@Jkmcgee there is a book on it! The War on Kindness — and the Happiness Project Podcast with Dr Laurie Santos (free to listen to and highly recommend) features the book/author for an episode in the first season. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42729353

I played with my food and invented some soup. Last week, I made wicked-hot enchilada sauce, and took about 1/2 cup of that as the base for this soup’s broth. I simmered chicken and corn cobs, and added veggies I’d previously cooked in the chicken fat after searing my chicken legs — so corn, leeks, carrots, celery, garlic.

Pretty basic but delicious. I tried making masa dumplings but I don’t like ‘em. Next time, I’ll garnish with tortilla strips & avocado cubes. #CoSoCooks #CoSoRecipes

This cloud rolled over the hill and the temperature dropped so fast! Man. Some rain is coming later but gosh. Amazing how quickly the weather can shift by the ocean.

@triforce LOL. You don’t have to apologize. But holy heck. That’s a tough one. I wish I had that kinda time on my hands. Good golly.

@triforce Okay, that's really unpleasantly hard.

@EmperorPalpapeen That's what muting people is for. Don't be a passive user. Banning people because you don't like them is a great way to make it a bubble echo chamber. I'm not here for that. I've had the Kardashians muted on Twitter for 7 years and it worked just dandy.

@EileenKCarpenter Posts works!

@NickTheSkydiver The lingo's a little clunky!

Just like that, pow, the temperature dropped a few degrees here. Some wispy clouds are rolling in and rain is in the offing, perhaps. But sometimes you can feel a hot spell end, and that's what just happened.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but I don't think talking about toots in the firehose is ever gonna sound natural to me. Ha.

@Ideajuice Might be more drain on the system to parse who does or doesn't want their toots in the firehose.

@VelvetDuchess It’s called satire. It even says right there that it’s not true.

@NickTheSkydiver ha! Thanks for reminding me to W*rdl* today.

@NickTheSkydiver how long have you been active here?

There are some “community firehouse” attention whores — mostly political accounts with obvious biases — and you can save yourself a lot of eye-rolling by simply “muting” the accounts so their rhetoric doesn’t get too omnipresent.

@patois42 Starting giving out raisins. Ha.

@NickTheSkydiver Funny. I think you’ve been kicked off Twitter more than anyone I know except a really cunty old gay fella from Mexico that I know, hahaha.

This housesit is insane. All the chairs are close to the end of the deck but I have hatched a plan to relocate one by one of the doors — it’s getting too icy to walk across the deck in the morning and I’m stupid enough to enjoy the brisk morning air. If I move a chair, I may not die out here.

But lunch is safe! No ice. Also, no pants. Still shorts weather. If you’re a dumb Canadian who thinks 10° C is warm in November. 😄

@NickTheSkydiver I didn’t finish it because I was being distracted too easily so I’m saving it for when I have a bit more focus, as it was just starting to heat up. But I like it so far. And hi!

I harvested all my cherry tomatoes a couple weeks ago. I’m still slowly eating them as they ripen. BEHOLD, today’s chosen few.

I was looking at “longkeeper” tomatoes but they’re mostly in the EU — they’re tomatoes that stay edible for months after harvest. I need to ask some European friends to ship me seeds soon. Grow me some fancy eyetalian tomatahs.