I wrote the best thing on the internet yesterday, so read that first.
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Novels about bein’ trans, written by trans women! Casey Plett compiled this list after writing a piece which was critical of novels about trans people written by cis people:
Each protagonist is a chosen one, a lone wolf plodding on against adversity. They do no wrong; they remain gentle and stoic in the face of difficulty. Whatever imperfections they show are forgiven, usually by dint of gender trouble. “I felt unusually brave that day, a soldier alone in the trenches,” Sydney says, describing a cold trudge to the clinic for chest-reconstruction surgery. This might make for inspiring reading, but it’s odd to spend a few hundred pages with someone who goes through hell and emerges with all the flaws of a Disney hero. The reader scarcely knows anything about the characters’ inner lives.
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“Revisiting the Russian cartoons of my childhood” (you know I love Russian cartoons):
Another woman was more specific: “The difference between Tom and Jerry and Ну, погоди! can probably be best seen in the antagonist wolf. In the American cartoon, Tom chases Jerry around for a while. It is aggressive, it is fun, but it is meaningless. This is not a bad thing, but beyond a psychological examination of ‘wants and needs,’ Tom doesn’t stand for anything, he does not represent anything cultural. The wolf, on the other hand, is a reflection of the rebellious Russian youth. He is a hooligan, quite literally. He smokes, wears bell-bottom jeans (very Western), is uneducated, and clever but stupid.”
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One year after the destruction of Susan Cahill’s clinic:
Though she is giving up performing abortions, Cahill said she would still like to get back to her practice, to engage with her patients again at a personal level and get to work healing again.
But even that is proving difficult; according to Cahill, two building owners, one of them a personal friend of hers, have declined to rent her a space, saying she’s too much of a liability.
“I’m totally in limbo at the moment,” she said. “I don’t think I’m going to stop looking for a place, but I also realize that I’m going to be confronted with this problem, big time. If close friends think I’m a liability, that’s saying a lot.”
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The cathedral in San Francisco which is dousing sleeping homeless people and their belongings with water.
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Freaknik evolved from picnic to party to long weekend of concerts and cruising through Atlanta’s dogwood-shaded streets. Buzz rippled through the campuses of historically black colleges and universities, luring students who road-tripped to Atlanta for all the reasons college students congregate anywhere: music, dancing, drinking, love, lust, and the chance to just hang out. In Atlanta—with its black political and business leaders and rich history—they found a welcoming environment. “Growing up in a place like the San Francisco Bay Area, where mainstream white middle-class culture pervades, the only understanding you had of college spring break came through a white filter,” recalls Ayanna Brown, who attended Tuskegee University in the early 1990s. An April pilgrimage to Atlanta proved “you could be black and academic and have fun—but it happened not at the beach but smack dab in the middle of the city,” says Brown, now a professor of education at Elmhurst College in Chicago. As Freaknik grew, weekend events spilled out from Piedmont Park and into clubs and concert venues around town, attracting performers and promoters. But for most attendees, the attraction was not so much going to events as getting there.
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DID you watch Justified this week?
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— Jessica Misener (@jessmisener) March 18, 2015
Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
HOW much for a regular coffee though
what
For my own emotional well-being I will assume those are Hong Kong dollars.
At least it’s a 20oz???
I didn’t even realize that we were gawking at the prices because I saw the ingredient list and nope, I’m out. Coffee needs: beans; water; cream or sugar if desired; that’s it.
Yeah, I typically skip the foofy coffee drinks because coffee is delicious on its own, but that is a LOT for a cup of coffee. LOTS.
Okay, I confess, I will occasionally get the toasted almond coffee at Dunkin Donuts, but I make myself eat a spoonful of espresso sludge in penance.
My standard response is the Pulp Fiction response.
Is there bourbon in it?
(Living in Washington state coffee that expensive may have some THC in it. I’ve heard rumors of its existence.)
And here I thought we were freaking out about the concept of the Bulletproof Coffee in the first place.
Re: smoothie / ice cream:
D:
WHY DOES IT HAVE COLLAGEN
I hoped it was just what they’re using to keep the almond butter, ghee and oil from just being a cold greasy soup–which they are. But the internet tells me that it’s also because people think eating collagen is going to smooth their wrinkles and other various snake oil crap.
I’m trying to get worked up about throwing weeds and seeds frozen collagen and ghee and calling it ice cream. But I’m stuck on Stevia. Why ever Stevia? It tastes like barfed up Pixie Sticks.
My parents left some fruit juice for me in the fridge when they were visiting. I was excited, until I had a sip and realized it’s sweetened with Stevia. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
I just came back from visiting my fam and they were very insistent that it was not possible to taste the difference between Stevia and real sugar and YOU KNOW THIS IS HEALTHIER, RIGHT? RIGHT!?!
It tastes like puke and this 1/2 teaspoon of sugar I put in my coffee daily is not why I’m fat. Also, just stop it.
I briefly misread “tocos” as “tacos” and for ten beautiful seconds I thought it was all a funny, funny joke.
Me too!
Yea, there’s a joke Brooklyn foodie book out now. I assumed it was from that! But, you know, laminated. That’s what confused me.
I just googled “tocos” and it’s toucans, vitamins, or an island. I’m going to go with toucans because any place that offers ice cream made with mesquite and collagen would be that monstrous.
AND THOSE INGREDIENTS. Those do not look like smoothie ingredients. If you’re charging me that much for a smoothie it’d better be the best goddamn smoothie ever. With actual milk and stuff.
The ingredient list sounds more like an EDM festival lineup than a food worth $20.
Dandyblend is on point, but MCT Oil has gone downhill since she started using those Kids, Incorporated samples.
Mesquite? Am I a bbq pit?
“We do the best we can, and supporting the dignity of each person. But there is only so much you can do.”
But apparently one of those things you could afford to do was INSTALL AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM specifically designed to deprive homeless people of dignity, comfort, sleep…
When I first saw the headline I assumed they had been, like, sprinkling them with holy water like they do in church on Easter? Which would be a really weird thing to do but somehow it makes more sense than what they’re actually doing. Even just symbolically– shouldn’t somebody have thought “hey, don’t we usually use water to bless people, not to drive them away as if they are cats that we want to keep off the furniture?”
Also as I was writing this comment I went to look up what you call the stick they use for sprinkling the holy water (it’s an “aspergilium”) and found this article about how churches are now using automatic dispensers instead of the fonts you dip your fingers in because of health concerns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8356019.stm
I’m struggling to contain the amount of rage I have about this right now.
Yeah, guys, Jesus totally would have hosed down homeless people. He loved his big fancy house that he lived in….oh, wait.
True Christian charity, that.
ETA: The usual warning applies – don’t ever read the comments on any website except the Toast.
Oh god I can only imagine. no no no.
“KCBS has also learned from a review of city permit records that the system was installed illegally, and may violate water use regulations.”
In the words of Grumpy Cat, GOOD.
I really hope they make them remove it on a technicality like that.
You know, the California drought is pretty serious, so it’s not even like it’s a “technicality,” really.
True, it’s just kind of amazing that it’s more likely to be shut down over wasting water than being MORALLY BANKRUPT…
We’re talking about an organization that is currently trying to hide millions of dollars in reparations for sex abuse in a fund for refurbishing gravestones, so I’m not surprised by anything they do.
Double-whammy with both Facebook and Disqus comments enabled there. Yeah it’s pretty terrible.
No stop putting butter in your coffee stop that
I can’t do REGULAR coffee I can’t imagine putting butter in it would make it any better???
I’ve done it. It wasn’t good, it didn’t make me feel great, and then I tried it another morning, only this time with coconut oil. That was slightly better but a lot like having coffee and sunscreen mixed together.
I wouldn’t recommend it.
like having coffee and sunscreen mixed together
::cries::
I don’t even drink coffee and I cried.
I had eggs scrambled in butter and coffee with milk for breakfast… does that make me bulletproof? Or does it lose its magic if you separate the coffee from the butter?
This whole thing is so confusing.
The bulletproof hype part comes from fasting on fat until…I donno, you stop and eat some jerky. Those eggs are screwing you over into a satisfied morning with a contentment of a fulfilling and healthy meal.
Wait, (eggs scrambled in butter and coffee) with milk, or (eggs scrambled in butter) and (coffee with milk)? After reading the smoothie ingredients, I don’t feel safe making any assumptions.
Separate! Eggs with butter, and coffee with milk. I don’t think I could get eggs in coffee down, even if it promised to make me look like Milla Jovovich.
Egg coffee is an actual thing.
That? I think I could do. I do love Vietnamese coffee. I was more grossed out by the thought of scrambling my eggs in coffee.
Wow that looks delicious
Coffee grounds and ice. That will be $20 please.
Oh well if the smoothie’s got grass-fed Ghee in it, then that’s ok. I couldn’t possibly drink a smoothie that had grain-fed Ghee.
The whole grass/grain thing is so weird to me. So the leaves are OK, but not the seeds? Because grasses are cereals and grains are the seeds of cereals. As if cows in the field are like “Whoa there Gladys, that grass has gone to seed. You better not eat it.”
I can tangent on this if you want!
Grain (typically corn) is a much more concentrated calorie source so it helps cows put on weight faster, and therefore makes for faster turnaround for farmers. However, bovine digestive tracts are not at all set up to digest grain in the quantity that they’re eating it in this scenario, which leads to a much milder-tasting meat.
Grass-fed beef tends to be much more intensely flavored, takes MUCH longer to grow, and are also generally raised in very kind locations that aren’t CAFOs, and the milk also has a slightly different flavor and very different fat content from CAFO dairy cows. The implication is that the ghee is from lovely happy cows who have never seen a GMO.
Also — and here’s my grass-based farmer perspective, I am NOT a biologist nor an animal nutrient specialist — the stomachs of cattle and other ruminants (sheep, goats) are evolved to digest grass due to the way they move around in the wild. Think of how buffalo move across the plain — this is being replicated in modern grass-based farming techniques called mob-stocking or management-intensive grazing. The cattle are contained in a small area of the pasture for a brief period of time (a day or so) and then moved to fresh grass, and they do not come back to the original area of the pasture that year, ideally. This has several benefits. It concentrates their manure (fertilizer); they effectively mow the grass which encourages it to grow again (you know how your lawn grows faster after you mow it?); they don’t eat everything, and what they leave behind acts as mulch and organic matter to return to the soil.
Of course if the grass where they are has gone to seed, they’ll still eat it. But the majority of their diet still comes from the proteins and sugars in the leaves.
Also, their digestive systems (rumens) rely on bacteria that ferment the feed to break it down and allow them to get as many nutrients as possible out of it. (This is why cattle can get 100% of their diet from grass in a way that monogastrics like humans, pigs, and poultry cannot.) The bacteria that help them digest grain are very different from the bacteria that help them digest grasses. There was one study (I can’t find it now, my wifi is crappy) that indicated that grass-fed cattle have something like 70% less e.coli in their manure than grain-fed, and that switching to grass even just a few weeks before slaughter reduced the rate of e.coli in the meat (and therefore the risk of human infection).
I love my cows. There will be two fewer when I get home from work today 🙁 bye cows. I will enjoy having steak again though.
Another fantastic example of enlightened Toasties telling me everything I needed to know and didn’t know I needed to know.
I find that I enjoy meat more when I can eat it while thinking about it enjoying the wind and sunshine while it wanders aimlessly.
Ugh I’m mad that I said buffalo. I try to make a point to say bison because I am Captain Technical.
This is pretty cool to know. Thank you for enlightening me!
Well, they’re charging over $1/ingredient, which is steep, but UNDER $1/word in the list of ingredients, which is a value!
Also ethically, grass fed cows are kept outside and have a significantly hgher qualtify of life than the grain fed cows that are essentailly kept in a cupboard.
I think there is also an environmental benefit too but I cant remember it.
Several, one of which is that since the cows digest grass a lot more easily, they fart less!
Well, technically hay is grass so you can say “grass-fed” even if you keep them in the barn and feed only dry hay. There is no federal grass-fed certification, though there is an independent certification body called American Grassfed.
But in practice, if folks are saying grass-fed they are WAY more likely to be pasturing and not confining their critters.
Our cattle stay in all winter because our soils are too wet and they would be damaged by having the livestock on them. Also the soil can’t absorb the nitrogen (fertilizer) from their manure when the soil temperature is below 55º I think, so it just sits there and waits to cause runoff. AND the grass doesn’t grow below a certain temp, too, so grazing it in the winter can damage it.
Having the cattle distribute their manure rather than collecting it in lagoons (technical term; super gross) is a major environmental benefit, too.
I don’t recognize half the ingredients in that smoothie. Tocos?
I think they misspelled tacos. Yummmmmmmm coffee/taco smoothie.
I misread it probably four times. Like, “Ok, it’s twenty dollars because it comes with tacos, like a coffee meal combo.”
“The Coffee/Taco Meal Combo: For people who really like to poop.”
This might be my favorite comment of ever.
Based off of the internet rabbithole I just fell down, it’s just an overpriced vitamin E supplement derived from rice.
No idea on Dandyblend but I feel strongly it should be the specific textile blend used in crafting ascots.
Apparently Dandyblend is “a healthy herbal coffee substitute” like Postum or maybe Sanka?? SO YOU’RE NOT EVEN GETTING DAMN COFFEE IN YOUR COFFEE??
Wow I really need to go get a cup of coffee.
nooo there aren’t enough sharp corners in my office to bang my head on, noooo
I initially misread that as tacos and thought “my, what an interesting ingredient. Maybe adds crunch and spice?” But then I reread and realized it was tocos and I have more questions than ever now because while tacos are odd, I have not heard of “tocos” and think they are a figment of someone’s imagination. Maybe it is supposed to be tacos and tocos is a typo?
Now I’m imagining other delicious texmex foods to make smoothies with.
Chimichangas
Nacho
Burritos
Chomochongos
Nocho
Borrotos
Quosodollo
Tomolo
Molo
Posolo
Monodo
Olbondogos
Tortos
Tortollos
Never going to be able to pronounce “olbondogos” correctly again.
churro flavored smoothie: yes.
chorro flavored smoothie: no.
*spit take*
I replied to this and now my reply is gone? Thanks, Intense Debate. I’m sure it’ll show up in an hour unconnected to anything else and will make no sense. It’s fine, it was 16 degrees at my house this morning (F), and it snowed yesterday so everything is basically garbage anyway. I’ll be under my desk.
Hm one of my responses also disappeared entirely. I’ve had replies misplaced before, but never obliterated. What’s up, intensedebate?
I can’t wait for Pope Francis to hear about this hosing-the-homeless initiative and loudly disapprove. For all the dude’s many failings, he’s at least a bastion of Catholic charity.
The cathedral has since issued a BS apology.
“The idea was not to remove those persons, but to encourage them to relocate to other areas of the Cathedral”
I say tomato, you say “relocate to other areas.”
Also, if it was ill-conceived, why did it run for two years in a drought?
The drought portion of this is what takes it, in my opinion, from horrible to evil.
Personally, I think that might take it from “evil” to “moustache-twirling evil that laughs evilly while lowering the hero into an evil snake pit.”
Yeah that’s fair.
What.
The idea was not to remove those persons, but to encourage them to relocate to other areas of the Cathedral, which are protected and safer. The purpose was to make the Cathedral grounds as well as the homeless people who happen to be on those grounds safer.
We are sorry that our intentions have been misunderstood and recognize that the method used was ill-conceived.
…and the best way we could come up with to communicate this was, obviously, to spray them like water like a cat that keeps pissing on the couch.
erm, did anyone familiar with the term “relocation” in American history sign off on that statement?
My church also sometimes tries to relocate homeless people who camp on our front steps. We do this by letting them know about the nearby door leading to an indoor vestibule with a couch, or the bench around back, which is also the only place where we permit smoking. Most people are down with moving to a spot with furniture. It all works surprisingly well.
How do we feel about a new Little Women movie <a href=”http://:http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/polley-and-pascal-will-remake-little-women.html?mid=facebook_vulture” target=”_blank”>:http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/polley-and-pascal-will-remake-little-women.html?mid=facebook_vulture?
I am conflicted because what can possibly top Christain Bale and Winona Ryder’s spittle kiss?
Good luck out Susan Sarandoning Susan Sarandon.
I will watch every version of Little Women ever. Bring on the new March sisters!
I was so excited when Little Women: LA showed up on my TV listings, I was expecting a show about the girls living in modern day LA. That is… not what it is.
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I will always watch a Little Women adaptation. ESPECIALLY if it involves Kiernan Shipka, as was suggested for the dream cast in the article. She could play all the sisters Orphan Black style and I’d be thrilled.
Ahhhh! My first reaction was NOOOO IT’S TOO SOON. My second reaction was YES SARAH POLLEY YES. And now that I’ve sat with this news for a while, I’m all kinds of excited and optimistic.
It’s been 21 years since the Bale/Ryder spittle kiss. If anyone needs me I’ll be weeping softly for my lost youth.
Can they make one where Beth lives?
(It could replace the June Allyson one as the “Little Women” with the least inspired casting of all time and I’d still be a wreck. Beth is my favorite. I am pathetic.)
Here’s a version where Beth lives. (cackle, cackle, cackle)
Enoch-Jude Danquah…Sexy Cowboy (as Enoch Danquah)
Ok then.
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I’m feeling extremely good about it because will there ever be too much Little Women? Or Sarah Polley?
I support this ONLY if they also cast Christoph Waltz as Professor Bhaer, and then produce an adaptation of Little Men, too.
YES.
What in hell is grass fed ghee? Why on earth would anyone mix ghee and ice?? Please don’t do that, you’re wasting ice and ghee. Gah. I happen to be inhaling some really nice ghee based food right now and the thought of taking that and mixing it with ICE is just WRONG. THESE PEOPLE MUST BE STOPPED.
Endut! Hoch hech!
For those of us with really juvenile senses of humor, apparently someone on a British Airways flight took such a catastrophic shit that the flight turned around half an hour into its journey. I can’t stop laughing.
Apparently I have a juvenile sense of humor, too. Oh man.
brb sending this to everyone i know
Oh god, what could they have possibly eaten?
Imagine living your life in the knowledge that you once turded so appallingly that a 747-400 had to turn around and land.
hey did I tell you about the time I–
YES YOU TOLD US
I think I would have to force myself to be proud and braggy just to get over the skin-meltingly terrible mortification.
I would never tell anyone. I think I might flee the country (NOT ON A PLANE) and live out the rest of my life under a different name.
okay having experienced RV traveling and giant gross poops because of lactose intolerance (I am so mortified to even mention it, but that’s probably a pretty well-known side effect of lactose intolerance!), i had this huge moment of sympathy and flashbacks to being terrified to poop while on the road because i just KNEW i would overload the septic tank.
but omg. if it was so big and messy it overloaded the plane’s tank? and so smelly that all the other toilets would have lines to forever while everyone avoided the smelly one? on a flight from London to Dubai?! yeah, I can’t blame the pilots for deciding to abort the mission. they’d have eventually got used to the smell, mostly, if they kept the door shut, but planes are already tension-filled death tubes enough.
On a similar note: The Fart Battle, Edo period Japanese art.
I showed that to my stepfather one time. He thought it was hilarious, and showed it to his best (older, straight, male) friend. Both were laughing like mad, so the friend’s wife, naturally, wanted to know what was so funny. Both instantly stopped. “It’s not for ladies,” they said.
Um. Over here? Brought the book?
My response to that is generally something like “Ain’t no ladies here, motherfucker.”
You are a delight.
I know this isn’t an open post but I keep missing them and I really want to know who else is playing “Life Is Strange”. It’s like if Ghost World and Fallout had a baby! A serialized baby.
Ooh ooh my husband and I are playing that one together (it’s like how we watch TV shows – pause every three seconds to discuss, place bets, resume – we are insufferable company). SO GOOD. It reminds me of Gone Home, actually. And I was SURE there had to be a woman on the writing/production team for Life Is Strange because it was SO GOOD, but amazingly there isn’t! Those men sure are doing a good job at pretending to be not the worst. Maybe it’s a Canadian thing.
I can’t wait to get my hands on the next installment.
There are no women on the staff? Damn! That’s really surprising. I know they were very insistent on a female protagonist and lost quite a few deals because of it.
The previous Archbishop of San Francisco was the childhood BFF of my late FIL. He was fond of quoting “whatsoever you do to the least of you, you have done unto me.” whenever someone was uncharitable in his presence.
May the current Archbishop and all those who knew about this at the Cathedral remember this while they spend hell being doused with icy water and never sleeping for all eternity.
Ну, погоди is no “Worker and Parasite” I’ll say that much.
I would pay that price for a coffee smoothie if it did, in fact, make me bulletproof. As I could then recoup the cash by doing crimes! Wait, this is how supervillians start.
Well, you are an Elder god, so…
Oh right!! Phew, don’t have to drink butter coffee after all!!
BUTTER COFFEE uggh just typing it makes me feel oily.
I’ve had it like twice; I did not test the bullet-avoiding effects but I am pretty sure it made me able to see through time. You, being a being from beyond time, might not find this useful.
One thing I know about bulletproof coffee from friends who have tried it: it makes you extraordinarily over-regular. As in, don’t do a squat or deadlift workout.
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I experienced the same effect after attending a 9 a.m. olive oil tasting. Protip: don’t drink olive oil at 9 a.m. Never a good idea.
There is certainly a point where over-regular loops back around into irregular, qualitatively speaking.
Someone upthread joked about bulletproof coffee being the cause of The Shit So Bad It Turned Around a 747 but the more I hear about that butter/coffee stuff the less I think that was a joke.
I’m behind on Justified because my dumb boyfriend is out of town and I can’t watch without him because I would like to continue having a boyfriend and I’m VERY SAD about it.
You could do what I do (sometimes, not always) and watch it anyway and then pretend to be surprised, but that can be risky. Also, it’s possible my husband is on to me and just lets me get away with this particular farce.
i haven’t even SEEN this season but i can’t wait to watch it all at once, clutching my face.
I’m no expert on Catholicism, but I don’t think the whole douse-the-homeless is exactly in line with the teachings of a certain hippie Jewish carpenter.
Jerry?
I just googled ‘hippie jesus’ and among the many glorious images which came up (tie-dye Jesus, stoner Jesus, Jesus arm-wrestling Satan) was this gem:
Also this baby:
Hi Toast. I know this isn’t an open thread but my cat is going to the cat neurologist today, to determine whether the cause of her back-leg weakness is, basically, the Least Possible Problem (herniated disc) or the Worst Possible Problem, and I am miserably stressed that a) it could be the Worst Thing and also b) I can’t be there to pet her and talk to the vet because this is the ONE WEEK that I have a huge amount of actual time-sensitive work to do. Please either send me distractions or tell me about that time when your cat had spinal problems and everything turned out to be totally fine.
I’m sorry. Wait to worry?
Ugh, that sucks… I hope it all works out!
One of my cats has been having nosebleeds lately, which, according to the interwebs could be a nose tumor (as it turns out, googling your cat’s medical problems is just as inadvisable as googling your own) . I’ve been postponing taking him to the vet because a) he gets really stressed, and he JUST got a little more relaxed (he was probably abused before he and his brother got dumped at the shelter), and b) odds are that if it’s something really serious, there won’t be much to be done about it. But I worry about the little dude.
Hah. Yes. Cat WebMD: about as useful and reassuring as People WebMD. I hope things work out for your little dude, too.
Good luck kitten! I hope it’s something eay to fix. A friend was panicking last week about her cat whose tail was floppy and her back legs weak, and it turned out to be a cat bite that had abscessed and was affecting the nerves. Cat is fine now.
Oh dang. I hope all goes very, very well. Here, have a link to the Viking Answer Lady homepage. Lots of great stuff to distract you. I used the beverage info in a Norse D&D campaign a few years ago.
Ooh. I’ve used the Viking Answer Lady’s lists of names for, uh, fanfic purposes before, but never really explored her site. I should have been using this as my dwarf-culture resource all along.
(Thanks. Bella will be staying overnight at the neurologists, which is never fun, but she’s very laid-back and vet’s office staff always love her, so at least I know she will have visitors and attention while she hangs out. An injured disc is actually a pretty strong possibility — symptoms all match up, improvement with steroid treatment matches up, it wouldn’t even be the first time she’s fallen off the bed and hurt her back — so I am cautiously optimistic.)
My last kitty developed sudden hind leg weakness and it cleared up on its own – we never figured out exactly what caused it, though most likely it was due to a fall. Good luck to you and yours!
Oh, this is exactly what I want to hear. This was actually our original guess — we thought she had fallen off the bed and hurt herself, and took her to the vet in case she had actually broken something. The vet pointed out that it looked more nerve-related, but couldn’t diagnose anything for sure, and it’s gotten somewhat better over the last few days but not really enough better, so off to the neurologist we go.
My aunt and uncle had a cat with spina bifida (which isn’t quite the same issue, but hey, it’s still a neurological thing), and he walked oddly, but was otherwise perfectly fine, and very happy. He died peacefully at the age of 17, of regular old age-type stuff.
Tocos has gotta be tocopherols, i.e. Vitamin E
Well, this is the post that finally made me type “what the fuck is bulletproof coffee” into Google.
And the expected result was right there – a load of total overhyped fad diet bullshit.
ETA: Wow. Apparently I am in A MOOD this morning.
I am right there with you, having started my day by blasting a email off to my ED and Board president in which my temper really was showing quite a lot more than is usual. :-X
Boy awakes from coma addicted to cheese and swearing.
“He was screaming, “Fuck! Bastard! Shit!”… and chowing down on a wheel of cheese.” I’m like, I don’t recall being in a coma but I must have at some point because same.
oh shit, that explains SO MUCH about me
this boy is living My Best Life.
I may be the only person who likes bulletproof coffee. In my defense, for health reasons I have REALLY HIGH needs for high-quality fats in my diet, so I’m a fan of any way I can get more coconut oil and happy-cow butter. In related and significantly-cheaper news, avocados+honey+lime+coconut milk = key lime smoothie. Enjoy.
OMG I AM MAKING THAT
That smoothie recipe sounds like heaven, thank you!
Well, I know what I’m having for breakfast for the next week.
I’ve made margaritas using a similar recipe (+booze of course)!
ETA: AVOCADO margaritas that is.
WAIT WHAT
OHHHH MYYYY GODDDD
I like bulletproof coffee 🙁
Just sometimes and with coconut oil instead of MCT but it’s kinda yummy when you blend it up and good if I don’t feel like eating a whole breakfast.
That dude took a fairly decent thing to drink sometimes and turned it into an insane fad diet, so I understand all your disdain, though.
OK. OK. I don’t drink caffeine often because it makes me jumpy, and I’ve had bulletproof coffee like twice, but seriously: were you not hungry for like seven hours and also possibly slightly dissociated from reality in a pleasant and productive way?
I was definitely dissociated from reality in a pleasant and productive way, and found it pleasant! It did keep me pretty full, though not as much as real food.
Although the first time I tried it I had two big cups which was the WORST IDEA. Because I can drink two cups of coffee on a full stomach, but with just the butter and coconut oil it made me both feel incredibly nauseous and like I was on meth. So moderation is important, because meth is not pleasant.
Maybe not for every day, but maybe for like, helping someone move?
Also, why is butter in coffee icky, but not cream in coffee? Butter is cream that someone beat up, minus a little liquid (the buttermilk). Yay, supercream!
Also, how is this conceptually different from non-dairy creamer? I mean, yeah, different fats, but it seems like the same idea. (I might add that I loathe non-dairy creamer, but then, I drink my coffee black black black and blacker still.)
The most offensive thing about the existence of bulletproof coffee, which I learned about from this post, is that I’m certain places that sell it don’t have pastry.
This is a compelling point.
Ethiopian cooking uses a clarified butter called niter kibeh that is spiced and is freaking amazing and easy to make on your own and has vastly improved my life.
I was wondering if it might be that they make different proportions of the types of fats, which would make more sense I think?
Things I will accept as sweeteners in lieu of sugar:
Honey
Agave nectar
There, that’s it, that’s the list.
EDIT: response to either_ada
Maple syrup?
Golden syrup?
Sweet sweet goodness. Though I would only put some in my coffee if there was no sugar or honey, I’m not that obsessed!
Pure maple syrup also acceptable, but only in certain circumstances (pancakes, oatmeal, rice porridge…).
Ok, this isn’t the open thread, but one of the (formerly) office dogs is now up for adoption, and everybody seems to want a dog.
So this is Rachel, and she’s a sweetheart. This is her smiling, because she’s not trapped in an office with a person who yells at her all the time. She also has a sister (Rebekkah, also a darling), and they’d probably be happiest adopted together, but one elderly dog is a hard enough sell, let alone two.
Also, I’m going to miss the crap out of them. I miss them now, and they’re being fostered by a coworker.
Oh, her sweet face!!!
Right? And when you scratch behind/around her ears, she just closes her eyes and leans into it. She also likes to roll around on the grass for tummy rubs when she gets all worked up. She’s a very bouncy dog, despite her age and arthritis.
And there are no dogs in the office now, because they’re being fostered, and it’s freaking me out.
And apparently laurenipsum's discussion is MIA because I am NOT seeing it.
The story about the San Francisco cathedral reminded me of this, which is about defensive architecture in general: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/de… Apparently quite a few places use sprinklers to deter homeless people. I found it really upsetting to read, and the sprinkler part was one of the worst elements – if you’re getting people and their belongings wet, and they have no dry clothes and nowhere warm to go, you essentially run the risk of killing them through hypothermia. People are monsters.
And now I have to run out for the evening and I just realized I may not be in the open thread tomorrow, but if those studies exist I would kind of like to take a look to satisfy my own curiosity. If we don't reconnect on this now maybe we can pick it up later (if either of us remember!) after I finally have left the horrible job of doom and Catholics.
shit like this is why i HEART the toast. bullshit detectors set on high. some sloppy ass dudebro science will not pass muster her, nope.
Eh, environmentally cows are a fucking disaster, regardless, unless maybe you're in the Old World.
Esp. here in California, with regards to the drought, right? Fodder is our #1 water consumer.
It's under the thread that starts with "Oh well if the smoothie's got grass-fed Ghee in it, then that's ok."
I want to participate too!! This is a great discussion and an important one to have.
We have only premium, all-natural gal science here.
Sometimes I try to enter into what I keep assuming is the spirit of a paleo diet, namely "would my pre-agricultural forebears have been able to find and eat something generally resembling this foodstuff," and I have a lot of fun thinking about the logistics of finding each particular food in a hunter/gatherer society.
And then paleobros are all, "actually, it's about eating a lot of beef jerky and bone marrow." WHY ARE YOU RUINING MY FUN
Wow that looks delicious