I've just checked, if I were to buy one from an American company and have it delivered in the USA it would cost about $20. It might be slightly cheaper if you shop around locally.
I want all of these. Now. Yesterday. And all I have in the house is half a store bought and not very good, cherry pie and some whipped cream in a can that froze and is now a very odd consistency.
Just a note that I am deeply in like with Cakes. I am unable to follow this recipe, but I appreciate the effort and the detail in describing it to us mortals.
I like the opportunity of two more potential failures during the process. I look like Stan Laurel when I try to ice a cake, trying not to weep, but with icing on my forehead, shirt, elbows.
I would have said so, myself, but she mentioned Mr. Cakes in the article and I didn't want him to think I was making a pass at his wife, especially on his birthday. I kept it platonic.
There are many kinds of love, Mr Cakes appreciates this. He knows that I love many people and other beings that are not him; my friends, my daughter, our various furry housemates... but none of them have my heart like he does.
I'm an ear-rumbling mutant. As a kid and young adult I could never find out anything at all about it. I even asked an ear doctor about it and he had no idea. It wasn't until I stumbled up on a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/) about 20 years ago did I find out exactly what it was.
You might be tensing up the tensor tympani when you use the ear-wiggling muscles. Seems like human muscle control gets a little fuzzy when you try to use these closely positioned muscles in the jaw/ear/head.
It's the sound of a muscle tensing. Normal people actually do hear this sound, but it only happens involuntarily when you hear other really loud sounds, so you wouldn't necessarily perceive it.
"Contracting muscles produce vibration and sound.[4] Slow twitch fibers produce 10 to 30 contractions per second (equivalent to 10 to 30 Hz sound frequency). Fast twitch fibers produce 30 to 70 contractions per second (equivalent to 30 to 70 Hz sound frequency)."
Not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck this motherfucking piece of shit 💩 . . .
He's already returning to one of his old reliable bullshit scams: Mission to Mars . . . watch for it . . . it will be a grift of (literally) interstellar proportions 🙄 . . .
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
Musk: "I'm a little stuck in a bind, where I'm like, well, I don't wanna, you know, speak up against the administration, but I also don't wanna take responsibility for everything this administration's doing."
Radiation exposure seems way down the list of potential problems when you consider that he has never, ever explained how he plans to land very heavy vehicles on airless, high-gravity Mars.
NASA had to resort to extraordinary engineering solutions just to soft land modest rovers on Mars.
How dare you lesser fools try to hold me responsible for my actions? How dare you?
I deliberately surround myself with yes men, toadies, and people to take the fall so I am always the most brilliant person in the room and never responsible.
Many people aren’t aware that the lemons they buy in the supermarket are often coated in a thin layer of wax. This wax helps preserve the lemons and keep their rinds clear of any germs or insects while they’re transported and sit in the store’s produce bins. While the wax isn’t harmful, and you can technically eat it, it’s a good idea to dewax your lemons if you plan to zest them or use them as a garnish.
I use a couple of drops of dish detergent and then rinse thoroughly, Works on tomatoes, cucumbers, apples. You can feel the difference after you wash the fruit.
Nah. It seems to wash right off. You just need some surfactant. Somebody out there makes a "vegetable wash" solution, but I found that just a drop of Blue Dawn on my hand is enough to wash few plum tomatoes or cucumbers. Celery doesn't need this.
Last night I finished reading Étienne de la Boétie's "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," first published posthumously in 1577 but written some 40 years earlier when Boétie was between 16 and 18 years old (!). I found it an incredibly elegant and eloquent essay, directed at the question of why people voluntarily consent to tyranny. I expect to be quoting from it from time to time in the coming days. It may be nearly 500 years old but seems as though it could have written this week. And when Boétie doesn't find the right word, he just invents one. My favorite was "Hommeau" as opposed to "Homme"- used as a pejorative term to describe the kind of weak, cowardly men who become tyrants.
So, I think I mention this each year. Today is Marilyn Monroe's birthday. She would have been 99. Can you believe it?
For 40 years or so now, it's a day I note. I was not lovely (I guess, actually, I didn't believe myself lovely) and wanted to be beautiful and loved. I wanted to be an actress and have everyone love me. I "found" Marilyn at about 12--as much as one can discover a mega star--and just fell for her. She'd died years before, but she felt alive to me. I was so LONELY, and nobody else seemed to like the same movies and things I did, and I was a weirdo, but Marilyn "got" me.
I felt stronger knowing my imaginary friend was with me. For decades. Still, even. I have one zillion books about her from great to prurient. I've seen most movies, and all the other stuff.
I still feel like she's here with me, which is something a lot of people say. It's fine. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, what's the harm?
So every year on this day I do a couple of things special. Sometimes cupcakes. Rereading and watching my favorite Marilyn stuff. Thinking about how I can help, because the world is FULL of people who are frightened and they need a friend. People and animals who are fragile, and we're supposed to help them. I donate and help and try to be better, and then I treat myself to some champagne and joy because that matters too.
She meant so much to me for so many reasons. So it's stupid but it matters to me.
ALSO, and I am not the only person who thinks this, I can show you a bunch of pictures where we look the same (before the blonde/non-curly hair).
I remember reading somewhere that one of her first appearances on screen was as an uncredited extra in the movie The Green Grass of Wyoming. I think she was one of the dancers at a barn dance.
How wonderful and fortunate that you have memories of someone seminal and comforting to your growing up. Happy birthday to Marilyn who inspired others more than she ever could know! No one really knows how our very being can add something to the world.
So here's a question. When you discovered her at 12, had she died more than 12 years previously? I firmly believe in reincarnation. If you are not reincarnated Marilyn, perhaps you are a reincarnated someone who knew her and loved her.
Okay, well, I was born in '73 and she died in '62, but maybe. I hope so. I'd like to think the soul of one of her friends is part of me. I like to think that a piece of everyone I love carries on in me when they passed on before me, if that makes sense?
I believe in reincarnation in a way, but like, I don't think everyone gets to be the Queen of whatever or something special. But I feel like we carry on all kinds of people and the lessons they needed to learn or did learn, and they're all still with us in a way. Or with those of us who listen.
Yeah? Well did you even know that we were a stone cold dead country before TACO took over? Did you, huh? And now we’re hot, so so hot! Everyone who doesn’t love me and my tariffs is a nasty person and should get deported.
THIS is why I worship (and subscribe to) Wonkette!
Looks delicious, Cakes!
Could one not make cupcakes, and a full size cake?
If you use a smaller cake pan, or only make a 2 layered cake then you'll have enough cake batter to make both cake and cupcakes.
Hi CWL,
Once again, this recipe looks so good.
I will have to find a food scale, and once I've done that, I've promised myself I will make a recipe of yours one of these days.
Happy birthday to Mr. CWL. :)
I've just checked, if I were to buy one from an American company and have it delivered in the USA it would cost about $20. It might be slightly cheaper if you shop around locally.
Yay! Thank you. :)
Thanks, Parakeetist! Digital scales are usually reasonably priced, I think you can get them for $10-15.
I've always wanted to try a slice of lemon drizzle cake. Your post REALLY makes me want to seek out such a cake to try. Excellent post!
This is a beautiful cake and I love all the flavors. Thank you!
I want all of these. Now. Yesterday. And all I have in the house is half a store bought and not very good, cherry pie and some whipped cream in a can that froze and is now a very odd consistency.
Found: cake
https://substack.com/@mvario/note/c-121996689
Damn you!
Just a note that I am deeply in like with Cakes. I am unable to follow this recipe, but I appreciate the effort and the detail in describing it to us mortals.
The cupcakes are much easier, they can be done over a couple of hours rather than 2 days if you don't include the lemon and lime curd.
I like the opportunity of two more potential failures during the process. I look like Stan Laurel when I try to ice a cake, trying not to weep, but with icing on my forehead, shirt, elbows.
The cupcakes don't need any kind of finesse, just a spoonful of frosting on each one and the top cutting in half and sticking on top of the frosting.
Stan Tweedle here.
I'll say it--am in love with Cakes 😻
I would have said so, myself, but she mentioned Mr. Cakes in the article and I didn't want him to think I was making a pass at his wife, especially on his birthday. I kept it platonic.
Platonic here too, or maybe sisterly 😬. And Happy Birthday Mr. Cakes! 🥳
There are many kinds of love, Mr Cakes appreciates this. He knows that I love many people and other beings that are not him; my friends, my daughter, our various furry housemates... but none of them have my heart like he does.
You are wise, master Po.
I'm an ear-rumbling mutant. As a kid and young adult I could never find out anything at all about it. I even asked an ear doctor about it and he had no idea. It wasn't until I stumbled up on a subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/) about 20 years ago did I find out exactly what it was.
Everyday Human Glitches Scientists Can't Fix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbkQrXYrTw&t=320s
I can wiggle my ears, and there's rumbling when I do that, but I don't think it's the same thing. Weird.
You might be tensing up the tensor tympani when you use the ear-wiggling muscles. Seems like human muscle control gets a little fuzzy when you try to use these closely positioned muscles in the jaw/ear/head.
It sounds as if you're literally hearing blood rushing through your arteries when experiencing stress.
Physiologically it makes sense.
It's the sound of a muscle tensing. Normal people actually do hear this sound, but it only happens involuntarily when you hear other really loud sounds, so you wouldn't necessarily perceive it.
"Contracting muscles produce vibration and sound.[4] Slow twitch fibers produce 10 to 30 contractions per second (equivalent to 10 to 30 Hz sound frequency). Fast twitch fibers produce 30 to 70 contractions per second (equivalent to 30 to 70 Hz sound frequency)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle#Voluntary%20control
Weird!
Not to put too fine a point on it, but fuck this motherfucking piece of shit 💩 . . .
He's already returning to one of his old reliable bullshit scams: Mission to Mars . . . watch for it . . . it will be a grift of (literally) interstellar proportions 🙄 . . .
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
Musk: "I'm a little stuck in a bind, where I'm like, well, I don't wanna, you know, speak up against the administration, but I also don't wanna take responsibility for everything this administration's doing."
From cbsnews.com
12:27 PM · Jun 1, 2025
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https://xcancel.com/brianstelter/status/1929213138315907211
He didn't invest enough money in being able to build bigger rocket motors. His Spaceship is proving that the problems of the N1 are still... Problems.
He's not even going to orbit.
Get more altitude by lighting his farts.
In other words: I want my cake and to eat it too.
Hey! There will be no cake for the Muskrat.
...and I want some of YOUR cake, too.
And then I want to shit all over your cake and call it chocolate frosting.
Human mission to Mars not going to happen, not in the near future anyways.
We don't have the proper technology yet.
It's also an almost a suicidal mission for the astronauts because of radiation exposure
BUT, I think Elon SHOULD go and take a few of his buddies on the trip
Radiation exposure seems way down the list of potential problems when you consider that he has never, ever explained how he plans to land very heavy vehicles on airless, high-gravity Mars.
NASA had to resort to extraordinary engineering solutions just to soft land modest rovers on Mars.
https://substack.com/@paulomatic/note/c-122041267?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=edsu
I think Musk knows all this, or as much as can penetrate his mushy remnants of a brain . . .
It's more like basically a trillion-dollar grift . . .
Elon? He has buddies? As opposed to sycophants?
SpaceX could use Elon's head as a radiation shield.
Also, I've said it before, and I'll say it again; colonizing planets is a sucker's bet.
Never go down into a gravity well unless there's something worth spending the Delta V.
At least until we are able to develop some truly scifi level shit like Star Wars repulsorlifts that really makes it trivial. So, probably never.
How dare you lesser fools try to hold me responsible for my actions? How dare you?
I deliberately surround myself with yes men, toadies, and people to take the fall so I am always the most brilliant person in the room and never responsible.
This is bullshit.
And all the machine elves that I see while on my drug cocktail tell me that I am the true ubermensch!
Nobody cares what you think. Go back to Twitter trolling.
Don't worry, he is 🙄 . . .
I'm okay if he goes to Mars.
Shoulda stuffed him into the "Starman" suit:
https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/getty/2021/2/24/34b3bfdd-133e-4bfb-b6d2-f4de26d9e8d2-getty-915868956.jpg?w=400&h=300&fit=crop&crop=faces&dpr=2
Too bad he's incapable of producing a ship that'll get him there.
I wish he would!
Preferably one way . . .
What is an "unwaxed lime"?
They’re the ones with the furry bikini lines
wiki says
Many people aren’t aware that the lemons they buy in the supermarket are often coated in a thin layer of wax. This wax helps preserve the lemons and keep their rinds clear of any germs or insects while they’re transported and sit in the store’s produce bins. While the wax isn’t harmful, and you can technically eat it, it’s a good idea to dewax your lemons if you plan to zest them or use them as a garnish.
If you buy organic, you don't have to worry about it.
Okay, I'll bite again. How do you "unwax" a citrus fruit?
Wax on, wax off.
Turn it anti-clockwise.
I use a couple of drops of dish detergent and then rinse thoroughly, Works on tomatoes, cucumbers, apples. You can feel the difference after you wash the fruit.
Don't you also need to scrub it with something, like a vegetable brush?
Nah. It seems to wash right off. You just need some surfactant. Somebody out there makes a "vegetable wash" solution, but I found that just a drop of Blue Dawn on my hand is enough to wash few plum tomatoes or cucumbers. Celery doesn't need this.
Grocery stores actually wax fruit to make them look more appetizing.
I assume it keeps the moisture in too, so they don't turn into those rocks as quickly?
(I'm always amused a bit when I find a tiny, forgotten lemon or lime that's just a hollow rock).
Last night I finished reading Étienne de la Boétie's "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," first published posthumously in 1577 but written some 40 years earlier when Boétie was between 16 and 18 years old (!). I found it an incredibly elegant and eloquent essay, directed at the question of why people voluntarily consent to tyranny. I expect to be quoting from it from time to time in the coming days. It may be nearly 500 years old but seems as though it could have written this week. And when Boétie doesn't find the right word, he just invents one. My favorite was "Hommeau" as opposed to "Homme"- used as a pejorative term to describe the kind of weak, cowardly men who become tyrants.
So, sort of watery hommes?
OT--
So, I think I mention this each year. Today is Marilyn Monroe's birthday. She would have been 99. Can you believe it?
For 40 years or so now, it's a day I note. I was not lovely (I guess, actually, I didn't believe myself lovely) and wanted to be beautiful and loved. I wanted to be an actress and have everyone love me. I "found" Marilyn at about 12--as much as one can discover a mega star--and just fell for her. She'd died years before, but she felt alive to me. I was so LONELY, and nobody else seemed to like the same movies and things I did, and I was a weirdo, but Marilyn "got" me.
I felt stronger knowing my imaginary friend was with me. For decades. Still, even. I have one zillion books about her from great to prurient. I've seen most movies, and all the other stuff.
I still feel like she's here with me, which is something a lot of people say. It's fine. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, what's the harm?
So every year on this day I do a couple of things special. Sometimes cupcakes. Rereading and watching my favorite Marilyn stuff. Thinking about how I can help, because the world is FULL of people who are frightened and they need a friend. People and animals who are fragile, and we're supposed to help them. I donate and help and try to be better, and then I treat myself to some champagne and joy because that matters too.
She meant so much to me for so many reasons. So it's stupid but it matters to me.
ALSO, and I am not the only person who thinks this, I can show you a bunch of pictures where we look the same (before the blonde/non-curly hair).
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.SHS_Dq8GMVv0vRrCFps8bAHaH3?w=202&h=215&c=7&r=0&o=5&dpr=1.5&pid=1.7
So, happy birthday, Marilyn! Y'all keep a good thought for her.
I remember reading somewhere that one of her first appearances on screen was as an uncredited extra in the movie The Green Grass of Wyoming. I think she was one of the dancers at a barn dance.
I have seen your picture, sister, and you actually are very lovely.
So there.
❤️
How wonderful and fortunate that you have memories of someone seminal and comforting to your growing up. Happy birthday to Marilyn who inspired others more than she ever could know! No one really knows how our very being can add something to the world.
So here's a question. When you discovered her at 12, had she died more than 12 years previously? I firmly believe in reincarnation. If you are not reincarnated Marilyn, perhaps you are a reincarnated someone who knew her and loved her.
Okay, well, I was born in '73 and she died in '62, but maybe. I hope so. I'd like to think the soul of one of her friends is part of me. I like to think that a piece of everyone I love carries on in me when they passed on before me, if that makes sense?
I believe in reincarnation in a way, but like, I don't think everyone gets to be the Queen of whatever or something special. But I feel like we carry on all kinds of people and the lessons they needed to learn or did learn, and they're all still with us in a way. Or with those of us who listen.
So maybe you ARE reincarnated Marilyn! Think how proud of you she would be.
It's not stupid if it matters to you.
Norma Jean was a good soul.
(Birthday cake) Candle in the wind
𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲
https://unn.ua/en/news/european-markets-soar-amid-problems-in-the-us-trumps-policy-pushes-investors-to-europe
Yeah? Well did you even know that we were a stone cold dead country before TACO took over? Did you, huh? And now we’re hot, so so hot! Everyone who doesn’t love me and my tariffs is a nasty person and should get deported.
Oh, what's that? Investors prefer predictable business environments?
They don't like chaos and uncertainty?
Well, who on earth could have predicted anything like that!?!
Unknowable!!!
Unintended consequences is a birch.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F7dfef6a4-ef6e-4aa6-ba58-2058ad5cf67a%2Fa9480d86-5cb7-4550-812f-27f24ad61790.jpeg
Holy crap, the Ukrainian drones hit in Amur as well!!!
And my Step-MIL's hometown, Ivanovo., by Moscow.
China: "What? The Amur is defenseless?"
It seems evident that most of Russia is defenseless.
Hapless more likely.
Grrrrr!!!!
🐯
"They got drones. And they know how to use them."
((((((((((((((((((((((TheirDrones)))))))))))))))))))))))