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Kimchi day today. I'll pack this either tomorrow or Sunday into my fermentation vessels (one E-Jen brining & fermentation container) and one traditional Korean Onggi.

2 large metallic bowls full of freshly made Bauchu Kimchi (napa cabbage kimchi) with spring onions, chives, conference pear (i couldn't find Asian pears) it's all mixed up with a paste of flour, water, garlic, fish sauce, etc, on a wooden counter top, ready to be packed into fermentation vessels. In my case, a traditional Korean Onggi and an E-Jen Kimchi fermentation vessel.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 8h

Now with Alt-text 🙄

Nikita Bier @nikitabier

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Hello computer. Decompile and distill Grand Theft Auto. Make the game set in my hometown -- use Google Earth to reconstruct it in pixel-perfect detail. Make the character me and have my spawn point be in the mansion I always look at on Zillow. Review my chat memory and make every mission about my hopes and dreams. Make it playable online so my friends can join. When you're done, sell all my video games on Ebay and use that money to fund tokens for my next game.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 08/10/2026

This is not about your beloved America, numb nuts.

James Tate @JamesTate121

So much for that American exceptionalism, but you just keep on voting against your own interests MAGA.

The 'Greatest' Country on Earth WHAT AMERICA THINKS IT'S #1 AT Healthcare Happiness Education Life expectancy Free press Climate Social mobility Income equality WHAT AMERICA IS ACTUALLY #1 AT - Imprisoning people - Gun deaths - School shootings - Drug deaths - Medical bankruptcy - Wealth inequality (wealthy nations) - Maternal mortality (wealthy nations) - Child poverty (wealthy nations) — Believing it's #1 Sources: Commonwealth Fund, World Happiness Report, PISA/OECD, WHO, RSF, Yale EPI, World Economic Forum, UN, CDC. Data 2022-2025.

ACTUAL RANKING Last among wealthy nations 24th 26th 46th 57th 57th 27th Last in the Western world

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 07/10/2026

I had to look it up, and luckily found "The Definitive Guide"

How Many Nipples Does a Fox Have? The Definitive Guide

The number of nipples on a fox can vary, but they typically have between four and six pairs, resulting in a total of eight to twelve nipples. How many nipples does a fox have? depends on the individual animal and species.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 06/10/2026

Howard's beans are on display 🐱🫘

Howard, my black and white cat has pink toebeans. He's asleep half upside down on an orange pouffe, asleep, his beans are pointing upwards.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 06/10/2026

Sometimes I'm glad I have no idea what people are on about.

I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like this: 'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT'

Is Baby Gronk the new Drip King, or is he just getting rizzed up by Livvy?

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 06/10/2026

Day off today, so cleared out the raised beds a bit, took the cucumber vines down, etc. Now I've got another problem, but a positive one at least 🙂

The last of my tomatoes (ailsa craig) ripening on the plant. They're mainly green and orange.

A freshly harvested big ass French Breakfast Radish

The veg I've harvested today. About 6Kg ridge cucumbers, about 10 red Scotch Bonnet chilli peppers, large bunches of purple, white and green dwarf French beans, about a dozen wonky and possibly woody French Breakfast Radishes, and a large Kohlrabi, on a wooden kitchen island.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 05/10/2026

This is still making me chuckle 2 days later 😀

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 05/10/2026

Had some spinach so I made saag paneer 🙂

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 05/10/2026

I've only ever heard of Hebden Bridge twice, both times today. The cottage on Rightmove, and this sign

NOTICE

WHOEVER IS PLACING THE COPYS OF PORNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE IN HERE, STOP! CORNHOLME IS A GOOD GOD FEARING CHRISTIAN VILLAGE. IF THIS FILTH IS TO YOUR LIKING MAY WE SUGGEST THAT YOU MOVE TO THECESS PIT THAT IS HEBDEN BRIDGE

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 05/10/2026

They're not helping anyone make decent decisions by saying "if you don't have this in your kitchen it's bad for you." I've got all sorts of "chemicals" not many people would recognise the names of. I cook with them, they are not "bad" for you.

As human diets shift toward increased consumption of processed foods and dietary additives, including sweeteners and emulsifiers, mounting evidence suggests that these food additives may disrupt the gut microbiome, impacting

intestinal and metabolic health. However, the literature reports both beneficial and adverse effects of food additives, complicating cross-study comparisons and risk assessment.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 05/10/2026

It's like wireless earbud chains. just buy wired heaphones ffs!

Stupid cord things you attach to wireless earbuds so you don't lose them.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 03/10/2026

Just picking and drying my homegrown Sanshō peppers, this is from 2 plants (mine and my mum's, but she can't eat spicy foods) They smell gorgeous, like a mixture of peppercorns and grapefruit. Zanthoxylum piperitum is basically Sichuan pepper plant, which is a citrus tree, so that tracks.

A half sheet pan on a stove top, the stove is not on. It contains hundreds of Sanshō peppercorns which will dry on my windowsill, I've sorted most of the leaves out, I still need to sort out the seeds from the seed casings (which are the bits you eat in things like Mapo Tofu), Sichuan peppercorns. They smell incredibly citrussy.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 03/10/2026

D'you know what, "Julie", I don't think I will follow back, thanks all the same tho

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 03/10/2026

My partner looked at me earlier and said, "Do you know what I really fancy?" "Shwarma?" I said "How did you know!?" she said. "Because I've been thinking about shwarma all morning" So we went to get shwarma from the local international supermarket. Everything is so lush, and it's only £5.50!

Part of the queue for shwarma at Go4Fresh in Nottingham.

Part of the shwarma fresh salad display, with the shwarma grilling at the back on gyros.

A chicken shwarma wrap, with pickled red cabbage, onions and tomatoes, with mint sauce and chilli sauce, cut in half, showing you the insides.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 03/10/2026

“What do you mean there’s no such thing as third breakfast?” #caturday

Howard, my senior black and white cat giving me the “feed me again” look 👀

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 02/10/2026

Thank goodness it's Friday Be Postin' Equines! #FBPE

An illustration of a lovely horse, it has a human face with glasses and a 'tache. It says, "hi. i'm brian horse. i care about you".

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 30/09/2026

If you see this please post something random, or don't, I'm not your mum.

About 5 years ago I worked in a restaurant and Ludacris came in, ordered spring rolls, and sent them back. When I apologized he said
"don't apologize, spring rolls are unpredictable." I think about this at least once a week.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 28/09/2026

A Barber shop in a place my friend's staying 😀

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 27/09/2026

Yeah! I just thought I’d check if there were any more to pick and ummm there was another 4kg 🙃

4kg freshly picked ridge cucumbers in a silver bowl.

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 27/09/2026

You're not doing much to beat the "Americans are dumb" reputation, pal. This has nothing to do with the United States of Israel 🤡

I'm one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America

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Franzylvania @protopigeon.lol · 26/09/2026

I usually ferment my kimchi in a ceramic Korean Onggi pot which is porous, but a bit of a pain to manoeuvre, and the top can go mouldier than I’d like, so I’m trying one of these which are also porous but air tight at the top. Very popular in Korea I believe.