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Asmr Cookies Culture Food Decoration Oddly Satisfying

Cookie decorating videos show off the most relaxing culinary art form

sudshr47 January 17, 2019

I recently visited my local nail salon for a relaxing day of self-care, but things got a bit stressful when the nail technician went to town on my cuticles. To distract myself from the slight pain, I looked up at the TV screens mounted on the wall, and that’s when I found a brand new source of calm.

The salon was playing a compilation following the trend of oddly satisfying, ASMR videos: Cookie decorating videos.

I was instantly transfixed — both by the sheer amount of skill and technique of the pastry artists, and the curiosity of how the cookie design itself would evolve as they deftly filled in the icing. Read more…

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Culture Donald Trump Memes Oddly Satisfying Reddit

How Trump turned the ‘fun’ internet into a coping mechanism

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

I don’t need to tell you that being online is less fun than it used to be.

The internet has, of course, always sported a vicious underbelly, particularly for members of marginalized communities. Now, though, the whole thing has been boiled down into two halves: the dreadful, perpetually memed news cycle and our increasingly futile attempts at escaping it.

The primary complaint about Twitter, or at least the stereotypical one, used to be that “no one cares what you’re eating for breakfast” — that the network was too crowded with personal minutiae to be of use. Well, at least that boring stuff was non-toxic. Now, our president’s preferred way to communicate with the public is on that same platform, which had been plagued with Nazis, trolls, and bigots even before his rise to power. Read more…

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Art Culture Oddly Satisfying Painting Restoration

Watch as 200-year-old painting gets restored to its original glory

sudshr47 November 7, 2017

While some old paintings may have a yellow or brownish hue to them, underneath the protective varnish may be a perfect painting, filled with lush colors and depth.

Art dealer and TV personality Philip Mould shared a series of videos to Twitter on Monday, which show the removal of varnish from an oil painting from the Jacobean (1603-1625) era.