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stop drawing for others. don't draw for yourself either. play video games

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I think about this every day

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life really is so simple when you sit back and realise you don’t actually have to do a lot of things. i don’t have to be on my phone constantly. i don’t have to sit inside all day. i don’t have to reply to peoples messages straight away. i don’t have to have what’s in my fridge. i can go out and get groceries and make things that I’m craving. i can go on a walk. i can turn my phone off for a day or two. i can sit and read for hours on end. i can journal for as long as i want. i can meditate. i can cook. i can clean. i can breathe deeply. i can get myself a tea or a coffee. i can have meaningful conversations with my family. i don’t have to be in a constant state of “online”. i can disconnect. I’m not obliged to be here. my name isn’t being called out on a list. i can leave. i can take time away. i am allowed to live.

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maybe whistleblowers just happen to come forward around the time they're about to die. no one ever considers that

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a textbook diagram demonstrating an RTC (rabbit telecommunications network)

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saw an opinion i disagreed with and didn’t say anything about it. +350XP

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everything is so scary. thank god for plushies

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REDRAW:DDD

2023

2021

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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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@/pareochii on Twitter has made a thread just a day ago hosting Palestinian fundraisers, and I will be sharing them here: please continue to spread ways to help Palestinians in need!

Help Shahad’s family get out of Gaza (94k Canadian dollars needed)

Help Walid and his family escape Gaza (34k euros needed)

Help Maysoon Silmi get her uncle's family out of Gaza (90k Canadian dollars needed)

Help Abdulrahman and his family escape Gaza (350k Swedish krona needed)

Help evacuate Maram and her family escape from Gaza (60k dollars needed)

Help Rand Almdhoon stuck in Rafah (amount unknown)

Help the Alhourani family in Gaza (82k euros needed)

Help Mahmoud escape Gaza (50k euros needed)

Help reunite this family in Gaza (18k euros needed)

Donate to Salaam Animal Care

Help Noor’s family (35k euros needed)

My aid masterpost with more links

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save me glowing stars

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hello my name is Very tiny flying insect i see you’ve got an uncovered beverage outdoors. Can i fall into it and kill myself please please please please please please please please please please

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americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip