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Shiro Sylvie

@shiromisa.bsky.social

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Peepswine alchemist🌈 30s bi they/she, recovering manic pixie dream girl 💖 In love w/ @bobisonlybob.bsky.social & @mraof.com & @darkrune.bsky.social✨TWRP #: 47 🌟 WoL lore tag: #shirolore 🌈 WoL travel diary tag: #thetravelersdiary

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello bluesky, I'm the person who did this nonsense. Second batch of peepswine is currently almost ready to bottle! A friend requested it for his wedding

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Mharwyb’s Gen Fic Canon @horsetuna.bsky.social · 5h

Thancred: you can’t keep telling girls about the environmental benefits of parasitic wasps. you need to get really good at a subject that girls find attractive.

Baby Alphinaud, genuinely taking notes: butterflies?

Thancred: no.

Baby Alisaie, also taking notes: pillbugs?

Thancred: no. no bugs.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 8h

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

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Sea 🌊 <The Enlightened> @seaguardxiv.bsky.social · 2h

lol ok bye cringe ass

Screencap from the Spotify website, after canceling my subscription. It says "You've canceled your subscription. It's hard to say goodbye. But it's easy to rejoin Spotify anytime."

And then they embedded a Spotify playlist, wherein the song names add up to: "If you leave us now you'll take away the biggest part of us".

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 3h

I started a new experiment last night! This time we're doing those jelly raspberry and blackberry candies bsky.app/profile/shir...

Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 22h

The stars have aligned. It's time for another homebrew experiment #candyalchemy

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 3h

Another homebrew experiment of mine, this one much less successful than the peepswine: bsky.app/profile/shir...

Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 3h

I think I missed putting this on bsky when it happened, so behold: the most tragically terrible homebrew experiment I've ever done #candyalchemy

A light-skinned hand holding a bottle of "confetti glitter fruity cereal flavored spread" in a grocery aisle, text: "Okay legally I have to try this rainbow goo, right?"

Text: "It seems to be trying to fill a similar ecological niche to jelly so I got waffles to eat it on"
Image: a spoonful of distressingly stiff translucent yellow goo with blue and red specks in it, text: "I swear to fuck, y'all, this stuff smells like children's shampoo"

The same yellow goo, now on a waffle, with a bite cut out of it and on a fork. Text: "Well okay let's do this"

First post: The flavor is indescribable. It's like if you wanted to make lemon preserves but your only knowledge of lemons came from Saturday morning cartoon advertising. This is lemon as seen through the lens of Dr. Wondertainment of SCP fame and I'm pretty sure it fell through a rip in spacetime from their employee cafeteria. It's !!LEMON!! (with a strong aftertaste of artificial coloring and plastic from the edible glitter bits)

The texture is exactly how I always imagined it would be to eat aloe vera gel out of the brightly-colored bottle in my mom's bathroom

Overall 6/10, I'm gonna finish the waffle but fuck knows what I'm gonna do with the rest of the bottle

Second post: Update my tummy hurts

Third post: "That doesn't look edible, congrats on the microplastics tho" I assure you these plastics were very macro

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 3h

part 2

A light-skinned hand holding a glass swing-top bottle full of highlighter-yellow liquid. Close-up shots show small, strange floating globules suspended in the liquid. Text: "Great news! This is how the yellow glitter junk has ended up

I threw it together with some white wine yeast and water and fermented it into...this! It is violently neon yellow and has some disconcerting hydrophobic globules suspended in it, presumably from some oil that was in the goo. It made the siphon weirdly greasy as I was bottling it, which was unnerving!

As for the taste, it's...honestly not as bad as expected? It tastes like white wine but lip-puckeringly sour and dry. If I'd backsweetened it after fermentation it might almost have been palatable. When I tasted it at racking it tasted like battery acid so this is a welcome surprise! Yeast truly are the redeemers of all culinary sin"

"I wanna know their thought process to decide to turn it into a wine-"
"Mostly "hm. This sucks. I wonder if it would suck less if I made it into alcohol""

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 3h

I think I missed putting this on bsky when it happened, so behold: the most tragically terrible homebrew experiment I've ever done #candyalchemy

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 4h

Just sit down on the sidewalk to share a slice with your buds

Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 5h

They want pizza

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 10h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Big Dyke Energy (GFM in pinned) @azurebitch.bsky.social · 13h

People keep saying "let's go, lesbians" but we need to also remember: let's rest, lesbians

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 8h

Thankfully no, or I'd have been cleaning foam off everything in my life. This was a sedate little ring around the jug, probably an inch more head room would've made it totally fine

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

ok listen. i know no big platform is actually "safe" atm. Bluesky is run by shitheads, this place sucks too.

that being said, i need to fucking implore you, Twitter's unsafety is on a whole other level. there's "not safe" and then there's the actual wolf's den.

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 1d

what even happened on the other site this time

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 9h

It'll be fine, I said. It's done rising, I said. It definitely won't foam into the airlock this time, I said

Sigh

A homebrewing airlock (a sort of plastic u-bend situation) that very much has been foamed into and is full of and leaking dark red liquid

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 16h

Real

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 16h

(I don't actually know how much of the package-claimed sugar is locked inside the gelatin). So, we shall see. I did fill the remaining head space with water since it didn't seem in danger of overfoaming at this point. Night night everyone and night night yeasts!

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 16h

It only foamed a little! That said, I'll be curious to see how it progresses. The sprinkles have nearly entirely melted, leaving naked gumdrops at the bottom. I don't actually know if they'll melt or the yeast will otherwise be able to chomp into them, which may be a problem for the sugar content

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chris☀️ @arcanegold.bsky.social · 22h

behold. sealrogi

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 21h

I got up to make pizza bagels

I started a batch of candy wine

I sat down, satisfied with my work, still with no pizza bagels

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 3d

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 2d

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 21h

That's my fear, because I did not leave nearly enough head room if it does that again lmao

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Shiro Sylvie @shiromisa.bsky.social · 22h

They're eatiiiiiing ❤️🖤

We'll add more water in tomorrow once they reveal how they're gonna foam up. The peepswine foamed so much I had to bail out the airlock all night and it was a bad time

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