Erica Wilkinson

Larry: "I wasn't a trash talker! Trash talking is mean. I wasn't mean. I was honest."

😆

I somehow ended up on Prime Larry Bird Tiktok, and it's honestly SO wholesome to watch all these old heads reminiscing about what an absolute nightmare-fuel trash-talking basketball-virtuoso Larry was back in the day while watching old clips of him running the table on all of them.

This is probably a super ignorant question, but is anyone from AZ's CD7 able to like... sue Mike Johnson for denying them representation by refusing to swear in their duly elected congress person? Aren't we in Taxation Without Representation territory (on top of all the other nonsense?)

"ICE is operating LEGALLY!" Yeah, so were slave patrols. What's your fucking point?

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Do you put water around the jars inside the pot?

oOOOOOOoOOO! I'll have to try this!

I'm planning to turn most/all of this first batch into lebneh, so I don't mind having one giant pot this time.

Thrifty in a trying-to-survive-the-ongoing-economic-disaster way, not a not a trad-wife way.

Making my own gut-friendly yogurt in a isn't-the-science-of-traditional-food ways-cool way, not a probiotics-can-replace-vaccines way.

I had a coupon for milk, so I've currently got a pot of yogurt on for a long slow ferment, for a super gut-friendly lactose-free greek yogurt and/or lebneh.

I still don't know where I'm going to store this beast of a machine in my teeny kitchen.

Also, I made fully jellified chicken stock in THREE HOURS.

green falafel dough in a vacuum sealed bag

Yesterday I made falafel and vacuum sealed and froze half for another day.

I scored a basically brand new vacuum sealer at thrift for 5$, and a very lightly used 8qt Instant Pot on Goodwill Auctions for 30$, and I'm about to ascend to new heights of frugality.

*Eagle Screech*

Genuinely, this makes me feel so patriotic.

To “make” the proof. Jesus.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

This is quite good.

“I’m English on my mom’s side and ethnically a kidnapper on my dad’s”

1. I've had a surprising number of conversations about Covid-19 over the past week or so, all sparked by the fact that I was, as always, wearing an FFP2 respirator. People in healthcare facilities, taxi drivers, people on trains and buses.

#WarRavagedPortland

Every couple months I wake up just wildly embarrassed about how craven and stupid the oppressors are.

You mean THESE venal paste-eaters are able to cause world-wide suffering?

THESE conscienceless poltroons are dismantling democracy?

I thought that Tyrants would be scarier.

I'm EMBARRASSED.

"Plenary" is a big word for Elmo, apparently.

(These were the 2023 numbers. It's worse now)

I blame Ronald Regan for this

Of course DOGE fired 400+ FAA employees this summer as well. That doesn't help.

Hey folks -- if you can delay flying at least until after the shut down ends, I think it would be a good idea.

Air Traffic controllers are starting to call in sick, and there are flight delays due to a lack of controllers in the towers in a dozen airports already.

This is why good lighting reads as "rich"

Because it is

lol

Currently I'm in a situation where I don't have enough light on my desk during the day, but it's too bright after 9pm when I'm trying to wind down, and also I'm playing twister with my furniture to reach the switches to turn everything on/off.

I want to add uplights in two corners of the room for some indirect lighting, with a slim task lamp over my desk for when I'm working, to augment the pendant and table lamps I already have.

Then swap in dimmable smart bulbs into everything so I can control from my phone.