Things bakers know: The secret to cut-out cookies that hold their shape For cut-out cookies with sharp edges, roll your dough between sheets of parchment, freeze, then cut.

Huh.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2023/12...

This app opens w the most recent post in your TL at the top. You have to scroll scroll down to try to find where you left off to read in chrono order. Unlike the bird app where it always takes you to your previous position and you just scroll up to continue. Is there a setting here I've missed?

Oooooo

I don't use Spotify so there's my wrap up for the year.

Ladies: before you quit your high paying ad exec job in the city and move in with the handsome charming flannel-wearing Christmas-loving man who runs an adorable small business in your hometown, remember to ask where he was on January 6 👀

Ho ho ho! 🙃

I put my cell on the DNC list recently but I doubt these yahoos pay attention to that. (I've always had my landline on it but never bothered with cell until this started happening.)

There ya go

I think I just hit a jackpot of some sort. One Medicare scam call came in while I was on the line with a different Medicare scam call.

I dread the time when I actually qualify for Medicare.

Donations to GOP drop as worries mount about the party’s finances Donors have not cut as many large checks to the RNC in recent years, and the party’s small-dollar program has also suffered ahead of the 2024 elections

You hate to see it. {Snidely Whiplash gif}

Donations to GOP Drop - gift link
wapo.st/46wvbrX

Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.

I will never recover from this student email.

*bangs head on desk*

*gets out whiteboard* The arrow that Sagittarius shoots is on fire, actually. We journey great and expected distances for knowledge and then cannot WAIT to share with people. We are party hermits, chaos agents, class clowns. We live lifetimes every year. We’re a mess and you love us for it.

U2 "Numb" - WKRP in Cincinnati / VH1 parody commercial In 1993, VH-1 re-aired some of the original "WKRP in Cincinnati" sitcoms. They created this parody of U2's "Numb" music video to promote the show.

Welp ... NOW my life is complete.
youtu.be/F7qt5UlsoSQ?...

Sneaking this one in on the holiday: it's confusing we have two different significant culture figures named Phoebe Bridgers and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and I'm tired of pretending it isn't

Oh! I forgot! 🙃

Ingredient list pls?

Black Friday 2023: Save On Amazon Prime Video Channels With This... One of the best streaming deals we've found this week!

In case you've been putting off getting yet another subscription for that one show you want to watch

decider.com/2023/11/22/b...

During Nov & Dec, the number does not exist

I prolly do too

A good chunk of my wardrobe is from ~10 years ago & I'd dare you to pick out which items they are.

I think there ought to be a federal, or perhaps int'l law requiring that when a year of a tv show ends on a real cliffhanger, and after that the show is cancelled, the full plans the writing room had for the show must be made publicly available, to the fullest extent possible.

‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror And the Light’: Masterpiece & BBC To Begin Production On Hilary Mantel Ad... 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror And the Light': Masterpiece & BBC To Begin Production On Hilary Mantel Adaptation Starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis

Ooh. I'd come to assume it wasn't going to be done.
deadline.com/2023/11/wolf...

Heh heh heh

Am genius.

Wordle 883 3/6

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We now celebrate the first oatmeal of the season. 🥣