Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Lady we really do take turns being the downer lmao

@Lady technically twice its just not funny the second time

@Lady hmm

@Lady ?

@Forestofglory yay comments!

@Billius27@mstdn.ca also worth noting that NIOSH, who controls N95 certifications doesn’t certify masks with standard earloops, only headstraps or earloops w/a connecting fastener in the back & pretty much all the certified producers seem to have gone the headstrap route

If someone tells you a mask with earloops is N95 either they’ve confused it with a similar standard from a diff countries regulatory body (KN95’s allow earloops for example) or the mask is fraudulent

@jkcheney @edebill currently sunrise 6:15, sunset 6:10 in Barentsburg so pretty close to exactly 12 actually!

The issue with the equinoxes is that for certain astronomical things (eg figuring out equinoxes) the sun is treated as a single center point, but for many practical considerations thats not the relevant definition — so sunsets are typically calculated by the trailing edge and sunrises by the leading (if you can see the sun at all, it counts as up). And then you often get a period of dusk (when you can’t see the sun but there’s still light shining up past the horizon) before true night, making the nights seem even shorter than they are — astronomical twilight doesn’t end until the sun is a full 18° below the horizon

@Cyborgneticz outside of baked goods i rarely just look up and follow a single recipe so the books i’d think of definitely skew more towards baking than my actual practice haha

Nick Malgieri’s Cookies Unlimited has been a faithful friend for years

Maury Rubin’s Book of Tarts contained a lot of delicious experiments

@Cyborgneticz

Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi — good assortment of recipes and also what happens to be my by far fav wheat free / gluten free cake recipe

Lateral Cooking by Nikki Segnit — don’t directly use the recipes a ton but an interesting read / model for thinking about food

Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything — sometimes you just want a single page comparing the cooking times for five diff kinds of lentils without a ton of fuss

@OldBrushNewPaper i was in London for a while in January so not too many surprises on most menus but i did get some fantastic crunchy black sesame & mung bean cookies from a boba store by pointing and going “how much?” I still don’t know what they were called 😆

@OldBrushNewPaper honestly mostly food? i cook a lot and i love trying things other people have cooked (whether professionally or otherwise)

frequently willing to order things purely because i don’t recognize them and found out by trying it (within the boundaries of common sense of course haha)

@OldBrushNewPaper oooh nice yeah, i’m glad you’ve found some artists you like!

@OldBrushNewPaper just the good old insomnia — we had a daylight savings timeshift recently and my body did not appreciate it

but i would not be shocked to hear a bit of an overlong circadian rhythm either, staying up late is extremely easy in comparison to any other kind of being awake

@OldBrushNewPaper ooh yeah online eps are convenient that way!

@OldBrushNewPaper ahhh sorry about the enforced rest from knitting! hopefully switching needles helps a big

and glad my extremely strange sleep habits are to your benefit :D i always appreciate getting to chat when you’re around