a new level of reality denial, and quite possibly something worse

Trump spent Sunday out there screaming that Harris’s crowds don’t actually exist. They’re fake, “AI” crowds, whatever, generally not real.

I honestly don’t know what to say when you’ve got this level of dissociation from reality happening. It’s literally what you’d expect out of a toddler rejecting reality they dislike, but in an adult… I mean, how is this anything other than a serious mental breakdown, and why is it being treated any other way?

I mean yes, I know, rejection of reality in favour of belief in false narrative demanded by the Leader is part of the control system, I know. But this… this is getting into “if the Party says I can fly, then I can fly” territory.

Even his own followers over on his shitpile social media site are saying “dude. This is nuts. Stop.” but honestly I don’t think they fully realise how broken this is. I mean, seriously, they’ve had to accept so much unreality for so long that I don’t think they really can get it anymore.

Go look at his post. Imagine it was someone you cared about. What would you think?

He’s also reportedly torn into one of his biggest donor over PAC spending, telling the donor that the PAC she’s funding is a “RINO” PAC, even though it’s spending tens of millions of dollars on ads in his support. I’m pretty sure this is Trumpspeak for “le parti, c’est moi” and he’s just raging at this point at anyone spending any money on anyone but him. But I honestly can’t tell.

This would normally be intervention time, but I don’t know that the Republicans have any legal way to do it.

I’ve avoided getting into the online psychological assessment business, because who the hell am I to try to do that, but this is full-on screaming from a street corner.

And I think that it is very clear – seriously, very clear – that Cheeto Mussolini is not okay.

84 days remain.

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An updated recipe for delicious bagels

I like to post progress notes and photos to Mastodon while doing my Sunday baking. It mostly ends up being about bagels, but not always – sometimes I’ll make baguettes or sweetbreads or something else entirely.

But mostly, it’s all about the #bagels. I post about bagels so regularly that people have started using my bagel posts as a warning that Monsterdon – the weekly monster-movie watch with live commentary – is incoming.

(#monsterdon is in fact a monster, trending Federation-wide each Sunday evening, starting shortly after my baking posts wrap up. It’s great. Follow #MonsterdonAlert for news and voting on which films to watch.)

Anyway, in response to my latest baking thread, MHowell asked me if I’d blogged about baking bagels, particularly for people who bake only occasionally. And the answer was… sort of? So I threw them a short post that linked my recipe.

But since it’s been a while – and I’ve learned some things – here’s a new, more comprehensive version of the bagel recipe! This version adds more dough variations, includes a couple of important process discoveries, and explains a bunch of steps left unexplained in the original.

It is a bit wordier, I’m afraid, but it is very complete, which should make it good for beginners and occasional bakers.

Unfortunately, that also keeps it from fitting onto a single page, so it’s RTF only this time. If you want a single-page version like last time, you’ll have to put together your own. (ETA: And even so, I didn’t have room to describe how to make your bagels nice and smooth and regular. So have a second post just for that.)

Of course, the more you do this, the less you’ll need the recipe – I barely reference it these days, and then only for ingredient weights. But if that’s you, you probably don’t need a recipe! At least, not more than once.

Anyway. Enjoy DELICIOUS BAGELS! ^_^

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