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helplessduck
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Control issues and perfectionism are among my many neuroses. Twitter Diaspora. I swear a lot. I do drugs (the good kind). I'm a socialist. I studied art in school. Beyond that: US Politics, environmental conservation, mental health, organic gardening, and my employer Ramses, That Damn Cat. Sometimes I have really shitty takes. He/Him/Michael/Arrogant jackass. Header Image: Black Bar Avatar: Ridiculous DALL E generated artificial duck. Full #AltText description on pinned post.

Buhh.

I should have gone to the vape shop yesterday. I thought I had another cart. Now I have to put on clothes and schlep all the way into the next county on a freakin' Saturday.

I dislike strawberries that have been frozen. They taste weird.

Fresh bed sheets: deployed.

Breakfast: made.

Kitchen: tidied.

Kettle: on the boil.

Robe and slippies: deployed.

Christmas pills: down.

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Well, I'm out of paper bags so I guess I'll stop being melodramatic. But you must stop right there. I don't want to know. πŸ˜‚

Hey. If it works for you, work it!

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I am super OCD about my knives. I don't even use them to scoop stuff off the board because there is a small amount of anecdotal evidence that it could potentially be bad for the blades. Maybe. πŸ˜‚

Dear Apple Music,

If this is supposed to be a station of all my favorite songs, where in the fresh hell do you get off playing Fall Out Boy? If I wanted to listen to white boys whine about [pick a thing] I would drive up to Cary and sit in a Starbucks without my airPods for fifteen minutes or until I started to rip my own hair out. Whichever comes first. Never again, please.

Best,

A Helpless Duck

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I just heard my knives shriek in terror. πŸ˜‚

Right on with the plastic reduction. I try to use as little as possible, myself but there are some lines I won't cross.

I didn't like the look of the mixed greens at the supermarket this morning so this is something packaged as "green leaf lettuce" which could mean literally anything.

Wrap pro-tip from someone who used to make about 85 per shift:

Thin out your sauce/condiment just a little with a complimentary liquid or water and toss the largest pieces of whatever you're wrapping (chicken in this case) in the sauce do distribute the flavor evenly.

#Cooking

nostr:npub1zakvc2lt3n0hxchfywutz5hc68vlzg7klweccmhfutry7ju4vzcsnfd6uu I feel so inadequate with my three cutting boards that are all about the same size and all wooden.

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At the risk of mansplaining, you ~really~ should get at least one nylon one. I got the ones I have at a restaurant supply store for dirt cheap, but I just ordered these because they have the no-slip corners and I wanted a smaller one.

My friend nostr:npub1ynnetv6xr5df9szyqfdqxhyh79ppjf7vdhddqc30ervn23unt2lq2gnjqd and I were discussing, and six is not an accurate number because I didn't count my wooden ones. It's actually eleven.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WD8841G?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image

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Be sure to check the history of when this was tried before (not a "federated" solution though). The Farm in Tennessee is still going using many of the same values and techniques espoused in the article, even beyond. But it did not turn out as they originally planned.

Refer to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee)

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Neat! I would very like to visit this place. Too bad it's in western TN. It would make the trip out there, say for the annual festival a lot easier to bear if it were in the eastern part of the state.

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This is a good point. The most durable form of government off the top of my head would be feudalism. But it's longevity can't be attributed to the majority finding it particularly enjoyable. It hinged on class divisions and greed enforced by brutal violence. Humans (at least modern humans) seem to be opportunistic and self-serving by nature. I don't know that there is a solution to that, so I am inclined to agree with you -but also hope we're wrong.

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Well, I DO cut my pizzas on it because it's wood. I like the idea of non-slip corners. I have one like that.

I definitely have knife envy when it comes to kitchen equipment that you have.

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Some would call my well-kitted kitchen a misalignment of priorities.

I need to get a pizza peel. I'm still bitter about the pizza stone, though.

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Not unless I get to count my wooden pizza peel. I have 14 sundry boards upon which bread with never rest.

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No. I don't think pizza peel meets the definition. You shouldn't cut things on those (right?). The ones I just ordered are two sided and have non-slip corners and one of them is small. The rest of my non-bread ones are the plain NSF restaurant kitchen nylon type and slide all over the counter unless there's something under them. I'm tired of that.