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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • I’d accept the structures within what we define as food being a social construct. Status as fruit or vegetable doesn’t qualify it is healthy as we tend to assume. A potato is a plant and it has more in common with a loaf of bread, a yellow banana has less good in it than a Snickers bar.

    Food in total though, that’s a defined thing. Glass isn’t food because we’ve agreed as a society not to eat it, it’s not food because we can’t process it in any meaningful way.






  • I’d like to think I’m not so backed into a corner that violence is the answer, so I’ll do what I do every day of the week: keep my head down and wait.

    If push comes to shove, and the lives of myself and my people are genuinely threatened, I won’t retaliate in kind. I come from a long line of people that knew the benefits of blending in. I may not have the moxy to be a firebrand or to rally others to a cause, I may not have the heart to pull a trigger, but I have the means and skill to make triggers and the good sense to stay away from they places they get used.

    It may not be the heroic sense of most Americans, but I was born into an America that sold us an action hero instead of providing us safety and I’ve never been one to buy rhetoric. I will not give my life for a cause, I will live to see it succeed.



  • From my personal experience having just taken it up as a craft a few months ago, the most cost effective option is to buy dishwasher safe 2 part epoxy, dishwasher safe clear coat, and gold mica powder separately online. That’s what most sets are made of, but you get a much greater quantity if you get them individually.

    Personally I went with food and dishwasher safe options because I plan on doing it to fill the chips in a 70’s easter pastel dinner collection that my partner and I absolutely love. The juxtaposition of honorable Japanese artist craft on ketchy Americana dinnerware just delights us. Bonus points is that mica powder comes in a lot of colors so you don’t have to only use gold! Personally I feel copper on black glazed ceramic would be gorgeous but you can also get glow in the darks and thermoreactive.





  • My personal experience has actually been quite whew opposite of everyone here apparently. Of the 3 vegans I’ve spent time with, not one of them has ever brought it up to preach or to sound smug. It only ever comes up because I ask for a recipe they served and they say something along the lines of “now, this is a vegan recipe, but you should be able to substitute ‘x’ with ‘y’ if you wanna avoid that.” It’s never preachy, it’s always in the “don’t let this being vegan ruin it for you” kind of way.

    My low stakes conspiracy is that vegan hate on the internet is like people that don’t like the word moist. They either watched friends and decided to adopt that as a personality trait, or they look up to someone that did just that. They hate veganism because they watched a comedian quip about it and agreed or they saw someone that watched a comedian and agreed. It’s all too consistent to not be feeding from the same bowl.