Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it! Have an open thread.
Oh, and as a little gift to you all, here are a couple of the AI-generated “cats celebrating Thanksgiving” pictures I made that didn’t quite live up to my stringent quality control standards, due to an excessive number or inappropriate placement of legs.
Also, this is supposed to be a mammoth dressed as a pilgrim.
Clearly a Victorian capitalist. Not even the right century!
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Ok, I came on here not sure what I would even post in a “Happy” Thanksgiving thread, given the nature of the other threads here, but I gotta admit I like Three-Legged Witch Kitty. I feel like she comes out of some anthropomorphic anime where the extra leg is a sign of her supernatural nature
(Pilgrim, witch… whatever, close enough)
Don’t forget that those pardoned turkeys could still be prosecuted for State crimes.
Three-legged Massachusetts kitty was so close to being perfect. Although upon closer inspection, one of her eyes appears to have fallen down to her collar, so maybe not.
Mammoth is OK, just not for this topic. Is he wearing spats? Which give him extra toes?
Personally, I don’t see the mastodon as a Victorian capitalist.
I see it as a successful Victorian capitalist. The sort who knew that investing in the Railway would be profitable, where investing in “doctor” Pallerghby’s Radium Laxative Belt (Pat.Pend.) would not.
And I would take that mastodon’s advice, at least in matters of finance. I would, however, scandalize and even offend him politically.
Mr. Parasol had to work yesterday (boo!) so instead of getting super-lavish with cooking, I made a Thai red curry. Plus I baked him cookies:
https://explorermomma.com/low-carb-cinnamon-pecan-cookies/
Note for Alan and other vegans/vegetarians – the recipe above uses almond milk, so all you have to do is swap out the butter for your favorite plant-based shortening and you’ve got a vegan cookie recipe.
Note for anybody who wants to bake these: Believe the recipe author when it comes to letting the cookies cool completely. Almond flour dough crumbles easily, which makes them fun to eat but you don’t want to take them off the sheet when they’re still warm.
@VP: That recipe looks great! Bookmarking.
@Robert: LOL.
@GSS ex-noob
It’s dead-simple to make, too. Perfect for those occasions where you want a little something special but can’t be bothered to work too hard. Plus it’s a small batch, which helps avoid the trap of having to eat too many cookies before they go stale.
Washed, fed and walked doggo. She now free of fleas for now.
Oh, I almost forgot.
The mastodon is obviously a Tory.
@Robert: The mastodon, all his ancestors, and all his descendants are obviously Tories.
@VP: Cookies can go stale? News to me.
Is almond milk actually less carbs than whole moo cow juice?
@GSS ex-noob
I’d say read the label to make sure, but in general, yes. The big question is going to be if the almond milk has had sweeteners added to it.
Even moo milk can vary. In general, an 8-ounce glass of milk is going to be 15 gm carbs, which is why it’s on my list of “things to ingest if my blood glucose is very very low” especially if I’m feeling wonky enough that I don’t trust myself with solids. The milk we tend to buy scores 12 gm of carbs per 8 oz. *shrug* Close enough that I’ve used it as a rescue choice.
(For those curious, I’ve experienced a blood glucose level of 300 – yes, I was in Emergency at the time, and I might add it’s never fun to hear a doctor say any lab value in that particular tone of voice – and on the lower end of the spectrum, 53. Both extremes suck. These days I manage to keep it in the 80 to 90 range for my twice-daily checks, though I can get just over 100 if it’s cold or if I’m stressed, and it can get as low as 70-something depending on stress level / interval between exercising and checking with my glucometer.)
This seems like a good thread to do some OT linkdumps in, given the seriousness of the other current threads here.
A post on the White People Food meme, and how it’s being used to police what PoC food is supposed to be like:
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/white-people-food-meme-explained
An unnamed kids’ hospital did some redecorating recently, and, uh, didn’t think things through very well on one of the new elements they used:
https://www.tumblr.com/bogleech/701108491970019328/trickster-archangel-musicalhell
Remember how some historians and scientists did a multilevel scan of an ancient Medieval palimpsest and revealed the long-lost math texts of an Ancient Greek mathematician (i.e. the Archimedes Palimpsest)? Well, the same scanning techniques were used on several more palimpsests at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt, and they are finding all sorts of lost texts in those old palimpsests. Including some written in languages and dialects extinct in the modern day.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-languages-found-manuscripts-egyptian-monastery-180964698/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR0u5o1KcFPzI9VbQEKALuqE98nWqPKJHHn0IcBfwn22cBP8vOKvK42NDhI
I’ll post some more in another post, to avoid getting caught in the spam filter.
@VP: I feel you, it’s hard to keep the Mr’s. glucose in range, and he’s hit both those extremes.
It has helped getting one of those stick-on continuous sensors that work with an app and set off alarms when things go high or low. Much less finger-poking, though still some. I recommend them if you can afford it.
I recall reading somewhere that they’d finally deciphered the Voynich Manuscript, and it had turned out to be a Bronze Age ad for some sort of lesbian herbal healing spa in Sicily.
@ redsilkphoenix
You might find this interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/28/womans-name-and-tiny-sketches-found-in-1300-year-old-medieval-text