Let's be honest here: That wasn't really an "accident."
Mr. Tavener was deliberately putting himself in harms way.

Maybe. I thought the kpakpo was just the specific pepper that was used for that version of shito, but I honestly may be 100% wrong.

It's the 10-year anniversary of the day that Prince died.

It rained for a week afterwards, and then the world went to shit.

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"

IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

If we're telling pepper stories, my most recent is when a fellow gardener insisted that a freshly picked unripe yellow aji was actually a shishito, and took a giant bite before I could stop him.

A lot of recipes use shrimp paste as well.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

You know how to say "our thing" in Italian?

You know, I've got nothing against the band Bleachers, but when I hear their songs sometimes I feel like I'm listening to Patrick Bateman's favorite new band.

Very excited to see what sort of medical research emerges from these large and very comprehensive epidemiological records.

A decade ago my social media was a window into the lives of more than a billion people through FB & Twitter.

Now my social media is a hundred or so random lgbtq misanthropes on this platform plus a WhatsApp chat with about 30 of my neighbors.

Who says things aren't getting better?

A gelatinmaxxing savory dish, call it Aspicular

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

I'm treating this as canon.

I think Bukowski said there's guys who would rather be CEO of Exxon than fire bomb a gas station, but failing the former they'd settle for the latter.
I guess this is the inverse of that.

No country has "a right to exist" - to argue that any one country does (or doesn't) have that right means you're already conceding that some countries DO have that right. Which is absurd.

Israeli former PM calls on ICC to halt West Bank ‘Jewish terrorists’ after prosecutions stop Exclusive: Guardian analysis of settler violence shows no Israelis prosecuted since 2020 for killing Palestinian civilians, as former military, police and spy chiefs describe ‘organised Jewish terrori...

The last time Israel, in either a civilian or military criminal court, indicted a Jew for the murder of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank was 2019.

We finally built the Satanic Mills known so well from the William Blake poem “DO NOT BUILD SATANIC MILLS”

I'd love to work out, but it would take time away from the parts of my day that I've set aside for not working out.

important information:

"Wilhoit remains undefeated:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

I'm glad that the molecular gastronomy trend is largely finished in the culinary scene.

"The pure and noble peacenik Donald Trump was swindled into war by the perfidious Jew" is literally the argument the Republicans are going to float trying to exonerate themselves when Trump is dead.

Maybe tell the truth: "Donald Trump and all Republicans have a revealed preference for waging wars."

I recommend a (re)reading of the @bruces.bsky.social book Heavy Weather.

I thought there might be a migration of DC professionals to their small & mid-sized-city hometowns after the federal government got doge'd, which would disrupt the red state metropolitan balances of power, but they're all just white knuckleing it through as single income families in NOVA.

Used yesterday's winecap mushrooms and brassica flowers to make a delightful gallette with shallots and tomatoes and cheese.

Or like a birth certificate is a legal document and not a medical one.

4-year-old son just came into the bathroom to tell me:
"Dad. I eat vampires."

Right. Fruit can be either a culinary or a botanical designation. But vegetable is almost exclusively a culinary classification.