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msquebanh, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

We had the entire patio to ourselves 🙂
At Brown's Social in downtown #VictoriaBC with my friend, Natalie. She's a horticulturalist, living in Deep Cove. We had some eats & drinks before going across street for PechaKucha Night VOL. 20.

They played #GenX tunes, the whole time we were there. We lucked out on getting street parking, one block away. Then lucked out on empty patio, on arrival. We had our own fire table 🥰

#FriendsDate #Friendship

msquebanh, 4 days ago to Flowers

Lots of #basil #seedlings with 3 #cucumber babies. Small pink #flowers on #chives.

#Wsanec #Zone8 #Saanich #FrugalGardening #VictoriaBC #YYJgardeners #VancouverIsland #PNW #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #FoodPlants #GrowFood #botanical #EdibleGarden #GrowItEatIt #FoodGardening #GrownFromSeed #EdiblePlants #FoodSecurity #Plants

Striped pink chive flowers.

nathanlovestrees, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

1/6 “Animacy is an overdetermined word, but so is the idea of the Divine Feminine. The reason I have begun to shy away from the Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine is their unfortunate identification with gender and, more importantly, their overidentification with humans and their myopic classifications generally. Animacy is plushier. Springier. More mosslike. It seems a soft spot to rest on while I try to understand and explain how very sentient the world is to me these days.

geraineon, 6 days ago to random

In case anyone's interested, there's an article about MDZS in Strange Horizons:

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/feminising-culture-in-the-grandmaster-of-demonic-cultivation/

(No, I haven't read it yet. I was looking for something else and found this, but given the popularity of MDZS, maybe other ppl will be interested, also this serves as a bookmark for myself)

liztai, 7 days ago to television

Very few horror movies scare me.

This scared the shit out of me ☠️

#Exhuma #Kdrama #Movie

skinnylatte, 8 days ago to random

I haven’t encountered a single vegetable-centered dish at any of the Thai, Japanese, Malaysian restaurants I’ve visited in LA. It is possible to eat differently from the rest of the world (re a conversation a few days ago about always having to order veggies)

(To be clear, I agree everyone should eat veggies if they want! But also that, there are many cuisines which simply aren’t vegetable-centered)

(I had a very large raw papaya salad, lots of fiber but also enough chilli to kill a bear)

skinnylatte, 13 days ago to random

A topic I know too much about: ‘typography and brand identity of apocalyptic evangelical Pentecostal and charismatic churches’

(Seen in Oakland)

msquebanh, 14 days ago to random

I will be starting to create home #exercise vids for fellow #PhysicallyDisabledFolks, starting this month. Exercises will be as #inclusive & #accessible as possible.

Several of them will be done in a chair. Some standing & others are laying down. I don't see many exercise vids made by & for #disabled folks available online. I got frustrated, trying to find exercise vids, made by fellow disabled folks.

So, I'm going to stop complaining about lack of them. I'll start to create them, myself.

toridas_, 22 days ago to random

Does anyone use handmade personalised calendars? I don't know if that's a thing, but I'm throwing this out hoping that it'll find someone who knows this stuff. I'm not talking about a bullet journal, just a calendar, but a layered one, with all sorts of stuff that one might find useful and interesting on a daily basis, stuff varying from person to person, and handmade (that can be hand sorted and illustrated or designed and printed).

Deus, 29 days ago to nature

If you've ever wondered how a #Teak plantation looks like. The tree with the smallest girth will fetch roughly ₹10k or $120.

People are constantly advised not to plant them but who can control human greed, it always takes over. Nothing but the teak grows in these plantations - no birds nor rats, insects, or snakes. Depressing to be honest.

#Nature #Trees

qurlyjoe, 1 month ago to random

#SilentSunday #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
Goslings hanging out. May 2022

skinnylatte, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to food

Mango season is coming. Here's my short S Asian mango primer, and some ideas on where to buy them (I'm only focused on the ones you can buy outside S Asia, so if you're like 'the type that drops in my grandma's garden in the Konkan coast is the best', great, keep some for me)

https://buttondown.email/skinnylatte/archive/mango-madness/

#Mango #MangoSeason #Food

toridas_, 1 month ago to random

Today for #3GoodThings I:

🍀 made লেবুর শরবত for myself and BFFs (they've never had it with tulsi before)
🦋 helped a black and white butterfly trapped in my home escape into the garden on the back of my black umbrella patterned with pink roses and green leaves
🌿 a bundle of fresh jute leaves BFF#2 bought me that I can make a soup of, with one perfect yellow flower
🪮 got a pair of wood combs that I'd bought myself for Pôyla Boishakh (great scalpfeel)

Closeup of very soft and green jute leaves, one leaf among them with noticeable tears in it, with one dainty little yellow flower blooming on the green stalk.
Against a background of yellow walls, black granite counter and shelves, a bit of window and bicycle, a brown hand (mine) with short squarely rounded nails holding a pair of wood combs. They're shortish but hefty. One is a wide-toothed "post-shampoo detangler" and the other is a fine-toothed "styling comb". The combs have got a company brand carved on them.

msquebanh, 1 month ago to random

Almost every live hip-hop show I worked at (was nightclub DJ) - felt so unsafe! Seriously, male DJs got more protections & those fuckers never needed extra guards! It was me & fellow female DJs who got fucked over too many times!

mehluv, 1 month ago to random

whatsapp's new update made the whole thing so fucking ugly man, do they actively want to discourage people from using it

toridas_, 1 month ago to magASEAN

After two glasses of limeade with added sprigs of fresh tulsi in twelve hours, and prayers to those who listen (my pain medication alone doesn't do much anymore), my fatigue and chronic pain is much more within control today 🙏🏽 So I've been able to cook lunch again! after over a week!! I wanted to cook dinner in advance and clean as well, but the only work I've got any spoons left for is cleaning the kitchen.

Figures that today is an auspicious day 🌒✨

#MakanApaToday #HomeCooking #EidMubarak

Deus, 1 month ago to food

Since it's the season, decided to whip up a 'tauh' of Chakawk (Diplazium esculentum). In English, 'Tauh' would simply be 'salad'. #Recipe in alt text.

Tidbit: The ferns we get in these parts are not carcinogenic as opposed to the ones consumed/found in Korea, Japan, and other other countries (e.g. Bracken fern and Fiddlehead fern). There are about 10500 species of ferns. Found it interesting when I first heard about it so felt like sharing.

#Food #Cuisine

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to SanFrancisco

there's a restaurant in my neighborhood that blasts obnoxious anti-homeless sounds. the goal i think is to repel homeless people from loitering, but i think they've ended up repelling any guests (it's so loud you can't stop hearing it from the seated parts of the restaurant)

looking forward to hearing them whine about how it's the bike lanes or the anti-car measures that have led to their demise, soon

#SanFrancisco #Transit #BikeTooter #Urbanism

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to food

As someone whose home food is mostly coastal southern Chinese food, steaming is one of the cooking techniques I’m most familiar with. I feel I can steam anything (fish, meat, vegetables, tofu, eggs, even breads and dessert) and I don’t think of that food as ‘plain’.

Thinking I’d like to write about this. What would you like to learn about steaming food?

#Food #cooking

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to random

EARTHQUAKE

#SanFrancisco