I create my own perfection

puppygirllaika:

puppygirllaika:

puppygirllaika:

puppygirllaika:

“you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel” girl i am living that balsamic life, that’s the mommy down there at the bottom.

#are you havinf a stroke or am i i can NOT understand this

Balsamic vinegar is made by aging a reduced grape syrup in barrels with “mother”, which is a kind of bacterial slime that develops naturally in the vinegar over time. True balsamic vinegar goes through a very particular process of aging it in a series of smaller and smaller barrels, transferring it from one barrel to the next either every year, or every few years, depending on the process, and then adding fresh syrup to the largest barrel and continuing the process. The slimy film that forms on the insides of the barrels is the mother, and due to the increased concentrations over the years, the mother in the smallest barrel is most potent, and is sometimes partially removed and used to seed new batches of vinegar, so production can be expanded. Scraping the mother from the bottom of the barrel is how you multiply the goodness, the sweetness, and the quality of your balsamic.

If you’ve ever bought a bottle of apple cider vinegar and thought “what’s that cloudy stuff at the bottom?”, that’s the mommy <3

This is also a part of what makes a high quality balsamic, well, high quality. And part of what makes it expensive. Good quality balsamic is all about age, both the age of the batch itself, and the age of the mother that seeds it. Balsamic has to be at least 12 years old, but you can age it much longer, and many places do. As for the mother, that requires literal lifetimes. Some of the oldest balsamic producing families in Modena have mothers that have been kept alive for centuries, passed down through the generations to seed new batches year after year after year, hundreds of years over. The bacterial cultures develop unique and incredible flavors in this time, and you can really taste it in the end product. It’s the kind of flavor and quality only age can offer.

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puppybot:

butch is a noun, s. bear bergman 2006

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dharmaart:

An ink painting of a horse with some white gouache used for corrections.

seabeck:

River bends

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ironychan:

herpsandbirds:

Dovekie aka Little Auk (Alle alle), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Iceland

Photograph by Christophe Moning

I am so pleased to report that in addition to being absolutely shaped, these guys are also very, very sized.

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cutetanuki-chan:

I couldn’t put it as a thumbnail so here’s just Gideon seperatly

this is the dumbest thing ever but I had so much fun with it

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roach-works:

bumblebeerror:

ampervadasz:

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

im a fan of the moment where the husky is like ‘wait you’re not authorized to do that’ and the collie is like 'THE FUCK IM NOT’

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cumaeansibyl:

mariacallous:

Melissa Etheridge Covers Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young” (2014)

I like this song so much better when it’s the story of a lesbian teenage delinquent coaxing a closeted Catholic girl to “come out” and live a happy queer life.

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mercury-waters:

mercury-waters:

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

i’ve lived in four different cities in my adult life and talked to literally tens of thousands of people about politics and the change they want to see in the world and the overwhelming majority of them wanted life to be better, happier, easier for everyone, and dreamed of that world. the only people who didn’t think that way were A) really obviously in need of mental/medical care, or B) rich.

wanting universal free healthcare, well-funded public education, and social support for all people is the most unbelievably normie opinion that exists, even among people who have lots of bad or misguided opinions about other things. when you feel alone, know that the reason you feel that way is billions of dollars are being spent to obscure the fact that you are in the majority.

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