I'm enjoying colour at the moment and it means something that you made these.

It is totally! But also not what I'm using.

Me: So i'm coating them to waterproof them and build up a protective layer. To preserve them, I guess.

Lp; so.... These are *art* mushrooms?

Me: ah yes, I see the confusion. Yes. I am not lacquering food. Dinner remains un-lacquered.

For now.

#art #mushrooms #diy

Loving partner: what are you lacquering?

Me: mushrooms

LP: why?

Me: well i've dried them but they're brittle and they're very hygroscopic so they'll take up water and get soft and detach and maybe break....

#diy #maker

I take it back, great observation. I was thinking of the way events keep pace with the school year, but then the 'living as child guerrilla soldiers' is a bit out of keeping, and about as well done as you'd expect for someone writing boarding school stories handling that topic.

Prompted by listening to @beefanddairy.bsky.social where they called her 'mrs merkel' and I had to check if she had a PhD as I thought she did (she does) (quantum chemistry) (I knew I liked her)

Or, in daily star terms:
'ANGELA MERKEL BUILT MY GOTH CLUB'

Writeup: cybernews.com/security/inv...

YouTube version: youtu.be/Szdz_R-LKNY?...

Fuck white supremacy.

.. cos it's a cheap way to drive up viscosity and enhance taste. Would have to check the numbers but it's something like 4 euros of subsidy for every euro spent on sugar. It makes it hard to reformulate cost effectively.

(I work on food formulation, among other things).