Ms. ArmoredThirteen

When I was living in Seattle legal nudity was one of the big perks for me! On hot days I’d go around topless, completely nude sometimes, it was amazing. I am trans so the main concern was from phobes periodically trying to threaten me, and on a couple occasions where I was being a bit more wild with things like waving trans flags around while nude I’d have police called on me. They couldn’t ever do anything about it though no indecency here officer

I’m doing my part! Moving to a new country in a few days, part of the prep for that was to ditch my Windows desktop and I’ve been setting up a Linux laptop. Arch with KDE Plasma is so far the most enjoyable experience I’ve had with an OS

I’ve tried at various times to switch to Linux in the past. I’m enough of a turbo nerd you’d think it would have been easy for me but it was never quite there for one reason or another. This latest attempt though hot damn it’s all smooth sailing. I’ve even converted one of my friends to Mint and making progress convincing people who don’t want to use Windows 11 to just make the switch

I was trying to tell you last night but not even the storm could wake you sorry fam

You can use archinstall and it is dummy simple. Just have another computer or phone around to look things up and go down the menu like a checklist. My admittedly limited arch experience has so far been “run archinstall, use pacman to install tools as I run into things I’d like to have”. I have a Framework 16 with the built in GPU, I imagine some hardware complicates this process but just look stuff up it’s all out there unless you’re on some really wild hardware. Even without archinstall you can follow the arch wiki and you’re basically replicating what the tool does but using the wiki as your checklist and needing to type more

Mayo on fries and hotdogs slaps, though I prefer cream cheese on dogs for a similar but better experience

Me in Seattle right now: it’s too hot, it’s too bright, there are too many tourists, I want the cold and rain back

In a way the vampire is asking both if they’re able to and for permisson

I already said that I don’t have dietary restrictions also biscuits are typically referred to as being made with biscuit dough, not biscuit batter (at least where I’m from). I think discussing the differences between a dough and a batter in this context though is straying too far from what we’re actually talking about so I don’t particularly want to get into that.

I don’t understand why you’re putting quick bread in quotes so I’m asking sincerely do you not know what I mean when I say quick bread? As in something that’s “leavened with a chemical agent rather than a biological one” such as baking soda/powder instead of yeast? Because this includes cake (and brownies and cookies even), I will change my case to be more like: Most people I’ve met in the US aren’t wrong when they say they like muffins but it would be more specific to say they want cupcakes. In my opinion, we often put enough sugar into the muffins to cross the line into cupcake territory. Since they’re both quick breads I’d argue cupcakes are muffins but not all muffins are cupcakes.

It’s like my roommate kept telling me they like pancakes and so I’d make pancakes and they didn’t like them because they were too thick. By the time I had thinned the recipe down enough for their liking I was actually making crepes, which are a type of pancake. They weren’t wrong by saying they like pancakes but they would have been better off just admitting they actually like crepes and not what is generally thought of when someone says pancake.

I’m not trying to say that if you reduce sugar it is unchanged. I am saying that quick breads are very lenient with how much sugar can go in them while still maintaining good mouth feel, especially when the recipe already has a considerable amount of sugar as do many recipes that cater to modern US sugar addiction.

Quick bread isn’t the same as bread… Although I am seeing that cakes can be considered a type of quick bread so again I think this might largely be related to semantics. Things like banana bread, corn bread, biscuits, zucchini bread, are all quick breads that work as muffins and can have greatly reduced sugar without damaging their structure. The wheat and bran blueberry muffins I make are similar to sweetened wheat bread in flavor but texturally they’re like a dense muffin. I’m not using gluten and yeast for the structure they use other leavening agents which is why they’re a quick bread. My substitutions are: Less sugar, use whole wheat flour, sub some flour with bran and wheat germ. No I don’t have any dietary restrictions

Edit to add: Also muffins don’t have to be sweet like at all. There are plenty of savory muffin recipes that have little to no sugar, because they’re a type of quick bread not specifically cake

It may be semantics but I do not consider muffins to be cake, that would make it a cupcake. Muffins are closer to quick bread to the point where any quick bread recipes I have tried work as muffins with no changes to ingredients only cooking time. For sure if you cut too much sugar out of something you lose structure but that’s why I specified American recipes. They generally have way more sugar than what’s necessary for structure and there’s a lot of wiggle room with how much you can take out

Pro tip for baking modern American recipes is you can cut about 1/3 of the sugar no problem, up to 1/2 on some recipes. Bran goes really well with blueberries. The blueberry muffins I make are basically lightly sweetened wheat bread and they slap. Muffins are a quick bread but somewhere along the line people wanted to lie to themselves and eat cupcakes while pretending they’re still muffins

Sorry fam only suffering idk what to tell you

I can’t believe it the government is stealing my ideas from a dystopian future setting I’m writing

You’re not my real mom, you can’t stop me from crying every morning and most evenings even if it is the weekend!

US checking in, of the 5 or 6 therapists I’ve had and the similar number my ex spouse has had, I think only one charged before a session. There’s a couple I’m not sure on because it was covered entirely by insurance and we were never directly billed so can’t say the timing

Thank you :3

He’s part Maine coon so always been on the big side and he has a ridiculously fluffy coat making him look even bigger. Didn’t really look overweight at about 19-20 pounds so I kinda lost track (been dealing with a lot could barely take care of myself even), he got to 22 though and I was noticing issues. Vet said healthy weight for him is 17 and last I checked he was at 18 so almost there!

According to my cat the real abuse is the diet I put him on. He’s almost at a healthy weight though just one more pound to go!

I go bouldering and do a lot of dynos, so I regularly jump. Last time was special though it was yesterday when I was at amateur wrestling for the first time as the Shrieking Spud

Yeah my ex spouse would rather drive 5min then spend 15min finding parking every day for work than do the 15 minute walk. Then every day complain about parking and get instantly defensive if I brought up walking instead. This was a thing with going out too I’d want to walk and they’d want to drive. I’d get there first because of time spent finding parking. Half the time they’d walk just as far as I did anyway because parking in the area completely sucked

Pair that with leave no dwarf behind and it implies if you don’t rock and stone you’re not a dwarf