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All these billionaires who invested in the metaverce and Neuralink must be questioning their life choices looking at what what furries are doing in VR chat.

#for future reference

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An elf goes out on a ‘short errand’, forgetting that 30 years is a long time to have left his human wife and child at home.

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me every five minutes: if I built another weird electronic contraption I think it would fix me

#oh nice #electronic

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The Elric brothers publish joint academic papers sometimes and everyone who knows them personally cites them as "Edward Elric et al." as a joke, even when Alphonse is the primary author of the article.

Ed finds it hilarious after years of his younger brother being mistaken for the Fullmetal Alchemist; Al is so annoyed about it.

#fma

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Alexander J Newall please spend less time on the internet I am begging

#the magnus protocol #tmagp

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#valinor #maedhros #fingon #sillmarillion

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can you hear the music?

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reblog for increased sample size/to skew selection bias towards your followers

#… #twisted fate #the champion from lol

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i am about to bestow upon you the secret butter technique. i am sorry, but it is french. i am sorry again, this only works with cow butter. i am certain plant based butters wouldn’t work, and alternative animal butters may or may not work

has this ever been you: you have a nicely steamed vegetable, or maybe you want to make the best butter noodles, but you know that if you put butter on those it’ll just melt and you end with kind of greasy noodles or vegetables? don’t you wish it was instead a luscious buttery glaze?

introducing: beurre monté

you will take a small sauce pan, and begin heating it with 1-2 tablespoons of water (use very little water) and bring it to a hard simmer or boil

turn the heat down slightly, and add Butter. how much? however much you dare. (start with 3-4 tablespoons and go from there)

you are going to either whisk Aggressively or you can pick up the saucepan, still holding it over the heat, and swirl aggressively so the butter is skating around the sides of the pan

done correctly, you will have liquid butter that is still emulsified. you have made Butter Sauce. season it with a little salt, and toss whatever you want in it.

if you’re butter splits, i’m sorry. you didn’t agitate it enough to maintain the emulsion, and now you have melted butter.

you can use this knowledge to make other sauces by swapping out the water for another liquid. white wine becomes beurre blanc. red wine is beurre rogue.

you want to CUM? sweat minced shallot in a tiny bit of butter, add white wine and cook it out until it’s reduced by about half. then whisk butter in hard. a few flecks of minced thyme or fennel frond stirred thru, and you eat that with a nice seared fish? or scallop? or even shrimp? wow. you will Nut

your boxed mac and cheese game can also be elevated by cooking your pasta and making a beurre monté first, tossing your pasta in that and adding the cheese packet. wow. hey; you’ll cum

go forth now with this butter secret

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#tolkien #maedhros #fingon

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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Kinda crazy how speaking English is almost a form of literacy without which your access to the relevant scientific and sociopolitical conversations of our time is seriously limited.... Thank God I started reading yaoi fanfiction on American websites at age 14

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One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

#solar eclipse #beautiful

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A boop cat to live on your blog!!!!!

#boop