that post was already too long so i didn’t want to add more, but another reason i added the materials section to my about is because i think everyone should be upfront about how they’re making physical goods and where their materials are coming from.
i stopped using a printing service because i realized i had no idea where my stickers were being printed and by who or how much they were being paid. obviously the supply chain into the imperial core is riddled with atrocities (who is making the vinyl sticker paper i use? who made my cricut? etc etc) so doing it “myself” isn’t stopping these atrocities, but it does give me a little more control over what i’m contributing to (i.e. i bought the cricut secondhand instead of new)
i’m selling things. i’m engaging in The Economy and Capital. i have a responsibility to understand what that engagement really means and factor that into my decision making.
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc
Just imagining a bunch of ninth-century Sufi mystics, perhaps only dimly aware of the existence of the Korean peninsula (though it was not yet named that), saying “man if those guys ever invent a genre of music with catchy melodies, simple song structures, and instruments based on principles of matter that won’t be understood for another thousand years, that would be so fucking haram. We’d better nip that in the bud right here and now.”
maybe 2026 is the year i learn to competently fry tofu
edited for more tofu per post:
for accountability here is my badly fried well sauced improv tofu
bastard sauce: soy sauce (lots), rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, garlic, more ginger powder, gochugaru, chili crisp, spoonful of peanut butter, brown sugar on top after everything else is dumped in, stir, squeeze of half a lemon due to i ran out of vinegar. and some thinly sliced carrots
👍 Tastes!
I made this again and used good tofu instead of mediocre tofu which makes the impact of other changes difficult to judge. I did try boiling the tofu in seasoned water pre-fry and then used that broth for udon. Loved the udon. Also doubled the carrot (still one carrot but much fatter), chopped it smaller, and left a little raw to sprinkle on top. AND sleeper hit recipe edit: spoonful of peanut butter…. crunchy instead of smooth..!!!
future edits could include scallions for topping, peas included in stir fry, pickled mustard greens on side (boyfriend’s idea). basically any green at all
