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MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Left wing science fiction you say?English
3·2 months agoFWIW, Moorcock discusses often in his forewords living the hellscape of post blitz London as a preteen. I highly doubt he would ever co-sign on another nazi regime.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Left wing science fiction you say?English
2·2 months agoHaha so right. My original draft lamented how the psychedelic, pansexual, spy with a little gun Jerry Cornelius only lives on in the pale echo of Austin Powers. But then I thought it was too niche.
But ya The Final Programme was my first literary introduction to homosexuality. The weird psychotropic defense towers on the Cornelius estate may have been my first introduction to mind altering states too.
The original velvet suited dandy from swinging London (imo):


MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Left wing science fiction you say?English
7·2 months agoStormbringer is Elric’s famous sword. You can hear someone shout it in GoT when Joffrey is about to name his sword. It’s evil and drinks the souls of those it kills, passing some of the energy to Elric.
Anyways. Elric is a sickly inbred albino prince of a an ancient , evil, and decaying empire (aka Fantasy Britain). Without his evil sword he is a total weakling pushover.
And people think this is a white power character/symbol? Blows my mind.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Left wing science fiction you say?English
2·2 months agoThat’s way harder.
There’s always his iconic anthihero Elric, or the modern incarnation Geralt of Rivia. I like The Vanishing Tower (Elric IV I think) as a standalone in-media-res story.
I personally enjoy the really weird stuff in Blood: A Southern Fantasy.
Behold the Man won him an award and I thought it was a thought provoking novella, at least for its time.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Cooking @lemmy.world•Testing a new bread flour before Thanksgiving:English
4·2 months agoThis looks really really good, crusty on the outside and soft on the inside.
Reminds me of those thin rustic slices with big sugar that you see at fancy brunch joints.
Not sure what they’re called but this is the best picture I could find.

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Cooking @lemmy.world•beef birria with rice and beansEnglish
1·2 months agoThis is how I know how to make it, however the Latin market now sells tomato sauce packets that are about 200 grams and I plan to adjust the recipe to use them and skip all the freezing/thawing of the extra tomato sauce.
1 cup rice
1 drizzle of oil
half can of tomato sauce (these cans are 14.5 ounces)
2 1/2 cups chicken broth
1/2 medium onion, minced
1-2 garlic cloves, minced
1 boneless chicken thigh, cut up or cubed
3/4 tsp salt, sprinkle of white pepper
- Pour the oil into a medium sauce pan over medium low heat.
- Once oil warms, add rice and stir to get rice coated in oil.
- Once a few grains begin to brown, add the onion and stir to get the onion coated.
- Once a few onions begin to sweat, add the garlic and chicken and stir to get everything coated, then increase heat to medium
- Stir regularly until you can’t see raw chicken; ideally everything is glistening with some light browning.
- Add the tomato sauce and stir until coated Use the chicken broth to rinse tomato sauce out of the can
- Pour the broth and tomato sauce mixture into the pan and bring to a boil (increase to medium-high or just wait)
- Add the salt and pepper now.
- Once at a low boil, put a lid on it and move it to a back burner on lowest heat for 25 minutes.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Parallel dimensions? No, they're hyperlayersEnglish
3·2 months agoReminds me of Absolution Gap and its insistence on brane cosmology theory. Most of the book is a side quest for a transmitter to an adjacent “brane” having the deus ex machina. I haven’t seen “brane” used instead of dimension/timeline since.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Cooking @lemmy.world•grilled cheese with parmesan thyme butterEnglish
5·2 months agoI made it 🙂
Use soft butter put 1-2 tbsp of it into a small bowl, depending on how big your bread is etc.
From an old jar of dried thyme leaves I’m trying to use up, I sprinkle some into my hand and rub it together until it gives a smell again. Tastes way better with fresh if you have it.
Incrementally add enough rubbed thyme into the butter and stir it until it looks good. Then stir in some Parmesan cheese, but not so much that it stiffens up (I just add more butter when that happens).
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Cooking @lemmy.world•Making simple oat wraps from scratch... (recipe and notes)English
6·2 months agoit hasn’t been totally frustrating and time-consuming, so far
If you like the taste I encourage you to try a batch using a tortilla press with smaller pieces of parchment. Should give you the same effect, but faster and without large unwieldy sheets. It’s what I do when I make corn tortillas, it’s way faster than mastering the hydration and finesse required for making them by hand. Plus you can prep an entire stack layered between parchments and then cook them all in one go.
As for me, having to wash that pan every time isn’t sustainable. I’m just too lazy haha.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteOPto
Cooking @lemmy.world•beef birria with rice and beansEnglish
3·2 months agoI never really considered that, but now I look online and I see lots of recipes using oyster mushrooms. Sounds tasty 👌
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
World News@lemmy.world•Andrew Mountbatten Windsor summoned by US CongressEnglish
5·2 months ago
Don’t you get it? You cocksucker! I work for Dick Jones! Dick Jones! He’s the Number Two Guy at OCP. OCP runs the cops.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod ChroniclesEnglish
2·2 months agoThat’s cool sure.
But on the other side: Reddit betrayed the social contract and deserves to rot in consequence.
One droplet of lost engagement becomes an ocean; just stop showing up 🤷♀️
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Risa@startrek.website•Star Trek is best utopiaEnglish
4·3 months agoSokath my eyes uncovered
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Wikipedia@lemmy.world•List of English words containing Q not followed by UEnglish
3·3 months agoDid you miss “tranq”, short for tranquilizer? It’s pretty native and modern sounding right? That being said ya the list is disappointing
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
World News@lemmy.world•How Israel and its 'digital army' work to silence the truth about GazaEnglish
10·3 months agoIt’s obvious in HN because of the wide range of obscure topics (eg installing scaffolding on old British smoke stacks) that occasionally arise to the front page, all the ones on that topic are quickly flagged to oblivion.
You don’t have to be a genius to see the pattern 🤷♀️
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
Science Memes@mander.xyz•Could you though? 👀English
15·3 months agoHey I’m actually growing a black sapote!
Here’s a blurry pic of the fruit forming

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websiteto
politics @lemmy.world•Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.English
8·3 months agoOh is it finally time to eat?

I want to see an animated series of the future federation historians that have to read the copious amount of unhinged reports from 24th c. starfleet captains.
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.



Gah what a fucking tool.
Well at least he isn’t getting paid when I rewatch Ace Ventura 2 on plex 😎