Friendly reminder that all 8 episodes of Agent Carter where produced well before they were released so the writers were unable to take fan feedback into account. And that Hayley has said the writers and producers are very conscious of representation and want everyone to see themselves on screen. And now that season 2 is confirmed, now is the time to make it known that we want more POC who don’t die/aren’t evil.
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pyoorkate said: Hrm, that sounds both tedious and unpleasant. Kinda like mudding but without the end-benefits.
Hope the eye thing sorts itself out… Otherwise: Drugs. That’s my answer to everything.
Better living through chemistry!
The trick is finding the right drugs. If it’s allergies, the med I took last night sure ain’t helpin’.
<nursey bit>
Definitely not diagnosing without seeing you – but if there’s been lots of dust around that might be a corneal abrasion, or a chemical burn from the plaster (nasty caustic stuff, at least here) – you should probably get it checked out – especially if the allergy meds aren’t working.
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Event: GRuB’s Annual Pay-What-You-Can Plant and Seed Sale in Olympia WA
Annual Pay-What-You-Can Plant & Seed Sale!
We’re proud to once again offer your favorite edible starts & seeds, plus some pollinator-attracting flowers! It’s all on a donation basis, so pay what you can, grow your own & grow good GRuB!
What: Annual Pay-What-You-Can Back Porch Plant & Seed Sale
When: May 6th – 10th, from dawn till dusk*
Where: GRuB – 2016 Elliott Ave NW, Olympia WA 98502*GRuB School is in session from roughly 12-3pm Mon-Fri, so please check
out all of our great plants on the back porch of the farmhouse & be
mindful that some fabulous hands-on learning is in progress!Oooh, this looks cool. Slightly too far this year, maybe next year…
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A note to my fellow white feminists about the renewal of Agent Carter
Okay, remember when there was a lot of criticism about the lack of PoC in Agent Carter, and remember when everyone was freaking out about how that might mean it doesn’t’ get renewed?
And you see now how it’s renewed?
It’s time to own the ‘it’ll get better in season 2? and ‘give season 2 a chance if we get one’ and every time we suggested that folks who wanted better representation in that show should wait.
Start talking about it now. Start writing to the network now, and the writers, and get the word out there.
We’re SO EXCITED about Season 2, and we can’t wait to see a lot more diversity. Where’s Jim Morita? Where’s Gabe Jones? Where are plots dealing with racial issues in the era? Where are all the women of color? It’s NEW YORK CITY, FFS. By both actual reality and comics canon, the show is about 8000% too white.
SEASON TWO IS A LOCK, SO LET’S START ASKING FOR EVERYTHING WE SAID WE WERE WAITING FOR.
Push. Push hard. Because a LOT of us told the women of color who complained about the lack of intersectionaliity to wait.
The wait is over.
YES THIS PLEASE
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is is insanely cute – and part of Bristol’s Queer Vision LGBT film festival (http://pridebristol.co.uk/queervision/) (via Cheryl’s Musings: http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=20824)
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Abroadland update
Today the horseless carriage delivered the woodblock printed / papyrus combination of items that is known as an “International Banker’s Draft”. I then put that in an envelope and mailed it to the states whereupon those lovely folks in the Washington State DoH will cast their eyes upon it and decide if I should be allowed to sit the NCLEX.
Please all keep your fingers crossed, because I’d quite like to move to the ‘states RIGHT NOW.
Not that the insane right-wing government and the callous and evil of Britain have elected* have made me even keener to leave. I wouldn’t want you to think that.
*The papers I saw today in the post office led with “NOW LET’S HAVE A REFERENDUM ON EUROPE” as their front page – which may save us bothering with UK citizenship for Kathryn, ‘cos whyTF would we come back to this shithole once it’s been fracked-and-strip-mined?.
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Attn coffee drinkers who follow me.
With my roomie gone work at home we’re kinda considering a grinder + French press combo, but where do you even start?
Anybody got a favourite of either of those?
I use an insulated French press and a Capresso burr grinder, but the latter is ridiculously expensive and we only have it because my sweetheart is in the fancy coffee industry. The French Press is like this, except that mine has an ‘Intel Inside’ case badge from when I was building my computer on it. The only problems I’ve ever had with French presses mechanically are that on some models the knob on the top of the plunger comes off (Mom and dad have a pretty metal insulated bodum one that I made a new knob for out of game modeling epoxy) and that if you regularly empty the standard glass-and-metal ones by flinging the contents out into the yarden you might eventually hold the metal only and fling the glass interior out into the yarden with the grounds, smashing it.
(this is why my parents no longer use glass French presses. :P).
Really, the grinder probably makes more difference to your brew than the press. And if she’s been drinking drip, any press+grinder (even standard grinder, rather than burr) will be an improvement (imnsho) – the French press method makes coffee with a lot more body, and you know your water is hot enough when you make it that way. Normal drip coffee makers have heating elements that slowly fail over time, so after a few years the water really isn’t hot enough to extract a good brew.
If she has specific models she wants to compare, I can run ‘em by E and see if he has any insider knowledge. :)
My wife got me a http://www.zassenhaus.com/ grinder – which she’d done lots of research on and which is apparently very highly rated. I find it produces a nice even grind, which is the thing that is important…
I just use a bog standard French Press from Bodum which isn’t exotic or exciting, but you don’t really need exotic or exciting. The cheap second hand one I have at work produces very nice coffee :)
That’s funny, I think my mom’s grinder may be a zassenhaus!
It hadn’t occurred to me to recommend it because most people who aren’t my mother would rather NOT hand-grind their coffee. But you and K do tend to follow mom’s ‘No way like the hard way’ ethos. :P
That’s not *quite* the ethos we’re going for… :) although that does often seem to be the outcome ;/ . That said, I’m currently applying all the filler in the world to our kitchen doorframe to save me having to remove it and replace the trim with something less…shonky.
So, sometimes the easy way is the solution.
Just not for coffee grinders.
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Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic workshop were just unutterably awesome…
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Really, really, really f’kin good.
