new swans out today and i'd grade it as interesting but i have to listen to it a lot more first.

i take the atypical position that swans was best in the 90s and are better at being psychedelic than at being metal.

this song could not possibly be about taylor swift.

(more likely, it is about courtney love. but there's a real chance it's about madonna.)

as expected, the attack doges were released on elon musk immediately.

if i were him, i'd get out of the country.

i actually support the state department order directing that visa applicants to harvard should be explicitly vetted for anti-semitism, but would argue it should apply to all visa applicants, not just people going to harvard.

let's not overreact or be sensationalist. as a strong critic of islam, i've constantly been forced to try to maintain levity in recent years.

trump's disdain for the educated is not fascism. it is not anything close to fascism. however, he does have a very real stalinist streak and what the united states should be seeking to avoid right now is the kid of devastating anti-intellectual purges that occurred in the soviet union under lenin and stalin.

the soviets killed or locked up all the smart people, then wondered why they couldn't compete. america may be driving the smart people away, or in the process of deporting them, but they are not killing or imprisoning people and there is really no good evidence that they are on the brink of it.

we remain in the era of orwell. don't forget that. trump is in truth overseeing american decline get itself over the hump, and start free-falling off the cliff.

it's a cara cara orange, actually.

more vitamins. the things are beastly.

nobody actually cares.

the idea that the king of england is going to come save us from a yankee invasion is retarded. the prime minister of the uk has clearly told us the americans have priority - sorry. most people aren't even taking it seriously enough to denounce it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/king-charles-politics-monarchy-visit-to-canada

it's better without the salt. doesn't need any at all.

very hot and sour.

it's probably more hot and sour than french onion. but they're kind of the same thing, up to the capsicum. french onion + chilis = hot and sour.

onion soup round two this morning, tweaked slightly.

- melt 3 tbsp of olive oil margarine in a large saucepan (i bought this).

- add one onion (i have two purple onions) and four small cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp of thyme, one tbsp of basil and one tbsp of cayenne pepper. i also put some (onion) salt and pepper in. i then let it cook on medium for 25 minutes.

(note: try it with fresh spicy peppers, habanero maybe, and let me know)

- dump a can of chick peas in a large bowl (not a normal purchase, a food bank specialty)

- i don't have fancy bread, but i broke up two three slices of brown bread that they gave me

- sprinkle some grated cheese on the bread (i'm using mozzarella, which i bought)

- i don't have wine. i do have tamarind soup mix, which they gave me. this is an asian thing. it's a fruit they eat with fish soup. i dumped it into a one quart mixing bowl with a bit of vinegar and stirred it up. it smells like wine.

- after the onions were brown, i dumped the tamarind soup and two beef soup cubes (which they gave me) into the pan and let it come to a boil before reducing heat.

- i let that simmer for about ten fifteen minutes to let it boil off a bit

- i then added the rest of the container of vegetable soup broth they gave me, which filled the pan up, and let it go for another ten minutes, until it was broiling.

- i then filled the pan up with vegetable soup broth. i didn't measure this. i might have used chicken, but i have vegetable broth that is older. i let it come back to a simmer and then sit for another ten minutes.

note that you want to be stirring this regularly through the process from the start.

- i put a tbsp of paprika, a tbsp of cumin and tbsp of hemp seeds (i bought these and put them on everything) in the bowl and dumped the soup in.

- i put all of the mozzarella on top of the soup (i used 200 grams, grated)

- i added some frank's and some more pepper. i would have added a tbsp of nutritional yeast but i'm out.

i am serving it with a side of avocado and orange for key vitamins.