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Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

Piggybacking off your great post: those old blankets and towels with hair dye stains and little rips can have a new home with animal shelters this time of year too. They also need warmth, and they dont care about those little stains and small tears.

& here @judesherry.bsky.social & I are earlier in front of Dáil Éireann, Dublin Ireland for #worldvacanthomesday

We believe everyone should have a home, we have the homes lying empty, time for compulsory sales & compulsory rental

ffud art for #derelictireland #vacantireland #housingcrisis

Maybe my desire to get and use an ita bag is like a midlife crisis thing because we all know none of the millennials can afford to get a sports car or a superbike or a holiday home or a new spouse as a midlife crisis. It's just going to be anime merch and games on Steam that we'll never play

Some can I think. There's a few Japanese brands that have a takoyaki plate, and a lot of China arms Europe ones have a pancake plate.

In praise of older women

So anyway I now have a toastie maker, suggestions welcome!

Also, as always, I love the Internet Archive @archive.org

I knew I had hit the mother lode when the first recipe in the book was this beautifully unhinged thing (I mean, who in this day and age would think to make this in a toastie maker?):

First stop was Reddit and honestly kind of boring, but then again serious food reddit isn't very exciting or inventive to begin with. Still, do better!

Next stop was Internet Archive, where I found one of those recipe books they gave out with a purchase of something called a Snackster.

Problem 2: Me hating the idea of a single use appliance.

This was an easy fix; I just narrowed the search down to a toastie maker with interchangeable plates so I could at least attempt a waffle or something.

BUT ALSO! I went looking for ideas of what else to make in a toastie maker.

Problem 1: All the toastie makers that do the sealed edges made 4 triangle toasties. I wanted something more like the one pictured, but they were all basically just square panini presses (YES THERE'S A DIFFERENCE)

I've been trying to find things that give me a tiny bit of joy lately, to stave off the SAD, and I don't know how I got the idea but I thought that getting a toastie maker would help. The basic ones are really cheap, and I figure even if I only really use it for a week it wouldn't be such a waste.

By toastie I mean the ones made in a toastie/jaffle press, where it seals the triangles. I haven't had one since I left school, and when I got my own place I reasoned that I could just make grilled cheeses on a pan instead of buying the ridiculous Tefal Snack thing I wanted (also I was/am poor lol).

In the first two years of secondary school, I was in what's known as the afternoon session, where school starts 12.50 and ends at 6.30. I had orchestra rehearsals at 7 and we lived pretty far away from my school, so my mum would usually bring me toasties to eat in the car otw to the rehearsal space.

Are you a literal child who has to ask "why is he doing that?" every 5 seconds during a film?

Me talking to me

This is a very niche joke but it's honestly perfect.

"There's something different about the subtitles this season. Namely, they're all ass now."

Isn't the problem that they're not .ass now?

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

guy got mad at me for sharing this comic on twitter back in 2017, but it's still one of my favorite exchanges. (he was not kidding, btw.)

Since I see misinformation spread about Pillowfort often, and I think it’s a great site to join if you don’t want all your social media eggs in one basket, here’s a thread debunking common misconceptions I’ve seen over the years. 🧵

There's gallows humor and then there's whatever the hell this is. Genuinely impressive how they clearly understood what they were doing and went all-in on it anyway.

The year that I discovered myself and transitioned, I kept a journal. The next year, I retold it on Twitter, in real time a year after it happened. That thread is gone now, of course.

I'm getting it back online, and I've edited it into a new and more readable form.

arborelia.net/2018/