In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades.

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harry potter hey everyone!! how are you doing? c: I'm moving next week and it is really exciting! I've already packed 10 boxes but there is still so much stuff! especially on top of my closet it is too tall for me to reach even with a chair so I'm not really sure how I will solve this right now I can see there is at least my old marbles collection and my chocolate fondue up there one of those marbles was at least as big as my fist and I think I can't leave such a good marble behind I'm not as attached to the chocolate fondue because ever time I tried it the chocolate always tasted like regret (and burnt chocolate) I wonder if all of my plants will manage to die until the move the biggest one seems really determined I think I put too much water on the little guy :c and with water I mean every liquid thing that I washed my brushes with over the past few years in hindsight that does not feel like a very good idea maybe but I will live very close to the forest soon and I'm sure I won't be able to kill every plant there! :) I hope it is going to be a little spooky in autumn just a little!! at first I thought 'Oh no! I won't be able to grow tomatoes on the balcony because the racoons will eat them like they ate the bird food la' st winter' but then I realized that the new city doesn't have a racoon plague since the 1960s plague sounds too negative they are very sweet and have tiny hands but now the future has a lot less racoons than I thought this will be a completely new way of life but I hope there will still be at least some racoons with tiny hands :) have a nice day!!
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vox.com

Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell

Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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In order to earn money to pay off my $42,000 student loan debt, I tore into Betsy DeVos’ ridiculously bad house for Vox. 

Update: I’ve gotten a lot of nasty emails about how I’m lazy and entitled for…(looks at smudged ink on hand)…working hard at my job to pay off my debts.

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brunhiddensmusings: “ cameoamalthea: “ brunhiddensmusings: “ threeraccoonsinatrenchcoat: “ badgerofshambles: “a singular scuit. just one. ” an edible cracker with just one side. mathematically impossible and yet here I am monching on it. ” ‘scuit’...
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a singular scuit. just one. 

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an edible cracker with just one side. mathematically impossible and yet here I am monching on it.

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‘scuit’ comes from the french word for ‘bake’, ‘cuire’ as bastardized by adoption by the brittish and a few hundred years

‘biscuit’ meant ‘twice-baked’, originally meaning items like hardtack which were double baked to dry them as a preservative measure long before things like sugar and butter were introduced. if you see a historical doccument use the word ‘biscuit’ do not be fooled to think ‘being a pirate mustve been pretty cool, they ate nothing but cookies’ - they were made of misery to last long enough to be used in museum displays or as paving stones

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‘triscuit’ is toasted after the normal biscuit process, thrice baked

thus the monoscuit is a cookie thats soft and chewy because it was only baked once, not twice

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behold the monoscuit/scuit

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Why is this called a biscuit:

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when brittish colonists settled in the americas they no longer had to preserve biscuits for storage or sea voyages so instead baked them once and left them soft, often with buttermilk or whey to convert cheap staples/byproducts into filling items to bulk out the meal to make a small amount of greasy meat feed a whole family. considering hardtack biscuits were typically eaten by dipping them in grease or gravy untill they became soft enough to eat without breaking a tooth this was a pretty short leap of ‘just dont make them rock hard if im not baking for the army’ but didnt drop the name because its been used for centuries and people forgot its french for ‘twice baked’ back in the tudor era, biscuit was just a lump of cooked dough that wasnt leavened bread as far as they cared

thus the buttermilk biscuit and the hardtack biscuit existed at the same time. ‘cookies’ then came to america via german and dutch immigrants as tiny cakes made with butter, sugar/molasses, and eggs before ‘tea biscuits’ as england knew them due to the new availability of cheap sugar- which is why ‘biscuit’ and ‘cookie’ are separate items in america but the same item in the UK

the evolution of the biscuit has forks on its family tree

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