I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.
It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo
It’s a win win. I
get a bit of hope, you get
a cute birb photo
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
red mackerel tabby with low white spotting
Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.
Screenshots for those who want to try to make the recipes. One was completely blocked by text but I thought maybe someone would like to make them ♡
Someone with better typing skills if ya wanna type em up….. ♡
I looked up the obscured grave with the blueberry pie recipe:
From Margaret Davis
- Soften a 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese.
- Spread in bottom of cooled, cooked pastry shell.
- Fill shell with 3 cups of blueberries.
- To an additional 1 cup of blueberries add 1 cup of water.
- Bring just to boiling.
- Simmer 2 min.
- Strain reserving juice, about ½ cup.
- Combine ¾ cup sugar, and 2 tablespoons corn starch.
- Gradually add reserved juice.
- Cook, stirring constantly until thick and clear.
- Cool slightly and add:
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Pour over berries in pastry shell and chill.
the others are:
From Kathryn Andrews
- 2 SQ. chocolate
- 2 TBS. butter
- Melt on low heat
- Stir in 1 cup milk
- Bring to boil
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 TSP. vanilla
- Pinch of salt
- Cook to softball stage
- Pour on marble slab
- Cool & Beat & Eat
From Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson
- 1 cup of butter ormargarine
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 ¼ cups of flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder.
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
From Constance Galberd
100% Good Stuff - 0% Bad Stuff
Ingredients:
- 8 oz. dates cut into small pieces
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 4 cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ½ cup chopped nuts
Directions:
- Pour boiling water (where 2 tsp. of baking soda have been dissolved) over dates and raisins. Cool.
- Add 1 ½ C. sugar and mix well.
- Add 2 eggs, well beaten.
- Gradually mix in 4 C. of flour and 2 tsp. of baking powder. Beat thoroughly.
- Add ½ C. of chopped nuts. Beat thoroughly.
- Bake at 350 for ¾ - 1 hr.
Bake in tin cans.
One batch = 13 small cans
From Christine Hammills
CARROT CAKE
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 ½ tsp. soda
- 1 ½ cups oil
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 (8 ½ oz.) crushed pineapple, drained
- ⅔ cup chopped nuts
Directions:
- Sift together flour, baking powder, soda salt, and cinnamon.
- Beat eggs and add sugar.
-Let stand 10 mins.
-Mix in oil, pineapple, carrots, nuts, flour mixture.
-Turn into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
-Bake at 350’ for 35 – 40 min.
-Cool in pans for 10 min, remove to wire racks, and cool well.
VANILLA CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
Ingredients:
- ½ cup butter
- 1 (8 oz.) cream cheese
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 pound powdered sugar, sifted
Directions:
- Mix butter, cream cheese, vanilla then add sugar. First between layers, top and sides.
From Annabell Gunderson
Mix Thoroughly:
- 1 c shortening
- 1 c margarine
- 3 c sugar
- 4 eggs
Sift Together And Stir In:
- 5 ½ c flour
- 4 tsp cream of tartar
- 2 tsp soda
- ½ tsp salt
Directions:
- Roll (softly) into balls the size of small walnuts.
- Roll in mixture of 6 tsp sugar and 6 tsp cinnamon.
- Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 375 F for 8-10 minutes or 400 F for 6-8 until lightly brown, but still soft.
Secret is: Keep dough fluffy!
Humans have been eating meals in honor of the memory of our lost loved ones for as long as humans have been human…and probably even proto-human.
Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:
With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.
To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.
Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.
I T I S T I M E
Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:
With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.
To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.
Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.
That wolf embodies the thoughts of most in customer service
The amount of times I’ve thought “I would love to bite through this person’s throat” while working in retail is probably too high even when my intrusive thoughts kind of suggest that normally.
Retail doesn’t exactly heal people.
Comics by Anne Barnetson, the book Customer Service Wolf, is no longer available (though I have a copy woo!) but you can see the full range of comics here!
holy fuck man, whenever I need to bust a gut this always hits so hard. Holy shit.
This video shows that delivery of the joke is far more important than the joke itself.
“What is a skeleton’s favorite snack? RIBS!”
By itself a good joke, but the skeleton prop, the dumb voice and the acting makes this truly epic.
Had my suspicions but I have finally confirmed it this morning: The rival Pokémon Go team I have been beefing with, whose gym's total annihilation I have incorporated into my morning routine, is actually a group of local elementary school students
I always wondered why the Pokémon at this gym were so weak but today I left the house before the local students get picked up by the schoolbus and I saw a group of kids congregating around the gym pokestop and I was like "Oh no"
Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!
Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.
When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.
Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags
what’s the difference between a piano, a tuna, and a pot of glue?
you can tuna piano, but you can’t piano a tuna
What does glue have to do with this
i knew you’d get stuck there
good lord they died in this glue trap
AHHHHHH OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST OAHH HHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK ok nevermind. i got over it
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill
There's a way to remove it~
Go into the power shell
then paste in:
reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1
like this
Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:
incase anyone didnt know there's some great free software to handle disabling windows bloatware without needing to mess with the command line
these are a mandatory part of every windows install for me. been using them for years and it's such a lifesaver
Local house witch telling you to please learn basic housekeeping skills.
It’s not your fault if no one ever taught you but YouTube is a magical place and can teach you at your own pace.
Someone asked me what housekeeping skills I’d recommend learning.
Keep in ming that this is not me shaming you, I know you have your reasons, folks. This is just a guy who enjoys clean spaces asking that you start learning now.
Here’s what I suggest as an adult who has lived with other adults who didn’t have housekeeping skills:
First and foremost, learn about all the places in your house that need to be cleaned and understand how often they should be cleaned. the American Cleaning Institute (I guess that’s a thing) has a good article about basic cleaning info. Plus this video on cleaning tips is great!
Learn how to do your dishes. HOT water is the only way to clean your dishes.
Learn how to clean your shower head, especially if you live in a place with hard water. Same goes for your sinks.
Learn how to do your laundry correctly. Even without the whole “separating whites and colors” thing, there are things you need to learn about washing your clothes. Learn what the tags mean, too.
Also, you don’t have to use fabric softener and you shouldn’t use it on towels or any fabric meant to absorb. (Learn about laundromats) And please learn how to clean out your dryer vent, it’s a safety hazard!
Get a disinfecting cleaner for your high-touch areas, especially the gross ones like the bathroom. Just because it doesn’t look dirty, doesn’t mean it’s clean!
You’ll also want to make sure to change out your home’s air filters.
Now these resources are not the end-all-be-all, but I think if you don’t know much about cleaning your space this is a good way to start.
here’s some of the things that are helping me actually clean (as an adult who had messy parents, and has a hard time getting threw my nurodivergency about cleaning specifically) that may be helpful to you:
Favorite Cleaning Book: it helps you work through the emotional side of cleaning (and other care tasks)
Current Favorite Decluttering Method/Concept: it helps you know how much is too much to keep and how to get started when you’re overwhelmed. (having too much stuff makes it incredibly hard to clean/organize.)
Basic Cleaning Skills: this channel is amazing! this man has a special interest in cleaning and cleans people’s spaces who deal nurodivergence that make it hard to clean. he does this for free (or at a deficit because he pays for supplies and dumpsters and transport and such) and does it all with empathy and kindness working With the people as much as people can handle instead of just coming in to “fix” an issue. these videos are a bit different from his usual ones, (the last one’s most like his usual videos) but i find having the sped up cleaning videos with a voiceover can help fill in for body doubling when im too ashamed to bring people into my messy spaces.
I’m gonna queue this as well so you’ll be seeing it again from me in a few months without any comments on it, but this is all good things to know
