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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · May 2

Welcome, my lovelies. I've misplaced my welcome post (prolly under a cat or a pile of books), so, here's a new one.

I'm a food writer, omnivorously rambling here in Waterloo Region (Canada).

My posts are disparate, and range from current affairs to art to food to whatever's happening in my life.

Two maple leaf-shaped sugar cookies, flooded with red icing. They sit on a fancy, embossed white plate, next to a rather utilitarian red tea mug.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 8h

On this day in 1988, Sarah McLachlan released her debut album, Touch. A haunting blend of ethereal vocals and poetic grace, it marked the arrival of a Canadian music icon.

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 8h

Yup. Mine’s small, too. Mum’s is attached to a walk-in so I thought I’d ask. and yup. They’re doing them.

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 8h

I realised it’s the long weekend, so best to get them done as no one will take calls or emails. Mum’s pharmacist happened to have free slots and we got in.

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 9h

Got a booster yesterday, and I was like, “My arm hurts, but it’s nowhere as bad as I recall.”

Today: Death has warmed over. Slept 3hrs.

And I need to do pre cooking for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving lunch.

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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 9h

The legendary Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, has died at the age of 79

www.heraldscotland.com/news...

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 14h

I am *not* surprised.

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 14h

one of the most not the onion but the onion headlines I've ever seen

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 14h

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fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 14h

For Thanksgiving weekend I decided to have a shot at lifting some spirits!

This week's column's about Canadian bourbon drinkers wanting a local option. Thanks to the US booze embargo, our distillers are having a moment! Plus there's a cocktail recipe !

#Whisky #Guelph

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 4d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 5d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, playing delicate house plant hokey pokey, to save them from overnight frosts.

And the mop and bucket: someone has been a naughty boy.

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 1d

I put the car cooler by the garage door, to grab on my way out. Nigel decided the cooler should be put to better use.

(30min later, Rufus was in it, but he jumped out before I couls take a pic)

#Cats

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 1d

Horrified Gisèle's legal battle got dragged on but relieved to hear that the result is an increased sentence.

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

www.bbc.com

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 1d

Beloved college basketball nun Sister Jean dies aged 106

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Beloved college basketball nun Sister Jean dies aged 106

Her courtside presence made her a global celebrity, inspiring a wave of merchandise from bobbleheads to T-shirts bearing her image.

www.bbc.com

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 1d

Hey KW peeps. Food4Kids is doing their Thanksgiving drive. They were outside the Freshco on Old King/Weber accepting donations when I went in. Please give, if you can. ♥️

#waterlooregion #hunger

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 1d

"'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the five-person Nobel committee said in its citation."

www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize | CBC News

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

www.cbc.ca

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 2d

Offering you a sneaky snootle of this week's column, just in time for Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-4)

89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County

Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)

📸 Unsplash/Thomas Park

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 2d

A former regional councillor (we're two-tiered in my area) just self published a mystery where a (fictitious) town council dealing with developers, misogyny and what seems like NIMBYism...and then a councillor gets murdered. I might pick it up...

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 3d

That friend may be me…

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 3d

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight’s half-eaten supper.

a cup with some popcorn in it. No, I’m not at a cinema.

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Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 3d

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 3d

Well, then. I sat down in the tv temple to do some writing and rewatch a dvd before returning it to the library. All of a sudden, I acquired a new laptop.

#Cats

Nigel, my fluffy tangerine kitty, plunked on my lap.

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁 @cardamomaddict.bsky.social · 3d

I loved that line.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 3d

Radiohead fans, this is for you.

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