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Shddnandfartn

@smileyturtle

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Please take down your bird feeders if you’re in the US - there’s a massive spread of bird flu in 2022 and it’s already killed millions of poultry, let alone all the affected wild birds. This disease doesn’t affect just birds - it can spread to humans and other animals like your pets.

As of May 2023 bird flu is still very prevalent in the US. Especially if you live around poultry or keep poultry yourself, do not encourage birds to congregate at bird feeders. If you live in an area of low transmission and you wish to continue feeding birds, try to clean feeders weekly and remove debris beneath bird feeders (you can spray it away with a garden hose to prevent buildup) to lower any chance of disease.

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hey. don’t cry. crush four cloves of garlic into a pot with a dollop of olive oil and stir until golden then add one can of crushed tomatoes a bit of balsamic vinegar half a tablespoon of brown sugar and stir for a few minutes adding a handful of fresh spinach until wilted and mix in half a cup of grated parmesan cheese and pasta of your choice ok?

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With chapter 14 now up, drowning (in plain sight), is complete! So have some art that I drew a while ago.

Thank you guys so much for all the positive feedback! It really does mean a lot to me, because I know I'm not exactly known for fic, let alone angsty fic. So thank you all for giving it a chance and leaving comments and kudos.

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i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it’’s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i’m not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i’m talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it’s literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

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i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can’t even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don’t need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught… but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don’t know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you’re able. i’m not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber’s “best” recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

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not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille’s basics but especially:

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

  • freezer meals,
  • weeknight meals,
  • kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &
  • kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

THIS FUCKING LINE. IF THEY DON’T GIVE OUR GIRL A FUCKING LOVE HERSELF ARC I’M THROWING SOME FUCKING HANDS WITH MR. THOMAS H ASTRUC

I just finished Elation and I dying

She has obsessions over boys because of low self-esteem and if they don’t fix this shit I’m gonna end. Our girl deserves the world. She deserves everything. She deserves the best fucking happy ending the world has seen she is just so fucking sgaoxbaowjalxhalagzhakabz