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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 24 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Wanna use this opportunity to shill an awesome cookie recipe by Adam Regusea.

Recipe :

Ingredients

  • 113g (1 stick) butter
  • 200g sugar (1 cup granulated or brown, but I prefer 1 2/3 cups powdered sugar)
  • 5-10g (1-2 teaspoons) molasses (optional, replicates the taste of brown sugar)
  • 1 egg
  • 10g (1 teaspoon of ~~Morton~~ whatever brand you want kosher) salt (use 2/3rds of that if your butter is salted)
  • 4-8g (1-2 teaspoons) vanilla extract
  • 3g (1/2 teaspoon) baking soda
  • 230g (about 1.5 cups) bread flour (1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour is OK instead)
  • 100g chocolate chips or other mix-ins

Instructions

  1. Get the oven (convection if possible) heating to 375ºF/190ºC 
  2. Melt the butter
  3. Mix in the sugar (and optional molasses) until smooth
  4. Mix in the egg until very smooth
  5. Mix in the salt (FYI, some people might not like their cookies as salty as I do), vanilla, baking soda, flour and chips

The dough should be a little sticky — you can chill it for a few minutes to make it easier to shape.

  1. Divide the dough into six 115g portions and roll each into something like a golf ball.

  2. Space them evenly on a baking sheet — no parchment paper or grease necessary (but you can use parchment paper if wanted).

  3. Flatten each ball into something like a hockey puck and tidy up the circular shape.

  4. Turn the oven off and turn the broiler/grill on maximum. 

  5. Give it a minute or two to heat up, then put in the cookies near the top.

  6. Let the broiler brown the tops of the cookies until golden — this should only take a minute, so don't walk away or they'll burn.

  7. If you're doing multiple pans of cookies, brown them each one at a time.

  8. Turn the broiler off and the oven back on to 375ºF/190ºC.

  9. Give the broiler a couple minutes to cool down, then return the cookies to the oven.

  10. Bake until they spread and look done to you — mine take about eight minutes as this stage, but they'll take longer if you don't have a convection fan.

For perfect “chewy” texture, take them out when they just look a hair under-baked.

Let the cookies cool and solidify before scraping them off the baking sheet.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If there's one ingredient where you really don't need to use a specific brand it's salt.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

True, but when measuring by volume it IS important to be clear about whether you're using coarse or fine salt. The distinction is not important if you measure ingredients by mass like a civilized person.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 51 minutes ago

Depending on what you're doing with it grain size and texture can also matter. Not sure I can think of how it would matter for salt in a cookie, but using rock sugar for butter cream frosting would work poorly, for example.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Exactly - this is usually why chefs are recommending a specific brand. For volumetric measurements used in backwards countries using a different brand with a different grain size can significantly alter what a teaspoon of salt ends up tasting like. Some salts are also "saltier" than others even at the same mass so brand can make a difference on multiple levels.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Especially true when it's something like flour which can be massively different in density if it's poured or scooped or packed in.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, just pasted it from my doc. More of a note for myself. Use whatever you want.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is a classic tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe with the exception of the broiler technique and the melted butter. Both of which are pretty great, because they'd increase the outside crunch while leaving the inside soft. Be sure to let your melted butter cool enough that it doesn't prematurely cook your egg. I'm interested that he uses confectioners sugar, which contains cornstarch, which would balance out the heaviness of the bread flour... And then molasses.... I guess he wants the flavor of brown sugar but with a finer grain, and adjusted everything else to make that happen? But then why coarse salt?

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 98 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

I hope this is a fictitious example and he's not actually paying almost $20 for a cookie.

But I've talked to enough Californians to know how much some people are willing to pay for things.

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

How much are they prepared to pay for things?

What the going rate for a doodad these days?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 26 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe with DoorDash fees, but if that's the case then this guy fucking deserves bankruptcy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mfer door dashing cookies one at a time

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 1 points 9 minutes ago

If it is from Crumbl, thus seems more than possible

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

A friend of mine moved to SF right out of college. A year or so later, he told me that he visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is a theme park near where we grew up. It was originally owned by Anheuser-Busch, so you can get beer basically anywhere in the park.

He had this to say:

"You know, this is the first time I've been since turning 21. I was surprised to see how cheap the beer was. They were only charging $8 a pint."

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

This guy's buying cookies from Erewhon

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Yeah if you’re used to California prices most places feel like a deal. I don’t bat an eye paying $4.70 a gallon for gas currently.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I hope nobody is stupid enough to pay $3.75 for a cookie, let alone any of those other prices!

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Hey man, Cookie is a nice girl. She's doing the best she can in this economy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Depends on the cookie.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

what cookie? we shouldn't judge, maybe its worth it

[–] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 40 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There's a lot of things lately that I realized that I don't really care for now that they are expensive anyway. I haven't paid for XBox Game Pass since it went up. I'm not missing it. I haven't had Neflix or Spotify in 2 years. I don't miss it. Losing Amazon Prime saved me a ton of cash and made me realize I was buying crap I didn't need. I haven't had McDonald's, Chipotle, or Jimmy John's in a long time. Don't miss it.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

the cookie shop was working on it already

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 41 points 6 hours ago

"oh no, cost of production went up 30 cents. Better pump prices by 5 dollars and blame inflation"

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 hours ago

Not even inflation just an experiment

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Cookies aren't even that difficult to make yourself...

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's crazy how expensive it is not knowing how to bake, if you like good bread.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

Most people have no idea how expensive it is not knowing how to cook.

I genuinely can't understand why people complain about having no money and then spend $50 on $4 worth of food to have someone bring it to you in more time then it takes to make.

Someone somewhere right now is ordering pasta, the highest margin restaurant for item, at a 900% markup compared to basic ingredients in the store. And it takes longer. And tastes worse by the time it gets there.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 minutes ago

What we want are cafeterias and automats.

What we get are finely crafted artisan pasta experiences, and empty closed buildings, but nothing in between.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I found buying premade dough from the store is cheaper than buying the cookies cooked in the store's bakery but only barely. Buying cookies at those chain cookie shops or in the middle of the grocery store are always high though. I'm sure making the dough is the way to go as far as cost goes but haven't tried it to do for the direct comparison.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They're not either that easy to make to be really good.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Then you're doing it wrong?

It's a few ingredients mixed in a bowl, then slapped on a baking sheet. It's one of the simplest baked goods you can make.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Did I said they were hard to make? They're easy as you said, but until you practice a lot and use good ingredients they're going to be meh.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

That's what I thought you said. What you wrote was not easy to interpret.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"cookie" I assume is not easily translatable I assume just to be optimistic about the "not easy" part.

At least in German, the direct translation "Keks" can be cream filled monstrosities with nuts on top and ... I'm going shopping, see you later!

But the run-of-the-mill cookie that cookie clicker made famous .... Yeah, an oven, a bowl and if you're lazy an electric mixer.

I'll estimate that anyone will need a maximum of four tries and they'll get it.

  • The first because the cookies get too dry or burned
  • The second try because they thought they mixed it wrong and deviated unnecessarily from the recipe.
  • The third one because they realize that the dough is tasty and ... gone?!
  • Delicious cookies.
[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

that cookie clicker made famous

Did you not have chocolate chip cookies on Germany until...the mid 2000s?

They've been like the default/staple home dessert in the US since like the 50s. They're so engrained in Americans' concept of home that realtors often toss some in the oven before a tour to convince potential buyers it feels like home based on the smell.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Incidentally, the pure chocolate chip cookie is most often sold as American Cookie!

But the cookie clicker was a pure associative jump I have to admit - it wasn't my first contact with chocolate cookies :)

But traditionally the hike baked cookies have a huge variety especially around Christmas. There really are several items that I personally would not count as cookie but which are called that regionally apparently. Vanillekipferl from the south or Kokosmakronen from I have no idea where.

[–] Soupbreaker@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I had never heard of cookie clicker, assumed it was some youtube personality, and was vaguely annoyed at the implication that this imaginary person was somehow responsible for popularizing regular-ass chocolate chip cookies. Having investigated, I'm mystified by how such a "game" accrued any kind of success. I guess I'm flummoxed by the concept of idle games in general. May as well just watch a screensaver.

Anyhow, cookies are great, and easy to make! I like to use parchment paper for mine, but I used to have a silicone baking mat which also worked well. Neither are really necessary, though—just a humble cookie sheet is all you need.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah that game was ... A thing. I have very fond memories because it thought me a lot about JavaScript and system clock stuff. Although I have to damit I also watched the pipe screensaver back in the days for way too long to "find the patterns".

But on topic: I agree! And I learned a new term - very heard of a "cookie sheet" beforehand. Thank you!

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 6 points 5 hours ago

Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational greedflation.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greedflation