I am whiter than a hotel towel, but I gladly and wholeheartedly adopted the holiday tamale habit. I smoked a pork shoulder for 18 hours and added green chilis for these. Many thanks to all of the generous method and recipe sharers that have allowed me to improve every year.,

As expected, I've gotten to ridiculous amounts of treat making. We do not exchange gifts in our family, we exchange baskets of goodies to live off of during the Pajamas Times between Christmas and New Years. Cookies, fudge, peppermint bark and dilly crackers are done.

I really do love this and completely get it. As someone with a very non-naturally occurring hair color and a pixie cut, I think I probably give off that vibe as people do ask me for assistance. And I’m okay with it.

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

I just tipped a grocery delivery driver fresh out of the oven cookies and I thought she was going to cry. Please remember to be kind to retail and delivery folks this week. I can remember being in the front lines for years and it's so rough.

The Great Baking/Candymaking has commenced. Almond and hazelnut biscotti, chocolate swirl meringues, chocolate chip cookies, peppermint bark, butter mints, chocolate peanut butter fudge, and maybe some marshmallows if I have the time.

Blessed Yule to everyone, may the longest night be peaceful for you and yours. I’m snuggled up with book and cats and pretending there is no work tomorrow.

Yeah, this whole thread explains that dead eyed sadist better than anything else I’ve seen.

Today I was in a one on one meeting with someone in my organization I have not worked with before and the first thing they said was something about working with AI for ideas and I realized I would never take this person seriously or go out of my way to help them again. So that was awful.

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I guess I will never move again. #catsky

the year is 1990. american children walk out of their schools chanting, "no blood for oil." the year is 2003. american children walk out of their schools chanting, "no blood for oil." the year is 2025

This entire weekend

What a very very sad and horrible weekend this has turned out to be. Tell your people you love them.

I made homemade peppermint bark with Callebaut 811 and oh my goodness.

Holy shit Rian Johnson. Nailed it. All of it.

The Truth.

This is an amazing deal, if you want to get a ton of great content. Some of it is quite mad (complimentary).

We have reached the point where every time my husband says potatoes I burst into song. Whimsy shall be my armor against this bleakness.

In happier news, I guess we were really good this year and got a case of Passaggio wine delivered as an early Christmas gift. This 2018 Grenache is so so good. If you are in NorCal, go find some. Made a hearty bean soup (bless the lowly ham hock) and crusty bread to go with.

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

Trying to get back to some of my weekly household rituals to ground myself. Putting bread together to bake tomorrow, soaking beans for soup Tuesday and finishing up Monday laundry. Ticking the boxes helps a bit.

Just read this, seriously. It's amazing and we need more of this in the world right now.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I built a shelter for the feral tortie that has been sleeping on my porch to thank her for patrolling the yard and chicken coop all year. It will be bitterly cold next week and I hope she likes it. Maybe one day she’ll let me pet her. #catsky #tnr #communitycats

Q: What I also struggle to believe is that you are the self-described arbiter of naughty and nice, but you are close to Krampus. A: I don’t know if I’d say we’re close.

Made orgeat. That was interesting and I look forward to using it. Also had an amazing practice session on the harp. I love playing Christmas music, but only if it’s at least a couple hundred years old. It’s all so dark and cozy. Need to knit to round out the day.

This week has been awful in general and in the particular with sudden heartache and loss for folks I care about. And I feel helpless and gross. So I made a cake.

I mean… yeah. Books, socks and dinner definitely rate way up there in my life.

Any hot takes about how we do this to ourselves in the South will get cussed then blocked. Many Southern cities big and small are diverse, progressive, beautiful, full of art/culture and do not deserve the disdain of persons who have not been disenfranchised by the insane gerrymandering we have.

For anyone wondering what happened to our blue dot: in 2023, this is what happened. We used to have one district that was all of Davidson and Cheatham county to our NW. They stole the representation of 800k people.

How in the hell as a resident of TN 7 am I supposed to be able to concentrate on eating dinner? Or anything?

Oh @wilwheaton.net I am so in my happy place right now. Much needed, so glad you and Bev showed up so early in the build. #tng #legos #startrek

Today I'm doing laundry and baking bread and avoiding all sorts of things I should probably be doing because my brain has decided 4 days off was NOT enough. I need another 3 or 4 I think.

My sweet Vala had dental surgery today and has spent the last several hours just staring off into space.

Oh yeah, I get to wear some of my favorite socks today. #showmeyourknits #sockknitting #fibersky

The tiramisu, deviled eggs and Boursin mashed potatoes I contributed were a success. Now I fall asleep for a while so that I can wake up and have cheesecake for dinner.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

I would just walk into the sea.

Ah, here’s the nonsensical too many books post. Well the rest is correct, maybe too much so. Add some cats, and it’s me.

So I just saw a passing reference to that "too many books" idea again, complete hogwash. It reminded me my uncle called today to see if I had a book on Christmas customs and traditions. I poked around and told him no, but I *do* have a 1400 page reference book on all holiday symbols and customs.

What is truly horrible that you all likely know what this post is referring to. We all need a bleach shower after this week.

Spooky Towels! These are very late in finishing because of life upheavals but I should get them hemmed this weekend and have next project on the loom next weekend. Also, this fabric feels amazing and now I want to weave yardage for sewing. I’ll have to think about it. #handweaving #fibersky

12. There’s a bloodied history

This is so true in the conversation around how to dress yourself ethically. Mending can be done with a handful of inexpensive supplies and there's a lot of resources online to help. I would also add clothing care is equally important. Learning how to correctly launder and store them extends life!

I am honestly not sure which one icks me out more.

Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi

Watching Blues/Flyers. Snuggerud cannot be his real last name. It sounds like a brand of footie pajamas for grownups.

I think what some folks aren't getting about releasing all these files and possibly implicating people across the political spectrum is there is no such thing as "too big to fail... or jail" for the vast majority of Americans. I don't care who is implicated, as long as justice is served.