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Ian Campbell

@iwcampbell.bsky.social

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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1h

One thing I can’t abide from the big left accounts is the performatively anguished “oh God the libs found this.”

Trolling the libs is your entire politics! It’s most of the reason you get up in the morning! You got exactly what you wanted! Enough!

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1h

You have to have politics that aren’t just “fuck you, mom and dad” or else you’re going to have a bad read on how politics works, but many fail this simple test

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2h

Adding Sally, and her baking addiction, to the Pantheon of Real Ones

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6h

They do, in fact, yearn for the mines. And the fields, when mines are unavailable.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 6h

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 16h

What can you do? Great game, great series, in baseball shit happens

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 16h

One thing is that I believed in Flaherty that whole inning and was not texting congrats to my Ms fan buddy after the first AB

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Nate Keller @nkeller.bsky.social · 18h

Playoff hockey is like a firing squad. Playoff baseball is like lethal injection but they can’t get the dosage right

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 18h

Postseason baseball only not the most stressful experience in sports because postseason hockey exists

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 19h

I also wish they’d kept Skub in for another batter or two. Unless he was saying he was totally gassed…

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 19h

He can coach baseball too! There are layers to this!

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

(I did coconut milk instead of heavy cream. It’s good!)

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

SOUP SEASON YALL

Slow Cooker Creamy Tomato Lentil Soup

cooking.nytimes.com

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

Every so often I try to follow this account because she’s occasionally funny and discover that no, it’s impossible

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

Between this and our tendency to immediately regress to the mean after scoring > 5 runs, it’s hard to feel optimistic

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

(Pork chops, balsamic apple hash, roasted potatoes, a side salad, and one of the midgrade Trader Joe’s wines: the bottle that says “I’m more into you than 2 Buck Chuck would indicate but I also make $14000 a year.”)

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

I cooked a recipe from Men’s Health on an early date with a lady when I was in grad school. I didn’t do any better than ok and I’m not sure what kind of vibe it set?

But the intent was there and it was from the heart. I made it again the evening I proposed.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7d

The one I actually find the most depressing is where it cuts to what is clearly a young couple on a first date cooking dinner in their apartment and the camera zooms out to show a prompt of something like “what’s a good first date recipe that doesn’t show I’m too invested” and chatgpt outlines it

Almond @breakfastallday.bsky.social · 7d

There's this ad where the guy asks AI what he should make for his sunday BBQ, and tbh it really depressed me. Make what sounds good to you? What you're craving? It feels like fully abandoning your personhood to have a computer assign you something like that. You're alive, live in your body and mind.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 20h

Providing Skubal with the run support he is accustomed to I guess

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes.

But yeah the other thing that is happening now is that previous owner apparently decided that all the stuff you need for a dishwasher -- air trap or high loop, separate GFCI outlet -- is woke nonsense. We learned this when getting delivery of a new dishwasher.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

@lizzieozzie.bsky.social he glued some of the wiring associated with the HVAC system. GLUED.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

I think he hoped that I would learn by watching him, and I very much did not. Or what I learned was that it's worth paying professionals if you're not prepared to put in some serious time.

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Watching my dad -- genuinely a very skilled amateur, and very serious about planning and codes -- do this growing up may have given me a false impression of the standard most do-it-yourselfers work to.

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that's two fixes this month, now, made more complicated by the fact that the previous owner tried to do some things himself that he absolutely should not have. Makes you wonder what other surprises may be lurking!

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Home ownership means among other things a constant low-level rage against the previous owner of the house

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 1d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

I envision an oatmeal bar as something like a froyo place: choose your own toppings and pay by weight

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Two concepts for celebrity-themed oatmeal bars: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Gruel Intentions; Rick Astley’s You Know the Gruels and So Do I

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Aw man. This lady ruled.

Sister Jean, Loyola University hoops chaplain who captured nation's heart during Cinderella run, dies at 106

Sister Jean emanated a certain love and grit that sunk into students on and off the court — and made for great TV.

chicago.suntimes.com

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

Ian Campbell @iwcampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Home ownership means among other things a constant low-level rage against the previous owner of the house

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

one of the worst insults i've ever seen on twitter was an egirl threatening to have sex with a rival's father and "give him a child he'll actually love"

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