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Posts about food, games, tech, politics, being a single parent, and the small humans that wreck me

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skinnylatte, to random
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I went to a Turkish restaurant and I told the auntie ‘no rice please’ and she didn’t really speak English but she said ‘no no rice’ so now I have rice but hey it’s actually amazing rice (and genuinely one of the best Turkish restaurants I’ve been to, as good as in Turkey omg)

She also reminds me of all the Turkish aunties I know

(It’s called Muma Kitchen, west side LA)

sortius,
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@skinnylatte hehehe, Turkish rice is awesome. Do they do it with the risoni?

I normally do my piyaz pilaf with risoni, but with or without, the key to good Turkish rice is embarrassing amounts of butter (and not washing the rice) 😆

sortius,
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@skinnylatte oh, no, risoni as in the pasta, mixed in with the rice.

My ex-partner's brother-in-law is a Turkish chef, from Gelibolu (Gallipoli), and he taught me some important things about Turkish cooking. The fat is like the #1 thing in Turkish food. It shouldn't be greasy, but it needs that fat to get those flavours.

They live for 100 years on the islands, so it can't be that bad for you 😆

sortius,
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@skinnylatte I'll have to check her out, I'm always looking for more Turkish recipes, as I've got a number, but the kids aren't fans of most of them 😖

sortius, to auspol
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Bandt on the money, again.

Why are they acting surprised that Labor is backing gas? Labor is a party funded by fossil fuel companies, and bolstered by the MEU, once part of the CFMEU.

No one can be so naive to actually think Labor would take real steps against climate change, right? Look what the unions did to the last Labor PM that actually did

QasimRashid, to random
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In the 24 hours since Joe Biden put conditions on arms to Israel for killing civilians—Israeli MK & Likud Official Tali Gottlieb has threatened to “collapse 10 buildings in Gaza” and Security Minister Ben Gvir said “Hamas❤️Biden.”

If this isn’t genocidal intent—idk what is.

Here’s my latest on how we actually overcome this extremism: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/the-history-prior-to-107-that-media

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sortius,
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@QasimRashid not sure how you can type all that then link to Substack

sortius, to random
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Well, RFK Jr's brain worm is at least a high profile case that will maybe give people pause about their food hygiene.

It's something that I harp on about with the kids: the two most dangerous foods in the house are pork and chicken. Pork for the porcine tapeworms, and chicken for the salmonella.

Both my kids know that on a stove (not sous vide!) you get pork to 64°C and chicken to 74°C

jpm, to random
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Oh dear, old UPS battery is VERY shagged (that’s the technical term for it)

sortius,
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@jpm geez, that's at the "I shouldn't even touch it" point of its life

sortius, to random
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sigh my daughter is currently turning the double stuffed Oreos she got as a treat at the shops into quadruple stuffed Oreos

sortius, to gaming
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My ex is heaps into the idea of "10k hours" becoming mastery.

So I sent her this, with the caption "I'm a double master at "

sortius, to auspol
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Equality Australia, who were mostly behind the successful Marriage Equality Plebiscite campaign, have a petition up about Cumberland Council in Sydney importing American book bans to the local library.

I don't normally ask people to sign petitions, but if you're in Australia, we need to end this practice before it begins, so, please do sign.

Book bans are causing immense harms in the US, we don't want or need it here https://equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/areas-of-work/cumberland-council/

sortius, to random
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Ugh, I think my gout is spreading to my ankles, thanks to my regular intake of allopurinol 😖

Not pleasant at all

msquebanh, to pnw
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Just sold full wall canvas version of my Extinction photo art, 30 minutes ago 😃 My first big sale for photo art in 2 years. I'm getting paid extra, because my customer wants the image to be smoothly spread out over a huge wallspace.

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@msquebanh congrats and awesome!

QasimRashid, to random
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Watching the bear vs man in forest stories & I remember when our 9-year-old son said some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'

He replied, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Later his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.

Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent & boundaries. Have the convo. Then again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.

sortius,
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@QasimRashid I've been teaching my currently 6 1/2 year old son (and almost 10 year old daughter) about consent since they've been about 5. It just has to start with small things, build up to sexual stuff eventually.

The reality is, even young kids get consent, boundaries, etc, if you give them the time to learn and explore it

sortius, to random
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Oh great, Wednesday is a pupil free day. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with the kids.

Maybe finally take them to SinJeon for lunch

stux, to Sony
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Well, I guess that’s it for #HELLDIVERS! It was fun as long as it lasted but like always, corporate greed has taken over

#Sony now required people to link their #Steam to their Sony-soon-gets-hacked-again accounts

I, like so many other players refuse this and just stopped playing all together since Sony just doesn’t give a shit about security

Review updated, guess they got what they wanted

sortius,
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@stux I've seen some pretty poor defense of these actions, and I can't really swallow it.

They knew from the start that Sony was going to do this, they should have made clear that a Sony PSN account would be needed.

It's pretty deceptive, and I'd be pissed, too, even if I had a PSN account already

sortius,
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@stux for sure. I saw how much effort you put into the game, I had friends playing it, they were loving the crossplay, etc.

All that good will is gone, now. Even if they do 'make up for it', how can anyone trust the devs again?

wallamba, to random
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NBN isn't as shit as what it was, for me at least.
A 100GB Unreal project is a mild inconvenience now, about 15 minutes-ish.
On the other hand if I needed to upload that we're looking at well over 6 hours if I'm lucky.

sortius,
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@wallamba I literally said to someone yesterday "I couldn't survive on anything below 1Gpbs these days".

Kind of sad that this is our upper limit though. What happens in 5 or 10 years?

sortius,
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@wallamba yeh, it sucks, but how else are they going to squeeze small businesses to move to Business Ethernet?

sortius, to auspol
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I see we're already getting the centrist hacks painting it as a "tough budget" for Chalmers.

Fuck off.

There's nothing "tough" about the budget. It's fucking champagne and caviar... for the rich.

For the poor it's "We'll do what's fiscally responsible", a meaningless phrase created by meaningless people like Chalmers and Albanese

sortius, to random
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Doritos for breakfast is ok, right?

QasimRashid, to random
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BREAKING: The House just passed HR 6090, which expands the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.

Let me be clear. People have rights. State governments do not have rights. This terrible bill sets a dangerous precedent & does nothing to actually decrease or stop the scourge of antisemitism. The Senate should not pass this bill and Biden should not sign it into law.

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@QasimRashid hahaha, of course they'll vote it in, and of course Biden, with a shit eating grin, will sign it in to law, with genocidal monsters flanking him.

American democracy was always a thin veneer of lies, but even that is gone now, with it becoming clear that America is to become the next fascist state, with both parties' blessing

sortius, to random
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Morning feed drama in the big tank!

The firemouth is real skittish, as expected, and the Jack Dempsey is just chilled as this morning. The firemouth snatched a food granule, went and hid below the wood structure, and started chewing, the JD just cruises over and starts chewing right in his face, staring him down.

She finishes the food, yawns, and he bolts toward the back of the tank 😆

At least I got to assess his damage: scratched face, half his tail missing, and a chunk of dorsal fin gone

sortius,
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@jpm hehehe, I think you need another coffee 😆

peter, to random
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the cops and liberal leaders have signaled that college protestors are not protected by the rule of law, so now the right-wing brawlers have showed up to attack them, right on schedule. great job everyone. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/ucla-leaders-declare-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful-orders-everyone-to-leave/

sortius,
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@peter I still have people asking me why I think Biden is a piece of shit.

He's lain the groundwork for a total fascist takeover of the US, which will have far reaching ramifications for those of us outside the US.

This bullshit centrist "civility" crap is why America will become the next hardcore fascist state

sortius,
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@peter @Rocketsredglare which was my point. To us, outside the US, they are functionally the same. Biden has had 4 years to clean up the courts, legislate to prevent Trump from taking control of everything, basically harden the US state.

He spent the time eating fucking ice cream and glad handing

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