this place is best left shunned and uninhabited

aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

Matthew Hodson: “ 20 years ago, 2 years after the arrival of combination therapy that effectively treated #HIV, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s LGBT newspaper ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.”

Y'all need to appreciate that this was practically fucking *yesterday*.

as of today: june 1, 2023, that headline is 2 ½ months shy of being old enough to rent a car

for everyone bad at math, like me lol: the original print date was August 13th, 1998

This got me dying

who paid for this study bruh

it’‘s literally seasoning.  that’s it. that’s what make food taste good.

Bro it’s more complex than just ‘ey they used seasoning’ 

It’s HOW they used seasoning, compared to other areas of the world. 

Indian seasoning does this neat color wheel of flavor, fitting a bunch of spices that are very DIFFERENT from each other, to create a huge range of complex flavor. 

Meanwhile in Italy for instance, they tend to use flavors that are SIMILAR. For instance, Basil and Oregano, or Sweet fish with Sweet wine. It makes foods less likely to contrast weirdly in your mouth, and it’s the basis of why fancy european people pair red wines with steak and white wines with chicken. Savory with Savory, Light with Light.   

But the Indian food steps it up a notch. The research is definitely worth a read. 

well yes, spices need to not just complement the food but contrast against each other. to get maximum flavour when cooking indian food:

1. use whole spices, dry roast small quantities of individual spices together and then grind them to a powder. balance is what you’re looking for, not just chucking in handfuls of seasonings willy nilly because quantity does not equal flavour when it comes to spicing indian food. 

2. whole spices go in the oil first. always. also everything gets fried on its own before it’s chucked into the sauce/curry. even the curry base is started off by frying onions/ginger/garlic/tomatoes or any combination thereof. basically…FRY THAT SHIT. i don’t know of any regional cuisine in india that uses stock for simmering. frying everything individually is how we add flavour instead.  

3. indian food needs to be cooked long and slow for the flavours to really merge. don’t skimp on the cooking time if you can because that makes a huge difference. 

This was so enlightening

I feel a need to mention that the researchers for this study are NOT white, as stated above. They’re Indian. It’s Indian people saying “why does our cuisine work and taste so vastly different than anywhere else in the world?” To quote from the article:

“Researchers Anupam Jaina, Rakhi N Kb, and Ganesh Bagler from the Indian Institute for Technology in Jodhpur ran a fine-tooth comb through TarlaDalal.com—a recipe database of more than 17,000 dishes that self-identifies as “India’s #1 food site”—in attempts to decode the magic of your chicken tikka masala or aloo gobi.”

There’s a major misunderstanding in how a lot of people understand science. There’s this idea that there’s a frontier of stuff we don’t know and a big block of stuff we do. Their first reaction is to scoff because we already “know” that Indian food “uses spices” and that’s why it tastes good. Why waste time re-treading that ground to come to the conclusion you already have?

In reality, the frontiers of knowledge are everywhere. Most of what gets studied is common everyday stuff because we generally have a good grip on what stuff does but the holes are in the “how it does it”. And we don’t know anything to perfect certainty, only degrees of relative certainty, and in varying levels of precision. 

The person who says the Earth is flat isn’t making a terribly large miscalculation of the curviture of the Earth, and on a local scale it may not impact their day to day life, but they are still wrong. The person who says the Earth is round is also wrong, but the model is off from reality significantly less. The one who says the planet is an oblate spheroid futher brings the model into precision, but ultiamtely, the only perfect 1:1 model of the planet, is the planet. 

Every measurement is going to have a margin of error. Doesn’t mean we should just stop at the sphere, or even the oblate spheroid.

I will never forget a book I had as a kid that was basically “scientific answers to everyday phenomena most people cannot explain”. And most of the book was exactly like that. Stuff like why does a plane actually fly or why can’t you cool down the earth by turning up the fridge and air conditioning.

Anyway what always stuck with me from this book is that one of the questions was “why do shower curtains get pulled inwards when you shower” and the chapter listed a couple possible reasons but ended with “but really we cannot fully explain why this happens, probably because nobody gets paid to investigate the behaviour of shower curtains”

girls when they go utterly insane every summer

*asks an AI to give the font a “brighter shade of black”*

That’s it, that’s all I got. Happy Valentine’s Day, tumblr, thank you for tolerating me.

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.

I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.

With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this

This is a kind of visceral horror

here, have an extremely wholesome tiktok to detox your dash

How’s it feel to be the funniest person on tumblr?

hello beloveds ☺️

made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to

You are appreciated

pokémon evolution chains we need

Some important additions:

Because it's impossible for me not to chime in I wanted to add that glitch pokemon evolutions in Gen 1 are also just on another level.

I present to you: Every single one of these which is possible to achieve in a Gen 1 game

Could you give me the names of those glitch Pokémon 👀

Oh heck yes

The first one of these is actually a TON of different lines but here are some examples:

Things like to evolve into Clefairy idk

An example of the second:

Many Paths, One destination:

Skipping right to the end

And whatever the heck all this is

Thank you for your time please go fourth and make your game throw up pokemon.

Oh god. Now I want to chart all of them.

Is there a dedicated glitch wiki, or did you pull those from Bulba?

These were from Bulbapedia but there IS a dedicated Glitch pokemon Wiki over here

It's an archive based on Glitch City Labs which was unfortunately shut down in 2020. Still a great resource for learning about any and all things Glitch Pokemon.

Oh my god. A dedicated wiki. It makes me so happy not to have to run into Fandom’s bullshit 😭

Believe it or not, it was even better when it was a dedicated site. I knew the guy who ran it a long time ago through a forum actually. Really cool dude. Sad to see the site go, but it's understandable.

You’re breaking me, man

I'm just so proud to watch another person go off the deep end into this.

This is exactly what I hoped to inspire.

Absolutely deranged.

Is it not a thing of beauty? Is this not exactly what you asked for?

I'm absolutely cackling this is amazing. Thank you for making this, you're doing the lords work.

Get ready for June because handmade Pride Bead Lizard Earrings are in stock!

(Custom flag colors are available! Just leave a note on your order.)

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Poured Mountain Dew over fresh pineapple chunks and it is DELICIOUS

Follow up: poured Sprite on watermelon to make some delicious melonade. That Homestar Runner really knew what he was talking about

Bonus: after I drank the liquid, I ate the melon chunks, which had absorbed enough of the soda that that they were fizzy

As the weather warms up don’t forget about this refreshing treat I invented and is completely original

piccolo goes to costco

Customer: AN HOMAGE TO LITTLE RICHARD, THE GREATEST DMV: TINY DICK AS IN LITTLE PENIS Verdict: DENIED

come on man

guy finds a beetle in his apartment and texts his roommate hey did you invite someone over