Over-Informed Peasant
@bridgetmckinney.bsky.social
Passionate about groceries. Also books and embroidery and dinosaurs and bronze age history. 43. They/She.
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Man, what a time to be alive.
Getting the day started right with a game.
December 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Getting the day started right with a game.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
Nothing I buy for Spot could ever give him as much joy as just sitting on the wrapping paper once we're done opening presents.
December 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Nothing I buy for Spot could ever give him as much joy as just sitting on the wrapping paper once we're done opening presents.
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This is like looking at photos of coral bleaching
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is like looking at photos of coral bleaching
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I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤
Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready.
We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.
Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready.
We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤
Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready.
We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.
Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready.
We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.
This song moves higher up my list of favorite Christmas songs every year. youtu.be/KIhIBFPtnoc
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This song moves higher up my list of favorite Christmas songs every year. youtu.be/KIhIBFPtnoc
Watching A Twisted X-Mas: Live in Las Vegas 2011, and I actually think that all Christmas songs should be sung only by Dee Snider forever. What a tremendously fun show.
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Watching A Twisted X-Mas: Live in Las Vegas 2011, and I actually think that all Christmas songs should be sung only by Dee Snider forever. What a tremendously fun show.
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I just don't think I eat enough chorizo. What a delicious food.
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I just don't think I eat enough chorizo. What a delicious food.
Christoper Nolan's The Odyssey sure looks deeply boring and ugly.
December 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Christoper Nolan's The Odyssey sure looks deeply boring and ugly.
Looks like my final read of 2025 is going to be the original (maybe?) pandemic book. It's somehow comforting to me that we have this book now, all these years later. It's nice that we can see how folks were coping with past apocalyptic events through art.
December 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Looks like my final read of 2025 is going to be the original (maybe?) pandemic book. It's somehow comforting to me that we have this book now, all these years later. It's nice that we can see how folks were coping with past apocalyptic events through art.
This looks like a child drew it.
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This looks like a child drew it.
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always reblog food system insights
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
always reblog food system insights
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Making my debut at @avclub.com talking about the year's best trend in fantasy publishing: Lady knights.
The year's biggest fantasy trend finally gives women swords
The year's biggest fantasy trend finally gives women swords
www.avclub.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Making my debut at @avclub.com talking about the year's best trend in fantasy publishing: Lady knights.
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Ahhhh yes happy holidays!
December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ahhhh yes happy holidays!
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitt Romney, Nazi tattoo guy, Gavin Newsom, and the Cheneys walk into a bar…
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
You do not in fact gotta hand it to Mitt Binders Full of Women Romney!!!
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitt Romney, Nazi tattoo guy, Gavin Newsom, and the Cheneys walk into a bar…
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
…and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”
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Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
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So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
My Secret Santa has to be the most wildly, absolutely unhinged terrible Christmas movie of the year, right?
a woman wearing a headband and ear muffs is looking at a man .
Alt: a woman wearing a headband and ear muffs is looking at a man .
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My Secret Santa has to be the most wildly, absolutely unhinged terrible Christmas movie of the year, right?
Okay, but why does everyone in Heated Rivalry live in greige motel rooms.
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Okay, but why does everyone in Heated Rivalry live in greige motel rooms.
My daughter and I just heaved exactly the same sigh at men at exactly the same moment. Fucking uncanny.
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My daughter and I just heaved exactly the same sigh at men at exactly the same moment. Fucking uncanny.
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EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
TIL the *youngest* Backstreet Boy is 2 years older than me.
Also, I love the way they are trying to, like, strategically bleach and shave their gray hair away these days.
My guys, we are middle-aged. 🙄
Also, I love the way they are trying to, like, strategically bleach and shave their gray hair away these days.
My guys, we are middle-aged. 🙄
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
TIL the *youngest* Backstreet Boy is 2 years older than me.
Also, I love the way they are trying to, like, strategically bleach and shave their gray hair away these days.
My guys, we are middle-aged. 🙄
Also, I love the way they are trying to, like, strategically bleach and shave their gray hair away these days.
My guys, we are middle-aged. 🙄
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I fucking loathe these smug ass art-hating self-congratulating ghouls & the system that allows them to fail upwards into unfathomable wealth on the backs of 1000s of overworked creative people whose livelihoods get passed around like trading cards every time these dillwads have a stonks circle-jerk.
"Zaslav will receive $30 million in "Golden Parachute' compensation along with $537 million in equity for a total of $567 million in a transaction-associated pay."
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
half a billion dollars for being terrible at your job
Warner Bros. Golden Parachutes Revealed: What David Zaslav and C-Suite Will Get In a Deal
The CEO stands to gain $567 million if a deal is sealed to sell the WB empire while longtime lieutenant Gunnar Wiedenfels will see $144 million in cash and stock considerations if a transaction close...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I fucking loathe these smug ass art-hating self-congratulating ghouls & the system that allows them to fail upwards into unfathomable wealth on the backs of 1000s of overworked creative people whose livelihoods get passed around like trading cards every time these dillwads have a stonks circle-jerk.
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Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Resegregating the American Workforce
The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to challenge illegal discrimination.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Absolutely essential reading. Brilliant and chilling analysis from @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social.
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...