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@factolvictor@dice.camp aren't they nice? They are social media preview images -- for Mastodon, they are attached as images, and they are also used as link previews. I'm not sure what you mean by sharing them, if you could be more specific I'd be glad to help :)
mouse started reading The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
mouse finished reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
mouse started reading Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
@fu@millefeuilles.cloud Any time I'm buttering something to eat I use salted butter, but for baking I like to control how much salt I add
@fu@millefeuilles.cloud nothing inherently, they just aren't ingredients I use at home or at work so I have to do a lot of mental math and guesswork to substitute them
mouse commented on Baking with Fortitude by Dee Rettali
mouse started reading The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the …
mouse reviewed As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
stick with Rats, Lice, and History
Zinsser writes his autobiography in the third person, playing both the somewhat disdainful biographer of "R.S." and R.S. himself. The conceit is characteristically weird, unnecessary, and extremely well done and funny, but I think it also is a distancing device for a man who doesn't really want to share anything personal about himself. Which makes for a frustrating autobiography!
In the rare moments when he does talk concretely about his life, the book is extremely fun (his account of his abortive attempt at a private medical practice, for example, is laugh-out-loud funny). But he spends most of the book and in long discursive discussions of the issues of his day, which unfortunately tend to end up either boring (unless you are very interested in his views on the state of medical pedagogy in 1940), or euphemistically "of their time." While the book is not surprisingly racist, sexist, or eugenicist for …
Zinsser writes his autobiography in the third person, playing both the somewhat disdainful biographer of "R.S." and R.S. himself. The conceit is characteristically weird, unnecessary, and extremely well done and funny, but I think it also is a distancing device for a man who doesn't really want to share anything personal about himself. Which makes for a frustrating autobiography!
In the rare moments when he does talk concretely about his life, the book is extremely fun (his account of his abortive attempt at a private medical practice, for example, is laugh-out-loud funny). But he spends most of the book and in long discursive discussions of the issues of his day, which unfortunately tend to end up either boring (unless you are very interested in his views on the state of medical pedagogy in 1940), or euphemistically "of their time." While the book is not surprisingly racist, sexist, or eugenicist for the era, and I do think Zinsser has some amount of critical thinking on these fronts, it is still ultimately racist, sexist, and eugenicist.
So, instead of the boring bits and the yikes bits, let us remember the part where he pretends to have rabies, bites a classmate, and is only stopped when someone dumps a tank of sea urchins on him. Or skip this one and just read Rats, Lice, and History.
mouse quoted As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
All of which goes to prove that, as I pointed out in the first chapter, R.S. was really a quite ordinary person about whom it was hardly worth while to write a book.
— As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser (Page 443)
incredible final sentence
mouse finished reading The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
"In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow …
mouse replied to Virgile Andreani's status
@Armavica They use a buttermilk based starter (at least for some of the recipes, others don’t use a starter at all), and there’s a separate multi day process for creating the starter. Since it’s dairy, I suspect it’s a different biome than a regular sourdough