Mary Ann Borer

omg this is amazing ❤️

We live in a weird time. It’s only right to get weirder yourself

Have you looked in the couch?

@lucahjin.bsky.social I hadn't seen an Energizer Bunny ad in years, but as soon as I started watching the Space Quest IV videos, I saw one on YouTube! 🤣

goombella from paper mario the thousand year door, book in "hand" tattling on your ass

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok"

yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch

When you can’t decide on a font…

Why did this ad pop up in an article about some guy who sat on a sculpture in a museum and broke it??? 😭

- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no

I think about this comic at least once a week

Truly, no one better understood what online dating would become than Lucy Westenra in Dracula trying to bedrot her way to eternity while being pursued by an affable nerd, a 2A activist, and a VC bro whose only hobby is "flipping properties."

How are things with me? Not bad! I mean, the island that appeared on the lake does seem to be moving closer, closer each day, a dark form taking shape in the mist. But work's good and I'm feeling OK except when I find myself gazing at that accursed island, drawing ever nearer. How are you?

You say it's your birthday? It's my birthday too!!! Glad you're having a great day! 🥳🎂

Dish of Graeter's lemon sorbet with black raspberry sauce and a smoothie

It's been a rough week. Time for @graeters.bsky.social

One FULLY INTENDED effect of transphobia is to remove Black and other racialized women from the category of "women" and restrict womanhood to cis white conventionally attractive women who can bear children. It's all part of a white supremacist project.

Godzilla wants to be the little spoon. Are you ready for the challenge?

“Oh hi, pretty lady. I didn’t see you there. Are you an oxygen destroyer? Because you certainly took my breath away, HAHAHA…in all seriousness I know we’re flirting here but it is unclear if nuclear aberrations reproduce sexually.”

Then use those pan-friend bits in pasta sauces or sandwiches or meatloaf or soup or salads. If you can find mushrooms on sale you can cook down a huge mess of them and freeze them in individual baggies to use later.

Mushrooms are great.
I thought I hated them when it turns out crimini/portabello mushrooms just taste like ass. Shitakes, oysters, wood ears, enoki; they're all different textures & flavors. Super easy to pan-fry down into flavor-chunks with a little oil and salt and maybe a splash of alcohol...

While firm tofu you need to drain and then marinate (in almost any sauce you want) to give it flavor. Then you can pan fry if for sandwiches, stir fry it, or toss it with a little oil and roast it under the broiler. The crispier it gets, the better! I love throwing it in a waffle iron.

As for specific tip, your cheapest options for protein tend to be tofu, mushrooms, and canned fish.

Tofu is easy & cheap. The secret to cooking it is to NOT think of it as a meat-substitute. Soft/silken tofu is more like eggs; scrambles up nice in a pan with salt, a oil, and some herbs/spices...

Bread heels, leftover rice, and chopped onion all freeze well enough to chop up later and stretch ground beef in meatloaf, burgers, sauces, tacos, etc. If you're worried about losing some of that meaty flavor, add diced mushrooms (which also freeze well), which tend to be cheaper by volume than meat

If an ingredient is about to go off, you can get a few more days out of cooking it (or with veggies, pickling it) and use the cooked version in another dish.

This leads into the most useful tip for stretching a food budget: Don't waste the little bits. Trimmings and skins off onions, celery, carrots, herbs, etc can go in a baggie in the freezer and made into veggie stock when you have a day off. Same with all your bones and leftover bits of hard cheese.

Make friends with leftovers and how you can remake them into something new with just a few new ingredients. Leftover take-out can make a decent casserole. Leftover oatmeal can turn into a good bread. Slice leftover spaghetti to fill a sandwich or pan-fry it.

Figure out what dishes freeze best (soups, pasta sauces, casseroles, curries). Some things you'll need to combine frozen portions (sauces, curries), with a pantry staple that's easy to cook up (pasta, rice), but they're easy and at scale, usually cheaper than ready-made options.

Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure:

First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day

5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card

For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!

Please learn from the enslaved people who perfected the art of strategic malingering.

How to delay. How to break tools and lose passwords.

How to subvert unlawful or cruel orders with foot dragging. How to convincingly feign incompetence and ignorance.

Bury them in paperwork.

I know you and your anxieties because I was one of you! You have to stand up for yourselves, each and every one!

The principal is not coming to save you because you did everything right.

They count on you being scared to break the rules! More than anything else, they are counting on your decency and respect of procedure to paralyze you from doing the right thing lest you get called to the principal's office.

You have to learn to say fuck it and DO THE RIGHT THING

Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.

That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.