This sounds delicious, reminds me of a fruit-topped lemon chess pie that I love for summer, topped with concentric rings of kiwi, blueberries, raspberries, or whatever you have. The posset recipe is simpler, cooked filling w/out eggs vs. 2 eggs + 4 yolks + cornmeal + cream for chess and no cooking. I'm going to make this filling and put it in custard cups, and maybe unmold it and .... imagineer something? Would it unmold and keep shape? If not, just eat out of the cups, plain or with a flamed sugar topping.
We're going to need as many of these as can be dug up
Especially given the levels at which they ran around yelling "OBLITERATED" the last time they bombed this area of the country
Which was not that long ago and I'm starting to wonder if most Americans have been traumatized out of remembering the sheer volume of the lies they tell
Coincidentally, America's Test Kitchen just did a video about citrus varieties, in which Lan Lam proposes using bergamot to make a posset for an Earl Grey tea-like flavor.
"Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case."–https://archive.ph/0Vzan#selection-4494.0-4494.1
"About two dozen journalists are working through the three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos contained in the trove of files released about two weeks ago — and so far they’ve seen only 2 to 3 percent of the material. It would take years for a group that size to comb through it all and then verify information as true and publishable, given that so much of it is uncorroborated, in fragments or redacted.
How do we do this work? What are we looking for? In what ways are artificial intelligence tools helpful? What judgment calls have we been making or debating?"
You know NYT, the investigation could have started a lot earlier if you’d done your fucking jobs in 2016. It was not a secret that Trump and Epstein were long time friends and that Trump Models was a front for trafficking girlls from Eastern Europe. If you all had spent less time chasing Hiillary’s fucking e-mails you would have had time to investigate the dementia patient’s sleazy history.
Not only that -- we know exactly who's to blame for it -- the white nationalist domestic terrorists RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, MANY OF WHOM ARE IN POWER AND THE REST OF WHOM ARE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM (or people who let that happen)
Oh great. Now that the US is going to be at risk of Muslin terrism again we can finally get that state of emergency declared so there'll be no pesky elections.
(P.S. Also - executive branch has nothing to do with national elections; that's up to the states -- and it's up to US to make sure he keeps his grubby hands off them)
Ah, I too! I'm just 142 pages from the end, and will finish it today!
I didn't even know it existed until it arrived in the mail as a surprising kind of 30-year thank-you note from someone to whom I gave the first trilogy when she was in the hospital.
It was. But it was really good. Lot of labour history & the aftermath. But the chapter describing the events of the fire and the next one about how people had to find their dead. Terrifying & heartbreaking. But such a good book. Could hardly put it down.
Murderland by Caroline Fraser. It's about serial killers, most specifically from the Pacific Northwest. She likes maps, like me! She writes about all the potential environmental influences on these men. Like the Asarco plant in Tacoma. (It's gone now). It is beyond frightening how not that long ago there were zero regulations for the kind of poisons industry allowed in the air and soil. I'm surprised anybody lived past 70 during those years.
This sounds delicious, reminds me of a fruit-topped lemon chess pie that I love for summer, topped with concentric rings of kiwi, blueberries, raspberries, or whatever you have. The posset recipe is simpler, cooked filling w/out eggs vs. 2 eggs + 4 yolks + cornmeal + cream for chess and no cooking. I'm going to make this filling and put it in custard cups, and maybe unmold it and .... imagineer something? Would it unmold and keep shape? If not, just eat out of the cups, plain or with a flamed sugar topping.
You'd have to use silicone molds, and even then, getting it out of the mold undamaged would be tricky.
I still read historical fiction, I maintain the Aubrey–Maturin novels are the finest works on leadership ever written.
I made a lemon cream posset for my wife’s book club. It was delicious!
ALZHEIMER"S BEGINS WHEN YOU CAN"T SAY THIS ONE WORD
iwuzwrong
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
Too much effort.
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Ahhhh.....want some now!!! I'll bet you could make that filling and just put it in sherbet dishes....
THat is actually how it is traditionally served, usually with some shortbread to go with it.
It's how I roll! Nice idea to make it a tart 🥰
And it's so easy, even I (someone who has had to give up cooking) could make it!❤️
SNL digs up damning clip of Trump making a fool of himself on Iran: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/snl-digs-up-damning-clip-of-trump-making-a-fool-of-himself-on-iran/ar-AA1Xiepr?cvpid=a0871476cf044e31b61992112883a195 (1min 33sec video)
We're going to need as many of these as can be dug up
Especially given the levels at which they ran around yelling "OBLITERATED" the last time they bombed this area of the country
Which was not that long ago and I'm starting to wonder if most Americans have been traumatized out of remembering the sheer volume of the lies they tell
Saw the quote yesterday, but it makes him look so much more stupid saying it on camera.
Pretty much anything he says on camera makes him look bad at this point.
This looks yummy! No eggs to scramble. Nice! Thank you.
Coincidentally, America's Test Kitchen just did a video about citrus varieties, in which Lan Lam proposes using bergamot to make a posset for an Earl Grey tea-like flavor.
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGonLqAH88 )
Yuuummmmm! I love bergamot!
I love her videos.
NYT's headlines, right below the Iran news
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"Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little"
"The U.S. Released the Epstein Files. The Arrests Are Overseas."
"How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files"
De-paywalled link to that last one:
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"Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case."–https://archive.ph/0Vzan#selection-4494.0-4494.1
"About two dozen journalists are working through the three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos contained in the trove of files released about two weeks ago — and so far they’ve seen only 2 to 3 percent of the material. It would take years for a group that size to comb through it all and then verify information as true and publishable, given that so much of it is uncorroborated, in fragments or redacted.
How do we do this work? What are we looking for? In what ways are artificial intelligence tools helpful? What judgment calls have we been making or debating?"
You know NYT, the investigation could have started a lot earlier if you’d done your fucking jobs in 2016. It was not a secret that Trump and Epstein were long time friends and that Trump Models was a front for trafficking girlls from Eastern Europe. If you all had spent less time chasing Hiillary’s fucking e-mails you would have had time to investigate the dementia patient’s sleazy history.
Rolls eyes. Here's your answer, NYT: Rich. Powerful. White men. It's not so hard.
"A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building."
Or that would be twice the height of Trump Tower in Manhattan. (Trump Tower is 664 feet; the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet.)
And here is an ACTUAL, USEFUL use case for an LLM (large language model).
Another Ayatollah throws his turban in the ring.
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘐𝘕! 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘺𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘮 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘫𝘪𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘜𝘚 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥."
So this is going well.
Great
Not only that -- we know exactly who's to blame for it -- the white nationalist domestic terrorists RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, MANY OF WHOM ARE IN POWER AND THE REST OF WHOM ARE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM (or people who let that happen)
https://substack.com/@m123718294/note/c-221132559
Spiffy, boffo, wonderful.
yesh
https://www.wonkette.com/p/those-cakes-we-like-really-want-to/comment/221587629
Oh great. Now that the US is going to be at risk of Muslin terrism again we can finally get that state of emergency declared so there'll be no pesky elections.
US is at risk of white nationalist domestic terrorism
Already here
Not gonna stop saying it so people aren't brainwashed into exactly the state of which you speak
https://www.wonkette.com/p/those-cakes-we-like-really-want-to/comment/221587629
(P.S. Also - executive branch has nothing to do with national elections; that's up to the states -- and it's up to US to make sure he keeps his grubby hands off them)
"Save your communities! Elect a Muslim mayor!" (/s)
Zoran and I are like this: 🤞
Feature, not a bug.
A few people may die, but that's a sacrifice Piggy is willing to make.
So, Donnie--I'm sorry, fuckface--about your hoping not to involve the US in a protracted war with Iran...
By the way, I hear your pall Bibi skipped town and headed to Germany after the mess you two masterminds put together.
The two stooges.
Kinda like betting on WWE.
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Prediction markets should be fucking illegal.
Clearly, honesty and integrity elude them.
These "people" are amoral.
Cheesecake without the cheese! So much easier!
What's everyone reading these days?
"A Conventional Boy" - Charles Stross' latest entry in "The Laundry Files".
Just finished The Shroud by Adam Tchaikovsky - a 1st contact novel, quite gruelling (but good), so having a quick read with a Dick Francis
Death's End, the 3rd book in the Three Body Problem series. It's making me look forward to the TV series resumption.
I have the first novel in the series teed up. The problem is that I have about 30 other novels teed up at the same time.
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 16.
In addition to Hiaasen, I'm reading The Amberglow Candy Store, a kind of Japanese fairy tale featuring a helpful/mischievous kitsune.
Hmm. I'm a sucker for anything "Japanese fairy/folk tales."
Carl Hiaasen novels, bc theyre gun & frivolous and I can't stay sane w reading anything more challenging at the moment.
Fun & frivolous. Good grief.
Me too!
I just finished The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith. I have Patti Smith's most recent book on tap; I got it for Chanukah.
The third installment of Philip Pullman's 'The Book of Dust' trilogy. It's a continuation of 'His Dark Materials'.
Awesome!
It's ON HOLD FOR-EVAH at our local library! "There are 42 holds ahead of you"
Ah, I too! I'm just 142 pages from the end, and will finish it today!
I didn't even know it existed until it arrived in the mail as a surprising kind of 30-year thank-you note from someone to whom I gave the first trilogy when she was in the hospital.
Last four books I read were:
The Godfather
Black AF History
Let the Right One In
Triangle: the Fire That Changed America
and I find myself stuck on what to read next.
Anything by Garrison Hayes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19MLgia4-tA
Medgar & Myrlie by Joy?
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel?
I’m gonna download a sample of Medgar and Myrlie. That sounds like it may be the one.
That last one must have been tough.
It was. But it was really good. Lot of labour history & the aftermath. But the chapter describing the events of the fire and the next one about how people had to find their dead. Terrifying & heartbreaking. But such a good book. Could hardly put it down.
Working my way through Scalzi's Olf Man's War series, very funny and entertaining.
I keep hearing about him, but I've yet to read him.
Redshirts is a good one. Gets increasingly mind-bending as it goes on.
Murderland by Caroline Fraser. It's about serial killers, most specifically from the Pacific Northwest. She likes maps, like me! She writes about all the potential environmental influences on these men. Like the Asarco plant in Tacoma. (It's gone now). It is beyond frightening how not that long ago there were zero regulations for the kind of poisons industry allowed in the air and soil. I'm surprised anybody lived past 70 during those years.
That sounds good.
I'll perhaps save that for whenever I need a picker-upper.
Je plaisant. Sounds fascinating, especially if there are maps.
It is a bit grim. But as I said yesterday, given the long-distance mass killing the US is doing even as we speak, their methods seem almost noble.
Doom scrolls.
Yes yes, of course, but I meant something that not EVERYONE is reading.
lol
sob
Wonkette of course.
[insert gif of Joe Biden's facial expression seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene at his last SOTU address]
"107 Days" by Kamala Harris
Which multi-verse is it written in?
You are braver than I, my friend. That wound is going to be fresh to me for quite a long time.
Is it fiction?
No
Everything that you've gotten that is the "official reports" is the fiction part
Hardly, though one couldn't be blamed for wishing it so, especially the ending.
The lesson to be learned with Iran is that if you don't pay the screaming toddler, he will kill you.