phenolology 🐢 @susannah@octodon.social

I love ask metafilter for it's great answers and for the people* who know jack shit about anything who feel qualified to chime in on every other question.

* ALWAYS boomers and white doods, especially boomer white doods

So this was my first time eating fonio. it's not bad, but not great either. it reminds me a bit of crickets actually. I think it would be better in a savory nutbread with lots of spices than in pancakes.

pancakes salvaged with addition of a bit of soda and regular milk!

I have to take partial responsibility for this. I KNOW that baking powder requires a little soda to neutralize it if you're using something acidic like buttermilk. But it's a pancake mix! How can you make a pancake mix that fails when you use buttermilk!?!

Oops I meant baking powder. I'm gonna try to salvage the rest of the batch by asking a little baking soda to neutralize it.

blegh! I bought a gluten free pancake mix made with fonio flour and it has so much baking powder that I can't even taste anything else.

I've noticed some commercial bakeries do this as well and ruin their pastries. baking soda tastes terrible. don't use too much. I'd rather flat pancakes than this metal-acrid-almost-salt flavor

I #AmReading Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine.

Like a lot of non-fiction books, it's padded out a bit too much, but it definitely has some parts that hit me right in the feelers

who needs cardio when you can do nightmares?

Why does getting a car turn so many people into assholes? https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian-weekly/20180525/281676845571925

Grey clouds shield the morning from the awful sun. A cool breeze is a welcome respite from yesterday's heat.

The clouds will lift later and I cannot be annoyed - on the summer solstice, the sun should have time to shine.

To celebrate, I will watch the sun set this evening.

windows open, fans drown out everything but the sirens.

sunset. deep pink horizon and blotches of purple grey clouds.

feet on an ice pack, nauseated from heat. waiting for cool air.

I just finished the last book in the Confederation/Peacekeeper series. I don't want it to be over.

it's hot

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I don't like O'Brien. I think he's mean and unethical.

I did not stay up all night reading about Torin Kerr and I am going to go to work today instead of staying home and reading about Torin Kerr and I am going to need a HUGE PRIZE for my willpower.

it's very hot and what if I melt