This afternoon’s project: learning how to make pretzel bites. Apparently pretzels become brown and chewy by briefly boiling them in a baking soda solution before baking. They’d be better with rock salt but I didn’t have any on hand so I used regular salt.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/easy-homemade-soft-pretzels/
Unrelenting heat waves combined with suffocating humidity are weighing particularly heavily on Japan’s 36 million people age 65 and over, who are at much greater risk of severe illness and death. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/07/30/climate-change/climate-change-heat-waves-aging-society/?utm_content=bufferfb595&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #climatechange #climatechange #heatwaves #heatstroke #elderly #aging
Very cool the way the #BBC has decided to have their own instances that anyone can follow - are you listening, Media?
@BBCRD @BBC5Live @BBCRadio4 @BBC_News_Labs @BBCTaster @Connected_Studio
Trump campaign paid $108K for Melania's hair stylist despite cash crunch due to mounting legal fees https://www.rawstory.com/melania-trump-2662665123/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Tomorrow morning (August 1, 2023), 8am US EST,
I am going to be chatting with Kate Archer Kent on #Wisconsin Public Radio’s (local #NPR ) Morning Show about #climate #TippingPoints #ExtremeTemperatures and more. Call in and stump me. :-)
The pitch they gave me to convince me to chat:
Is the #MidWest relatively shielded from #ClimateChange?
https://www.wpr.org/contemplating-climate-collapse
I’ll be pulling from
https://science2017.globalchange.gov (I’m a author on this.)
And
https://nca2018.globalchange.gov (regional info)
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So Mastodon dot art is doing predictive policing by blanket banning the BBC's instance because their moderators think they're institutional transphobes.
Uhhh yeah, that's why I'm not on one of the big instances with admins that have their holier-than-thou noses so high up in the sky they can't see their own waste they've trodden into.
All of the liquified natural gas export terminals in Texas and Louisiana that he’s looked at through this instrument had one thing in common: “huge emissions
https://thelensnola.org/2023/07/31/lng-export-terminals-belching-more-pollution-than-estimated/
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #Texas #Louisiana #USA #US
Michael got fed up rowing the boat ashore and gave up. He's still out there I think. #HashtagGames
#SongCharactersLifeAfterTheSongWasOver
After the devil left, Johnny realized that a fiddle made of pure gold doesn't sound that great actually, and is in fact pretty hard to play.
The GenX'er grew up and now smells like Axe body spray instead of Teen Spirit.
Cotten-Eye Joe, suffering from severe retrograde amnesia, still cannot answer where he came from or where he's been, and given his history, is quite unsure of where he may go.
#HashtagGames
#songcharacterslifeafterthesongwasover
After a couple of decades being a cold case, the long arm of the law FINALLY caught up with Mack the Knife, currently in the slammer.
Davy finally resigned his commission and returned to civilian life.
After spending all of his weekends around Zipperhead, he finally got his punk rock girl. All of the things he dreamed about doing were within reach. They travelled 'round the world, ate fudge banana swirls, and had a child who they dressed exactly like a tiny Minnie Pearl. Their love story later inspired James Cameron to film the the romantic classic, "The Titanic."
#hashtaggames #songcharacterslifeafterthesongwasover #thedeadmilkmen
#HashtagGames
#SongCharactersLifeAfterTheSongWasOver
The calendar girls didn't think as highly of Neil Sedaka and so found careers that were not in music. Most of them became airline stewardesses.
#HashtagGames
#SongCharactersLifeAfterTheSongWasOver
Diana is still appreciating young men so when it was over between her and Paul Anka, she joined the local Cougar Club.
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.