Twitter C/D

lol dan, I am having a very similar Threads experience, where every time I go over there I encounter a long screed from someone I don’t know that is impressively dumb

Threads defaults to "for you," you have to toggle it back to "following" every time you visit.

Will do.

I quit X months ago and do not regret that one bit, except when somebody posts something interesting and says look at this thread on X and I don't understand how and why anybody still posts there at all.

i def don’t care enough to troubleshoot it

yeah true although I've decided it was a personal but slightly botched shadowban by Musk directly, makes us both feel like a big man

NO CAP 🧢 pic.twitter.com/rlqWFfLQlG

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) March 14, 2024

The fuck does that even mean?

Does anyone know why airlines don’t put ads on the overhead bins?

Feels like a nice revenue opportunity sitting in *plane* sight pic.twitter.com/4x162xa1e4

— Ben Weiss (@benjamweiss) March 16, 2024

once you futz enough with the feed settings you kinda realize the genius of bluesky. the way you can have multiple feeds each one customizable is actually really cool, but the default feed they start you out on is terrible. i recommend going Only Posts. i like algorithmic feeds like For You on twitter but the algorithm has been going facebook style crazy on me lately, i liked a tweet with a pic of Jeanine Garofalo on the Larry sanders show from some “Actresses of the Nineties” account and now my feed is like 30% sexy celeb pics

I just left X/Twitter - no way that fascist gets any more attention from me. Political violence / misogyny / xenophobia has no place in modern society. I just don't get how we let this nutjob get so many federal contracts. Elmo can choke on whatever drug he's mainlining.

xxp, they already do on easyjet and ryanair?

No idea. I've never seen it myself but it's been a good couple of years since I've flown with either

The economics of groceries is what frustrates me.

If I want a BLT, I must buy a whole loaf of bread, a pack of bacon, and a tomato, hoping my mayo hasn't expired.

I want a proportionally-priced "kit" to make 1-2 sandwiches, as I end up throwing out so many leftover ingredients

— Cliff (@bubu4ubu) March 18, 2024

why can't he freeze the bread and bacon?

in the replies he genuinely seems to be complaining that he can't buy half a tomato

We need to set up a market where people can trade tomato halves online

Funny how there isn’t something that starts with an L that also goes into a BLT, that seems weird

it stands for lmayonnaise

Seriously though, this person must be a) bad at shopping, b) bad at preparing their own food, and c) TERRIBLE at planning. If you just want a BLT, buy a damn BLT

i might eat a blt

damn if only there were other meals that could use *checks notes* bread, bacon, tomato or mayo in part or in combination with other things

1-2 blts

Or buy that whole loaf of bread and ~reap the benefits~ of extra bread!

I’m bad at meal planning in general but add some sliced deli meat? Different sandwich. Egg? French toast with your bacon. Mayo? Get you a spoon and eat it

Yeah now I could go for a BLT too, and I already ate, FML

lifehack: dedicated mayo storage shed

expired mayo? whoever even heard of that anyway

now I’m all amped up and I want to go to the store to buy a leaf of lettuce, a slice of tomato, two slices of bread, two pieces of bacon and a pocketful of mayo

If I can’t do that then why are there even stores

just bring all the stuff to the cashier and ask them to make you a sandwich

the thing is, a full tomato is just a vessel to keep those couple perfect slices fresh. the rest can be compost

i usually just eat the rest of the tomato on the side as a lil salad if you will

That’s true, ime the rest gets diced up and thrown into whatever I’m cooking. Gotta get to that next fresh tomato!

old fridge tomoato, no thank you

It seems obvious that this person's food preparation skills top out at "I can make a sandwich" and they only use this skill at rare intervals because almost all their meals are either cold cereal, take-out, or microwaved. Why they'd trumpet this to the world eludes me.

Maybe with a dollop of expired l’mayonnaise

my coworker admitted he has multiple family members who don’t eat leftovers and I’m aghast. as someone who has lived alone for a long period that’s wild to me

leftovers are good, if you had nice food and theres some left youre all im gonna heat that stuff up and eat it hell yeah

or even if the food doesnt excite you its there and you can just eat it if youre hungry

it’s true. it’s food and it’s already been made, what’s not to like

this guy should just make his own bread then he could make very small loaves, problem solved

He makes a good point that it's hard to shop and cook for one person. There are a lot of things that you couldn't make for just yourself without major effort and waste. I've been trying to balance shopping and cooking for myself for years.

If you want to try new interesting recipes it requires forethought as to what can be saved and a willingness to throw stuff out

im eating the blt

I dunno Ive been one person many times in my adult life and I never had an issue buying groceries and using what was left for other meals. This guy reeks of "young male who was never shown how proper home economics works" which ISTG seems to be 80% of the fucking men Ive ever known for some reason.

No one actively SHOWED ME how to use the rest of a tomato, head of lettuce or loaf of bread. Why is common sense so lacking in some people. GAAAHHHH.

concocting a meal from ingredients on hand is fun and edifying

I'm all about the leftovers. Though I do take it too far and often have a fridge full of 2-week-old tiny tupperwares full of a 1/4 can of corn, some shredded chicken, and 4 olives lol.

hoping my mayo hasn't expired.
hoping my mayo hasn't expired.
hoping my mayo hasn't expired.
hoping my mayo hasn't expired.
hoping my mayo hasn't expired.
hoping my mayo hasn't expired.
hoping my mayo hasn't expired.

one can only pray

btw I buy half loaves of bread all the time

and anyway i’d like to know more about this “proportionally sized” sandwich “kit” - does it look anything like… a sandwich?

er, proportionally priced, that is

I left my Kraft Mayo out accidentally but hope that it is full of enough preservatives that I won't die when I eat it again.

Part of the problem for me is that I have frequent visitors who all have their own food needs. I end up with a refrigerator full of stuff that I wouldn't buy for myself.

I love leftovers, but making a typical recipe of a meal for six is burdensome. I don't want to eat the same thing for five more days, I just don't. And reducing the quantities in the recipe to one just makes it a slog

I make my own sourdough bread. It requires a dutch oven (like a Le Creuset). It is fantastic, as good as Tartine's. I slice it up, eat some, and put the remainder into the freezer for later. I can give you all the recipe if you want, but it is long.

Along with the bread I freeze bolognese sauce, rice, homemade chicken broth, soups etc. But there are a lot of recipes that require fresh ingredients that have to be bought in quantity and cannot be saved