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(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690

It's St Andrews Day, which is also a great day to read Scottish books and authors!! Here are eleven recent-ish Scottish SFFH reads that I loved, to add to your TBR pile! 👇✨

Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.

NYC’s density really working against ICE today, much easier for a ton of people to swarm and shut them down once they realized what was going on

great fucking work everyone

"If you see something say something" is really coming back to bite them in the ass isn't it?

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How interesting. I've never seen one before. I love that I'm always learning new things about tea. I'll have to go look those up now. Thank you!

You have such a lovely collection of teacups! I am always astounded by how pretty they are.

May I ask what the silver spoon thing is next to the tea pet (who is adorable btw)? A tea scoop?

I agree with the others, your setup is always lovely.

Brown sugar - Wikipedia

I compiled a cookbook that year for the office, and spent weeks researching a way to make soft chocolate chip cookies without the right type of brown sugar.

I think the type in Europe is typically called Turbinado sugar here (upper right below) Ours looks like the stuff lower right in this image.

The sugar sold as "brown sugar" in Germany has a large crystal structure and no moisture. US brown sugar is granulated like white sugar, but still has molasses in it so it's soft and sticky in texture. It has a very specific flavor profile and is the secret to soft-style chocolate chip cookies.

For weeks afterwards random people would come up to us on campus and tell us how good the pies were.

Anyway. That's the hardest I've ever worked for Thanksgiving dinner. Enjoy your pie!

And wish the poor UC students in Germany some luck in their baking today and tomorrow. It's worth it.

Oh wow.
That's the dream.

Nobody's Baby Check out Nobody's Baby - <p><b>Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a </b><b>formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.</b><br><br><i>...

Today is an excellent day to support your local indie bookstore and pre-order Nobody’s Baby, the second Dorothy Gentleman sapphic sci-fi mystery!

Bonus: the official fern shawl pattern from Violet’s yarn shop will be available around release day, entirely free!

On a Saturday night (not Thursday, we had class) the 30 of us arrived with nearly 200 germans to a sit-down dinner with candles and white tablecloths.

Four of the Americans were deputized to carve the birds. Potatoes, and gravy, and broccoli. Which were all very salty.

But the pies were amazing.

We spent two days making pie crusts and carefully dividing them between about six floors of refrigerators.

We baked in shifts the day before the dinner, until about 3am, allowing for time to cool.

Our director drove a Subaru that made three trips to carry all the pies to the cafeteria.

The only pecans that could be found were in shells. But we got six bags.

Half a dozen nutcrackers spent five hours cracking nuts with a hammer and dividing shell from nuts by hand.

Someone had to go to an international foods store in Berlin to get brown sugar and Gram crackers.

Subcommittees were formed.

Filling procurement.
Crust production.
Oven watchers.

We were all in dorms with shared kitchens, but each had an oven. We would need to make the pies in shifts.

One girl's father was convinced to bring eight cans of pumpkin in his suitcase to Frankfurt in September

That is... A lot of pie. Thus the committee.

We laughed. Our director did not.
Pie committee was a huge undertaking.

What kinds?

Debate raged. Votes were taken.

We settled on 6 types, the mandatory pumpkin and pecan. Apple, cherry, chess, & sweet potato.

We were informed at our orientation that we would need to form a Pie committee. Because we would have dinner in one of the dining rooms, and as our program director noted "the kitchen staff have figured out turkey but it is really better for everyone if you all make the pies." Many pies. 110 pies.

In 2016 I was an international student at George August University in Göttingen, Germany. I was a UC student so there were about 30 of us total from California. Because the program had been going so long there was a tradition that we hold Thanksgiving dinner with the American studies program.

I can attest to this also. Pecan and pumpkin are the most American pies according to the Göttingen American studies department. Why? It's the two flavors that were mandatory for our Thanksgiving dinner.

This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)

Now that the long-range forecast has been issued, it’s time for my annual thread of Advice on Making Mittens that Will Actually Keep You Warm. 1/...🧶

Light refracts through the belly of a clear glass tea pitcher making arcs on the textured surface of the white ceramic tea tray. To the right there is a small glass ladybug and the shell of a celadon snail.

This is what I think of when someone says "tea light". 🍵

The cover of a chapbook entitled, Whatever Kills You Makes You Stronger. White lettering on a black background, there’s a nervous system made from plant material floating behind the title.

A coffee cup in the shape of a human skull sits on a wooden counter inside the bookstore. A stack of comics and chapbooks are beside the skull. In the background you can see some customers and coffee machines.

Visited Brooklyn’s great horror bookstore, THE TWISTED SPINE.

Signed copies of a story I wrote for them, available for sale there & not online anywhere.

“Whatever Kills You Makes You Stronger.”

Cover design by Alan Lastufka/Shortwave Publishing.

Plus, I drank coffee out of a skull.

Thank you!

The little cat steps on the wizard's face, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with passionfruit jelly and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of raspberry. As he eats breakfast, the wizard debates what move to make next in his interdimensional

What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.