Stop pretending art is hard

blog like no one's following you

Lane Brown aka Lane Draws aka Lane Brown (based SC, USA) - The subject studies me back, 2022, Paintings: Digital Art

I actually really like the german word for commute, "pendeln". which has the same root as pendulum

because you just keep going back and forth. and back . and forth. amd back ajd forth

can you tell it's 5 am and I am on my commute

One bite of this lemon cake, and you’ll be hooked ✨🍋🎂🍰. The best lemon cake you’ll ever taste, guaranteed. Incredible flavors and tastes of summer are succinctly packed into this lemony delight, and now you can try the same recipe that made our cake studio infamous! Save for later! You’re welcome.

•

LEMON SPONGE LOAF

Ingredients:

✨ 175 g Margarine

✨ 175 g Caster Sugar

✨ 1 Tbsp Lemon Zest (1 Lemon)

✨ 3 Eggs

✨ 175 g Self-Raising Flour

•

Method:

1. Preheat your oven at 150°C

2. Grease an 8-inch round / loaf baking pan and line the sides and bottom with parchment paper and set aside.

3. Cream softened margarine, sugar and lemon zest together until light and fluffy.

4. Add beaten eggs to the butter mixture, mix well then scrape the sides of the bowl down with a spatula.

5. Add sifted self-raising flour; mix the batter until just combined.

6. Pour batter into the baking pan and bake for 25 minutes, or until skewer comes out clean when inserted.

•

**No DMs** Email me with enquiries and to order — [email protected]

.

.

#cakes #cake #londoncakes #londoncakemaker #londoncakedecorator #londoncakedesigner #cakemeistro #cakestagram #cakesofinstagram #londoncake #cakestudio #cakedecorator #cakedesigner #cakeartist #londoncakeartist #cakeslondon #cakelondon #lemonspongerecipe #lemonspongecake #cakerecipe #lemonsponge #lemoncake #cakesinlondon #lemoncake #lemoncakerecipe #easyrecipes #easyrecipe #easyrecipesathome #easycakerecipe #easycake

chappell roan & gerard way stage outfit parallels

chappell looks:

gerard looks:

PART 1/2

pressed up against your longing

but on the real though, here is your guide to assyrian rice preparation from your friendly neighborhood assyrian:

i really played myself with this post huh. every time it gets a note i start wanting rice.

for anyone who wants it, here is my family’s actual recipe for assyrian baked rice:

Put the rice in a pot and cover it in cold water and salt. Let it soak overnight. (If you don’t have the time to soak it, rinse the rice with cold water until it runs clear.)

Edit: The reason you want to soak basmati and other aromatic rice before cooking is to preserve more acetylpyrroline, the compound that gives aromatic rice its characteristic scent and flavor. Soaking rice allows the grains to absorb water, which reduces the cooking time, which means less time for the acetylpyrroline to cook off. It’ll still taste pretty good if you can’t do this, but you don’t want “pretty good”, you want mind-blowing, so for that perfect flavor you’ll want to soak your rice overnight. The soaking process also washes away the layer of starch on the outside of the rice, which allows the grains to separate rather than sticking together; this is why you want to rinse your rice thoroughly if you don’t have time to soak it.

Preheat your oven to 325°.

Boil three quarts of water in a separate pot. Once it’s at a fast boil, drain the rice and add it to the water. Boil for 5-7min or until one grain tastes half-cooked, but not soft. Pour the rice into a colander and rinse with cold water.

Edit: This step also helps get rid of any remaining starch on your grains, for perfectly separated rice. If your colander or strainer has large holes, you can put a paper towel/cheesecloth/clean dishcloth on the inside in order to drain your rice. Pour carefully if you’re using a paper towel, though, and put a bowl underneath your colander; I once lost a heartbreaking amount of rice when my paper towel got oversaturated and tore open.

Liberally grease the bottom of your baking pan with some of your butter. Pour the rice on top. Melt the rest of the butter in the microwave and pour on top of the rice.

Bake for 45min. (If you like, cover the rice for part or all of the baking time, but I find it gets less crispy on top if you do this.) Shake the pan a couple times during baking to ensure that the butter distributes throughout the entire dish.

Eat.

Serves four. Can easily be scaled up if needed (or down, but why would you do that?). Best enjoyed with a nice cup of chai.

(cc @raisedbyhyenas )

reblog for the awesome recipe and to make op want rice (rice is so good. ofc you want rice)

>:(

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

Goes insanely hard

To provide further context from what I understand the bill wanted to take the rights guaranteed to the Maori in said treaty and expand them to all New Zealand citizens. The issue with that is that it sort of defeats the point of the protections of the treaty.

The Treaty of Waitangi is not even that good of a treaty. But it is better than any treaty the Crown signed with indigenous peoples

And it absolutely was not meant to be

The treaty as written screws over Māori, and was written in Te Reo Māori and English with deliberately misleading translations to Te Reo Māori. I'm not an expert by any means, but basically the Te Reo Māori version has clauses that promise much more independence and sovereignty, while the English version does not

However

The English version promises them rights as Citizens

From what I remember from University 10+ years ago, this clause, this sentence, was added last minute by the writer of the treaty. Like, right before the big signing at Waitangi.

And the Crown was PISSED

Because now they had a legally binding document that promised, in their own language, to treat Māori with the same rights as they would English. Which was absolutely not the goal. The goal was to trick Māori into signing away their lands and that honestly still did happen. The treaty was not a good faith proposal by the Engliah.

But its still better than anyone else got, and it's better than no treaty. And because nowadays we can't just ignore the Te Reo Māori side of the treaty, the government's of the past few decades have been honouring Māori sovereignty, honouring their stewardship of the land, and undoing a lot of the bad faith "sales" or straight up stolen land.

Except our current fuck nuggets, who want to make Te Reo Māori an endangered language again, and steal back that land because they want to mine on it and sell it and they hate that Māori stewardship is so environmentally focused and not profit driven.

So, in a way, the current government is more true to the intentions of the Crown who initially came up with the treaty.

But since those guys were colonising bastards, I don't see "honouring" them as anything good.

Even with criticism of the treaty, without it, Māori would lose a lot of protections to their lands, their culture, their language, and as a country we would go backwards to a time when they were even more discriminated against

Toitū te tiriti

Uphold the treaty

YES HI I CAN SEE YOUR "RETURN TO THE TOP OF PAGE" BUTTON JUST FINE THANK YOU

If you only had a device that could make it just a bit more visible

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

"The scientific method is the only way to find objective truths" and "all systems run by humans are prone to corruption" are two statements that do and must coexist.

Yes, there is a replication crises and big pharma is corrupt and women's health is criminally ignored but without science you'd be burying half your children before they turned 18 and the surgery to remove your bursting appendix would be almost as likely to kill you as the organ itself and your unpasteurized milk would be giving you listeria as you tried to find some ice to keep it cool. We tried other things for thousands of years and this is the only thing works.

If people don't trust science anymore it's frightening because we literally have nothing else. And it scares me because how do you convince anyone if facts don't exist for them anymore.

posts about the alt-right pipeline being compassionate towards young men while radical leftists shun and shame them are not fucking saying "the men are becoming violent because feminists are too mean!" and if that is your takeaway you need to get off tumblr until you've better honed your critical thinking skills.

those posts are talking about how effective the language and approach you take in your activism can be. this is literally cult deprogramming 101. if someone is being taken in by a violent or dangerous group, that violent or dangerous group is usually offering them compassion and solace while working hard to convince them everyone else in the world is their enemy. you are under no obligation to coddle or act compassionate toward these men and their violent ideologies, but if you have the means to try, it is something that you can do to make a tangible difference.

radicalized people are often only one loving friend or family member or external voice away from being de-radicalized. of course that is not always the case, but it very often is. a lot of y'all rightfully understand that you do not carry the burden of being that voice, but a lot of y'all also have a lot of internalized ideas about morals and punitive justice and have simply written off these people as deserving of only the worst and not worth saving.

ten years ago, my grandmother was a fox news watching republican who voted red in every election and very well could have fallen down the qanon rabbit hole if not for me and her daughter challenging her compassionately, walking her through hypotheticals that validated her feelings & proving why they were false, & being patient with her despite our extreme division in political ideology. it was frustrating fucking work! but i decided i wanted to do it, because i could see the horizon and i could see me making a difference!

"misogynists have been saying feminists are too mean for years, get new material" that is not the fucking POINT. the point is that you, feminist, can be the compassionate voice that guides your brother, your father, your cousin, your grandfather away from fucking becoming or staying a nazi. you can show them compassion and companionship. you can be the woman they think of when their alt-right bros try to convince them that women are the enemy. and you can choose to crystallize that image of yourself so wholly in their mind's eye as worth protecting that they may very well choose to reject those harmful ideas.

it's not saying you HAVE to do it! it's saying you CAN do it! don't you 'firebomb a walmart' people all love taking change into your own hands? where the fuck is that energy right now, huh?

i saw this right after and OP turned off reblogs but LITERALLY!!! LITERALLY.

i know the punitive justice obsessed "kill all abusers" ass catholics on this fucking website don't want to hear shit like this but love is literally the answer. fix your heart or die

I don't have the article on hand anymore, but I recall reading one that discussed the Alt-Right pipeline and recruitment techniques. That a major aspect of recruitment was slipping dog whistles into memes and humor, introducing it to young men with THE EXPLICIT GOAL of them repeating it elsewhere and getting a negative reaction.

The point being to isolate them from other people, and then pretend to be their friends. To convince them that other people hate them, that the left and progressives and women are enemies that will only treat them horribly.

And then the Frog in a Pot situation of slowly introducing more and more extreme views to them, all presented from someone that claims to be their friend and makes them feel seen and validated and heard.

Again, a large part of their recruitment tactics involves setting them up for failure. Counting on people to have a bad reaction, to get angry at them, and to cut them off or avoid them. It's counting on no one being willing to do the work to explain WHY something isn't cool and why the people that introduced it to them are trying to trick them.

Of course, no one is obligated to be the one to gently explain why that Stonetoss comic is fucking racist and disgusting. But the lack of anyone that is willing to be patient and do the work of countering the Alt-Right's recruitment is something that they count on.

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

I don't care if it's the best TV show of all time. I cannot be tricked into consuming a cartoon about league of legends.

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

let’s see if this extra cup of coffee makes me good or evil