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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 2h

The kid wants to try making a pumpkin spice version and variations with different nuts, all of which sounds fun, but the plain one is good as-is for purists.

Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 2h

It’s so good. We didn’t put milk in ours, so it’s really a dark chocolate hazelnut spread. It has very little salt, but somehow you can taste it in every bite? Yes it has less sugar and oil than the commercial stuff, but it’s somehow richer, not less delectable.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 2h

Recipes show up in the same places that tell you to make your brownies out of black beans to make them high protein and gluten free—those brownies are bullshit, but homemade nutella is not.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 2h

Saw roasted hazelnuts at the store and did an impulse purchase. Made “nutella” with the 9 yr old Saturday afternoon. When I tell you I was not prepared for how addictive this stuff is… I’m just finding vehicles to consume it now because I can’t quite justify eating it by itself with a spoon.

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Boo!-dlefax @poodlefax.bsky.social · 3h

It’s cold and a hurricane and some of these houses floated *miles* off their foundations with people in them.

www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/10/07/f...

Sunday 11:35 a.m. — Entire homes floated miles in flood waters Sunday
Category 2 hurricane-force wind gusts whipped through western Alaska Saturday night and Sunday morning.

In the Kuskokwim Delta, the Bering Sea is being forced miles inland.

In Kipnuk, Tamura Paul woke up to not only water in her home, but her entire house was not where it used to be.

Chief Meteorologist Melissa Frey spoke with her by phone Sunday morning. She said she was scared and hoping help would come soon. Her family also lives nearby, and their house is floating as well, they think upriver, several miles from where the home left its foundation.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 7h

No honey, we criticize you for free because you lie.

From MAHA Action, "Dr. Eric Berg just REVEALED the real reason behind the sudden wave of anti-RFK Jr. and MAHA content online.

Big Pharma is literally paying influencers $1,000 per post to attack the MAHA movement.

(Video from MAHA ACTION Weekly Media Hub)"

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 2d

Everything involving the US prison system is so awful and inhumane.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know why this person wanted to make a video about bats, but I am here for it.

youtube.com/watch?v=aPsI...

More Bat Nonsense 🦇

YouTube video by Sarah

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Cerebellum and Open Border Appreciating Neuropsychologist🦦🦥 @deborahbuddingphd.blackskycomra.de · 3d

I’m sort of stunned that “I’m not political” Jimmy Fallon let Hayley Williams perform that song and deeply grateful we have footage of it
Honestly that performance deserves an Emmy

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 3d

Most of the orchestral instruments are played by Black musicians, too.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 3d

in case it's slipped yalls mind...

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 11d

16 various titles for October, Black Speculative Fiction Month

#BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth —

photo of 16 books by black authors spread across the yellow blanket on our bed in a 4 x 4 grid of books —

wizard of the crow by ngūgī wa thiong'o; unshod, cackling, and naked by tamika thompson; shigidi and the brass head of obalufon by wole talibi; none but the righteous by chantal james; the ballad of perilous graves by alex jennings; rosewater by tade thompson; out there screaming (horror anthology) edited by jordan peele; my life in the bush of ghosts by amos tutuola; skin folk by nalo hopkinson; black leopard, red wolf by marlon james; dhalgren by samuel r. delany; the ballad of black tom by victor lavalle; nigerians in space by deji bryce olukotun; how long 'til black future month? by n.k. jemisin; black sci-fi short stories (gothic fantasy) edited by tia ross; and everfair by nisi shawl.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 4d

8/
-This protein stuff is out of hand. Just saw a dude make a smoothie with frozen (cooked) chicken breast, and brag how much protein is in it. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
-So far, nothing else too wild in the apartments section of the series, *so far.*

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Matthew Somoroff @matthewsomoroff.bsky.social · 4d

back before I started my current in-house job I had the distinct pleasure of copyediting this book. very smart analysis and written with a lot of heart. highly recommended!

University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 5d

@dandipiero.bsky.social's book "Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl" is now available! Sample the book's music playlist and read an excerpt at press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-...

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 5d

Is the cruelty the point? Seems like it.

Gift link; no subscription required.

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 6d

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On the shallow, superficial side, I do appreciate that this season people don’t all have yaaassified Instagram faces. Mostly conventionally attractive, but closer to people you might encounter in the world.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 6d

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The Love is Blind breakups are so dramatic. For real, you are not going to love someone forever that you spoke to in a closet several times. It’s what I imagine a breakup with a camp boyfriend would be like, when people are 12.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 6d

Erin Baba is a journalist. Link is a lawyer.

Bluesky silences journalists and lawyers now for the sake of the leadership egos.

These rank, arrogant amateurs playacting at being kings and queens of the sandcastle.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 6d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 6d

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-Re: homophobes, it’s giving telling on yourself and peaked in high school, respectively.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 6d

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-I legitimately respect the folks who were like, “Nope. This ish is too weird, and I’m out.” Being an adult is determining what uncomfortable situations you are responsible to handle, and which ones you should separate yourself from. And no one is obligated to be on TV.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 6d

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-Also, if you have friends who can’t clock grifters, give them a clue.
-These folks seem less horrible than the MN season, but I also haven’t hit the homophobe date yet, which had been referenced on social media.

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Lauren Olamina @olamina.bsky.social · 6d

YUP. It’s wild.