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@beechichi / beechichi.tumblr.com

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It’s been like ten years since I last painted something original. Dedicated to @moami bc she makes me want to indulge my fantastical side~ <3 I hope everyone is having a good end of the year! Hang in there it’s almost over!

#nebula#space#cosmos#stars#illustration#original art#myart#i keep telling myself that i'm not going to do any more pieces with purples/blues#and what do i do?#an entire piece of just that#again.#like literally every single personal piece ive done is of the damn night sky#with fucking purple/teal color scheme hahaah#gdi#238art
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I attended a Dungeon Meshi themed dinner last weekend and wanted to share what was brought/devoured! Enjoy the comparison of what the dishes looked like irl vs the show

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Roast Red Dragon Meatloaf

makes 4 to 6 servings

  • chicken stock | 0.5 cup
  • buttermilk | 0.25 cup
  • unflavored gelatin | 0.5 oz / 2 packets / 1.5 tbsp

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  • white sandwich bread | 2 slices | high-quality, crusts removed and torn into rough pieces
  • button or cremini mushrooms | 4 oz | cleaned

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  • anchovy | 3 fillets
  • marmite | 0.5 tsp
  • soy sauce | 2 tsp
  • paprika | 1 tsp
  • garlic | 2 cloves / 2 tsp | roughly chopped

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  • onion | 1 small / about 0.75 cup | roughly chopped
  • carrot | 1 small / about 0.5 cup | peeled and roughly chopped
  • celery | 1 stalk / 0.5 cup | roughly chopped

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  • unsalted butter | 2 tbsp

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  • ground pork | 12 oz | fresh
  • ground beef | 1.25 lb | fresh
  • eggs | 2 large
  • cheddar, provologne, monterey jack, or muenster cheese | 4 oz / about 1 cup | finely grated
  • parsley | 0.25 cup | finely minced
  • kosher salt | 1 tbsp
  • black pepper | 1 tsp

glaze

  • ketchup | 0.75 cup
  • brown sugar | 0.25 packed
  • cider vinegar | 0.5 cup
  • black pepper | 0.5 tsp

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  • mustard or ketchup | optional

  1. Combine the chicken stock and buttermilk in a liquid measuring cup and sprinkle the gelatin evenly over the top. Set aside.
  2. Place the bread and mushrooms in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside.
  3. Add the anchovies, marmite, soy sauce, paprika, and garlic to the processor bowl and pulse until reduced to a fine paste, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
  4. Add the onion, carrot, and celery and pulse until finely chopped but not pureed.
  5. Heat the butter in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until foaming.
  6. Add the chopped vegetable mixture and cook, stirring and tossing frequently, until it is softened and most of the liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes; the mixture should start to darken a bit.
  7. Stir in the buttermilk mixture, bring to a simmer, and cook until reduced by half, about 10 minutes.
  8. Transfer to the bowl with the mushrooms and bread, stir thoroughly to combine, and let stand until cool enough to handle, about 10 minutes.
  9. Add the meat mixture to the bowl, along with the eggs, cheese, parsley, salt, and pepper.
  10. With clean hands, mix gently until everything is thoroughly combined and homogeneous; it will be fairly loose.
  11. Pull off a teaspoon-sized portion of the mixture, place it on a microwave-safe plate, and microwave it on high power until cooked through, about 15 seconds. Taste the cooked piece for seasoning and add more salt and/or pepper as desired.
  12. Transfer the mixture to a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan, being sure that no air bubbles get trapped underneath. (You may have some extra mix, depending on the capacity of your pan; this can be cooked in a ramekin or free-form next to the loaf.)
  13. Line a rimmed baking sheet with a sheet of heavy-duty aluminum.
  14. Transfer meat mixture to the baking sheet and form it into a tight loaf, removing as many air gaps as possible.
  15. Cover the meat loaf with an additional sheet of heavy-duty aluminum and crimp at the edges.
  16. Refrigerate the meat loaf while the oven preheats. (The meat loaf can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.)
  17. Adjust an oven rack to the lower-middle position and preheat the oven to 350°F.
  18. When the oven is hot, remove the meat loaf from the refrigerator and bake until just beginning to set (the top should feel firm to the touch), about 30 minutes.
  19. Carefully remove the foil cover and return to the oven and bake until the center of the meat loaf registers 140°F on an instant-read thermometer, about 40 minutes longer. There will be quite a bit of exuded juices; this is OK.
  20. Remove from the oven and let rest for 15 minutes. Increase the oven temperature to 500°F.
  21. Meanwhile, make the glaze: Combine the ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, and pepper in a small saucepan and cook over medium-high heat, whisking occasionally, until the sugar is melted and the mixture is homogeneous, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.
  22. Use a brush to apply some glaze to the meat loaf in a thin, even layer, then return it to the oven and bake for 3 minutes.
  23. Glaze again and bake for 3 minutes longer.
  24. Glaze one more time and bake until the glaze is beginning to bubble and is a deep burnished brown, about 4 minutes longer.
  25. Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 15 minutes.
  26. Slice and serve with any extra glaze and mustard or ketchup as desired.

  • For best results, grind your own meat. If grinding meat, use pork shoulder and beef chuck (or a mix of short rib meat and brisket).
  • Keep your hands well moistened when forming the loaf, to prevent sticking.
  • If you don't have buttermilk around, substitute it with more chicken stock or even water!

A variation of a recipe found in Kenji Lopez-Alt's The Food Lab.

#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#food#recipes#meatloaf#fyi for all the folks asking for the meatloaf recipe#from the chef who made it!
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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

#fyi#important
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20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’
The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org|Andy Corbley

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

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How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”

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If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.

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Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.

I am so, so proud of him holy shit.

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^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.

And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!

Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3

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My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”

And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.

There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.

Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations

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Not to be a huge downer but while this stuff is cool with really great intentions, I implore folks to listen to what the marine scientists have also been saying about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This situation is a lot more complicated than we understand. There is surprisingly a ton of biodiversity inside of it and widely scooping it all up is destroying a lot of life as well. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the plastic problem but please read these threads/article: https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1654539722985963535 https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1653861661118218247 https://peerj.com/articles/15021/

Basically a lot more study needs to be done before we can just collect a ton of plastic and call it a day. Like Rebecca said in her tweets, we could be bulldozing a meadow and not even know it. I'm all for cleaning up plastic in the ocean. But let's do it carefully.

#marine biology#environmentalism#ocean life#high seas plastic clean up#boyan slat#bulldozing plastic out of the ocean is not really a great solution and disregards the ocean life that lives in the patches#i'm no professional scientist so please follow the ones who are and listen to what they have been saying#Oceanwire is a great source for ocean environmental news#Mission Blue is also a great org to follow#please do your research!#i love the ocean with my whole being and would love if we carefully engineered a solution to support both life and environment#reblogging this on main because this is a pretty important issue#long post#not art related but important!
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