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Halloween! 2026 Edition (lemmy.world)
submitted 50 minutes ago by [M] to c/cocktails@lemmy.world
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We are having a party tonight(though nobody has arrived yet) and the cocktails are:

Toxic Avenger - fresh pineapple juice, Mezcal, Chartreuse, honey.

Blood Orange Margarita with green mango tequila.

Black Jellybean, always my Halloween favorite - vodka, sambucca, vanilla, cream soda, this year no lime just a pinch of citric acid in the pitcher, much cleaner

Mojito.

Friend Zone (N/A) - strawberry kvass, tonic, lemon. Shockingly good.

Also: Tepache de pina, coffee, diet coke. Beer & cider.

Can somedy explain to me the issue with the voter ID law they want to pass in the US? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

You have to understand the roots of the voting registration rules here to understand it better. The whole point of them was to keep black men and all women from having a vote.

That's it - that is what they were for. So every permutation since is built on that framework, it's always "the wrong people might vote' instead of "we want to make sure everyone votes".

So voter ID is not a bad idea on its face, you go in to vote the poll workers need to know who you are, right? The lady who sits across from me at work is old, she went to renew her driver's license in February this year and they said no, your current license (that they issued) is not enough, there are new requirements - we need your birth certificate, your first marriage license, your divorce paperwork, your second marriage license, your divorce decree from that marriage, then we can renew your license.

She just managed to get all this by mid-October, so she did get through in time to vote but what the fuck? She had to reach out to 3 states and getting a birth certificate from like the 1950s is not easy. Why is it not easy to renew? Because the laws were written to prevent voting not to enable it.

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    casserole pspsps in c/wholesome@reddthat.com
    Normal or abnormal electricity use? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 22 hours ago

    Our usage is higher than that, not 80 but higher than 30 always. and yes I think it's high. I cook at home, a lot. AC runs a lot, 2 heat pump units. One person working from home. High ceilings. Everything is electric. Our bill is lower in the winter than the summer but our winters are mild.

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    I think if you "get rich quick" you should pay less in taxes in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I agree this is, and should be, an unpopular opinion.

    If I get some money for doing nothing, a windfall, then getting half of it is still me getting free money.

    If I work for ten years to get the same amount, shouldn't I pay less in taxes? I spent my time and effort making that money.

    Usually anyone who gets rich quick either ripped people off, inherited or won money and I would tax anything unearned at a higher rate than earned.

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    How good is your sense of direction? in c/autism@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I can't always immediately tell right from left, but generally know where north is; and have lived in the same place for so long I know where I am so well, could drive a taxi.

    I kinda like getting lost but it doesn't happen here.

    And I HATE navigation, don't like my phone yelling at me to turn right in 100 feet. I just want to actually know where I am, not have a path. When I worked farther away & had to drive I would go different ways every day. My husband thinks that's funny, he would decide an ideal route and keep using it, but I want to explore.

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    Where do I get mylk? in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
    Try to be "elegant" while getting wasted in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    What’s a coping skill that surprised you by actually working? in c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Yeah I got the big back basket on mine, I take it to work most days and it fits 2 stuffed paper grocery bags, no problem. And is just such a pleasure to ride, I hated bike riding with the terribly painful seats and slow, so much effort, it was uncomfortable. This EBike is big & heavy but riding it is like riding a bike in a dream. Set the assist to medium, torque sensor, I like to pedal not use the throttle, because it feels so good to feel it just MOVE when I push.

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    • Whats a good Halloween playlist for trick or treaters? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    Whats a good Halloween playlist for trick or treaters? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I have a crazy long Halloween party playlist on YouTube, goes from creepy to kid friendly to party to punky to kinda sad, to follow the flow of a Halloween party. I took out a lot of the kid stuff as mine are grown now but don't think these were mentioned & I like for kid time at Halloween:

    Dead Egyptian Blues - Trout Fishing in America

    Dead - They Might be Giants

    Half Moon - M Ward

    Vampire - Claudia Schmidt

    Two more Tom Waits songs I like for Halloween, Tango Till they're Sore and Cemetery Polka.

    I love the Cramps but don't think Garbageman is the song I'd go for. Rockin Bones and also if you can find their cover of Green Door.

    And this year I may actually kick things off with the soundtrack for the Peaky Blinders movie, it is so atmospheric and scary sounding and so beautiful.

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    Has chivalry changed? If a man does not pay for a woman, do you think it means he isn't interested enough or simply wants to save financially until officially together? in c/relationship_advice@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Wow. I haven't ever expected a guy to pay on a date like that. Sometimes they did, but always I would offer to split it. I never offered to pay the whole tab, but certainly didn't expect the guy to.

    I know some women who did use dates to get meals, like a game, but that seems kinda awful.

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    Alright, listen up, you fucking pink lady cultists in c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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    Some of the watermelon (thelemmy.club)
     

    Got near a hundred mini watermelon this year, the very late ones were no good but for a couple months they were glorious. Mini love variety, it was a brutally hot summer and they flourished, I let them take over the whole garden.

    Two plants survived being overrun by watermelon, the asparagus and the hong tsoi. I'm sort of resting it until "spring" which is planted around Feb here.

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    This weekend's bread (thelemmy.club)
     

    Very basic scoring this time. One line one x. I was happy to find some "golden whole wheat flour" yesterday.

    350g Golden whole wheat flour

    650g strong white bread flour

    20g sel gris

    675g tap water

    200g starter made with all purpose white flour and tap water, hydration 100%.

    Just mix, rest, stretch and fold 4x at 30 minute intervals. Bulk rise took awhile, maybe 4 hours this time (it varies, one hour to 8 - is a condition not a time). Split and bench rest then shaped, into cloth lined baskets wrapped in plastic bags, overnight in the refrigerator. Baked cold bread in very hot closed pans 20 minutes then open lids and 20 minutes more. 450F.

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    Breakfast in Tampa (or, guava pastry & a cigar, while reading la gaceta) (thelemmy.club)
    submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [M] to c/cocktails@lemmy.world
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    (Sorry for the mixed measurements - I had a bunch of egg white so had to weigh out 1 egg worth)

    35 grams egg white

    1 Tbsp guava jelly or guava paste

    1 oz good mezcal

    1/2 oz over proof reposado tequila

    1/2 oz Aperol

    3/4 oz lemon juice

    ETA I failed to list one step. First: whisk or muddle the jelly and booze to incorporate it.

    Shake without ice, then with ice. Just as good as it sounds and so beautiful.

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    El Diablo (thelemmy.club)
     

    It's not a looker, but tastes great.

    2 oz tequila (any)

    1 oz lime juice

    1 oz creme de cassis

    2-3 oz ginger beer (I used 1 oz ginger syrup, 3 oz fizzy water, 2 squirts of fire tincture)

    Result of googling "what else can I make with tequila and lime"

    Husband is having a Stella, that's the bottle in the background.

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    Legolas lounging (thelemmy.club)
     

    He's up to 7.5 lb from under 1 lb when we found him. (From 300 grams of baby to 3.5kg of kitten in only a few months, crazy.)

    Here is a "before", the day my kids texted to say they found the source of the meowing I had heard before work. Just a wee handful. Always bold as anything though, he was never afraid of us or our 75lb mutt of a dog.

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    Today is Yesterday is Tomorrow (thelemmy.club)
     

    1 oz barrel strength bourbon

    1 oz barrel strength reposado tequila

    1 scant oz Aperol with a splash of Campari to make an ounce.

    1 oz Amaro Nonino

    1 oz grapefruit juice

    1 oz lemon juice

    Shake together with ice. If you are somewhere it's not still summer, serve up in a chilled coupe. Tart enough for a sugared rim. But it's still hot here, so everything is iced. This is sort of 1.5 servings, I just find it fussy to measure .75 of an ounce. Equal parts is the key.

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    Banderilla (thelemmy.club)
     

    https://makemeacocktail.com/en/cocktail/9953/banderilla

    Equal parts tequila, mezcal, Apricot liqueur and lime, half part Aperol works best IMO, any more Aperol and it gets too sweet.

    This is a pantry recipe for me as I keep Giffard Abricot in stock always. You want a good apricot in this, I think passion fruit or peach would be equally delicious but make sure it's made from real fruit. Also can sub Campari for the Aperol if you want a little more bitter.

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    Clarified watermelon tequila drink (imbibemagazine.com)
     

    Ok so my garden is basically a watermelon patch right now, so I was interested in this as it uses one whole mini watermelon, but this says the juice lasts one day, the drink once clarified lasts months.

    I guess I could freeze the rest, or simply make less, or since the final version keeps well, make more of that - but why does the recipe say to make so much more of the watermelon juice than one would use, if it doesn't keep?

    Has anyone on here done milk clarifying, is it very fussy?

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    Infuriated on behalf of my coworker - US push to disenfranchise women (lemmy.world)
     

    My coworker went to renew her driver's license.

    They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn't have the star on it yet. She's old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.

    She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.

    So now her license is expired, and she can't renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.

    I am wildly infuriated.

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