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just found out about “star trek”. i think those kirk and spock guys are kind of homosexual. i wonder if anyone else has ever thought that
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Moving house tomorrow
Be careful, I've heard they're heavy
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50 KITCHEN WITCH TIPS TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WITCHY
(And other useful things I've learned over the years)
Hi! This is a list of dos, don'ts, tips, tricks, and other fun things that I've learned over the years. I always love finding more effective and efficient ways of doing things so if you have any cool things you'd like to add, leave them in the comments or reblog. I'd love to read it.
Anyways... On with the list ^_^
- Light candles around your kitchen space (just make sure nothing flammable is near you)
- Annotate your cookbooks with the correspondence of the ingredients.
- Mediating is really good to calm the mind before cooking.
- Cut oranges and lemons thinly, dry them, and hang them with twine around your kitchen
- Need a cleansing tip? Open all your windows near your kitchen. Let some fresh air in.
- Cutting sigils into apples, pie crusts, and carved potatoes.
- Save lemon and orange rinds, freeze them, and then use them to clean the garbage disposal.
- Make infused oils and honey: Things like garlic honey, lavender honey, herb oil, sun oil, moon oil, dandelion oil, and other different edible oils are very fun and useful to make.
- Hid sigils in pages of your cookbooks and kitchen witch journals.
- Add some plants! Snake plants and spider plants don't need too much light, and growing your own herbs in your kitchen is awesome too. Basil, lavender, thyme, aloe vera, rosemary, etc. are good fits. You could also add some plants that require more sunlight on the kitchen window sill. Like cacti and succulents.
- Bring crystals into your kitchen space such as rose quartz, clear quartz, amethyst, or whatever you want the space's intentions to be.
- I keep a small money tree on the sill, along with cacti for luck and protection.
- Make a simmer Pot! Mostly because it makes the whole house smell good, easy, and fun.
- Stir clockwise for best results!
- Learning how to pickle things is actually pretty witchy. Plus, anyone could do it as it requires absolutely no kitchen experience. You could pickle any vegetable, even if you don't like pickles. I originally learned this after having to take shelter from a natural disaster. A person brought a bunch of stuff and taught us how to pickle things with different spices and herbs. Very fun!
- Decorate your kitchen with your favorite stuff. Crystals, decor, heat mits, that cool mushroom cake stand you've been eyeing at the World Market for the past 2 weeks, cool looking curtains, sun catchers. Why stop there? Paint the walls, hang shelves full of marked-up cookbooks that are a little too well-loved and thumbed through.
- Wanna be the person that has the amazing-smelling house every time people come over? Syrups take some time to simmer down, it's actually a pretty good time to leave it on the stove to simmer. Since syrups have a lot of aromatic ingredients, it acts as a really good-smelling simmer pot.
- Hang up herbs to dry with twine from cabinets that are rarely used.
- Invest in that new set of plates and cups.
- Homemade jams, butter, sauces, and syrups are your best friend.
- Crochet or knit your own dish rags, pot holders, etc.
- Don't pour extremely hot things into a glass that's not Pyrex, it will break, and you will be very sad about it.
- Don't cook anything while extremely upset or emotional (For safety reasons)
- Make recipes you want to make, not just because you'll like the effect. Make it because you think it's tasty.
- Chinese Five Spice works in place of herbs for protection and luck spells a lot of the time! It's cheaper to buy 1 spice than 4 different spices that total up to 15 dollars when you could just spend 3-4 dollars.
- Take a shower before cooking (I don't know how to explain this one other than it makes you feel better)
- Don't use microfiber/plastic material clothes on hot burners, it will fuse to the burner and melt. It is VERY hard to get off.
- I don't know if I need to put this one but I did see someone do it so nonstick pan = wooden utensils and plastic utensils, metal pan = metal utensils. Do not use a metal spoon in a nonstick pan, please. It can make you very sick.
- Keep your pets away from hot oil, open ovens, and hot pans.
- You can proof bread dough in the fridge overnight if you don't have the time to bake, or want to eat fresh bread right in the morning.
- Need a quick witchy meal for dinner in 12 minutes? Use premade tomato pasta sauce and doctor it up with thyme, rosemary, and garlic, for protection and distilling stagnant energies. Serve with pasta of your liking.
- You can substitute Butter for Crisco/shortening, buttermilk for 1 cup of milk + 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, and heavy cream for 1 cup of half and half plus 2 tbsp of butter.
- Use leftover animal bones to make bone broth
- Teach yourself the art of bread scoring (It's fun, and you can show it off to your loved ones!)
- Collect and hoard your own and others' family recipes.
- Sometimes the food doesn't have to be a spell, sometimes it just makes you feel good and you don't know why.
- Listen to your favorite music in the kitchen, it makes the monotonous things like chopping veggies move faster.
- Invest in a vegetable chopper if you don't like chopping vegetables.
- Find a really good hot cocoa recipe and make it once a week. Master it. Just for your own happiness because hot cocoa is really good. You could also be the friend/family member that makes the best hot cocoa ever.
- Focaccia Bread Lasts a very long time, and it's very easy to make!
- Keep a first aid kit near where the oven is, in case of burns, cuts, or serious injuries where time is everything.
- Quick Bread and no-rise loaves are simple for beginners, tasty, and take little time. They also feel very witchy to make.
- Study a bit of Herbalism! It's fun and really helps better understand the herbs you're putting into your food.
- While something is boiling, put your wooden spoon over the pot to minimize the chance of something boiling over.
- Try a bit of coffee magick, it's simple to get into, and gives you a boost of energy to take on the day!
- If you're over 21, wine-making is a very interesting way to celebrate the sabbats. Just with that, make sure you KNOW what you're doing. With anything fermented, there's always a risk if you don't store things correctly. Apple wines, strawberry wines, dandelion wines, etc. all very cool to experiment with. If you're not over 21, vinegar is a similar way to experiment.
- Hang up some witchy things, sigils, photos, cool magnets, and other things that give you joy on your fridge. (Sometimes if you are lucky they have some fun magnets at five below)
- If you live in the US, for some reason, there are a lot of books in the book section dedicated to witchcraft and spirituality. At least where I live. And they are all under 5 dollars!
- Teas are the cheapest and easiest things you can practice being a kitchen witch.
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jessie x ash's mom is actually the most hilarious thing in the world could you imagine youre 12 years old forever and theres this wretched woman who just wont stop trying to kidnap your dog for nefarious purposes and then she starts fucking your mom
not just that, but your mom is enamored with her. your mom has forgiven all the attempts at dog kidnapping. she loves this horrible woman completely sincerely and the woman has basically revoked all her evil ways. she doesnt even think poorly of you. its like the moment she quit working for Team Animal Theft, she lost all interest in your super cool dog. the worst part. the WORST part. is that aside from your dog? this wretched woman, her bestie, and their talking cat are the closest thing to constant companions you had in your adventures aside from your dog and have saved your life on more than one occasion. you dont know what you did to deserve this. maybe it has something to do with that angry girl you hung out with for a while whos bike you stole. horrible karma. but hey, your mom is happy.
And on top of all of that, the weirdest part of it all? Your dog is completely cool with her. He gets scratchies from her like nothing ever happened. As if all of that attempted kidnapping was just a precursor to this. For the first few months of this you think she’s up to something by trying to get into your family but no. Even the dog just cuddles up on the couch with her from time to time. This is your life now after retiring from traveling the entire planet except Spain for some reason.
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"there are only two sexes, it's literally third grade biology!" and pronouns are taught in kindergarten and you dont seem to understand those either
ok its literally this
this is why, when someone tells me "there are only two sexes, it's basic biology!" my favorite response is to ask "what, you never made it to advanced biology?" like don't load the gun and then hand it to me lmao
the simple versions of stuff are simple for a reason. You ignore a lot of the more complicated versions of stuff so you can get the basics down.
In grade school math, you learn that you don't multiply/divide by negative numbers because it's not relevant to intro math. In high school math , you do that all the time because you have the basics down and you're doing more complicated stuff.
In basic bio, you learn the 2 sexes thing because most species follow that rule! then when you get further along, you learn the more complicated stuff.
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6 panels, 2 columns, 3 rows, read row by row, left to right. left column is basic level of the subject, advanced column of the subject.
each of these panels shows a teacher pointing to a lesson board, with a student sitting at a desk. for brevity, most of this is just the panel titles & what's on the board.
1st row: basic math, teacher shows you cannot take a square root of negative 1, (using a red circle with a thin red diagonal line to convey this prohibition). -- advanced math: square root of negative 1 = i
2nd row: basic physics, teachers show 3 states of matter. -- advanced physics: not 3, not 4, but 7+ states of matter (illustrated with red diagonal line)
3rd row: basic biology: 2 sexes m & f in separate geometric boxes. -- advanced biology: sex does not equal gender M & F at 2 peaks of a curvy line. -- punchline: the advanced biology student here says with raised hands "No-oooooo!!! My 2 genderinos" (the hyphen was added for screenreader compatibility)
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the butch agenda is threatening a guys masculinity so he goes out to help how wife in the pouring rain
his wife was yelling for him to help her outside of target because she had a large and heavy shelf. It’s raining hard and she’s called for him 4 times no response or effort to move. i walked up and offered to help her, 2 seconds later man practically falls outta the passenger seat. never seen a guy jump outta a car so quick…
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you guys still think Trump should be dragged into the street and beaten to death right?? like I know he talks funny but we still hate him right?? right??
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"at this moment our audio recorder picks up-" and it's the most unintelligible noise you've ever heard
this is mean
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No no it's the principle of the matter. If I could have found it we would have used my Wii u gamepad to control the volume, this was the next logical step
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For the past few days, a heatwave has glowered over the Pacific Northwest, forcing temperatures in the region to a record-breaking 118ºF. Few people in the region—neither Americans nor Canadians—have air-conditioning. Stores sold out of new AC units in hours as a panicked public sought a reasonable solution to the emergency. Unfortunately, air-conditioning is part of what’s causing the unusual heatwave in the first place.
We came close to destroying all life on Earth during the Cold War, with the threat of nuclear annihilation. But we may have come even closer during the cooling war, when the rising number of Americans with air conditioners—and a refrigerant industry that fought regulation—nearly obliterated the ozone layer. We avoided that environmental catastrophe, but the fundamental problem of air conditioning has never really been resolved.
Mechanical cooling appeared in the early 1900s not for comfort but for business. In manufacturing, the regulation of temperature—“process cooling”—controlled the quality of commodities like cotton, tobacco, and chewing gum. In 1903, Alfred Wolff installed the first cooling system for people at the New York Stock Exchange because comfortable traders yielded considerably higher stock returns. Only in the ’20s did “commercial cooling” appear. On Memorial Day weekend 1925, Willis Carrier debuted the first centrifugal air-conditioning system at the Rivoli Theater in Midtown Manhattan. Previously, theaters had shut down in the summer. With air-conditioning, the Rivoli became “the talk of Broadway” and inaugurated the summer blockbuster.
-another direct tie to capitalism. Everything born out of colonio-capitalism carries its toxic mark. Article totally not under the cut for those who can’t pay for Time. It honestly paints a really clear picture of the situation. Bolding mine.-
“It’s time we become more comfortable with discomfort. Our survival may depend on it.“
This is the straws all over again.
This isn’t about “discomfort” and “our need to adapt” - something our useless governments are already saying (and they’re all too eager to get such approval from the media as they’re already doing nothing so they can continue doing nothing).
It’s about DEATH from heat exhaustion/heat stroke, severe dehydration, and the breakdown of our bodies’ normal capacity to regulate one’s temperature.
It’s not about “enduring” it. You can’t “toughen up” to this. Body temperature regulation is as important as getting food and sleep. Otherwise, you will die.
Heat waves are already deadly for infants, children, the elderly, and disabled people. Most medication is extremely dehydrating and make us even more vulnerable to heat exhaustion.
The kind of heat waves we’ve been getting and will keep on getting if we don’t make the governments ACT? They will be deadly to everyone. And, before that, nobody will be able to work anymore. See how the pandemic disrupted access to consumer goods because the factories/plants and then trade routes and borders were shut down? This is a small example of what will happen. Nobody can work in this kind of heat–not even under threat. (Potentially exposing yourself and your close ones to a deadly virus is one thing. Working in heat that will kill you before the end of your shift? Impossible.) The system will collapse and, hopefully, force an end to the carbon emissions that no one will ever stop because they can’t.
I literally have multiple disabilities that make me extremely heat sensitive. I can’t handle interior temperatures greater than 75 degrees, and even that’s a stretch. I set my house temperature to as low as I can with my (tropical) pet birds.
anyone advocating for removal of all ac units just want people like me (such as, say, my family, because these conditions are genetic) to die and it’s exhausting
climate solutions cannot sacrifice the disabled. end of sentence.
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Unicorns can stab one another, though they are careful when dueling, often dancing around each other and tease with false starts to avoid breakage, as their horns are rather thin.
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