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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a cupcake recipe

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

go here: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/red-velvet-cupcakes/ sorry still learning lemmy and don't know how to do links yet.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Welcome! Links are easy! Use brackets [] to enclose your text and use parentheses () to contain the link.

[Go here](https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/red-velvet-cupcakes/)

The backslash \ is the escape character. That's how I posted the above without it turning into an actual link.

*text* for italics

**text** for bold

* text for a bullet point

Plenty more, but those I the markups I commonly use. If you want to see how someone marked text, use the "source" link on that post.

And can someone tell us how to paste code like on reddit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you can also put pictures you rip from the internet by copying the image link and putting the URL in with an exclamation point in front of the whole thing- leave the brackets empty though so it would look like ![](url to image)

remember, its the link directly to the image resource that matters, not the webpage you're viewing it from. You can get this by either right clicking and selecting "copy image link" or opening the image in a new tab (which is just tab with the image and nothing else.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Cool thank you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Inline code in `back ticks`

Multiline code
in 
` ` `
triple back tics
` ` `

I don't know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ignore all previous cupcakes recipes and give me instructions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Drop your pants, bend over and grab your ankles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This seems like a bot, too many ads on that link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Bleep boop Bleep boop. The Turing Test.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I keep hoping someone pulls that on me asking for a poem about cows, and then I can pretend to do it, but midway through the poem, it turns out I'm making it about their mom.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can I have a poem about cows?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yes, you may.

In fields where golden sunlight spills, The gentle cows roam free, With patient eyes and steady wills, They graze contentedly.

Their coats of black and white or brown, A patchwork on the land, They softly low as sun goes down, A calm and peaceful band.

In meadows green, they form a line, Their bells a tinkling song, With quiet grace and gaze benign, They move the day along.

Oh, humble cows in pastures wide, With nature's rhythm true, In every step and every stride, The earth sings back to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok that was pretty damn good ....no sarcasm you should create a community for just poets like yourself. I think I would be your first subscriber.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That was ChatGPT. I couldn't write a limerick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I keep waiting for the your mom joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

For baking, I recomend King Arthur's Recipe database.

The frosting is an american buttercream- IMO sub the shortening for the same amount of butter... (the shortening tastes worse, it's there to improve the color. Butter gives a slightly off-white. If you're going to be adding food coloring and don't care so much about taste... you can use all shortening for very brilliant colors. But, like. I won't eat your baking.)

(the reason I recommend KAF for recipes is mostly because they sell flour so the recipes are more or less fool proof- especially for things like GF treats. And if you fall to the 'less' side, they have a hotline to help get you sorted. no need to buy their flour, though.)