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Published December 15, 2023 by CZedwards

Serendipity Chicken Fried Rice

I have no idea how this specific version ended up being the best fried rice I’ve ever made. It’s literally just cleaning out the bits and bobs of vegetables I collect in my freezer.

I wrote it down because I might be lucky again and get it right, but if you choose to make this, my estimates of liquids especially could be wildly off. Adjust to your taste. I have cute little bottles for cooking oils and squeeze bottles for liquid seasonings, and I just make squiggles in the pan so it looks attractive to me for the two seconds it exists before meeting other food.

Cooking Food Recipes

Published December 1, 2023 by CZedwards

Chicken Green Chili (or not, this vegans well)

This is an almost or entirely shelf stable recipe that makes a hearty soup. Being shelf-stable, it’s a good one to keep in case of sudden snow or storm days, or when the paycheck just won’t stretch.

It takes opening some cans and making sure nothing scorches.

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Cooking Food Recipes

Published December 1, 2023 by CZedwards

Writing in the Dark: navigating creativity in the anxiety/depression/insomnia/trauma cycle

Originally a Twitter thread in 2019. Some additions and clean-up, and updating.

I keep lists of my DNF (did not finish) reads. I noted a pattern forming in the last three months and it’s got me thinking, but as usual, please consider it a workshop piece, a first draft.

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Published October 19, 2023 by CZedwards

Time’s Ashes — The Hellions Book One lands on November 14, 2023

The cover for the first book in the Hellions, Time's Ashes. A pocket watch on fire. — Cover for Time’s Ashes – a pocket watch on fire on a black background

Far too long delayed, and thank you for your patience!

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Published October 19, 2023 by CZedwards

Preview: Time’s Ashes

Available on November 14, 2023 from fine ebook retailers everywhere.

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Prologue

27-28 Fervenis, 1140 – The Battle of Cimenarum

Lisel dat Peralts

I closed my eyes and pressed hard on the folded bandage, the only thing keeping this archer’s blood in her body. The wound was too high for a tourniquet. She had a bad break in her other leg, but it was below her knee and not through her skin.

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Published November 13, 2022 by CZedwards

The Problem of Rose

Or, how The Handmaid’s Tale is failing its own history if it’s not VERY careful.

Spoilers through the end of Season 5. Stop here, or abandon all hope of being unspoiled.

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Published July 11, 2022 by CZedwards

On Opiates

(There was a twitter thread, this was my response. The anonymized post that started it.)

Text:
Because most pain is treatable with Tylenol and ibuprofen. I've had multiple surgeries in the last few years and it's always been manageable with that and a bit of CBD oil. This is how the rest of the world treats pain. The US uses 80% of the global opioid supply. It's insane.
Hypermobility MD: Dr Linda Bluestein @BluesteinLinda • 1d
Why are so many people being denied opioid pain medication for
ACUTE pain? The pendulum has swung too far the other direction.
I am tired of horror stories - pain from serious car accidents and major surgeries being "treated" with Tylenol. — A screenshot of an asshole talking out her mouth from a place of No Nothing arrogance

Yeah, no, to this whole tweet about Tylenol, CBD and ibuprofen. This is a lot of bad information packed into 280 characters.

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Health policy science

Published May 15, 2022 by CZedwards

The Little Dude Inside

An aside to yesterday’s thread: (and it’s own thread, here)

Well into the Enlightenment, most educated people thought it was impossible for highly complex beings (like humans) to be assembled from parts. Therefore, everything grew out of teeny-tiny versions of themselves, all created at the same time.

Nicholas Hartsoeker’s drawing of tiny people inside a sperm cell, from 1695.

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Published May 15, 2022 by CZedwards

Only in the 21st Century

A twitter thread, simultaneously posted here.

No, we’re not going to the 17th century for women. This fuckery on abortion is only possible in the 21st century.

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