MadGastronomer
@madgastronomer.bsky.social
The one, the only.
Queer fat pagan polytheist disabled cis white woman. Weaver, spinner, writer. Cranky and tired. I don't follow back.
Queer fat pagan polytheist disabled cis white woman. Weaver, spinner, writer. Cranky and tired. I don't follow back.
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And friends, somewhere in the depths of my brain, enshrined in memories of a kid's book, is a bird screaming "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" at relevant moments.
And I just needed to share that with whoever's around at this hour. Because Edgar's been doing that a lot lately. 8/8
And I just needed to share that with whoever's around at this hour. Because Edgar's been doing that a lot lately. 8/8
I was rereading the comic Digger the other day (www.diggercomic.com) and once again encountered @tkingfisher.com making purple ink really creepy *in a comic with no color anywhere*. And I just think that's neat. Not as neat as the jumpscare on the page in The Hollow Places, but neat.
Digger by Ursula Vernon
www.diggercomic.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I was rereading the comic Digger the other day (www.diggercomic.com) and once again encountered @tkingfisher.com making purple ink really creepy *in a comic with no color anywhere*. And I just think that's neat. Not as neat as the jumpscare on the page in The Hollow Places, but neat.
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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Who’s gonna tell ‘em
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
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Yess part two!!!
The latest installment in our series on book rebinding, where the Library's advanced book conservation interns are taking you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection! Scroll back in our feed to see Act I, and check back next week for Act III.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Yess part two!!!
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
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Ah yes, all us petite bourgeoisie artists out here with our charcuterie plates and our means of production.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ah yes, all us petite bourgeoisie artists out here with our charcuterie plates and our means of production.
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The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away.
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The designer of Mouse Trap, Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Lite Brite, and many other toys has passed away.
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
What a legacy of joy!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...
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She's stepping down because of THREATS FROM HER OWN GROUPS
Not from the left, not from antifa, not from anyone but her own fellow Nazis
Not from the left, not from antifa, not from anyone but her own fellow Nazis
MTG goes on extraordinary rant about Charlie Kirk, Republican men and her resignation
‘Oh I haven’t suffered enough for you while you post all day behind a screen?’ the outgoing Congresswoman wrote
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
She's stepping down because of THREATS FROM HER OWN GROUPS
Not from the left, not from antifa, not from anyone but her own fellow Nazis
Not from the left, not from antifa, not from anyone but her own fellow Nazis
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Anything to please the corporate donors.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Anything to please the corporate donors.
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Amen, brother
This is something I've not talked about before, but it's weighed heavily on my mind. Gaiman. Obvs it doesn't hold a candle to any pain experienced by victims, but I still haven't recovered. He meant a lot to me; through his work & a few things he did to help me personally. It's fucking hard.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Amen, brother
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Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
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𝗛𝗲𝘆!
Side Quested is up, and it's girl talk time!
🔗 tapas.io/episode/3702...
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🔹 #webcomics
Side Quested is up, and it's girl talk time!
🔗 tapas.io/episode/3702...
🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
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🔹 #webcomics
Read Side Quested :: Chapter 3: 61 | Tapas Community
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November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
𝗛𝗲𝘆!
Side Quested is up, and it's girl talk time!
🔗 tapas.io/episode/3702...
🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
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🔹 #webcomics
Side Quested is up, and it's girl talk time!
🔗 tapas.io/episode/3702...
🔷 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
🔹 Start here: tapas.io/series/SideQuested
🔹 Or here: sidequested.com/page/1/
🔷 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: patreon.com/alepresser
🔹 #webcomics
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
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My hottest of hot takes that I fervently believe is that the endeavor to replace animal husbandry entirely with cultured meat is a eugenicist project.
Logs on, checks discourse: “Hey let’s make humanity’s protein source something that can become the intellectual property of billionaires”
Some of the worst people on Bluesky: “how about not”
Poasters: “wow, fascists want to do an animal cruelty”
Some of the worst people on Bluesky: “how about not”
Poasters: “wow, fascists want to do an animal cruelty”
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My hottest of hot takes that I fervently believe is that the endeavor to replace animal husbandry entirely with cultured meat is a eugenicist project.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
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Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police.
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.”
With @startribune.com
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Reminded of the one time I made the comment in my white collar crime class that I said "if we can garnish wages, we can garnish profits"
Fines don't mean shit. If you won't let us throw them in prison we should take money in ways that hurt so they don't do it again
Fines don't mean shit. If you won't let us throw them in prison we should take money in ways that hurt so they don't do it again
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reminded of the one time I made the comment in my white collar crime class that I said "if we can garnish wages, we can garnish profits"
Fines don't mean shit. If you won't let us throw them in prison we should take money in ways that hurt so they don't do it again
Fines don't mean shit. If you won't let us throw them in prison we should take money in ways that hurt so they don't do it again
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Remember the two weeks when people thought they found an “infinite money glitch” at ATMs but instead they just reinvented check fraud?
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Remember the two weeks when people thought they found an “infinite money glitch” at ATMs but instead they just reinvented check fraud?
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“70 other human cases of bird flu have been reported in the US as part of the outbreak, according to the CDC. Another elderly person… died in January after a bird flu infection.”
There’s a bird vax but US farmers are forbidden from vaccinating their flocks. A human vax for bird flu is not available
There’s a bird vax but US farmers are forbidden from vaccinating their flocks. A human vax for bird flu is not available
heartbreaking & really frightening with the people leading our cdc drumming up anti vaccine sentiment & spreading falsehoods about vaccines www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/h...
Washington resident dies of complications from bird flu strain never before reported in humans | CNN
A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said on Friday.
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“70 other human cases of bird flu have been reported in the US as part of the outbreak, according to the CDC. Another elderly person… died in January after a bird flu infection.”
There’s a bird vax but US farmers are forbidden from vaccinating their flocks. A human vax for bird flu is not available
There’s a bird vax but US farmers are forbidden from vaccinating their flocks. A human vax for bird flu is not available
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this is edna
she is a delight
we all emulate the scamper
she is a delight
we all emulate the scamper
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
this is edna
she is a delight
we all emulate the scamper
she is a delight
we all emulate the scamper