Skua
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Skua@kbin.earthto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•hexbear users are the rick and morty fanbase of lemmy instances14·2 hours agoYour instance isn’t federated with hexbear, you won’t see them
OP is getting mocked for posting a map claiming that there are US military bases in Beijing and Moscow, not because anyone thinks there aren’t a lot of US bases around the world
This one does at least have the writer and director team of Days back, which Weeks did not
Skua@kbin.earthOPto Bready@lemmy.world•A success after much experimentation: dulse & ale bread4·1 day agoAlcohol is a waste product that some yeasts produce while eating sugar rather than being something that the yeast feeds on, so I wouldn’t expect it to improve the results here over using a non-alcoholic beer. Normally, fermentation stops when either the yeast is out of sugar to eat or it has produced so much alcohol that the alcohol kills the yeast. Brewing yeasts are of course quite tolerant of alcohol and would probably handle a regular beer in the dough better than other yeasts though
Trying a brewer’s yeast to bake bread is an interesting idea though. No idea if it would do anything different. I just ordered some brewing yeast yesterday, so I will set a little aside and make two batches of bread to compare when it arrives
Skua@kbin.earthOPto Bready@lemmy.world•A success after much experimentation: dulse & ale bread7·2 days agoCertainly! I’ll give the original recipe first, maybe it’ll work better for someone else or someone more experienced can identify something I missed
Ingredients
- 600g strong white flour
- 200g wholemeal flour
- 200g malted flour
- 40g finely-chopped dulse (a type of seaweed, other seaweeds can be substituted here)
- 500ml Colonsay ale (the Colonsay brewery has gone out of business now, but you’re looking for a British-style brown ale that is only lightly-hopped)
- 100ml water
- 20g instant yeast
- 20g salt
- 60g butter
Method
- Mix everything and knead until no longer sticky
- Cover and leave to proof until doubled in size
- Knock back and shape into two loaves
- Cover and leave to double again (described as “at least one hour”)
- Dust with flour
- Bake at 200 C for 45 minutes with steam
But, of course, I found that following this as written didn’t work for me. Maybe it’s a me problem at some point. Changes I made for this loaf were:
Ingredients
- Reduce white flour to 300g
- Replace ale with non-alcoholic ale
- Reduce salt to 15g to account for reduced flour
Method
- Mix to combine and only knead until homogenous
- Replace first proof with 12 hour cold ferment
- Second proof took over two hours for me
- Remove steam source when baking
Skua@kbin.earthOPto Bready@lemmy.world•A success after much experimentation: dulse & ale bread7·2 days agoI have a cookbook called The New Hebridean Kitchen that has some lovely stuff in it, and near the back is a recipe for a loaf of bread with butter, beer, and dulse in it. The taste is lovely, but with all those extras giving the yeast a hard time and it being a partly-wholemeal dough I’ve never managed to get a good rise, so the texture has always let it down. I’ve been experimenting with different adjustments to the recipe (alcohol-free beer, overnight ferments, extra time to rise, a pinch of sugar in the dough, baking temperatures) and have finally gotten it to work. It’s delicious!
Skua@kbin.earthto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What actors/actresses make you immediately not want to make a movie/show?17·2 days agoIt probably helped that he had a relatively minor role in it too. The face of his faction of characters in the film was Luv
Skua@kbin.earthto World News@lemmy.ml•Turkiye thwarts delivery of 1,300 booby-trapped pagers heading to Lebanon12·2 days agoThe article body repeatedly says 1,300
Skua@kbin.earthto Europe@feddit.org•Slovakia’s leader rejects an EU plan to halt Russian natural gas imports by the end of 20273·2 days agoNone of those have been caused by EU elections, they’re all national elections. The EU can’t decide how countries run their national elections
Skua@kbin.earthto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•where does the word algorithm come from?8·2 days agoAnd to explain the connection a little further:
- “Al” stayed the same, obviously
- The “arismi” bit was influenced by Greek “arithmos”
- The “Khw” bit went through several sound changes, going from Khwa > Kho > Go
The name “Al-Khwarezmi” is also basically just “of Khwarezmia” in the first place, so the entire time we have been naming the way youtube decides what to show you after a place in Uzbekistan
Ahh okay, no worries!
Both of the other two are wearing identical hoods, yes. The other person in the room is Astrid, the Dark Brotherhood assassin telling you to kill one of them. Vasha is definitely by far the Zorro-iest one present though
Oh, I didn’t mean to come across as argumentative, I just offered a description in case it jogged a memory. It’s entirely possible you never did meet him. Though if it helps at all, he’s wearing an execution hood rather than an executioner’s hood — as in, he’s the one getting executed. You are correct that all three are wearing them and Vasha doesn’t give much of a shit about the whole situation, all things considered
He’s one of the three captives you can choose to kill at the start of the Dark Brotherhood questline
Elaborate pls,
The voice actor is André Sogliuzzo, who voiced Banderas’ Puss in Boots from Shrek in various appearances outside of the main films and also voiced the actual character of Antonio Banderas in an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch
That’s the only reference, yeah. The character is only present for one scene in one quest, and the only mention of his sexual exploits is that line. I certainly always interpreted him as a womaniser rather than a rapist
It’s funny that you mention Zorro — the voice actor that does this character’s lines (and also other male khajiit) has done parts to fill in for Antonio Banderas before
To be fair he may not actually be a rapist. He calls himself “defiler of daughters”, but he’s doing so in a theatrically rogueish list of reasons people would want to kill him, so it could just as well be consensual but the parents are furious about it.
However even if that is the case, he actually is also a self-described murderer and thief who implies that he runs a dangerous gang of some sort and regularly has people trying to kill him
Skua@kbin.earthto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•I avoid approaching women in public because I believe it's inappropriate. My parents say that it's a necessary skill. Who is right?2·3 days agoAlso, she should be able to remove herself from the conversation if she wants to. If she’s at work then she can’t do that, for example, but if you’re at a public park then she can just walk off. At least that’s how I think of it. Obviously I don’t ever want to make someone feel like they have to if I’m just trying to chat, but the point is if they have the option then it should be way less likely to wind up that way
Skua@kbin.earthto politics @lemmy.world•Germany's Constitution Protection Office Seeks to Ban AfD1·3 days agodeleted by creator
Skua@kbin.earthto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain?161·4 days agoOther people have already given more useful answers, but this thread is the first time I’ve learned that it’s “Thank God” rather than “Thank Goodness”. It was only an occasional presence in my life when I was a child, my grandmother would sometimes take me and my siblings there. Both her and my mother were faaaaiiiirly devout Catholics and raised us as such, and they called it “Thank Goodness It’s Friday” when they had cause to use the long version
It depends a great deal on where you work, but it’s definitely not unknown. It’s not normally an all-evening heavy-going night though, much as Britain loves a binge drink that’s usually saved for the weekends