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Required reading. 🤔 Simply superb.

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As always, the key to successful home fermentation is time and ✨cleanliness✨ If this is your first time, do a bit of reading. I'm very fond of nchfp.uga.edu/how/ferment Enjoy!

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National Center for Home Food Preservation - National Center for Home Food Preservation

The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for home food preservation methods.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1h

It was so good that I did the trick I learned from my dearly departed Aunt Gloria: crushing up some tortilla chips into the dregs at the bottom of the bowl and eating with a spoon.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1h

I added the juice and zest of a lemon and stirred it in. The video I got the idea from added it at the start but I forgot. Still seemed to come out well. I add some chopped cilantro when I dish out some, the original video also put that in up front but I think the cilantro gets weird and muted then

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1h

In maybe 24 hours, depending on how warm it is, you'll see little bubbles forming. Good, this is the wee beasties making lactic acid and farting out CO2 Taste it occasionally with a *clean* spoon. When you like the taste, take the cabbage out and put it in the fridge. This was about 2.5 days for me

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1h

You can get fancy gas-burping jar lids, I didn't have any [1] so I just remembered to open the jar a couple times a day. You can also get glass weights to keep stuff submerged [2] but cabbage or silicone baking paper works fine. [1] I'm on a fermentation kick so I have some now. [2] Ditto.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1h

Pack it down well, the salt is going to draw out liquid and make a brine. Put a piece of cabbage on top. This helps keep things submerged, and also apparently cabbage is a good host for the wee beasties that do lactofermentation. Put a lid on top. Sit it on the counter and wait.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1h

Chop up tomatoes, peppers, onions, thinly slice up some garlic cloves. I used poblano peppers de-seeded and -ribbed, and roma tomatoes. Next time I'd probably slice the tomatoes in half and let out some of the gel and seeds, maybe. Add 3% salt by weight, mix well. Put in a clean jar.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2h

Fermented salsa is *fucking amazing*

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2h

I don’t know but seeing that logo brought back such a strong memory impression that I could viscerally smell the men’s section of a second hand store.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 6h

The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]

A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8h

I don't believe in the afterlife but I hope he's rotting in Hell.

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 10h

they hated her because she told the truth

The Holy Trinity Diagram, showing that Broccoli is not Cauliflower is not Brussels Sprouts is not Broccoli, but that all three are Cabbage.

The diagram is arrayed in a trangle, featuring a circle at each corner of the triangle connected by lines that say "Is Not", with each circle also connected to a single circle in the middle by lines that say "Is"

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Rob Isaac @rmi.bsky.social · 19h

There’s many hilariously awful things about Google wasting half a page of search results on their asinine LLM thing, but perhaps the best one is that it takes every page of the SCP Foundation wiki completely seriously and reports it as stone cold fact.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 10h

1996, my college friends and I had an email list (hello DUHC!) and I distinctly remember the day we all got excited, after much effort, when we managed to send over 100 messages in a single day. Ah, the folly of youth.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 11h

I'm talking directly to you, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social @peters.senate.gov @debbiedingell.house.gov What are your plans for destroying the Republican Party?

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 11h

Ethics reform? This guy and his whole consultant class ilk should spend more time shutting the fuck up and sparing the rest of us their _West Wing_ wank fantasies.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 11h

When the Democrats sweep Congress in the midterms I'm calling both of my Senators and my Rep and asking them point-blank: What is your plan to absolutely and utterly destroy the Republican Party? The Republican Party shouldn't be able to win so much as a hall monitor election for the next 100 years

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 23h

Thank you! And I agree, using those things when you need to bulk up of the sauce makes sense.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 05/10/2026

I would dearly love a recipe pointer for this, I’m deeply curious

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 05/10/2026

Not only does this seem to be a very well thought out design, this is one of the best technical documents I’ve had the pleasure of reading in a long time.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 04/10/2026

But what if I want bad breath *and* a bleeding mouth?

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 04/10/2026

When I had to go to Orlando last year for The Worst Tech Conference Experience Ever for job[-1] the only thing that saved me was my traveling tea setup. Endorse.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 04/10/2026

It’s not Thanksgiving until I watch this episode.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lmfao

$r/AskDocs Join u/Impressive_S... • 215d • Layperson/not... When can My girlfriend sit on my face again I'm 21M my Girlfriend 21 F, and I broke my lower jaw 9 weeks ago, it was fractured in 2 places and I have 2 titanium plates and screws in my mouth, everything has gotten back to normal now at this point though, l've been eating and going about my life almost completely normal, but I was wondering if she was able to sit in my face now at this point in jaw surgery. I'm not on any medication I haven't been since week 2 and I'm healing great. Any feedback is greatly appreciated, please and thank you!!!$

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 03/10/2026

WooooooooooooOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 03/10/2026

This is such a wonderful album

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 02/10/2026

A large collection of amazing photos of old control rooms from nuclear plants, dams, power stations, etc. So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. [kottke.org]

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So Many Amazing Control Rooms

From the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside

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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My neighbor told me the Middle East keeps eating his carrier groups so I asked how many carrier groups he has he said he just goes to PACOM and gets a new carrier group afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding carrier groups to the Middle East and then Pete Hegseth started crying.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 02/10/2026

“We have both kinds, country *and* western!”

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 01/10/2026

"Whadda mean whips aren't considered an expendable item? Do you know what we do here? I wore out three alone during the last Mr. and Mrs. Johnson session!"

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 01/10/2026

I feel this way for credit card number fields. It's literally printed on every card I've ever had with spaces in it, why do you get really confused when I type the space?

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 01/10/2026

“I think it would really help if you could... just distract her when the heavy predictions come in. Blanche, these nice theys are going to watch television with you. This is Neil, and Buzz.” “Hi, are you boys in the gender program too?”

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

[Ed Harris in Apollo 13 voice] alright. What do we have on this spacecraft that isnt gender.

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chaff @earthlikeplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whole Foods knows about the Four Waters that are combined in a specific order to create normal water but they won't tell you them

Bathroom sink area where one can see three pipes coming out of three adjacent places on the wall which combine left plus center and right plus center and then all three again into one and then up through a weird larger tube section and then up and then down again to combine with flow from a fourth pipe coming out of a different place in the wall and then into a white plastic shrouded pipe section(?) and then up into/under the sink. Hot water has its own separate pipe from the wall. Ok

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 29/09/2026

I spent 40 seconds following that pipe and now I feel like I spoke to Yog Sothoth and now part of my psyche has been torn asunder.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 29/09/2026

Cross 23 and come join us in the paradise that is Ypsilanti, and relax in the shade of our benevolent water tower.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 28/09/2026

Perhaps some sort of hydraulics.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 28/09/2026

How about second mattress and make a sandwich?

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 27/09/2026

I think this a good example of if you have to read it, it’s a sign, not a flag. Chicago you could recognize at a glance from a distance. The old seal on a field of color is indistinguishable from any other number of the same idea. I really need to come up with a better flag for my city.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 27/09/2026

I came here just to see if anyone posted this and I’m happy it’s the first one that popped up.

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