I make “chicken jello” for the cats on a weekly basis. It’s their favorite.

Ha. Sorry. For beginners using unflavored gelatin I would recommend the Knox brand packets that are sold next to the regular Jello boxes. They are highly refined and don’t have any um… surprising smells… ? The big 2lb jars of unflavored supplement gelatin can be a bit strong when you first add boiling water, but it goes away entirely once it is set in the fridge or dissolved in tea. I could see that putting someone entirely off jello if they were already iffy.

My very favorite is mulberry juice jello, but the only place that sold mulberry juice near me stopped carrying it a couple years back. It’s on amazon, but I can’t bring myself to buy juice on amazon. Tart cherry is a good sub. https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Juice-Black-Mulberry-Organic/dp/B00J49VLMO/

I have a family tradition of making rainbow jello for Easter. Each color layer gets a thin layer of sweetened condensed milk jello in between to make the colors really pop when it is sliced. It’s so pretty. It takes all day. It’s one of my favorite things about Easter.

I also make it pretty regularly because I eat gelatin as a nutritional supplement that does seem to help my joint pain a bit. For that I use unflavored fish and beef gelatin and mix it with tart cherry juice in pint jars and chill it or mix it with hot tea or chicken broth.

Again, these places aren’t being closed. They are being sold to a different grocery giant. The issue at hand is monopoly and price fixing, not fewer grocery stores.

Did you read the article you posted about Santa Rosa? That law was pushed into place so one guy could open a Smart & Final. There was already a Lola’s (independently owned grocery store), Target with grocery section and a Costco there. How is that a food desert?

He also didn’t like that the law had the appearance of being written specifically to help one property owner get a new tenant. Commercial real estate broker Tom Laugero, who was working to get Smart & Final into the Santa Rosa Town Center space, petitioned the council to pass the law. […] “We corrupted our process,” Wysocky said. “We took 12-year-old statistics from the federal government and molded our process just to help this one tenant out. And that’s not OK.”

Where I am in California there are six Safeways (owned by Albertsons who is merging Kroger) in a two mile square. At least here, we aren’t short of grocery stores, and these aren’t being shuttered anyway, they’re being sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers . The issue is this massive monopoly, not really being mitigated by the anti trust regulators making them give up a tiny percentage of their kingdom in order to vastly increase their strangle hold on US grocery stores and ability to artificially inflate food prices.

Oh for fucks sake.

In a survey last month, which captured data from 54 percent of affected farms at the time, more than 60 percent of farmers said they continued to move cattle off their infected farms after the onset of clinical signs of infection in their animals.

I’m sleepy and read that as “Biden voters, how do you dry your ass afterward?” and was very confused. But like… not as confused as I probably should have been.

I think it was millipedes.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/the-rise-of-the-giant-prehistoric-bugs/143976

One of the largest of these was Arthropleura Armata, a genus of millipede that inhabited coal forests and could grow up to 2.5 metres in length.

It’s lovely, Bones! Thank you!

I had no idea they were still on the ship.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/baltimore-bridge-dali-ship-crew/index.html

TLDR: the ship has minimum staffing requirements, even when stationary, the crews visas expired while they were trapped, the investigation is ongoing and the FBI took their cell phones.

And Baltimore attorneys don’t want any of the crew to leave the country until the investigation is over, which may take two years.

https://thedailyrecord.com/2024/06/20/attorneys-for-baltimore-seek-to-keep-dali-crew-members-from-returning-home/

The death penalty is always more expensive for tax payers than life in prison. Just be honest and admit you enjoy your blood lust fantasies. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/costs

If Jared Kushner is not a vampire then modern media has lied to me about the signs to look out for.

Oh good. That makes more sense.

What the actual fuck. He “doesn’t remember” making the rambling phone calls where he graphically threatens the lives of house members of color, because of his bipolar disorder and his PTSD, and when capitol police show up at his house to politely ask him to stop doing that, he offered to let them take his guns away and they said “No thank you, sir! You keep those bad boys!”

I hope, but don’t believe that he will get the help he needs while incarcerated.

They wash their vegetables with soap? Like… special veg soap or just like Dawn or something?

A friend of mine solves this by meticulously peeling the caps and discarding the stems. It seems like a lot of work to me. I use a mushroom brush to get the dirt and substrate/manure off and call it good.

About 110, but most are not very active. I do tend to go through my ‘subscribed: new’ feed pretty quickly and then switch to ‘local: active.’

Ickplant moderates and is the main poster for [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] and [email protected] which, together are about half my Subscribed feed. BonesOfTheMoon fills my feed with [email protected] which is nice.

because it aggravates you?

I use Mlem on iPhone, but I can’t send private messages, I just get an error message every time. I have to use voyager if I want to do that. Otherwise it’s a very good app.