Lil AshkeNazX

“That train is never late.”

None whatsoever!

Thank you for speaking up! 95% of the time someone who uses that word is a troglodyte and you were right to question it.

She’s elderly and on Social Security and the entire block knows and loves her, well all the non-white people anyway. The white folks mostly ignore their neighbors, but they move in and out all the time so you never have time to get to know them anyway.

I’ll set a place for you whenever you’re in DC.

I usually do a chicken and andouille gumbo. Dave is allergic to seafood, so that’s out. Sometimes I use rabbit. This one is just chicken and andouille.

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It was so good I ate two bowls.

Pollo Guisado Serves: 2 Ingredients For the Chicken: 1 whole chicken (about 5 pounds), cut into 10 pieces (See note) 5 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt ; for table salt, use half as much by volume For the Sauce: 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste 5 medium cloves garlic 5 dried árbol chiles (5 g), stems removed 3 whole cloves 1 tablespoon chicken bouillon powder 2 teaspoons whole black peppercorns 2 teaspoons sweet paprika 2 teaspoons ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon dried marjoram or Mexican oregano 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 quart (960 ml) homemade chicken stock or store-bought low-sodium chicken broth For the Guisado: 2 tablespoons (30 ml) olive oil 1 small white onion (6 ounces; 170 g), cut into 1/4 inch dice

inch dice 3 plum or Roma tomatoes (about 12 ounces; 340 g), cut into 1/4 1 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt, plus more to taste; for table salt, use half as much by volume 2 russet potatoes (about 20 ounces; 580 g total), peeled and cut into 1- inch pieces 4 carrots (about 10 ounces; 280 g total), peeled and cut into 2- inch pieces For Serving: Crusty bread Fresh cilantro leaves Instructions Sprinkle chicken pieces evenly all over with 5 teaspoons kosher salt and transfer to a large plate. Refrigerate, uncovered, for at least 30 minutes and up to 24 hours. Meanwhile, in a blender, blend tomato paste, garlic, chiles, cloves, chicken bouillon powder, black peppercorns, paprika, coriander, cumin, marjoram, thyme, and chicken stock until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl as needed, about 1 minute. Set aside. In a large stock pot or Dutch oven, heat oil over medium. Add half of the chicken pieces, skin-side down, in a single layer, and cook undisturbed until skin is light golden, about 6 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Repeat with the remaining pieces of chicken. Do not clean pot. Add onion, tomatoes, and salt to now-empty pot. Stir to coat in rendered chicken fat. Cook, stirring frequently, until onions begin to soften, about 2 minutes.

5 Add chicken carcass ( the remaining backbone and any bones after breaking down the chicken), if using, and seared chicken pieces to pot. Add blended sauce to pot and, using tongs, flip meat and submerge to ensure it is thoroughly coated. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and reduce to low. Simmer until white meat registers 160°F (71 °C) with an instant-read thermometer and the dark meat registers 175 to 185°F (70 to 85 °C), about 30 minutes. Use tongs to remove chicken pieces as they reach temperature and transfer to a clean plate or bowl. Bring pot with remaining sauce to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium-high to maintain a simmer and add potatoes and carrots. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are fork-tender and sauce has a velvety consistency, 12 to 18 minutes. Return chicken pieces to pot and simmer until chicken is coated and heated through. Season with salt to taste. Serve with crusty bread and cilantro.

Dinner last night was pollo guisado. It has a great nutrition profile. An 8 oz serving has 271 calories, 20g protein, 12g fat, and 17g of carbs. 🍽️

I finally smoked the bacon that has been curing in my upstairs refrigerator. It came out really good. It cooks differently than store bought bacon and I’m still figuring out how to cook it. Gave a pound to Miss Michelle next door. I like to take her a care package now and again. 🍽️

Dinner night before last was cajun gumbo. I was out of gumbo filé but it was good without it. Only 312 kcal per 8oz serving, plus another 100 or so for 1/2 cup of rice. 🍽️

Dinner a couple of nights ago was twice-cooked pork. This stuff is addictive. I ate too much, and I am extremely disciplined in my diet ordinarily. I weigh everything and count every macro. Couldn’t stop eating this. Bad David. Bad, bad David. 🍽️

Queer Holocaust educator here. Nazi persecution of queer people primarily targeted gay & bi men and transgender women, and it didn’t manifest in the form of mass murder. Queer people were not usually sent to death camps, nor were they shot en masse.

OMG I could have sworn I was. I am now!

OMG they just followed me. I don’t understand why antisemites are always wanting to follow me.

Attn: @fleurdeseldevie.bsky.social

I just followed you a few days ago and am so happy to have done so. Thank you so much for your obvious commitment to solidarity with the Jewish people. It is so rare today that I never take it for granted, and I wanted to make a point of recognizing it and saying thank you. ❤️

*transgender not transgendered. That was a stupid typo that I didn’t catch in time. I know better, and apologize for my error.

As for your claim that the Muslim world was queer-friendly, that’s an overstatement. The Muslim world was far more accepting than the Christian world was for most of its history, and there were some times and places that could accurately be called queer-friendly. But there was also much persecution.

Lesbians were targeted even less frequently, and only a handful of cases of their being imprisoned or sent to camps are recorded.

So there was definitely persecution, definitely thousand of deaths, but never mass murder as there was for Jews, Roma, and POWs.

When it comes to transgender women, exact numbers are incredibly hard to pin down, in part because the Nazis didn’t believe transgendered poeple existed and often recorded them as gay men. Trans men were sometimes targeted, but not to the degree gay men and trans women were.

Those sent to prison usually survived. Those sent to camps were those they considered “committed sodomites,” and those who were charged with “seducing German youth.” Their death rate in the camps is hard to pin down, but leading scholar Ruediger Lautmann estimates it was about 60%.

The Nazis believed homosexuality was a sickness, not an innate characteristic, so the usual punishment was prison. Some 100,000 gay men were tried for sodomy, and 50,000 were convicted. Of those convicted, 5-15,000 were sent to concentration camps, & the rest to prison.

Queer Holocaust educator here. Nazi persecution of queer people primarily targeted gay & bi men and transgender women, and it didn’t manifest in the form of mass murder. Queer people were not usually sent to death camps, nor were they shot en masse.

Dinner last night was Tom Kha Gai (chicken, lemongrass, and coconut milk soup), Nam Tok (waterfall beef salad), and Pad Ka Prow Gai (stir fried holy basil chicken). I forgot to take pictures but fortunately a guest took a couple. No pic of the Pad Ka Prow Gai, but these are the soup and salad.

I’m going to go with racist.

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I use 00 and I add vital wheat gluten to increase the protein content because I like the crust nice and chewy.