I use Arch btw and it Just Works™️ Switched away from windows a few months ago and it’s been nothing but sunshine. I love having an os that does what I tell it to.

I have to use windows 11 at school and god damn. What a shit experience. I’ve put so much work into forcing my station there to be baseline functional. I’ve used windows my whole life and the number of weirdnesses already required decades of arcane knowledge to work past, and windows 11 is like pouring flaming diarrhea into the mix

Do you have a source on them not being able to kill you? Everything I’m finding on them suggests they can even if it isn’t too common

Well Saint Rat in particular has a trans flag on it you can see in the lower right corner of the second picture. But rats in general seem to be a trans favorite and idk why but I’m all about it too. Cal Anderson Park is also an important trans area being in one of Seattle’s queer neighborhoods and trans people often hang out there, have rallies, and one part frequently has memorials for trans people

If you remember, let me know when you’ve made the pilgrimage!

Cal Anderson, on the south end of the reflecting pool, facing the water. You have to step up a bit of a ledge to walk out to it

Most of the time I fermented garlic in the jar with the peppers, and depending on what I was doing I’d also ferment them with onion, carrots, or pears. You can also use cheesecloth and twine to make a little fermenting tea bag for things like peppercorns and mustard seed to keep in with the peppers.

As for the post ferment my staples were: caramelized onion, honey, lime juice and/or apple vinegar, msg. I’d often add fresh bell peppers for a little brightness, mango or pineapple, fresh or roast garlic, you can really play around in this stage. You can also run fermented honey garlic alongside and add that in after the peppers ferment.

My better recipe notes are going to be harder to find they’re in a notebook somewhere but here’s some of my digital ones. The section header shows what was in the jar during ferment (so like ‘hab + garl’ means habanero and garlic) with the other stuff being what was added post ferment. Ferm juice is the brine, truff is truffle oil. All of these also have an unlisted amount of canola oil I’d slowly add in during blending until the immersion felt right.

If only I knew about the boneless wings indicator maybe I could have cracked my egg sooner lol

In Seattle, Saint Rat is a trans icon and it’s common to find hormones placed at its little altar lol

If you want to go above and beyond impressing people with homemade hot sauce grab something like these: https://www.nicebottles.com/catalog/5ozwoozyshrinks

I used to make my own hot sauces and printed off custom labels too. Throw them in a woozy with the plastic heat seal and people lose their shit over them

I wrote down a handful of my recipes somewhere if you want any of them

So I’m trans and would regularly get searched by TSA. Flying out of Seattle though TSA would often clock me and split the line to go through the metal detector instead of the scanner which was way less likely to trigger a pat down. I suspect having trans people as TSA agents will help other trans people while traveling. That said it’s not like they’re going to take it down from the inside or something and I still think this person is a bit of an idiot. I want TSA to disappear but if it is to exist then I hope it’s forced to allow trans people

I’m just the one person so not the friends you’re thinking. Always up for more connections though if you want another friend, or want to expat match make me with your other friends so I have more people to socialize with 👉👈

I’m in Sweden. I have enough savings to go as a student and get a residence permit that way, it was the fastest way I could get out as opposed to trying to find a job

I fled the whole fucking country. They want to kill my trans ass and I managed to find myself in a position where escape was possible; I’m never going back. Plan is to settle in here then be a landing space for other people looking to flee the US or other countries

I used to be married to a chef, cooking together was one of our primary bonding points. They taught me how to cook at a professional quality but I’ve never gotten to a professional speed. Usually that meant I’d do prep work while they did a million things around me but as long as I was in my station it worked really well. Even now we’re not together I love cooking with people in general doesn’t matter if they get in my way or not. It’s just such a fun way to interact with people and I’m more invested in that than whatever the food result is

I may never in my life have the chance to share this song in a more relevant way: Soup for my Family by Pigeon Pit, a trans folk punk musician from the Pacific Northwest: https://youtu.be/2Do0MIq9GSw

Ffs I get back from school to find this out. I’ll live up to it: dentist farting in my mouth is such a power move I’d be scared not to go back

I would go back to the dentist either if they were farting in my mouth

The Furryosa saga is one of the best things to happen here. Thank you for the updates ❤️

Pike place chowder has a chowder sampler and the other place I was thinking was Byrek and Baguette. Looking at BB’s menu though I’m not seeing one so maybe they don’t have it anymore? You can get a baguette and soup combo though