@Shae Erisson Here's a list of what we've watched so far: - Frieren - Fruits Basket - Orange - Erased - Classroom of the Elite (excessive fan service warning) - Rent-a-Girlfriend (ditto) - Violet Evergarden
I've also personally been watching Attack on Titan, but it's too much on the gory side for Katy's tastes. It's really good otherwise, though.
@shapr Since this popped up in my feed, I'll take the opportunity to recommend the following: - Scrapped Princess (it sounds like the kind of thing that would have a lot of fan service, but there's hardly any) - Steins;Gate (being a story based around time manipulation, you'd think there wouldn't be fan service, but there is a little)
@shapr I've been watching a bit of anime lately after several years of not. Here's my list for the year so far (I haven't finished most of these): - Frieren (now my favourite anime series) - Solo Leveling - Dr Stone - Jujutsu Kaisen - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - Mob Psycho 100 (My second favourite on this list) - Black Clover (I stopped after two episodes)
@shapr Unexpectedly? One of the first things I learned was that my parents wouldn't let me watch the cartoons my older brothers watched.
That reason was explicit lewdness and graphic violent views of the world. Pretty sure when I got to violate those rules, my first intro was Akira. Not a huge fan of fan service, I'm in for the bleak apocalyptic stories.
Well, booked my first appointment with the new doctor today. Haven't had my records transferred because I don't have $200 just sitting around for the digitization fee at the moment. Hopefully he'll be willing to renew my #ADHD meds using the previous prescripiton bottles as sufficient evidence of their necessity. I really don't want to jump through those hoops again.
It's not like I'll die without them or anything, but my life will get a lot harder.
@Shae Erisson I do plan to eventually pay the fee to have the records transferred. That should help quite a bit. It's just that the supply of meds won't hold out that long.
I should've gotten my act together sooner to take care of this, but you know... ADHD. 🙃
Tried the whole green/blue test that people have been talking about. Problem was that it kept giving me colours that were neither. I couldn't answer the questions.
@sour.dough.hk I measure by weight, bit the recipe's so simple it didn't even occur to me to make a checklist. The whole thing has four (arguably three) ingredients in total.
@Joseph A di Paolantonio @sour.dough.hk No yeast in this recipe (well there's technically yeast in the starter), but it's the first ingredient, so hard to forget.
I do that - I’ve taken to weighing out the salt at the same time as the other ingredients and putting it in cup on top of the bowl while the flour autolyses. That means I HAVE to move it before kneading. That _generally_ works…
@Justin To #НетВойне Fortunately, most of the time it takes is just waiting on it to proof, so it doesn't prevent me from doing other things in the meantime.
@justinto This one is essentially what I do, but I also add in grated cheese both into the batter and on top of the batter once it’s in the loaf pan. But the cheese isn’t needed.
There's a family member that Katy and I had cut ties with about a year ago because he's toxic. Today Katy extended an olive branch and we were immediately reminded why we made that decision in the first place.
I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve been there and done that — and it’s more difficult than many people realize. But cutting that kind of toxicity out of your life is necessary sometimes.
I've been working through some #soroban exercises try to actually become reasonably proficient in its use. Interestingly enough, I'm doing much better with multiplicaiton/divison than I am with the addition/subtraction questions, but that's because the latter involve summing a column of values rather than just multiplying two numbers. There are more places to screw up.
Still, these questions seem designed to deliberately screw me up with things like multiple carries, changing the value on a rod just to immediately revert that change, etc.
I don't want this place to be a "Twitter replacement". I came here (in the pre-Musk era) because I wanted something better* than Twitter. The fedi certainly has its shortcomings, and we need to work to improve it (especially regarding the treatment of marginalized people), but Twitter should not be the yardstick we measure ourselves by.
I am neither for nor against AI, mostly because it's essentially a meaningless word. What does bother me is the number of people who are shoehorning it into their products because investors lose their minds and shovel boatloads of money at them.
It's not that I have a problem with fools taking other fools' money; I'm just really sick of them trying to sell me their magic beans.
In this remastered episode I talk with author Mary Mahoney who details her experiences in The Children of God, talking us through the trials of her memoir. Mary
I eat peaches with the skin on, but usually rinsing them and rubbing them with a paper towel gets most of the fuzz texture off, since I'm also not a big fan of that
yeah lol i'd absolutely eat nectarines before i'd peel a peach
Unless I'm going to a farmers market where they have the good shit I end up buying nectarines more than peaches anyway just because supermarkets tend to have dogshit peaches but okay nectarines.
And, time to turn my phone off again to enjoy the trip instead of scrolling social media (which I can do at home). Also, I only have so much battery. 🙃
Fun fact, the cat can slip out of his harness when spooked by a passing car. We're hanging out in the tent with him until we can sort out this logistical wrinkle.
So I think that when I took off after Benny when he got loose I got into some poison ivy/oak. I'm normally careful about such things, but I had to be quick to catch him.
I washed my arms immediately after and slathered them with afterbite (which I figured was the most useful thing we had on hand) but there was some itchiness/rash shortly thereafter. Fortunately Benny seems to have been unaffected.
Well, we forgot to bring bug spray. Rookie mistake, but it's been a while. Ran off to the nearby pharmacy to pick some up, then we'll finish setting up camp.
Doing some last minute checking of the #camping gear for our trip tomorrow. We haven't touched any of it in like six years. I was sure the batteries in our lantern would be dead. I tested them and they're fully charged. I'm impressed.
I just pulled some Energizer lithium AAs from an old set of FRS/GMRS handheld radios. The batteries have "expiration" dates of 2010, but they read 1.7 V on my multimeter, 14 years later. These batteries are rated for a 10-year shelf life, so they are 24 years old.
Ugh, I hate that. My current EDC flashlight has a parasitic drain like that, so I have to keep the tailcap partially unscrewed so the battery isn't dead when I actually need it.
In this remastered episode I talk with author Mary Mahoney who details her experiences in The Children of God, talking us through the trials of her memoir. Mary
Okay, finally took the plunge and just booked a #camping trip this upcoming week instead of waiting for everything to just fall in place. We haven't been camping since before COVID.
I've got to go through all our gear to make sure everything's still in working order.
Just for fun, I decided to look into how to use an abacus the other day. I have no practical use for this whatsoever, it was just something I was curious about. Learning this of course made me want to buy an abacus. I know myself well enough to know that while it would probably be an inexpensive purchase, it'd only end up collecting dust on a shelf within a week.
Then I thought about programming a virtual abacus that I could then play around with. I know this to be an absolutely absurd idea, but that absurdity only kinda makes me want to do it even more.
Cast your ears back to the time I was given the chance to interview the legendary Jon Atack LIVE on stage at Crimecon UK. An experience I won't soon forget, and
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Unknown parent • •@Todd on :mastodon: ain I'll survive. I'm not out quite yet, and I can switch to tea for a few days.
At least all the essentials are covered.
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