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Christmas eve cooking *nearly* done. * Lamb FIlling for sfiha * Chicken curry for curry puffs * Pesto x2 for 2x cheese-pesto breads * Faux-Indonesian lamb shoulder x2 * Lemon curd * Passionfruit curd * Lemon tart (and second lemon curd) * Custard for trifle that partner is making

Bari Weiss, meet The Streisand Effect.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

60 Minutes Inside CECOT segment

had this song on loop recently

Just discovered Cry Club. fuck yeah

The Australian Israel Lobby Is Flat-Out Saying They Want a Ban on Criticism of Israel. Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it. Caitlin Johnstone

The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

I really like canned mackerel, but my brain is always convinced I'm going to hate it, to the point I make excuses to have something else. no I don't know how that works.

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

Oh, FABULOUS, @albomp.bsky.social! We're going to teach everyone how EVIL GENOCIDE and settler-colonialism is, yes? How no matter what your skin colour or your religion, you deserve the right to live and not suffer from illegal occupation, apartheid or state terrorism? #auspol #GazaGenocide #pfft

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

Whelp, Kit Harrington continues to be on my shit list. Guess when your career has collapsed, you gotta try to suck up to the fascist TERF lady. Sucks, cause I really did like his work in and out of GOT, and I know he had a hard go of it. But fuck him at this point.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

There is a herb / vegetable / generally tasty leaf that I know exactly what it tastes like but just doesn't seem to exist, and it should, dammit. Every time I cook it feels like I'm missing a crayon out of the box (yes yes) and I'm quite unjustifiably annoyed. I think it was retconned out :/

I’m just a Gen X girl standing in front of anyone of a younger generation asking them to send me text messages instead of garbled audio ones.

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

This week's dinner

U.S. pals: Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army. There are better charities out there. Much better.

Hogwash Legacy is free? Still won’t play it.

And you know what really scares me? That offline, particularly in low income rural communities there’s the far right rising fast. And young leftists are losing the chance to organise resistance online because of the social media ban

“Let them be kids!” But Victoria passed the Adult Time for Violent Crime legislation which can send 14 year olds to adult jails. Which is it you want them to be? Adults or children? Or simply not seen or heard at all?

New ad from the Australien Government Department for Rearranging Deckchairs. #AusPol #SMban

Fresh tomatillos aren't a thing here; is it possible to make chilli verde with canned ones?

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

A gay man from a country town once showed me the newspaper column of mine he'd kept in his wallet since (pre-socials) school; it said he was not alone & would find his people. Social media can be a lifeline for kids who're bullied, live in abusive home, or whose hobbies/interests are anti-anxiety.

ICE is now learning how to torture people with physical impairments, by denying medical attention. The human rights violations are piling up, for AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL to record of American atrocities, carried out by ICE. vt.tiktok.com/ZSPedXqjQ/

A whole lot of not thinking things through with this policy. Pretty much assumes everyone is a middle-upper class white, straight teenager with no issues living in a city www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I had a problem that I spent a week thinking of different ways to solve and it was eventually solved by using this sophisticated tool I invented.

Planned to go to the beach today what with it being amazing beach weather and all. Woke up and realised I didn't actually want to go, so stayed home. Not sure whether to feel bad for being lazy/unmotivated, or good for resisting self-peer-pressure

Why no, Outlook, as a matter of fact I don't want you to replay my entire work day to me as I finally get home and look for video gaem

A cool thing I just realized. Bluesky’s positivity algorithm means if you are replying to brands or companies with about their treatment of workers, how their products are poor quality or have ethical issues your reply will likely be hidden because it’s not “positive” Fun!

core business running on decades-old perl full of global variables. and whaddyaknow, weird bugs that are going to be an absolute bastard to fix. and I still have the second half of a migraine from yesterday

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?

The Japanese commercial for Zelda 3 (SNES)

just pointing out for the Nth time that Noelle is a fucking genius

Any australian oat milk fans out there? I'm looking for something a lot thinner and lighter than So Good - which is tasty, but halfway to custard imho. Any brand recommendations?

It’s comforting to believe the tens of millions of Americans who didn’t vote would have voted against Trump, but there is zero evidence to support this notion. We have to accept that Americans elected a criminal fascist, that they may do so again in the future, and write foreign policy accordingly.

In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I just made 54 mushroom turnovers and a lemon drizzle cake.