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dys_morphia

@dys_morphia@sfba.social

Busybody neighborhood ecologist, poet, philosopher & theurgist. Current top interests: technical writing, Python, sword & sorcery, gardening, fiber arts.

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dys_morphia, to food
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A review of H Mart in San Francisco

I wondered through the aisles clutching my shopping list like a talisman against the near-overwhelming desire to buy more than I could possibly carry home. I probably looked confused, and I was a little confused, but more than anything I was overwhelmed with joy.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-05-31-review-hmart-san-francisco/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

dys_morphia, to baking
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The California origin of "A to Z Bread"

In which I obsessively trace the history and authorship of the A to Z bread recipe

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-05-24-the-california-origin-of-a-to-z-bread/

dys_morphia,
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The post you are about to read is not a prelude to a recipe. This is not a recipe blog, and this is not a recipe blog post. This is a tale of mild obsession (mine) to find the origin of a recipe, and to correctly credit the creator.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-05-24-the-california-origin-of-a-to-z-bread/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

dys_morphia, to random
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I don’t know the last time I have felt so extremely like the target audience as an event at an event I am feeling at Cyberdelia right now.

dys_morphia, to random
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I’m feeling a bit at loose ends today so I think I’m going to go do some mildly recreational shopping at Manila Oriental Market on Mission. It reminds me of the mildly chaotic and wildly complete New May Wah on Clement and it’s also the nearest Chinese grocery by bus. I’m making a list so I don’t go too extrme.

natbat, to random
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So I just passed my Ham Radio Extra exam! 42/50 (37 is a pass). I’ve been revising since January!

@simon passed his General today too!

dys_morphia,
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@natbat @simon Congratulations! It sounds like it's a pretty tricky exam if it took so much studying.

Binder, to random
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"You don't actually hate this thing you say you do, you really hate capitalism!" is not the defense of the things which I hate that you feel it should be.

I got enough hate in me to end the things I complain about AND capitalism.

dys_morphia,
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@Binder this reminds me a bit of Oscar Wilde’s essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism. One of his points is that while we have people suffering due to poverty, it is difficult to truly work on art or other pursuits even if one is personally secure because one is constantly moved by horrible conditions of fellow people to instead try to mitigate them with charity or other good works (but thst never fixes the underlying condition)

In a similar fashion, the pure hate of shitty things is diluted by the sensitive hater’s constant awareness that while one might hate the ugly thing or shitty process or whatever, there is a whole looming hate-able system impinging on one’s hate-o-meter

masukomi, to random
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"you have passed the test with flying colors"

Makes NO fucking sense. To fly your colors is to present yourself with your unfurled flag (your "true colors"). Which is related to how pirates would NOT show their colors to trick people into letting them get too close. OR how you could fly false colors to pass where you weren't allowed.

So, You have [done x] with flying colors means.... "You did X and claimed to be someone while doing it!" WHich is... uhh... ok?

dys_morphia,
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@masukomi I never thought about this one before. I had imagined it was something to do with jousting like knights with a big pennant somehow, very vaguely.

I just looked it up and you’re right it’s nautical in origin but not the same as “true colors”. When ships came home from a voyage they would fly the flags (colors) if they succeeded at whatever they meant to do, like win a battle or discover something. It used to just mean you succeeded but not in a particularly extra way. Still a bit less off but not as weird. Nautical flag metaphors are a whole rabbit hole. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_flying_colours

dys_morphia,
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@masukomi (I hope this infodump is helpful rsther than annoying)

Binder, to cooking
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Mise en place. I’m up to another ill-advised attempt at . Today, approximating Bittman’s cod fillets roasted w/ potatoes

dys_morphia,
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@Binder I love these series you post where you photograph the whole process of cooking something. It's a view of other cooks' work one doesn't normally get.

skinnylatte, to random
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A guy in the grocery store told me to get a bright purple metallic card and show it to Cookie everyday, apparently it blocks her from all the harmful rays in the universe that are destroying our minds

Conspiracy theorists in California simply have an extra ‘wellness’ angle

(It’s a thing and it’s called ‘conspirituality’, many of our farmers markets are full of woo-woo farmers as well)

dys_morphia,
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@skinnylatte I'm familiar with this flavor of thinking(?) but didn't know there was a term for it. It's utterly familiar from my time in the Pagan scene.

dys_morphia, to DigitalNomadHub
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I seem to be temperamentally incapable of wrapping up work before 6 p.m. It’s a personal failing, I know, but that’s just my rhythm. As such I deeply resent meetings before 9 a.m.

“You can end the day early to compensate”
“No I can’t”
“Nobody minds”
“It is literally impossible”

#work

RD4Anarchy, to random
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@HeavenlyPossum in Aug. 2022 and wish I could link to it in reply. Thankfully I did archive it and now I'm re-posting it here with HP's agreement. I hope it is helpful to someone!]

The other day someone argued to a mutual that self-ownership is a “virtually universal intensely strong intuition” and I thought that was an odd claim.

I had never even encountered the concept until I joined Twitter and had it shouted at me by a variety of propertarians. It would never have occurred to me otherwise to think of my self, my personhood, in terms of property and ownership.

It honestly feels obscene to reduce my sense as an autonomous individual to the status of property, and supremely alienated. I own a rake. I own a potato. I don’t own myself, because I’m not property. I’m a person.

Taking a look at google’s n-gram, we find that “self-ownership” isn’t a particularly old or popular phrase in the English corpus, remaining extremely rare even as it has become more common in the years since the Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal revolution.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Self-ownership&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=0

1/9

dys_morphia,
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@RD4Anarchy @HeavenlyPossum sorry for jumping in here as a stranger without context, but are these ideas of self ownership related to Max Stirner’s egoist anarchism as outlined in The Ego and Its Own (also translated as The Unique and Its Property) or is this a different strain of ideas?

dys_morphia,
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@HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy thank you, I really appreciate the discussion and clarification.

dys_morphia, to Lithops
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I got this pretty and inexpensive but probably overwatered lithops today and repotted it into dry, inorganic soil with lots of perlite, pumice, and sand in the mix. The white stones on top are just for decoration. I am not going to water it at all until the outer leaves dry up. So probably a few months. Also, when I say inexpensive, I mean $5 which seems really affordable for a lithops this big.

#succulents #lithops

dys_morphia, to random
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Workers in California, ask about your pay scale!

If your employer has over 15 employees, they are legally required to tell you the salary range for your current position. It’s not just for job listings.

This is a fairly new expansion of the California Equal Pay Act as of January 2023. Check FAQ No. 28 https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/California_Equal_Pay_Act.htm

dys_morphia,
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Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Nevada have similar laws, though I don’t have as much detail about them.

dys_morphia,
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When it comes to pay negotiation, knowledge is power, so get your power

(Knowledge is not the only power ofc)

masukomi, to random
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You’ve probably heard the thing about how there are people with no internal monologue.

TIL there was some research done by psychologist, who came to the conclusion that only 30 to 50% of people have one.

I find it very surprising, because the only people I ever hear going “holy shit” about this topic are people who have one.

There are essentially no videos of people going “holy shit you actually hear literal voices in your head?!”

Was the researcher’s sample size just too small ?!

dys_morphia,
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@masukomi I wonder what they count as having an internal monologue. Like, I sometimes verbalize in my head, but not all the time, or evene most of the time. I sort of figured most people were like this.

me, to random
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Hello world! This is my little space in the Fediverse.
Have a great day!

dys_morphia,
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@me Hello! I don’t know if you’re an old friend on a new instance or a potential new friend but in any case, nice to meet you.

dys_morphia, to TechnicalWriting
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Undocumented killer feature:
Weirdly incomplete Boeing 737 MAX manuals

Inspired by recent news about a decompression incident, I wrote about missing information in airplane manuals and their consequences. This post owes a lot to two discussions on Mastodon, which I've cited in the post.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2024-01-12-undocumented-killer-features/

masukomi, to random
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When I was young (pre-internet) I would spend some time with my dad every year. Whenever I asked him how to spell a word he would respond with “ go look it up in the dictionary”.

I hated this response. I hated it because it made no effing sense.

A) there’s no efficient way to look up a word you can’t spell in a paper book

B) dictionaries are specifically designed to provide meaning a word you know how to spell.

dys_morphia,
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@masukomi that response only makes sense if you have one or two solid guesses to go on. And even then, all you really learn is that the word isn't in the dictionary. Maybe the word is obscure?

skinnylatte, to random
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I would like to send this to every American cafe that sells ‘chai tea’: please learn to make chai, not just tea scented dishwater

https://www.seriouseats.com/chai-recipe-8364307

#Recipes

dys_morphia,
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@skinnylatte I'm so glad you shared this. I made chai this weekend following the recipe and finally got something that tasted close to the chai I had in Bengaluru. I've had good chai in SF but except for one Pakistani place in the Tenderloin, it's never had the depth. And I've never managed to make it before because I was scared of boiling the tea.

dys_morphia, to SanFrancisco
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Fedifriends, help me find fun sightseeing and touristy things in San Francisco that are wheelchair accessible.

More context: My in-laws are visiting from the UK next week and one of them uses a mobility scooter or wheelchair (can also get around short distances on crutches). We will not have access to a car, so we have to get around by public transit, cabs, etc.

They enjoy people watching, gardens, birds, hanging out in cafes, and talking to the locals.

So far I was thinking they might like JFK Promenade and the surrounding museums, the Botanical Garden, and taking a boat tour of the bay.

On a meta level, I don’t quite know how to research this so I’d appreciate meta tips as well.

(Boosts for reach most welcome)

#sfba #SanFrancisco #accessibility #wheelchair #WheelchairAccessible

debcha, to random
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Spending this Unday afternoon watching MASTER AND COMMANDER (for the first time!) while prepping veggie sides for a local community lunch.

Thanks to Billy Boyd as the coxswain, my headcanon now includes Pippin Took discovering the Wood Between the Worlds and going from Middle Earth to the Aubrey-Maturin Napoleonic Wars to pursue adventures at sea.

dys_morphia,
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@debcha I love "Unday." Is it an expression you've coined or does it have some other source? (I like it either way, and just want to attribute its source when I talk about it)

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