TommyBeans [they/them, he/him]

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Cake day: May 3rd, 2025

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  • I would be waking up at midnight basically to give myself two hours before work, but I think I’m gonna give this a try. It’s the one piece of advice in the thread I’ve clicked with so far.

    A few weeks ago, I had a stent where I was waking up about an hour before my alarm went off. The first day I just couldn’t get back to bed and laid there for an hour, so the second day I just got up. Figured I would fill the time with coffee and hexbear, but then I got in the mood for journaling. Looking back on it, that was a couple pretty good days.












  • I’ve thought about that off and on for a while. Same with Jello. I think it mostly just coincides with the rise of mass factory food production. Mass chicken farms produce tons of short shelf life eggs that can get easily made into shelf stable mayo. And mayo is part of the pantheon of “things that are difficult to make at home, but I can buy a mass produced version cheaply at the store.” Then aggressive marketing on the parts of Hellman’s and Best Food’s. Probably something to do with refrigerated trucking being more common as well and the general trend towards those “quick and easy for the housewife” recipes.

    I think mayo is inevitably american