitely possible they're lying, it says a lot about the kind of guy Stockton Rush was that it's equally possible that he lied about that for some fucking reason.

It would not surprise me at all if the carbon fiber was bought under the table in a kind of 'it fell of the back of a truck on its way to the disposal site' situation.

Okay, but this dumbfuck didn’t sell tickets, because that would be EXTRA SUPER ILLEGAL instead of just skating right within the grounds of plausibility of super illegal.  It is way more illegal apparently to kill passengers and/or put them at risk than it is to kill crew (which is a whole ‘nother kettle of worms, but whatever).

So no one on board was a passenger who bought a ticket, they were all mission specialists who made a donation in pursuit of research.

Jesus Christ on a Pogo Stick.

Read this post again.

Look at the institutions that have had widespread child sexual abuse and massive coverups. Look at the ideological profile of the people who want to ban books.

They’re trying to protect themselves, their religious leaders, and friends, not the kids.

Sakura Diaries - 桜通信 (1997)

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by user ForrestValkai that reads: "It's crazy how people get justifiably angry when scalpers buy a bunch of tickets to sell them at unreasonable prices, but when landlords do the exact same thing with houses we all just act like that's normal and smart business and homeless people should just work harder." End ID]

catwalk :D

I love seasonal fruits they're like girl we're back lol

happy pride month

Nine Songs: Darren Criss

When Disney, Phantom Planet and Mr Hudson collide: Glee star, Emmy and Golden Globe winner and musician Darren Criss talks Andrew Wright through the pivotal songs in his life and the unexpected ways they found him.

“When we are younger, our gateway drugs to a lot of popular things don’t come from the sexiest of places. It’s up to you how proactive you want to be with your curiosity from there, and how far down the rabbit hole you want to go, if you go down at all.”

nbc: an iconic duet in honor of all of @itscarolburnett’s duets!!! #CarolBurnett90

1 in 10 infections (not people, actual infections) will result in long covid for most people. Significant nerological impacts, significant cardiovascular impacts, fatigue and chronic pain, complications with other conditions, and other symptoms we dont yet understand are what come with long covid. And yet, the World Health Organization has declared today that the pandemic is over.

The covid pandemic is not over at all, only just beginning. The mass disabling of people over time of repeated infections will overwhelm our deeply ableist systems not built for accommodating disability on a wide scale.

“Call Me Maybe” with every other beat removed

YOU’RE STUBBORN, JEANS STOLEN, NIGHT ROWING

THINK YOU’RE BABY?

HEY AND YOU, AMAZING, BUT YOMBER, SO CLAYBE 

my gf crafted this with lots of care for yall. pls enjoy:

losing my mind over this

I’m going to upload this to youtube as an unlisted song and then add it to my dad’s playlist

@itsmaddienow I mean, it is very much already on youtube

5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF SO CLAYBE LETS GO

Scrub Daddy vs. Liquid Nitrogen

(or a Scrub Daddy being hit with a mallet when it’s hot, cold, frozen from dry ice, and frozen from liquid nitrogen)

get his ass

Kill him

Wow there’s some fucking bullshit going on in the replies here. Moderate your fucking spaces on the internet, kick racists and other bad actors to the kerb or you risk losing everyone else. This guy has the right of it (scroll up to top).

Quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices

For anyone who can’t/won’t read that twitter thread, it’s by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) and it says: 

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, ohok and he continues.

“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.” And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

[ID: Screenshot of a tweet from @/AmazonChique that reads ‘Pathfinder FB fan group banned all racist members. The next week, they saw a drop in harassing & threatening posts of ALL kinds. From the mod: “I encourage every community to quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices. Get the rot out and you’ll have a healthier community” End ID]

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty And peace treaties are not unilateral. They have obligations running in both directions.

You are not bound to tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate you. Nor should you tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate people who are tolerating you.

Thank you for sharing this everyone, for image IDing and all of it, thank you.

made some versions of the agony grip for my friends for when the whole gang gets it . including different levels depending on the anguish

and a joyous one for when there is love abound

can i make a contribution?

for when the whole gang is being real autistic about something

For when you say something absolutely horrid in the group chat

Three blind mice.

Rub a dub dub three men in a tub