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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • A particularly weird and disgusting one that I heard from far too many adults as a kid, was “pull your finger out of your arse”. This apparently means ‘get a move on’ and/or ‘stop being lazy’.

    As a kid with autism it really grossed me out to think all the adults who said this had decided I was slow/lazy because they thought I was regularly putting my fingers in my bum.

    Being an adult who has tried most sex stuff now (and also witnessed and spoken candidly with many others who have too), I can unequivocally state that anal play involving fingers, either with a partner or alone, does not correlate with difficulty completing tasks or laziness, either during the act or afterwards. And that the folk I’ve known who have admitted to trying this, are seemingly not any lazier or less efficient than the folk I’ve known who haven’t.

    I still don’t know why or how “pull your finger out if your arse” became a phrase meaning what it does, I’m going to hazard a guess it’s based on homophobic stereotypes, but even then why was it said to me as an afab child? Maybe it was supposed to be funny.



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    Every single finger. I’d give my arms and legs too if it would help. Once the world was fixed I might want to take part in it again too, if nobody knew it was me. If it was public knowledge that I did it though, I’d probably keep being a hermit. I do not like attention or people knowing who I am.







  • With home IPL (laser hair removal) being easily accessible now, I’d like to see other useful lasers developed for home use as I have a tattoo I’d like to remove.

    I’m not particularly following this technology though, just moderately hopeful, which is as excited as I can get these days, that it’ll come along and be affordable before civilisation collapses.

    (It’s not a tat of anything shameful, I just don’t like having to go outside or talk to people if I can possibly avoid it.)





  • This goes for baking too. Baking is no more science than cooking, and cooking is no more an art than baking. People who claim otherwise annoy me.

    You need to figure out what ratios of what, do what in your recipes, and then explore how that can change with different brands/varieties of the same ingredients, different ovens, humidities, elevations if you travel, etc. Book learning can only get you so far, you need to put in the kitchen time to really understand.

    The art of making good food is in being able to recreate and adapt all the science experiments you did.


  • Grace Hot Pepper Sauce. It has this tangy, buttery flavour and a nice amount of heat that accentuates food without melting your face.

    I think they use a few different peppers in the mash as while it has a little of the apricot fire Scotch Bonnet taste to it, as you’d expect from a Caribbean brand with a bunch of Scotch Bonnets on the label, it’s not the predominant chilli flavour here. I think the mash gets slightly fermented too due to that buttery taste the sauce has.

    Before the pandemic it was 50p for an 85ml bottle, I miss that. £1.50 for the same size bottle still feels like a rip off.

    Edit: just looked Grace Hot Pepper Sauce up as I’ve been thinking about it all day now since making this comment, and their website says the peppers used are a blend of Habanero and Cayenne in the mash. So my tasting apricot fire is likely a placebo from the image on the label, lmao.