Discord is down so I'm just gonna put this here Chop an onion, put in a bowl, submerge in lime juice, add ~1tbsp sugar, mix Make rice or similar (eg. bulgur wheat) Dice a tomato and set aside When the rice is almost done heat up black beans and add chili powder + whatever else Slop together and eat

fanart (for my health)

Can't believe it's been a year already, but also a year is so long to go with Annie still outside Canada :( hopefully not too much longer for that At least we've since learned which hand rings are meant to go on...

It's been years but it still drives me crazy that typing "99" on a microwave gets you well over 50% more time than typing "100"

We really got the "we really got [thing] before GTA6" meme before Half Life 3

etymology fact: "sandwich" derives from "sad blandwich", referring to how disappointing a poorly made one can be ethics fact: if there's even a tiny fraction of a chance disinformation can be picked up by AI and mislead people using it and make them look bad, it's morally encouraged to post it

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

I love sites that ask for your age to show you mature content (like violent games on Steam) but don't question it if you tell them you're 120 years old and born on New Years day. "Yeah I'd like to see this WWI shooter please- no it's okay, I was there, I remember"

call me root 2 cause I'll never be ratio'd

one of the most sobering things a person can do is googling "[meme caption] meme" as an image search to get a template and seeing all of the out of touch slop that appears instead

Decided I will no longer be using imperial units at all. You know how people are, you give them 2.54cm and they take 1.61km. But 28.35g of prevention really is worth 0.454kg of cure

I'm not tech illiterate but I WILL say it took me at least 15 minutes to buy an ebook through Amazon Most of it was trying to figure out why the book didn't have a buy button until suddenly it did, and how to choose a card when the only button was one click checkout (it took more than one click)

I'm not one for nationalism, but considering Canada is culturally between the UK and the States, it feels like a good time to go all in on being uniquely Canadian I will no longer be saying "soda" basically, fully committed to it being "pop"

It's taken some time, but I have reached the fabled heights, achieved something many fail to, hit a level of cultural understanding previously thought to be beyond mere mortals (cumin now smells like jeera rice to me instead of just like grocery store taco seasoning)

I have never been to either Dumfries or Carlisle but I have very positive feelings towards both places just because they're mentioned in CATS

that thing where guys very conspicuously watch a woman walk past except instead it's me watching 25-50 year old family hatchbacks and estate cars

Gamers (handshake stock photo) airline pilots Seeing "2000 hours" and thinking "oh they're new still"

this may be my most banal opinion but i think a good London fog might surpass matcha lattes as my tea drink of choice though i don't have a milk steamer and whatnot so matcha still gets the edge for homemade beverages

toxic masculinity and violence has robbed us of so much. men should be comfortable saying to other random men "cheers darling", or "thank you doll", or "nice one babe", but at BEST you'll just get a quick "thanks bud" instead

Any AC fans who can help me out? I completed AC on Gamecube, and then finished the story of AC2 on PS3. Do I go on to New Horizons next or Black Flag? Getting really confused about canon order

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That (Hitting Windows + Shift + S Instead of PrtScrn))

I've been informed that my family used a rice cooker today for dinner and it caught fire i was mostly joking with this post, i swear it wasn't my doing

the culture war is a distraction from fighting the mega-rich, the war on Christmas is imagined, the fight on pineapple pizza is real but ultimately harmless. no, the battle in which i will fall is in the war on rice cookers

this is genuinely incredible

The human condition is the state of always wanting to try a bidet, but being too scared to ever actually do it

bluesky not having animated gifs embed cons: hard to share animations videos don't play on my phone lately limits communication options pros: you can click an artist's media tab to see their work instead of the same 3 "thank you" or laughing gif replies over and over

There's not enough representation in media of people who actually like winter. Everywhere I go it's used as a metaphor for bad times and given as an excuse for people being miserable and lazy, meanwhile I'm thriving and wishing anyone else wanted to do anything

convinced there's a 2 week period where people aren't used to the new year yet and stores can get away with selling things with a "January 2025" expiration date again

"What's your sign?" "Positive" "?" "Oh, sorry. Yield to oncoming traffic" "No, like, are you a libra, or a capricorn, or...?" "Oh! Okay. No" "...When were you born?" "Hitler's birthday, the day of the Columbine shooting"

Reasons to learn a second language: - it's fun - it keeps the brain active - it deepens your understanding of how speech works generally - you can say something mundane on your deathbed that nobody present will understand and for the rest of their years they'll live in wonder and regret over it

pro tip: recover from answering "enjoy your meal" with "you too" by handing the delivery driver half of your order

there's that classic thing that once comedians get big their jokes are all about hotels and airplanes. the internet version is people talking about emails. i haven't had an email I've needed to reply to in months, maybe years, it's all just marketing and confirming accounts

friends (and pokey) #earthbound #fanart

As a casual car guy it makes me deeply sad every time I hear a cool sounding name of a car, google it, and see exactly this shape, and learn that it's the size of your average McDonald's restaurant location, burns more fuel than France, and has almost the storage space of a 2001 Honda Civic

One of thousands of problems with AI is that you can opt out of ever using it yourself pretty easily, but you can't opt out of being exposed to it, or of having to deal with higher prices of computer parts because of it, or higher electricity costs, or... The "benefit" is optional but not the cost

"This could have been an email" except referring to short form videos of some guy talking

Been trying to learn crocheting. The hardest part so far is how every tutorial website has 30 ads, newsletter popups, cookie requests and book plugs per square centimetre, and my phone crashes before I can scroll past the 8 paragraph "why I started crocheting" preamble at the top

chewing on drywall #earthbound #fanart

People taking off a hoodie and having their shirt come up with it to expose their torso are showing off, it's entirely avoidable and there's no excuse for it otherwise, I will die on this hill

it's funny, i don't care much for 3D animation, but every time a studio tries to make it more like 2D through smearing, low framerate, less literal facial expressions, etc. i always think it looks way worse

2025 recap: - watched several people delete their spotify in protest - spent more hours thinking about bridges burned by calling out toxic people on twitch than watching streams - spent 30 days in a beautiful seaside city with my spouse So in short lots of improvement all around :)

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

those game companies that release a new game every year and won't let you buy the older ones drive me insane i don't have a top of the line PC so I'm just not allowed to play anything Forza legally :/ well their loss i guess

Windows 11 as an operating system manages to be so bad that no extant profanities are bad enough to insult it, and would instead be an insult to feces itself. May everyone responsible for it becoming what it is now live out their remaining years in ever-increasing misery and pain

Rodents grow incisors through their whole lives and need to keep chewing to wear them down, sharks replace their teeth constantly, baboons have big canines that get honed against a special molar, meanwhile we have just one sad set of wimpy teeth that go bad if we aren't constantly scrubbing them??

We learned today that we can both play and visit each others' towns by sending the files back and forth, and it's not concurrent multiplayer but it's still very nice. Hot take: Nintendo has made some alright stuff in the past 25 years

Update that I forgot: computers are evil and programming languages are stupid and making things is impossible

It's 2025 and I have still yet to come across a really good pinball game. All I want is like, 10-12 different machines, styled a little differently, that you unlock by doing challenges on the previous machines. Give them each a unique gimmick that can't easily be done with physical ones

Started playing Animal Crossing on GameCube with @anniewah.bsky.social today There's just something so comfortable about it I only ever played the Wii one as a kid but it just feels so familiar yet still new to me I don't think games have necessarily gotten worse but nostalgia is real

discord updates be like "patched out sending messages in servers, but we added pre made avatars for $40 each" and you close the box by either clicking [cool, i literally can't wait, let's get started right now!] or [deeply sorry but I gotta do something else quick, I'll get on this ASAP, sorry guys]