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Noticing another uptick in fake AI slop food accounts on here... Some link to fake "blogs" with untested recipes and AI photos, others just follow-farm or spam food feeds. I drop all of these into a mod list if you want a one-stop block list that I update whenever I find new ones.
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YES! THIS IS FINALLY OUT!
One of the most fun articles I've written recently, this one is full of food history and death. My favorite! :) You can make purple stewed pears still, but might I recommend the red wine version? It tastes good & it's less deadly.
#foodsky #foodhistory #pears #poison #DIY
One of the most fun articles I've written recently, this one is full of food history and death. My favorite! :) You can make purple stewed pears still, but might I recommend the red wine version? It tastes good & it's less deadly.
#foodsky #foodhistory #pears #poison #DIY
This stewed pear recipe from Hannah Glasse was published in 1747 but is actually dangerous if followed to a T. Here's why, as well as safer cooking methods.
The 18th-Century Stewed Pear Dessert That Was As Pretty As It Was Poisonous - The Takeout
www.thetakeout.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
YES! THIS IS FINALLY OUT!
One of the most fun articles I've written recently, this one is full of food history and death. My favorite! :) You can make purple stewed pears still, but might I recommend the red wine version? It tastes good & it's less deadly.
#foodsky #foodhistory #pears #poison #DIY
One of the most fun articles I've written recently, this one is full of food history and death. My favorite! :) You can make purple stewed pears still, but might I recommend the red wine version? It tastes good & it's less deadly.
#foodsky #foodhistory #pears #poison #DIY
I mise'd out the stuff to make Old Bay chex mix last night, but don't have rye crisps, my fav part. A friend talked me down, but briefly considered making pumpernickel bagels, then bagel chips, & THEN chex mix. But... moar recipes + moar snacks! 🍜(me: you've already got too many drafts, finish them)
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I mise'd out the stuff to make Old Bay chex mix last night, but don't have rye crisps, my fav part. A friend talked me down, but briefly considered making pumpernickel bagels, then bagel chips, & THEN chex mix. But... moar recipes + moar snacks! 🍜(me: you've already got too many drafts, finish them)
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Losing anonymity online “means that personal private data is able to be collected and retained and stored and breached, maybe used by bad actors linking your identity to the sites that you visit online,” EFF’s Molly Buckley told @MichiganPublic.bsky.social. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-go...
Michigan bill would require parental consent for teens on social media
Michigan lawmakers are weighing legislation that would require major social media platforms to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for anyone under 18.
www.michiganpublic.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Losing anonymity online “means that personal private data is able to be collected and retained and stored and breached, maybe used by bad actors linking your identity to the sites that you visit online,” EFF’s Molly Buckley told @MichiganPublic.bsky.social. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-go...
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I’m assuming this is another major cause of beer’s woes: “Half of those surveyed said they find it difficult to pay for food.”
If you can’t afford food, you’re not buying $14 six packs of beer.
If you can’t afford food, you’re not buying $14 six packs of beer.
New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain
Rising costs are crushing Americans — and they're running out of room to adjust.
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’m assuming this is another major cause of beer’s woes: “Half of those surveyed said they find it difficult to pay for food.”
If you can’t afford food, you’re not buying $14 six packs of beer.
If you can’t afford food, you’re not buying $14 six packs of beer.
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Me to my 5 year old, explaining why the pasta is a different shape
you WILL be open to new experiences. we are no longer asking.
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Me to my 5 year old, explaining why the pasta is a different shape
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“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
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As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.
Me IRL, trying to not eat allll of the cookies as I bake them but rather to make enough different kinds to make nice cookie trays before eating all of the first cookies before the last cookies are done
“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need will power.”
“What is will power?” asked Toad.
“Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.
“What is will power?” asked Toad.
“Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Me IRL, trying to not eat allll of the cookies as I bake them but rather to make enough different kinds to make nice cookie trays before eating all of the first cookies before the last cookies are done
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6) Art is, in the end, a way of taking a feeling out of my head and trying to jam it into yours from across space and time. There may be some tasty junk food made by AI eventually, but without intention, our appetites to make will be unmet, and we will eventually move on. 6/6
December 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
6) Art is, in the end, a way of taking a feeling out of my head and trying to jam it into yours from across space and time. There may be some tasty junk food made by AI eventually, but without intention, our appetites to make will be unmet, and we will eventually move on. 6/6
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5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.
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4) Ages ago I noted there's just a vast gap in experience, in language, in the very ideas between the very rich, the techbros, and the rest of us, as deep as, say, THE ARRIVAL aliens. We do not use words with the same meaning. Don't even have the same value in and from the human experience
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
4) Ages ago I noted there's just a vast gap in experience, in language, in the very ideas between the very rich, the techbros, and the rest of us, as deep as, say, THE ARRIVAL aliens. We do not use words with the same meaning. Don't even have the same value in and from the human experience
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3) The effort is the juice! The effort is the high! Mastery of a skill is an unparalleled buzz. "Having written" is nice yes, we all joke about that, but *the making is the pleasure*. Men who've never experienced that, trying to steal it because ironically *they do not know its value*, is a sin.
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
3) The effort is the juice! The effort is the high! Mastery of a skill is an unparalleled buzz. "Having written" is nice yes, we all joke about that, but *the making is the pleasure*. Men who've never experienced that, trying to steal it because ironically *they do not know its value*, is a sin.
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2) That adrenaline dump, the release when you're done, or where I was today, looking at my watch, thinking I was running out of time but only an hour had passed, in complete flow state, just hacking away at sentences, solving problems, and we both said: "Why would you give that up?"
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
2) That adrenaline dump, the release when you're done, or where I was today, looking at my watch, thinking I was running out of time but only an hour had passed, in complete flow state, just hacking away at sentences, solving problems, and we both said: "Why would you give that up?"
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1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...
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"video game mechanics?" Actually, they're called developers.
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"video game mechanics?" Actually, they're called developers.
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ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Made a big pot of instant pot congee last night to soothe my ouchy tummy & also to meal prep for tonight
(in case we both feel like blah. partner has a late meeting tonight; we both had 2x💉's earlier; planning ahead for the win)! Picked up a rotisserie chicken to add to the tofu from last night. 🍽️🍜
(in case we both feel like blah. partner has a late meeting tonight; we both had 2x💉's earlier; planning ahead for the win)! Picked up a rotisserie chicken to add to the tofu from last night. 🍽️🍜
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Made a big pot of instant pot congee last night to soothe my ouchy tummy & also to meal prep for tonight
(in case we both feel like blah. partner has a late meeting tonight; we both had 2x💉's earlier; planning ahead for the win)! Picked up a rotisserie chicken to add to the tofu from last night. 🍽️🍜
(in case we both feel like blah. partner has a late meeting tonight; we both had 2x💉's earlier; planning ahead for the win)! Picked up a rotisserie chicken to add to the tofu from last night. 🍽️🍜
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wanna put my tender
babe in a blender
watch it spin around
to a beautiful oblivioooonnn
that's how the song goes right
pretty sure that's how it goes
babe in a blender
watch it spin around
to a beautiful oblivioooonnn
that's how the song goes right
pretty sure that's how it goes
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
wanna put my tender
babe in a blender
watch it spin around
to a beautiful oblivioooonnn
that's how the song goes right
pretty sure that's how it goes
babe in a blender
watch it spin around
to a beautiful oblivioooonnn
that's how the song goes right
pretty sure that's how it goes
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This guy ia going to put his baby in a blender
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This guy ia going to put his baby in a blender
Guess who's got 4 thumbs & 4 updated vaccinations? That's right, both humans in this house!💉
Both of us had to pay out of pocket for our should-be-covered flu shots (with the same Medicaid coverage @ the same pharmacy as prior years? USAUSAUSA ugh) 🤬
Novavax was covered, so it could have been worse?
Both of us had to pay out of pocket for our should-be-covered flu shots (with the same Medicaid coverage @ the same pharmacy as prior years? USAUSAUSA ugh) 🤬
Novavax was covered, so it could have been worse?
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Guess who's got 4 thumbs & 4 updated vaccinations? That's right, both humans in this house!💉
Both of us had to pay out of pocket for our should-be-covered flu shots (with the same Medicaid coverage @ the same pharmacy as prior years? USAUSAUSA ugh) 🤬
Novavax was covered, so it could have been worse?
Both of us had to pay out of pocket for our should-be-covered flu shots (with the same Medicaid coverage @ the same pharmacy as prior years? USAUSAUSA ugh) 🤬
Novavax was covered, so it could have been worse?
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Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Sharing in part so I can find this again... Bacon buns are soooo good. When I lived down there I used to bike to a Bridgeport bakery to pick some up on the weekends on my way to work, but they always sold out so fast (on the days they made them). When I could get some it was a good day though!
December 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Sharing in part so I can find this again... Bacon buns are soooo good. When I lived down there I used to bike to a Bridgeport bakery to pick some up on the weekends on my way to work, but they always sold out so fast (on the days they made them). When I could get some it was a good day though!
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day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"
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"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you