Awesome! I'm going to have to try this. Thank you for sharing!
I'm pretty happy with the current flax milk process, but I think that's because it kind of self-gels into something a little thicker. Then I use the flax pulp for muffins.
Definitely use the vanilla and maple sparingly. That's what I use, too, and most recipes I found online were too vanilla and too sweet for our taste buds.
I tried pistachio milk this morning for the first time. Definitely pricier, but, I calculated it out per ounce and it's still cheaper than the store bought flax milk we were buying sometimes.
Pistachio muffins in the oven now using the pistachio pulp leftover
In a place with a history of hate, an unlikely fight against GOP extremism
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho
— Locals prefer not to talk about the hate that took root here a generation ago, when the Aryan Nations and other militants built a white supremacist paradise among the tall pines and crystal lakes of North Idaho.
Community activists, backed by national civil rights groups, bankrupted the neo-Nazis in court and eventually forced them to move,
a hard-fought triumph memorialized in scenes from 2001 of a backhoe smashing through a giant swastika at the former Aryan compound just outside of Coeur d’Alene, the biggest city in this part of the state.
For much of the two decades since, civic leaders have focused on moving beyond the image of North Idaho as a white-power fiefdom.
They steered attention instead to emerald golf courses and gleaming lakeside resorts where celebrities such as Kim Kardashian sip huckleberry cocktails.
Now, however, North Idaho residents are confronting that history head-on as a new movement builds against far-right extremism.
This time, activists say, the threat is no longer on the fringes of society, dressed in Nazi garb at a hideout in the woods.
Instead, they see it in the leadership of the local Republican Party, which has mirrored the lurch to the right of the national conservative movement during the Trump era on matters of race, religion and sexuality.
The bigotry of the past, they say, now has mainstream political cover.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/20/idaho-extremism-republicans-primary/
@DavidM_yeg @HelenBranswell @driusan
Separately, it's not all economic anxiety. Some is, for sure, but, a lot of it's coming from people flying Trump, MAGA and Don't Tread On Me flags, like the dairy farm down the road from me. Ostensibly, the Bundy standoff was about cattle, too.
@DavidM_yeg @HelenBranswell @driusan
I think you're on the right path here, but, what does "cooperation" itself mean to you, on the ground? I ask because lots of different people seem to have different preferred outcomes here.
Cattle owners testing their herds regularly for H5N1 in an attempt to identify and quarantine/cull infected herds?
Ranches testing employees to find out if/when H5N1 infects people?
Dairy operations testing milk to attempt to assure that infected milk doesn't get into circulation? Before, or after pasteurization?
I think the answer depends on your desired outcome for the current situation. There's plenty of people who don't care as long as their milk is deemed safe. There's plenty of people worried about zoonotic disease, whether that's about spillover to humans or just limiting bird flu spread in general.
fucking hell, the PIP assessment (disability benefit) is actually as demeaning as I was led to believe.
If you really think that it's important to have to describe, in the details, the step-by-step process of going to the toilet, in order to see if you qualify, then you've never been in a position where you've had to describe, in the details, the step-by-step process of going to the toilet to a young lady 20 or more years your junior.
For International Tea Day, my Green Tea Chemistry print. This linocut illustrates green tea and its chemistry. There's a tea pot, two cups of tea and a tea plant (Camellia sinensis) on a tray, and in the steam, you can see some of the organic chemicals found in green tea. Up to 27% of the composition of green tea can be a member of the flavonoids called catechins like the molecule illustrated on the right. 1/n
#tea #greenTea #chemistry #linocut #sciart #printmaking #InternationalTeaDay
Scientists have managed to generate a full genetic sequence of #H5N1 #birdflu from store-bought milk, suggesting commercial milk products could be a way to monitor the outbreak in cows, given the lack of cooperation from dairy farmers. https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/21/bird-flu-virus-spread-scientists-monitor-h5n1-in-store-bought-milk/
I also wish there were a way to make this possible, but, the sheer scale alone makes it near impossible. There's over 30,000 dairy farms in the US, and cattle take up ~27% of the land mass at ~614 million acres. Monitoring them all would take massive public investment and buy-in from a lot of ranchers who don't want federal government employees on their property, and may be willing to violently oppose it.
Monitoring it after dairy farms, and before human consumption would be a far more achievable goal in the short term.
When people tell me they read one of my books and found it “quite good”, I like to assume they’re from the US where “quite” apparently means “very”
As opposed to the UK/Aus, where “quite good” is just damning with faint praise.
Unless you say it was “really quite good”. *That’s* when you mean “very good”.
If you say “quite good, really”, that means you’re surprised it was any good.
And if you say “Oh, I say, that is quite, *quite* remarkable”, you’re an 18th-century Earl confronted by a tempestuous highland beauty who is tossing her raven-black locks and flashing her sapphire-blue eyes at you because you’re enclosing her commons
Re: the last boost
Is someone working on a global low/no-covid specific dating app?
Because if god willin, there is ever a world where it's safe for me to leave the house again, I would really like to meet people who are:
- systems thinkers
- in solidarity with those who have less economic power
- fighting eugenics and ableism
- able to resist peer pressure
- resolved in their convictions
- thinking for the long term
Truly, I can think of nothing sexier and I mean that with my whole heart.
Caitlin Rivers is an epidemiologist who specializes in outbreak science. She advocated for the creation of a National Center for Epidemic Forecasting, and I have followed her for some time for her insights into Public Health.
She is about to release a book to show the influence of Public Health and tout some of its unsung heroes. I highly recommend getting the book either hardcover or ebook:
or follow her on Substack:
https://caitlinrivers.substack.com
Here we go again. Singapore CoViD19 cases almost double leading hospitals to cancel most elective procedures to free up bed capacity:
The #SARSCoV2 pandemic is not even close to being over.
I hate to put it bluntly, but, if it's open to rain water collection, then yes. More to the point, you'll probably want to see if you're near any known PFA contamination sites. Groundwater unfortunately accumulates PFAs from lots of contaminated sites.
You can find some of the worst here:
https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
But it's really hit and miss as to whether your groundwater's even been tested in the end.
The good news is if you're using RO in there then in all likelihood you're good.
Today is a nonstop torrent of abusive acts by Big Tech.
In this one, it looks like Google effectively paid off the feds to avoid a jury trial in the antitrust case. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/google-cuts-mystery-check-us-bid-sidestep-jury-trial-2024-05-20/
Oh just fabulous. AI-generated personality tests in job applications have arrived. Just helped a library guest apply for a job and the test was incomprehensible from beginning to end. Of course the local outfit had outsourced the application process to a third party company, who had outsourced the personalty/morality tests to yet ANOTHER company. This ordeal was for a job as a JANITOR.
#library #librarian #AI @librarians
When you come across the EPA touting that they're putting $300 million into what are known as "Brownfields" just know that's basically nothing.
Brownfield sites are polluted sites that are too polluted for redevelopment.
The EPA doesn't even know how many there are.
The GAO thinks there could be a million of them as of 20 years ago.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-05-94.pdf
Tons of them are contaminated with PFAs.
Even if there were "only" a million, a number I am willing to bet is an underestimation, $300 million isn't a drop in the bucket of what's required.
As someone who's absorbed a lot of this ire, I've been told repeatedly exactly what you said, as well as that there's just a lot of anger that when the WHO put out their risk calculator, and it showed that simply putting a HEPA filter in the room did nothing for "short range" transmission it was seen as dismissing filtration. I get the frustration.
I think that idea's going to take a little while to ruminate until more people are comfortable with the idea that a HEPA filter in the room isn't going to stop you from contracting COVID if you're face to face with an infectious person. Swiss cheese is still the best option, no matter how much we all like our silver bullets.
Taken to the extreme, I've seen plenty of people posting pictures of them in a store, with an Aranet, maskless, talking about how great the CO2 levels are. While that's great and all, the first time someone walks by you and sneezes in your face it's not going to do a thing.
Elevated carbon dioxide lets Sars-CoV-2 live far longer in droplets | Research | Chemistry World
acidic or alkaline,
potato, potahto
bottom line… it lingers
#co2 #HEPA #wearADamnRespirator
fascinating though
I assume it’s lingering everywhere
I thought this was pretty well said:
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina
Moved full time to my other account @BE soon as this instance is still having issues.