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hiiiiii! tsunflowers on tumblr and now here too. she/her, bi, 30. I watch a lot of anime but I'm picky about it. idol/magical girl anime for little girls > all else

After reading Nina Mackert’s book, I fully believe the calorie is the key to understanding so much of modern society. I spoke to her about how the calorie became how we conceive of food’s value, and how it was an active effort from a lot of different forces www.weareravenous.com/how-the-calo...

How the Calorie Ruined Everything

For over 100 years, the calorie has dominated conversations about health, fitness, and the food economy. In our interview with Dr. Nina Mackert, she explains how that was a choice influenced by capita...

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my father said he showed an ai tiktok of people ordering food in French to his seventh grade French class and a bunch of them got mad at him bc ai is destroying the environment and I just think it’s so funny

The girls each keep their own diaries of recent events, which are fun to read and true to their characters with very cute illustrations. And dialogue is captioned with high quality face portraits, with voiced dialogue even having their lips move in sync! Really gives it that playing-an-anime feel.

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I’m reading a book that suggests a lot of the rise of southern US food as a restaurant cuisine and even a portion of the bacon mania of the past 20 years comes from a desire to retvrn to the antebellum south

its so helpful that we have this term “retvrn guys” that we can use to indicate that people are bigots whose idealized versions of the past appeal to them due to the lack of social status for women and minorities

Finding out that Tesla is discontinuing the Cybertruck: Huh. Well, it had to be coming *eventually*, right? Finding out that Tesla is discontinuing the Cybertruck specifically to repurpose its manufacturing facilities toward production of a car with no steering wheel:

A panel from the webcomic "Achewood", depicting the character Roast Beef (a vaguely anthropomorphic cat) staring off-panel with an expressing of delighted incredulity. His dialogue reads: "Oh, hee hee hee! Hee hee! Oh, hee hee hee!"

what's great for nasty creeps getting genital inspection laws passed is it accomplishes the primary goal of pushing trans girls out of public life AND the secondary goal of scaring cis girls out of sports. title ix who? don't have to fund women's sports if no women want to play them

I've been focusing on the congressional seat bc that's the michigan race that's been getting national attention but it occurred to me today that we could end up with a republican governor again and if it happens I will do something actionable