catdad 💃✨ @tcql@octodon.social

continuing my scathing review of VR technology:

lol microsoft, not knowing what "variety" and "several" mean

jesus christ

char shiu on bao tacos!!
It took? Forever! but I have plenty of leftover char siu so, it would definitely be faster next time

gingerbread mug!!

Aaand my second Mantou (steamed buns) attempt turned out pretty good! this is all that was left over after we ate all the rest 😅

Uber is getting fined by New Jersey for misclassifying drivers and not giving them benefits / paying legal wages. Imagine tweeting this repsonse as a Repunlican, thinking it makes your party look good?

really fantastic article RE: what it means when people decry "uncivil" behavior, such as booing the president or calling out GOP members as white supremacists

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/adam-serwer-civility/600784/

I'll call it mostly a success! A few minor problems:

- my wrappers were a little too thick
- my wrapper sizing wasn't super consistent lmao
- ratio of soup/filling wasn't as good as I wanted. next time, more soup jelly
- some of the dumplings stuck to the steamer liner so... 😭 next time I'll follow the recommendation and use cabbage as a liner

still! they were tasty and I did it!!

he'm ornch

jiggly food, catdad's xlb adventure

I MADE GYOZA AND IT TASTED LIKE GYOZA

y'all sure love dodging paywalls lmao

so, each of our cats came to us in different ways, but i wanna tell y'all about nemu, our little sleepy orange trash boy

he came to us stray. a cold, windy night in november, 8 years ago. we let him in that night and then, in the morning opened the door to see if he wanted to leave. he walked out, sniffed the air, then turned right back around and has never left :)

another incident in the ongoing gender reveal war 😔

... doesn't seem like that's enough

i don't remember where i saw this originally linked, so it may have been here...

this talk by Kenny Foner is about mental health in academia, but I think it applies in general. I really really felt these particular slides about what "laziness" is or isn't

https://very.science/PLMW19/

wowie look how tight that margin was in KY

holy shit ahahah

whatever i wrote my own paging code hell yea

oh, my god? i've stepped into a time machine, it's 2017 again what the hell