So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.
Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.
Making basic storecupboard or fridge ingredients less basic and more nutritious.
The creator of the original, the animal reference tool, made their own human reference tool which allows you to search based on different body parts and poses!
Don’t buy Angelus pain’t on Amazon, it’s like $6.99 an ounce. Buy it direct from their online store the poster above linked, the single ounce bottles are $2.95 there. Also, a little goes a long way, unless you have something HUGE to paint, you can probably do it with a small bottle. I barely dented the one I got doing all the black on this;
Things I wish I had known last year.
I’m just impressed that 3 people I follow showed up in one post! But yes, support angelus paint
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
And!
“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”
The secret is in the water; literally, it’s IN the water.
See, when you boil potatoes, a lot of special starches and sugars and stuff leeches out into the water. When you drain the water before mashing them, you throw away a lot of good stuff, which is a big part of what makes mashed potatoes “dry” and bland, even when you add large amounts of cream and butter and things.
So don’t throw out any water.
Here’s how you do that:
First, cut your potatoes into smaller cubes than you probably do. (I’ve left the skins on for flavor and also, that’s where a lot of a potato’s nutrients are, like protien and iron and vitamins B and C, just to name a few)
The reason for cutting them smaller (besides avoiding giant peices of skin) is so that there is less space in the pot between each peice for water to fill, so you use less water to cook them. That’s important because you won’t be draining any water, so you can’t afford to have too much water! For the same reason, just barely cover them with water when they go on the stove.
But! Before you do that, put the pot on the stove with some butter, garlic, and seasonings; let the butter start to sizxle just a little then put most of a single layer of potatoes in the pan and let the brown and sear. Turn them, brown them on all sides, get ‘em fairly dark (I forgot to get a pic here because I was worried I’d burn the butter).
Ready? now throw the rest of the potatoes in right on top, and add your water, give them a stir. This way, you’re boiling in some of that lovely fried potato/french fry flavor.
Okay, so, as they cook, you may need to add a little water, not too much! ideally the very highest piece of potato will be poking just above the surface. Now, when your potatoes are really really soft, mash them directly into the water. Just pull them off the stove, leave all the water in, and start mashing. Trust me. At first you’ll think there’s too much water. If you get them mashed and they ARE a little too liquidy, just put ‘em back on the stove. You’ll have to stir often or constantly, but they will steam off additional water without losing any good stuff.
Now add some salt, and taste. Right?! And you haven’t even put in any cream or cheese or anything yet.
Speaking of which, you can use like, a third of the amount of butter or cream or anything, and they will still taste better than usual. So they taste better AND they are higher in nutrients AND lower in fats and salts! That’s a lot of win — enjoy your potatoes!
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Hi fam! Just briefly: After my own research and after using this asteroid pretty frequently in my birth chart interpretations, i can tell you it plays an important role when struggling to choose a career. @shawtyastrology on twitter also talked about it as well a while ago. Here’s a little definition:
INDUSTRIA: latin term meaning activity, industriousness, energy, zeal, care. In astrology, this asteroid translates into those careers we pursue quite naturally, that seems to be chained in our dna and alingned with ourselves, those jobs and skills that seem easy to us and where we naturally and effortlessly put our hard work.
◌ SIGN PLACEMENTS:
Besides my own knowledge, i used “The Rulership Book” by Rex E. Bills for the careers listed below each sign.
♈︎ - Industria in Aries or at 1°, 13°, 25°/ 1H : these people may do well in careers relating to competition, passion and a high drive, such as firefighters, athletes, surgeons, soldiers, policemen, researchers, pioneering careers such as opening a business, launching a start-up, then neurologists, psychiatrists, optometrists, personal trainers, dealing with cars, 911 service, hats and glasses designers, construction workers (especially those involving carving wood), dentists, engineers (esp. metallurgical), hairdressers, law enforcement, officers, physiotherapists, working at service stations, gas stations, physicists (especially those who deal with thermodynamics).
♉︎ - Industria in Taurus or at 2°, 14°, 26° / 2H : these people may do well in careers relating to Venusian matters, such as cooks, singers, poetry writers and authors of romances, owning a bakery/restaurant, design of all sorts, real estate, working for a luxury shop, fine jewelry, aesthetician, plastic surgeon. Working in the financial field, architecture, art dealers and stores, working in a bank, cashiers, dancers, farming, owning a food-related business, financiers, geologists, working into the music field, sculptors, throat specialists, dentists.
♊︎ - Industria in Gemini or at 3°, 15°, 27° / 3H : these people may do well in careers relating to communication, such as journalism, writing, scientific research, tv workers, holding podcasts, YouTube channels, blogs, information, teaching. Accountants, advertising specialists, marketing, working for an agency, pneumologists, booksellers, jobs that require frequent movement, jobs that require working with one’s own siblings, working with a friend, opening a business with a friend, working with technology, computers, reporters, crystal shops, mechanical engineers, intellectual jobs, linguists, working with literature, nerves specialists, office workers, post offices, postal departments, stockbrokers, commercial travelers, photographers.
♋︎ - Industria in Cancer or at 4°, 16°, 28° / 4H : these people may do well in careers relating to the Moon matters, such as gynecologists, cooks (as well as Taurus), psychologists, counselors, family-therapist, agriculture, nutritionists, dieticians, bakers, biochemists, boat manufacturers, naval engineers, working with things dealing with water and fluids, caretakers of all sorts, gastroenterologists, gardeners, gardening markets, gastronomy, homemaking, real estate, historians, housewives, foresters, working for environmental protection, merchandise managers, meteorologists, hotels and motels workers, nursing, obstetricians, plumbers, restaurant proprietors and workers, sailors, poetry writers, working with kids at nursing school, swimming athletes.
♌︎ - Industria in Leo or at 5°, 17°, 29° / 5H : these people may do well in the entertainment field, such as theater workers, actors, comedians, dancers, careers involving independence and creativity, such as artists & content creators, zoo workers, jobs relating to animals, veterinarian, dogsitter, then endocrinologists, brokers, working at casinos, stip clubs, clubs, bars, cartoonists, working with children (amusement parks for kids such as Disneyland, making kids have fun), cosplaying, working at the cinema, circus, directing a film, videogame-creators, government officials, cardiologists, party-organizers, wedding planners, politics, sporting events organizers, stage designers, supervisors.
♍︎ - Industria in Virgo or at 6°, 18°/ 6H : these people may do well in careers involving medicine, such as nurses, doctors, owning or working for a pharmacy, having to deal with ill people, working at a nursery, jobs related to data and high precision such as archivists, accountants, working in a library, administrators, people working in offices, veterinarians, jobs involving animals and all things that promote nature and nature preservation, holding a vegan shop, working at a café, beekeeping, animals trainers, army, people working at spas and self-care centers, physical therapy, chemists, civil service employees, selling clothes, literary criticists, dental hygienists, working for a cleaning company, dieticians, editors, employees of all sorts, healers in general, mathematicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, secretaries, scientists in general.
♎︎ - Industria in Libra or at 7°, 19° / 7H : similarly to Taurus (you can give a look to the Taurus description) , these people may do amazingly in design, the law field, singers, especially fashion design, influencers, blogs, aestheticians, hairdressers, plastic surgeons, models, actors. Having a boutique, selling clothes, jewelry, cosmeticians, diplomats, florists, organizing and designing social gatherings, negotiatiators, painters, poets, politicians, spa workers, receptionists, endocrinologists.
♏︎ - Industria in Scorpio or at 8°,20° / 8H : these people may do well in careers relating to investigation such as private investigators, policemen, soldiers (esp. navy & marines), psychology, so psychiatrists, doctors especially gynecologists (Scorpio rule over the reproductive system), & sports, so athletes, economists, accountants, bankers, occultists, tarot readers, astrologers, criminologists, working at cemeteries or for funeral services, chemists, dentists, secret service such as espionage and intelligence, moticians, surgeons, pathologists, psychics, researchers, working with taxes, spirituality in general.
♐︎ - Industria in Sagittarius or at 9°, 21° / 9H : these people may be good travel bloggers, holding a travel-company, working for a research group, law, teachers, working in the education field, flight engineers, comedians, writers, editors and publishing houses, airline hostess, philosophy teachers, teaching in general, religious workers, sociologists, international commerce, advertising and commercials, judges, teaching foreign languages, lecturers, aeronautics, air force, philanthropists, philosophers, horse-racing, spirituality, television.
♑︎ - Industria in Capricorn or at 10°, 22° / 10H : these people may do well in careers relating to routine, such as accounting, investors, business, working in the economic field, architects, orthopedics, ceos, carpenters, chiropractors, cemeteries workers, civil engineers, vocational counselors, financial advisors, industrial engineers, politicians, builders, bankers, government officials, gardeners, janitors, jail workers, landlords (jobs related to real estate), mathematicians, night workers, osteopaths, organizers, dermatologists, anthropologists, paleontologists.
♒︎ - Industria in Aquarius or at 11°, 23° / 11H : these people may do well in careers related to philanthropy, film making, film directors, actors, photographers, videomakers, online businesses, YouTube channels or blogs, having an innovative start-up, working with computers and high-tech, so robotics, programming, then aeronautics, airplane mechanics, aviators, modern architecture, astrologers, mechanics, congressmen, working at a tech store, electricians, electrical engineers, motorcycles and cars industry, neurologists, nuclear physicists, astrophysics, psychologists, psychotherapists, radio, researchers, scientists, sociologists, television.
♓︎ - Industria in Pisces or at 12° & 24° / 12H : these people may do well in acting careers, artistic careers, but also as psychiatrists, pharmacists, social media workers and marketing. They can also do amazing as therapists and psychologists in general. Addiction experts, astrologers, chemists, clairvoyants, dancers, detectives, jail guards, mental institutions, working as a bartender, entertainers, comedians, working at a gas station, hospitals, private investigators, lifeguards, mediums, navy officers, holistic healers, occultists, marine biologists, photographers, pediatricians, psychics, sailors, secret service, designing shoes, hypnotherapist, swimming athletes, occult writers.
◌ Some Additional Observations:
✍︎ - People with Industria sextile/trine/semi-sextile Moon are prone to continue their family-business or just pursue their mother’s same carrer.
✍︎ - People with Industria sextile/trine/semi-sextile Sun are prone to pursue their father’s same career.
✍︎ - Industria Square/Opposite/Inconjunct/Semi-square/Sesquiquadrate to the MC may struggle choosing their professional path and may feel like they don’t fit in any career. They may also feel like their chosen job is incompatible with their true destiny.
✍︎ - Industria Square/Opposite/Inconjunct/Semi-square/Sesquiquadrate the Moon, IC, or IC ruler can indicate breaking the roots of the family and choosing to pursue a different career from your family.
✍︎ - Having Industria Retrograde opens up different interpretations:
can be an indicator of “late” success and a slow rise. Acquiring recognition after turning 30s.
Or can also be an indicator of pursuing a career that requires a lots of studying and for a long tims (such as medical or law school).
Can indicate someone who just likes to work silently and don’t want to be distracted by notoriety, they only care about doing their job in the best way as possible.
The person will have to be a hard hard worker to get their success.
✍︎ - Industria at Taurus Degrees can mean a pretty remunerative career and a job that pays off really well. (esp. 2° Degree)
✍︎ - Industria at 5° or generally at Leo Degrees can be an indicator of pursuing a job you love deeply and you’re extremely passionate about, of course it can also be an indicator of fame through your work.
✍︎ - Industria Square/Opposite Uranus can indicate a career that involves lots of ups and downs, lots of changes and stimulation.
✍︎ - Industria in aWater Grand Trine can indicate a career involving feelings and depth such as psychology.
✍︎ - Industria in Aries or at Aries Degrees or at 0° can indicate breaking your family roots and just start a business on your own, or going for a brand new career rather than your father’s/mother’s one.
✍︎ - Industria in Libra, Taurus, Capricorn and Scorpio are the gods favorites for the moneyyzz.
✍︎ - Industria in Leo, Leo Degrees or in the 5H will likely search for a job that grants recognition and approval, they’re not the type to go for simple corporate jobs.
✍︎ - Industria in Aries, Sagittarius & Aquarius will likely be freelancers and work independently, they often don’t like the idea of being employed or working for someone, they’re individualists and live the idea of “building their own path” (even Leo to some extent)
Except for the chough, we’ve seen / heard all of these - the rook, jackdaw, jay, magpie and rook right in the back garden, the crow, hoodie and raven in the meadow beyond the hedge or in flight from the demesne across the wall.
The descriptions of their calls is correct - none of them are what you’d call melodious.
ETA: in “The Hobbit”, when JRR Tolkien named the talking raven “Roäc son of Carc”; he knew exactly what sounds he was reproducing…
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some of you may’ve heard about that fancy “bionic reading” typefont thats supposed to be easier for neurodivergent people to read (if you’re unfamiliar, it bolds the first few letters of each word to make it easier to follow)
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I’m in chicago rn, and my college seems to be refusing to close campuses- send help
Anyone that isn’t used to those temperatures please do whatever research you can on how to stay warm.
Here are a few pointers to start you off.
Wear layers. The more layers the better. Pockets of air get trapped between each layer and act like insulation for you so your stay much warmer than with a single heavier layer.
If you’re sweating remove some layers. Sweat can kill you. The last thing you want is your body producing liquid that can then freeze on your skin.
Get candles. As many as you can. If the worst case happens and you lose power a candle in a small space can keep you warm and alive for far longer than you would expect.
If you’re really concerned about losing power and don’t have anywhere to go for shelter, build your own. If you’ve got snow make a quinzee. It’s like a ghetto version of an igloo. You can find some instructions here. If you’ve got a way to pile snow quickly that’s even better. Believe me, a quinzee with a candle will keep you warmer than being in your house. Especially if you build a wind break wall. DO NOT forget to make sure there is adequate ventilation.
If you don’t have power sleep naked. At the most you can wear a pair of socks and a toque (knitted cap), anything more can cause you to sweat. Keep the clothes you are planning to change into in the sleeping bag/blankets with you so they’re already warm from your body heat when you go to put them on.
Do as little as humanly possible. Avoid being outdoors if you can and if you can’t protect yourself from the wind. Cover every inch of skin you can manage to cover.
If you have hypothermia warm yourself slowly!! Do not jump into a tub of hot water or you’ll likely burn yourself. You can’t tell how hot something is at that point. Same if you have frost bite.
If someone you love has hypothermia DO NOT share your body heat with them unless you can easily get warm again. I know it’s sexy in fanfics but in real life it can lead to you both becoming hypothermic and dying. You can use your body heat to warm some blankets and exchange them for the cooling ones they’re using until they can produce enough heat on their own to make their own pocket of warm air but be very careful that you don’t let your own temperature drop too much. Shivering is bad but not shivering anymore when it’s still cold is much worse.
If your hands are cold the best place to warm them against your body is under your armpits or, even better, your groin.
Snow makes an excellent insulator. If your car breaks down somewhere and you don’t know when you’ll be able to get help then cover your car in as much snow as you can manage (make sure you also make it obvious someone in the area needs help.) Even burying yourself in the snow is better than staying exposed to the air.
If your water shuts off don’t just melt snow to drink, boil it first. Snow, in general, is pretty safe but there is still a chance it can make you sick and you can’t risk that in a survival situation.
DO NOT START A FIRE IN YOUR HOME. Unless you have a fireplace with proper ventilation just don’t do it.
These have been tips from an ex-military Canadian who grew up where -40 was a normal winter experience and, yes, even did a cadet winter survival exercise when it was that cold out.
Also if you have a dog look into ways to keep them safe. I would personally use hurricane tips bc it’s what I’m more familiar with. For example buy a kiddie pool or similar and put some grass or something so your pup doesn’t have to go out (and you don’t have to go out with your dog)
That’s all good advice but also remember those numbers are wind-chill and not the standing temperature.
