I just made the best Green Goddess dressing I've ever made (sadly, my 20 year + stick blender died during the making of). I used chives, basil, and cilantro for the herbs. It was so tasty and cooling.
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup mixed fresh herbs
1 tbl lemon juice
1 tbl white wine vinegar
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp sesame seed oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Put all ingredients in a container (I used a measuring cup). Blend and enjoy.
I keep meaning to post this video -- only 7 minutes long, but such a great essay on #clothing and consequently #sewing, and how those intersect with... a whole lot of things, really.
(If you have body dysmorphia or are recovering from an ED, maybe skip. Overall it's a positive video, but I know triggers don't care.)
@eyrea They will fight it all the way down. And it won't be them who pay the price. That's what they're fighting. They don't want to pay any price, ever. Externalizing costs is their entire business model.
Before I bring my #sewing machine in for servicing, I'm speaking to the collective wisdom here: last night, I was happily sewing darts into a bag when the machine suddenly slowed down dramatically, then stopped (I press the pedal and it complains and doesn't move). I can turn the handwheel, but it really doesn't want to.
I'd just cleaned out the lint (and cleaned some more after this happened), and I've applied sewing machine oil. Anything else to check?
The exciting conclusion to my #sewing machine crisis: I brought it in for servicing and the sewing centre owner kindly looked at it right away (though he was transparent about how that might not happen every time).
A big thank-you shout-out to Beaches Sewing Centre here in #toronto, and to everyone who helped me troubleshoot here on Mastodon!
Anyone who says, "Daylight Savings is fine because people get up with their alarms anyhow!" forgets that those same alarms tend to have snooze buttons.
I was getting up with about an hour to putter around and do stuff around the house before logging in for work. Now I feel like a zombie when the first alarm goes off and only drag myself to the shower when the absolute minimum of ready time is left.
Okay, sure, I click the notification to install the update while I work.
Nvidia wants me to LOG IN before it will update the driver.
I'm on my work account. I deliberately keep these separate. And it already knows I have Nvidia hardware on the machine, and that the account I'm on has admin privileges 🤦🏻♀️.
this might be possible and cheap: a laser that puts an IR beam across the top of the toaster
a cheapo sensor measures the amount of IR; since dust or smoke reduces the amount of IR, the sensor knows when the toast is starting to burn
I mean, I think this is sort of almost not to crazy
@eyrea I knew someone who used to commute from the west side of SF to the easy side and it would take an hour. Now she works from home every day. @notjustbikes
@eyrea@notjustbikes I much prefer his other video about Toronto: The one with his beautiful black compact car with the red stripe on it and the dream of living in Toronto suburbia !!!! (warning, at the end, the video shows the dangers of taking the wrong pill and he ends up with a drinking problem at a bar.) Don't take the orange pill 😉 https://youtu.be/8nZh7A7qTPo
I just saw the phrase "name and shame" again in a post. The poster was stating they would not name and shame, because they could not reasonably prove someone had not done something.
It's a great point. There have been too many cases where someone has been "named and shamed" for nothing. In one case I know, because they actually supported something, but used sarcasm which was then taken literally.
Something I've noticed lately in my #Duolingo lessons in #Dutch -- I'm often totally focused on the grammar and spelling, not the vocabulary. So I'll be able to form and spell the required sentence, but I'll often have no idea what some of the key words mean, even though I've been studying them for several units. It's more like, "okay, subject, auxiliary verb, direct object phrase, main verb, and we're done".
And so I'm reading more Dutch outside of Duolingo, but the app is falling down there.
I'm reading an article which once again champions Paul Poiret for getting rid of "tight" corsets and "liberating" women with comfortable clothing.
People. He invented the HOBBLE SKIRT. Imagine having to wear something under your skirt that ties your knees together and prevents you from taking natural-length steps.
Not to mention corsetry is still with us (rechristened "shapewear") and the traditional styles are considered about as or slightly more comfortable than bras by modern wearers.
@Wiswell Have you read Jill Bearup's debut novel Just Stab Me Now? Based on what you've recommended to me in the past, it would be right up your alley.
The fantasy heroine wants to save her children and end the war. The fantasy hero wants to keep her safe and complete his mission.
And the author of said fantasy wants them to fall in love, one trope at a time.
So in between what actually happens, they all argue about it.
The author is a YouTuber, and the story started off as a series of shorts. The novel fills these in to a full story. The author said she got a pre-order of 17,000 copies (!!!). I'm halfway through, and really enjoying it.
Gentle reminder once again that if you are discussing something specific to your country, city, whatever geography, please include some reference to where you are.
I just read a criticism of the "PM" and had no idea if it was for Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, or some other country with a prime minister. Usually I'll check the person's bio to see if it mentions where they are, but wouldn't your post be more effective if people didn't need to do that?
I get that people might not think of that in the heat of the moment when writing about their own country, so I really like it when people mention their country of residence in their bio.
@Mab_813 True. People can be remarkably cagey about where they are, too. In the example I mentioned, the person's instance URL had a country-specific domain name.
I mean, people can write whatever they like, leave or all the alt text they want... but they need to understand that means it's going to limit how much they get read and responded to.