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@tannenzaepfle

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&rew@tannenzaepfle· 12d

You can go even wilder and do outlines around the stuff. I also recommend a labelmaker. My dad had this in his shop when we were growing up. Autism has a genetic component. (Picture is from Google)

A pegboard with tools hanging off it. Each tool has an outline drawn around it for organizing purposes. Taken from a random reddit post. It's oddly soothing to see that everything has a spot.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· 13d

He looks so much like a hostage that I couldn't resist.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· 17d

They are delicious!

&rew@tannenzaepfle· 17d

Thank you! The original recipe is still online here www.latimes.com/recipe/basic... I did metric conversions for myself, too.

Scones
https://www.latimes.com/recipe/basic-scones
360g (3 cups) flour
4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
50g (1/4 cup) sugar
113g (1/2 cup or 1 stick) cold butter, cut into ½-inch pieces
240g (1 cup) cold buttermilk, milk or cream
2 Tbsp heavy cream
2 tsp turbinado or coarse decorating sugar
Heat the oven to 190°C (375°F). In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cut in the butter until the mixture is crumbly. Stir in the buttermilk just until incorporated; the dough will be crumbly and look dry. Knead in the bowl a few times to bring the dough together into a single mass.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and press into a circle roughly 7 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. Cut the dough into 8 wedges, and place the wedges on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Brush the wedges with the cream and sprinkle over the turbinado sugar. Bake on the center rack until golden, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove the scones to a rack to cool slightly. Serve warm or at room temperature.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· 19d

A four panel meme.
1. "Socialism persecuted my family, took our home and destroyed our family business. That's why we hate socialism!" White text on a black background.

2. "The family", over a classical painting of a fancy aristocratic family.

3. "The home", over a painting of a palatial estate, overlooking a pond with water feature in it.

4. "The family business" over an etching of Africans in chains being taken aboard a slave ship.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· 25d

"Fox News says Biden won. Which one is lying to you, Fox or Trump?" An excellent wedge for their cognitive dissonance.

Fox News home page on the day they declared victory for Biden.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· 27d

@ossoff.bsky.social Next time you ask who won in 2020, I would love to see visuals like web.archive.org/web/20201107... "Fox News said Trump lost in 2020. Did Fox News lie to the American people? Will you prosecute Fox News for lying to their viewers?"

A screenshot of the Fox News homepage on Nov. 7, 2020 declaring Biden the winner of the election. https://web.archive.org/web/20201107182547/https://www.foxnews.com/

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Jun 19

*Taps sign*

John Roberts' official portrait, captioned:

"I intervened repeatedly to delay every case against Trump. Thanks for blaming Merrick Garland instead of me."

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 15

This is German balcony weed growing with not nearly enough light, but it's more of a hobby than a serious production. They're autos and started in late March under a cheap 12W desk lamp.

Three plants about 50cm high, each in a 12L fabric pot (2€ each on AliExpress), growing in Floragard Organic Grow Mix with a layer of pumice stone on the surface and lining the drip trays. They're not nearly as bushy as they would be under grow lamps but they're happy nonetheless. The seeds are from sensi. And this is legal!

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 3

According to this documentary, a simple dam cannot hold back a whale.

The cover of the DVD edition of Free Willy, where the orca jumps over the kid to freedom

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Apr 12

A meme showing a bunch of icons of people with the caption
"FIND THE COLESLAW EATER
CAN'T FIND THEM? THAT'S BECAUSE THEY LOVE AMONG US, LOOKING LIKE *NORMAL PEOPLE*.
THE ONLY REAL DIFFERENCE IS THEY'RE GOING TO HELL."

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Mar 29

A sign from no Kings Berlin. "Maybe it will happen today! Either way – VOTE"

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Mar 29

No Kings in Berlin!

Bebelplatz in Berlin, with No Kings protesters. March 28th

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Mar 28

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger

the most fun part of any dungeons and dragons game for me is silently guessing exactly what internal crisis the players are trying to resolve through the characters they create, like, please Colin tell us more about your beautiful sorcerer who came into her magic later in life

6:59 AM Dec 26, 2021

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.

Dec 26, 2021

"don't analyze your friends like that"

they are literally doing it to themselves, I am just a captive audience and occasionally I prod their psyche with a goblin to see what falls out

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger

Dec 26, 2021

its like

PLAYER: my character is a wizard

ME: a goblin stabs you

PLAYER: im a girl now

i am barely involved

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Mar 16

This photo only gets more and more relevant with each passing month.

A cartoon of anthropomorphized outlines of the EU, China, and the continental US. The US is stabbing itself with both hands and a mouth wide open, as if in a scream. China looks on with stoic interest, while the EU appears horrified.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Feb 24

Can you at least add an exception for heads of state?

A frame from the 2017 film Death of Stalin showing a dictator lying on his back in a pool of his own urine while his ministers stand around.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Feb 18

xcancel.com/jburnmurdoch... pictures and supporting text on Twitter - you don't need to log in with the xcancel domain.

A chart comparing English incomes, not percentiles, against life expectancy. On average, Americans are richer and die five years earlier.

The average American now has the same chance of a long and healthy life as someone born in Blackpool, the town with England's lowest life expectancy.
And another damning chart.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Feb 18

There's more charts in this series but this is already pretty damning, and the others are worse.

A chart showing how Americans at every single point on the income distribution die earlier than the English. And this is by percentile, not even ppp adjusted terms (Americans are much richer than the English)

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Feb 12

Homer Simpson entering a storefront with a sign "Bloodbath & Beyond Gun Shop", from the episode "The Cartridge Family" (S09E05).

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Jan 3

Bots post both positive and negative comments.

A cartoon of two guys with sticks poking an outline of the United States (minus Alaska and Hawaii). They are labeled "Chinese bots" and "Russian bots", and both appear to be saying "cmon, do a civil war..."

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Dec 30

A tumblr screencap:

"You either know a lesbian in a long distance relationship, or you are that lesbian"

"the most popular sex toy among gay women is a plane ticket"

"How dare you make a comment better than my original post"

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Dec 22

Russian tea balls. Absolutely my favorite cookie of all time. Sometimes called "Mexican wedding cookie" or "snowball".

RUSSIAN TEA BALLS

1 cup butter, softened (230g)
½ cup powdered sugar (60g)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (270g)
¾ cup finely chopped nuts (I use walnuts - 95g)
¼ teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar

Heat oven to 400°F (200°C). Mix butter, ½ cup powdered sugar and the vanilla in large bowl. Stir in flour, nuts, and salt.

Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until set but not brown. Immediately remove from the cookie sheet; roll in powdered sugar. Cool completely on a cooling rack. Roll in powdered sugar again. About 4 dozen cookies.

Tips: Don’t make the balls too large. Don’t over-mix the dough; it shouldn’t be totally blended (it should NOT be a paste!) but instead should be a crumbly mixture. Try not to let it melt in your hands when you’re forming the balls; the less you work the dough (i.e. melt the butter with the heat from your hands), the flakier the cookies will come out. I tend to get better results if I stick the dough in the fridge/freezer for a little bit before I work it with my hands. I've gotten the suggestion to use pistachios, which sounds decadent.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Oct 4

*Taps sign*

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 31

Obligatory

A skeet from the Bad Place by "pennipotentum" (@spinozylvannian):

Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states.

5:57 PM - Nov 5, 2024 - 2.1M Views

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 30

Not just hospitals! Nursing homes too.

A children's book with a grandmother and grandchild beneath an obviously photoshopped new title "the gop cut Medicaid so Nana's nursing home closed and now she lives with us and Daddy drinks more".

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 26

An obviously photoshopped children's book cover showing a grandmother and grandchild together below the title "The GOP cut Medicaid so Nana's nursing home closed and now she lives with us and daddy drinks more"

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 19

Real estate speculation has always been a thing. Nowadays it's usually a paid parking lot where an apartment building could be. By taxing improvements instead of land, you disincentivize development. If a parking lot had the same tax bill as the apartment building next door, we'd have more apts.

A black-and-white photo of a billboard in a vacant lot, c.1914; the billboard reads:

"EVERYBODY WORKS BUT THE VACANT LOT"

I paid $3600. for this lot and will hold it ‘till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and the enterprise of its people. I take the profit without earning it. For the remedy read
”HENRY GEORGE”

Yours truly
Fay Lewis

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 11

The German problem is that people officially registered as church members pay an extra tax, collected by the government, and the news about molestation cover-ups has been unsparing. Previously indifferent people are motivated to leave the church because they will save taxes.

A public poster protesting the molestation cover-ups in the Catholic Church (recent scandal in Cologne, look up "Rainer Woelki") with the text "Was keiner für möglich gehalten hat, das tut Gott vor unseren Augen! -Psalm 118:23” or in English "What none considered possible, God does before our very eyes!" (Other Bible translations vary; the German version is a dynamic translation used in the Hoffnung für Alle Bible.)

&rew@tannenzaepfle· May 1

Also general advice: she's holding the pepper spray incorrectly. Holding it like spray paint makes it easy to get knocked out of your hand. Wrap your fingers around it and use your thumb to spray.

A graphic showing how to hold pepper spray. On left, a woman holding the bottle like it's a can of spray paint or hairspray. At right, the correct grip with all four fingers wrapped around the cylinder and the thumb activating the "trigger".

It's way easier to get it knocked out of your hand the way it is on the left, and you don't need the precision like you would with spray paint.

&rew@tannenzaepfle· Apr 28