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Bakery Math

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 01:00 pm

Posted by john (the hubby of Jen)

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One ugly 8-inch round flower cake:

$6.00

Five ugly 8-inch round flower cakes:

$30.00

Five ugly 8-inch round flower cakes plopped on

styrofoam and cardboard stands:

$235.00

The look on the bride's face?

Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy...

but a decent wedding cake isn't one of them.

Thanks to Melinda W., Holley W., Kae B., Liz Q., Meghan F., Nikki G., and Lainey M. who thinks we should start investing in styrofoam and cardboard.

*****

P.S. I found something for the bride who wants to wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and something poo:

Unicorn Poop Earrings

Don't stop believing, y'all. Dreams do come true.

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/bakery-math-2025

Alias #7

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 11:00 am

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NS: Lolicon and shotacon - the most controversial and to a degree misunderstood manga genres

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 03:57 pm

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Hawk and Dove #4

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 02:30 pm

Writers: Barbara and Karl Kesel

Pencils: Rob Liefeld

Inks: Karl Kesel

Kestrel empowers a street punk to kill Hawk and Dove.

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All Shadows Fled Chapter Seventeen: All Too Much Magic

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 07:11 am

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Current Location: Mortoth's Estate
Current Music: A Red Wizard's Blade

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Sugita Tsuruko (1882-1957)

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 07:50 am

Sugita Tsuruko, or Tsuru, was born in 1882 in Kobe, the great-great-granddaughter (one great more or less) of the Edo-era doctor Sugita Gempaku, one of the first Japanese doctors to study Western medicine. (Other branches of the family tree include the entomologist Ezaki Teizo and his German wife Charlotte, as well as the baseball player Hasebe Ginji.)

Following the family tradition of a medical career, Tsuru entered the private Kansai Medical School [kind of a cram school for students interested in taking the doctors’ qualifying exam?] in Osaka in 1905; her father, also a doctor, died the following year. She passed the national exam in 1908, transferred to a medical school in Tokyo when the Osaka school closed down, and in the same year passed the qualifying exam for opening a clinic. While studying pediatric medicine at Tokyo Imperial University, she opened her own pediatric clinic in Tokyo in 1911.

In 1913 Tsuru became publisher of the Japan Women Doctors’ Association journal; through her work with the Association she also got to know Yoshioka Yayoi among others. Amid her professional responsibilities she somehow found time to become a poet as well, publishing a collection of her work in 1940.

In 1945, Tsuru’s own clinic and the Association offices were bombed. She opened a home for war orphans in Kanagawa and remained there as doctor in charge (the institution is now part of the National Kanagawa Hospital). She died in 1957.

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Kindle App

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 07:41 am

I might have asked this before, but I don't recall. Is there anyway to create folders in the Library?

I would like to separate books I've purchased from those I'm reading for free and will need to/be able to return. I'd also like to separate books I've read from books I haven't read, because going through the entire library every time I want to pick a book to read is a pain in the butt.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

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Guy Gardner: Warrior #0

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 12:34 pm

Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: Mitch Byrd

Inks: Dan Davis

Zero Hour tie-in.

Getting super powers from drinking magic water isn’t enough, so now it is revealed Guy is actually half-alien.

Warning for blood.

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Prompt 39

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 07:28 am

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The Day in Spikedluv (Thursday, July 10)

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 07:08 am

Mom suggested I not get to her house super early so I can get some stuff done, and we agreed that I’d stop in after my visit to my aunt. I returned home after I dropped Grant off at the garage and did two loads of laundry (even got one dried and folded!), hand-washed dishes, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals, vacuumed the bedroom rug, and changed kitty litter. Whew! That’s a full days worth of work for me!

I visited my aunt (she was awake! I showed her some pics of Midnight and Baby A – who is not a baby anymore! She starts pre-K this fall!) and hit the Price Chopper down there because the one I went to yesterday had zero bananas and none of the red grapes I like. I have them now. I got to mom’s about 10:15am and left at 3pm.

I stopped at the library on the way home to return a book (and talked to the librarian about it and the other series she recommended) and hit the bank drive-thru. I baked salmon for Pip’s supper, dried and folded the second load of laundry, hand-washed more dishes, and showered.

I finished the Duncan Kincaid book and read the next Inn at Holiday Bay cozy. (They’re very easy reads and kind of short.)

Temps started out at 62.6(F) and reached 86.4. It was warm out, but not as horrible as when the temps hit the 90s. We were originally supposed to have scattered thunderstorms but they never materialized.

Mom Update:

Mom was sitting on the porch for the second time when I got there. ( more back here )

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Green Lantern #188

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 10:28 am

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Bruce Patterson

John Stewart's secret identity is revealed on live television.

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Hazbin Hotel: VOXTEK Gift Baskets 2025

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 01:57 am

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Turmoil In The Toybox

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 07:01 am

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New Comic: Turmoil In The Toybox

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/07/11/turmoil-in-the-toybox

675. Celebrating Confident Fat Black Women with Danielle Allen

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 06:00 am

Posted by SB Sarah

https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/podcast/675-celebrating-confident-fat-black-women-with-danielle-allen/

https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/?post_type=podcast&p=147585

A | BN | K | AB

Danielle Allen is the author of 55 books, including the new release Plus Size Player, part of the Curve series alongside Curvy Girl Summer, and Big Girl Blitz. And the player, as you’ll find out, is the heroine.

The trilogy focuses on three best friends, and so we talk about friendship, loyalty, and about centering fat Black women as romance heroines. Danielle has also written contemporaries inspired by Poe stories, so of course we talk about interpreting Poe as well.

…

A special invitation: free samples of our bonus content!

Inspired by other Patreon folks, including Chris DeRosa at Fixing Famous People, I’ve made some of the Patreon content free so you can sample what we’ve got.

Do you want to do a crossword puzzle from the May 1995 issue of RT? The crossword puzzle is available for free on Patreon right now!
Would you like to read an issue of RT Magazine? The December 1997 issue is now available for your perusal.
Or would you like to try one of our bonus episodes? Join Amanda and me as we look back at our 2024 predictions about romance and publishing.

This collection of special previews is available now to all listeners, and there’s a link in the show notes to dive in. And if you like our free samples, join us in the Patreon community where there’s bonus content and more.

Listen to the podcast →

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

You can find Danielle Allen at her website, AuthorDanielleAllen.com, and on her Patreon, Curvy Girl Confessions. You can also follow her on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and BlueSky.

Her cover artist is Keo Majoy.

If you like the podcast, you can subscribe to our feed, or find us at iTunes. You can also find us on Stitcher, and Spotify, too. We also have a cool page for the podcast on iTunes.

More ways to sponsor:

Sponsor us through Patreon! (What is Patreon?)

What did you think of today's episode? Got ideas? Suggestions? You can talk to us on the blog entries for the podcast or talk to us on Facebook if that's where you hang out online. You can email us at sbjpodcast@gmail.com or you can call and leave us a message at our Google voice number: 201-371-3272. Please don't forget to give us a name and where you're calling from so we can work your message into an upcoming podcast.

Thanks for listening!

Remember to subscribe to our podcast feed, find us on iTunes or on Stitcher.

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Girl Genius for Friday, July 11, 2025

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 04:00 am

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The Girl Genius comic for Friday, July 11, 2025 has been posted.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20250711

Batman: Dark Patterns #6 concluded The Voice Of The Tower.

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Thursday, July 10th, 2025 07:49 pm

The Voice is the Ventriloquist's Scarface - the Tower is Bledin Towers, a Gotham City apartment building.

Scarface's voice is guidance - he's a symbol under which some of " Bleedin' " Towers' residents've rallied, against the City's demolition plans. They've killed one Gotham cop and taken another hostage - Jim Gordon and others're outside while Batman's made his way in.

Issue #5 had Batman finding that the Ventriloquist wasn't from where Scarface was emanating - he was in the Tower, but his tongue was cut.

Someone else was speaking the gangster's words - not the Towers resident who was apparently his second, but that man's abused wife. She'd ended #5 killing her husband because Scarface told her to - and then turning to the hostage cop, who'd been restrained witness to the act.

#6 opened on Scarface's others rushing in: " What the hell happened here?! "

( She told them. )

Current Music: Maggots In Her Smile - Opal Vessel

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Fanfiction Masterlist and Portfolio Templates

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Thursday, July 10th, 2025 09:31 pm

For anyone interested in making a site/section on their site for their fics, here's a really good template for a fanfiction masterlist that just got posted online! Created by

ceu. There's easy to follow documentation on how it works, and links to HTML tutorials if you're not familiar or need a refresher on there as well.

As said on the page showcasing the template too, it was inspired by this portfolio template by Kaylee Rowena. Which would be great for anyone who makes fanart! I might end up using this template myself whenever I get to revamping my art galleries on my own site.

Since I know there's a lot of fannish folks here I thought these would be worth sharing!

Current Mood: calm

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STRUGGLE SESSION: Chosen Family, Pocket Altar Boys, Muppet-Faced Men and more!

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Thursday, July 10th, 2025 11:55 pm

Posted by Dan Savage

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No Struggle Session this week — my summer of dashing around the world to see family continues (next up: chosen family) — but there’s a wonderful conversation unfolding in the comment thread on this week’s column about being non-binary and what binaries need to know about dating non-binaries. (Yes, Alex, there was a master plan!) … Read More »

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