I like keeping the unread count low, but I get so many junk notification emails at work I’ve given up on checking.
Everything. Their eyes, their tails, their paw beans, their liquid spines, and the fact their skin isn’t connected to their musculature. Everything.
(This is what happens when you have a contact named Cat in your phone)
Peace is nice, but it won't get you your own moon.
I had an argument with my cat last night, he was mad because I carried him up the stairs so he wouldn’t start a fight with my other cat sitting on the stairs.
When he saw me going to the bathroom all was forgiven and he excitedly ran in ahead of me. Cat’s are weird.
Home made pea soup with a ham bone is my all time favourite soup, but I don’t have ham very often. I always joked with my mom that the uglier the pea soup is in the fridge, the better it will taste when you reheat it.
My easy soup is to pick 4-6 items from: mushrooms, carrots, leeks or onion, broccoli stems or fennel, and frozen peas. I add soy sauce to the broth for an umami flavour. I don’t ever have anything measured, but I do taste and sample a lot along the way.
I like to sauté my mushrooms with garlic in a pan, cook off the moisture, then add soy sauce and spices and let that simmer for a while. I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I like to think it infuses the mushrooms with more flavour.
I’ll try throwing in some salsa next time. My mom always put tomatoes in her soup and they were good, maybe it’ll turn out similarly.
I do the exact same thing with the Costco rotisserie chickens, they’re a good buy.
I need to make more of a routine out of making and freezing broth. It’s something you can do while watching a movie or two.
It’s hard to find good quality meat these days, I eat a lot less meat than I used to.
The quality is not what it was 5-10 years ago and the prices are much higher. When I go grocery shopping I feel like I scour the meat section for anything that is both a good price and looks good, and most of the time I just leave unsatisfied. I bought a chest freezer so now I stock up when there’s an actually good deal.
Vegetables have gotten worse too. I have to double check everything at the super store near me. Even things like beets and potatoes spoil quickly like they’re very old stock. I have to feel and smell everything before I buy it.
That could be part of it.
My grandmother grew up in a poor town during the depression and she considered it a cardinal sin to throw out “edible” food. My mom grew up poor too and she cooks much the same way, but she’s okay with throwing things out. Mom taught my brothers and I the basics, but I never really needed to cook much until I moved out.
I got a lot of experience with less common foods growing up — recipes like pig-feet ragout and recycling leftovers and trimmings and stems into soup or stew or casseroles all the time. A lot of those older recipes that my mom and grandma made are lost to me though. I should really ask my mom for more of them.
I’d love a movement to revive the old ways of cooking in accessible ways.
I think another issues is I can make a great tasting and highly nutritious soup from spare veggies and broth in half an hour, but making broth at home (from essentially waste materials) takes hours to brown+boil+sieve. It’s easier to just pick up a costco club pack of chicken/beef broth.
Broccoli is a good source of vitamin C, per weight it's better than oranges. Frozen broccoli is pretty accessible and easy to add to many foods.
I use the stems for soup and eat the florets raw or in food or sauces.
I wish we did a better job educating kids on nutrition, I know very little about it except the odd article I read.
Trigger Warning
suicidal thoughts
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Hey all, I want to thank you all again for my previous thread and the support you all gave me. I can't state enough how helpful you all were for me in that moment, I am so grateful to you all!
After my previous post I saw my doctor, they prescribed escitalopram, and I went through two weeks of hell (stomach issues, constant anxiety for no reason, and chills). After the 2.5 week mark things got much better for me.
At 4 weeks I'm feeling much better. I can do tasks that I previously struggled with. My anxiety is much better, it's not reaching the levels of panic or struggle. Now that the feeling side is better I can see things which are behavioural (I'm trying to get back to CBT, but now there are waitlists).
Overall it feels like my life went from VHS quality to HD. Literally colours seem brighter, tastes and smells are better, and touch feels much nicer.
I do have one question: has anyone had suicidal thoughts while on escitalopram, and did they subside over time?
I had suicidal thoughts before taking the meds, at least since I was 9/10 years old. I have them regularly especially when anxiety or depression hit. It's more thinking about it than an impulse to action on it. Normally I wouldn't think much of it, but the last several days those thoughts have been more intrusive and more impulsive.
I was warned this can be a side effect and I'm still early on so I'm wondering if this is something that subsides? I don't honestly feel that I will action on these thoughts, and generally I feel good, so I'm hoping this won't be a dealbreaker or get worse.
I do plan to talk to my wife about it, I've never really shared these thoughts with her, but I don't want to worry her.
And one panel of Data confused that his genetic analysis of the father of Spot’s kittens does not match any cat onboard the enterprise.
There are people in this quadrant who don’t have to put up with all this shit. Like that guy who invented the pet rock. You see that’s what you have to do, you have to use your mind to come up some really great idea like that. And you can have your own moon!
No argument here.
Hamas and Hezbollah are using the rules of engagement against Israel.
That doesn’t excuse Israel permanently forcing millions from their homes with nowhere to go and blocking food water and medicine aid.
Look Thomas, I refuse to believe that we live in a world where an object can be broken into finitely many disjoint subsets, and then reassembled into two identical copies of the original object, using only movement and rotation of the subsets.
Man that situation sucks.
I won’t defend Hezbollah at all, fuck them, I just feel awful for the Lebanese people caught in this.
I had fun with this one, it’s a bit messy though
In my head there was a heavenly light pouring out from the grocery store.
I’ve never used my marker pen before so decided to try it out, I like the feel of it
I don’t often shade with brush pens, and I’m rusty on my lining, but I had fun
S5 E3 Ensign Ro
Mot talking over Picard feels like a latinum mine for memes.
Hey all, I hope this post is okay
I'm currently going through a very high anxiety moment and have been having panic attacks all weekend. I'm still in one.
I've got a doctor appointment scheduled for next week, but I need some encouragement and advice to calm things down right now.
I have avoidant anxiety. When I was a student and I started having panic attacks for the first time. I couldn't force myself out of the house and stopped showing up at work and got myself fired and failed out of my classes. It took me years to recover.
I found a therapist privately back then and did CBT and it helped make things manageable enough that for years things were okay. She's no longer working, and I specifically avoided drugs then but I think that was a mistake.
I've been working for over a decade and have been carefully managing my anxiety with only a couple incidents. I worked in small companies, then did independent contracting, but now I've been in corporate jobs since COVID.
The last couple years I've been really struggling with my anxiety. As soon as everyone started doing mass layoffs and tightening the belt I've been struggling hard. The last few months it's gotten exponentially wise, and it's beyond my ability to manage.
I can't focus anymore, sitting at my desk gives me a panic attack every day, then I fail to meet my deadlines, so I stay up all night pushing myself, which boosts my anxiety.
I feel like I'm on a treadmill running full speed, but I'm tired, I can't breath anymore, I have that feeling if I run anymore my legs will collapse. But I'm on a treadmill, if I fall I get wrangled and crushed, even though I know I can't keep running.
Man I just need someone to say they know how I feel, that I'm not alone, and to help me push the next week until my appointment.
Edit: thank you everyone, you all helped me through that moment and I'm feeling clearer right now. You said some things that were what I needed to hear, with concrete advice, and I can't express how much I appreciate that.
It's going to be a rough week and I have a lot to think about
TNG S4E16 Galaxy's Child
This episode has so much cringe in it.
Geordie setting up a meeting and trying to make it into a date is a lot. Plus omitting that he had the computer summarize her files to resolve a critical crisis, while using the information he got from her file in discussing with her is not good.
Brahms does an excellent job letting him down and putting up firm boundaries.
But oh god, when she discovers the holodeck program, and then Geordie rant!
It's tough to watch in a totally different way than the Quark Gender swap episode.
I just watched Measure of a Man, they rule Data has the right to choose. But in Voyager the EMH gets relegated to forced servitude. Why? Doesn’t that violate precedent?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms.
"Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont.
The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters.
"A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said.
"But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre stepped into the debate over trans rights on Wednesday, saying "biological males" should be banned from women's sports, change rooms and bathrooms.
"Female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males," Poilievre said in Kitchener, Ont.
The Conservative leader made the comments after being asked if, as prime minister, he would introduce legislation to prevent "transgender women" or "biological men" from participating in female sports or entering female prisons and shelters.
"A lot of the spaces … are provincially and municipally controlled, so it is unclear ... what reach federal legislation would have to change them," Poilievre said.
"But obviously female sports, female change rooms, female bathrooms should be for females, not for biological males," he added.