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today I am making my great-grandmother’s oatmeal raisin cookie recipe. they’re my favorite cookies in the world, and as a kid they lead to me being immeasurably disappointed by every other oatmeal raisin cookie I ever had when I discovered that they weren’t the same. I was given this by my mom, who was given this by her mom, who was given this by her mom; the recipe calls for margarine, which means the current version passed down on recipe cards probably can’t go more than another generation back just because margarine changed recipes due to WWII rationing here—but it might.
I have another cookie recipe from my grandparents on my other side; my grammy’s “chewy ooie gooey” chocolate chip cookies. I don’t try to make these at home as often; they aren’t the same if they aren’t in the kitchen she always made them with us in, and she’s sold that house now. maybe I’ll try again sometime.
I wonder how far that recipe goes back; I wonder if it matters.
the other day I read about bread. there’s evidence that humans were making leavened bread, baking, long before we invented agriculture, or writing, or “society” as humanity understands it now. I wonder if their grandmothers and mothers and great-grandmothers taught them how to do that, too, generations on generations. I wonder if baking is one of the most fundamental ways humans express love we have, built into us the same way as all the others.
I wonder how many other families have cookie recipes that lead to the kids getting immeasurably disappointed when they realize it’s not quite the same when you get it anywhere else, and use margarine and a lot of brown sugar and the collective wisdom of at least three generations. and I wonder how many feel lost when a house is sold.
anyway I love baking,
Do you guys think [redacted] is gay? *remembers it’s bad to speculate abt people’s sexualities* I know for certain [redacted] is gay
banging my head on the wall BEGGING people on the internet to learn what an Inside Thought is. like you do not need to express every nasty opinion you have, and if you do so publicly, you gotta accept that people are gonna get mad at you for saying shit like "i find gay men repulsive". social media is not your private diary, it is public. there are consequences for saying terrible things, such as thousands of people thinking you're an asshole.
PLEASE learn what an inside thought is. you do not need to share everything that goes through your head. you shouldn't.
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budgies be budgieing (not budging)
op had me blocked but i simply couldn't not have this post on my blog. by jingo, its never too late friends!!!!
Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrate. “We’ve had a few guys in there posing as members and trying to manipulate them into committing acts of violence we can arrest them for, but these people don’t ever do anything violent—they don’t ever do anything at all,” an undercover FBI agent told reporters, adding that the agency believed they’d made headway with turning the leader of the Liberation Socialists group into an informant until the guy didn’t show up to a meeting for months.
infighting
infighting, part 2
infighting 3: not an argument against green people
Infighting finale: Outfighting
My tired color focused brain:
Oh they turned him into a couch...