My exact thoughts! Also the dual meaning of “swatted.”

This feels worse.

In 2016, I could at least rationalize that some people were voting for an outsider, a “billionaire” who promised to fight corruption in D.C. Anyone paying attention could see he was an immoral dipshit who was corrupt himself, but I could understand how he won.

Now? We’ve all had years to see who he is, and if that wasn’t enough, to see his rapid mental decline. This time I don’t understand.

Archipiélago

Oh my god I love that

I second Lorn! Dark ambient electronic sprinkled liberally with glitch elements is chef’s kiss.

Also would recommended Amon Tobin. ISAM is one of my favorite albums, and Lost and Found is often the song I’ll put on to introduce folks to his style.

Yeah, I could also see there being variability between dialects and how much they respectively pronounce in a word. “What’s that?” could easily become “waz-at?” which is much quicker to say.

Ooh yum, what’s the sauce? I’ve got a cucumber in the fridge that needs using, and this looks tasty.

I really do, Halloween is a close second for my favorite holiday. I like to diy-ish the decorations, especially using stuff I’ve grown (the straw here was actually dried garlic stalks), and I’m slowly adding stuff year to year with the eventual goal of being that house.

Hah! I love how different the reactions are. Some kids seem to have no sense of fear, while I’ve had others straight nope out. This year I had a mom grab her kid under the arms to drag him screaming towards me (but don’t worry, heard him giggling back down the driveway with a “that was scary!”), and another one shouted “now you die!” (using his flashlight as pistol) after I startled him. 😆

If you see my set up from a previous year in my other comment, one of my favorite reactions was a trio of teenage girls where one saw me approach and let out a “FUCK THAT!” and ran, with her friends on her heels. Left me standing there holding the bowl with a faint “wait come back, I’ve got candy…”

I go through spurts where I’m posting and commenting a bunch, then I get weary of being online and disconnect. When I am posting, it’s usually to places with stuff I like to take pictures of, like !beebutts@lemmy.world.

Oooh, you can try what I’ve done before. Leave the front door open with the interior dimly lit and her hiding in a dark room beyond. When the kids come, she steps from the darkness into the dim light, and it’s a pretty good effect with a masked costume.

[Image description: a dimly lit red room, with a dark masked figure with horns standing in the doorway beside a table draped in black with a vase of dead flowers. An illusion of hands pressing through the wall is projected onto the wall beside the figure.]

You’re in luck, there is a best of Lemmy!

Oh dear, I just thought that they’d get leggy like basil, maybe I should pinch the flowers off…

Oh darn, no I don’t. Not to sound like I’m an actually good baker, but standard desserts like brownies, (simple) cakes, and cookies I’ve made often enough that I know the gist of the recipes. Sometimes I’ll look up a recipe or two online to confirm I’m on the right track, but usually I make them on the fly.

Like for example, my basic cookie base is a super easy 1:1:1:1 ratio. One stick of softened butter creamed with one cup of sugar, add in one egg, then one cup of flour. Depending on what I’m going for and what kind of butter, sugar and flour I used, I’ll add vanilla, salt, baking soda/powder at the right stages.

People say cooking is an art and baking is a science, but a lot of the simpler things you actually can eyeball and get away with it (especially if you’re like me and are okay with the occasional odd result 😅). So like if I use brown sugar, I know that’s got more moisture than white, so I’ll probably need an extra spoonful of flour to get the dough looking right.

I’m in southern California and I think most houses have gas hookups for driers, often with gas stoves and gas water heaters too.

I have done memories of black cherry vanilla coke zero from years back, best soda ever.

I had the exact same experience with the elephant garlic, they took forever to sprout, long enough that I actually dug one of them up to check that they hadn’t been eaten or something.

Good point, I’ve edited the description.

I wish his paintings had titles, or at least numbers. So hard to tell people about my favorites of his without already having a link handy.

It might be! That was one of the varieties I planted this year, though the cloves I put in the ground looked like normal shaped cloves, just scaled up a bit.

Ahahaha, I know right? Baklava normally is an occasional treat enjoyed just a couple pieces at a time, and now I have an ENTIRE tray hanging around. I swear I can physically feel my waistline expanding.