this is an elaboration of a Bluesky thread I wrote off the cuff in April, 2025. I’m incorporating comments I made into the text.)
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Sometimes you just want egg rolls, or spring rolls, or the delights from the local takeout place that doesn't deliver and usually has a line out the door. And here's the alternative that satisfied my craving. Feel free to serve this with lettuce leaves, Thai basil, slivered cucumbers or daikon-carrot salad.
It took me about 30 minutes; my protein was not frozen, but my mushrooms and bean sprouts were. I used my Alligator chopper with the fine dice plate to chop the onions, mushrooms, and jalapeños. I grated about 7 baby carrots with my rotary grater. It's very flexible on vegetables other than the onions, carrot and mushrooms. You will want more seasonings the more vegetables you use. I based this recipe on The Woks of Life's Cha gio recipe and adjusted it for both deconstruction and to suit ingredients I had on hand.
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Rebellion was the war, the new series is the resurrection and the restoration.
At the end of Foundation (Rebellion VI), about a third of Cimenarum had burned, Rien had been crowned Razia, she was pregnant, and the government was starting to come back. But Rien could never be the new boss, same as the old one.
This scene happens a few tendays after the Coronation, in the transition. The scene is from Vaish sune Saren’s perspective — the one-eyed thought sniffing former spy who first appeared in Wisdom’s Fire (Book IV). Vaish and Rien are in her working office.
My Galantier needed a reformation, and I get to give it one. I hope their vision of a better citizen peace-keeping system may inspire others in this world to think what could be possible.
So you want to learn to sew? Well, do you have a machine?
If you have a machine, great! If you don’t, go to my select a machine post and figure out what works best for you. If that’s not enough, ping me and we’ll set something up.
Let’s catch up.
On February 13, 2017, a Monday and the last day of a 3 day weekend, 13 year old Abigail Williams and 14 year old Liberty German were best friends, and being young teenagers, they wanted to try to fulfill their local rite of passage — walking across a disused, very tall railroad bridge.
Having mastered basic soup, the next step is milk soup.
Cream soups divide into a couple of varieties. There are milk soups which share some lineage with chowders, and there are cream soups, which are smooth, processed soups made mostly of vegetables.
The machine and cabinet are only about half of sewing. It really is fabric origami with occasional thread staples.
Sewing is not mostly sewing — it’s primarily cutting, fitting, and pressing. And yes, pressing is absolutely necessary. Don’t be younger me who thought pressing everything was being persnickety and fussy. It is persnickety, the same way that the difference between a crepe and a pancake is persnickety attention to detail. Pressing a seam sets the thread (makes it part of the fabric of the garment) and that stabilizes the seam.
Let’s make soup. These are the Euro-western water-based soups, not cream soups and not blended vegetable soups. Bean soups, several Asian type soups, and fish/shellfish chowders are their own categories.
This started as a thread in response to something at Bluesky (which I usually like, but which is, like the entire internet in 2024, frequently poisoned with too much binary thinking) and I decided I wanted it here. Comments are off.
So, I deleted a bunch of replies to a high profile account because I’m not someone's punching bag when they’re getting dugeony about a profession they profoundly do not understand.
Originally a Twitter thread from 2020.
We do not live in Gotham.
Nor do we live in Metropolis.
Those are fictional.
So is Batman.
And Batman is not a hero.