Well, those turned out fairly well! I DO need to get some practice with stretching/tossing the dough. Rolling it out gives it a significantly different crumb. And I also need to find a dough recipe for Chicago tavern style!

Agenda for the evening: Homemade individual pizzas with the upstairs neighbors and then some movies or gaming...

Love when a ~middle-age mom friend of mine talks about going and seeing “Project Hail Mary” and says

ok but would a dying bluesky look like *this*

It's remarkable how rapidly institutions crumble from within when afflicted with utterly useless, venal leadership.

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IMO the single most lacking skill in the corporate world is the ability to lead and faciliate an effective meeting. Everyone pisses and moans about meetings, but when they’re run properly, with purpose and direction, they’re fine. It’s just that hardly anyone DOES that.

Even the Royal Navy in the 18th century, when you had to take an oath rejecting the Pope to be a commissioned officer, permitted the Catholics on board to hold their own services.

Your average Republican is manifestly a threat to the world and their fellow citizens. They cannot be allowed to retain any political power, for all our sakes’.

Why should we care about the norms of due process for people who are trying to kill us with their every action?

Gonna be interesting watching interim AG Todd Blanche transfer Ghislane Maxwell again...this time to the Lincoln Bedroom, no doubt.

my soul has left my body

It makes more sense when you remember that Hegseth is incapable of achieving orgasm without an American servicemember dying.

I look forward to the day when none of Harmeet Dhillon’s relatives admit to knowing her. Every one of Trump’s lickspittles should die alone, unloved, and be buried in an outhouse tank, so we can shit on them for all eternity.

These are people who think that Cliff’s Notes are literary analysis.

Everything is so fucking stupid.

Luv 2 C a piece of shit publicly humiliated by their boss, who is also a piece of shit.

Anyone wanna see the funniest 12 seconds that include a murder?

Taking this headline back in time to 1985 and passing it around to give strokes to everyone I encounter.

Lindsay's welcome to go show the last true measure of devotion any time the blood-gargling chickenhawk wants. In fact, hurry the fuck up, pal. We've all been waiting for a good long while.

Trump is orders of magnitude more turbulent than the worst priest Henry II could possibly imagjne.

This shot of the core stage separation is incredible

Republicans are constantly horny to torture children. It is their single most consistent principle.

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

Read about the 1994 Fairchild AFB B-52 crash, and in particular the parts about how the command permissiveness created the conditions for this, which led to at least one family watching their father and spouse die in a ball of flames in front of their eyes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fa...

Oh man, you got me! Good April Fools’ prank, folks! That’s a ton of commitment, I gotta say…setting up all the way back in 2015 the ol’ “I tricked you into committing national suicide, LMAO” gag! Haha, boy is my face red for not seeing it coming!

FUCK this piece of shit overpromoted major. Safety regs, ESPECIALLY safety regs pertaining to civilians, are written in blood. We’re about to see a bunch of them overwritten, too. Hegseth’s clearly not content to kill people overseas, he’s bound and determined to do so here as well.

SCROODLY DOODLY DOO

Really jazzed that while we wait for SCOTUS and Chief Justice Roberts to finish strangling the Voting Rights Act to death, we have Trump trying to take over election administration by EO so he can suppress Democratic votes. Really top-notch juxtaposition, writers

I'm only culturally human, not a practicing one

“J.D. Vance’s 95 Feces”

All I’m saying is that MCRD Parris Island is adjacent to a LOT of swamp/marshland that can hide any number of…”objects”.

Hegseth is nothing more than an ambulatory collection of “Full Metal Jacket”-inspired quotes.

Finding out that the new Canadian C-3 Citizenship law means that my wife has Canadian citizenship through her great-grandfather:

Though today is Trans Day of Visibility, Trans people have always been part of human society, acknowledged or not, and will continue to be, despite all the rancor and bleating trying to deny their existence. "And yet it moves.” - Galileio You’ll always be with us, and I’ll always welcome you

This is proverbially known as "closing the [hangar] door after the [E-3 Sentry AWACS] Is gone."

Aaaaaaand this is why I carry my high-zoom birding camera everywhere I go in the spring. So when the Ornithology Club students find an American Woodcock in a green space on campus, I can run from my house and get the best woodcock photos I've ever taken. Prepare yourself, I took HUNDREDS 🪶 1/?

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR ATTIE AI TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA TO CREATE AN EVIL PALETTE SWAPPED “WA-“ VERSION OF MY PROFILE AND POSTS

He's dying

Our expressways in Chicago are all one big dysfunctional family

"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

Well just start drafting charges against me now under 18 USC § 333, you're gonna need a lot of paper to list the violations.

❌👑 except...

Any time you hear a conservative scoff at "wealth redistribution," ask them why it's okay to redistribute wealth upwards. It's never THAT kind of wealth redistribution that they care about.

Defector has an anonymous piece up by a former employee at an online sportsbook, and goddamn if this passage isn’t the most clearly articulated reason I’ve yet seen why I loathe online sports betting and want to see it erased from existence.

My father grew up on a small working cattle/sheep ranch in Eastern Montana in the 40s, with his parents, siblings, and some ranch hands. He joined the Army to get out of MT and see the world. He was stationed in Korea. Lived in NYC, Washington D.C., Manila, and Saudi Arabia. He loved both (ctd)

This is why I have the circle of friends that I do. Come for the supportive group dynamics, stay for the weapuns of mass destruction.

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem: