I bought a tarot deck and it has arrived at the new-agey shop one town over today. (They ordered it special for me)
I decided to wait until tomorrow to go pick the deck up because I’d have to go pick my wife up over there anyways.
Now I profoundly regret not getting my deck today. I’m so excited. I’m going to have a little ritual to wake them up. I don’t know what we’re going to do together yet, I don’t really need to know the future until it comes. BUT!
One of my most reader-tested and approved recipes! This crusty, fluffy artisan bread needs only 4 ingredients and 5 minutes to come together… you won’t believe how easy and delicious it is!
The beautiful, crusty and fluffy bread that results from just four ingredients will knock your socks off! All it takes is flour, salt, yeast and water, all mixed up in a bowl and set to rest for 8-24 hours.
Just make sure your flour is fresh and yeast isn’t expired. I’ve used both active dry yeast and highly active dry yeast with great results!
½ teaspoon dry yeast (active dry or highly active dry work best)
1 ½ cups lukewarm water
Special cookware needed: Dutch oven or any large oven-safe dish/bowl and lid*
DIRECTIONS:
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt and yeast. Stir in water using a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a shaggy but cohesive dough. Do not over-work the dough. The less you “work” it, the more soft, fluffy air pockets will form.
Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Let dough sit at room temperature for 8-24 hours*. Dough will bubble up and rise.
After dough is ready, preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Place your Dutch oven, uncovered, into the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
While your Dutch oven preheats, turn dough onto a well-floured surface. With floured hands, form the dough into a ball. Cover dough loosely with plastic wrap and let rest.
After the 30 minutes are up, carefully remove Dutch oven. With floured hands, place the bread dough into it. (You can put a piece of parchment under the dough if your Dutch oven isn’t enamel coated.)
Replace cover and bake for 30 minutes covered. Carefully remove cover and bake for 7-15 minutes* more, uncovered.
Carefully remove bread to a cutting board and slice with a bread knife.
Enjoy!
NOTES
Uncovered baking time depends on your oven. In my oven, the bread only needs 7 minutes uncovered until crusty and golden brown, but this can vary. Just keep an eye on it!
Preheating your Dutch oven to 450 degrees F will not damage it, or the knob on top.
I’ve let this dough rise anywhere between 8-24 hours and it has baked up beautifully. Just make sure it has risen and appears to “bubble” to the surface.
There’s no need to grease the Dutch oven/baking dish/pot. My bread has never stuck to the pot. If you are concerned though, put a piece of parchment paper under your dough before placing into your pot.
I do not recommend using whole wheat flour or white whole wheat flour in this recipe. The resulting bread will be very dense, and not as fluffy and delicious.
I used a 5.5 quart enameled cast iron Le Creuset pot, but you can use any large oven-safe dish and cover. All of these also work: a baking dish covered with aluminum foil, crockpot insert, stainless steel pot with a lid, pizza stone with an oven-safe bowl to cover the bread, and old cast iron Dutch oven.
Add any mix-ins you like - herbs, spices, dried fruit, chopped nuts and cheese all work well. I recommend adding them into the initial flour-yeast mixture to avoid over-working the mix-ins into the dough. The less you “work” it, the more you’re encouraging soft, fluffy air pockets to form!
hannah gadsby took the format of a 1 hour standup special and split it into 3 related acts: 1. do normal standup comedy jokes. funny. feminist. 2. riff extensively on art history. move back and forth between outrage at the patriarchy and hilarity. 3. critique the whole format of standup comedy, explain why she’s quitting her comedy career, and discuss her experiences as a survivor at the intersections of homophobia and misogyny with complete seriousness and sincerity. Woven in with stories from the “regular jokes” and “art history jokes” cast in a new light. will make you cry.
PSA in light of Kennedy announcing his retirement:
Emergency contraceptives (Plan B, the “morning after pill”) are available on Amazon, over the counter at pharmacies, and many other places. You don’t need a prescription. If you have the resources, now would be a really good time to stock up. For yourself, your friends, your community, whoever. It’s hard to predict just how limited access to these things will become, but it’s best to start preparing now.
Think about expiration dates for that medication, though.
I hadn’t thought about the expiry issue, so I looked it up and from what I’m seeing the shelf life is like 4 or 5 years so not too bad
How is it made? In 5 years could somebody start making it with regular kitchen stuff?
PSA in light of Kennedy announcing his retirement:
Emergency contraceptives (Plan B, the “morning after pill”) are available on Amazon, over the counter at pharmacies, and many other places. You don’t need a prescription. If you have the resources, now would be a really good time to stock up. For yourself, your friends, your community, whoever. It’s hard to predict just how limited access to these things will become, but it’s best to start preparing now.
Plan b does not work if you weigh more than 175 and is completely ineffective after 185 ish.
Stock up on abortion pills to. My wife2be and I are going to buy as many as we can afford and keep it for friends. We (God willing) wont ever need any, but you might.
The hijab isn’t just a piece of cloth for this woman and many women all over the globe. It’s about men policing and taking control over women’s bodies.
Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
i love those blogs run by californian lesbians who jsut psot pictures of golden retrievers, those checkered vans and titties. like they don’t know what allosexual means, they’re living in peace. i appreciate them and envy their bliss
the only drama they get is people asking who their girlfriend is among like fifteen pictures of the ocean. god i wish that were me
*Male internal monologue voice* Attractive woman, edgy short haircut, alternative, no doubt kinda freaky. There’s an intriguing air about this one. The way she stands. The body language. The interlocking Venus symbols muscle top tells me she’s into astrology, Sailor Moon, some sorta girl power stuff, whatever. Hippie armpits? Hm. Free love is cool, lol, and she’s gonna be impressed by my bong collection. Excellent. Anyway, I’m going to go impose myself, can’t wait to get laid.
Anonymous asked: Women aren’t allowed to talk about their bodily functions anywhere in the world without being policed for being gross. An entire movie series was made about a guy boning an apple pie, but women still pass each other tampons and pads as if they were trading state secrets to foreign spy organizations. we can't even talk about this because someone will get screenshot and will make fun of us.
I don’t usually soap-box, but I’m going to for a hot sec since this has been on my mind:
Cults are getting better branding, prettier leaders, hipper-sounding cosmologies, and wider reaches due to social media. They’re not all deity-focused. Thoughtful, intelligent people can get sucked into them. Just…stay safe out there, guys. Do your research, look at all your options, and trust your gut, not your guru.
I’m glad this is resonating with people.
I do want to emphasize, again, that cults (and toxic groups with cult-like attributes, I’m using this term pretty loosely) don’t usually look like what you’d expect. A lot of toxic and dangerous religious movements are tiny and you won’t find much about them via Google. Cultish non-religious movements are the same way.
Start-ups, multi-level marketing companies, activist groups, fan groups, political groups, and internet gurus who run retreats can all be cult-like and dangerous. Tune your BS detector, ask family, friends, and experts for advice.
Here are some warning signs:
Pressure – pressure to make quick decisions, to give (or pledge) considerable amounts of money, to move in with a group, to abandon family or cut off friends. Elevated Leaders – anyone claiming special insight, special powers, or that they aren’t human. Demanding special treatment (compared to other followers). Misuse of funds or money collecting at the top. physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse. Lack of accountability or oversight. Isolation – encouraging (or requiring) members to cut off family relationships, friendships with those outside of the group, leaving jobs, moving to isolated areas, taking away communication methods. Strong “us-vs-them” mentality. Vilification of ex-members. Love-bombing. Altered states of consciousness – long work hours, sleep deprivation, lack of access to adequate food or water. Otherwise unproblematic activities like meditation/prayer/chanting, but done for hours. Discouraging doubt – discouraging or punishing doubt and critical thinking.
If these send up red flags for you or loved ones, here are some collected resources: one, two.
Pressure- to cut off non compliant friends (people who are not rq) for being *toxic*
Elevated leaders - the whole idea of TMI/TME is textbook cult stuff. Like some people are TMI and thus their oppression reigns superior and they have the last say on all political analysis.
Isolation - see above.
Altered states of consciousness- intersection of anti-recovery politics and radiqueer culture which means a lot of young girls and women do not take necessary steps to protect themselves. Also a lot of obsession over Multiple personality disorder, especially among people who have later been outed as abusers.
Discouraging doubt - all ex-radiqueer folks are labeled terfs if they speak out, even if they aren’t radfems, and just call for some kind of middle ground between rq and anti feminism.
Obviously dysphoria is a huge problem and trans people do experience oppression, I am just criticizing a subset of the LGBT community who are toxic.
